Topic: Opus MC (Read 15341 times)

dragyn · « **on:** January 19, 2004, 10:56:19 pm »

This is a port of a WinXp skin for MC v9.1/10. Please post any suggestions you may have!

Opus MC (Blue)

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Opus MC (Deep)

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Opus MC (Olive)

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Blue - Deep - Olive

Opus MC (Large)

Note: Use only large fonts with this skin. Using small fonts will not align graphics properly. Based from Opus MC (Blue)

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These are areas from Opus MC that have been made bigger to accommidate for the larger font size.

[*] TopBorder
[*] Volume Position Slider Background
[*] Shuffle, Continous, and DSP
[*] Action Window Icons
[*] Minimize, Maximize, Restore, & Close
[*] List Headers
[*] PlayerBar Progress Front & Background
[*] Borders and Splitters

Opus OS (WinXp)

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ph_bradley · « **Reply #1 on:** January 20, 2004, 02:03:07 am »

stunning mate! looks like prototype XP Longhorn - mabe you could look up screenshots of that for inspiration. Keep it up - that's going to be a really cool skin!

nila · « **Reply #2 on:** January 20, 2004, 03:05:52 am »

Looks REALLY nice dude.

I'd say just keep it simple and clean using those two colours for the top and it'd probably be a great skin.
Doesn't have to be fancy to be nice.

Pink Waters · « **Reply #3 on:** January 20, 2004, 07:39:54 am »

looks nice man...
keep up with the good work

dragyn · « **Reply #4 on:** January 20, 2004, 04:10:46 pm »

thanks for the replies..

I was thinking of making the status bar (file info) tan and the action window blue and have the player display at the top tan with a blue background.. Would that be too much contrast or should I just leave it as it is?

Hopefully I'll have something this weekend.

LonWar · « **Reply #5 on:** January 20, 2004, 06:49:37 pm »

Nice skin man.... But it doesn't look like a penguine to me.

KingDodo · « **Reply #6 on:** January 20, 2004, 08:50:04 pm »

Nice skin... Any screenshot of the complete player itself?

dragyn · « **Reply #7 on:** January 25, 2004, 09:34:32 am »

Ok. I have the first beta going.

I didn't do the player buttons yet as I'm getting tired and need a break from this thing. I'll get to it eventually. I also don't know about the sliders yet. I'm still experimenting.

Pink Waters · « **Reply #8 on:** January 25, 2004, 09:36:36 am »

Use another player buttons that blue steel ones..

Marko · « **Reply #9 on:** January 25, 2004, 01:09:20 pm »

nice work dragyn. really nice.

I could see this being my "skin of choice" for some time. Only just installed, so this is based on 1st visual impressions. Will post if I find any problems. Can't wait for the controls to be done......

Need to knock up a pn skin to go with this

thank you for sharing with us.

-marko.

dragyn · « **Reply #10 on:** January 26, 2004, 11:07:09 pm »

So far I redone the player display area a tad. Looks much better IMO.
Gonna work on new sliders and player buttons this week.

dragyn · « **Reply #11 on:** January 27, 2004, 09:34:41 pm »

ok, beta 3 is up.

I skinned the splitters and did not add a handle. I think most will know how to move it? I think it looks cleaner this way.

Still have to do the player buttons. I'm stumped on what to do.

Marko · « **Reply #12 on:** January 28, 2004, 01:40:57 am »

still using it. still think it's a great skin too.

Thanks for the updates dragyn.

Give yourself a pat on the back and feel good about your creation

-marko.

nila · « **Reply #13 on:** January 28, 2004, 03:57:56 am »

Great work

Thanks!

Pink Waters · « **Reply #14 on:** January 28, 2004, 12:26:02 pm »

The corner edges of the playbar and the search bar have to be the player background color
and i have a comment on something which is : can you draw a different playbar player control instead of blue steel ones ?

good work

dragyn · « **Reply #15 on:** January 29, 2004, 02:24:58 am »

ToMy00, I have no idea what you mean.

The player buttons are coming. Nothing is coming to me at the moment. If there are buttons that look better, could you post them here?

Thanks.

jleerigby · « **Reply #16 on:** January 29, 2004, 11:38:46 am »

Wow. Well done Dragyn this is a great skin.

The only thing I changed is what I always change with every skin - but that's just my personal preference. I use List_Rating.gif from the WMP skin (thanks Tomy00) with all skins 'cos I just think it's the right colour for ratings. I also prefer to see some colour in the toolbar buttons too so I changed the transcolor to FFFFFF.

I love the look and feel of this skin Dragyn. Thank You.

Marko · « **Reply #17 on:** February 02, 2004, 01:50:29 am »

We got recursive folder view back (Thank you very much to jriver for putting that back in).
Unfortunately, Dragyn, it seems to have caused a slight drawing bug in the Opus skin....

Blue steel draws like so...

While opus does like so...

Note the "left/right" navigation buttons to the left of "single folder"? If it doesn't do this for you right away, try maximising, then restoring MC. Is this fixable via the main.xml file, or is more technical intervention required?

-marko

dragyn · « **Reply #18 on:** February 02, 2004, 05:45:47 pm »

I guess I forgot about them. I looked in the skin and didn't see anywhere else those are applied. I'll get to that to.

Thanks Marko!

Marko · « **Reply #19 on:** February 03, 2004, 12:58:08 pm »

No Dragyn, thank you

cheers for the speedy fix, I use the "My Computer" node quite a bit.

-marko.

MartinH · « **Reply #20 on:** February 03, 2004, 04:55:25 pm »

Dragyn, I think ToMy00 was referring to these bits (circled):

I love this skin by the way, has a nice feel to it, good work

.

By the way, what's the name of the font I need to download that you have in your screenshot?

dragyn · « **Reply #21 on:** February 03, 2004, 06:14:38 pm »

It's the font size causing that. 8 brings the window up, while larger fonts push it down.
I'll try and fix that.

The font is Lucida Grande size 10 in the screenshot.

KingSparta · « **Reply #22 on:** February 03, 2004, 06:18:40 pm »

some video cards are better than others and maybe why you can see it in one and not the other.

dragyn · « **Reply #23 on:** February 04, 2004, 01:51:58 am »

Here's what I found out.. If you use size 8, you'll get those corners. If you use size 10, you don't because the image goes down. There's no way I can fix this. I can get the image right, but then the text (and other things) are off center.

MC repositions everything and offsets all my stuff. There's other areas where this happens, not just the display area. There needs to be a fixed size and the font then should center in the images. So until they fix it, I would use 10 point.

Other areas affected are: toolbar, action window, search bar

Redoing everything to 8 point would take awhile. If you do switch fonts, you will need to restart MC for everything to work.

MartinH · « **Reply #24 on:** February 04, 2004, 04:30:11 am »

Ah thanks for the explanation. I did wonder because I checked your screenshot and noticed the difference. I'll switch fonts

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Monkeyboy · « **Reply #25 on:** February 05, 2004, 07:41:32 am »

Dragyn,
I like the look of your skin and want to install it. Im accessing the internet through a proxy SSL tunnel so MC can't work through it.
Can you post a link to the zip file so I can just download it using a download manager.
I normally replace the .mjb with .zip and it downloads the package but it does not work with this.
Cheers,
Rich

dragyn · « **Reply #26 on:** February 05, 2004, 08:13:07 pm »

Thanks Rich. Not a prob for a download link. See first message in this thread.

Monkeyboy · « **Reply #27 on:** February 06, 2004, 02:33:59 am »

thanks a lot, much appreciated.
Very slick, like it a lot

Rich

dragyn · « **Reply #28 on:** February 07, 2004, 10:33:47 pm »

Thanks for the replies everyone! I added new player buttons. I know they don't look all that great but it's something different at least.

Thanks to MartinH for fixing the corners in the display area. I'd still recommend a larger font (than 8 point) as it pushes the display down where it's suppose to be.

I'll most likely be making more changes. If anyone has something, please post it here.

Arakiel · « **Reply #29 on:** February 11, 2004, 01:50:35 pm »

Dragyn -

Looks great, especially since this is the visual style im using. However I've adjusted my font to size 10, restarted, and still have a messed up search box, also the entire category filter bar is black. Here's a link to a screen cap so you can see what I mean.

http://www.shatteredhopes.net/mc_opus.jpg

any ideas?

dragyn · « **Reply #30 on:** February 11, 2004, 07:41:32 pm »

I guess that's because of 9.1. I can fix the black bar...not sure yet about the search box.
I'll install 9.1 and see if I can fix things up.

Thanks for the screenshot. It helps a lot.

Edit: I was able to fix both. Thanks.

Arakiel · « **Reply #31 on:** February 12, 2004, 04:03:02 pm »

Great! I look forward to your next release

Excellent skin.

dragyn · « **Reply #32 on:** February 12, 2004, 05:41:32 pm »

I already released it. The first message in this thread shows the change logs.

Arakiel · « **Reply #33 on:** February 12, 2004, 07:45:12 pm »

w00t! it's perfect...Thank You!

MartinH · « **Reply #34 on:** February 17, 2004, 03:53:56 am »

Dragyn, just to let you know, when ripping CD's the progress bar is not in the skin's colour (the bar is grey on mine), is that just a setting you or I need to change?

Cheers.

dragyn · « **Reply #35 on:** February 17, 2004, 05:10:49 am »

I'm not sure but I can take a look. I don't rip CDs that much anymore.

cascius · « **Reply #36 on:** February 17, 2004, 07:40:54 pm »

Just to let you know, I really like your skin.

-Cascius

dragyn · « **Reply #37 on:** February 17, 2004, 09:58:29 pm »

Thanks Cascius!

Martin, I changed the background color (was transparent) to the base color. Let me know if that works for ya.

As for me, the only things that bug me is the volume slider, maybe the tree selection...haven't really played with it that much...and the player buttons a bit. I'll most likely be tweaking those areas whenever I get a chance.

skeeterfood · « **Reply #38 on:** February 18, 2004, 01:17:21 pm »

Dragyn,

Love the skin, but is it just me, or does the AW Playing Now window not have a different color for the currently playing song with your skin? It does with BlueSteel...

-John

dragyn · « **Reply #39 on:** February 18, 2004, 04:23:06 pm »

I don't think I specified another color.

What color would you want it to be?

I wish they would add a background color for the current track because it's hard to match a color between white and black. I can't see what's playing half the time.

benrad · « **Reply #40 on:** February 21, 2004, 10:06:54 am »

Great skin. Nice work.

jleerigby · « **Reply #41 on:** February 21, 2004, 12:04:21 pm »

I do like blue steel but I really think this skin should be the new default for MC. It has to be the best skin I've ever seen for MC. Well done Dragyn.

MartinH · « **Reply #42 on:** February 21, 2004, 12:16:26 pm »

Quote from: Dragyn on February 17, 2004, 09:58:29 pm

Martin, I changed the background color (was transparent) to the base color. Let me know if that works for ya.

Lovely, good job

.

dragyn · « **Reply #43 on:** February 21, 2004, 01:37:52 pm »

Thanks again everyone!

This skin could be better but there's some limitations in MC. Maybe the JCrew could fix some of these for me:

<Frame> "CloseButton", "MaximizeButton", "MinimizeButton", and "RestoreButton" doesn't use mouse over images.
<GroupBox> "CaptionArea' is extending the right side too far when there's a & in the text.
<Scrollbar> "Background" is only using the first image for all types. Handles and Arrows change but background doesn't.
Using a large font doesn't stretch MainFrame_TopBorder to make fit.
Progress Background doesn't use transparency in AW. (This was your thing MartinH.)

Some things I would want MC to do:

<List> "CurrentBack" (can't really see the colors)
<Tab> "Back" Color/Bitmap (looks weird with no color)
<ActionWindow> Option to not use a back color. Rather use the template image for the whole AW.

Deivit · « **Reply #44 on:** February 22, 2004, 01:23:02 pm »

Hi Dragyn,

Just wanted to say thank you for a very nice skin

dragyn · « **Reply #45 on:** February 22, 2004, 09:12:34 pm »

Thanks Deivit!

I added "Opus MC Large" to the downloads. This should fix the clipping problem. I know it clips the display text a little bit but I don't know if that's fixable....at least I know of no way of doing it.

Hope it works for all of you using large fonts for your TV's or whatever.

LonWar · « **Reply #46 on:** February 24, 2004, 11:42:33 am »

Really Nice skin... Any chance for a track info Template?

One like DJ's Nightlife would be cool, Could call it OpusLife?

dragyn · « **Reply #47 on:** February 24, 2004, 04:18:06 pm »

I'll look into it. I never made a track info template before. I know it's just HTML and whatnot and I've never really did that before either.

I started on the "Deep" version already. I don't know about the Olive one yet. Not sure when I'll get done with those.

Also not sure about making a MJ8 Opus skin. I could do it with little modification to this one. Depends what kind of modivation I get I guess.

LonWar · « **Reply #48 on:** February 24, 2004, 04:47:00 pm »

Hey Dragyn,

How did you open the Opus theme? (Xp) I downloaded it and unzipped it to windows/resources/themes

Opened Display, Clicked on Themes, But there doesn't seem to be a theme file??

(Please note this does not relate to the Opus MC skin)

dragyn · « **Reply #49 on:** February 24, 2004, 05:26:09 pm »

I used Style Builder from TGTSoft.com to extract the images and then edited them all to fit MC.

If you mean about using the xp skin for your OS, then you will need to use a patched uxtheme.dll (recomended) or StyleXp. Both are on that site above.

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