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HPBEME:
Thank you very much for running all that down Bob... that is great news to hear the skin works and looks great on Mac and Linux too.
When I do an update, I will change "Main" to "main"... did not even cross my mind that the letter case would be a problem. I have already made some updates to the comments XML, and I tweaked a few of the image options. That said, I want to wait until I get user feedback before pushing out those updates (definitely not critical changes), as I imagine additional updates/requests may arise from real-world use.
Cinelder:
Love it - thanks!
zybex:
This is now my new skin, thanks for the hard work! :D
Some comments:
- I would prefer the Close/Minimize/Maximize buttons without the white border
- The spinner showing up briefly when MC Client is connecting to the Server has the wrong background. Not sure where else this spinner shows up (not critical as this is just shown for a couple of seconds). This seems to use <Frame><Colors> setting.
- I would like to be able to change the Tooltip background color, but it seems this is also defined on <Frame><Colors>, which affects many other elements. I read your comments regarding this entry, it looks like it needs better support from MC side.
Regarding the Main.XML itself: You added some text to identify the different sections without putting the text in a Comment block... this is OK-ish, but not 100% standard - some XML readers will complain. In particular, there's one line saying "FRAMESUB: TEXTBOX & COMBOBOX" - that && there needs to be escaped (&)
HPBEME:
--- Quote from: zybex on February 06, 2021, 01:30:46 pm ---This is now my new skin, thanks for the hard work! :D
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Your welcome!
--- Quote from: zybex on February 06, 2021, 01:30:46 pm ---I would prefer the Close/Minimize/Maximize buttons without the white border
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Done. The buttons will still "light up" with subtle borders (as before) on mouse hover/click however (see pic) - hope that works for you. I also made matching buttons for the Action-Window Header (see pic again).
The main window buttons previously did not have image options - now that they do, I have renamed their XML values as I do with other "image sets" (e.g., MainClose is now Main1Close/Main2Close, MainMinimize is now Main1Min/Main2Min, etc). For those who are taking advantage of customizing the main.XML, please bear this in mind. You definitely should get all the latest images, but save off your custom XML somewhere so it does not get overwritten when you grab the updated skin. There will be 4 new image names in the new XML (with the nomenclature above): use "1" for the current image (default button with border), and "2" for a borderless button (as depicted in the screenshot). Update your custom XML to match the new names (see sections: MAIN and FRAMESUB: VARIOUS SMALL BUTTONS), and save your version over the main.xml in the skin folder. This sounds way more complicated than it is... once you go thru it once you'll see.
--- Quote from: zybex on February 06, 2021, 01:30:46 pm ---spinner showing up briefly when MC Client is connecting to the Server has the wrong background
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I don't have a Server Client setup, so I don't know what you are referring to. When you say "wrong background" do you mean wrong color? or wrong image? If it is the latter, what is the image?
--- Quote from: zybex on February 06, 2021, 01:30:46 pm ---- I would like to be able to change the Tooltip background color, but it seems this is also defined on <Frame><Colors>, which affects many other elements. I read your comments regarding this entry, it looks like it needs better support from MC side.
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As I am sure you read in the comments xml, changing the Tooltip text color also changes: Pop-up text color for tracks, movies, biographies, etc; *Most* Static Text color in all Dialogs; Text color adjacent to PlayDoctor SearchBar; Random static text color in the OptionsWindows.
This color setting affects completely unrelated areas, affects only portions of a given area, and some settings colors are used for BOTH text and background color. This makes it a royal PITA to ensure colors are compatible throughout the skin (and a royal PITA finding all those random locations!), and it is 1 of several settings where this occurs. So yes... an update by JRiver to address the many issues like this would be fantastic.
--- Quote from: zybex on February 06, 2021, 01:30:46 pm ---Regarding the Main.XML itself: You added some text to identify the different sections without putting the text in a Comment block... this is OK-ish, but not 100% standard - some XML readers will complain. In particular, there's one line saying "FRAMESUB: TEXTBOX & COMBOBOX" - that && there needs to be escaped (&)
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One of things I discovered while developing the skin was that the XML's are amazingly tolerant of pretty much any symbol you want to use outside of the comment delimiters! In fact, I used the comments XML version as my working version forever with no comment delimiters whatsoever, and MC loaded it (many thousands of times) just fine... so long as there was not a < or > (as these are variable/entry delimiters). I only put all the comments within delimiters just before uploading it because I knew some experienced code guy would call me out for not doing it correctly ;D
That said, I defer to your far superior knowledge, and have replaced the ampersand with a comma, though the Subsection Headers are still not within comment delimiters... gotta be a least a little defiant :-*
NOTE: All the changes described above will be part of the next update. I will hold off though for a few days/a week to collect more feedback, which I have to say has been pretty spartan thus far. I am beginning to wonder if only a handful of people actually like it... not that many downloads so far. Oh well, hopefully things will pick up.
bob:
--- Quote from: HPBEME on February 06, 2021, 05:34:48 pm ---...
NOTE: All the changes described above will be part of the next update. I will hold off though for a few days/a week to collect more feedback, which I have to say has been pretty spartan thus far. I am beginning to wonder if only a handful of people actually like it... not that many downloads so far. Oh well, hopefully things will pick up.
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Just a FYI, the download counter on the accessories page isn't currently functional....
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