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cncb:
Playing Now Popup

This popup was originally designed and built by user RhinoBanga.  We meant to incorporate it in a much earlier version of MC, but never succeeded.  Thanks to marko for keeping the dream alive.  And to Craig (cncb) for implementing it.  Here's the thread that was discussed the early development of it for MC33.  -- added by JimH



Description
In MC 33, there is a new Playing Now popup window that brings some of the functionality of the old Playing Now Plug-in to MC.  It is a small window that pops up automatically when the current playing track changes or playback resumes.  Some "skins" are included to show basic information and allow you to control playback, rate tracks, etc.  These skins can be modified or new custom skins can be created from scratch.

Instructions
By default, the popup is shown in the middle of the screen when the track changes or playback is resumed.  To move the popup, click on the popup, select "Move popup" from the context menu, and drag the window to the desired location.

To change when the popup is displayed or to disable it, click on the popup and select "Settings" from the context menu.  A different skin and the display time can also be selected in the Settings dialog.  This dialog can also be accessed from Tools > Options > General > Interface > Playing Now Popup.

Ctrl+I is the default shortcut to manually display the popup.

Skin Creation: https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Playing_Now_Popup

cncb:
Skins

JimH:
Skinning the Playing Now Popup

marko:

--- Quote from: cncb on July 04, 2024, 09:33:55 am ---To Do
- Create image from popup that can be used to upload/process somewhere else

--- End quote ---
For an extra level of programming complexity, the beauty of the original is that it can create an image from a different skin than that shown on screen.
This means that you can have a skin bristling with all that info and functionality showing on screen, and at the same trigger time, an image that could be more 'internet usage friendly' is saved from a different, specified, but unseen, skin.

Re: 'Moving' the popup... Really wish we could just drag it about the place as required. It's the most intuitive and instinctive thing to try when it's needed.

-marko

cncb:
marko, Output of an image or text file on track change has been added.  You can specify a different skin for the image output.  You can also specify an executable to run for each one after they are created.  For upload I would recommend WinSCP which seems to support command line actions and different forms of ftp.

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