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[marko]

Note: For a trouble-free experience with this skin, you must be using MC 33.0.52 or higher


Top Toolbar
This skin has no dynamic components at all. The popup will look this way at all times, regardless of the current standard view skin. It's designed to sit along the top of the screen offering the ability to rate the previous or current track, as well as adjust the volume, along with the expected transport controls, and other useful information via tooltips.


Top Toolbar has been produced on a screen using a 1920 x 1200 resolution @ 100% on Windows 10 Pro. Feedback from users on other platforms and/or resolutions, good or bad, is especially appreciated.

For the curious, the initial release and testing thread can be found here.

The attached archive contains an mjp file. Extract and double click this mjp file. MC will automatically download and install the skin.

Thank you, and enjoy

Update 13/10/2024:
Added "Pressed" state images for the volume up/down, and minimize/maximize buttons.
Added "font size" rules.

Update 20/10/2024:
The "Mute" button now updates to correctly reflect the muted or unmuted state of the volume.
Added some additional info to the tracks shown when clicking the playlist button.

Update 10/11/2024:
The player control buttons, along with the playlist button, at the left end, have been updated. The new icons, created from scratch, better fit the rest of the skin theme. The skin has had to be made 20 pixels longer to accommodate these new buttons. It is now 1560 pixels wide.

Update 22/12/2024:
Updated font size instructions following the change in MC build 33.0.52
Changed the colour of the elapsed/total time indicator
Added Mac specific font instructions for the elapsed/total time indicator.
Redistributed space used by components to use space freed up by the recent font size changes.

Update 22/12/2024:
Added Mac and Linux specific font face (Ariel) plus font sizes in all text items. Windows uses Segoe UI at size 12.

[JimH]

Thank you, marko!

[jkrzok]

I'm very happy with this skin. It looks fine on my win11 4k (100%) display with the popup itself set at 150% (My eyesight ain't THAT good.)

I would really love to use this as a bottom toolbar though but I don't see the click here when done at all unless I change skins to move the pop up. And of course I can't snug the pop up to the top of the taskbar as that click spot disappears off the screen. Is there a keyboard shortcut I could use to finish the move?

Perhaps I'll just look to moving the taskbar to the top of the screen. But with decades of looking for it at the bottom... Perhaps I'm just too old for that fundamental of a change.

[marko]

I just tried this, and here's what I found here, on Windows 10...

I have my taskbar at the bottom, locked. I can move the popup to the bottom, the click here area is over the taskbar, but the popup floats up and lines itself neatly along the top of the toolbar.

I moved my taskbar to the top, then moved the popup tight to the bottom, the click here area is off screen. Hit the Enter key. Popup closes, but press ctrl+i to bring it back, and it's right there where I placed it, tight along the bottom of the screen.

Hope that helps a little bit.

-marko.

[EnglishTiger]

Moving a Popup on the Mac Platform is far easier to moving it on the Win Platform.

Instead of dividing the Popup into 2 parts; the smaller *Drag here to move* section and the larger "Click here when done" one on the Mac the whole Popup is the "Drag here to move* section and releasing the mouse button replaces the need to click in the  "Click here when done" section on the Win Platform.

[jkrzok]

I just tried this, and here's what I found here, on Windows 10...

I have my taskbar at the bottom, locked. I can move the popup to the bottom, the click here area is over the taskbar, but the popup floats up and lines itself neatly along the top of the toolbar.

I moved my taskbar to the top, then moved the popup tight to the bottom, the click here area is off screen. Hit the Enter key. Popup closes, but press ctrl+i to bring it back, and it's right there where I placed it, tight along the bottom of the screen.

Hope that helps a little bit.

-marko.

That does all i asked for. Many thanks for your help and your wonderful skins. They greatly enhance my JRiver experience.

[marko]

That does all i asked for. Many thanks for your help and your wonderful skins. They greatly enhance my JRiver experience.

Thank you for taking the time to say so. It's appreciated. If you notice, and if you have time, could you confirm it's still working correctly for you now that it has font size instructions?
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Update 13/10/2024:
Added "Pressed" state images for the volume up/down, and minimize/maximize buttons.
Added "font size" rules.
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Font sizes should be fixed from MC33.0.30 for Mac. This returns a little more control over the presentation of the popup to the skin creator.
Have any Linux users tried these skins? Are they presenting as shown in the example in the first post?

Files on the server have been updated. Double click your mjp file to get the latest version of the skin.

-marko

[marko]

Update 20/10/2024:
The "Mute" button now updates to correctly reflect the muted or unmuted state of the volume.
Added some additional info to the tracks shown when clicking the playlist button.
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Files on the server have been updated. Double click your mjp file to get the latest version of the skin.

-marko

[marko]

Update 10/11/2024:
The player control buttons, along with the playlist button, at the left end, have been updated. The new icons, created from scratch, better fit the rest of the skin theme. The skin has had to be made 20 pixels longer to accommodate these new buttons. It is now 1560 pixels wide.
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Files on the server have been updated. Double click your mjp file to get the latest version of the skin.

-marko

[marko]

Update 22/12/2024:
Updated font size instructions following the change in MC build 33.0.52
Changed the colour of the elapsed/total time indicator
Added Mac specific font instructions for the elapsed/total time indicator.
Redistributed space used by components to use space freed up by the recent font size changes.
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ET is kindly testing things out on the Mac for me (thank you, ET)
For now, Mac specific font settings are only provided for the progress info. If required, I will add for all text items.
Files on the server are updated. Double click your mjp file to retrieve the latest versions.

Time is tight. All of the skins require attention. I have fixed this one first as it is by far the most popular. The rest will be done, hopefully by the end of the week

-marko

[marko]

Update 22/12/2024:
Added Mac and Linux specific font face (Ariel) plus font sizes in all text items. Windows uses Segoe UI at size 12.
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ET, I've gone back in and set the default for font face of Ariel, sizes of 11 & 12 (11 in places where, testing with Ariel on Windows with 12, I got unwanted truncation). Windows will use Segoe UI at size 12 for all text items.

I don't like the way Ariel looks

-marko

[JimH]

Thanks, marko!