Working nicely. Much better like this.
Glad to hear it. I'll have to wait until next public release to try it.
What you got cooking? 
Attached are screenshots of modified versions of JRiver's Control, Basic, and 3-Track, hot off the stove. The aesthetic is consistent with my Playerbar title in the MC main window (2nd attachment). Minimalist dark mode style with some bright text highlights. The skin's custom Control buttons light up in color with mouseover and transferred immediately to the PNP's, as expected.
The FontSize property is set for legibility at Size=100% on my 1920x1200 desktop monitor.
Playing Now Popup > Settings... > Size works nicely to scale them differently.
To keep the position data (as well as bit rate in the Player Bar Status subheading) at fixed width, without jumping around as the track plays, I display that text in a monospaced font. Shown in
Cascadia Code Semibold;
Lucida Console Regular also works. These are compact and good for display compared to many other monospaced fonts, and both are built into Win11.
11/10/2024 Note: Segoe UI, another built-in Microsoft Windows font, is not strictly monospaced. However the numerals 0-9 appear monospaced, so it works for display of dynamic numbers, such as position and bit rate. The colon ":" appears to be half the width of a numeral, resulting in a more compressed presentation than strictly monospaced fonts.Files are in the attached zip archive, tested on my Win 10 & Win 11 PCs. To install, unzip the three folders into folder
C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 33\Skins\Playing Now Popup\.
image.svg files are simple size-matched solid rectangles created in Inkscape and exported to
image.png to allow flexibility in the background if desired. Otherwise you can just specify background color in
main.xml and omit
image.png.
@marko thanks for your innumerable contributions to skinning and documentation of MC. It would be beneficial to have an archive or pinned thread dedicated to depositing PNPs. Maybe a new category in
https://yabb.jriver.com/mediacenter/accessories.php ?
11/9/2024 Edited for clarity.11/11/2024 Replace attached zip archive with updated version mf 1.2. Adds Playing Now track list to each PNP; updates Tooltips; larger position font. [reposted with minor corrections]
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