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Windows => Third Party Plug-ins, Programs, and Skins => Topic started by: Marko on October 18, 2003, 04:07:57 pm

Title: PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Marko on October 18, 2003, 04:07:57 pm: New thread now running here.....

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=18393
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: JeffB on October 18, 2003, 07:46:03 pm: ...links deleted...

This was made using some of the graphics in the Hairstyle directory.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: lOth on October 19, 2003, 06:19:37 am: Quote
You can take a look at the "Now Playing" section of my website ([banned]) to see the info I am blogging there. If anyone wants the ASP code needed to do it, I'll post it.

Very nice. I wouldn't ming toying with the code. Actually, I would also be interested in the one you use to display random pictures on the right.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Doof on October 19, 2003, 11:24:42 am: You can see mine in my signature...

Download link is here (http://www.dooftoo.com/MC/Downloads/PixOS/Popup/PixOSPopup.zip).
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: lOth on October 20, 2003, 10:41:12 pm: Mine is a rework of Doof's PixOs:

(http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/gr37/myplayingnow.jpg)

As you can see, it is meant to fit my own PixOs-inspired hairstyle skin. Although I'm now quite happy with the way it looks, there are a few drawbacks:

_ timetostay=9999999 so that it's always on. The problem then is the huge pop-up when not in hairstyle mode (Rhino: in that respect it would be great if we could select the modes in which the plug-in is enabled, e.g. in the PlayingNow.ini something like EnablePopup=hairstyle (or MegaMe, or MiniMe, etc.)

_ it will only fit my hairstyle skin in 1024x768. For other resolutions, both the playingnow skin config.ini and the hairstyle skin main.xml needs to be reworked.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: RhinoBanga on October 21, 2003, 12:39:48 am: Quote from: lOth on October 20, 2003, 10:41:12 pm
(Rhino: in that respect it would be great if we could select the modes in which the plug-in is enabled, e.g. in the PlayingNow.ini something like EnablePopup=hairstyle (or MegaMe, or MiniMe, etc.)

If you can persuade J River to add a facility to get that information then I will add it.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: ph_bradley on October 22, 2003, 08:08:10 am: here's mine, suggestions welcome...
if anybody wants it, just ask and i will zip it up and find some server space for it.

(http://rigauds.u69.us/Image6.gif)

what files do i need to zip up? just the directory with this skin in it?
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Marko on October 23, 2003, 06:39:34 am: Quote from: ph_bradley on October 22, 2003, 08:08:10 am
here's mine, suggestions welcome...
It's ok is that. Only downside I see is that the ratings are a bit hard to make out.
....
Quote from: ph_bradley on October 22, 2003, 08:08:10 am
what files do i need to zip up? just the directory with this skin in it?
Yup. So long as the background, the .ini file and any other sound or image files referenced are all in there.

Drowbe, nice m8. Ratings that aren't stars too, 10/10 for originality:)
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Deivit on October 23, 2003, 03:43:59 pm: Drowbe,

Just to tell you that I like your skin very much. I've made some small modifications to it and it's now my default :)

Thank you!

----
Listening to: 'Take Care' from 'Summer Sun' by 'Yo La Tengo' on Media Center 9.1
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Doof on October 24, 2003, 12:21:22 pm: Drowbe> Have you thought about doing a MEGA-ME and mini-me skin with that look? It's pretty nice.

Oh, and since mine is no longer in my signature, here's a screenshot:

(http://www.dooftoo.com/MC/Downloads/PixOS/Popup/PixOS Popup.jpg)

Download link is here (http://www.dooftoo.com/MC/Downloads/PixOS/Popup/PixOSPopup.zip).
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Deivit on October 24, 2003, 01:00:00 pm: Quote from: Drowbe on October 23, 2003, 04:01:25 pm
Quote from: Deivit on October 23, 2003, 03:43:59 pm
Just to tell you that I like your skin very much. I've made some small modifications to it and it's now my default :)

Fantastic to hear! As you probably found, I included the Photoshop PSD and Firework MX PNG files in the resources directory for that very reason. I'd love to see your version...

--Thomas

Well... actually I just changed the position of some things and almost did not touch the background design (Honestly, I simply would not know how to do it ;D). I also put the stars instead of the balls for rating.

Here's a screenshot of how it looks like.

(http://personales.ya.com/deivit/PlayingNow.jpg)

Thanks again for sharing your design, Thomas.

Take care,
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Doof on October 24, 2003, 03:48:50 pm: From what I understand, there's no way to disable the partial transparency of the list area in Hairstyle.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: lOth on October 24, 2003, 04:22:01 pm: Quote
From what I understand, there's no way to disable the partial transparency of the list area in Hairstyle.

After much experimenting this is my understanding as well. Unfortunately.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: crowfan on October 24, 2003, 08:23:31 pm: Sorry to be so daft, but how do you change the skin? I downloaded the folder but don't know how to make it change!!

Thanks,

crow
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: crowfan on October 24, 2003, 11:16:09 pm: Excellent, Thank you

Incidentally, it was your skin I downloaded...nice work! ;D

crow
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: milehigh on October 30, 2003, 09:32:02 am: Hey drowbe - have you updated your skin for v1.2?
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: milehigh on October 31, 2003, 01:53:35 am: Hey Drowbe,

Your screenshot looks great - I don't know much about programing but you managed to incorporate everything that I wanted for this skin to a tee!!!! One problem though - I downloaded it and unzipped to the skins directory - once I changed to the [banned] skin - I got the following error message: Could not save the image to the file "C:\Program Files\J River\PlayingNow 1.2\Skins\[banned]\PlayingNow.jpg

I changed the config file (under the general section) to the following - which is the path where I would guess most people have this since this is the default directory for playing now:

SaveToFile=C:\Program Files\James Dickson\PlayingNow 1.2\Skins\[banned]\PlayingNow.jpg

Thanks again. Looks great!
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: milehigh on October 31, 2003, 02:05:38 am: Drowbe,

One more quick question - how could I change the color of the RATED songs - I would like to make the dots for the songs that are rated to stand out a little bit more (probably a darker blue) - I tried to edit the PNG files for the ratings but that didn't seem to make a difference?

And I guess since I have looked at it a bit - what would you think of moving the current playing songs rating to the block that has all the current song information - i.e. in the light blue box - under the time? If I can figure out how to do this I might give it a shot. Thanks again.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: milehigh on October 31, 2003, 02:11:03 am: okay - sorry to keep posting sporadically - actually changing the color did work - I had to change the skin and then come back....
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: RhinoBanga on October 31, 2003, 02:30:56 am: That's because PN only checks to see if the Config.INI has changed and if it has then reload the skin. It doesn't check any of the ancilliary files as that would slow it down.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: RhinoBanga on October 31, 2003, 03:58:52 am: Quote from: Drowbe on October 31, 2003, 02:46:23 am
RhinoBanga's plugin made it really easy to put these things together...I give him most of the credit. I do Interface Design for a living, so I'd better be able to come up with a decent skin... :)

I've been toying with the idea of allowing you to provide a grayscale bitmap as the alpha blending mask (as opposed to nominating a colour) to make a transparent background. Would that help with your rounded edges issue

Quote
Yeah, forgot to mention that you need to validate the directories. I install all of my plugins under the J River directory so they are easier for me to find. I wonder if ".\PlayingNow.jpg" would work...?

No, it requires a absolute path as it made more sense that you'd want to know exactly where to save the image.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: jiistme on November 02, 2003, 10:28:21 am: I would just like to say to whomever wrote Playing Now that I think it is the most useful plug-in I have downloaded to date (and I am using an older version, I can't wait to see v1.2). Thanks for the time and effort.

Jiistme

"Believe it or not I'm walking on air
I Never thought I could feel so free
Flyin' away on a wing and a prayer
Who could it be? Believe it or not it's just me."
(Theme from Greatest American Hero)
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: RhinoBanga on November 02, 2003, 12:14:35 pm: Thank you.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Two Wire on November 02, 2003, 08:32:39 pm: Can Playing Now be automated, or locked, to follow the size and position of the Action Window?
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: RhinoBanga on November 03, 2003, 12:20:57 am: No, because the point of it is that you use it when MC is minimised/in the background.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: TimB on November 03, 2003, 10:08:56 am: Nice skin Drowbe, using it now for my display skin! :)

-=Tim=-
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: nila on November 04, 2003, 03:02:33 am: Thanks for the resources file too - I just loaded them up in photoshop and just tweaked the 'Hue' to give me some nice alternate colour versions of your skin.

Love the skins - they really add to a great plugin :)
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: ph_bradley on November 06, 2003, 03:20:41 am: yay! first skin to use vertical ratings. Here is a pic. If worth posting (i.e. someone asks) i will post it up on some server space.
This one's called Angular

(http://rigauds.u69.us/angularscreenie.JPG)
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: hit_ny on November 06, 2003, 04:57:57 am: Wow drwobe...thats a neat skin..

i have a req though..

would it be possible to have a longer version of that skin, since tracks names tend to get cut off..

i tried resizing to 160% lenghtwise but it distorts the graphics.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: LonWar on November 06, 2003, 07:48:47 am: Quote from: ph_bradley on November 06, 2003, 03:20:41 am
yay! first skin to use vertical ratings. Here is a pic. If worth posting (i.e. someone asks) i will post it up on some server space.
This one's called Angular

(http://rigauds.u69.us/angularscreenie.JPG)

That's cool.... If you don't mind posting it. I would like to have it.

Thanks,
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: ph_bradley on November 06, 2003, 10:12:58 am: sure mate - here ya go:
right-click, use save target as, once downloaded rename the file extension to.zip (http://rigauds.u69.us/angular.jpg)

I'm sorry about the whole renaming shables, but i am on a free host and so cant host .rar, .zip, etc etc.

<edit - link fixed, works fine for me>
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: LonWar on November 06, 2003, 10:18:27 am: hmm There seems to be a problem. When I click on the link:

Forbidden Content Detected
The page or file you were trying to access is not permitted or violates usage policy guidelines.

If you have any questions why you are receiving this message, please contact support services at support@u69.us or submit a support ticket.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: LonWar on November 07, 2003, 07:28:47 am: I tried save as and saving it as .zip.

When I open it it says it's not a valid archieve...

Oh well, thanks anyway.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: ph_bradley on November 08, 2003, 02:07:18 am: if you give me your email address i will email it to you - its very small.
If you dont want to post it here, email it to me at ph_bradley (at) hotmail dot com
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: LonWar on November 08, 2003, 07:45:26 am: Email sent..

Thanks,
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: ph_bradley on November 09, 2003, 11:19:16 am: i was messing about earlier with the TransparentBackgrounds new function. Here's what came of it:

(http://rigauds.u69.us/TwoBitScreenie.png)
Title: Lock-up during fade-out
Post by: hakuin on November 10, 2003, 08:55:57 pm: Hi,
I am using latest version of Playing Now with a modified version of the Blue Steel playing now skin. When the popup is fading out, all the function in MC 9.1.300 lock-up...and then when the popup has disappeared, all the things i clicked and keys i hit are executed. This is obviously really annoying and something I would like to stop. Any ideas? The values I have set for show/stay/hide are as follows:

[General]
Background=.\Background.jpg
TimeToShow=100
TimeToStay=8000
TimeToHide=5000
Blend=True
Transparency=255
Position=635,535

thanks,
Lee
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Marko on November 11, 2003, 02:58:21 am: TimeToHide=5000 seems way to high to me.

Try dropping that to something like the default 750 and see how you go then.

-marko.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: hakuin on November 11, 2003, 08:11:22 am: Quote from: Marko on November 11, 2003, 02:58:21 am
TimeToHide=5000 seems way to high to me.

Try dropping that to something like the default 750 and see how you go then.

-marko.

Seems to be better now, thanks.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: LonWar on November 11, 2003, 10:29:46 am: Hi Marko, That's a really cool pop up. Now what would be awesome would be if the middle was a little lighter grey then the top and bottom... It would match the Blue Steel skin quite well.

I gave it a shot, But I am pretty useless at it. ::)

(http://foc.no-ip.com/pics/trans-1.jpg)
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Marko on November 11, 2003, 03:59:17 pm: Like this?

(http://foc.no-ip.com/files/pnskins/trans-2.jpg)
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: RhinoBanga on November 11, 2003, 04:06:49 pm: ROTFL ... I just noticed the gfx in the bottom right of the middle pane!

Fame at last :) :) :)
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: lOth on November 11, 2003, 05:21:44 pm: I've plundered Drowbe's work on the [banned] playing now and JC's great brushed metal skins. I mixed them together and here is the result:

(http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/gr37/brushedpn.jpg)

You can get it here http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/gr37/BrushedMetal.zip (http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/gr37/BrushedMetal.zip)
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: LonWar on November 11, 2003, 07:29:54 pm: Quote from: Marko on November 11, 2003, 03:59:17 pm
Like this?

(http://foc.no-ip.com/pics/trans-2.jpg)

Ya, that's pretty much it.
I'm still playing around with it....

Is there anytype of instructions on how to edit it...

What I want to do, is instead of having ratings (I never used them) have a small album art displayed in the Previous and next. (If possible)
And around were the graphic is, have some album info ie, year and such.

So is that possible, And how hard would it be for a newby?
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: nila on November 12, 2003, 06:06:45 am: Yeah,
VERY nice plundering.
I Love drowbe's cause of the layout - it's perfect for my use - seeing other skins with the same layout is nice :)

I've tweaked his myself by making different colour versions of it - I have green, red, yellow etc :)

It's great! :)
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: lOth on November 12, 2003, 06:48:21 am: I've actually also modified JC's mega-me (this time plundering the blue steel skin...). It matches the PN well. Here is a screenshot:

(http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/gr37/brushed246b.jpg)

You can download it here : http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/gr37/brushedmetal246b.zip (http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/gr37/BrushedMetal246b.zip)

(If anyone can tell me how to make a skin install file, I'll gladly replace the zip...)
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: JaWe on November 12, 2003, 09:15:32 am: Quote from: lOth on November 12, 2003, 06:48:21 am
You can download it here : http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/gr37/brushedmetal246b.zip (http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/gr37/brushedmetal246b.zip)

That link doesn't work..
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: lOth on November 12, 2003, 10:19:58 am: Quote
That link doesn't work..

Fixed.

Here it is again:
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/gr37/BrushedMetal246b.zip (http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/gr37/BrushedMetal246b.zip)
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Marko on November 12, 2003, 11:23:33 am: my "brushed meatal" mod looks like so...
(http://foc.no-ip.com/pics/metal.jpg)

like it? right click below > save target as...
leave the name the same and pop it in the skin dir.

Playerbar_Display.bmp (http://foc.no-ip.com/pics/Playerbar_Display.bmp)

-marko.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: lOth on November 13, 2003, 02:14:00 pm: Quote
Quote from: lOth on October 20, 2003, 11:41:12 PM
(Rhino: in that respect it would be great if we could select the modes in which the plug-in is enabled, e.g. in the PlayingNow.ini something like EnablePopup=hairstyle (or MegaMe, or MiniMe, etc.)

Rhino answered:
Quote
If you can persuade J River to add a facility to get that information then I will add it.

Is it still not possible? Actually, what I would really like to do would be something like:

megamepopup=skin
hairstylepopup=bigskin

If the facility has not been implemented yet, where is the appropriate place to put a thread to request it?
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: RhinoBanga on November 13, 2003, 03:13:39 pm: I have no idea to be honest ... try just starting a new thread in the main MC forum, there are already a couple of [req] threads in there already.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Marko on November 15, 2003, 12:38:36 pm: that grey one a few posts back wouldn't take a 64 x 64 thumbnail, so I after messing around a bit, I have this....

(http://www.marko121.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pics/interact/pn/trans-3.jpg)

-marko.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: antolod on November 15, 2003, 01:41:54 pm: Marko: love the trans-3. Looks great!

10th: I also love the brushed metal skin you did. Could you perhaps take Drowbe's wide version and give it the same look?

Drowbe: Great work, love your skins too. Especially the wide one.

You guys have done such great work, I'm having a hard time deciding which skin to use.

Rhino you da man for you work on a fantastic plugin!

Listening to: Strawberry by Everclear from Sparkle and Fade on Media Center V9.1.305
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: LonWar on November 15, 2003, 04:30:52 pm: Quote from: Marko on November 15, 2003, 12:38:36 pm
that grey one a few posts back wouldn't take a 64 x 64 thumbnail, so I after messing around a bit, I have this....

(http://foc.no-ip.com/pics/custom/trans-3.jpg)
Download trans-3 (http://foc.no-ip.com/pics/custom/trans-3.zip)

-marko.

Dude, man that is amazing...I...I...

Oh I'm just speachless
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Surfer_Fox on November 19, 2003, 06:22:59 pm: Im a stoopid newbie :-\

I love the playing now skins and have downloaded one, but how do I "apply" it? i.e. how do I get MC to use the skin?

Sorry to waste your time!
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: LonWar on November 19, 2003, 06:42:34 pm: When the pop up comes up, right click on it and select skins, and then whatever skin.
Right click again and set as default.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Surfer_Fox on November 19, 2003, 06:44:26 pm: O Lordy......what pop-up?

I feel about a 1000 lightyears behind....!
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Surfer_Fox on November 20, 2003, 04:13:37 pm: Quote
1. Launch "Edit Main Configuration"...it should be in the folder "PlayingNow" in your start menu.

Right, Im going to be really daft - where is the start menu?

Many thanks (for your patience and the answer!)
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Surfer_Fox on November 20, 2003, 04:41:49 pm: Quote from: lOth on November 11, 2003, 05:21:44 pm
I've plundered Drowbe's work on the [banned] playing now and JC's great brushed metal skins. I mixed them together and here is the result:

(http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/gr37/brushedpn.jpg)

You can get it here http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/gr37/BrushedMetal.zip (http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/gr37/BrushedMetal.zip)

I absolutely love this skin, but when I run it in MC 9 I can an error pop-up saying it could not save in ther James Dickson/playing now folder. Does this mean I have to set the skin up in that folder? At the moment I have it unzipped in the right skins folder alongside other playing now skins.....

Thanks
TF
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Surfer_Fox on November 20, 2003, 05:26:21 pm: I absolutely love this skin, but when I run it in MC 9 I can an error pop-up saying it could not save in ther James Dickson/playing now folder. Does this mean I have to set the skin up in that folder? At the moment I have it unzipped in the right skins folder alongside other playing now skins.....

Thanks
TF
Quote

OK Excuse me - I just edited the config.ini file and renamed the folder - working brilliantly now. Thanks for the great skin and sorry to be a nuisance ? ::)
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Surfer_Fox on November 20, 2003, 05:31:53 pm: Quote from: Drowbe on November 20, 2003, 05:12:29 pm
Quote from: Surfer_Fox on November 20, 2003, 04:13:37 pm

The *start menu* is located in the lower-left corner of your screen on your taskbar (assuming you have the default settings for your operating system). It is where you launch most of your proframs from. It says "Start" on it.

Go to Start > Program Files > James Dickson > Playing Now and edit the "Main Configuration" file.

OK - i should do more work before bothering you-all. I've reinstalled and see where its putting the start menu items. Thanks for your patience.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: park on November 26, 2003, 01:37:27 am: I love what you did with the brushed metal skin. it's great to have the stars back again. the ipods looks so tacky and made the design feel messy. you should post the link to this in the brushed metal thread too so that everyone sees it.

Quote from: lOth on November 12, 2003, 06:48:21 am
I've actually also modified JC's mega-me (this time plundering the blue steel skin...). It matches the PN well. Here is a screenshot:

(http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/gr37/brushed246b.jpg)

You can download it here : http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/gr37/brushedmetal246b.zip (http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/gr37/BrushedMetal246b.zip)

(If anyone can tell me how to make a skin install file, I'll gladly replace the zip...)
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: aussie1 on November 29, 2003, 01:39:52 am: These are awesome playing now skins! I use IOth's Brushed Metal version all the time.

Any chance that up will adapt Drowbe's 600px version to Brushed Metal?
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: lOth on November 30, 2003, 12:35:51 pm: Quote
Any chance that up will adapt Drowbe's 600px version to Brushed Metal?

It's on my agenda, but I'm in the process of moving my life from one continent to another :P, so there is only a very slim chance that it will get done any time soon :-[
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Rob L on December 01, 2003, 08:58:58 am: Quote from: imjustagamer on November 19, 2003, 06:42:34 pm
When the pop up comes up, right click on it and select skins, and then whatever skin.
Right click again and set as default.

OK, so I'm a bit behind on this, but I only just got round to trying to set it as default...

I couldn't see a "set as default" option. Am I going blind or what?

Presumably you are talking about version 1.2?
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: RhinoBanga on December 01, 2003, 09:21:27 am: It's in the Skins popup menu.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Rob L on December 01, 2003, 05:05:43 pm: Hm, well, I'm definitely confused.

Mine doesn't have it, but looking in the Plug-in Manager it lists it as 1.01.00.00.

I don't get that though - I never installed anything before 1.2, and the menu it installed under the start menu is clearly labelled 1.2!

It installed itself under C:\Program Files\James Dickson\PlayingNow 1.2 and I even put some extra skins under there, which it sees... But should it not appear as 1.2 in the Plug-in Manager?

Did the "set as default" option come with version 1.2?
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Marko on December 02, 2003, 01:43:24 am: Rob, The version number thing is a lil' oversight ;)

Here's an image to show what you're looking for, and where.....
(http://foc.no-ip.com/pics/setskin.jpg)

It *should* be there for you :)
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Rob L on December 02, 2003, 04:08:50 am: OK, well, that's even weirder then!

I definitely don't have the option! :-(

It goes straight from "random" to the list of skins....
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: RhinoBanga on December 02, 2003, 06:30:05 am: Here's what it says in the Version.txt file:

// 1.2.0.0 05/11/03
// + Added ability to set the current skin as the default on the right-mouse menu.

If you don't have the menu option then you're not using v1.2.

Uninstall PN, do a search for PlayingNow.dll on your HDD and delete any it finds then install v1.2 which can be downloaded from the interface plugins page.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Rob L on December 02, 2003, 11:47:11 am: OK, thanks....

I'm pretty sure I didn't ever install anything else, but to be sure, I uninstalled it and then redownloaded and reinstalled it last night and it still wasn't working.

I'll do the extra step of deleting any copies of the DLL when I get home this evening.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Rob L on December 02, 2003, 05:26:24 pm: Still don't know what was going on there, but at least I'm fixed now.

Don't quite get your version numbering scheme :-) but I was running 1.2.0.98 rather than 1.2.0.0.

I'd gone through the whole process exactly as you'd expect - uninstalling it from within MC, uninstalling it by running the uninst.exe... that got rid of the one and only copy on the hard disk of playingnow.dll, along with the rest of the files, downloaded it all again from the website, but still got 1.2.0.98 back along with the 1.2.0.98 version.txt.

In the end, I actually had to open up the mjp, get the link from inside it and manually download the ZIP file and run pn.exe from inside it!

So somewhere something was caching an older version. No idea where - it can only really have been Media Center doing it though!
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: RhinoBanga on December 03, 2003, 07:56:48 am: Glad you got it running.

My versions work backwards for beta's, e.g.:

1.2.0.99 ... beta 1
1.2.0.98 ... beta 2

then production goes:

1.2.0.00
1.2.0.01

So I can tell instantly if someone is using a beta.

The version display in MC has been fixed in 1.3.

I think I'll also add an about box option in the right-mouse menu.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Marko on December 07, 2003, 09:45:28 am: added trans-4 to the first post for anyone else who wants it.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: milehigh on January 05, 2004, 10:46:02 am: Marko and others - are you going to update your PN skins to accomodate the word wrapping in version 1.2.1.99?
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: Marko on January 05, 2004, 01:07:48 pm: Yes.
But it won't happen before the weekend.
Title: Re:PlayingNow Skins Library Thread.
Post by: milehigh on January 05, 2004, 06:49:02 pm: No Prob - Thanks for all your work - this is my favorite plug in and you skinners make it even better.........