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Windows => Third Party Plug-ins, Programs, and Skins => Topic started by: nila on November 10, 2003, 05:45:33 am

Title: Task bar controls
Post by: nila on November 10, 2003, 05:45:33 am: Hey all,
I know a LOT of us have task bar controls and my graphic work is pretty bad so I was wondering if people could post screen shots of the task bar controls they have along with links to the icons?

Thanks! :)
Title: Re:Task bar controls
Post by: Rob L on November 10, 2003, 05:05:53 pm: OK, this may make me sound stupid... but what do you mean by taskbar buttons? As in the windows taskbar?!?
Title: Re:Task bar controls
Post by: nila on November 11, 2003, 02:30:47 am: Yeah, alot of us made an extra toolbar for the task bar that lets us control MC from it.

Just my icons are terrible :)

They're not very clear at all :(
Title: Re:Task bar controls
Post by: Marko on November 11, 2003, 02:48:48 am: Nila, did you get the one's that DJ_Hazelwood made?

They complement the "i-tunes" windows theme really well. I don't use the ratings buttons anymore, I shifted that responsibility over to Rhino's PlayingNow plugin, but bunged them back in for this lil' screenie...
(http://foc.no-ip.com/pics/tb.jpg)

I'm almost certain there's a d'load link for them in the "NightLife" skin thread if you missed them.
If you already have, I'll get my coat ;)

-marko.
Title: Re:Task bar controls
Post by: nila on November 11, 2003, 03:07:55 am: I didn't, I think I'll get them.

Where do you get that i-Tunes windows look theme? It looks really nice _ I want it!! :)
Title: Re:Task bar controls
Post by: ben1000 on November 11, 2003, 12:10:56 pm: How does one actually get these controls in the taskbar, pray tell?

Thanks,

Ben
Title: Re:Task bar controls
Post by: Rob L on November 11, 2003, 12:20:04 pm: That's pretty much what I was wondering!
Title: Re:Task bar controls
Post by: sraymond on November 11, 2003, 02:13:58 pm: I think the moral of this thread is that JRiver should package a "Toolbar" that is installed automatically. NPlayer does this:
(http://pages.sbcglobal.net/scottraymond/nplayertoolbar.jpg)

so why can't MC?

Scott-

P.S. The answer to the question "how do I do this" is to create your own shortcuts to an mjextman command with a custom icon and place them in a taskbar toolbar manually. There is a thread describing the process step-by-step complete with icons, but I couldn't find it. I'm sure someone will point it out.
Title: Re:Task bar controls
Post by: Marko on November 11, 2003, 03:23:58 pm: Quote from: ben1000 on November 11, 2003, 12:10:56 pm
How does one actually get these controls in the taskbar, pray tell?

Thanks,

Ben

All you need should be in This (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=10011;start=msg59672#msg59654) thread.

Just holler if you need any more help :)

SRaymond, glad to see I'm not the only one getting gip from the search function. I get Lot's of "no results to diplay" that you just know is wrong ::)
Title: Re:Task bar controls
Post by: nila on November 11, 2003, 03:56:54 pm: Yeah it should bundle the task bar controls - they'd be a BIG selling point.

Especially if they let users customise which buttons are there - pretty simple process really but a great one to sell the product with.

Combine that with the 'Playing Now' plugin which they should bundle into MC as standard and it'd be a HUGE selling point.
Title: Re:Task bar controls
Post by: sraymond on November 11, 2003, 04:09:19 pm: Quote
SRaymond, glad to see I'm not the only one getting gip from the search function. I get Lot's of "no results to diplay" that you just know is wrong

Yeah... I searched on "Taskbar toolbar icon" and didn't get a hit. Oh well...

Scott-
Title: Re:Task bar controls
Post by: jiistme on November 11, 2003, 05:35:15 pm: I just want to say that Media Center kicks butt...I just bought it recently (a couple of weeks ago) and just about every week I found some cool new thing about it...The ability to create a toolbar with Media Center rocks (which I just found out about by reading this thread and created with the help of the commands and icons on the other thread)...between it and the Playing Now plugin, I don't think I will ever use mini me skins again...I have my screen space taken up down to less than the winamp skin I was using and it is more useful.

Jiistme
Title: Re:Task bar controls
Post by: Rob L on November 11, 2003, 05:46:44 pm: The reason I asked on here about what Nila meant was because I'd been looking for a utility that could sit in the taskbar somewhere and generate the windows multimedia messages to control Media Center.

In the meantime, I just used a tiny mini-me skin.

Now I know how to do it - and really am wondering how many other things I don't know! - but I'm probably going to stick with the Caliber mini-me skin just because it's probably closer to what I want, but it's pretty good to know what you can do.

What it has given me though is the answer to something I'd been wanting to do for a long time: have Media Center speak the name of the track on demand (I know that might sound weird, but I've got a wireless speaker set-up and a wireless remote control, and I'm quite often too far away to be able to see the screen and know what the track is that's playing - so I'll now be able to set up one of the remote buttons to run a program that grabs the name of the currently playing track and bungs it through to the Windows Speech Engine...)