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Windows => Third Party Plug-ins, Programs, and Skins => Topic started by: knickelfarz on December 09, 2003, 09:29:21 am
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There is not much more to say about it - it's just made to look as close to the standard Windows XP GUI as possible. Compared to a "normal" Windows application, there are three restrictions:
- No "application focus": MC 9.1 will always look like an "active" application...by switching to another application/task, the "window bar" of MC will not "gray out". Maybe this will be possible with future versions of MC...
- A skin can not really adapt to different fontsizes - this will shift some elements of the skin.
The "Lunatic" skins are optimized for 8 point if not described different.
- A skin can not take over the colors from your windows setting...there has to be a different skin for every windows color setting. There are available these versions so far:
LunaticSilver
(http://www.futurehome.de/mc/skins/lunatic_silver/lunaticsilver_small.jpg)
Zoom Picture (http://www.futurehome.de/mc/skins/lunatic_silver/lunatic_silver.htm) -- Direct Install (http://www.futurehome.de/mc/skins/lunatic_silver/lunatic_silver.mjp) -- Download ZIP (http://www.futurehome.de/mc/skins/lunatic_silver/LunaticSilver316_MEGAME_Skin.zip)
LunaticBlue
(http://www.futurehome.de/mc/skins/lunatic_blue/lunaticblue_small.jpg)
Zoom Picture (http://www.futurehome.de/mc/skins/lunatic_blue/lunatic_blue.htm) -- Direct Install (http://www.futurehome.de/mc/skins/lunatic_blue/lunatic_blue.mjp) -- Download ZIP (http://www.futurehome.de/mc/skins/lunatic_blue/LunaticBlue316_MEGAME_Skin.zip)
LunaticOlive
(http://www.futurehome.de/mc/skins/lunatic_olive/lunaticolive_small.jpg)
Zoom Picture (http://www.futurehome.de/mc/skins/lunatic_olive/lunatic_olive.htm) -- Direct Install (http://www.futurehome.de/mc/skins/lunatic_olive/lunatic_olive.mjp) -- Download ZIP (http://www.futurehome.de/mc/skins/lunatic_olive/LunaticOlive_316_MEGAME_Skin.zip)
The following variations will be available soon:
LunaticSilverFS - A version of "LunaticSilver" for fullscreen mode
LunaticBlueFS - A version of "LunaticBlue" for fullscreen mode
The Lunatic skins get even closer to the "original look" if you use the "XP-Icons 4 Media Center" fretwalker once created... you can get them here:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=16146 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=16146)
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knicelfarz does it again :) Now I don't need to worry about the loss of my Luna stuff as "the master" has re-done it for me.
Cheers Knickelfarz!!
Adam
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Hi
Nice to hear from you again :D
Have you canceld this project?: ;)
"The following stuff will be available soon:
LightSteel - A version of "Blue Steel" with light background
MiniSteel - The "mini-me" version of "Blue Steel"
MacroSteel - A very small, basic "mini-me" version of "Blue Steel"
SteelyTrack - TrackInfo Templates for "Blue Steel"
SteelyHair - "Blue Steel" Hairstyle, steely but easy to comb...
SteelyPop - for the use with Rhino Banga's GetPlayingNow-Plugin"
...or have I missed something.
I'll look att your new skin when I am back home.
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Listening to: 'If I Only Had Time' from 'Birth, School, Work, Death' by 'Godfathers' on Media Center 9.1
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Listening to: 'If I Only Had Time' from 'Birth, School, Work, Death' by 'Godfathers' on Media Center 9.1
:P
Nice work . . again! ;)
If ya make the Blue Steel Mini skin I will be your best friend . . . . I'll even let you play with my Barbie record player 8)
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Thanks...
Listening to: 'Overtime Man' from 'MOJO Club Dancefloor Jazz - Vol. 3 - Work To Do' by 'Don Conway' on Media Center 9.1
but, mmh
Listening to: 'Time To Move On' from 'Kevin Yost - Straight Outa The Boon Dox' by 'Richard Les Crees' on Media Center 9.1
CU ;)
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So what is this Matrix-Drawing "stuff" ?
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Awesome job with this skin! I was getting used to the default ones, but it's nice to have most all the apps look similar to the OS we've got. 8)
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So what is this Matrix-Drawing "stuff" ?
Take a look at
http://www.musicex.com/mediacenter/DevZone/MatrixDrawing.html (http://www.musicex.com/mediacenter/DevZone/MatrixDrawing.html)
I only used it for the <SCROLLBAR> "HorizontalHandle" and "VerticalHandle" so far, but it offers great potentialities for future skins ;)
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Nice work :)
The MC DSP effects might help a bit with the skin colour problem here?
Maybe matt or someone even could set it so MC detects the windows colours and automatically applies the correct shade to MC dsp to match the windows settings as a 'work around' no skin?
Anyway - looks great :)
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knickelfarz,
Great skin... I look forward to LunaticBlue!
Scott-
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Mooo
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knickelfarz,
Great skin... I look forward to LunaticBlue!
Scott-
How about LunaticOrange? And LunaticFuschia? Are they on your To Do list anywhere?
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knickelfarz,
Any chance of you putting together a close approximation of the Office 2003 theme?
Scott-
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OK, the blue one is online...
How about LunaticOrange? And LunaticFuschia? Are they on your To Do list anywhere?
I offered to make more color variations for WinDoze, but nobody seemed to be interested... but if there is a need for different XP colors, why not? ;)
How does "Fuschia" look?
Any chance of you putting together a close approximation of the Office 2003 theme?
You mean "OfficeXP"? Mmh, looks simple, should be no problem. But I have some more skins to be finished (BlueSteel, Moooo and others...) and also have to take a look to make them suitable for MC 10, so it will take a while before I can start to make one...
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Sorry to ask you in this thread, knickelfarz, but what display plugin are you using?
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Sorry to ask you in this thread, knickelfarz, but what display plugin are you using?
Do you mean the "Track Info Template"? It's the one you can download from the "WinDoze" skins thread, I just changed the colors... If anybody is interested, I can post them...
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Any chance of you putting together a close approximation of the Office 2003 theme?
You mean "OfficeXP"? Mmh, looks simple, should be no problem. But I have some more skins to be finished (BlueSteel, Moooo and others...) and also have to take a look to make them suitable for MC 10, so it will take a while before I can start to make one...
No, sir... Office 2003 offers a new theme. I can post some screenshots if you'd like. I know you can't exactly duplicate it (due to skinning limitations), but I think you might be able to come close.
Scott-
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Yeah, I'd like that! Thanks! 8)
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Posted by: knickelfarz
I offered to make more color variations for WinDoze, but nobody seemed to be interested...
I'm probably the only person who uses it, but I'd love a cool grey version of the fullscreen Windows skin. I tried changing it myself, but just ended up messing everything up. :)
Rob
Listening to: 'Fee Fi Fo Fum (Sharp Dub 12") (feat. Sweet P*ssy Pauline)' from 'Wham Bam (Maxi Single)' by 'Candy Girls' on Media Center 10
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You're going to do a Lunatic Green too right to match the last standard XP colour?
Because it's the colour I use :)
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Mmh, smells like work... please be patient... I will work out that later :P
Office 2003 offers a new theme. I can post some screenshots if you'd like.
OK, I haven't seen that yet... I will contact you next week.
Yeah, I'd like that! Thanks! 8)
I will rework and then post them in a few days.
...I'd love a cool grey version of the fullscreen Windows skin.
No problem, I will make fullscreen versions of all my skins and post them...
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You're going to do a Lunatic Green too right to match the last standard XP colour?
I'm still using Win2K, so I had to take a look at the PC of a friend... do you mean this "olive green" from the standard settings?
(http://www.futurehome.de/mc/xpgreen.gif)
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I always wondered how that color scheme ever made it past Microsoft's Good Taste department. They may as well have called it Vomit Green... :-[
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I always wondered how that color scheme ever made it past Microsoft's Good Taste department. They may as well have called it Vomit Green... :-[
100% ACK... not even sure if they ever had a "Good Taste department"... :P
But there is no accounting for tastes... Goo? ;D
Anyhow, if you are really interested in Orange/Fuschia, can you post a screenshot?
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:( That's my skin right now!!! :(
I quite like it you big bullies!!
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Well, there's no accounting for taste... ;)
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Yeah :)
Ur bad taste!! ;D
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Look up, Nila, there's a brand new toy for ya... :o
It will make your desktop even more tasteful!
Read this after installing:
[size=0]Congratulations!! You have just installed the first skin to establish the new "JRiver Skin Lock (TM)"!
After installing, it can not be uninstalled and you won't be able to switch to other skins any more.
You will have to use it for the rest of your life... have fun![/size]
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Well, there's no accounting for taste... ;)
BTW... Still wondering how "Fuschia" would look like... ;D
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Patience, patience... I still have to finish writing the skin editor so I can make it.... ;)
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Aaahh!
Tranquil beauty:
http://www.hostrus.co.uk/tmp/greenMC.jpg
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Nila what res is your screen...looks huge...makes my puny 1024x768 seem v mediocre...and I can remember the time when I had the best screen resoultion and everyone I knew was still on 800x600...oh how times change ;D I think I need a new monitor...one of those sexy apple screens wuld be loveley :)
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1600x1200
I need it for designing with - a big screen is a necessity.
I'm working on a Sony Trinitron 21".
Got it for £200 from letsbuyit.com
I want something bigger but there's not much on the market much bigger and at all affordable :(
I'm glad it's at least this high a res. thou - anything smaller and programs seem to have no working space - it's all used on GUI parts etc.
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Nila, maybe you can use something like this as a desktop wallpaper... can make it easier for others to enjoy the result of your work ;) ;D
http://www.futurehome.de/mc/screen.zip (http://www.futurehome.de/mc/screen.zip)
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lol - Thanks for that :)
Dreamweaver already has options to make the screen space any size.
So does Flash.
When it comes to designing my plugins thou I'm designing them to work great on a nice low rest of: 1600x1200 lol.
Everyone else just needs a bigger monitor (Sony have hired me to make everyone buy new monitors!)
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Like this skin.!! Really cool
Can you do a Windows Marple version?
One little problem :
You need to close and reopen MC to have Action windows changing.
On MC 10-18
Listening to: 'Too Much Monkey Business' from 'The Sect & The Rock Sects In' by 'Downliners Sect' on Media Center 10
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And ,yes ,i would like the olive Track infos .
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Can you do a Windows Marple version?
Next year ;)
One little problem : You need to close and reopen MC to have Action windows changing.On MC 10-18
I also saw this sometimes, even transparency of icons (in AW and tree) is lost sometimes after switching skins. But it's not a problem of a specific skin, it's a bug of MC's skinning engine...
And ,yes ,i would like the olive Track infos
Next year ;) I'm reworking all my Track Info Templates and will post new versions for all skins later.
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In your mouth ,next year sounds ok--not so far.
It would not in mine ,it would mean around september/october next [of your] year...
Anyway ,i wish you a very nice time for the next two weeks.
Do not know if it is something you can do ,but it would be nice to have all the windows now in white whith a ligth version of the green.
I mean to have nothing in white in the skin.
Concerning track info ,can you built 2 versions:
One with visualization , and one without.
So ,i understand that you will start to work on it as soon as hanghover gone? :-*
Again, have a good time
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I love these skins!
One question: how do you minimize the action window?
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Thank you for posting these. I have just started with this wonderful software. These are just magnificent.