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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: RobOK on August 23, 2006, 12:40:58 pm

Title: Request for discussion: Cover art expand to fill space in PN
Post by: RobOK on August 23, 2006, 12:40:58 pm: I have cover art of varying sizes. My thought is it would be better if it auto-expanded to fill the playing now space. if the art was really small it might look bad, but most of mine is at least reasonable.

It's a minor point.
Title: Re: Request for discussion: Cover art expand to fill space in PN
Post by: Deivit on August 23, 2006, 01:01:40 pm: In my opinion, your best bet is doing that by using a Track Info plug-in configured in that way.
Title: Re: Request for discussion: Cover art expand to fill space in PN
Post by: RobOK on August 23, 2006, 01:04:02 pm: Quote from: Deivit on August 23, 2006, 01:01:40 pm
On my opinion, your best bet is doing that by using a Track Info plug-in configured in that way.

Thanks for the pointer, to be honest I have never played with the Track Info plugin!
Title: Re: Request for discussion: Cover art expand to fill space in PN
Post by: Deivit on August 23, 2006, 01:33:22 pm: Well, there are a few of them that are included as stock with your MC installation. If you know some html you can easily modify them to better suit your needs.
Title: Re: Request for discussion: Cover art expand to fill space in PN
Post by: RobOK on August 23, 2006, 02:04:32 pm: Do you think its possible to have a 2 x 2 inch spot for the Cover Art (always) and a 4 x 6 or larger spot for the Playing Now display, which for me would be a slide show of images? Probably not.

I'm looking at one called DJ2 and it shows a visualization and an album cover. I would like to replace the visualization with Image slide show. Here is what the HTML has for th Vis, but its pretty obscure.

<p align="center"> <object classid="clsid:CE5BC8B7-ACDF-4118-B22A-DE0D5B73270A" id="MJVisEngine1" data="DATA:application/x-oleobject;BASE64,t8hbzt+sGEGyKt4NW3MnCgADAABWCgAAVgoAAA==" width="279" height="239"> </object>

It would be cool to be able to show the Display window and a cover art.
Title: Re: Request for discussion: Cover art expand to fill space in PN
Post by: Deivit on August 23, 2006, 02:15:40 pm: I'm afraid that my knowledge of this stuff is very limited, but I would say that what you want to achieve is not possible. Anyway, let's hope that any of the html gurus here can give you a hint on that.