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[dcwebman]

I want to use the smallest mini skin I can find. For years I've been using the NoFrills skin. Occasionally it will break with a build and then I have to switch to something else. Is there a better, smaller mini-skin out there that has the functionality I want:

• Can see playlist and select tracks
• Adjust volume
• Display Artist, song, album
• Display current track time with total track time

[marko]

"Lower Left" or "Lower Right" are very small and fit your bill.

If you have the playingnow plugin, it can also be set to do all of that, using any look or size you fancy.
It's not working correctly with MC13 atm, as there's a small tooltip related bug, which may rear it's head when adjusting the volume as you can't turn that tooltip off.

-marko.

[dcwebman]

Thanks, that will work for awhile until they get NoFrills fixed again. I had to change the font size to 10 though in order to not get it clipped. Since I mostly maximize my windows and keep MC on my second display, I keep it at the top of the window header so it stays out of the way even though it's always on top. Guess I would need to look at changing it to a top right if I have to continue to use it. It gets me by though for the moment. Thanks.

[marko]

In what way is no frills broken for you?

It appears to be working fine for me.

[dcwebman]

It's the way it was broken before. It opens up with no buttons and the playing list fully displayed. I'll have to go back and see if I can find the previous time it was broken because maybe there was something I had to change which doesn't seem to make sense from one build to the next.

[dcwebman]

OK, reinstalling NoFrills allowed it to work again. I compared files and the only difference was the state.xml file. Here's the two versions:

Bad one:

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<MJSState Version="1.0">
<Playlist Visible="Show" Position="2176,21">
<Item Type="1" Name="Tracklist" State="1" Rect="0,0,350,399"/>
<Item Type="2" Name="TracklistPosition" State="1" Rect="361,0,366,400"/>
</Playlist>
<Player Visible="Show" Position="2176,5">
<Item Type="0" Name="Playlist" State="1" Rect="429,3,446,15"/>
<Item Type="0" Name="Next" State="1" Rect="411,3,428,15"/>
<Item Type="0" Name="Previous" State="1" Rect="392,3,409,15"/>
<Item Type="0" Name="Stop" State="1" Rect="374,3,391,15"/>
<Item Type="0" Name="Play" State="1" Rect="357,3,373,15"/>
<Item Type="3" Name="TrackInfo" State="1" Rect="3,4,354,15"/>
</Player>
<Values/>
</MJSState>
Good one:

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<MJSState Version="1.0">
<Playlist Visible="Hide" Position="2422,22">
<Item Type="1" Name="Tracklist" State="1" Rect="0,0,350,399"/>
<Item Type="2" Name="TracklistPosition" State="1" Rect="351,0,356,400"/>
</Playlist>
<Player Visible="Show" Position="2422,6">
<Item Type="0" Name="Playlist" State="1" Rect="339,3,356,15"/>
<Item Type="0" Name="Next" State="1" Rect="321,3,338,15"/>
<Item Type="0" Name="Previous" State="1" Rect="302,3,319,15"/>
<Item Type="0" Name="Stop" State="1" Rect="284,3,301,15"/>
<Item Type="0" Name="Play" State="1" Rect="267,3,283,15"/>
<Item Type="3" Name="TrackInfo" State="1" Rect="3,4,264,15"/>
</Player>
<Values/>
</MJSState>
Even changing the Playlist from Visible to Show didn't make it work so something is changing the button locations every so often in a new build.

Thanks marko for acknowledging it was working for you so I knew I had to go find the problem.

[Doof]

Just an FYI, the state.xml file just stores things like where on the desktop the skin was when it was closed, which windows were open, etc. If a skin starts acting funny, I find the best first step is to just delete the state.xml. That should reset everything back to default. I used to run into that problem all the time when I developing skins for MC.