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A new dark view is coming...
« on: March 29, 2011, 09:24:16 pm »


Soon...

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phalanthus

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Re: A new dark view is coming...
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2011, 12:31:59 am »

nice
and a stop button !!!
when will this be available ?
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marko

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Re: A new dark view is coming...
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2011, 01:25:47 am »

This looks very good indeed.

I have something very similar kind of half-boiled here at the moment as I attempt to produce something in the Adobe Lightroom style, but I have not visited it for a while...

Looking forward to testing this out, it looks to be very well done, attention to detail is king when it comes to skinning and this would appear to have plenty of that.

-marko

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Re: A new dark view is coming...
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2011, 05:33:35 am »

Ooh that does look nice  :)

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Re: A new dark view is coming...
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2011, 09:56:25 am »

looks good, but why is everything so BIIIG? ^^
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Re: A new dark view is coming...
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2011, 12:41:55 pm »

looks good, but why is everything so BIIIG? ^^
Don't worry, it looks big because I'm using it in a high DPI.
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Re: A new dark view is coming...
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2011, 01:56:14 pm »

I love it, that will be my new Favourit Skin, please release it :)
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Re: A new dark view is coming...
« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2011, 04:58:53 pm »

Well, Now I have the time to finish this skin. But I think that I need some help with this:

A:Is there a way to change the color of the unfocus column bar (the gray one where the Tab "HERE" in the image)?
B:How can I move this 3 buttons, it doesn't look good here.

In the Menu, How can I give more margin on the right side, (move the arrow a little to the left)?
If someone could help me to fix this issues, for sure the skin will be available the next week.
So, any help will be welcome.
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marko

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Re: A new dark view is coming...
« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2011, 03:50:18 am »

A - I am not aware of any control over the 'inactive split viewheader' colour, and just in case it was undocumented, I've tried things such as  InactiveHeaderBackground="FF00FF" and DisabledHeaderBackground="FF00FF", but they didn't work. I'm guessing that this is something the devs would need to add to the skinning engine for us... Matt?

B - Where would you like to move them to? Their location in the GUI is again, hard coded, at the end of the progress bar there, but you can effect their spacing by adding transparent 'dead areas' to the graphics. In order to stop the dead area from being treated as part of the button, thus activating the button when the mouse is inside the dead space, you need to specify in the xml that there are five images. The first three are the current, mouse over and mouse down graphics, four is empty, and five represents the active area of the buttons in black, as demonstrated in the attached zip file. So, adding dead space to the left of the various 'repeat' button graphics should effectively push the end of the progress bar away from the buttons. Aside from that, we don't have much in the way of control over the placement of these buttons.

C - Again, placement of the expansion arrows appears to be hard coded.

Not much positive in my reply unfortunately, but there it is. If it helps, I knew right away when I looked at your skin image that the playing now split was the inactive one, and the three buttons appear to be pretty good like they are. I always find those one of the hardest skinning jobs to get right as I find it difficult working zoomed all the way in on such small images. Your 'arrows' request just made me smile, as it reinforced my feeling that this skin is going to be good... attention to detail and all that, right? I'd never bumped into the need to move them to be honest, but still, I did try messing around with margins and transparent bits for a quick test before replying, but no joy, other than some mild amusement as the skinning engine attempted to fulfil my demands... I managed to get the arrows waaay outside the menu itself, but could not force them any further in.

-marko

Edit: Here's an old thread from back in 2008 where a request was made for seperate control over the inactive split viewheader area, including the tab text etc... Sometimes, things in our MC world move very slowly ;)
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=45393.0

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Re: A new dark view is coming...
« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2011, 02:27:36 pm »

Hello again and thanks for all the people interested in my work.
Now I'm want to upload more screenshots, comments and suggestions are welcome.
Again thanks.




Hope you like it! ;D
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Re: A new dark view is coming...
« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2011, 05:10:26 pm »

Upload it already! :D
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Re: A new dark view is coming...
« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2011, 05:59:33 pm »

It's looking really nice. I'm watching for the upload so I can play with it. ;D
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Re: A new dark view is coming...
« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2011, 06:42:56 pm »

What the font (and size) of the skin?

Good skin.

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Re: A new dark view is coming...
« Reply #13 on: April 03, 2011, 07:58:14 pm »

nice,the best one.try it right now :D
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phalanthus

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Re: A new dark view is coming...
« Reply #14 on: April 04, 2011, 12:27:40 am »

 ;D ;D ;D
can't wait
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Re: A new dark view is coming...
« Reply #15 on: April 04, 2011, 01:45:00 am »

I love it, please release it please !!!

Hello again and thanks for all the people interested in my work.
Now I'm want to upload more screenshots, comments and suggestions are welcome.
Again thanks.
Hope you like it! ;D
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marko

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Re: A new dark view is coming...
« Reply #16 on: April 04, 2011, 04:23:48 am »

I couldn't say for sure until I get my hands on it, but my first impression was that the light grey tree background and red selection are a tad jarring and make the skin seem overly busy.

Coming along nicely though. Liking the updated search field, much better now.

phalanthus

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Re: A new dark view is coming...
« Reply #17 on: April 15, 2011, 02:43:56 am »

 ? ? ?
any progress ??
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