yup... its a beta.. but last time around (wmp10) they didnt break such basic things as png support (implimentation is changed i guess) & colorization.. & they did come out with as SDK update soon afterwards.. but this time is been long time coming considering wmp11 ha
had been itching to get my hands on WMP11 on XP, finally got it on wednesday.. im really impressed with what MS has done with WMP & URGE.. roamed around WMP & URGE for sometime when the skinner in me tookover.. i shouldnt have let him out(the skinner in me)... <img src="http://images.stardock.com/wc/smiles/Crying.gif" border=0 ALIGN="abs
that would also mean that no one else would win...
WindowBlinds, IconPackager and Gadgets/Widgets (created in Kapsules, Samurize, DesktopX.. and maybe Y! widget engine too..) Blinds/Packager take care of the Stardock categories, while the gadgets/widgets categories take care of non-stardock part. frankly a mediaplayer as 3rd category is getting a bit old now... morever gadgets/widgets are th
3D Studio Max was made by Discreet, well, Autodesk now owns Discreet if i remember correclty, MAX was made by Kinetix a subsidary of Autodesk which was later merged with Discreet when Autodesk bought Discreet....
"and suddenly ours is free"... but does it do all that DX can...!!! nope..! i think not...!!! & Arlo Rose is one lucky guy.... if by chance MS had announced Gadgets before the knofab buyout by Yahoo, then i dont think Yahoo would have done it....
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmplay10/mmp_sdk/creatingmetafileplaylists.asp i hope that helps...
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if u have iconpackager then u can use the repair icon cache option in it, that would probably fix it... if u dont hav it, then download the TweakUI powertoy from microsoft site & use the "Rebuild Icons" option in the "Repair" section. download tweakui from here : Link hope that helps... <img src="http://ima
checkout the Mrs. Ruler widget.... its got color changing capablities....
after the PM & AOTC letdown, i won't be getting my hopes high.... those 2 were nothing but effects extravaganza...
What an awesome piece of software...!!!!
try this link... http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=45&t=138925&hl=&s=
ok... here goes... when u change the color (image) of ur main view u will first ve to check wether ur video view is open or not, then if its open u will ve to close it & reopen it with the new color... so heres how ur skin should work... whenever u open/close the video view u will ve to save a setting in windows registry to true/false accordingly... then ven ur script which changes the color executes it should save the color value in the registry... <br
nope.. as far as i could tell theres no alpha blending... > as for its RAM/CPU usage, it hasn't really changed much... though i would say its taxing the CPU a bit more than before.. maybe thats coz its a beta <
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I was hoping they would implement true alpha transperency / true antialising throught the Skin SDK... didn't find any mention of it anywhre in the SDK, ... so asuming its not implemented yet... so this is for The Skin Factory : get those guys @ MS to implement it in WMP 10... pleeeeassseee...!!
it can be done.... theres a DLL file called wmploc.dll in windows/system32 folder... this file contains all the UI releated resources of WMP... so to change the look of the minimised wmp u will need to hack this dll... to do this u will need the software called reshacker... with this u will have to hunt inside of the DLL & change whatever resources u want... before u attemp
i still have a working CD of it... the visuals were what really attracted me to this game...
whew..!! :)
eehaw... here we go..!!
simple... use a copy of the shape and apply a gradient effect to it...
the trick is to not to use true black (#000000) & true white (#ffffff) in the grarscale map & to start with black at the zero value of the slider & white at the full value of the slider. a work around that i used in my Morpheloen skin is that i have used a normal slider even for the freeform sliders in the skin, but this will work only if ur slider is non circular. take a look at the code for the slider in the skin & the images for the slider & u will understand what i mean... <img src
Mantis is just unbeliveable...!!! Sonique was always the best (quality) media player for me... Way to GO Team Sonique!!
oopsss... here u go : http://sonique.lycos.com/documentation/mmldocs.phtml?toc=0&chapter=1&level2=0
how many of u skinners have looked into the Sonique 2 skinning engine Mantis...?? Have been looking into it for a few days now... its unbelivable...!! It directly uses a PSD for graphics including the layers & their blend modes..!!! if u ve a skin completely done in Photoshop, u dont even need t
the main reason for it not being implemented is that eats up CPU time bigtime... whenever i turn on alpha blending in WinAMP 3/5 the CPU useage atleast doubles... > so maybe they should make it an option on the users part to turn on/off alpha blending just like WinAMP 3/5... <img src="http://images.stardock.c