Eagle BlueTouch & RedTouch Skin

[SilverEagle]

mija5290 wrote:
> is it at ALL possible to add a volume control?
> maybe a slider across the top? Just to make life
> easier in kiosk mode as many of my songs (im sure
> others have this problem too) are very different
> volumes. sometimes too at a party it would be
> great to drop the volume down to background level
> quickly and easily.

Yes, technically it would be possible. But my impression was that at most parties people use an external amp & speakers, not something like their logitech gaming set. Meaning the volume would be changed with the amp. Usually people do not want everyone to have access to a touch-screen slider to modify the volume, it is far too easy to accidentally (or 'humorously') mute the music - or put it at 100%.

I'll put it on my TODO list. (But as you might have noticed that is no guarantee it is going to make it into the skin very fast nowadays...)

SilverEagle

[SilverEagle]

mija5290 wrote:
> forgot to add: i see karaoke is on your todo list
> for this skin. any ideas when? it would be great.

Well, first of all there is nothing to stop you from either using a second screen or press F2 to go to karaoke mode.

But what I wanted to implement is a way of just showing Karaoke tracks, or only switch over to the karaoke screen on the main monitor if there is karakoe information for the currently playing song. Unfortunately Silverjuke does not support this, as there is no way from script to reliably detect what is a karaoke track.

You can work around this by sorting your music in separate directories (karaoke and non-karaoke), but that is not something I want to make this skin dependant on. So in fact I am waiting for a bit more native support in Silverjuke itself.

SilverEagle

[mija5290]

[SilverEagle]

[mija5290]

[SilverEagle]

mija5290 wrote:
> Cant seems to open the xml file.

You don't 'open' the xml, you open the skin (EagleBlueTouch_v205.sjs) with winzip or something like that (an .sjs skin is just a zipfile with another extension).

Now replace the covers_elements_playing.xml inside with the posted covers_elements_playing.xml (renamed from the *.txt).

SIlverEagle

[mija5290]

Sorry, I should explain myself properly.
I can get it to work, but I wanted to see the xml to see what you changed.
you see everytime you open in kiosk mode the volume is 100%. Also I wanted to change the slider so you can touch one spot and it will go to that volume rather than having to slide it to change the volume.
Thanks again, your help is much appreciated!

[SilverEagle]

mija5290 wrote:
> Sorry, I should explain myself properly.
> I can get it to work, but I wanted to see the xml
> to see what you changed.

Try notepad (or any other plain texteditor).

> you see everytime you open in kiosk mode the
> volume is 100%.

Might be that the skin sets that on purpose. I'll look into it later.

> Also I wanted to change the
> slider so you can touch one spot and it will go
> to that volume rather than having to slide it to
> change the volume.

You are not the only one (cause so do I ), but unfortunately that is just not the way sliders in silverjuke work. It would be possible to create let's say 20 small buttons in the same spot with each a different set volume, but then you could not slide it anymore. Would that be what you want?

SilverEagle

[mija5290]

I reckon the best idea would be to make the slider about 3 times as big and put it above the covers. as it is so close to the lower half of the screen, it is really easy to pause it instead of changing the volume. (Also can we label it "Volume" ? )
I think if the volume slider was a lot bigger i could cope with the "slide" to change volume.

[SilverEagle]

mija5290 wrote:
> I reckon the best idea would be to make the slider
> about 3 times as big and put it above the covers.
> as it is so close to the lower half of the
> screen, it is really easy to pause it instead of
> changing the volume.(Also can we label it
> "Volume" ? )

See new attached 'XML' file. No 'volume' label though, normally I'd make the graphic so that it would look like a volume slider, no label would be needed. But for this quick hack I just used the same image as for the song-position slider. Read the SDK manual and brush up you paintbrush/paintshop/photoshop/whatever skills .

SilverEagle