Skin teaser...

[SilverEagle]

Hi All,

It'll take a few decades at this speed, but maybe I'll get there in the end...

For all the patient followers of this thread finally something to play with. Which is not to say it is already really usable or finished, but it works.

This skin needs the EagleTools.dll from . Also you'll have to install the free fonts in your Windows. The skin will work without them, but will probably fall back to some wrongly scaled arial.

And finally: the name is currently a placeholder. Still have to think of something relevant to the skin.

Have fun!
SilverEagle

[hotspur]

Many thanks, SE. I'll give you some feedback over the weekend.

Which version should we be running this skin with? 2.74, 3.04?

[SilverEagle]

hotspur wrote:
> Which version should we be running this skin with? 2.74, 3.04?

Makes no differences as far as I can tell. But there is no video support either way.

[hotspur]

A couple thoughts after playing with the alpha.

- Playback doesn't start when I add a song to the queue. I get a popup message that the song has been added to the queue, but then I have to start playback manually.

- The Artist view is definitely the reason to use this skin, but one issue is that it breaks ups compilation albums and displays each artist individually. Is there any way to solve this short of changing the artist on these albums? Could the skin use the 'Album Artist' field instead of 'Artist' to make the groupings?

[SilverEagle]

hotspur wrote:
> - Playback doesn't start when I add a song to the queue.

> - The Artist view (...) breaks ups compilation albums
> ...
> Could the skin use the 'Album Artist' field instead of 'Artist' to make the groupings?

Agreed, I've put all on the short-term todo list.

SilverEagle

[srodda]

Hey SilverEagle. Have you ever thought of setting up a PayPal account. I'm sure people would be willing to donate to your projects. The skins you produce are amazing. I'm going to try the skin out when I have time. Thanks
P.s. is it hard to get video working for this skin? As I have many videos in my library?

[SilverEagle]

srodda wrote:
> Hey SilverEagle. Have you ever thought of setting up a PayPal account. I'm sure people would be willing to donate to your projects. The skins you produce are amazing.

Thanks for the vote of confidence

(And people have already donated. For which I am very grateful. It's not that I need money or that I would stop developing these skins without donations, but someone donating money just as 'Thank You' is indeed a very flattering gesture. But then again: )

> I'm going to try the skin out when I have time. Thanks

Let me know if you find any issues (apart from some obvious not yet implemented functionality ).

> P.s. is it hard to get video working for this skin? As I have many videos in my library?

I'll keep that in mind. Video has never been workable for me (not stable enough to play more than 1 or 2 videos before crashing) but I could implement and test it no problem.

Cheers,
SilverEagle