Building a skin from scratch - a tour - (2 Viewers)

[mbuzina]

I went one step further and added CD images based in the thumb if no Cd image is available. Looks good.

Added Clear Art to the overlay, if there is space & designed some Dialogs (menu & ok). Next is the other layouts.

I have added album view, now that is shown, but view selection only shows listview, all though i have both. How come?

 

[Pog]

Have you taken into account that there are 2 sets of views in music? One has the list/icons/filmstrip/coverflow and the other user defined views like albums/artists/songs/years etc.

 

[mbuzina]

Yep, i have the data views & can select what I want, its the normal view control (2 i think) that has just 1 entry.

 

[Pog]

Yeah control id 2. Might be that the facadeview needs to be fully laid out with all the views to work right.

This is what I have for the menu button:

	<control>
	  <description>View-As</description>
	  <type>menubutton</type>
	  <id>2</id>
	  <label></label>
	  <mode>dialoglist</mode>
	  <dialogTitle>792</dialogTitle>
	  <valueTextInButton>yes</valueTextInButton>
	  <onleft>50</onleft>
	  <onup>120</onup>
	  <valuePrefixText>95</valuePrefixText>
	</control>

 

[mbuzina]

My Control #2:

<control Style="hiddenMenuItemStyle">
					<description>View-As</description>
					<type>menubutton</type>
					<id>2</id>
					<label></label>
					<onright>50</onright>
					<onleft>50</onleft>
					<onup>17</onup>
					<ondown>5</ondown>
					<mode>dialoglist</mode>				   
					<dialogTitle>792</dialogTitle>
					<valueTextInButton>yes</valueTextInButton>
					<valuePrefixText>95</valuePrefixText>
					<animation effect="fade" time="100" delay="10">VisibleChange</animation>
					<animation effect="slide" time="100" start="40,0" end="0,0" delay="10">VisibleChange</animation>
				</control>

 

[mbuzina]

Still no Album View selection, but now went on to Icon views. They seem to work. Next up filmstrip & coverflow - they need a redesigned layout as they are horizontal.

I wanted to group all my controls together, so that I can switch them off easily by a single visibility statement, but if I group them some of them disappear???

I group them with the following code:

		<control>
			<dimColor>FFFFFFFF</dimColor>
			<unfocusedAlpha>255</unfocusedAlpha>
			<visible>true</visible>
			<colordiffuse>FFFFFFFF</colordiffuse>
<!-- Sub Controls are here -->
		</control>

The first pic is without the group code, the second is with the code. Is there anything else that I can change? I do not want to repeat visibility conditions 20 times for each control.

 

[The_Stig]

Video will follow.

Where and when?

 

[catavolt]

You are missing the <group> tag:
<control>
<description>group element</description>
<type>group</type>
<dimColor>FFFFFFFF</dimColor>
<unfocusedAlpha>255</unfocusedAlpha>
<visible>true</visible>
<colordiffuse>FFFFFFFF</colordiffuse>
<!-- Sub Controls are here -->
</control>

 

[Pog]

Did you miss a <type>group</type> in the top control?
Also there are a lot of inconsistencies when using group controls depending on what sub controls are used.

Edit.. Ha Catavolt beat me to it!!!!

 

[mbuzina]

Thx, i had this in there about 1000 times, with the type, but without the unfocusedalpha - that was my last try & then i forget the type!

Ok, have to set my unfocusedalpha to my default group to 255 and remember to add the type. It works!

Video will follow.