Calling for help from the skinner's deep hell (2 Viewers)

[Harley]

Yes, thats the problem why it is use normaly in videooverlay.
Because if you use it in other xml´s, it is a image so it will show allways on top.

The preview vindow will only come if you play a videofile, but the background is showing all the time.

I think there is no comand for showing that image only by overlay. Don´t know one. Sorry

Selected Colors for buttons would be a great thing

Greetings Harley

 

[Fidoboy]

I feel like i'm fighting against the storms I'm discovering a lot of walls that are blocking me... I can't make the skin that i want, only a modified version of BlueTwo with another graphics...

I'll consider to focus my skin to another direction then... thanks for your help.

 

[Boilermaker]

How can i set the selected text color for buttons?. I want to have one text color for unselected buttons and a different one for the selected button.

you should be able to use the tag <textcolor> to define the text color of a selected button and <disabledcolor> for when it is not selected. These values are usually defined for each type of button in references.xml. I defined as much as i could in references.xml so that any change i made would take effect thru the entire skin. You may for artistic reasons want something different for each screen, but it's a whole lot easier to define common tags where possible in references.xml.

 

[Fidoboy]

you should be able to use the tag <textcolor> to define the text color of a selected button and <disabledcolor> for when it is not selected. These values are usually defined for each type of button in references.xml. I defined as much as i could in references.xml so that any change i made would take effect thru the entire skin. You may for artistic reasons want something different for each screen, but it's a whole lot easier to define common tags where possible in references.xml.

Have you tried it Boilermaker?? :?

 

[Forgotten Illustrator]

- It's possible to use shadows in labels? (i want to mean drop shadows)

You need to think out the the square of MP [ :roll: ]
You can make a shadow by having Duplicated label and make the first one a lower quantity in text color. but the shadow text is not soften

<control>
<description>now playing label shadow</description>
<type>label</type>
<id>288</id>
<posX>340</posX>
<posY>462</posY>
<label>Now playing</label>
<align>right</align>
<font>font18</font>
<textcolor>15000000</textcolor>
</control>
<control>
<description>now playing label</description>
<type>label</type>
<id>288</id>
<posX>325</posX>
<posY>450</posY>
<label>Now playing</label>
<align>right</align>
<font>font18</font>
<textcolor>90000000</textcolor>
</control>


here a E.g of one form my skin that im work on.

I have found that it works on some lables but not others.

It's possible to set the transparency level for a image (png, jpg)

Unless you wish to change the transparency for the same image for different times/positions, do as above. But if you wish to have it fixed you just save it a the transparency level you desire.

 

[Boilermaker]

unfortunately it didnt work. I also tried the tags <selectedColor>,<shadedColor> and <remoteColor> that can be used with a listcontrol. I figured since a listcontrol font can change color when selected, adding the same to a button control was worth a try.

The only productive thing i got from the whole excercise was finding out what <disabledcolor> really does. If you have a button you can't select (like search in my music for me), it controls the color of the text.