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<blockquote data-quote="fforde" data-source="post: 371552" data-attributes="member: 52082">Just a quick FYI. Moving Pictures 0.7 will be released probably within a week. There have been a few changes made to what is available to you skinners though so, I thought I'd drop a line and let you guys know what is changing. We have a <a href="http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/wiki/SkinDesignersGuide" target="_blank">Skin Designers Guide</a>, so all the details are over there. Briefly though the key things to note are:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Updates are not REQUIRED. Old skins will still work just fine.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">If you want to take advantage of the new fancy backdrop fading transition possible in Moving Pictures 0.7, a (pretty simple) change is required. Again, see the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/wiki/SkinDesignersGuide" target="_blank">guide</a> for details. If you do not make this change your skin again, will still work fine, but backdrops will not fade when the image changes.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">A new &quot;working&quot; animation has been added to indicate when a background task such as movie importation is in progress.</li>
</ul>Again, please check out <a href="http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/wiki/SkinDesignersGuide" target="_blank">the guide</a>. If anyone has any questions though, fire away. And if anyone would like an alpha version to test skin changes against send me a PM with a link to an already released skin you actively maintain. Sorry this alpha is for internal testers (we are full right now) and skin designers only.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fforde, post: 371552, member: 52082"] Just a quick FYI. Moving Pictures 0.7 will be released probably within a week. There have been a few changes made to what is available to you skinners though so, I thought I'd drop a line and let you guys know what is changing. We have a [URL="http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/wiki/SkinDesignersGuide"]Skin Designers Guide[/URL], so all the [I]details[/I] are over there. Briefly though the key things to note are: [LIST] [*]Updates are not REQUIRED. Old skins will still work just fine. [*]If you want to take advantage of the new fancy backdrop fading transition possible in Moving Pictures 0.7, a (pretty simple) change is required. Again, see the [URL="http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/wiki/SkinDesignersGuide"]guide[/URL] for details. If you do [b]not[/b] make this change your skin again, will still work fine, but backdrops will not fade when the image changes. [*]A new "working" animation has been added to indicate when a background task such as movie importation is in progress. [/LIST] Again, please check out [URL="http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/wiki/SkinDesignersGuide"]the guide[/URL]. If anyone has any questions though, fire away. And if anyone would like an alpha version to test skin changes against send me a PM [i]with a link to an already released skin you actively maintain[/i]. Sorry this alpha is for internal testers (we are full right now) and skin designers only. [/QUOTE]

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