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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dadeo" data-source="post: 496601" data-attributes="member: 27204">Thank you very much for your openness and responsiveness.  I hope I was clear that I am not criticizing or complaining. Both SmartPlaylists and GlobalSearh are fantastic plugins and I would just like to help make them look better.To be honest, I really dont know why I am having trouble as usually all the things I want are automatically supported.1. First of all, you need to get your window ids into the MP Strings files so it doesn't record translation errors and so #currentmodule can work.  You should have all your unique labels in there as well, or use existing ones so they are translated and useful for non English speaking users.  2. For myself, I reallly need the following GUI Properties supported (they really should be in all plugins)#selecteditem#selecteditem2#selectedthumbEDIT: To clarify, selecteditem/2 are supported in Main screen, but selecteditem combines artist and song, and selecteditem2 combines duration and genre, so you cannot skin those elements separately.  Selectedthumb does not seem to be supported probably because it cannot link to an artist or album name.3. These GUI Properties would very helpful though not essential:#view//Main or Details#itemcount (ie. number of objects in the list)#selectedindex 4, In your plugin I think you have most of these:#title // song title,#artist // song artist#album // song album#track // song track number#year // song year #genre //music genre#rating // music rating#thumbBUT - I don't think you use the standard GUI Properties.  It looks like you have defined your own. I am not a developer so please excuse me if am totally off base, but I assume if you use the standard GUI properties, then they inherit the standard controls.5. The controls I need are:Label (with align left/center/right, width, height, etc)Fadelabel (same as above)Textbox (with textalign left/center/right, height, width, etc)Textboxscrollup (same as textbox)As it is, I can only use a label or fadelabel control on any of the text and I cannot even reset the width or center labels.  I have checked many other skins and they have not used any of these controls either, rather they barely change the default skin file (and that is unusual), so I am guessing they had the same problem. EDIT: the worse part is that if I  move certain controls within the Details xml, then songname or played count and some other data will not display.6. I'm not sure what image is supposed to display on the Details screen because I get the missing coverart all the time in all skins. Is that just me?  Is it because my thumbs are in userdata/thumbs folder not folder.jpg?  What image is supposed to display there?7. Regarding the Details screen - As I said in the other post it makes no sense to have two xmls (GlobalSearch.Music.Details and SmartPlaylist.Music.Details with the same window id as MP will only access one of them and right now I have no way to show users where they are. I cannot use a unique header title, header image or anything so I have to use a generic Music one, but then you can't tell if you are in GlobalSearch or SmartPlaylists, not a big deal, but it would be nice.IMO it would be great if you could just show all the details on the main screen. Then have a playbutton on the menu that takes you straight to the NowPlaying screen. However, I don't know what difficulties this may cause you in the plugins processes.Thanks again for listening, The above list looks a lot worse than it really is <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />  but anything you can do will be a help!</blockquote>

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