themeeditor blackmonkey player and header section font color

by **twroveto** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:17 am

Thanks a ton!!

by **Steegy** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:09 am

Here it is: http://www.mediamonkey.com/contrib/artw ... editor.exe

MediaMonkey's instructions are here: http://www.mediamonkey.com/contrib/artw ... monkey.txt (together with some download links)

by **twroveto** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:57 am

I tried to Google Themeditor V4.41 but only got this forum. No location for download or purchase.

Where can I get the Themeditor?

Thanks

by **rovingcowboy** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:14 pm

yep that is what i was thinking too it is hard coded?

which is why i just tryed to make all the font's that did not change on the skin to be on a light color background on my skins i made.

contrasting does come in handy some times.

by **Dragon** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:53 pm

It's not just the headers it is also the fonts on popup menu such as options tab that is controlled by the message box font color but all the rest can be changed through the theme editor which I have done already.

I can change the message box font color and make it look good on dark skins in MM but it screws up windows text as it makes the fonts white on white unless you run a dark theme on windows.

I really think this is hard coded into media monkey as all skins I have tried have this same behavior. As long as the skins are light colored it's not a problem but when you use a dark skin such as black monkey you can't see alot of the text because it's black. The header and popup text in media monkey needs it's own code so you can change the font color for use with dark skins. I can make skins but coding is not my best asset...lol

Couple of my MM shots to show the difference below. first is normal black text. Second is where I changed Message box text to white.

by **rovingcowboy** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:33 am

so those are also controlled by the windows desktop settings. um?
but they still don't change when clicked on in monkey or when moused over in monkey.

but if you look at the image he shows of the skin editor you will see the control button.
clicking that will show you a test version of the skin in a small working program.

when you check them header fonts on that control. they change to the selected color.
but in monkey they just stay the same as the nonselected color?

that is what does not make anysense?
because the fonts are changed by the ones i found on the skinning engine

i had known the menu bar changed with the desktop but i did not know these headers was also messed with by that too.

did you change your selected color on these header fonts by changing the message color for the desktop?

by **Dragon** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:06 pm

I might be able to shed some light as I was working on the same issue myself. He is using font colors from windows message box font.

Right click desktop and select properties, click appearance then advanced. Then under the item menu select Message box and change the font color to what you want. This also changes it in windows which is bad. It would be nice if it was scripted with it's own color selection through MM.

by **rovingcowboy** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:13 am

edited last message because i got to thinking and found them.

those are the meunitemnormal and menuitemselected fonts in the font section of the theme mskn.

now that is strange as crap. the fonts change color when checkin the control of the theme engine but when tested on the skin they don't change color.

i been cheking my skins and the only way i got them to show is to use a lighter background bitmap for the header.

for some reason they won't change from black when the other colors are speicfied. not sure why? sorry for the bad news but maybe that will be fixed in the new skin engine.

by **intellekta** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:06 am

one picture says more then 1000 words.

by **rovingcowboy** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:42 am

please give more of an idea what your calling a header?

so we can look to see where it is at in the theme mskn file.

because the only thing i can see for the name of header is in the theme mskn object section and you can change its colors by chaning the bitmap image used and if you have text there you can change the text also by picking the other color you want.

both those are in the list to the right of the images when you view them in the theme engine. just click on the names over there or double click you will get more choices or the images for you to choose which one or part of one you want to use for the header.

is that what your looking for?

by **intellekta** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:30 am

about header:
yes all fonts in the theme are white and i cant find the header color setting.

about player:
i try the font.ini and there i can change the "Player" title.
Here are my results for this file:

Code: Select all

;if this section is disabled the titlebar takes the text.bmp font
[disabled PlayerTitleFont]

;if enabled the titlebar takes settings from [PlayerCaptionFont]
[PlayerTitleFont]
Name=MS Shell Dlg 2
;the following settings are for the playing song title
Style=1
Size=8
Color=14777215

;if this section is disabled and [PlayerTitleFont] is enabled the titlebar is empty
[disabled PlayerCaptionFont]

;if this section is enabled and [PlayerTitleFont] is enabled the titlebar takes these settings
[PlayerCaptionFont]
Name=MS Shell Dlg 2
;Style 0=normal 1=bold 2=italic 3=bold-italic
Style=3
Size=8
;blue
;Color=14777215
;black
Color=16777215
OffsetX=2
OffsetY=2

by **junglemonkey** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:21 pm

i just checked the theme.mskn that i got when downloaded the blackmonkey from online.

and all the fonts listed in it are white not black?

you should have them all white also?

i have not found where he picked the font from yet.

but it is not one of the two i posted as it did not change color when i changed them. i am not sure how he picked the color and font for the player unless he is just using the text bmp for the player like winamp does which is possible as the fonts on the text are white also.

he is using the fonts in the font ini file that is included in his skin
i don't have this file in the trucking theme.

so go to that file and change the color number to what you want.

[PlayerTitleFont]
Name=MS Shell Dlg 2
Size=8
Color=16777215

that is what he has. remember the color number for the fonts has to be that large number system since that is what the theme skin uses.
start playing with the numbers in there and see what you can change it to.

changing the number 6 in that code above to the number 4 will make it a blue font.

you have to keep changing the skin between this black monkey skin and another skin to reload the font file to see new numbers

roving cowboy /keith hall.

by **junglemonkey** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:43 pm

i just downloaded it and will check what text he is using

but it has to be one of them. or it is one in a text file?

roving cowboy / keith hall.

by **intellekta** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:55 am

i think we dont have the same mm or theme or editor
the EditboxtextFocused font is white and the Toolitemtextdisabled font is gray
both fonts are not black. can i send you the theme.mskn?

by **rovingcowboy** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:42 am

oops. sorry.

it is

EditboxtextFocused

or

Toolitemtextdisabled

that is what i meant to type the first time and messed up.

sorry.

but those are the ones i have colored for the title text so it is one of them that is working as the text used for the scrolling text.

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