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[monkey hi fi]

how ever i do remember diddeleedoo having trouble with a custom field having a limit when he first made his ratings script.
but that was in mm 2, maybe they removed the limit from them by now?




roving cowboy / keith hall / monkey hi fi

[monkey hi fi]

if you are using two text area's in the player ini.

you can remeove the one. called custom1 which is used for the artist,

take all the % letters from that one and put them in the one for the songtitle.

you would only have the one scroll area on the player. and you could make it as long as you need then.

you would just simply make the line in the songtitle section for how long it is like this.

say it is 280x15 that is lenght x height.

just make it 500x15 or something like that you will have to keep adjusting it unil the fon't don't scroll off the viewing image.

to make the text area stretch just make the code for resize in that section read like this.
resize=0,0,1,1
that will keep the text scroll area in the location on the image where the pixel says to put it. but allow the right side to stretch to the right.

in summery its simply this
make the text area where you want it to start on the player as far to the left as you can and still have room for the count down clock to show -01:44:38 incase you have that long of file. then just run the lenght of the text area to the right as many pixels as it can take to go to the right side when the player is shrunk as short as it can get. if that is only 13 pixels then that is fine because the resize code will add pixels to the area to keep that in the same spot because it does not count the pixels added when stretched.
it counts them something like this.
1 through 10 11 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.43......12,13 it just stretches the pixel count out on the one that is at the location set by the skinner for the skin to stretch.



roving cowboy / keith hall / monkey hi fi.

[drjboulder]

how ever i do remember diddeleedoo having trouble with a custom field having a limit when he first made his ratings script.
but that was in mm 2, maybe they removed the limit from them by now?

Apparently they have.
I was editing my last post while you posted this... has a few more questions on it. Maybe you know the answers to one or two of them!
Thanks again for your help!

[monkey hi fi]

i have not found a way to slow it down other then making really reallly REEAALLLLLYYY BIG FONTS and that only slows it down a little bit. i have on my skins when i add in information to scoll by taken the opertunity to add astricts to the line of code which makes it easyer to read the words when they scroll by.

in the ini file line just type it like this.

% S, ***** A, ----- R, + + + + B, ****

the coma's i can't remember off hand if they are needed.

but the blank space will be shown as blank spaces only if there is another character in line if blank is after the last one. it does not show blank it starts the line over again.

the different symbols above are just to show you what to do you can pick any you want they should show just what you picked, and they are not needed for anything other then to allow you to see there is something else scrolling by. you would have to add them in between the words in the custom field to get the spaces in between the words.

i have done the above on musicbringers custom pub skin i did.
so it works.

roving cowboy / keith hall / monkey hi fi.

[drjboulder]

Thanks for the reply Keith...

I am not putting this all together in my head, tho.
Remember I am not a skinner, just a tinkerer.

Here is what I have:

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[Custom1]
Type=Text
Resizable=0,0,1,1
Pos=620,7
Size=80,8
Transperent=1
TextMask=%I / %H / %C4
TextAlign=0
FontColor=4C5049
FontHeight=-9
FontName=Verdana

[Custom2]
Type=Text
Resizable=1,1,1,0
Pos=320,5
Size=300,13
Transperent=1
TextMask=%A - %S
TextAlign=0
FontColor=4C5049
FontHeight=-9
FontName=Verdana

What would I change to put Artist - Title all the way to the left and have the Custom 4 resize fully expanded based upon the size of Artist - Title?

If you could just "Quote" me and change my quote to what you would recommend, that would be great!

Screen res is 1280x800.

Also, what is "Custom2" referring to?

[rovingcowboy]

Thanks for the reply Keith...

I am not putting this all together in my head, tho.
Remember I am not a skinner, just a tinkerer.

Here is what I have:

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[Custom1]
Type=Text
Resizable=0,0,1,1
Pos=620,7
Size=80,8
Transperent=1
TextMask=%I / %H / %C4
TextAlign=0
FontColor=4C5049
FontHeight=-9
FontName=Verdana

[Custom2]
Type=Text
Resizable=1,1,1,0
Pos=320,5
Size=300,13
Transperent=1
TextMask=%A - %S
TextAlign=0
FontColor=4C5049
FontHeight=-9
FontName=Verdana

What would I change to put Artist - Title all the way to the left and have the Custom 4 resize fully expanded based upon the size of Artist - Title?

If you could just "Quote" me and change my quote to what you would recommend, that would be great!

Screen res is 1280x800.

Also, what is "Custom2" referring to?

i've changed your code below.
as you can see you just need to remove your custom2 from the ini file, and replace your custom1 with the one i did below.


custom2 is just the one used by some skinners to replace the default songtitle section.

i use the default song one in my skins and the custom1 for the artitst. i might add a line now and then call it custom2 for something.

remember to add the dash or other symbol in between the words of the comment, to give yourself time to read the fast moving words, because you can't do that in this code area.
if the words are a little too far from the right of the viewing area on the player, the light color that is to be like glass section. then change the code in Size=300,13
to 380,13 that is the largest legnth you can do according to the code you have posted, for me to change, i just used the 300 number to give you some leeway.

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[Custom1]
Type=Text
Resizable=0,0,1,1
Pos=320,5
Size=300,13
Transperent=1
TextMask=%A - %S -- %I / %H / %C4
TextAlign=0
FontColor=4C5049
FontHeight=-9
FontName=Verdana

Now your saying duh!! what a simple thing that tripped me up.
but don't feel bad it was a simple thing like this that kept me from being able to do my first skin for mm 3. and peke had to tell me that simple thing to get me started. boy did i feel dumb when i seen what a simple thing it was to do for starting a skin in mm3.

[drjboulder]

Thanks again, RC!
Used your custom1 and kept Custom2 and have this:

Am very happy with that. Might still try some tweaks. But, I am one happy slim usin' Monkey!

[drjboulder]

Okay, have been messing with this a little more.
Decided I need to ask less questions and learn a little from the Wiki.
.... uh oh, may sliding down the slippery slope into Skinning....

***and the Monkeys dropped their bananas and hid in the tree tops***

So, I cleaned things up a bit and achieved what I want;

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[Custom1]
Type=Text
Resizable=0,0,1,1
Pos=322,5
Size=380,13
Transperent=1
TextMask=%C4
TextAlign=0
FontColor=4C5049
FontHeight=-9
FontName=Verdana

[Custom2]
Type=Text
Resizable=1,1,1,0
Pos=320,5
Size=300,13
Transperent=1
TextMask=%A - %S
TextAlign=0
FontColor=4C5049
FontHeight=-9
FontName=Verdana

But, now I want the TimeDisplay to appear on the left hand side of the windows and am pulling my hair out trying to do what should be simple!

I want, Justified left, Time Remaining/Total Time.
Can not figure out how do do this....HELP!

[MoDementia]

You will have to play around with pos, size, font etc but should get you started

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[TimeDisplay]
Type=Text
Resizable=1,1,0,0
Pos=20,0
Size=39,17
TextAlign=1
Transperent=1
TextMask=%H/%J
SmallDigits=0
FontHeight=14
FontColor=f8aa22

[drjboulder]

Thanks for your response, Mode....
I am almost there:

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[Custom1]
Type=Text
Resizable=0,0,1,1
Pos=322,5
Size=380,13
Transperent=1
TextMask=%C4
TextAlign=0
FontColor=4C5049
FontHeight=-9
FontName=Verdana

[Custom2]
Type=Text
Resizable=1,1,1,0
Pos=320,5
Size=300,13
Transperent=1
TextMask=%A - %S
TextAlign=0
FontColor=4C5049
FontHeight=-9
FontName=Verdana

[TimeDisplay]
Type=Text
Resizable=1,1,0,0
Pos=280,5
Size=120,13
TextAlign=1
Transperent=1
TextMask=%H/%J
SmallDigits=0
FontColor=4C5049
FontHeight=-9
FontName=Verdana

It is in there, in the general region that I want it...
But it is not, it just kinda flashes on and off, mostly off....
Like some property of my code will not let it fit.
Any ideas???

[MoDementia]

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[Custom1]
Pos=322,5
Size=380,13
[Custom2]
Pos=320,5
Size=300,13
[TimeDisplay]
Pos=280,5
Size=120,13

Pos + Length
280+120 = 400
320+300 = 620
322+380 = 702

should be something like
280+39 = 319
320+300 = 620
621+380 = 1001

So start + lengh = the start of the next item (display)
They can't overlap

[drjboulder]

Okay, that makes sense.
Will work on that tomorrow.
Thanks for the help.
Cheers!

[drjboulder]

Well, I have a workable version going.
But, guess what? I am a little confused....

What I thought should work, does not:

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[Custom1]
Type=Text
Resizable=0,0,1,1
Pos=714,5
Size=486,13
Transperent=1
TextMask=%C4
TextAlign=1
FontColor=4C5049
FontHeight=-9
FontName=Verdana

[Custom2]
Type=Text
Resizable=1,1,1,0
Pos=394,5
Size=310,13
Transperent=1
TextMask=%A - %S
TextAlign=2
FontColor=4C5049
FontHeight=-9
FontName=Verdana

[TimeDisplay]
Type=Text
Resizable=1,1,0,0
Pos=320,5
Size=64,13
TextAlign=1
Transperent=1
TextMask=%H/%I
SmallDigits=0
FontColor=4C5049
FontHeight=-9
FontName=Verdana

Produces:

The Comment/C4 is actually there....It is just hiding under the Playlist/Max/Close Buttons (Look close).

This, which seems wrong to me based on custom 1 Pos, is a workable final product:

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[Custom1]
Type=Text
Resizable=0,0,1,1
Pos=396,5
Size=300,13
Transperent=1
TextMask=%C4
TextAlign=0
FontColor=4C5049
FontHeight=-9
FontName=Verdana

[Custom2]
Type=Text
Resizable=1,1,1,0
Pos=394,5
Size=310,13
Transperent=1
TextMask=%A - %S
TextAlign=2
FontColor=4C5049
FontHeight=-9
FontName=Verdana

[TimeDisplay]
Type=Text
Resizable=1,1,0,0
Pos=320,5
Size=64,13
TextAlign=1
Transperent=1
TextMask=%H/%I
SmallDigits=0
FontColor=4C5049
FontHeight=-9
FontName=Verdana

Produces:


Which, I like. But would prefer to stretch the C4 closer to the center of the title window. However, at this point I am afraid to experiment any further.
Any Ideas???

[MoDementia]

Although right align (TextAlign=1) should work Custom2 has (TextAlign=2) which isnt listed on wiki

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[[Custom1]
Type=Text
Resizable=0,0,1,1
Pos=714,5
Size=486,13
Transperent=1
TextMask=%C4
TextAlign=-1                        <------- Left Align
FontColor=4C5049
FontHeight=-9
FontName=Verdana

[Custom2]
Type=Text
Resizable=1,1,1,0
Pos=394,5
Size=310,13
Transperent=1
TextMask=%A - %S
TextAlign=-1   <-------- Don't know if 2 is a special one for scrolling
                       (it looks left aligned already)
FontColor=4C5049
FontHeight=-9
FontName=Verdana

[TimeDisplay]
Type=Text
Resizable=1,1,0,0
Pos=320,5
Size=64,13
TextAlign=1           <----------------------- Right aligned but should be fine
Transperent=1
TextMask=%H/%I
SmallDigits=0
FontColor=4C5049
FontHeight=-9
FontName=Verdana 

If it still doesn't work
You might like to check Playlist/Max/Close Buttons pos and length(width) to make sure they aren't overlapping
[CloseButton]
[MaximizeButton]
[PlaylistButton]

[drjboulder]

Thanks for the reply...
Figured it had to be a text alignment thing, just could not get it figured out.

Have to stop experimenting at the moment. The monkey is extracting all of my comment tags to custom 4 - so, he is a little busy at the moment.