Skinning MM4's Window Frame Question

[DaledeSilva]

Hi,
I started some skins years ago and have been insanley busy with work and life ever since. I'm since trying to get back into it and complete my skin but I want to create it for MM4.
Problem is, how do I prevent MM from using the aero glass frame in windows? - I want to control what the window edge look like just like we did in previous MM versions.

Also, are there any posts on mm4 skinning changes specifically? I haven't been able to find them

Thanks in advance,
Dale.

[nohitter151]

There isn't a way to override the Glass frame. The only way is to run MM in compatibility mode in Win 7 or Vista.

[DreadM]

Greetings

you can make a entry in the Settings.ini :

[System]
ForceDisableAero=0/1 - allows skin to disable Aero for MM (introduced in MM4 build 1415)

This disable the Aero frame and other Aero feature's
and you can skin the frame like in MM3 .

[nohitter151]

Greetings

you can make a entry in the Settings.ini :

[System]
ForceDisableAero=0/1 - allows skin to disable Aero for MM (introduced in MM4 build 1415)

This disable the Aero frame and other Aero feature's
and you can skin the frame like in MM3 .

Completely forgot that

[rovingcowboy]

which sittings ini file is that to be added too.

[nohitter151]

which sittings ini file is that to be added too.

There's only one Settings.ini file. It's called 'Settings.ini' right in the root folder of the skin.

[rovingcowboy]

which sittings ini file is that to be added too.

There's only one Settings.ini file. It's called 'Settings.ini' right in the root folder of the skin.

ah the same one we put the show or don't show tree lines in.
i'll try this and see if it will fix that display error i got in my skin on my system. thanks.



nope did not fix the float player display error.

[DaledeSilva]

Why is that option so hidden.. why didn't they make it a checkbox in the skin dialog like "Overide skin theme with windows system theme".
In fact.. that almost sounds like the same option..

So while before the skin could look how it wanted and you could overide it with windows if you wanted, now, the skins is very limited, and you can overide it if you like editing settings files manually..

hmm.

[nohitter151]

Most other MM4 skinning features are added to the wiki:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... zing_Icons

[Dreadlau]

Why is that option so hidden.. why didn't they make it a checkbox in the skin dialog like "Overide skin theme with windows system theme".
In fact.. that almost sounds like the same option..

So while before the skin could look how it wanted and you could overide it with windows if you wanted, now, the skins is very limited, and you can overide it if you like editing settings files manually..

hmm.

I disagree.

It's the skiner's choice to decide if the aero frame suits his skin or not. And it should stay that way.

[DaledeSilva]

Ahhh. yes, I totally agree there.
I misunderstood, I thought the settings.ini wasn't in the skin and was comparing it to that.

[Dreadlau]

Yes. This settings.ini is located inside the skin folder.

[Pman]

Depends what you want aero and what you dont want aero. Majority of MM4 skins have aero frame however there's about a half-half split when it comes to whether the player is aero or not. For convenience, make non-aero player with aero frame, makes skinning a little bit easier.

[GJonas]

There isn't a way to override the Glass frame. The only way is to run MM in compatibility mode in Win 7 or Vista.

I found that running it in Windows 7 or Vista and any of its service packs didn't help. Only when I ran MM4 in XP Service Pack 3 did the aero (glass) frame disappear.

[Mizery_Made]

I don't think they worded it correctly to get across what they meant. They weren't trying to say to run it in compatibility mode with it set as those two OSes. Instead, they're saying that in those two OSes, you have to run compatibility mode (set to a non-Aero OS, thus XP)