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iPod Clear by ~Rallyz:iconRallyz:

Categories Customization > Skins & Themes > Media Players > Windows Media Player > WMP 10

©2006-2009 ~Rallyz
:iconrallyz:

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iPod Clear Windows Media Player Skin (2.3Mb)
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Copyright ©2006 Tim Hines. All rights reserved.

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OPERATION:

Click wheel:
Menu: Shows/hides playlist.
|<< : Previous song/item.
>>| : Next song/item.
>|| : Play/pause toggle.
Centre of click wheel: Cycles through different screens - information pane, visualisation screen, information overlaid on visualisation, large cover art, large cover art overlaid on visualisation (not all screens available when playing video).

"Hidden" buttons (will show icons when hovering over them):
Up and down arrows to right of screen: Cycle through different background colours/designs.
Lower left of device: Closes Media Player.
Lower right of device: Returns to full mode of Media Player.
Upper left of device: Changes device (different set of backgrounds).
Upper right of device: Minimises player.

Screen hotspots:
Play/pause icon at top left: Play/pause toggle.
"Now Playing" title bar and much of the information pane: Toggles between volume and progress bars (click and drag on volume/progress bar to alter volume/progress).
Battery icon at top right: Toggles rating option (click on dots/stars to set a rating, click to left of first dot/star to clear it back to unrated).
Visualisation pane: Single click to go to next visualisation, double click to go to previous one.

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DESIGN:

The design of this clear skin takes its inspiration from the original translucent iMac - the clear colours are (in order), the original iMac colours, Grape, Lime, Tangerine, Blueberry, Strawberry, and Bondi Blue, followed by my own additions of Banana, Graphite and Diamond.

You can also use the Change Device icon at the top left of the device to select classic Black or White, plus my impression of a U2 style video iPod.

Credit to Juan Hernandez (juanchis) for his iPod Media Player skins. They inspired me to try skinning myself and I needed an excuse to learn a bit of XML and JScript! Thanks Juan :-)

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TOOLS:

I use Xara Xtreme (www.xara.com), to build up the graphics for the skins, which are defined as vector images (apart from the video iPod circuit board in these clear versions), with named colours so that I can create different colourways quickly.

I use TextPad (www.textpad.com) for creating the XML and JScript files.

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Enjoy!

Comments


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:iconmonkey-chan7:
~monkey-chan7 Mar 12, 2006, 3:12:51 PM
cool

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Didn't have a camera by my side this time,
Hopen i would see the world through both my eyes,
Maybe i will tell you all about it when i'm in the mood to loose my way,
With words
:iconjuanchis:
~juanchis Mar 12, 2006, 4:24:28 PM
Hey Great job on these. I really like them. Thanks for giving me credit, and hope we can work on more skins together soon.
:iconrallyz:
~Rallyz Mar 13, 2006, 4:07:32 PM
Thanks Juanchis, that'd be good :)

I've just released a multi-device iPod skin with a deviantART theme - iPod dA.
:iconrallyz:
~Rallyz Mar 13, 2006, 4:09:13 PM
Thanks, monkey-chan7 :)
:icon2bizzare:
~2Bizzare Mar 14, 2006, 1:57:43 AM
Nice =)

I like the clear fluorescent yellow Lime job. Mmmm mm...

Good job with the coding too - runs clean as a whistle :thumbsup:
I run WMP in debug mode, and picked up a few things in the log file:

  • you've got an "editbuttonsvisible" property on your playlist; but it needs to be editbuttonvisible


    • so this means the edit button isn't showing up in the playlist

  • "movebuttonsvisible" and "toolbarMargin" aren't actually valid properties for a playlist, so they aren't doing anything

  • also "uptoolTip" isn't a valid property for a subview, so it isn't doing anything either


    • but unless you're trying to manipulate these properties somewhere, it doesn't really matter.

    Cheers

    <Biz>
    :iconrallyz:
    ~Rallyz Mar 14, 2006, 11:35:43 AM
    Many thanks, 2bizarre, that's very useful. I've tidied them up in my current working copy.

    Incidentally, how do you put WMP into debug mode? I must be missing something obvious ...
    :icon2bizzare:
    ~2Bizzare Mar 15, 2006, 8:19:07 AM
    NP - you're welcome.

    Mmm, it's not really obvious.
    You need to mess with the registry - if you put the following in a blank text file:

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences]
    "ScriptDebugging"=dword:00000001


    and name the file something like "WMP_Debug_On.reg" then you double-click it to put WMP into debug mode (accept the confirmation messages, naturally).
    If you create a copy of the "debug on" file and change "dword:00000001" to "dword:00000000" you can save it as a "debug off" file.
    When WMP is in debug mode, it writes out log files for each view of the skin you are using in the directory where the skin wms/wmz is located.

    I think there's some info in the WMP SDK.

    HTH

    Cheers

    <Biz>
    :iconmonkey-chan7:
    ~monkey-chan7 Mar 15, 2006, 10:15:01 PM
    no prob

    --
    Didn't have a camera by my side this time,
    Hopen i would see the world through both my eyes,
    Maybe i will tell you all about it when i'm in the mood to loose my way,
    With words
    :iconrallyz:
    ~Rallyz Mar 16, 2006, 1:46:32 PM
    Thanks Biz, that's great, very useful :)
    :icon2bizzare:
    ~2Bizzare Mar 17, 2006, 2:55:23 AM
    NP :salute:

    BTW - You've got me thinking about a clear scheme for my skin. Yet another scheme! :no:
    Where did you get the circuit-board image from? Is it non-copyright/royalty-free?
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