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Another, and very likely last update as far as the layout and images are concerned. Updates on the font-file won't be mentioned here. I'm planning to make a little webpage in the near future for these skins where you can download the font seperately. The font should be complete enough to display all...

i found another little bug in the editor. Say you have the following xml (roughly) <panel id="root" x="0" y="0"> <panel id="playlist" x="50" y="50"> <playtree> <slider x="0" y="0"> </playtree> </panel> </panel> The slide...

Update release:
- Font kerning and metric fixes.
- Added playlist and equalizer layout to minimal mode.
- Other minor image and layout changes.
- Added dvd-root button (forgot about that one).
- Anchors work along the whole width of player.
- Corrected thickness of sliders (were outside of area).

lol, yeah the fonts, I wanted to tell you about that. I also have the strange problem that the font position in the editor displays approx 2 pixels higher than in VLC itself. However, since I've made my own font file, there's a (big) change I got the metrics wrong. I'll have a deeper look into that ...

This is a skin based on Star Trek's LCARS (Library Computer Access/Retrieval System) interface, and my first VLC skin. Requires VLC 0.9.0 or higher. Main inspiration for graphics and colours was found at lcarsdeveloper . It has a skinned playlist, equalizer and a minimal mode featuring the LCARS spi...

great, thanks!
I've downloaded it and will give it a go later.

I've found another little bug. When you add a Slider to the Playtree element and save, the value-property of the Slider gets set to time. I don't know if this also borks the skin itself, as I just change it to none in the xml before testing the skin in vlc. Omitting the value-property seems to work ...

You're welcome. This tool has become very handy in making my first skin. I know xml, but the preview makes it a lot easier and faster to work. I have another two problems to report by the way. First it also seems it doesn't save the id's for anchors too. And second is a weird problem in the preview....

I'll give it a try and let you know if that works. Opens up possibilities...

I've discovered a bug (?) in the skin-editor, 0.8.0 dev release. It doesn't seem to same the id's for panels correctly. After saving and closing a skin, the xml shows the following: <Panel width="360" height="256"><!-- id="playlist_panel" --> When reopening the skin-edi...

Try doing a seperate image for each button in the spinner, with the part not belonging to the shape being transparent. That should work. I thought of that too, but the transparent part overlaps the other button, see image below. I haven't tried it yet (still setting up all images in the editor), bu...

G'day everybody, I'm working on a LCARS (Star Trek) skin for VLC. I think most of the graphics are done now, but some things have yet to be decided, so I'd like to get some opinions and feedback. First off, from what I gathered from the docs, some of the buttons in the minimal view can't be shaped a...