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"C:\Progam Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --wx-systray --wx-no-taskbar

It works ! but I lose my skin... and I want use my brand new skins2
Have you any solution ?

You can use this instead:

VLC doesn't support skins on Mac. What you saw was probably the Mac default interface, which is indeed different from the Windows default interface.

It might be possible to create a skin (working on Windows) looking the same, though (if you have enough screenshots to get all the needed images).

thanks for the quick response. If I get you right I do have to change the code of my new skin. You have to change the code of your skin (this is trivial), but more importantly you also have to change the code of VLC which interprets the skins! User-defined actions are not supported at the moment, s...

Only the predefined actions can be understood by VLC (whether or not you had custmo actions in the skin editor won't change anything).
So you have to change slightly the code in the skins interface to add your actions (it's not very difficult, but still requires coding and compiling...)

No, in the skins interface, the hotkeys which doesn't have a special meaning for the skin engine (i.e. everything except ctrl+S and ctrl+t, iirc) are forwarded to VLC core. The problem might indeed be related witht he Video control, so check if it is better with skins which don't embed the video win...

According to this thread and this thread, the problem is due to a missing/bad installation of wxwidgets.

This is the topic of one of the sticky messages (you know, the ones that you are supposed to read before posting ) in this forum.

I have updated the DTD in SVN.

When will the DTD be updated so that layouts don't require to have all items inside a group and not directly in the layout, although VLC can display them also if it's not the case, just complaining about wrong xml? No problem for me, I just need someone to check that it works fine. To do that, simp...

Im' using last VLC version, when trying to load a playlist (m3u file) from file, I get an error... And it works fine when using wxWidgets verison...

What error do you get? What version of VLC? What skin?

Just found out that in the Skins2 Documentation, the attribute "tooltiptext" for buttons isn't mentioned, just found it out while looking to the dtd. And PopupMenu items are not described at all, or are they not yet implemented? The "tooltiptext" attribute was forgotten. I will ...

I can extract the strings used in some of the skins available for download, and create a .pot file out of it. If we see too many similar strings repeated, we can take a count which ones are more popular etc. (probably use some xslt etc) Just keep the skin designers in the loop, because it is a good...

You should create a Trac ticket, so that it doesn't get forgotten.

Do you use the default skin (black and white)? Did you try resetting the configuration (vlc --reset-config --reset-plugins-cache). Try also to start directly in skins2 mode (vlc --reset-config --reset-plugins-cache -I skins2). Do you have warnings and/or errors related to the skinnable interface in ...

i already tried putting the video under the images by putting the video tag over them but didnt work :/ just like ipkiss said the video is handled differently. the video tag should be _above_ the images if you want the images on top of the video. regarding the z-order problem with the windows some ...

1) There is an implicit z-order: controls are stacked in the order of their definition in the XML (for a given Layout). So make sure that your images are defined after the Video control. It may still not work for the Video control though, as this one is treated very differently than other controls. ...

Just a remark: the hotkey was intended for small adjustments (like when the subtitles file is shifting a little regularly). If you need to add a 25s delay, you can specify it in the "Open" dialog. However, I agree it's not very convenient, it can be very interesting to have a "go to n...

Maybe that's what you have in mind already, but you could do an interface à la Borland C++ Builder (or Delphi): you can drag and drop controls (from a pre-defined set), and for each control on a skin window, you can access to its properties in an "inspector" dialog. For example, for a butt...

How did you get that? The only way I can tell I've got an error is if the vlc skin doesn't show.

See the section "Using VLC warning messages" from the online documentation.

Yes, good idea. All the "common" strings could be documented and made translatable, so that skin designers tend to use them. Of course, there are still some untranslatable things, like the skin name (but in my opinion this is not a big deal), plus the other skin-specific strings a designer...

Allow me to rant as well :) [00000286] skins2 interface: skin: Blend author: Slythfox [00000292] xml private error: XML parser error (line 204) : Element Group content does not follow the DTD, Text not allowed [00000304] png decoder error: Not a PNG file libpng error: Not a PNG file [00000304] png d...

The icon "View first unread post" is still ridiculously small, while it is maybe the most useful action for regular forum users. Is there a way to have a bigger icon?

Hello! I have tried to go in too the setting and changed the "dropdownlist" to skin able interface.... But I can´t start the ones I really wanted like WMP11.vlt or neon.vlt I am able to chose some other but not these ones at lest... Is there something wrong with them or what´s/might be wr...

You should read the skinning documentation, and have a look at existing skins (unzip the .vlt files, or un-tar.gz them).
Apart from the menus which are impossible to do like this, the rest seems doable.

Interesting troll, let's feed it :) how? when I learnt C, I noticed that to display my name, all I had to type were around five lines, but for C++ it takes a page, Hum... You probably didn't learn C++ at the same time then, because you really don't need more lines in C++ then in C for such a task :-...