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Can you explain more precisely what your problem is ? (with a non-JPEG screenshot if possible) The skins interface uses freetype2 to render fonts and it is supposed to work well; if you think it does not you probably have some transparency issues...

Hi,
sorry but your question is not really precise...
Which kind of file do you want to convert ? If VLC is able to read it then you can convert it to another format with the transcoding feature of VLC (see http://wiki.videolan.org/index.php/Transcode)

Hi,
did you have a look at Preferences > Audio > Output modules ?

You can set the font in the Preferences dialog (Video > Subtitles > Text renderer > Font)

Hi,
there was not such a variable, I've just implemented it (available in current SVN and in the next nightly build).
It's "vlc.isFullscreen"

Hi,
it only works with VLC 0.8.5, which is not released yet.
But you can download a pre-version at http://nightlies.videolan.org/

When you quit vlc (or save the preferences in the "Preferences" dialog), the last skin used is always saved so you have nothing to do (and if it doesn't work, maybe it means you have the wxwidgets interface instead of skins2 by default, as explained just above)

hi, on Windows (at least 2000) it is possible to set a global alpha value for the whole skin windows (but not on linux). Inside a skin window, full transparency between elements (image, button, etc.) and the window background is not supported, except for text (it is needed for anti-aliased fonts), b...

Yes, that's why I said it is not exactly the same...

Hi,
it is useless to add /usr/lib/vlc/gui in ld.so.conf, vlc doesn't use it...
What the warning says is that the file libwx_gtk2_xrc-2.6.so.0 is not found, so it is the one you have to find and add in ld.so.conf.

Well, the skin engine has no knowledge of a video *window*, it only has video *controls*. It is a valid request anyway; maybe we can add a new variable and do something like: <Window .... visible="vlc.hasVout" > ? (you can already use visible="vlc.isPlaying" though it is not exac...

Yes I like the screenshot.png, it would be useful for a real skin repository on the web anyway.
The skin browser is a good idea, but technically it implies a strong interaction between the skins2 and wxWidget plugins, we have to think about how to do that...

good news for you:
- the "visible" attribute in Images is now working
- animations are now supported in checkboxes (yes the small guy is now walking )

Hi, This is really cool because with a simple checkbox, your skin can show an animation according to the current state. yes... it will work as soon as animations are supported in checkboxes ;) By the way you can do that with a simple <Button>, you just have to add something like ' visible="vlc....

Yes it will be easy to do, I just have to find a bit of free time to do that...

Indeed I thought of implementing this auto-detection of semi-transparency to activate or not alpha blending, maybe I'll do that if I don't know what to do

judge2005: nice skin indeed ;) just some comments: - the file playlist_button_bg.png is missing (there is an error in the logs) - the image playlistn.png has transparent pixels inside; you should not do that as it leads to annoying bugs when you want to close the playlist (as soon as you click on th...

BTW windows users are going to find it hard to produce a .tar.gz file. WinZip certainly doesn't do it -

zip files are now supported too (initially to be able to load winamp2 skins), but only in vlc 0.8.5 (i.e nightly builds)

Hi, for instance to do an animated "next" button with 4 images per second , you can have a bitmap with 8 sub-images laid vertically (as your volume bar example) <Bitmap id="next" file="next.png" alphacolor="#FF0000" nbFrames="8" fps="4"/> <...

I guess you will be able to try it tomorrow ;) r13499 | asmax | 2005-12-03 12:43:35 +0100 (Sat, 03 Dec 2005) | 7 lines Changed paths: M /trunk/modules/gui/skins2/Modules.am M /trunk/modules/gui/skins2/controls/ctrl_button.cpp M /trunk/modules/gui/skins2/controls/ctrl_button.hpp M /trunk/modules/gui/...

Hi,
no it is not possible, what would you need exactly ?

hi,
I'm not sure if reading animated gif is possible, but animated bitmaps would be indeed fun to implement.
It should not be very difficult in theory, but the impacts on the code may not be trivial so I have to think a little about it...

By the way as for bitamp fonts I thought I had implemented something more generic, but in fact you are right the image must have exactly the same dimension as in winamp skins.

Hi,
the format of the bitmap is the same as the one of text.bmp in winamp 2 skins (or numbers.bmp for a "digits" font)
(see http://www.winamp.com/nsdn/winamp/skinn ... c/main.php)
As long as you respect this layout, the size of the characters doesn't matter.

Yes the dialogs provider is one thing, but it is quite independant of the skin engine itself, and for that you "just" have to fill in the blanks in the skeleton I wrote ;) If someone with a good knowledge of low-level OSX programming can hear me, porting skins to another OS is a quite magi...