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Hi. I am new to skin editing. I am trying to create a skin like Quicktime X. I was wondering about a few things. I have a problem where when vlc is launched, everything is fine, but once I add a video to it the video shows up in front of the controls. Is it possible a) to have the video show up behind the controls and b) to have the controls show up out of full screen only when the cursor is moved, so, hidden otherwise. I was wondering if this was possible with a boolean but I could not find anything on the help pages. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

a) it is **not** possible. In windowed mode, controls cannot be displayed on top of a video. This is a skins2 limitation.

b) It is possible. In fullscreen mode, the fullscreen controller appears on mouse move and disappears after a timeout if the mouse pointer is placed outside the controller. This is the default behaviour. This fullscreen controller also supports transparency and fading out if the OS(Windows Manager) supports them.

Thank you for the quick reply. Sorry for my ignorance but what defines it as skins2? Is there a skins1?

Name this window (which will be with fullscreen mode) "fullscreenController". Like this: It will be semitransparent on top of video, while mouse has activity.