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I don't realy know if it rather should be set as a "feature request", or as a "skin improvement". But anyhow ...

when you load the skins2, you're getting a small display screen by default, and a separate window for the playlist tree.

I wondered if it could be possible to make another round button at the right side of the skin to flip the animation, back to the playlist tree in the same window ... and all of this without having to pauze the player

I made an image of what I meant, so that you won't get too confused :

We had a long discussion on what the best layout would be and we chose this one as the best.

What you could do is to switch the player to minimal mode and dock the playlist window to the player control window, than it would look like that what you have shown in the second image.

I've just read it and, it seems very well thought trough, ... but my suggestion just suggest another aproach

I'd rather favor, lesser windows over a window per section
But I'll ask them in thatthread then, thanks

The minimal mode could be interesting, but I still get 3 windows instead of 1, and the several pieces don't dock so well


edit : and now that I'm trying to set it back, to full mode it crashes on me, a simple reinstall fixed it though, but it's not realy what I had in mind ...
edit 2 : also, who likes "alt tabbing" for items in the same program ?

What you want should be doable by modifying a little the XML file of the skin (adding a new layout with a PlayTree control instead of a Video one, and you r new button would switch between the layouts). See http://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins2-create.html for more details.

edit : and now that I'm trying to set it back, to full mode it crashes on me, a simple reinstall fixed it though, but it's not realy what I had in mind ...

Resetting VLC prefs should be enough, no need to reinstall. But if you know how to reproduce it, please tell us, and we will fix it (at least try to ).

edit 2 : also, who likes "alt tabbing" for items in the same program ?

Maybe what you need is to put the skin "Always on top"? You can use the Ctrl-T shortcut to do that.

I didn't know it was in XML
It seems doable, I'll give it a shot, and if succesfull you'll get to see the results. Thanks for the info btw.

Well the uninstall wouldn't let me remove the config files, so I'll had to do it myself. And I managed to recreate the error, I went into the configuration panel, and put the interface on skins2.

The instruction at "0x625865d5" referenced memory at "0x0000000c", The memory could not be "read".

The windows debugger was more specific :
AppName : vlc.exe
AppVer: 0.8.5.0
ModName : libwxwidgets_plugin.dll
ModVer: 0.0.0.0
Offsset: 00144174

The always on top, would improve it, but I'll rather try the XML way.
Seems like a challenge with a nice reward

And I managed to recreate the error, I went into the configuration panel, and put the interface on skins2.

You probably selected skins2 as en Extra interface. You should not do that, it must be set as the default interface module instead.