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Hi everybody. I got my own skin pretty much set. It displays the title of the currently playing item in the toppanel as shown on the image. The toppanel consists of a bitmap which has "move" and "double click to maximize" flags and a text item with $T. The text item however removes the flags so I cant move the window. I tried to overlay the whole text with a transparent png which again has "move" flags, but this had no effect. Can I somehow have the text and move on the toppanel ?



Thanks for help

Can I somehow have the text and move on the toppanel ?

Only image controls can be used to move or resize a window. Text control cannot.

If you want some text, you can hardcode it in a png image. Only problem is that it can't be dynamic ( no $T )

Hope i understand the problem right.

Try to put a empty control over it with the move action. this works well on resize actions too, so you can put an empty 1-2px height control on every border.

But the problem with empty controls is that VLC ignores clicks on transparent areas of controls afaik.

The problem described in this thread was indeed a bit annoying and actually not very difficult to remedy.

Starting with vlc1.2 (dev branch), a new attribute 'focus' has just been added to a text control.

It goes like this :

- Default value is focus="true", which means that skins still behave as they used to.
As a reminder, for a text control, focus allows user to scroll a text which happens to be longer than the control size.

- Skins developers can now explicitly set focus="false".
In this case, focus is passed to the underlying controls ignoring the text control.
When a skins developer knows that a text control won't need scrolling, focus="false" is strongly encouraged for
the following reasons :
- it doesn't meddle with the move control (problem described in this thread)
- it doesn't meddle with mouse right-click (popupmenu better availability, and less puzzlement)

I hope this helps !