Blend

[slythfox]

Blend
VLC Media Player Skin


Author's Notes
This is my first VLC skin. Being so, I needed a starting point. This skin is based off of Airflow, by Daniel Dreibrodt. Other than the XML being modified, the following are the works of Daniel: volume bar (the progress bar was generated by a PHP script, I lie not), the playlist directory and arrow icons, and the playlist scrollbar. The blue colors are some of the same colors from Airflow (my original colors didn't fit as well). The font is the same used in Airflow, however I have doubts Daniel created this font... so I don't know it's original origin. Thanks to Daniel and the creator of this font.

Known Bugs

• The main window and playlist window don't align properly... (fixed for next version).
• When the playlist window is open, sometimes when you select the main window when another program is over VLC, the playlist window stays beneath that window.

I am an inexperienced VLC skin developer. If you know how to fix any of these problems, please enlighten me.

To Do

• Fix tiny position stuff (fixed for next version).
• Add gradient to playlist (added for next version).
• Make larger clickable area for the close and minimize buttons.
• Equalizer?
• Window/border around video output window.
• Resizable playlist. (I'm having trouble with this... help?).
• Enable/disable icons for repeat/loop/shuffle (sorta added for next version).
• Larger clickable area for volume control (fixed for next version).

Again, I am an inexperienced VLC skin developer. If you have any suggestions, or would like to offer any help, please enlighten me.

Update - April 6th, 2008
I haven't been working on this skin for a long time. I submitted my last revisions, which should be approved any time...

[3breadt]

Taking parts of other people's work without asking them for permission and not even giving any credits is absolutely not nice. You should have asked before using my progress bar and playlist icons.

[slythfox]

Taking parts of other people's work without asking them for permission and not even giving any credits is absolutely not nice. You should have asked before using my progress bar and playlist icons.

Oh, yeah, sorry. I used your skin as the bases for mine, being new to this VLC skinning stuff. I'm slowly fading out of what you had (in versions to come...)

I'll edit the first post accordingly. I thought I had mentioned your skin in one of my posts (I did, but not this one). Thanks for pointing this out.

Oh, and fyi, the progress bar is not your work, but the volume bar is. For one thing, the width of mine is larger and the height is smaller. And secondly, mine was recreated using a PHP script. I kid you not:

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<?php header("Content-type: image/png"); $width = "180"; $height = "1068"; $img = imagecreatetruecolor($width, $height); $border_color = ImageColorAllocate($img, 255, 255, 255); $main_back_color = ImageColorAllocate($img, 68, 68, 68); $main_color = ImageColorAllocate($img, 0, 128, 255); ImageFillToBorder($img, 0, 0, $border_color, $border_color); $n = 0; while ($n < 178) { imagefilledrectangle($img, 1, (1+($n*6)), 178, (4+($n*6)), $main_back_color); imagefilledrectangle($img, 1, (1+($n*6)), (1+$n), (4+($n*6)), $main_color); $n++; } imagepng($img); imagedestroy($img); ?>

I have to admit I'm still using the same color. Before my whole skin was using a darker blue color. But it didn't work well for the skin. You're colors ended up working better. I thank you very much of that.

I should have asked first, I suppose. You're works shall be gradually removed like my intentions originally were (and still were). This skin was released perhaps a little too prematurely.

[CloudStalker]

A little suggestion for the skin: could you make everything about it larger then it is? I think it looks nice in the screenshots but when applying it on my desktop it comes out all tiny and stuff. maybe just... twice as big, three times even.

[3breadt]

Ok I forgive you And no the font was not created by me, you're right.
I created my progressbar also with a program I made.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Cool, I like better the way it is going on now.

[slythfox]

I'll be gone for the next month, and won't be able to release anything.

That being said, I thought I'd release what I've done so far. This is a development version: Version 0.1.4

Changes from the initial release (0.1) are listed in the first post.

[3breadt]

Why are there 2 Blend skins in the skin list? Shouldn't only the newest one be listed?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Why are there 2 Blend skins in the skin list? Shouldn't only the newest one be listed?

OOps?