Windows Media Player 9 taskbar skinned

[Osiris]

CarbonKinight, when you going to release that sweet, skin youve been working on?

[Fop]

I like this alot :D

What I want is getting the media player controls on my active desktop, I did see some javascript controls included with skins, i'll have a look at them. Or is this already be done?

Coool it is even possible to have video playback on your active desktop :D

I'm going to dive into this and will make a tutorial when it''s finished... :happy:

[CarbonKnight]

CarbonKinight, when you going to release that sweet, skin youve been working on?

I'll have it done by Friday at the latest.

[Dazzla Veteran]

Hey Dazzla, were you working on or have you already fixed that error about the version number when you try and start wmp?

Or is there already a fix that I haven't seen, because I'm blind as a bat :wacko:

That error wasn't actually an error. Just that the old dll appears in 2 places if you didn't slipstream and people were only deleting one of them then windows put the old WMP8 file there.

Of course none of that matters now cause Final is out and I haven't updated it...

[CarbonKnight]

Today's partial progress (only added white color to every button):

(tell me what you think...) :)

[Xero]

looks nice. I see the background coming along. Looks great

[Makki]

I like it alot man

looks great nice smooth and compliments the theme great job cant wait to try it out

:alien:

[Knight']

since we have a Luna theme one, can we have the classic (windows 2k look on XP) sytle?

[Compkid2005]

Look at the first page of this thread.

[QuarterSwede]

Today's partial progress (only added white color to every button):

(tell me what you think...) :)

It's nice to see you took my advice on the white areas.

[Knight']

Look at the first page of this thread.

I Fail to see a classic skin for the Windows media toolbar, the one featured on the first page of this thread is a Watercolor theme - not classic ;) Compkid2005 where are you refering to exactly?

[Osiris]

This might have been answered in here as I saw someone point it out in another page

but does the media player icon have to be there CarbonKnight

We know its media player do we reallly need the icon? or cant you make it smaller or more centered or something?

White addition looks sleek.

[CarbonKnight]

I could make two if you really wanted, one with one without, but the reason I put it there is it functions as a button. Rollover it, and it reveals the track info. Double Click it, and it reopens Media Player in normal/skin mode.

[Makki]

I could make two if you really wanted, one with one without, but the reason I put it there is it functions as a button. Rollover it, and it reveals the track info. Double Click it, and it reopens Media Player in normal/skin mode.

CarbonKnight can you release a test version man so we can help find bugs and such

it would be cool

thx :alien:

[CarbonKnight]

CarbonKnight can you release a test version man so we can help find bugs and such

it would be cool

thx :alien:

First of all, there won't be any bugs in it because it's just a basic skin. Secondly, I'm just editing one image, whereas the original skin was composed of many images that fit together to make the final image you see in your WMP9 taskbar. I still have to create animated buttons so that when you click "Play" for example, it pushes inwards, like the default WMP9 taskbar skin. I should have it done by tomorrow though.

Edited January 14, 2003 by CarbonKnight

[CarbonKnight]

BTW, what any ideas what I should do with the volume thingy? This is what the default skin looks like when you see the volume bar:

(I hate the green thing, it doesn't match my skin at all)

[QuarterSwede]

Turn green area to Light blue.

[jubz]

How do I get Wmp controls on the taskbar, when I add wmp to the taskbar I get nothing, just blank space.

/jubz

[CarbonKnight]

Small update: Here's how it will look when you play a video file in the taskbar:

[Geronimo]

This might have been answered in here as I saw someone point it out in another page

but does the media player icon have to be there CarbonKnight

We know its media player do we reallly need the icon? or cant you make it smaller or more centered or something?

White addition looks sleek.

I was messing around and made a quick minimal style skin for windows classic. I dont know yet if you need the icon at all or if the size is predefined.

[Knight']

Hey ur skin looks cool, could you make the bottons a little bigger and clearer (i dunno if thats the image quality or something) ... is that a G i see on the right hand side?

[Knight']

Are there any tutorials how to make skins for the WMP9 toolbar? I'de really like to know how :D

[Geronimo]

Hey ur skin looks cool, could you make the bottons a little bigger and clearer (i dunno if thats the image quality or something) ... is that a G i see on the right hand side?

It was just something quick and dirty to see how it is done. And yeah that is a G on the side, Just testing to see something. I could redo the buttons tommorrow. I need to get some sleep.

As far as tuts on how to skin it. I just downloaded second file Dazzla posted with a list of the bitmap resourses used. I just fleshed it out for my own use. Might be spelling errors and such..

bmp_list.txt

Edited January 14, 2003 by Geronimo

[sphere]

Would it be easy for you guys that are making these skins to make an installation app to install it all?

[techquilla]

it is posible on thin taskbar.....? any one dare to make one for jaguar.... :o