I'll reply just to few items as I'm out of home/development machine, so I can't tell you many techinical details... I hope Dischi does.
> - The player section (Music that is): It's one large grey > rectangle now and I'm struggling a bit with the appearance of the > album covers. It would be nice if I could define a fixed size for > them that would apply to all covers (they would have to be scaled > down). > Is this possible? Yes. They act like this right now... I think I miss your point. :( > - Left and Right arrows on the highlight to support 4-directional > navigation (as I pointed out in my previous mail > (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=5014273&forum_id=9200) > Note that each of the 2 arrows should only be visible when the > user can navigate in that direction. > Gustavo, would you still be prepared to look into this one? Yes, I'll look at this... but if I don't send anything next week, remember me :) > - I lost the plot a bit on how to get the truncation of long text > string in navigation mode working (hard or soft). It would be very > nice if we could use '...' here instead. Would this be 'easy' to > integrate? > As for the missing truncation in my current skin; my .fxd code > appears to be similar to the one in blurr.fxd > (where the truncation does work), but I'm probably overlooking > something. It's possible and was the default behaviour... but since the fade-out effect was cleaner and more space efficient, it's the default right now. There's time I don't look at the skin FXD so I don't know how to change between modes... ask dischi or look at the skin code :) > - The appearance of the pop-up screens. What I would also like is > some control over the dialogue texts. This wasn't thought before... but can be included in future... I see no problem with that. > I replaced the clock image that appears occasionally (when > something is being loaded) by a dialogue screen that says 'please > wait...'. It would be nice if the other dialogues could be adjusted > to match each other in terms of syntax. Is it difficult to provide > this on skin level (without creating a huge mess?) Yeah, it would be great. > - Animations; I mentioned it already in my previous e-mail and > I read the word 'animation' in Dirk Meyer's e-mail above with > regard to the skins. Is this what I think it is? > It would be great if the transition between the different > navigation levels could be animated... (among all the other uses > for animation I have in mind) Yeah... we must have some kind of animation support in next releases. > - Layout of the detached audio player. Possible on skin level? You mean the line order? Maybe. > What I haven't included (yet): > - TV section; for the simple reason that I do not have tv card > in my machine yet. I hope to include it one of these days, but it > does not have my top priority yet (cable TV isn't all that > exciting in the Netherlands where I am). Please came with great ideas... the tv section is almost the same as the first I designed... :( There was also a great alternative to use other view, like the tivo one (but it's another plugin, not change-able with skin). Is this plugin still working? Would be great to have skin support for it too. > - Icons; I'm still debating on the use of them and in particular > the positioning on-screen. It would be nice to have section-icons > (music, movies, pictures) in the top-left corner of the idlebar, > but that's were the 'detached player' currently is (would be nice > if the position of this could be defined in the skin file as well).. Icons are a big problem. We never had a icon designer and general icons don't fit well in freevo... The position is (was?) customisable using the "level" parameter in the plugin loader. BTW, there are other places to use icons where we don't use right now... IE: you can use icons per item-type instead of the text "PL: " and the braces "[" and "]" around playlists and folders... you can have different icons for images, music, video, vcd, dvd, cdda, ... Please look at: http://gsbarbieri.sytes.net/gallery/Freevo-Screenshots http://gsbarbieri.sytes.net/freevo/freevo_newmenu/ These screens were made to illustrate the skin power... they're ugly, but demonstrates some still unused features... (PS: They're old, but the features should still be present) For example: http://gsbarbieri.sytes.net/gallery/Freevo-Screenshots/different_colors2 http://gsbarbieri.sytes.net/gallery/Freevo-Screenshots/different_colors3 These show that items may have icons and icons could be different if they're selected or unselected... the item color may change based on its type of status (selected). PS: the [] around name is gone if there's an icon. > I've put some screenshots here: http://www.stormbuster.demon.nl/ They look great. Just try to avoid high contrast horizontal lines since they are jumpy on tv screen. Bye, Gustavo __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
