On Jul 23, 2004, at 5:39 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
I'll reply just to few items as I'm out of home/development machine, sofor the clarification.
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. :(
I missed that point as well, I think I need to have my eyes checked :) Thanks
- Left and Right arrows on the highlight to support 4-directional(http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=5014273&forum_id=9200)
navigation (as I pointed out in my previous mail
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 :)
Thanks!
- 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 :)
I'll post the skin file this weekend.
- 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.
Sounds good...
an alteration of the plugin code though...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.
I made a .png image file out of it right now, it works, but contents are not that flexible..
- 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.
I can't wait :)
- Layout of the detached audio player. Possible on skin level?
You mean the line order? Maybe.
Line order and maybe even changing the entire thing (to me it appears a bit 'crowded' visually in the idlebar, buts that's my personal opinion off course). I guess that would require
I did some stuff on EPG's for my work, so I'll see what I can do.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.
I'll try and look into this, although it's difficult when I cannot use it myself.
relatively limited (I usually have my photoshop running with a TV screen- 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.
I'm still playing around with this, but the jumpy-ness appears to be
connected to my machine so I can see what the result is). Off course there's
is always a slight difference between Photoshop's visual output on my Mac and
Freevo's visual output on my Linux machine.
Bye,
Gustavo
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