On Friday 26 August 2005 08:06, Horst Eyermann wrote: > button. Basically I found generating a new skin for 128x64 difficult, as > the design is very detailed but complex. As I did not understand what > the various containers are for, I wondered if making parts of them > visual would help me to understand how things work. (I like graphical > tools for learning new complex things, but then go back to text > configuration files as these often help to configure things in more > detail). > Had others problems with designing new skins, or am I the only one?
I also tried creating an own skin one day, but found it too difficult. The idea of a graphical skin designer is a quite obvious one, and I think that would be a potential task for a newbie (that could even be done with Java or whatever language). However, there are certain important obstacles: 1. The Freevo GUI stuff must be stable enough to support the skin format (or a similar one) in the future, too. 2. It would be nice if the preview would be as close as possible to what Freevo displays, which would be much easier to accomplish by having Freevo's engine render the skin AFAICS. However, just defining the on-screen areas visually would already be helpful IMHO, maybe a minimal XML-capable, rectangular-objects-rendering designer would be sufficient for that. Greetings, Hans ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
