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Skins / Re: Windows 2k like Winamp Skin

« on: July 04, 2017, 09:29:39 PM »

If anyone wants to do a "Modern Skin Port" of it, go ahead, and maybe notify and invite me to bugtest it too ;p

You can always cheat by using https://github.com/garrjo/WMC_WCL_Template to make a modern skin version of the classic skin (either making new images or just re-using the bmp files depending on if you use WMC or WCL).

Leveraging that is one of the ideas I've had as a means to help easily make scalable classic skins (e.g. for 4k / hi-res displays) though I'm also still debating making a native scalable classic skin engine (based off my skin manager plug-in preview code) and going that route. Either way, classic -> modern is possible in a method that already exists

-dro

Looks veeery hacky... I might take a look in this.

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Skins / Re: Windows 2k like Winamp Skin

« on: June 26, 2017, 07:13:04 PM »

I went ahead and fixed a few things I had noticed multiple times, but never got around to fixing these as genex.bmp was somewhat confusing, now I did when I read the Skinning Updates.txt inwinamp 2.x' baseskin zip, and now it even looks 1000 times more like Windows Classic! Ah, feels reliving...
I also optimized the font in gen.bmp so it kinda looks better now.
Also I made the playback glyphs somewhat smaller, as Victhor had requested (and admittedly it does look better).
If anyone wants to do a "Modern Skin Port" of it, go ahead, and maybe notify and invite me to bugtest it too ;p

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Skins / Re: Windows 2k like Winamp Skin

« on: June 10, 2017, 01:58:08 PM »

I'm not sure if it's by design or what, but I would like the playback glyphs to be more centered and / or a bit smaller to keep some proportion with the button size.

Haha, I mostly drew over the Baseskin of Winamp 5, I havent really thought about that, might wanna do that

An extra idea / nice touch would be doing a color theme pack* adding the themes included on the original Personalization window. Like seen here >> https://i.ytimg.com/vi/y1q_nlcCjyA/maxresdefault.jpg (there you can only see one, "Slate").

*In classic skins it demands doing a whole separate skin I'm afraid..

I wish I knew how to make Modern Skins from scratch, so it would be even more accurate (and dare I say, 100% ).

Oh well, maybe one day it'll happen.

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Skins / Windows 2k like Winamp Skin

« on: June 06, 2017, 02:15:29 PM »

Sadly, this is not a Modern Skin as I had previously planned (like 1 or 2 years ago maybe), so it's a classic skin for the moment being.

I've just now updated it to be more fitting to WACUP, with all the text and even replacing the old logo with the new one.

The inspiration came to me when I had wondered what Winamp would look like if it was drawn to the OS's theme (the other one's I had seen weren't nearly as good enough and didnt hit the theme correctly), and the only thing I had was my laptop with a broken Windows Vista install and I could only use Linux with Wine.
I began to slowly copy and paste each window part of Wine to the Classic Winamp bitmaps in GIMP, of course improving over time. I also inspired myself a little bit by Winamp 1.x, with the Clutterbar being seperated from the main display.

Now with Windows 10 being out and almost everyone using it, it kinda became outdated rather quickly (I can surely imagine a few people still hanging tight on Windows 7), but I still wanted to share this one.

Tell me what you think below and/or some improvement suggestions

Best experienced by disabling Skinned mouse cursors btw.

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Archive / Re: Anyone heard from Darren (Dr_O)?

« on: May 13, 2017, 11:45:01 PM »

Hi,

Anyone heard from him the last few days?  Suddenly he hasn't been active here or on Twitter.

I mean hopefully he's taking a break (or on holiday) but it seems odd he's suddenly stopped all comms.

Here's hoping I'm just being a silly paranoid!

Tim

He pm'd me that he's on holiday and will return after the 15th, in his own words.

"[...]when I'm back from holiday after the 15th."

So, we all can assume he's well and alive

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Archive / Re: Forum Updated + Getting Back To Normal

« on: January 11, 2017, 04:53:34 PM »

I kinda prefer Browser Notifications that are being used nowadays by multiple websites, it's useful since I have the forum pinned onto Chrome, but it would display the notifications anyway if Chrome is not opened and you're still logged in to the forum

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Wishlist / Feature Requests / Re: UI Scaling for 4K and other higher resolutions

« on: January 10, 2017, 06:22:50 PM »

Sorry for making this so basic, I know it is much more complicated than this, but
You have Classic Skins,
You had Modern Skins,
is it possible to make a native OS skin?

 

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Skins / Re: Modern Bento Touchscreen WIP skin

« on: January 04, 2017, 12:32:22 AM »

Holy balls, this is amazing!

I wonder how you pull off the standart Winamp Modern skin, probably just as good as this new Bento Mockup

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Archive / Grettings people from earth!

« on: October 30, 2016, 09:21:37 PM »

Hello, I am The1_Freeman, and a long time Winamp user since version 2.6.

It has been the first thing I installed onto my Computers (and Virtual Machines too), I created a few skins in the time I used Winamp and added tons of Plugins (also a few of DrO's old ones such as Skinned Prefs), I cannot think of using anything else as an alternative.

Cheers!