whelp just figured ide show folks what Ive been up to ... something a bit different with freebox ... don't mind the different button styles I'm just playing finding something i like and effects that work with the wrappers /plugins I'm working on... yes its based on black n blue :>
album view (http://picasaweb.google.com/mmalficia2/Liquidblue/photo?authkey=CvLsKuNVVaA#5229951874443107938)
track select (http://picasaweb.google.com/mmalficia2/Liquidblue/photo?authkey=CvLsKuNVVaA#5229948471512022626)
now playing (http://picasaweb.google.com/mmalficia2/Liquidblue/photo?authkey=CvLsKuNVVaA#5229948466842176386)
and since pics dont do it justice (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3793760460168058373&hl=en)
cheers Mmalficia
that looks AWESOME. :beer
wonder how it'd run on my old PIII 800mhz..
Ok it doesn't look like you are using the transparency setting to show that vis, so do you care to share how you did it. Looks cool dude...
very nice.....I am slowly getting ready to work on a new skin. I have the idea it's just getting the time to do it. I will tell you it won't be the Jimmy Buffet one yet and it will have the same layout as the bnb skin we made just a much different look color wise. I think the new buttons I make will look much better for what MMalficia is doing.
well its just a wip yet mostly focusing on what i can pull off and still keep frame rates high ..
and well Barry actually this wasn't possible until you implemented transparency :> so yea im using it sort off .. without getting to techie atm..
its winamp with mildrop and a custom fake full screen plugin.
then theres a big invisible autohotkey button sandwiched between freebox and the screen with triggers transparency modes (full app , colorspace, none , hide freebox )
lastly a wrapper for the freebox display that cookie cuts out anything that displays as 0,0,0, and allows "fallthrough " to the button while still forcing freebox to maintain focus .
I'm using 4.07 atm but having some issues with it .. mainly the album screen doesn't seem to show the correct albums all the time (missing albums or wrong letters)
if theres nothing in the queue or when it runs out it kills winamp ..(this dosnt happen in 220 so not sure why this is happeneing )
lastly as you can see from the old buttons jps will NOT work for this (due too how the format saves "best match" color compression) so Ive been forcing Freebox to use gif's and bitmaps were possible but some things seam to be hard coded for jpgs (cover not found for example).
thou alot of the other screens i could create dummy jpgs then hand edit the ini.s and freebox would take them
on the skinning side of things i cant seem to get the hang of working with the cover file .. if i use skintool to so much as change the font color its crashing and not really sure were to start on resizing/rearranging things in that department
lastly i DO plan on sharing this with folks once its done if theres interest (the plugin/wrappers) but atm its not very idiot friendly a big help would be at a minimum a hot key to turn transparency on/off and at best a hook in the form of a dll to the slider if folks want to dynamically change transparency. (or just more hot keys whatever would be easyer)
Mmal
The reason winamp is getting shut off is because that was part of the code when people were using milkdrop as a vis for music.... Are you using the option "Use winamp for vis"? if not then i need to look as see if it shuts off winamp when that option isn't set as it shouldn't. So for the transparency you want hotkeys to alter the value?
ill check into the options in a bit and see if thats whats causing it ..
"just checked theres nothing in the visualisation area of the configs enabled and it still kills winamp when the queues empty"
on the hotkeys
well at a minimum ide need something to turn it on and off .. this is mainly to keep folks from getting stuck on a full screen vis page .... atm im just hiding the freebox / milkdrop procceses from the screen render but thats kinda crappy since every time yould update ide need to update the plugins with the proccess ids. Much more stable and user freindly if it was just a hotkey i could call from the button script.
and then if folks want to dynamicly alter fullscreen trasparency (not sure how much people would use that(but it does stack with my cookie cutter effect) ) yea ide need either hot keys to the slider or a dll hook ..
Mmal
BTW Spanks for the promo at BYOAC :>
started playing around with a new approach too last night. i "might" be able to make a script for the vis display that would catch clicks and send them back to the freebox wrapper not sure how well it will work but trying it anywho .. or make a hotspot ontop of freebox and just "hide" the vis from the system (no clicky interaction)
reason is the button script , while it is stable n solid autohotkey was never really intended to deal with graphics apps transparency ect ect, so that transparent button chews up ALOT of horsepower comparatively. ATM i really dont think anything pre dual core would be able to run this at a reasonable rate :>
either way it does work and im refining the code ... might ask the guru's over at AHK forum if they know a better way to catch the clicks too..
as far as touch screen stuff how does it work with the system is it just region clicks or does windows see it as movement first ? (i dont own but ide like to make sure this wrapper+script set is compatible with pure touch screens too and if i remove the button i need to know how the inter action is happening so i can catch it)
and just incase ya didnt see barry i went back n eddited my earlyer post with all the options unchecked in the "vis " area of the tab 407 still kills winamp when the queues empty
MMal
You know thats some crazy stuff right there. I showed my wife and she said it was to busy, but I think for a party or something that would be a HUGE eye catcher.
well the point is you can have both just click on a non active spot and the vis shows through click again you get full screen vis, click again and no transparency , not to mention you can tailor milkdrop to only show the vis combos you want (set color schemes ect) so its a have your cake ,eat it too approach with some extra bling for single screen users.
i actually started the code along while ago (im building a theme based arcade cabinet (think bio mechanical ) and this kinda juke box fit the theme perfectly. but the only juke that supported transparency at the time i had serious issues with it crashing all the time (virtuoso) so i set to modding some but alas nothing i found was compatible .. then Barry saw a post i made somewhere else at a just beginning jukebox .. and messaged me so i set to work again ..
funny part is no one seemed interested till i could prove it does work :> now im getting emails n Friends telling friends ect ect lol (got a friend whose a club dj guy (think that's what you call em ) who's dieing to give this a try on a big screen for a dance club (they curently use it with laser pointers to play plasma pong and the like :>) .
Mmal