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#31
Skin Support / Re: Button highlight - change ...
Last post by fb28 - September 18, 2025, 12:15:52 PMThanks. Is there a written procedure somewhere to do this?
#32
Skin Support / Re: Button highlight - change ...
Last post by Barcrest - September 17, 2025, 01:40:01 PMQuote from: fb28 on September 11, 2025, 12:41:08 AMWhere would that support be? Is it a value or entry in the
skin ini file? I guess one image would be "normal" (unpressed)
another image would be "hot" (pressed)? Tkx for the response...
There isn't support to swap the button images out but it can load a new background in the menu depending on what button is pressed. This allows you to add a highlight using the background.
#33
Skin Support / Re: Button highlight - change ...
Last post by fb28 - September 11, 2025, 12:41:08 AMWhere would that support be? Is it a value or entry in the
skin ini file? I guess one image would be "normal" (unpressed)
another image would be "hot" (pressed)? Tkx for the response...
skin ini file? I guess one image would be "normal" (unpressed)
another image would be "hot" (pressed)? Tkx for the response...
#34
Support and Bug Reports / Bugs found on latest build and...
Last post by Risim - September 04, 2025, 12:29:25 AMSearch Page the font of the user input label cannot be resized. It shows resizes in the skin tool but it has no effect on actual skin.
Player pause button if you press and unpressed the pause button and there is no song playing it will repeat the last played song. (a must fix for commercial jukes)
Wishlist:
Deactivation of animation continuous scrolling on the filter page. Does not work properly if nav arrows are in line with label.
Divide search page label into more labels will make for a better skin. eg (50 - window shopper) is 1 label should be 2 like in the other pages.
That is it for now. I will keep my finger crossed.
Player pause button if you press and unpressed the pause button and there is no song playing it will repeat the last played song. (a must fix for commercial jukes)
Wishlist:
Deactivation of animation continuous scrolling on the filter page. Does not work properly if nav arrows are in line with label.
Divide search page label into more labels will make for a better skin. eg (50 - window shopper) is 1 label should be 2 like in the other pages.
That is it for now. I will keep my finger crossed.
#35
Support and Bug Reports / Getting status from Jukebox
Last post by fb28 - September 01, 2025, 02:04:56 AMThere does not appear to be a way to get any external "output" status
sent from the program. The only external "input" directives must use
simulated keyboard presses, and the functions they control must be on
the key mapping page. But commercial operators take note... How do
you disable the coin/currency acceptors when the jukebox is "sleeping"
("Lock Juke")? Apparently you can't unless you provide some custom
hardware to intercept the keystroke you defined and use it to control
the activation of the acceptors. Same goes for marquee lights... You
would want those dark as well when the jukebox is paused. One possible
way (which I guess does not exist, or is published anywhere) is to
use the keyboard indicator LED's (e.g. Num Lock, Scroll Lock, etc.)
as status outputs. Most i-PAC boards apparently can be configured
to activate output pins according to the keyboard indicator function.
Just a thought... Tkx...
sent from the program. The only external "input" directives must use
simulated keyboard presses, and the functions they control must be on
the key mapping page. But commercial operators take note... How do
you disable the coin/currency acceptors when the jukebox is "sleeping"
("Lock Juke")? Apparently you can't unless you provide some custom
hardware to intercept the keystroke you defined and use it to control
the activation of the acceptors. Same goes for marquee lights... You
would want those dark as well when the jukebox is paused. One possible
way (which I guess does not exist, or is published anywhere) is to
use the keyboard indicator LED's (e.g. Num Lock, Scroll Lock, etc.)
as status outputs. Most i-PAC boards apparently can be configured
to activate output pins according to the keyboard indicator function.
Just a thought... Tkx...
#36
Support and Bug Reports / Pause the jukebox
Last post by fb28 - September 01, 2025, 01:09:16 AMI finally discovered (by experiment) that "Lock Juke" actually will put the
jukebox to sleep, vs. shutting the program down completely. Problem is,
there is a black screen (good...) but with a banner that says "Event In
Progress". I can't seem to find any .ini, registry setting, etc. where
you can change it - either remove the banner or change the label. I assume
then the label must be baked in (i.e. hard-coded). Is this a good
assumption, or am I missing something? Also, if you touch the banner,
it will bring up the "now playing" screen - so the jukebox isn't
really asleep if someone can just touch the screen and get a response.
Is there a setting somewhere to disable that? Also... If you wait until
a song finishes playing, when the "No Song Playing" appears, then do
the "Lock Juke", then again to "unlock the juke", the last song that
played (remember, it said "No Song Playing") starts playing again from
the beginning. Any reason for this?
jukebox to sleep, vs. shutting the program down completely. Problem is,
there is a black screen (good...) but with a banner that says "Event In
Progress". I can't seem to find any .ini, registry setting, etc. where
you can change it - either remove the banner or change the label. I assume
then the label must be baked in (i.e. hard-coded). Is this a good
assumption, or am I missing something? Also, if you touch the banner,
it will bring up the "now playing" screen - so the jukebox isn't
really asleep if someone can just touch the screen and get a response.
Is there a setting somewhere to disable that? Also... If you wait until
a song finishes playing, when the "No Song Playing" appears, then do
the "Lock Juke", then again to "unlock the juke", the last song that
played (remember, it said "No Song Playing") starts playing again from
the beginning. Any reason for this?
#37
Support and Bug Reports / Freeplay Mode
Last post by fb28 - September 01, 2025, 12:56:11 AMIs there a way to map a key to change from credit to freeplay (and back)?
Seems that if you want any simple form of remote control, you need to
map your desired action to a keyboard key, and use an i-pac or equivalent,
but it appears that your desired action must be on the key shortcut box.
Tkx...
Seems that if you want any simple form of remote control, you need to
map your desired action to a keyboard key, and use an i-pac or equivalent,
but it appears that your desired action must be on the key shortcut box.
Tkx...
#38
Skin Support / Skintool Nav Slider
Last post by fb28 - August 24, 2025, 05:22:16 PMRE Nav Slider:
Is there a way to find out, or set the spacing of the letters
when you click on page-up/page-down, etc.? For example, if
you wanted a larger nav slider gadget, with larger letters,
and obviously a larger "bubble" or square box, etc. as a
"pointer", how or where would you find the values that
define these? The background for the slider is "etched"
on the page screen, so out comes Photoshop... But what
about the graduations of the letters and their spacing?
If you change the length of the slider gadget in skintool,
will that change the spacing between the letters (and how
can we then find out what it is or measure it) - or is
there some numeric definition in one of the ini files? Or
is that baked-in (hard-coded) and you need to keep the
existing slider dimensions?
Question 2... Is there a way to put a slider control option
on the skintool dropdown for the Genre screen, in addition
to jump-to-letter? Is there an ini somewhere that can
enable/disable that feature, or is it "baked-in"?
Question 3... I have seen some skins that have two nav
arrow buttons: one seems to scroll one-by-one, the other
advances full pages. Is this feature only available on
some pages/screens? What or where would it be enabled?
Question 4... Does the in file structure have a "reserved"
character (like ';' in C) to indicate the start of a
comment? It would be helpful to know which ini entries
do what, etc. By some experimentation, I have found
things like theme, font size/color (on some), x/y
position etc. If there only was a line-by-line list
at least so we could amend the existing ini's with
comments that define what that particular entry/value
does. Would go a long way to fully utilize the
incredible flexibility built in the program.
Thanks...
Is there a way to find out, or set the spacing of the letters
when you click on page-up/page-down, etc.? For example, if
you wanted a larger nav slider gadget, with larger letters,
and obviously a larger "bubble" or square box, etc. as a
"pointer", how or where would you find the values that
define these? The background for the slider is "etched"
on the page screen, so out comes Photoshop... But what
about the graduations of the letters and their spacing?
If you change the length of the slider gadget in skintool,
will that change the spacing between the letters (and how
can we then find out what it is or measure it) - or is
there some numeric definition in one of the ini files? Or
is that baked-in (hard-coded) and you need to keep the
existing slider dimensions?
Question 2... Is there a way to put a slider control option
on the skintool dropdown for the Genre screen, in addition
to jump-to-letter? Is there an ini somewhere that can
enable/disable that feature, or is it "baked-in"?
Question 3... I have seen some skins that have two nav
arrow buttons: one seems to scroll one-by-one, the other
advances full pages. Is this feature only available on
some pages/screens? What or where would it be enabled?
Question 4... Does the in file structure have a "reserved"
character (like ';' in C) to indicate the start of a
comment? It would be helpful to know which ini entries
do what, etc. By some experimentation, I have found
things like theme, font size/color (on some), x/y
position etc. If there only was a line-by-line list
at least so we could amend the existing ini's with
comments that define what that particular entry/value
does. Would go a long way to fully utilize the
incredible flexibility built in the program.
Thanks...
#39
Skin Support / Re: Skin ini files
Last post by Barcrest - August 22, 2025, 11:58:25 AMYou can edit the ini files manually and I have done this to fine tweak some of the positions before. There are limited comments in some of them from my debugging but most are not. This is because of how they evolved over several versions of the program with extra requests being implemented.
#40
Skin Support / Re: Button highlight - change ...
Last post by Barcrest - August 22, 2025, 11:56:27 AMWhat screen are you trying to do this on? The main menu? There is support for changing the background image based on what button is pressed.