Anyone interested in transparency?

[Barcrest]

I was playing with this, i quite like it...

Set winamp to be linein and put it in desktop mode, then make freebox transparent. You get this....

[squirrellydw]

I am always up for new features, as log as it can be turned off and doesn't slow it down.

[Barcrest]

It will be an option....

Enable Transparency On/Off
Transparency level 0-255 via a slider...

It shouldn't slow things down but running winamp on the desktop will obviously. I will get this in a beta release tonight and you can test it for me.

[squirrellydw]

sorry, cant test right now.  my jukebox is down as I am working on organizing my music again

[Barcrest]

Well i am sure some people will be able to test it.

[draginit]

barry, you gots to wait for the rest of the world to wake up. i see this mentioned half a dozen times LOL.  im down to check this out! i'll keep an eye posted for the download link.

so is that in v3, or just using an old skin?

[mmalficia]

one other thing  you can try  is:

setting your  desktop, vis, n juke all to exactly the same resolution.
and using the autofull screen plugin in winamp , start  winamp linein first with a few second pause.

then your  juke  and  you can get the same effect without  as much of a performance hit   

BUT  this  dosnt  work with all  video cards  or  vis ,  some of the time  youll just get  a black vis  ..  i havent  quiet worked  this part out yet myself    so it can be a bit of trial and error.

But its  looking  good !   

[Barcrest]

barry, you gots to wait for the rest of the world to wake up. i see this mentioned half a dozen times LOL.  im down to check this out! i'll keep an eye posted for the download link.

so is that in v3, or just using an old skin?

No it's V4 but i only had that skin to hand at work wher ei was testing.. I am trying to get the beta done now. Only new addition is this transparency.

[eist1]

Barry,

I see draginit's question about the buttons on the option screen. Are you going to make the Options screen skinnable? I tried changing the buttons and back button today and the images do change, but I can't change the size of them, looks like the style is working. Would be nice to get all of the buttons updated. Thanks

[Barcrest]

I will look at doing this for the next release. I didn't really consider it to be important as it's only the options screen. But i guess your right it would look better. I will update the skintool for the next release.

[squirrellydw]

any chance on supporting transparent buttons, it would make the skin much nicer.  Or at least the volume button.

[eist1]

Well here are a few shots of the new Black and Orange skin with transparency enabled. You can see the full page image behind the main screen. The only issue with that is that you need to somehow create the image full screen behind the jukebox before running the jukebox app, so I needed to alt+tab to the jukebox app after making the image fullscreen. I suppose you could have your wallpaper the image and hide all of your icons on the desktop and minimize the start bar (Since if you have nothing behind the jukebox, your desktop shows through), as long as this was only used as a jukebox. But definetely interesting. Fish will like this skin, as he's been waiting for a new Harley themed skin....

[Barcrest]

When you make freebox fullscreen the taskbar is hidden anyway so you should only need to remove the icons. You could alternatively use a bat file to call up an image full screen then launch freebox. I really like this transparancy option it adds another way to change the look. That black and orange skin looks great.

I am thinking of adding anothe rmethod for transparancy to the next release and making them user selectable.

[coffee]

Count me in, it's looking great Bro.

[kizer]

I honestly can say I probably woudn't use it, but I'd gladly try it.