Jowaldo's skin - Beta1

by **jazbo** on Thu Apr 22, 2004 12:20 am

Great skin, man!
The music display reminded me of one the custom skins from the 4AM Music Console, very nice becuase I have been using that for awhile.
I got the news to work as well, but you wrote:

newstechnology
http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/tech

The database name should be newstech instead of newstechnology, that's all!

jazbo

by **edgley** on Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:24 am

before I start to add multi audio to the skin, I have a question.

When I hit the multi button, I can see how to select a zone to put a track on, but what do the 1,2,3 buttons above do please.

I know it doesnt look good for me adding when asking basic questions like this, but hay!

by **jowaldo** on Thu Apr 22, 2004 4:19 pm

jazbo wrote:The database name should be newstech instead of newstechnology, that's all!

jazbo

oops... thanks

And yeah I stole some ideas from that 4am skin to use in mine

by **jowaldo** on Thu Apr 22, 2004 4:21 pm

edgley wrote:before I start to add multi audio to the skin, I have a question.

When I hit the multi button, I can see how to select a zone to put a track on, but what do the 1,2,3 buttons above do please.

I know it doesnt look good for me adding when asking basic questions like this, but hay!

Are you talking about the multizone page in my skin? Its just left over from the default skin, and I don't know what state I left that page in. I think the 1,2,3 is for changing to zone 1,2, or 3. I'm not sure tho, I have never even tried using multizone yet... anyone else know?

by **dyeend** on Thu Apr 22, 2004 9:31 pm

Jowaldo:

Just a quick question: Have you posted any later versions of your skin since the start of this thread?

by **jowaldo** on Thu Apr 22, 2004 9:54 pm

not yet... gettin close tho... when i do, I'll start a new thread

by **dyeend** on Thu Apr 22, 2004 10:39 pm

Ok Jowaldo, guess I'll have to calm down a litte and wait it out...

Just out of interest did you start your skin from fresh or did you use the default as a foundation?

Great work - everyone who sees my touchscreen XLobby box is knocked out by both the visuals and the functionality.

by **jowaldo** on Thu Apr 22, 2004 11:28 pm

thanks for the complements

I used mostly the default skin and just crazily tweaked it

by **Arthur** on Sun Apr 25, 2004 9:43 pm

Jowaldo, I'm crazily tweaking your skin :-)

Can you help me with 2 buttons. For the music section, I want to add an extra button to the three which are already on top ("Quick view", "albums", "playlist")
I've decided to use two different databases for my music, one for the popular music and one for classical music. The classical music will have a far more text look. To reduce the number of buttons on the main screen, I would like to switch between those two databases using an extra button on top of the music screen. It is a bit hard to copy the photoshop effects :-(

It would be cool if you could send me a "popular" or "pop" and a "classic" or "klassiek" button.
Greetings,
Arthur (mailto:avnoort@tiscali.nl)

by **jowaldo** on Mon Apr 26, 2004 3:10 am

Arthur wrote:Jowaldo, I'm crazily tweaking your skin
Can you help me with 2 buttons. For the music section, I want to add an extra button to the three which are already on top ("Quick view", "albums", "playlist")
I've decided to use two different databases for my music, one for the popular music and one for classical music. The classical music will have a far more text look. To reduce the number of buttons on the main screen, I would like to switch between those two databases using an extra button on top of the music screen. It is a bit hard to copy the photoshop effects
It would be cool if you could send me a "popular" or "pop" and a "classic" or "klassiek" button.
Greetings,
Arthur (mailto:avnoort@tiscali.nl)

No problem... check your email, just sent them...

by **Anzxio** on Mon Apr 26, 2004 6:35 pm

I have changed the images in the Weather section, but they don't update? even if i press 'refresh' they just stay as red squares

Any ideas at all? and yes the images do exist!

by **jowaldo** on Mon Apr 26, 2004 7:42 pm

Anzxio wrote:I have changed the images in the Weather section, but they don't update? even if i press 'refresh' they just stay as red squares Any ideas at all? and yes the images do exist!

I think its a bug in xlobby now.. it used to work fine, but now in the newer builds it doesn't

I'll have to ask steven

by **jowaldo** on Fri Apr 30, 2004 6:40 am

Quick question... who uses a remote to navigate with my skin? Does anybody? If you do.. did you have to do much to make it remote friendly? To be honest I didn't even think much of it when I made it, I mainly kept mouse and touchscreen navigation in mind.

Oh and for anyone interested I'm doing a TON of work overhauling my skin. One of the main things I'm doing right now is getting rid of all the embedded text on buttons, since Steven was cool enough to add the outlined text option I requested

I'm really focusing on making the skin much more flexible, cuz I know this version was not so easy to tweak (at least the buttons)

by **usurpers26** on Sat May 01, 2004 2:01 pm

Jowaldo,

I exclusively use a remote to navigate. Out of the box your skin was pretty remote friendly. I did do some small tweaking here and there. Keep up the great work, looking forward to your next release!

by **jowaldo** on Sun May 02, 2004 12:09 am

usurpers26 wrote:Jowaldo,

I exclusively use a remote to navigate. Out of the box your skin was pretty remote friendly. I did do some small tweaking here and there. Keep up the great work, looking forward to your next release!

What exactly did you tweak? If possible could you give some screenshots?

Jowaldo's skin - Beta1

Just need to catch up