i have created a skin for that fits on a 7" touchscreen in my car. the last thing i have to do is to find some way to lock it into place on the desktop so that it does not slide around when i miss a button. with winamp the window will dock itself to the edges of the screen but with media player it doesn't do that. is there any way to code the skin to make it have edges that snap to the edges of the screen? if not is there any other way to get this effect? maybe some kind of third party program or something? thanks.
02:51 pm, Wednesday, January 14, 2004 (5 years ago)
He's already asked me about this, and he's probably asked other people as well. I have seen no evidence that WMP has any docking capabilities whatsoever. It is a good Idea, and I would have loved to see it work, but unfortunately, Microsoft's got nothing compared to Nullsoft.
i think i'm going to modify all of my mapping files so that they fill up most of the skin's area. that should solve the accidental moving problem. you can see my implementation at http://66.255.114.44/web/inorkuo/g35 the pics there show the winamp3 skin that i used as the model for the wmp skin. here are the screenshots of the wmp
On sort of the same subject, I wrote a media player a while back to work with my IR remote. Basically it turns my computer into a cd player that I can control from across the room. It has presets that load shoutcasts and other things as well. Just sort of related :)
can it hold any program in place? how hard would it be to make this program hold winamp3 and winamp5? could you tell me how to modify the exe to do that? thanks again for the program. this is exactly what i was looking for.
Download http://www.idispatch.net/holdmp.zip again and it will now hold winamp5 in the same place. As for 3 I don't have that and in my 20 seconds of searching google I couldn't find it to download, so I don't know what the classname of the window is. Just a note however, it doesn't work on the classic skin in Winamp5 because that uses a different window (god knows why). If it doesn't seem to be locking it in place, try a winamp3 or winamp5 skin.
i did it for around $2000 but that was because of some trial and error w learning how to set it up. it can be done for $1000-1500 depending on what components you use. hey evilbadz...the original mp that fixed wmp in place throws an error. is there any way to get rid or that? by the way what language is this written in? c++? thanks for all your help.
oh, it says something like "0/0" or something? That was so I could make sure it was reading the config file correctly. Just use the latest one, it will work on wmp and winamp5 and doesn't show that messagebox. As for the language, yes it was written in c/c++ and the win32api.
Man, that is freak'n sweet, if I had any money at all, or any know-how about anything, I would do that too, but I have neither of those, so I will just applaud you on your superiority. Well done, well done!
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I have one more media player skinning question. I want to hide the cursor when it's over the video window. Is there an option i can use in the code to do this?
hey reeses, i tried your method, but nothing happened. i read in the sdk documentation that you can set the cursor for the video element to a .cur file so that when the mouse is over a "clickable area" it will use the specified cursor. i made a blank (transparent) cursor and tried setting that as the cursor for the video element, but the curso just stays the same. i'm not sure what is meant by "clickable area" since my whole video window is "clickable". one click pauses and another click resumes playing. the reason i'm doing this is because i mapped a bunch of keyboard shortcuts and added other useful features into the skin, but when you double click the video into full mode, you leave the skin and all the features behind. so i've made a custom full screen by resizing the video element to fill my screen when a button is pressed. only problem is that the mouse stays visible. i've been looking for a while for a solution, but nothing is working...
hey reeses, i tried your method, but nothing happened. i read in the sdk documentation that you can set the cursor for the video element to a .cur file so that when the mouse is over a "clickable area" it will use the specified cursor. i made a blank (transparent) cursor and tried setting that as the cursor for the video element, but the curso just stays the same. i'm not sure what is meant by "clickable area" since my whole video window is "clickable". one click pauses and another click resumes playing. the reason i'm doing this is because i mapped a bunch of keyboard shortcuts and added other useful features into the skin, but when you double click the video into full mode, you leave the skin and all the features behind. so i've made a custom full screen by resizing the video element to fill my screen when a button is pressed. only problem is that the mouse stays visible. i've been looking for a while for a solution, but nothing is working...
hey reeses, i tried your method, but nothing happened. i read in the sdk documentation that you can set the cursor for the video element to a .cur file so that when the mouse is over a "clickable area" it will use the specified cursor. i made a blank (transparent) cursor and tried setting that as the cursor for the video element, but the curso just stays the same. i'm not sure what is meant by "clickable area" since my whole video window is "clickable". one click pauses and another click resumes playing. the reason i'm doing this is because i mapped a bunch of keyboard shortcuts and added other useful features into the skin, but when you double click the video into full mode, you leave the skin and all the features behind. so i've made a custom full screen by resizing the video element to fill my screen when a button is pressed. only problem is that the mouse stays visible. i've been looking for a while for a solution, but nothing is working...
if anyone is interested, this skin can be downloaded here http://www.customize.org/details/31040 . if anyone has any idea about making the cursor disappear, please let me know. feedback on the skin design and ideas to improve will also be appreciated.
