Options of this widget- Totally Skinnable
- Click the scrolling songname to show the artists name instantly.
- Click the counter to toggle between elapsed time / remaining time.
- All buttons work like expected, progressbar is clickable, volume is clickable, ratings are clickable.
- The volume can be adjusted by scrolling your mousewheel when the widget has the focus.
- Drag-'n-drop music files onto the widget to play them/add them to the library.
- Drag-'n-drop images onto the widget to set them as albumart for the current song.
- Slick animations, and more..
Sample Skin.ini
[Info]
; in this section you can place information about the skin
; which will be displayed in the skin dialogue.
Name=itunes compact
Author=bzeitler
Info=
[Bg]
; define the width and height of the widget here.
Width=324
Height=75
[Font]
; Fonts used for the information panel.
;FaceName of the font used, only truetype fonts can be handled.
FaceName=Tahoma
;font size
Size=10
; this is the color in Alpha - RGB format.
ColorA=255
ColorR=10
ColorB=10
ColorG=10
; Text align left = 0,
; Text align center = 1,
; Text align right = 2
; defaults to 1 (center)
HAlignment=1
; FontStyleRegular = 0
; FontStyleBold = 1
; FontStyleItalic = 2
; FontStyleBoldItalic = 3
; FontStyleUnderline = 4
; FontStyleStrikeout = 8
; defaults to o (regular)
Style=0
[CounterFont]
; Fonts used for the counter panel.
;FaceName of the font used, only truetype fonts can be handled.
FaceName=Tahoma
;font size
Size=10
; this is the color in Alpha - RGB format.
ColorA=255
ColorR=10
ColorB=10
ColorG=10
; Text align left = 0,
; Text align center = 1,
; Text align right = 2
; defaults to 1 (center)
HAlignment=1
; FontStyleRegular = 0
; FontStyleBold = 1
; FontStyleItalic = 2
; FontStyleBoldItalic = 3
; FontStyleUnderline = 4
; FontStyleStrikeout = 8
; defaults to o (regular)
Style=0
[DisplayPane]
; this is the panel where ALL text output is written to,
; all other panes are relative in their position to this one.
Left=0
Top=16
Width=324
Height=230
[ProgressBar]
;the progressbar is drawn upon the displaypane and shows the progress
;of the song.
Left=500
Top=31
Width=48
Height=12
[InfoPane]
Left=155
Top=7
Width=120
Height=11
[CounterPane]
; this is the pane relative to the display pane
; that shows the 00:20 or 02:45. it counts
; the song progress/time left
Left=235
Top=21
Width=34
Height=11
[PreviousButton]
; all button positions are relative to the widget itself.
; previous song
Left=31
Top=16
Width=25
Height=25
[NextButton]
; next song
Left=93
Top=16
Width=25
Height=25
[PausePlayButton]
; toggles pause/play
; needs pause.png
Left=57
Top=13
Width=36
Height=37
[StopButton]
;stops the current song.
Left=
Top=
Width=
Height=
[MuteButton]
; mutes the sound7
Left=29
Top=45
Width=15
Height=15
[OpenButton]
; shows an opendialog from where
; the user can select other songs to be played.
Left=274
Top=28
Width=13
Height=13
[ToggleITunesWindowButton]
; toggles the visibility of the iTunes main window
Left=8
Top=42
Width=14
Height=14
[QuitButton]
; quits iTunes
Left=8
Top=5
Width=14
Height=14
[AlbumArt]
; must be 1 if you want album art to show up, otherwise leave this section
; completely out.
Show=1
Top=
Left=
Width=
Height=
; if 1, overlay.png is drawn over the album art.
DrawOverlay=1
if 1, then the overlay is drawn the actual size, otherwise the Width and Height are used.
DrawOverlayActualSize=0
; if you want the album art to be positioned different than the overlay,
; then you can here specify the position of the artwork-picture relative to the albumart
; section.
ArtWorkLeft=
ArtWorkTop=
ArtWorkWidth=
ArtWorkHeight=
[Knob]
; section for the progressbar 'knob'.
; the knob is the visual representation of the progress of the song.
Width=12
Height=12
; if this is 1, knob.png will be used rather than a ownerdrawn knob.
UseBitmap=1
;0 = FALSE, 1=TRUE
; if 1, the widget will 'stretch' the knob. well, not really stretch it
; but if the knob is ownerdrawn (not a png file), then it will
; show a progressbar with the knobs colours instead of a knob
; if useKnobBmp=1 then the images\knob.png will be used as the
; progressbar, so that images must be the same width and height
; as defined for ProgressBar Width/Height
; e.g. If the progress is 50%, half of the image will be drawn.
stretchKnob=0
[InnerKnob]
; this is the color of the inner fill of the knov in Alpha-RGB format.
ColorA=255
ColorR=0
ColorG=0
ColorB=0
[OuterKnob]
; this is the color of the other edge of the knob in Alpha-RGB format.
ColorA=255
ColorR=0
ColorG=0
ColorB=0
[SoundPane]
; this is the soundpanel and shows the current soundvolume settings.
; this panel is relative to the display panel.
; needs sound_unfilled.png, sound_filled.png and/or sound_knob.png
; the percentage of sound_unfilled.png is drawn to reflect the percentage
; of the sound volume, the rest is filled with sound_unfilled.png.
Left=45
Top=33
Width=45
Height=12
; use this if you want to use a knob for the soundvolume, rather
; than the filled-unfilled method.
UseKnob=1
; 0 = left to right
; 1 = right to left
; 2 = top to bottom
; 3 = bottom to top
Direction=0
[RatingPane]
; this panel reflects the rating the current track has.
; its relative to the displaypane.
; needs images\rating_unfilled.png and images\rating_filled.png
; if the rating is 60, 60% of rating_filled.png is drawn, and
; 40% of rating_unfilled.png
Left=0
Top=0
Width=0
Height=0
; 0 = left to right
; 1 = right to left
; 2 = top to bottom
; 3 = bottom to top
Direction=0
[ExtraInfos]
; this need to reflect the number of extra panes
Count=1
; for every extra pane, you need an [ExtraInfo-#] section
; count starts at 1
; All ExtraInfo panes are relative to the display pane.
[ExtraInfo-1]
FaceName=Arial
ColorA=255
ColorR=255
ColorG=255
ColorB=255
Size=12
;
; FontStyleRegular = 0
; FontStyleBold = 1
; FontStyleItalic = 2
; FontStyleBoldItalic = 3
; FontStyleUnderline = 4
; FontStyleStrikeout = 8
;
Style=1
; StringAlignmentNear = 0,
; StringAlignmentCenter = 1,
; StringAlignmentFar = 2
HAlignment=1
; Type:
; name, album, artist, comment, composter, genre, kind, length
Type=genre
[ChangeSkinHotSpots]
; this need to reflect the number of changeskinhotspots
Count=1
[ChangeSkinHotSpot-1]
; hotspot area
Left=0
Top=0
Width=324
Height=75
; this is only valid if type=hover
; it reflects the hotspot area after the skin has been changed.
; it can be usefull when you want the whole widget as a hotspot
; but the new skin is larger in size.
NewLeft=0
NewTop=0
NewWidth=324
NewHeight=230
; this is the offset the widget can be moved on the screen.
; for example, if you want the widget to be 50 pixels up for the new skin,
; you should specify YOffset=-50
XOffset=0
YOffset=0
; same as above, but when the mouse is out, only valid if type=hover
MouseOutXOffset=0
MouseOutYOffset=-155
; the name(folder name) of the skin to change to, can use subfolders.
NewSkinName=itunesbase
; the skin to change back to when the mouse moves out of the hotspot,
; only valid if type=hover.
MouseOutSkinName=itunescom
; the type of hotspot, hover or click. Hover reacts when the mouse moves
; over the hotspot, click when the user clicks the hotspot.
type=hover
; animation that is 'played' when the widget changes its skin.
; if type=hover, the animation is played backwards.
; actually, each frame will be set as a background quickly, hence
; the name EasyAnimation;)
; this specifies the number of frames.
EasyAnimationFramesCount=9
; for each frame, there is an EasyAnimationFrame#, starting at 1.
EasyAnimationFrame1=anim1.png
EasyAnimationFrame2=anim2.png
EasyAnimationFrame3=anim3.png
EasyAnimationFrame4=anim4.png
EasyAnimationFrame5=anim5.png
EasyAnimationFrame6=anim6.png
EasyAnimationFrame7=anim7.png
EasyAnimationFrame8=anim8.png
EasyAnimationFrame9=anim9.png
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Thanks Ave for teaching me the powers of changing the skin.ini :smartass:
