[release] Avetunes Widget

Well, I'm making a skin that implements mute and open buttons, but I can't seem to get them to function.

Here's my skin.ini, am I missing something?

[Info]
Name=ArcSkin
Author=Arcanthur

[Bg]
Width=280
Height=100

[Font]
FaceName=Lucida Sans Unicode
Size=11
ColorA=150
ColorR=255
ColorB=255
ColorG=255

[MuteButton]
Left=80
Top=20
Width=27
Height=21

[OpenButton]
Left=80
Top=80
Width=27
Height=21

[DisplayPane]
Left=106
Top=15
Width=140
Height=75

[ProgressBar]
Left=14
Top=34
Width=125
Height=5

[InfoPane]
Left=22
Top=12
Width=120
Height=20

[CounterPane]
Left=22
Top=42
Width=120
Height=20

[PreviousButton]
Left=17
Top=24
Width=19
Height=56

[NextButton]
Left=65
Top=18
Width=24
Height=80

[PausePlayButton]
Left=38
Top=38
Width=24
Height=24

[Knob]
Width=6
Height=6

[InnerKnob]
ColorA=255
ColorR=102
ColorG=102
ColorB=112

[OuterKnob]
ColorA=255
ColorR=10
ColorG=10
ColorB=10

#195709

I read the thread and it seems noone else is having this problem - When I try to change skins in the AveTunes widget, the only option I get is Default, and I have several skins in the skin directory. If I change one of the other skin folder names to Default the skin works, it's just doesn't show up in the menu under skins.

#195756

Yesterday I decided to actually use Avedesk. In the process I picked this up and I'd just like to say this is great. It works just as well as the real thing for me. Great work on this!

--

Idea: Where it shows what's playing either Band or the Track. It'd be cool if when you clicked it, it showed the band if track was on and track if band was on.

#195913

Originally posted by ronin@Jul 29 2004, 12:45 PM

I´m posting this bug here for two reasons... first, i guess the first time i posted it, it´s just past unreaded. Second... because i guess this is a iTunes Widget bug instead of a Avedesk bug.

I got Avedesk installed on Win XP Pro SP 1 English fully updated. (lacking .NET 1.1 but, i hate it). Everything in Avedesk working very fine... i use iTunes Widget (latest update - configured to vanish when iTunes is closed) and iTunes JewelCase for Systats... everytime i close iTunes, after answering YES in the interface script close dialog, my Ave don´t responde for some time (labels don´t show on mouse over, can´t right click tray icon)... sometime later iTunes just pop open again (with the Widget back)... i close it, sometimes, two or three times until it´s closes and keep closed.

Anybode got this behavior too?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

i get the same problem 2 how do i fix it??!!

#196252

Originally posted by andres160@Jul 30 2004, 07:19 PM

i get the same problem 2 how do i fix it??!!

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I´ve put this bug on other tread... HERE got an answer, try this one.

#196257

^^^Thanks alot man.

#196267

BIGGIE UPDATE

Screenie

Ave Tunes skin by bzeitler

What's new?

• Maked the buttons actually work now (mutetoggle/open)
  
• Albumart can now be displayed.
  
• Drop an image file (png, jpg, bmp) on the widget to set that file as the artwork for the current playing track
  
• Added another skin: Ave Tunes by bzeitler
  
• usual little fixes
  

Notes

If you want your skin to do album art, add

[AlbumArt]
Show=1
Top=
Left=
Width=
Height=

in the skin.ini file. The albumart will be shown as an independant layer over the background image.

An example skin that shows albumart is the Ave Tunes skin which you can select in the properties dialog.

Download

http://mpj.tomaatnet.nl/Itunes.zip

#196444

Awesomeness! I've idea for a skin already!

#196455

I use New Widget.

But iTunes close, It have C++ Error!

-----------------------------------------------------

Debug Assertion Failed!

Program: C:\Program Files\AveDesk\AveDesk.exe

File: d:\microsoft visual studio\vc98\atl\include\atlbase.h

Line: 474

Expression: p!=0

For information on how your program can cause an assertion

failure, see the Visual C++ documentation on asserts.

(Press Retry to debug the application)

--------------------------------------------------------

#196480

Wow ! thanks for the update.

/aviel

#196501

Now you see ... I WANTED album art and never asked for it ... and here it is!!

Get out out of my head Andreas!!! LOL

#196502

I have a bug with iTunes (dont know if it occures only with the last version of your desklet thought)

When I try to see the infos about a song with iTunes, I have the following error :

Appart this bug, this desklet becomes greater and greater. Good job !

[edit] if I choose "ignore", there is no more pb until i want to see the infos of another song

[edit2]it seems to be the same error Fujita has but I have the luck it doesnt close iTunes (but it could make avedesk closing)

[edit3]I have the same pb when I delete the song curently played with iTunes: all work perfectly but I have the same error message

#196509

hmm, would there be any way for you to make it where we can decide if the album art goes on top of the background or below it. *is wanting to make it where the song title/progress bar goes across the album art and the lighting effects he is doing, show over the art as well.

#196522

This has something to do with the way iTunes blocks incoming calls

while it is displaying a modal dialog.

What's a modal dialog?

Any window that prevents you from clicking on the main window.

For example the equalizer isn't, but preferences, information, print

preview etc etc are.

If you have classic window decorations, you can tell a modal dialog

by its windows-ishness.

Until the notification mechanism that's been avised before, it doesn't

make any sense to come around this - Ave would have to do special

coding around each time he calls into iTunes.

As a temporary workaround just stop playing if you want to display anything

modal.

#196526

I'm sorry to ask same question but I set up the drag-drop to 250 and still not able to

do single click......

before that I set it to 500 and didn't work?

any help to enable single click on itune widget?

Never mind I fixed the problem...

for future references I'll leave how to enable single click on itune widget..

1.go to Settings and Global Settings

2. set Drag Delay to 200 miliseconds..

Then

go to Clicking

and

3. select Desklets respond to single-clicks menu...

that's it......

#196534

Okay, I worked around the 'error message'. Not the most prettiest solution but for now it seems to work. Just redownload the sucker ( http://mpj.tomaatnet.nl/Itunes.zip ).

Whenever a modal is displayed, the widget stops updating itself until the dialog is dismissed.

@AoW777:

I added this for your pleasure:

[AlbumArt]
DrawOverlay=1
; if 1, then the overlay is drawn the actual size, otherwise the Width and Height are used.
DrawOverlayActualSize=0

Add this to the skin.inis albumart section and add an overlay.png in the images folder of the skin.

#196541

Ok.

Pb solved. Thanks !

But a new pb appears

Some screenshots :

First : I choose the skin AveTunes

Then I change the skin to the default one :

See the pb ?

#196550

See the pb ?

No Will fix it, probably a layer that is not made hidden.

edit: weird, I cant reproduce it try to redownload... Anyone else having this problem?

#196556

Originally posted by AndreasV@Jul 31 2004, 02:15 PM

No    Will fix it, probably a layer that is not made hidden.

edit: weird, I cant reproduce it  try to redownload... Anyone else having this problem?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Worked OK for me. The only problem so far is that the album art isn´t square, distorting any art inside. But, since the possibility of putting albumart is there, skinners shall make incredible things soon.

BTW. For anyone with the PROBLEM OF ITUNES OPENING BACK AFTER CLOSING. Before you close, stop/pause the music and change from one Library/Playlist to another one... that shall make JewellCase shutdown... than close iTunes, wait iTunes widget to close (something around five seconds) and click YES on the close window... iTunes will close, widget will apear for some seconds and then it shuts ok.

At least it is a temporatry solution.

#196575

Originally posted by AndreasV@Jul 31 2004, 02:15 PM

No    Will fix it, probably a layer that is not made hidden.

edit: weird, I cant reproduce it  try to redownload... Anyone else having this problem?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yes ... I am as well. Got the most recent version too.

When playing music, or when iTunes is in full stop. No matter what skin is chosen, it will display the album art like that.

I thought that if I changed to a stream [no art for streams as you know] that it might update to no image, but it didn't. It just shows the last album art for the song I played that HAD album art.

Now, if I remove the desklet and reload with a skin that doesn't have the albumart bit in it, of couse, the album art disappears.

Oh, and I have iTunes 4.6.0.15 if that matters.

#196583

Manik> I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with this pb.

I have the latest version of the desklet(there is not this pb with the version before)

I have iTunes 4.5 but there is no reason the pb comes from iTunes.

Thanks to the release of the skin CleanArt (from bzeitler), I have a funnier screenshot

First, I choose AveTunes and I start the music

Then I choose CleanArt and I change the track

Then I choose an other skin (like the default one for exemple)

And finally, I have :

Yes ! I have the two pictures at the same time... :woot:

+

#196597

andreasv..

can you add a function button that we can make itunes appear or hide whatever we want?

because it is really quite troublesome that i need to change the desklet properties^^thank you and hope for your fantastic work^^

#196600

Originally posted by AndreasV@Jul 31 2004, 02:15 PM

No    Will fix it, probably a layer that is not made hidden.

edit: weird, I cant reproduce it  try to redownload... Anyone else having this problem?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Same problem here! Otherwise great work Andreas.

#196620

YEAH, YOU GUESSED IT, ANOTHER UPDATE

Found the problem (after using this pretty skin ). ****ed up some layers ...

Added some more skin options on request:

; a button hotspot which toggles the iTunes main windows visibilty
[ToggleITunesWindowButton]
Left=
Top=
Width=
Height=

; optional and identical to the Font section. Can be used for different fonts
; in the counter
[CounterFont]
FontFace=
ColorA=
ColorR=
ColorG=
ColorB=
FontSize=

download

http://mpj.tomaatnet.nl/Itunes.zip

#196665

Hey Ave - Great Job - just one question:

When I play a song with album art it doesn't show it (I'm using your skin)

When I drag an image file to the widget it applies the art to the song in iTunes but still doesn't display it in the widget itself - any ideas? Thanks

EDIT - Never mind again. sorry. Just had to close AveDesk and restart. Sorry for the trigger happy finger on the post button....

~ Quazimodo ~

#196741