by windcrest77 » Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:28 am
rovingcowboy wrote:try one of my theme skins you'll see the thumb seek bar fast in most of those since i use un normal images on most of them, just watch for what moves in a line across the player when a song is playing or turn on your tips option it will show you by text in word balloon when you mouse over the item on the player.
OK I'll try that. Now that MM4 can do video, I'm using MM for dance lesson videos and need to click the position bar over and over to replay a section in lessons. I wish SOMEBODY would make a skin that dynamically placed "tick marks" above the position slider maybe every eighth inch where each tick represents whatever time interval an eighth inch comes out to be based on the media duration, simple linear division. Then people could use those tick marks to kind of remember where they need to click back to when they are using the position slider a lot.
Also in DJ work I need to be able to see that slider many times from over 10 feet away to time my work, I like it to be nice and big and "in your face". Maybe SOMEBODY will one day make a suitable skin for DJ's who do real work, not home users. To date I have not seen a MM skin suitable for DJ's, something that has the main features they need without all the emphasis on the art and "creative" graphic design with gradients and colors that took a month to perfect, etc. Something that has a real constantly-updated actual-time-of-day column in the playlist, that shows time played and time remaining per song both as duration and actual time of day it will be when the song ends, in nice BIG numbers, etc. High contrast but not gaudy, something that does not by default even use the art pane, and in fact does not even access art files, etc. A real working (single deck) DJ skin (as I know MM cannot yet support dual sound cards). A skin where all the settings, transport controls, durations, etc. are nice and BIG and the main functions have big click targets and across the room visibility.
Sounds like a good skin project for you rovingcowboy, MM really has no "highly-efficient-functional" DJ skin yet.
[quote="rovingcowboy"]try one of my theme skins you'll see the thumb seek bar fast in most of those since i use un normal images on most of them, just watch for what moves in a line across the player when a song is playing or turn on your tips option it will show you by text in word balloon when you mouse over the item on the player.
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OK I'll try that. Now that MM4 can do video, I'm using MM for dance lesson videos and need to click the position bar over and over to replay a section in lessons. I wish SOMEBODY would make a skin that dynamically placed "tick marks" above the position slider maybe every eighth inch where each tick represents whatever time interval an eighth inch comes out to be based on the media duration, simple linear division. Then people could use those tick marks to kind of remember where they need to click back to when they are using the position slider a lot.
Also in DJ work I need to be able to see that slider many times from over 10 feet away to time my work, I like it to be nice and big and "in your face". Maybe SOMEBODY will one day make a suitable skin for DJ's who do real work, not home users. To date I have not seen a MM skin suitable for DJ's, something that has the main features they need without all the emphasis on the art and "creative" graphic design with gradients and colors that took a month to perfect, etc. Something that has a real constantly-updated actual-time-of-day column in the playlist, that shows time played and time remaining per song both as duration and actual time of day it will be when the song ends, in nice BIG numbers, etc. High contrast but not gaudy, something that does not by default even use the art pane, and in fact does not even access art files, etc. A real working (single deck) DJ skin (as I know MM cannot yet support dual sound cards). A skin where all the settings, transport controls, durations, etc. are nice and BIG and the main functions have big click targets and across the room visibility.
Sounds like a good skin project for you rovingcowboy, MM really has no "highly-efficient-functional" DJ skin yet.
