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Re: Taskbar player idea

by Luk » Sat Nov 27, 2010 8:44 am

Wow, how stupid of me to overlook that "detail": enable Mediamonkey in the taskbar did the trick. :oops:
And I won't mind the black / white bar in the Windows7-taskbar. It's the info I need!

Thanks guys! What a wonderful software & forum !!! :D

Re: Taskbar player idea

by nohitter151 » Thu Nov 25, 2010 9:45 am

Luk wrote:Does this Bennmicroplayer work in Windows 7?
I'm very interested to install it, but till now, I tried it several times without succes.
Maybe I should retry once again, but if someone states that it's a "no go" in Windows 7 (for some reason), I can stop my efforts...
Thanks!
It will work in win 7 but it won't blend in, it has a black background to match the vista taskbar.

Re: Taskbar player idea

by Lowlander » Wed Nov 24, 2010 5:58 pm

Did you enable it in the Taskbar itself as well? Right click on Taskbar > Toolbars and enable MediaMonkey Player

Re: Taskbar player idea

by Luk » Wed Nov 24, 2010 5:46 pm

Does this Bennmicroplayer work in Windows 7?
I'm very interested to install it, but till now, I tried it several times without succes.
Maybe I should retry once again, but if someone states that it's a "no go" in Windows 7 (for some reason), I can stop my efforts...
Thanks!

Re: Taskbar player idea

by Peke » Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:49 pm

Those two Files needs to replace same files in skin of your choice (Skins can be found at <MediaMonkey Folder>\Skins\*.msz):

1. Chose MSZ you would like to change
2. Rename to zip
3. overwrite same files with files from Benn archive
4. Save ZIP
5. Rename to MSZ
6. Start MM and minimize to Micro Player.

Re: Taskbar player idea

by andrew_1506 » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:08 pm

DreadM wrote:Greetings
Benn wrote:Would it be possible to post the code? :D
Ok here it is:BennMicroPlayer.zip

MicroPlayerH.mskn:
It based on the Eclipse Micro Player, i change the backround image to black
with Eclipse border 170,26 pix,this you can change in the theme editor, with
an image from your taskbar to match better withe it.

microPlayerH.ini:
the player is also resizable in the lengh, this you can edit in the
microPlayerH.ini the default size is 170,26 at moment it is Size=400,26.
you can also edit the textmask or FontColor from [songtitel] check wiki
Skinning Reference for Usable Masks.

enjoy

and let us see what you creat :D
Benn wrote:A new taskbar is born! Find it here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ozmidlmzhhd - just add the two files to any .msz skin of your choice!

Screenshot:
Image

It's based on the default Vista theme, with the player size restricted to 500, although that's easy to change if you have very long song titles.. (it does scroll them if it's too long).

Many thanks to DreadM for all his help :D
I'm sorry to ask this but how do I get any of these taskbar ideas working with MM or are all on their own and if so again how do I get them to work? I'm a lot new to all this :-(

Re: Taskbar player idea

by Benn » Sat Dec 20, 2008 11:30 am

Oh I see.. I'm sorry for being short.

I am definitely going to continue when I get time, but I feel I'd need a lot more practice before I'd be able to help you guys. Plus, I'm away for a couple of weeks so I can't get on anything straight away. I will offer my services in the future though, for sure.

Re: Taskbar player idea

by rovingcowboy » Sat Dec 20, 2008 6:59 am

i guess my hoss did stumble and take the long trail that time,

but i also thought maybe someone reading it would get tired of me saying please somebody make some skins for the project. 8)

Re: Taskbar player idea

by nynaevelan » Sat Dec 20, 2008 6:56 am

Benn wrote:Excuse me? I've made this (my first ever "skin") because it was something I wanted, and have shared it so others could also benefit; what on earth is wrong with that?
Benn:

What RC is saying but is going wayyyyyy around the bush to say is, now that you have had a taste of skinning, he would like you to volunteer and join in the group skinning project.... Clear as mud??

Nyn

Re: Taskbar player idea

by rovingcowboy » Sat Dec 20, 2008 6:32 am

who said anything was wrong with it?
re read the post again after you get a cup of coffee and wake up. :D

Re: Taskbar player idea

by Benn » Sat Dec 20, 2008 5:31 am

Excuse me? I've made this (my first ever "skin") because it was something I wanted, and have shared it so others could also benefit; what on earth is wrong with that?

Re: Taskbar player idea

by rovingcowboy » Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:39 pm

you seem to like making single player skins that are part of the whole skin sets.

so now that you know how its done whats wrong with making one for the members skinning project. :-?

Re: Taskbar player idea

by Benn » Fri Dec 19, 2008 7:47 pm

A new taskbar is born! Find it here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ozmidlmzhhd - just add the two files to any .msz skin of your choice!

Screenshot:
Image

It's based on the default Vista theme, with the player size restricted to 500, although that's easy to change if you have very long song titles.. (it does scroll them if it's too long).

Many thanks to DreadM for all his help :D

Re: Taskbar player idea

by DreadM » Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:43 am

Greetings

Make a screenshot from your taskbar,open a image editor like Paint.net ,select the area from taskbar you want to show(170,26), save as bmp or png.Now open theme editor select images / add image and load the image you save before.
Now open Objects / playerbackround / Frame / left......and replace the bitmaps (on right side top)and save, normal thats all.
The fonts i don't know.Nohitter use [Segoe UI] in his VitreousBlue skin

Re: Taskbar player idea

by Benn » Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:02 am

Thanks DreadM, I'm working on it now. So far I've realigned the text to the right, resized the "player" and changed the font to white to match the Vista theme. (Does anyone know which font Vista uses for the taskbar?) I'm having a little trouble with the background: I've tried to replace your eclipse image with a paste of an area of my taskbar so the colour's match, but it still seems to be coming out darker than my taskbar, any ideas?

PS, this is fun :D

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