A new MM3 dark skin & some questions

[666fox]

Thanks, I couldn't find the thread before... maybe I'm blind. That should work well.

[rovingcowboy]

it wasn't there before i just put it up since you requested some sort of help with the color hex numbers..

[nohitter151]

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But, more importantly, I have 4 general questions:

1: Where can I change the background color for the selected song under album in the album art list view mode (check pic 1 below if I didn't explain myself well enough)

2: How do I change the font color for the comments section under the song properties, the column headers, the normal font for the album art list view (I can't get them away from black), and the infopopup text color on a song change?

3: How do I change the inactive background color for the album art view? I've been unable to find the variable, and it makes all text invisible with my skin if I can't change it from white.

4: Where can i get these new MM3 icons? I remember i downloaded the old ones once and modified them, but I don't know where to get the MM3 icons...

Alright I think that is all of it, if anybody can help, it would be GREATLY appreciated -- thanks again, and please please PLEASE give me some feedback, whether positive or negative -- both are welcome -- on the skin.

Tommae88, I don't know if you're still actively developing this skin, but I just recently found the answers to a few of your questions. Open the Glided theme.mskn file and look under Virtual Tree, you will find the answers to your questions 1-3 above. The Glided skin theme has elements are listed under VirtualTree as AlbumArtTrackText and AlbumArtText; these are the elements you need to change. You could just copy them out of the Glided skin then change the font color or you could create them for yourself under VirtualTree as Text Object (5 states).

As for the 4th question, I don't think the official MM3 icons have been released, but you could check this thread as it claims to have a new icon pack available for MM3.

[rrfpacker]

I found MM this summer and have been like a kid in a candy store, loading all the skins and all the scripts that sound cool. I am just now beginning to see the nuances of the different skins and playing in the .ini files of the player or using the the Theme Editor to modify colors of text and add masks to players (mostly year or genre or playlist info).

I have always liked the Red Bruise color scheme along with all the Royals, they are basically the same, right? As I was playing around with Red Bruise today to add Genre and Year I have run into a problem.

I was trying to add this to the far right, but left of the ratings, on the same level as the Song Title and Artist. I copy/pasted Song Title and called it Custom2. Looking at the position of the Rating, I tried to position these to the left and could never get them to appear.

I then added %Y next to the %S in the player .ini and hit the space bar about 40 times. Then it showed up! Weird. And I also changed the position to 720 and the song title showed up where I wanted to put the other stuff. Since I don't really want to do it that way I went back in and added the %Y to show up above the mute button and then just change its position a few times until it got all the way to the right.

It shows up just fine above the mute button (position 138, 10 I think), so I started increasing the position a 100 at a time. Then I found the image only shows up above the red line that goes across the player, which seems weird since the Song Title shows up on top of the line just fine. And I've got it all the way to position 790, 5, which is also weird since the skin size is 520,60.

So, what am I doing wrong? I've played with other skins the same way and have not run into this problem. Thank you so much for this skin and I hope I made sense above.



I'm going to try asking this again. I'm trying to add song tag info to this player over on the right side and can't seem to get them to show up. Any idea how to do this?