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Title: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on March 25, 2012, 11:22:24 PM
Latest download links:
Normal: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?7rh2sgwwoms142m
For small screens: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?f6edj3rfia646ib


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Starting from the great skin from Mikebo, i did some changes experimenting. Hope you like

Edit: (Old image and links removed).
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: beeing good on March 26, 2012, 06:39:40 AM
Looks quite nice, I like the play button. I'm not using dark skins at the moment but more skins are always welcome, thanks!
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on March 28, 2012, 12:44:30 PM
Updated with the Dusk 2.0 with skinned borders. All the really hard work done by Mikebo in its Dusk skin.

(http://s7.postimage.org/s5zp1ym6j/Sin_t_tulo.png)


The changes in the player controls at the bottom are:
Stars with a very bright yellow
Spectrum colors
Speaker icon removed
Buttons and text in bright grey
Buttons highlighted in cyan.
Audioscrobbling connection problem icon
Is rearranged trying to increase the space for track text for small screens. It is increased when rating is disabled, but wasn't able to increase it when disabling spectrum or love button :-\


The changes in dusk base xml are:
Code
<element id="TabsBar.TabCloseButton.Highlight" bg="132,132,132" fg="210,210,210" bdr="170,170,170" />
<element id="Panel.Body.Highlight" bg="129,18,18" fg="255,255,255" />
<element id="Content[TrackDetail].Body.Highlight" bg="129,18,18" fg="255,255,255" />
<element id="Player.DisplayPanel" bg="195,195,195" bg2="175,175,175" fg="195,195,195" />
<element id="Player.SpectrumMedium" bg="182,186,218" />
<element id="Player.SpectrumHigh" bg="173,209,226" />
<element id="Player.Control.Default" bg="30,30,30" bg2="10,10,10" fg="210,210,210" bdr="38,38,38" />
<element id="Player.StarRating.Default" fg="224,224,201" />
<element id="Player.StarRating.Lowlight" fg="46,46,46" />
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: mikebo on March 28, 2012, 04:28:24 PM
Very nice indeed. I'm glad you shared your mod, i'll steal that last.fm error icon, mine just doesn't make much sense :)
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on March 28, 2012, 06:11:42 PM
Glad you like it Mikebo, its all yours  ;D
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: beehive on April 03, 2012, 09:04:56 AM
I like the red highlight. thanks. Do you know how to change the color of the speaker icon in the main panel that indicates what is currently playing?
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on April 03, 2012, 10:25:37 AM
Thanks! I think is the fg in  <element id="Content[TrackDetail].Body.Default" bg="50,0,0" fg="1,86,0" bdr="2,0,17" /> ;)
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on April 03, 2012, 01:42:30 PM
Miniplayer updated, removed panel and changed colors

(http://s18.postimage.org/ixqf0ldmh/Captura_061.png)


The changes in dusk base xml are:
Code
<element id="Player.DisplayPanel" bg="49,49,49" bg2="23,24,23" fg="195,195,195" />
<element id="Player.ProgressBar" bg="64,64,64" bdr="211,211,211" />
<element id="Player.Control.Highlight" bg="30,30,30" bg2="10,10,10" fg="44,203,255" bdr="44,203,255" />
<element id="Player.Volume" fg="131,131,131" bdr="38,38,38" />
<element id="Player.VolumeButton" bg="131,131,131" bg2="101,101,101" fg="50,50,50" bdr="38,38,38"/>
<element id="MiniPlayer.Background" bg="50,50,50" bg2="23,23,23" fg="80,80,80" bdr="0,0,0" />
<element id="MiniPlayer.StarRating.Default" fg="131,131,131" />
<element id="MiniPlayer.StarRating.Lowlight" fg="46,46,46" />
<element id="Controls.Button.Highlight" bg="30,42,58" fg="255,255,255" bdr="30,42,58" />



Would like to see the border of the highlighted button in cyan but i think is not possible
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: beeing good on April 08, 2012, 11:42:53 PM
I really like this skin, I've been using it for a few days and it's great. The only thing is that there is a red line under the track progress bar, is there any way to get rid of that?
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on April 09, 2012, 12:01:58 AM
Changed background.jpg. In this zip file are the image and the compiled skin ;)
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: beeing good on April 09, 2012, 04:59:31 AM
Fantastic, thank you, it's perfect!
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: SimonBRT on April 09, 2012, 06:01:44 AM
great mod of a great skin - nice work!
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on April 10, 2012, 12:12:49 AM
Thanks guys!  :)

By the way, new version:


(http://s15.postimage.org/f5k02xwl7/v120410.png)


The changes in the player bar are:
Added an almost hide stop button at the left, between the left border and the spectrum in case its needed any time. Is shown when mouse is over.
Clicking in spectrum now shows/hide equaliser.
All the buttons redone having more contrast now. Fixing LastFmerror image size.
Love button moved near rating. Captured the standard one and changed its colour.
Banned button gave me problems when skinning, and MB don't starting. So by now is the standard, the image i wanted to use is in the sources.
New slider for volumen, darker and smaller for gaining some pixels for track title. A longer one is included in the sources, also volume icons. Also made it thinner, so double clicking around it switches to miniplayer easier.
Disabling rating and love track gives more space for track title, useful for small screens. Still wasn't able doing that with the spectrum space.
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on April 15, 2012, 11:05:20 PM
Version for small screens and people which doesn't make an intensive use of volume slider in MusicBee:

-Artworks selected in red color now.
-Now using white hearts for loved tracks in miniplayer too.
-Volume slider almost hide but still functional. For people like me which doesn't use it, but still don't want removing it. Its a long and very thin camouflaged slider over the track duration. By the way scrolling over the player bar change the volume.
-Track title space increased for small screens.

(http://s17.postimage.org/hntpai0un/smallscreens.png)
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: beeing good on April 16, 2012, 12:47:24 AM
Nice changes here, this skin just gets better and better!
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on April 16, 2012, 01:13:13 PM
Thanks, appreciate it!  :)
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: shawnk1019 on April 21, 2012, 11:31:57 PM
Just stumbled on this skin, it's now become my default skin, thumbs up on the fine work!
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on April 23, 2012, 01:05:25 PM
Thanks Shawnk1019! The friday revised every single element in player controls and fine tuned all of them. I have ready the small screen version, when finish the normal version will release both ;)
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on April 23, 2012, 07:43:29 PM
Changes in:
-Spectrum colors
-Use of new centering method: PanelMinusProgressBar with latest Skincreator
-Background image of main player, a bit brighter and thinner
-Softed the hided volume knob
-Seekbar adjusted to exactly the point where the cursor clicks.
-Tested with bigger customized fonts. In the pictures i am using Verdana, bold, italic, 9 points.
-Scrollbar colors from panel to dark.
-Changes introduces in small screen version now for normal version too.


Better look with Preferences\Layout\Player controls\Enlarge progress bar height.

Click on image to download each skin:

(http://s11.postimage.org/lppmmzh8z/normal.png) (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?e0jt9u863f7m955)

(http://s16.postimage.org/x7sb5e0n9/small.png) (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?rtxk5zrhd5z8ls9)

Sources Duskv2.mod.lnminente120423 (with top workaround) (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?hy2y2bk4hstw8sr)
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: beeing good on April 23, 2012, 08:42:00 PM
Again, some really nice changes!

I have a small issue though. These are the player controls in the previous version:

(http://i.imgur.com/tucYm.jpg)

And these are the controls in this update:

(http://i.imgur.com/gmjgL.jpg)

I have it docked to the top of the player, which could be the reason it is like this. The last version you did fixed this from the versions before that but it seems to have reverted back being like this again.

It's not a big deal at all so don't worry if you are busy, I appreciate all your effort already.
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on April 23, 2012, 09:04:24 PM
It's a thing related with the vertical center calculted by PanelMinusProgressBar. Try changing the font or size used in "Preferences\Layout\Player control\Main player\use custom font" to recalculate it. I see it well here on top too.
(http://s13.postimage.org/rbcboav7n/Untitled.png)
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: beeing good on April 23, 2012, 09:23:07 PM
Ok thanks, after a lot of adjusting I've found a font and size that works. Kind of annoying though.

Thanks a lot for making the red selection in Artwork View, I was going to suggest that the colour could be changed so you can see what you have selected more clearly. Works really well.
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on April 23, 2012, 09:38:09 PM
Glad you like it ;)

I restarted MB with player bar on top and saw it bad. It seems MB draws one pixel less when is on top you could report it to Steven

I have tried some workarounds, but it would need more work to fix this without tunning the customized font.
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on April 23, 2012, 10:04:11 PM
I have redone the highlighted buttons affected for the first line not shown when on top. As a workaround i have cut the first horizontal line in each image.
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: beeing good on April 23, 2012, 10:10:00 PM
That's perfect, thanks so much for your work on this!
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on May 01, 2012, 11:30:20 AM
I have updated the source file DuskBase2.mod.lnminente.xml, now is using variables for an easier modifying by anyone. The appearance is the same, nothing changed. These are the variables introduced:
Code
Selected="129,18,18"
Ground-4="25,25,25"
Ground-3="28,28,28"
Ground-2="30,30,30"
Ground-1="36,36,36"
Ground="38,38,38"
Ground2="43,43,43"
Ground+1="50,50,50"
Ground+2="60,60,60"
Ground+3="70,70,70"
Ground+4="80,80,80"
Ground+5="100,100,100"
Disabled="120,120,120"
Default="180,180,180"
TextGround="210,210,210"
White="255,255,255"

And these are the colours used and their frequency:
Code
5	0,0,0
4 0,0,255
1 0,255,0
5 10,10,10
2 20,20,20
1 23,23,23
1 23,24,23
20 25,25,25
2 28,28,28
10 30,30,30
2 30,42,58
5 35,35,35
2 36,36,36
59 38,38,38
3 40,40,40
2 44,203,255
2 45,45,45
2 46,46,46
1 49,49,49
12 50,50,50
1 58,175,58
22 60,60,60
1 64,64,64
11 70,70,70
9 80,80,80
1 90,90,90
11 100,100,100
1 101,101,101
2 110,110,110
1 117,153,190
6 120,120,120
1 125,129,161
2 130,130,130
3 131,131,131
1 132,132,132
1 135,135,135
4 140,140,140
1 143,143,143
1 170,170,170
8 180,180,180
1 190,190,190
1 195,195,195
3 200,200,200
43 210,210,210
1 211,211,211
2 220,220,220
1 224,224,201
1 230,230,230
1 232,70,54
1 253,215,99
14 255,0,0
3 255,0,255
14 255,255,255
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on May 21, 2012, 10:31:47 PM
Small update, added full node select and new shuffle autodj icon:

Normal: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?7rh2sgwwoms142m
Small: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?f6edj3rfia646ib
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: scottjay on June 14, 2012, 01:40:16 AM
Very nice. I have to say that I prefer Dusk's DJ shuffle icon personally
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on June 23, 2012, 08:39:19 PM
(The first version is always getting downloaded instead of the updated ones, now it got 80 downloads, so i going to remove old links)
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: beeing good on October 02, 2012, 01:27:06 AM
lnminente, I was wondering if you would consider making a version of this one with the player bar text aligned to the centre (horizontally). I've been using the Clarity skin for a while and I think it looks much neater when the text is in the middle rather than aligned to the left.
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on October 02, 2012, 08:06:29 AM
Yep, its only adding a line to the xml. Here you go: [old link removed] ;)
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: beeing good on October 02, 2012, 02:27:29 PM
Wow that was quick! Thanks so much!
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: psychoadept on November 19, 2012, 08:12:51 PM
Found this skin last night - wow!  I think this should be added to the skins included with MB install.
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: psychoadept on December 15, 2012, 08:03:37 AM
I just realized that in all the time I've been using this skin, I've never seen the striped rows as shown in the screencaps.  I don't miss them particularly, just wondering if I overlooked where they had been removed or something.
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on December 15, 2012, 08:08:03 PM
You're right, that was a behavior of the "Album and tracks" view, i changed them for a flatter view and looking for consistency with the other views.

Glad you like it Scampbll. Thanks for the wow (http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/228/a/5/tiny_fb_like_icon_by_onesockwolf-d5bbsrv.png)
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: psychoadept on January 03, 2013, 09:21:49 PM
Do you know if there's a skinning element where you could put a slight border between the AZ jumpbar and the rest of the main panel?
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on January 03, 2013, 10:52:26 PM
I did fast test, using the dummy skin i got the name of the element for the A-Z jumpbar, it is Panel.SubHeader.Default.
Tried with a fg2 and a bdr values but didn't get any change in the appearance
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: psychoadept on January 03, 2013, 10:59:22 PM
Thanks for checking!  I'll play around with it.

Edit: ... er, how do I play around with it?  I thought that I could edit as a text file, but I get gibberish.
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on April 07, 2013, 11:39:55 AM
Sorry, i noticed your question now. Edits doesn't produce a notification.

This is a bitmap based skin, it has customized player controls so its extension is .xmlc instead of .xml. For modifying it you have to download the sources, edit the .xml files inside and finally compile it to .xmlc using SkinCreator, a software which also released Steven in this forum
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: klint on February 17, 2014, 09:40:24 AM
Hi Inminente
Just wanted do know whether you intended to update this skin for MB 2.3? This skin happens to be  my favorite one.
This being asked, it is working globally quite well today with 2.3 already :)
Thanks
Cheers
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on February 17, 2014, 03:53:08 PM
Hi Klint,, after my latest update  i was ambicious for this skin and tried to do a sort of generic skin using variables for doing it easy for everyone to do any change. I mixed the base for Metrocolours and the one for dusk, so just changing the variables would result one or another skin. But some things got broken and it was a pain finding the name of some elements so i finally abbandoned it after some attempts.

Now I'm a bit disconnected of the latest changes with the new modes for mini and compact player, so i better opted for doing similar changes to what i did here but to the latest MidnightMetro from Mikebo.

It's a different touch, it's darker and flatter. I share these mods here in case you like them:
[Old links removed]

Original MidnightMetro: http://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=11285.msg71236#msg71236
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: klint on February 17, 2014, 09:37:09 PM
Really nice, I switch to this one, thanks :)
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on February 17, 2014, 10:15:55 PM
And the base .xml it's here for people which doesn't like my player controls disposition:
[Old link removed]
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: klint on February 20, 2014, 04:49:23 PM
Hello Inminente
Just noticed an issue with the new skin and MB 2.3 RC1
When using Tools/Download Artwork on any track, I get this error message, on the contrary to the default skin.

MusicBee v2.3.5161.32283 (Win6.1), 20 févr. 2014 17:47:

System.ArgumentException: Control does not support transparent background colors.
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.set_BackColor(Color value)
   at #=qjshVR9S8QrL4O7EKI7rHlt2oZQLj7AXk_56VRtP3UN$N4iqBTUovtwseB$yTXvP6.#=qGZLgJHeMY5MCbaWJZQtiig83raaCdRKd1mpACbIv8dM=()
   at #=qjshVR9S8QrL4O7EKI7rHlt2oZQLj7AXk_56VRtP3UN$N4iqBTUovtwseB$yTXvP6.#=qILAUQDYZpZG1XQusdjHiFw==(#=qgKcYLP16lOgv1txoFRXoYWWitTFwwPymBTBCmZzcOwy5K8ymw8iVwR_AL_wdLUqd #=qjC5ziP2aGwWqzE_SnK0pyg==)
   at #=q_GnSiHguhC3k17GW4Sa1nQefA0PW9wV7kCpblgbyrXA=..ctor(Point #=qoLI8nVgD7QVn8AAOgrUdOg==)
   at #=q11sy$ysDfBYhC$cV7U68JAw4B9yBWeOJZuSlun_n6WQ=.#=qF8fvu7xbBEAegxgTVsmzgCopEbM762Luu_EYWuHJO2g=()
   at #=qQe9xNF9td15QlZd2f7VsYhffhfoveXAoLgnQohHShjc=.#=qQzYuRN1DAGIzZsGxsEnkrw==(ApplicationCommand #=qLeS048emVMGrBfo8e0Vf4A==, Object #=qx3NSBslHgeBRw3pJKPevlQ==)

Thanks
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: lnminente on February 20, 2014, 11:29:13 PM
Hi Klint, can you verify if this bug is coming from the original skin i modded?
MidnightMetro: Its here: http://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=11285.0

Edit:====================
The culprit is the following line, i will report it to Mikebo:
<element id="Controls.ArtworkFrame" bdr="40,255,255,255" />

Edit2:===================
A rapid fix just removing the transparency is here:
Base: http://www.mediafire.com/download/21rjnpgt7ampacu/midnight.metro.mod+140221.xml
Normal: http://www.mediafire.com/download/duhvqli35bdpd1r/MidnightMETRO+mod+140221.xmlc
Small: http://www.mediafire.com/download/aii9wcpk63b0lo7/MidnightMETRO+mod+140221_small.xmlc
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: sahkan on June 22, 2015, 07:52:54 PM

A rapid fix just removing the transparency is here:
Base: http://www.mediafire.com/download/21rjnpgt7ampacu/midnight.metro.mod+140221.xml
Normal: http://www.mediafire.com/download/duhvqli35bdpd1r/MidnightMETRO+mod+140221.xmlc
Small: http://www.mediafire.com/download/aii9wcpk63b0lo7/MidnightMETRO+mod+140221_small.xmlc
Hi there !
These links not works. Where I can get this skin, please ?
Title: Re: Dusk.mod.lnminente
Post by: basshead on June 23, 2015, 12:14:00 PM
^^+1 "Invalid or Deleted File." message on MediaFire and I would like to see the new skin too, please reupload it  ::)