Skin- and visual errors related to, and skinning requests for MusicBee v3

[Steven]

the border colour needs to be different. There is some backwards compatibility where if its the same as the background color then the border colour is set elsewhere

[Alumni]

the border colour needs to be different. There is some backwards compatibility where if its the same as the background color then the border colour is set elsewhere

Oh I see. Is there an override available, or should I just pick a different color?

[Steven]

<element id="UseArtworkBorders">true</element>

thats working for me (checked in the artwork layout), including with the released version of your mellon remix skin. In what context do you find it not working?
the other items are fixed for the next update

[Steven]

fixes for the above issues
http://www.mediafire.com/download/yg2iu46j3binune/MusicBeeDemo.zip

unzip into the musicbee application folder and run MusicBee3.exe

[Alumni]

With the full release of 3.0 coming soon, I wonder what will happen with the skins bundled with the installer?
It's possible some of the older skins might be incompatible with the new version, and there's also several new skins that could be included.

[Steven]

its definitely the case that some skins dont work so well with the new version. I have contacted a couple of the people who developed the skins that havent been active but no reply so far. I think we should give it a month or so because MB3 will be in beta for a while anyway

[Bee-liever]

Would it be possible to have on override for the line that also appears when using a grouping header in Track Detail view.
It's currently auto-generated by MB

EDIT
or auto-generate a much darker line higher contrast line rather than the slightly darker lightly contrasting line it currently does, please

thinking more on this, I think the override element would be the better way to go
maybe:
<element id="Content[TrackDetail].HeaderLine" fg="xxx,xxx,xxx" />

[Steven]

thinking more on this, I think the override element would be the better way to go
maybe:
<element id="Content[TrackDetail].HeaderLine" fg="xxx,xxx,xxx" />

yes i will add that
edit:
its done for the next update

[psychoadept]

Now Playing List overrides appear to be working now!

These elements don't show up:

<element id="UseArtworkBorders">true</element>
<element id="Controls.FaintLine" bg="143,189,39" />


I notice that in 3.0 some buttons appear to be active which aren't, such as the Configure buttons in Player Preferences.

And can we get rid of this line in Preferences that seems to be the wrong color?

All of these are resolved now except the Artwork Borders.  I can get your screenshots later, but they're not showing up anywhere for me: Artwork, Album & Tracks, Track Info panel, etc.  Do you want my updated skin file?

[Steven]

Do you want my updated skin file?

yes thanks. As mentioned i believe it should be working so a screenshot showing it missing might help

edit:
okay, it is missing from the album and tracks layout so i will do that. For the artwork in track details; for artwork in the now playing list using the Thumbnail layout; and artwork in the thumb browser, that border wasnt used in v2.5 - it was done using a auto-generated light colour as in v3
also the actual colour used is:  Controls.ArtworkFrame cdr=xxxx
(i cant remember why i put the extra UseArtworkBorders = true as a requirement)

[Steven]

http://www.mediafire.com/download/yg2iu46j3binune/MusicBeeDemo.zip

unzip into the musicbee application folder and run MusicBee3.exe

changes as described above

[Bee-liever]

okay, it is missing from the album and tracks layout so i will do that

It was also used on the artwork in the RH Track Information/Now Playing panel when it was displayed
Not fixed for that scenario.


<element id="Content[TrackDetail].HeaderLine" bg="xxx,xxx,xxx" />
is working fine.  Thank you very much

[Bee-liever]

the border attribute of
<element id="CaptionBar.SearchBox.Default" bg="xxx,xxx,xxx" fg="xxx,xxx,xxx" bdr="xxx,xxx,xxx" />
is not being recognised in 3.0

could a bg attribute be added to
<element id="Controls.SearchBox.Lowlight" />
and
<element id="CaptionBar.SearchBox.Lowlight" />

and then I wouldn't need the bdr attribute of the first element

[psychoadept]

The artwork border is showing up in Album & Tracks now. (Sorry for the delay, life has been very distracting lately...)

In the track info panel, it shows up at the top and left, but not at the bottom and right:



You probably don't need it anymore, but here's the skin file: https://app.box.com/s/fca2dsy99q7uw1zdosgqhmizhh2w2fk3

[psychoadept]

Are there/will there be overrides for the header bars in Music Explorer?

The "search" hint still shows as plain black text in the caption bar, it doesn't take the skin colors.  It's okay below the caption bar.