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Does anyone out there know how to create skins for use with Windows Media Player? I was wanting to do one on Balto, but can't find any info as to how it's done. Is there a program to do it or what?

HELP!

- Rotramel the Writer

Steet has some you can download on the site and after Balto I, Balto II,and Balto III it'll say Fans and just click on goodies and you can download.

These are Winamp skins, not Windows Media Player.
I don't know if it's possible or not to make skins for WMP, but I doubt it's easy because it hasn't been designed for this use. (unlike Winamp)

Good to hear from ya Steet!

It is possible, but I can't find out how. I shall continue my search, meanwhile, what is Win Amp?

- Rotramel the Writer

Windows Media Player is similar to WinAmp in a few persepctives- it is mainly constructed of bitmap images and a few text documents that save button controls and locations of buttons.

Not too difficult. Here is basic system:

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/*
    ©2000 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
*/

var visPane = 0;
var audPane = 1;
var vidPane = 2;
var currentPane = 0;

var vidIsRunning = false;

function Init()
{
    pl.setColumnResizeMode(0, "Stretches");
    pl.setColumnResizeMode(1, "AutoSizeData");
    visEffects.currentEffectType = mediacenter.effectType;
    visEffects.currentPreset = mediacenter.effectPreset;

    OnOpenStateChange();
    OnPlayStateChange();
}

function OnClose()
{
    mediacenter.effectType = visEffects.currentEffectType;
    mediacenter.effectPreset = visEffects.currentPreset;
}

function OnOpenStateChange()
{
    if(player.OpenState == osMediaOpen)
    {
        vidIsRunning =
            (player.currentMedia.ImageSourceWidth>0);
        UpdateMetadata();
        SetVisibility(vidIsRunning?vidPane:visPane);
    }
}

function OnPlayStateChange()
{
    bPlay.visible = true;
    switch(player.PlayState)
    {
    case psStopped:
        visEffects.visible = false;
        break;
    case psPlaying:
        bPlay.visible = false;
        visEffects.visible = !vidIsRunning;
        UpdateMetadata();
        break;
    }
}

function UpdateMetadata()
{
    metadata.value =
        player.currentmedia.getiteminfo("author");
    if(metadata.value != "")
    {
        metadata.value += " -- ";
    }
    metadata.value += player.currentmedia.name;
    metadata.scrolling = (metadata.textWidth>metadata.width);
}

function SetVisibility(newPane)
{
    bgVis.upToolTip = (vidIsRunning ?
        xVisTt.toolTip : xVisTt.value);

    switch(newPane)
    {
    case visPane:
        visEffects.visible = true;
        vid.visible =
            sAud.visible = false;
        break;
    case audPane:
        sAud.visible = true;
        visEffects.visible =
            vid.visible = false;
        break;
    case vidPane:
        vid.visible = true;
        visEffects.visible =
            sAud.visible = false;
        bgVis.upToolTip = "";
        break;
    }

    currentPane = newPane;
}

function TogglePl()
{
    sPl.visible =
        pl.visible = !pl.visible;
    view.height = (pl.visible ? 397 : 241);
}

function AdjustAudio()
{
    eq.gainLevel1 = bass.value;
    eq.gainLevel2 = (8*bass.value +   treble.value)/9;
    eq.gainLevel3 = (7*bass.value + 2*treble.value)/9;
    eq.gainLevel4 = (6*bass.value + 3*treble.value)/9;
    eq.gainLevel5 = (5*bass.value + 4*treble.value)/9;
    eq.gainLevel6 = (4*bass.value + 5*treble.value)/9;
    eq.gainLevel7 = (3*bass.value + 6*treble.value)/9;
    eq.gainLevel8 = (2*bass.value + 7*treble.value)/9;
    eq.gainLevel9 = (  bass.value + 8*treble.value)/9;
    eq.gainLevel10 = treble.value;
}

... obviously just a 'little' more difficult than WinAmp

EDIT: By the way, that is the JavaScript used in some of the newer versions of WMP- I believe some older versions use more C than JS

Alaskas Jenna -> You know, not everyone is a programmer. I am and I understand what you mean, but I doubt most people would understand that.
Winamp is one of the most famous multimedia player (with WMP of course)