2004-06-06, 09:40
i've done some basic skinning to rearrange some buttons, change the size of the albums covers, etc. now i want to understand how the controls actually work so i can play around and make some more modifications.
images and hyperlinks make sense to me. what i dont fully understand are the other controls. so i have these questions that i hope either you skin guru's or the godly dev's can answer
do buttons (that are not hyperlinks) get their actions based off their label field? if so, how do the ones in home.xml work for the shutdown, reboot, etc controls? they have a blank label.
how do the automated label controls work? and how are they differentiated from each other if there are more than one on a page? (an example of such a page is the dialogvideoinfo.xml)
in the musicoverlay.xml is there anyway to get access to the song title, artist info, etc without the use of a fadelabel? i would like for the information to be displayed individually as seperate static labels.
is there anyway the albums listcontrol from mymusicalbums.xml be applied to listcontrols in other pages? i kind of want to convert a thumbpanel into more of a listcontrol. the thumbpanel is nice, but you cant read any of the video titles or album names because the text field is so tiny. and the listcontrol has nice long text fields, but dont display icons (and if they did, they would be really tiny.)
and finally what is the musicvisualization.xml file used for?
images and hyperlinks make sense to me. what i dont fully understand are the other controls. so i have these questions that i hope either you skin guru's or the godly dev's can answer
do buttons (that are not hyperlinks) get their actions based off their label field? if so, how do the ones in home.xml work for the shutdown, reboot, etc controls? they have a blank label.
how do the automated label controls work? and how are they differentiated from each other if there are more than one on a page? (an example of such a page is the dialogvideoinfo.xml)
in the musicoverlay.xml is there anyway to get access to the song title, artist info, etc without the use of a fadelabel? i would like for the information to be displayed individually as seperate static labels.
is there anyway the albums listcontrol from mymusicalbums.xml be applied to listcontrols in other pages? i kind of want to convert a thumbpanel into more of a listcontrol. the thumbpanel is nice, but you cant read any of the video titles or album names because the text field is so tiny. and the listcontrol has nice long text fields, but dont display icons (and if they did, they would be really tiny.)
and finally what is the musicvisualization.xml file used for?