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Window management and Single Window Interface

PostPosted: August 29th, 2009, 8:07 pm
by vprimachenko
Hi everyone,
i'm a newbie on this forum but i use and skin xion for a while and i must say: xion is the awesomest piece of software ever.

But i got some ideas to make it even better.
Some days ago i started a new skin - i like to make it silnglewindowed - like windows meda player but, its impossible, you have to draw a main window and a playlist separately, main window isn't resizable and so on...
so i done the full interface in the playlist window and main wnd. was just a small xion logo
so my idia is: why not give the full window control to the skinner - like this
  • skin.xsf
    • MainWindow.psd
    • Playlist.psd
    • Visualisation.psd
and the plugins just render inside the layers with specific keywords in all the windows.

greets VP

btw. if there is a way to help in the development of xion i would be proud to help - i programs in c++ and php

PostPosted: August 30th, 2009, 1:49 am
by WinstonGFX
It might be possible to make a SUI style if you do a lot of 'fudging'. Since the Playlist window can stretch and all fields can go in a playlist window you might be able to pull it off with a bit of creativity.

PostPosted: August 30th, 2009, 4:43 am
by logokas
Show me a fully scaleable window-like media player that doesn't look ugly, and like an actual player.

No offense to anybody/thing, but you seem to be after something a-la WMP, which looks nice in and of itself, but most people probably aren't after that kind of a style.

PostPosted: August 30th, 2009, 4:50 am
by WinstonGFX
logokas, I beg to differ. Look at the popularity of Winamp cPro and cPro skins.

PostPosted: August 30th, 2009, 6:54 am
by SLoB
yea over 800k downloads on the recent sony cpro skin ;)

PostPosted: August 30th, 2009, 6:59 am
by vprimachenko
I said "media player like" 'cause it is the best example for an SUI. The skin i work on has nothing similar with WMP.
Image

PostPosted: August 30th, 2009, 7:09 pm
by logokas
I see very little cPro around anywhere. Maybe i'm just looking wrong.

Though cPro is not exactly fully scalable. The main interface size is still set in stone.

PostPosted: September 18th, 2009, 11:44 pm
by vprimachenko
no one thinks it is a good idea?
It might be possible to make a SUI style if you do a lot of 'fudging'. Since the Playlist window can stretch and all fields can go in a playlist window you might be able to pull it off with a bit of creativity

Already done but i dont like the "fudging"
just dicovered this thread http://xion.r2.com.au/community/vwtpc.php?t=1132 it seems to me its a similar request
and this one aswell http://xion.r2.com.au/community/vwtpc.php?t=1264 :D

PostPosted: September 19th, 2009, 2:40 pm
by Cliff Cawley