logokas Wrote:It's fine. You can right click and view them normally.
I think I understand the purpose now. I've no idea how you would hook this into Xion however so that you can switch between these 'pages' and also switch between player skins. You will likely need dedicated code in both Splinter and Xion to make this sort of functionality work.
Ha. Hi. THIS is the EASY part, truly. I am already DOING it. Splinter has internal scripting capabilities. It can run all DOS commands and then adds eight of its own. These eight allow for ANYTHING to occur within the desktop environment. As I said, each image type, including pages(wallpapers) can be called by name. So, if this functionality is implemented into Xion, and Xion let's say is already running, and "you' want to switch to a new page, it is as simple as typing in the script box
splinter goto "x" (the name of the wallpaper)
splinter delay 10 (pause for 10 ms before next command)
"C:\Program Files\Xion\Xion.exe [parameters I requested in this thread]"
That is IT. The delay command isn't even, technically, necessary. I just put it in for good measure. Just in case Windows runs the command before it has flipped to a new wallpaper and it isn't a seamless look. But I already do this now, sort of. I just do it by putting the skin name and path where I just put parameters above. I am just lacking the pixel size and pixel location capabilties, so I am forced to then move and/or resize the player on the new page. I would rather not have to use a window manager app if it can be done without it, but I may just have to. It just makes things a bit more difficult for end users, which is the antithesis of Splinter's reason for being.
And actually, this has use for EVERYBODY, not just Splinter users. (who SHOULD be everybody, heh heh)... This functionality will allow everyone to have a library of shortcuts for the skin and parameters they want so that they dont have to right click, click choose skin, search for skin, click skin, right click, click configure, adjust size, hit okay, move player to desired location. ALL that can be done with one click with this added functionality. And it can all be in a nice library-like folder with all your fave skins preconfigured and ready to go. With the thousands or whatever ridiculous number of skins are already available, this makes things easier for all. And the scripts to call on the players would basically be a template with the end user just having to enter the three parameter sets. Big plus for them and "no" tech knowledge needed.