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So forget media player skinning. If Xion supported a few other features, it could be the base of a pretty sweet little program to power programs. For example, right now I'm considering creating an interactive tour of a summer camp that I'm affiliated with using xion. The different interfaces are like different web pages. Hopefully, I will be able to install xion on a CD, and add an autoplay file so that when someone pops the CD in their computer, the tour comes up. I wish you could add hyperlinks to buttons.

KEV-O Wrote:I wish you could add hyperlinks to buttons.

That would get incredibly annoying. I don't want to load up a skin, go to click the play button, and have gay porn flashing all over my monitor as my little nephew asks what a 'reacharound' is. In short, it's way too exploitable, especially by spammers.

There's no reason why I couldn't adapt the Xion skinning engine to other applications that would allow users to create brochures and such.

Once I get net back, I will have to have a look at this as it sounds like a good idea and would mean I could re-use the Xion skin engine in another useful way.

Thanks for the idea,
Cliff

skryingbreath Wrote:That would get incredibly annoying. I don't want to load up a skin, go to click the play button, and have gay porn flashing all over my monitor as my little nephew asks what a 'reacharound' is. In short, it's way too exploitable, especially by spammers.

Going by that logic, I could make an innappropriate picture pop up when you click the play button right now. These things get reviewed before they are put on the skins page ya know...

Not on Deviantart.

I actually have exploited skinning engines just like that - not on Xion, Winamp - my point still stands. A button capable of directing the user to a url is more susceptible to various ActiveX controls (not everyone uses a third party browser) and/or malware ad revenue generating pseudo sites. I don't think Cliff would appreciate people making money from his program, but that's just my logic.

skryingbreath Wrote:Not on Deviantart.

I actually have exploited skinning engines just like that - not on Xion, Winamp - my point still stands. A button capable of directing the user to a url is more susceptible to various ActiveX controls (not everyone uses a third party browser) and/or malware ad revenue generating pseudo sites. I don't think Cliff would appreciate people making money from his program, but that's just my logic.

I don't think I'll be adding support for URLs to Xion. I don't really see the point other than perhaps going to the author's website, but that can be done differently anyway.

If I were to make a completely different application that would support showcasing, etc then I don't see any reason not to allow it.

Cliff

That's fine, there really isn't a point for hyperlinks if you're skinning a media player. I was just thinking of other applications...