Shoutbox

Good day today! Had time and motivation, so WMPlus 3 was up for some development... so it's time for a little status report.



Current status

• Windows Media Player and Winamp re-implemented
  
• Communication with WMP plugin more stable (no registry used, although it still writes the info there for legacy purposes)
  
• Usual commands, as well as tags like (!xmpartist) working
  
• Internal support for full output customization
  
• Display Pictures generation and restoring is stable
  
• Album Art as background for DP
  
• File sharing (/xmpshare starts a file transfer with the media file currently playing)

What needs to be done

• Making the configuration dialog actually work (all it does now is look pretty )
  
• Get rid of the manual test code and make the DP auto-update
  
• Add an option to restore the original DP after X seconds

Though it might not seem like it, that's actually quite some work (the interface is just tedious, and relatively boring, but it just needs to be done). Just glad the base of it works and is stable *finds some wood to knock on*.


Below you'll find a screenshot of the manual test I did with Display Pictures (not auto-updating that is). Skins will soon support two extra options; background color and album art transparency. For the test it was hardcoded; black background and 50% transparency. I think I'll also add an option to change the text position/style when using album art, so it can use the full area where the regular skin might restrict that area...