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...

Aight, cool! I also found a way to rip da icons directly from wmploc.dll to *.PNG's, so they look just 100% good with 0% editing

Good work on plugin, I can't wait

Great work , the feature list looks awsome , I use WMPlus 2 a lot, so I'm realy gonna like MWPlus 3.

Keep up the good work

(I didn't even think the "Album Art as background for DP" was possible, incredible job)

Pure_BY: excellent! Any day you feel like sharing, I could use 'em for the default skin, and I'm sure Fukafly could use 'em for the emoticons set (credits to both of ya!)

Martijn: thanks!

Yep, just say when you so far with WMPlus 3 that you need 'em, and i'll rip and attach 'em to a zip

Btw, if you forgot, my previous name was "SLim Shady", i was that big WMPlus 2 lover, hehe

Still love it btw, and lookin' forward to WMPlus 3

i hope to see these emoticons i'm guessing that the play one isn't 19x19 because i had to edit that one down to size with a skin i made. although i fele like i have wasted alot of time editing those pics i hope that the everyone enjoyed using my pack obviously i'm not going to go hacking into files to get icons i'll just learn how to code in VB and make my one and only plan to make a money converter plugin

The play icon? Ahm... u mean the play button? Well it is impossible to rip buttons from wmploc.dll, as they are not saved there as separate componetns... The way it looks like is just the same as screenshot of Play button, cropped to 50x50 or summttin'

What I was talkin' about, were icons... Like Album, Artist, Playlist, etc. Those can be ripped without any problems

I will rip en post 'em tomorrow.

So, see, not all your work is for nuttin'

ok just checked out some image rippinf programs using AT mole i discovered that the images your talking about are still in need of slight editing afterwards I've already done this so whats the point in doing it again?

Ahm... No point... I was not talkin' about that play and pause images...

I was talkin' about artist, album, etc. images... THey way i rip em requres no editing at all, besides makin' 16x16 icons 19x19 by adding some transparency..

They must look beter than edited ones, no matter what way they were edited :/

well go for it then upload em