MPC-HC toolbar button skining support!

[tetsuo55]

EDIT: we now have the toolbars on our wiki https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mp...Toolbar_images

Hello everyone,

Starting from nightly build r1706 we now support skinning of the toolbar buttons.

play, pause, etc...

mpc-hc.exe will look inside the directory you placed it in for "toolbar.bmp" if found it will use that instead of the internal icons.


A short how to:
First select the height you want your icons to have (between 1 and 32 pixels)
Then multiply that height by 15 to determine the total width
Each icon itself is as wide as it is high

bitdepth can be <= 24, in which case RGB(255, 0, 255) is considered transparent or of bitdepth 32, in which case the alpha channel is used for transparency / gradients
Compression is NOT supported

Sample regular size toolbar.bmp:


Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/orttqy54mym/toolbar.bmp

Sample giant size toolbar.bmp:


Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ezlhgwxderj/toolbar.bmp

Here is another example by one of the mpc-hc users:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph...21#post1379021


You can edit these samples to create your own skin, or design them from scratch following the above guidelines.

Please share your creations with the others on the forum.

[Phaser]

Nice to see skinning support...


I tried something quick to see how it works...
I worked with PNG files and then converted them to 32-bit BMP using AlphaConv.




DOWNLOAD (size 16)




DOWNLOAD (size 32)



If anyone is interested maybe I'll do some more. Looking forward to see other ideas and creations...

[Keiyakusha]

Originally Posted by Phaser

I tried something quick too see how it works...
I worked with PNG files and then converted them to 32-bit BMP using AlphaConv.

Great, I like 32px one!


tetsuo55
Is it possible to make volume indicator skinable too?

EDIT: ohh, and slider too!

[hdboy]

Originally Posted by Keiyakusha

Great, I like 32px one!


tetsuo55
Is it possible to make volume indicator skinable too?

EDIT: ohh, and slider too!

Love the bigger icons, but I've gotten used to using the keyboard for basic operation. I still use the trackbar so would love a bigger trackbar.

[Rain1]

Originally Posted by Phaser

Nice to see skinning support...


I tried something quick to see how it works...
I worked with PNG files and then converted them to 32-bit BMP using AlphaConv.


DOWNLOAD (size 16)

If anyone is interested maybe I'll do some more. Looking forward to see other ideas and creations...

I <3 the size 16
Thanks so much for sharing that

[Inspector.Gadget]

If anyone is interested ...

If that's "quick", I can't wait to see what you make with a bit more time. They both look great -clean and modern.

[Peuj]

Nice work Phaser.

This should be also pushed on http://www.deviantart.com.
As there are a lot of "skinners" there, this could promote the creation of MPC-HC toolbars.

[Keiyakusha]

Originally Posted by Peuj

This should be also pushed on http://www.deviantart.com.
As there are a lot of "skinners" there, this could promote the creation of MPC-HC toolbars.

Too early imo. Maybe (hopefully) this thing will be upgraded for support skinning of the other things.

[stax76]

Is it possible to make volume indicator skinable too?

EDIT: ohh, and slider too!

would be great

[iron2000]

!!
I like this new function!
Thanks for making it possible!

Would like the seekbar to be updated too.
The style of the current one looks Win95-98 to me.

[tetsuo55]

The volume and seek bar's cannot be made skinnable without a massive refactoring of the gui code.

And if anyone considers doing that they might as well rewrite the gui in QT to make it not only faster but also completely skinnable (to the point that you could even change the gui to look like a star if you wanted to). That would also turn translation into a simple list of words(instead of the nightmarish .rc files we have now)

I do expect a patch that will let the volume bar grow in size to match the icon size.

[Phaser]

Here's some more:



DOWNLOAD (size 32)




DOWNLOAD (size 32)

[lucamark]

Many thanks Phaser and whole developers team!!!

[Razoola]

Originally Posted by Phaser

Here's some more:



DOWNLOAD (size 32)




DOWNLOAD (size 32)

Im trying the crystal blue ones but they are appearing in black and white in the player.

I have found that if I open the player only(without movie) then they are black and white. As soon as I load a movie they go blue... Maybe a bug in the code?

[Fluffbutt]

Originally Posted by Razoola

Im trying the crystal blue ones but they are appearing in black and white in the player.

I have found that if I open the player only(without movie) then they are black and white. As soon as I load a movie they go blue... Maybe a bug in the code?

I've just found out about this whole button thing - very nice!!

Razoola - they are grey until you load a movie becasue they are 'grey-out' as in unusable without a movie loaded.

When you load a movie, only play is blue, then when you press play the rest go blue too - showing that they are now active buttons.

Well, that's what happens here..

[sillKotscha]

Originally Posted by Phaser

Here's some more:


DOWNLOAD (size 32)

I really like this one ... possible to do them at 24x24?

thx in advance

[Phaser]

Originally Posted by sillKotscha

I really like this one ... possible to do them at 24x24?

thx in advance

Here it is:


DOWNLOAD (size 24)



I'll do some more stuff when I have the time...

[burfadel]

Originally Posted by Phaser

Here's some more:



DOWNLOAD (size 32)




DOWNLOAD (size 32)

I like the crystalblue one too. I would like to see a 'crystal' stop button in red, and a pause button in orange and the step button maybe a nice green or something? At least the pause and stop buttons orange and red to contrast against the play button.

Actually both of Phaser's are excellent, and the bottom one I think should be the new default (even if just for now). The Crystal blue (or crystal blue mod) should be and internal option. Afterall, it doesn't take much file size space to have a few options!

[iron2000]

Not sure about QT but are there more modern looking QT widgets?

Anyway I made a 3 simple toolbars using the GUI fx font:

Download

Also a 16px template:

Download

I prefer size 16px and either square or icon style :P

[tetsuo55]

ooh i like that 3rd one a lot!

Here is a sample of a modern looking QT skin