hadda very nice skin...
with skins like that foobar will getting more popular.. very nice eyecandy

but one question how i can get the album info?

Hi all.

I'm very heppy when I reading post about my and Dziuba work .

@Luxus: This is only project for now. Album info is not avitable jet. I think that I implement this next week. So look for updates.

DocUK . That is great. I have a fondness for this skin. I'm still using volume bar and progress bar from carbon firt version. This is one of the most popular skin on Polish foobar forum.

Thanks, feel free to use the updated versions of the scripts.

Any chance I could get a link to the Polish forum, so I can bask in the praise?

Of course!
This forum is really poor . Search not work, images and links do not work and sort too. But it's oficial foobar 2000 Polish forum. If You wont to make new topic just clik "nowa wiadomość" in up of the pege. Topic is "temat".


Polish FB2K forum: here

has anyone had a problem with text in foo_looks skins missing? i'm running fb2k 0.8.2 and with 2.1 foo_looks and no text appears either in the skins or its playlist. i also noticed that the upper area of foobar (menu and toolbar) does not display until you pass the mouse over it. this problem essentially renders foo_looks useless for me.
so anyone see this before or have a resolution? could this be tied to video card/drivers?

i've got a geforce fx 5700 running version 56.72 drivers(latest).

DocUK,

Great work on the Carbon 2 skin release!

Your release note message here was also very useful, I learned now how to close Foobar and not the look.

Impressed with the color/hues changing mechanism you added in, although I love the classic Carbon colours - glad you left them in the script, so we can have the cool black look.

I managed to get the overall bar black, but not to get the progress bar crisp like the classic Carbon. A little reading and editing did the trick though.

Well done, sincere thanks.

kalzone,

Make sure you have the proper fonts installed. Carbon skin requires the Silkscreen font linked to in an earlier post.

Regards,

--Berto.

thank u so much docuk for releasing carbon 2.0 hehe

btw how can i change -0.00 so that it will always be 0.00?

also can u stretch out carbon 2.0? i can't find that dark square ur talking about

Вообще есть %) Правда я только читаю...


Wow! Beta3 skin is great!! Thanks!

To change default to elapsed time:
Open up carbon.ski in a text editor such as notepad, and do a search for "section presets" Under this line, you will find different things you can configure for the look. To change the time to show elapsed on startup, change the line that says


to


It should be pretty self-explanatory, and there are some other settings you can play with there.

Resizing the look:

You must click the little arrow button to expand the tray with the color sliders. Then click the little square as in this picture:



Hope that helps!

1. why is there no support for windows 98?

2. your download link doesn't work

A working download link has been given MANY times in this thread. Just go a few pages back (only one?) to find it.

1. You probably need the GDI libraries (or a better OS in general). Search Microsoft's knowledge base or use Google.

2. You need to read the thread before you reply to it.

i don't give a shit about this thread. it would have been a lot less stupid if he just redited his original post

And you would have been a lot less stupid if you just read the thread (or even the few latest posts in it).

I'm sorry that I can't edit the download URL in the first post of this thread

danZ posted it and he has been extremely busy with his professional career lately

as soon as I can get in contact with him again I'll ask him to upadte the post so that the link points to the mirror of the files.

as for now - I'll post that mirror here:


foo_looks 2.1 (note: LUA is now included with the plugin)

...there are 2 favors i would ask:
• If anyone can help us and mirror the file, then please do so and post the address in this thread.
• I would appreciate it if one of our polish friends could post these URLs in the polish fb2k forums.

foo_looks 2.1 mirror

On a side not to DocUK, your carbon skin is great but it needs the right click on skip button for random song ability

@tk32: I post in the polish forum this two links

Will be added in the next release, thanks for the suggestion.

Ta. That'd make it perfect

hmm how can i make carbon keep the color that i want after closing and restarting foobar?

After setting the color that you want Carbon to keep, open up foobar2000's console by opening the Components menu and clicking the item labelled "Show console." Somewhere near the bottom of the newly opened textbox there should be some text that looks like "[Carbon] RGB: x, x, x (HSV: x, x, x)" If this text is in the box more than once, write down the last one (nearest the bottom).

Ok, now open up carbon.ski in a text editor such as notepad, and do a search for "background_color" (it should be very close to the top of the file). The line, by default, is as follows:


In carbon.ski, edit this line so that the RGB values you found in the Console (the first three numbers) are in place of the default ones. Save and close the file, and now Carbon will load with the color you selected.

Hi
Today new wersion of "Foopilot" (beta3) skin is avitable.
- I named skin
- Album info is avitable on rigt mouse click from playlist on unactive area.
- Scroll now work ok
- Some bugs I have fixed.

Some infos don't work yet.
Download (100kB): here

Nice work on Foopilot there.

Thanks Hadda!

This skin is getting better with every release.

A request; there's a white area on the left right under the playlist it has an upward arrow like this:

^

When you rightclick it, it alternates between the playlist and the album info. Great stuff. But could you add a rollup function with the leftclick mouse button?

So that when you click that area the playlist retracts? I hope its clear what I mean

@Hawk: I have updated skin with your sugestion. Download Foopilot again.
Since I edited this post [Album info <-> Playlist] Is available only on this little button "[^]" on playlist.

Thanks man!! You rock!!

Another thing, Am I imagining things or have you slowed down the title scrolling? It seems to be a bit slower.

If this is true, can I change the setting somewhere to make it have the speed it had before?

Thanks again!

:edit:

This works great!! I just tried it. very well done!

NP: Mattias IA Eklundh - Freak Guitar-The Road Less Traveled

@Hawk: find this part of code in foopilot.ski file:


And then you can change step for example to 1.5 to speed up scrolling.
(You can change and save this file even when foobar is on )

Thanks Hadda.

I changed "step" to 2. Now it is perfect. I am not going to bother you anymore and just enjoy the best foobar skin around

Thanks!

Does anyone has a working link for the newest CoverArt version?

do you mean the CoverArt skin designed by Desigrid?

screenshot

the latest version i have from him is dated 17th February 2004

i have uploaded it here:

coverart.zip

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there is also one called SeeThroughCoverArt by Melomane

there is no screenshot available, but i have uploaded it (dated 16th March 2004)

see_through_coverart.ski




tk32.

Thank you

It was SeeThroughCoverArt

where did you find the reading material? i would like to know how to get the progress bar as crisp as the classic and also to do a little tweaking of my own

Hi Guys!

Nice work all!!! Good work

only, the links is down in the topic start
Someone give me a good mirror?!

TX

Again, newest version, for those who do not wish to read the thread:

foo_looks 2.1

I believe that by "reading", Blitze is referring to the Carbon 2.0 script itself, and perhaps some resources explaining how foo_looks 2.1 scripts are put together. Anyways, here is how to change to the old-style Carbon colors:

Open up carbon.ski and find the following lines:

Here you must move the -- (which changes the line to a comment) up to the above line, as I have done here:


By doing this, we have changed the default background color from the RGB color value (0,28,107), a blue, to (0,0,0) which is completely black, like the original Carbon.

Now we must change the default progress bar colors. Find the following lines:

As above, move the -- up to the above lines. This is what the lines should look like afterwards:


Seemed pretty self-explanatory to a coder However, I guess it is a good sign that an advanced component such as foo_looks is also used by the general 'public' Anyways, let me know if you can't get it to work. Enjoy!

FAO: Ghosting


I'd be interested to know what kind of reading materials you would find helpful

I am currently trying to put together some more documentation for foo_looks, but this is proving a tough job for just 1 guy.

If you let me know what kind of stuff you'd find most helpful it'd help me a lot

it seems my current tutorials are either too basic, or too reference-based.

..and possibly too few


tk32.

Something I think would be real helpful for new look-coders would be an explanation of the many different ways something can be done in looks. Like attaching scripts formed in lua blocks, or just attaching the functions in "[ function ... end ]" segments.

Also, a list of how LUA, TagZ and everything else can work together. For example, TagZ->Look: %section._value%, LUA->Look: look_getValue(section, value). Just to explain how separate the LUA really is from the Look.

What I found most difficult in starting out coding for foo_looks 2.1 was just the tons of possibilities. Why do things one way and not another, etc.. Anyways that's just my 2 cents

this has probably already been answered/asked sometime during this thread, but i was wondering if someone could answer quickly without me having to leaf through all 18 pages.

when i installed foo_looks, the regular foobar skin and the foolooks skin loaded on the screen (two foobar windows). is that what foo_looks does? should there only be the skin on the screen?

please advice.

thanks for helping my silly newb self.

yes, this is exactly right

since the main foobar window is so useful, we decided not to completely replace it with a foo_looks skin

the foo_looks skin works as a complimentary 'remote control' for foobar
(kind of like the remote panels you get when you use DVD-playback software eg. PowerDVD)

danZ' plan was to let the community continue to develop skins until we all agreed that there was a skin available that could completely replace the main UI. danZ has always said that it would be easy to make a small adjustment to foo_looks so that it completely replaced the main GUI.

for the time being what most foo_looks users do is send the main UI to the system tray while they are using the skin. then they can toggle it's display if they need to access some of the more advanced features from the main UI.


btw, everyone was a newbie to begin with - and questions are only stupid if you've asked them once already - so there's no problem.

don't be afraid to ask... none of us bite (except anza perhaps )


tk32.

That was something I didn't know (even though I've followed foo_looks' development from the very first release (foo_wsgui or something ). Guess I've missed a post or so..
Perhaps I should go on and start designing the a nice little look again.
Oh, and also sorry for stopping development on my Orb. I lost it (and quite much everything else of my foobar stuff some time ago (well, I think it's a few months already, but it really doesn't feel like a long time) and I just lost my interest in foo_looks. I think I could start again, as I now have some spare time on my hands again.

I don't bite people... that much..

Great Look Hadda , but how can i change the position of the look on my screen?

When I choose the Look , it appeares at the very bottem of my Screen , and i wanna change this postion , but i dont know from where to hold it so i can move it on my screen.

wild, use ALT key + left mouse button to drag any skin around.

if you could have a script and then an explanation of what each line is or something like, it would be great

i probably could figure out what each line does if i took the time and researched hehe

i just don't have the right motivation yet or the time

I would be willing to do this with Carbon. However, I think more than a description per line is necessary, as everything relies on everything else.

Thanx alot dano for the info

Thanks Hadda,
Now I'm using your "Foopilot".
But I have some problem as you see the image.
How can I change fontstyle 'italic' to regular or bold in playlist?

Thanks in advance.

@slicepizza
font style is initializing in four places in Foopilot:
(I thing that two of it you alredy find)

1) in "Foopilot.ski" file there are two lines "int fontstyle x". First is global font and secound is playlist style font. In this lines "x" values you must decrease by 2.

2) in "PL.ski" file you mast find this part of code:

and decrease in lines :"look_setFontStyle(pln[i+1] , x)" "x" values by 2 (3->1 2->0)

You can experiment with styles
----------------------------------
fontstyle.Regular - 0
fontstyle.Bold - 1 [DEFAULT]
fontstyle.Italic - 2
fontstyle.BoldItalic - 3
fontstyle.Underline - 4
fontstyle.Strikeout – 8
----------------------------------
:edit:
PS: two days ago i made litlle optimalization to less cpu usage and updated skin. So if someone downloaded earlier can download again

Thanks for mentioning the update I notice CPU-usage is better now.
I love that Hide-Toggle.
Can you bring back the toggle between Album list and Playlist to the field where stands "Foobar 2000", the ^ button is a bit small.
Great skin, I can't really decide between yours and the Navigator.

@dano:
Thanks.

I think that this button is too small too. But I'm now not at home. I will on monday so mayby tuesdey I'll do some with that button. I thing that I'll make big swith button on playlist area on rigt upper free area. I now thinking too about rolling (like playlist) list of playlists (moving from righ to left under volume bar).When someone using many playlists that will be good solution.

Regards Hadda