Ghost Semi-Transparency Demonstrator
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By Andrew Mackowski
Hi! Thanks for downloading this skin. The main purpose of this skin was to demonstrate the use of semi-transparency. Here, the Main Window's WindowShade mode is semitransparent Microsoft (tm) style--in other words, an effect of semitransparency is given by having every other pixel transparent. Too bad Winamp 2.X doesn't support Alpha blending! However, one issue of semitransparency is that because every other pixel is transparent, when you click, you have a 50% chance of actually "hitting" winamp; the other times you will select whatever is behind it. I was going to make a skin with the whole main window transparent, but the Region.txt file (which defines the transparency) was about 500k, so it didn't work. To make EACH transparent pixel, I had to define 4 coordinates in the region.txt file. This would be WAY too much work to do by hand, so I made a C++ program that did it for me. If you find the psuedo-semi-transparency thing annoying, just use a ZIP program like WinZip to unzip the skin file, and rename the file "Region.txt" to something else.
This skin, in part or in whole, may not be sold or distributed without the Author's expressed written consent.
info-is@in-file
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Hi there!
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First off, I want to stress that this is my first skin ever. Never really had the time to look into stuff like this before. I made it for an assignment at school and I think it turned out pretty nifty =)
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name - darkZone
release - v2.0
25.12.2003
by Siegfried Frech
description - a classic-skin 4 Winamp 5 -
all windows skinned.
Thanks for downloading my skin.
If you have any comment or suggestion to tell me,
please mail me to: info-is@in-f ...
This isn't the most beautiful skin around but it's functional. I've made it minimilist so as not to obscure the artwork generated for the XBOX demo (as featured in the skin). I hope some folks use it because I'll probably get my ass kicked if it's ever se ...
imagine:DENON skin
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Thanks for downloading imagine:denon. This skin was inspired by my Denon M3 sound system which is just amazing both in sound and design. Enjoy!
Install
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Place the zip in the skins folder... c:/program fil ...
