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.
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## WINAMP SKIN ##
Skin Name: Music of Mars' Fireworks
Release Version: v1.1
Description: This is a Winamp skin dedicated to that pretty soldier,
Sailor Mars. It comes with fully skinned EQ, Playlist,
Playlist buttons, ...
Cinnamoroll Amp By Kachii
Skinner's Atlas 1.5
by Jellby (et al.)
(First release: June 2002)
May 2003
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NOTE: This file seems to be too big to read it in the winamp skin browser (ALT+S), if ...
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by Robert "Falcon" Piatnicko (Slovakia)
Work finished: 31th October 2004 , 22:48:12 Middle european time (finaly
after 6 months)
This is my second skin. I think, within prevenient skin (TOHTO) and
this skin you can see big improv ...
