Tutorial para la creación de Skins

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Creando skins para el remoto

Starting with an analogy, the remote is like a Mr. Potato head. You set a background image (the face) and from then on anchor all the media and bandwidth parts (eyes, nose, mouth etc.) onto that background image. With the remote you can control media and bandwidth functions. It's entirely customizable and can include as many or as few Shareaza functions as you like.

In this section, you will be taken step-by-step through the building of the remote. This section assumes you have a knowledge of Shareaza skinning. That's why it's a great idea to read up on manifests as well as windowskin elements before building your remote skin. However, if you feel like diving right in, this tutorial demonstrates the elements you need. Look for the bold red text whenever you need a bit more explanation. Let's get started =)

Before we add anchors and parts your .xml file should look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<skin xmlns="http://www.shareaza.com/schemas/Skin.xsd" version="1.0">
<manifest name="My Remote"
 author="My name"
 description="A remote"
 link="http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/"
 email="Me@myemail.com"
 version="1.0"
 type="skin"
 language="en"
 />
<windowSkins>
<windowSkin>
</windowSkin>
</windowSkins>
</skin>

At this point I'd recommend copying this into your text file and editing the manifest fields.

Here is a brief description of all the manifest elements.

  • Name - El nombre de tu remoto
  • Author - El nombre del creador
  • Description - A relevant description of the remote (eg. This is a mini-bandwidth controller).
  • Link - To a homepage for more information on your remote or other remote collections.
  • E-mail - An e-mail address to contact for more information and or bugs concerning the remote.
  • Version - A number denoting the version. Newer versions are increasingly numbered (1,1.1,1.2 etc.).
  • Type - Siempre poner como skin
  • Language - Si en español, poner como "es"

Ahora, vamos a colocar nuestra imagen de fondo. Estos son los pasos:

  • Set image path to the .bmp your remote graphics are in.
  • Set target window as "CremoteWnd" (the remote window).
  • Set the region (<part name="Background") your remote's background occupies (this is in x, y, width, height).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<skin xmlns="http://www.shareaza.com/schemas/Skin.xsd" version="1.0">
<manifest name="My Remote"
 author="My name"
 description="A remote"
 link="http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/"
 email="Me@my_email.com"
 version="1.0"
 type="skin"
 language="en"
 />
 
<windowSkins>
 <windowSkin>
 
 <image type="image" path="MyRemote.bmp"/>
 <target window="CRemoteWnd"/>
 <parts>
 <part name="Background" rect="0,0,341,125"/>
 </parts>
 
 </windowSkin>
</windowSkins>
</skin>

ANCLAS

Now that your remote has a background, you'll want to anchor some buttons on right? Anchors tell Shareaza where to paint your button parts on the remote window. Again, these parts are anchored onto the window in x,y,width,height relative to the remote's background. Here's a list and description of what you can anchor:

Anclas Descripción
StatusText Área mostrando el título de la canción, tiempo transcurrido, ancho de banda, etc.
History Running bandwidth display
FlowTx Ancho de banda saliente
FlowRx Ancho de banda entrante
MediaSeekTrack Seek track for media
MediaVolTrack Volume track for media
ScalerTrack Scaler track for bandwidth limiting
MediaStatePlaying Área para la señal de 'reproducir' cuando media se está reproduciendo
MediaStatePaused Área para la señal de 'pausar' cuando media está pausada
MediaStateStopped Área para la señal de 'detener' cuando media está detenido
_ID_TRAY_OPEN Restaura Shareaza cuando se encuentra en la bandeja del sistema
_ID_MONITOR_CLOSE Cierra el remoto
_ID_NETWORK_SEARCH Abre una nueva ventana de búsqueda
_ID_TOOLS_DOWNLOAD Abre la ventana para descargar un torrent
_ID_TAB_LIBRARY Abre la pestaña de librería
_ID_MEDIA_PLAY El botón de reproducir
_ID_MEDIA_PAUSE El botón de pausar
_ID_MEDIA_STOP El botón de media
_ID_MEDIA_PREVIOUS El botón de anterior
_ID_MEDIA_NEXT El botón de siguiente
_ID_MEDIA_MUTE El botón de mudo

Any shareaza function can be anchored onto the remote. To find more function just open up the default-en.xml file. It is found in the languages folder that resides in your skins folder. What does your anchor section look like? Take a look.

<anchors>
<anchor name="StatusText" rect="69,46,262,20"/>
<anchor name="History" rect="70,27,208,13"/>
<anchor name="FlowTx" rect="292,27,12,13"/>
<anchor name="FlowRx" rect="319,27,12,13"/>
<anchor name="MediaSeekTrack" rect="71,67,232,12"/>
<anchor name="MediaVolTrack" rect="162,91,64,17"/>
 <anchor name="ScalerTrack" rect="71,40,206,9"/>
<anchor name="_ID_TRAY_OPEN" rect="8,18,48,48"/>
<anchor name="_ID_MONITOR_CLOSE" rect="318,7,13,13"/>
<anchor name="_ID_NETWORK_SEARCH" rect="258,83,22,22"/>
 <anchor name="_ID_TOOLS_DOWNLOAD" rect="280,83,22,22"/>
<anchor name="_ID_TAB_LIBRARY" rect="302,83,22,22"/>
<anchor name="_ID_MEDIA_PLAY" rect="20,85,30,30"/>
 <anchor name="_ID_MEDIA_PAUSE" rect="20,85,30,30"/>
<anchor name="_ID_MEDIA_STOP" rect="55,90,20,20"/>
<anchor name="_ID_MEDIA_PREVIOUS" rect="82,90,20,20"/>
 <anchor name="_ID_MEDIA_NEXT" rect="107,90,20,20"/>
<anchor name="_ID_MEDIA_MUTE" rect="134,90,20,20"/>
</anchors>

PARTES

Next, you'll want your buttons to have up, hover, down, and disabled states. Here's how you add button states:

Partes Descripción
_ID_MEDIA_STOP.Up Stop button in it's resting (Up) state.
_ID_MEDIA_STOP.Hover Stop button in mouse-hovering-over state.
_ID_MEDIA_STOP.Down Botón de parar en estado presionado.
_ID_MEDIA_STOP.Disabled Stop button in disabled state (Media player off).

For all your parts you can have these states. When you hover over them on your remote, the 'hover' state is painted. When you press the button down, the 'down' state is painted. Of course, these parts are only painted if you have an accompanying anchor. If you wanted stop you'd need the following anchor and parts. Have a look.

<anchors>
<anchor name="_ID_MEDIA_STOP" rect="55,90,20,20"/>
</anchors>
<parts>
  <part name="_ID_MEDIA_STOP.Hover" rect="60,180,20,20"/>
  <part name="_ID_MEDIA_STOP.Down" rect="60,200,20,20"/>
<part name="_ID_MEDIA_STOP.Disabled" rect="60,220,20,20"/>
</parts>

There are some interesting quirks:

  • Anchor play and pause onto the same area and exclude a disabled state part. You will have a pause button when music plays and a play button when music is paused/stopped.
  • Exclude a disabled state for play and play will act as an open media file button when the media player is closed/empty.
  • For History/Flow parts use "1" to have the image painted from the bottom and "2" to have the image painted from the top (eg. a peak edge to your bandwidth bar).

Here's what your parts (up, down, disabled, hover button states) section would look like.

<parts>
<part name="Background" rect="0,0,341,125"/>
<part name="HistoryTx1" rect="6,150,208,13"/>
<part name="HistoryRx1" rect="6,131,208,13"/>
<part name="FlowTx1" rect="228,131,12,13"/>
<part name="FlowRx1" rect="255,131,12,13"/>
<part name="MediaSeekTab" rect="159,210,23,11"/>
<part name="MediaSeekBar" rect="209,210,92,10"/>
<part name="MediaVolTab" rect="140,210,9,17"/>
<part name="MediaVolBar" rect="159,221,58,17"/>
<part name="ScalerTab" rect="224,224,9,9"/>
<part name="_ID_TRAY_OPEN.Hover" rect="221,147,48,48"/>
<part name="_ID_TRAY_OPEN.Down" rect="269,147,48,48"/>
<part name="_ID_MONITOR_CLOSE.Hover" rect="324,148,13,13"/>
<part name="_ID_MONITOR_CLOSE.Down" rect="318,7,13,13"/>
<part name="_ID_NETWORK_SEARCH.Hover" rect="275,114,22,22"/>
<part name="_ID_NETWORK_SEARCH.Checked" rect="275,114,22,22"/>
<part name="_ID_NETWORK_SEARCH.Down" rect="258,83,22,22"/>
<part name="_ID_TOOLS_DOWNLOAD.Hover" rect="297,114,22,22"/>
<part name="_ID_TOOLS_DOWNLOAD.Checked" rect="297,114,22,22"/>
<part name="_ID_TOOLS_DOWNLOAD.Down" rect="280,83,22,22"/>
<part name="_ID_TAB_LIBRARY.Hover" rect="319,114,22,22"/>
 <part name="_ID_TAB_LIBRARY.Checked" rect="319,114,22,22"/>
<part name="_ID_TAB_LIBRARY.Down" rect="302,83,22,22"/>
<part name="_ID_MEDIA_PLAY.Up" rect="140,180,30,30"/>
<part name="_ID_MEDIA_PLAY.Hover" rect="0,180,30,30"/>
<part name="_ID_MEDIA_PLAY.Down" rect="0,210,30,30"/>
<part name="_ID_MEDIA_PAUSE.Up" rect="170,180,30,30"/>
<part name="_ID_MEDIA_PAUSE.Hover" rect="30,180,30,30"/>
<part name="_ID_MEDIA_PAUSE.Down" rect="30,210,30,30"/>
<part name="_ID_MEDIA_STOP.Hover" rect="60,180,20,20"/>
<part name="_ID_MEDIA_STOP.Down" rect="60,200,20,20"/>
<part name="_ID_MEDIA_STOP.Disabled" rect="60,220,20,20"/>
<part name="_ID_MEDIA_PREVIOUS.Hover" rect="80,180,20,20"/>
<part name="_ID_MEDIA_PREVIOUS.Down" rect="80,200,20,20"/>
<part name="_ID_MEDIA_PREVIOUS.Disabled" rect="80,220,20,20"/>
<part name="_ID_MEDIA_MUTE.Hover" rect="100,180,20,20"/>
<part name="_ID_MEDIA_MUTE.Down" rect="100,200,20,20"/>
<part name="_ID_MEDIA_NEXT.Hover" rect="120,180,20,20"/>
<part name="_ID_MEDIA_NEXT.Down" rect="120,200,20,20"/>
<part name="_ID_MEDIA_NEXT.Disabled" rect="120,220,20,20"/>
</parts>

FUENTES

Next we need to set your text-caption. It sets the font and style that appears in your StatusText anchor. It will be used for the song title, time, bandwidth etc.

  • Face - The font face name, for example "Tahoma".
  • Size - The font size, for example "8".
  • Weight - The font weight, either as a constant or an integer value between 1 and 1000. "normal" and "bold" are also accepted.
  • Colour - El color del StatusText (texto de estado) en forma de HTML.
<caption fontFace="Tahoma" fontSize="8" fontWeight="normal" colour="FFB000"/>

REGIONES

Lastly, you can have any shape of a remote through the use of regions. If the region element is included, it consists of one or more <shape> elements, each representing a primitive shape, which are merged together using standard set operations to produce the final complex region.

Un ejemplo:

<region>
 <shape type="rectangle" rect="9,25,-11,-1"/>
 <shape type="roundRect" rect="0,0,-1,26" size="16,25" combine="or"/>
</region>

Each consecutive shape is combined with the current region to produce the ultimate shape for the window. Each shape contains:

  • type - Los tipos de formas (ver abajo),
  • rect - The bounding rectangle for this shape, in x1,y1,x2,y2 form. Negative numbers are relative to the right or bottom edge of the window, so "0,0,-1,-1" would cover the entire window.
  • combine - How to combine this shape with the previous ones. The first shape should have no combine attribute.

The possible combine modes are:

  • or - Add this shape to the previous ones (logical or)
  • and - Take the overlapping area of this shape and the previous ones (logical and)
  • xor - Take the area covered by this shape, or the other shape, but not overlapping areas (logical xor)
  • diff - Subtract this shape from the previous ones

Los posibles formas son:

  • rectangle - Un rectángulo
  • ellipse - Un elipse
  • roundRect - Un rectángulo con bordes curvos. Este tipo de forma necesita un atributo extra llamado size (tamaño) con dos parámetros enteros representando el ancho y la altura de las curvas, por ejemplo size="16,20"

ARCHIVO .XML FINAL

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<skin xmlns="http://www.shareaza.com/schemas/Skin.xsd" version="1.0">
<manifest name="My Remote"
 author="My name"
 description="A remote"
 link="http://www.shareaza.com/"
 email="Me@myemail.com"
 version="1.0"
 type="skin"
 language="en"
 />
<windowSkins>
<windowSkin>
 <image type="image" path="WMPRemote.bmp"/>
 <target window="CRemoteWnd"/>
 <anchors>
 <anchor name="StatusText" rect="69,46,262,20"/>
 <anchor name="History" rect="70,27,208,13"/>
 <anchor name="FlowTx" rect="292,27,12,13"/>
 <anchor name="FlowRx" rect="319,27,12,13"/>
 <anchor name="MediaSeekTrack" rect="71,67,232,12"/>
 <anchor name="MediaVolTrack" rect="162,91,64,17"/>
 <anchor name="ScalerTrack" rect="71,40,206,9"/>
 <anchor name="_ID_TRAY_OPEN" rect="8,18,48,48"/>
 <anchor name="_ID_MONITOR_CLOSE" rect="318,7,13,13"/>
 <anchor name="_ID_NETWORK_SEARCH" rect="258,83,22,22"/>
 <anchor name="_ID_TOOLS_DOWNLOAD" rect="280,83,22,22"/>
 <anchor name="_ID_TAB_LIBRARY" rect="302,83,22,22"/>
 <anchor name="_ID_MEDIA_PLAY" rect="20,85,30,30"/>
 <anchor name="_ID_MEDIA_PAUSE" rect="20,85,30,30"/>
 <anchor name="_ID_MEDIA_STOP" rect="55,90,20,20"/>
 <anchor name="_ID_MEDIA_PREVIOUS" rect="82,90,20,20"/>
 <anchor name="_ID_MEDIA_NEXT" rect="107,90,20,20"/>
 <anchor name="_ID_MEDIA_MUTE" rect="134,90,20,20"/>
 </anchors>
 <parts>
 <part name="Background" rect="0,0,341,125"/>
 <part name="HistoryTx1" rect="6,150,208,13"/>
 <part name="HistoryRx1" rect="6,131,208,13"/>
 <part name="FlowTx1" rect="228,131,12,13"/>
 <part name="FlowRx1" rect="255,131,12,13"/>
 <part name="MediaSeekTab" rect="159,210,23,11"/>
 <part name="MediaSeekBar" rect="209,210,92,10"/>
 <part name="MediaVolTab" rect="140,210,9,17"/>
 <part name="MediaVolBar" rect="159,221,58,17"/>
 <part name="ScalerTab" rect="224,224,9,9"/>
 <part name="_ID_TRAY_OPEN.Hover" rect="221,147,48,48"/>
 <part name="_ID_TRAY_OPEN.Down" rect="269,147,48,48"/>
 <part name="_ID_MONITOR_CLOSE.Hover" rect="324,148,13,13"/>
 <part name="_ID_MONITOR_CLOSE.Down" rect="318,7,13,13"/>
 <part name="_ID_NETWORK_SEARCH.Hover" rect="275,114,22,22"/>
 <part name="_ID_NETWORK_SEARCH.Checked" rect="275,114,22,22"/>
 <part name="_ID_NETWORK_SEARCH.Down" rect="258,83,22,22"/>
 <part name="_ID_TOOLS_DOWNLOAD.Hover" rect="297,114,22,22"/>
 <part name="_ID_TOOLS_DOWNLOAD.Checked" rect="297,114,22,22"/>
 <part name="_ID_TOOLS_DOWNLOAD.Down" rect="280,83,22,22"/>
 <part name="_ID_TAB_LIBRARY.Hover" rect="319,114,22,22"/>
 <part name="_ID_TAB_LIBRARY.Checked" rect="319,114,22,22"/>
 <part name="_ID_TAB_LIBRARY.Down" rect="302,83,22,22"/>
 <part name="_ID_MEDIA_PLAY.Up" rect="140,180,30,30"/>
 <part name="_ID_MEDIA_PLAY.Hover" rect="0,180,30,30"/>
 <part name="_ID_MEDIA_PLAY.Down" rect="0,210,30,30"/>
 <part name="_ID_MEDIA_PAUSE.Up" rect="170,180,30,30"/>
 <part name="_ID_MEDIA_PAUSE.Hover" rect="30,180,30,30"/>
 <part name="_ID_MEDIA_PAUSE.Down" rect="30,210,30,30"/>
 <part name="_ID_MEDIA_STOP.Hover" rect="60,180,20,20"/>
 <part name="_ID_MEDIA_STOP.Down" rect="60,200,20,20"/>
 <part name="_ID_MEDIA_STOP.Disabled" rect="60,220,20,20"/>
 <part name="_ID_MEDIA_PREVIOUS.Hover" rect="80,180,20,20"/>
 <part name="_ID_MEDIA_PREVIOUS.Down" rect="80,200,20,20"/>
 <part name="_ID_MEDIA_PREVIOUS.Disabled" rect="80,220,20,20"/>
 <part name="_ID_MEDIA_MUTE.Hover" rect="100,180,20,20"/>
 <part name="_ID_MEDIA_MUTE.Down" rect="100,200,20,20"/>
 <part name="_ID_MEDIA_NEXT.Hover" rect="120,180,20,20"/>
  <part name="_ID_MEDIA_NEXT.Down" rect="120,200,20,20"/>
 <part name="_ID_MEDIA_NEXT.Disabled" rect="120,220,20,20"/>
 </parts>
 <caption fontFace="Small Fonts" fontSize="8" fontWeight="normal" colour="FFB000"/>
 <region>
  <shape type="rectangle"  rect="1,15,341,83"/>
  <shape type="roundrectangle" rect="319,0,332,1" combine="or" />
 </region>
 </windowSkin>
</windowSkins>
</skin>

Good luck! If you have any questions, please post them on the skinning forum. =)


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