Skin Consortium

Hi Martin,

I've downloaded the pdf, and the update in your last post, I think I'd like to code a skin or two for this, and learn about it more.If there's anything more I might need, or suggested reading matter pertinent to flex, I'd be happy to know.I've really never used winamp, but look forward to this.Thanks, xonenine.

Edit:this is a psd I have in mind, already fooling w it for xion, a clean unthemed base color that could be completely reconfigured or as is.Flex installed and seems ok.

Things seem quiet here, 'scuse me for replying to myself. I read the cPro manual and some xml skin files, I will have no trouble w coding for this.Just wondering if this alpha is where you'd like to see some skins developed and coded.



Flex sounds like the choice for me, since my skins are sometimes odd shapes/themes.I'll go ahead and make a couple then, and if there's any area skin consortium would prefer to focus on, it will be my pleasure.

xonenine

Cool have fun, if you have trouble coding them though could you please create a new thread for the skin your working on rather than posting on an existing thread, things are tidier that way

OK, thanks Cozmoz.

No problem Martin, thanks.

Hi Martin,

How are thing's going with Flex?

Regards,

Costa

Cool dude, good luck with your thesis. I look forward to seeing progress on Flex :-D

Martin: why not use a Parser to actually read the contents of the layers?
(these are Free and available for commercial or non).

myPSD:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/graphics/MyPSD.aspx

YetAnother PSD Parser:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/graphics/PSDParser.aspx

Endogine:
using Endogine.Codecs.Photoshop;
using Endogine.Codecs.Photoshop.ImageResources;
using Endogine.Codecs.Photoshop.LayerResources;

Document psd = new Document("somefile.psd");

int documentHeight = psd.Header.Rows;
//get the height of the document


//get GridGuidesInfo ImageResource

GridGuidesInfo guidesInfo =
(GridGuidesInfo)psd.GetResource(typeof(GridGuidesInfo));
Console.WriteLine("Guide location: " +
guidesInfo.Guides[0].LocationInPixels);

Bitmap bmp = psd.Layers[0].Bitmap;
//get layer 0 bitmap


//get transparency bitmap of layer 1

Bitmap bmpChannel = psd.Layers[1].Channels[-1].Bitmap;
BrightnessContrast bc = (BrightnessContrast)
psd.Layers[2].GetResource(typeof(BrightnessContrast));
Console.WriteLine("Layer 2 (Adjustment layer) Brighness: " +
bc.Brightness);

psd.SaveXml("somefile.xml", true);
//save as XML file, and export layer bitmaps as PNGs

Forgive my ignorance - but, couldn't a psd engine be setup to run as a plugin ???

I've started a VC++ Project (Layered PSD Extraction into a temporary file location and using that for a base skin...)

I'm not new to programming but, plugin development is entirely new however, one would think I would just compile a new library and have a reference call from a configuration file (XML) inside of the cab/zip that I am loading...with any luck maybe I can come up with something that could be usable in conjunction with the Flex Plugin???