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Page 1 of 2 - Alienware Invader Windows Media Player 11 and 10 Skin - posted in Themes & Visual Styles: The Invasion continues. Our boldest and most dynamic Windows Media Player 11 / 10 skin to date! Alienware Invader features a 580+ frame stunning intro animation, sound fx created by our friends over at SoundRangers and a design that is simply out of this world. If you want to delete one of the skins, select it from the list within the Skin chooser and click the red “X.” You can also press the delete key on your keyboard. Then click Yes to confirm. Using skins is a quick and easy way to add some style to Windows Media Player and switching back and forth between skins is a breeze.
Windows Media Player 7.0 introduced skin technology. The available elements and attributes remained unchanged for Windows Media Player 7.1 and Windows Media Player for Windows XP. Windows Media Player 9 Series introduced new elements and attributes you can use. Windows Media Player 10 introduces one new attribute.
Each topic in the Skin Programming Reference section includes a Requirements section that lists the minimum requirement for the individual element, method, event handler, or attribute. The following list also details the new items for particular versions of Windows Media Player.
Added for Windows Media Player for Windows XP
Added for Windows Media Player 9 Series
- AmbientAttributes.accDescription Attribute
- AmbientAttributes.accKeyboardShortcut Attribute
- AmbientAttributes.accName Attribute
- AmbientAttributes.alphaBlend Attribute
- AmbientAttributes.alphaBlendTo Method
- BALANCESLIDER Predefined Element
- BUTTONELEMENT.click Method
- BUTTONELEMENT.index Attribute
- BUTTONGROUP.buttonCount Attribute
- BUTTONGROUP.click Method
- BUTTONGROUP.getButton Method
- BUTTONGROUP.hueShift Attribute
- BUTTONGROUP.saturation Attribute
- CLOSEBUTTON Predefined Element
- CURRENTPOSITIONTEXT Predefined Element
- DROPDOWNPLAYLIST Predefined Element
- DURATIONTEXT Predefined Element
- EDITBOX Element
- EFFECTS.effectTitle Method
- EFFECTS.effectType Method
- EQUALIZERSETTINGS.crossFade Attribute
- EQUALIZERSETTINGS.crossFadeWindow Attribute
- EQUALIZERSETTINGS.currentSpeakerName Attribute
- EQUALIZERSETTINGS.enableSplineTension Attribute
- EQUALIZERSETTINGS.enhancedAudio Attribute
- EQUALIZERSETTINGS.normalization Attribute
- EQUALIZERSETTINGS.normalizationAverage Attribute
- EQUALIZERSETTINGS.normalizationPeak Attribute
- EQUALIZERSETTINGS.presetTitle Method
- EQUALIZERSETTINGS.speakerSize Attribute
- EQUALIZERSETTINGS.splineTension Attribute
- EQUALIZERSETTINGS.truBassLevel Attribute
- EQUALIZERSETTINGS.wowLevel Attribute
- ITEMSPLAYLIST Predefined Element
- MINIMIZEBUTTON Predefined Element
- MUTEBUTTON Predefined Element
- onendalphablend Event Handler
- PLAYLIST.dropDownBackgroundImage Attribute
- PLAYLIST.dropDownImage Attribute
- PLAYLIST.editButtonVisible Attribute
- PLAYLIST.getNextCheckedItem2 Method
- PLAYLIST.getNextSelectedItem2 Method
- PLAYLIST.hueShift Attribute
- PLAYLIST.itemCount Attribute
- PLAYLIST.itemErrorColor Attribute
- PLAYLIST.itemMedia Attribute
- PLAYLIST.itemPlaylist Attribute
- PLAYLIST.leftStatus Attribute
- PLAYLIST.rightStatus Attribute
- PLAYLIST.saturation Attribute
- PLAYLIST.setCheckedState2 Method
- PLAYLIST.setSelectedState2 Method
- PLAYLIST.statusColor Attribute
- REPEATBUTTON Predefined Element
- RETURNBUTTON Predefined Element
- SEEKSLIDER Predefined Element
- SHUFFLEBUTTON Predefined Element
- STATUSTEXT Predefined Element
- THEME.playSound Method
- TRACKNAMETEXT Predefined Element
- VIEW.backgroundImageHueShift Attribute
- VIEW.backgroundImageSaturation Attribute
- VIEW.resizeBackgroundImage Attribute
- VOLUMESLIDER Predefined Element
- WMPEFFECTS Predefined Element
- WMPVIDEO Predefined Element
Added for Windows Media Player 10
- PLAYLIST.itemSelectedBackgroundFocusLostColor r
Added for Windows Media Player 11
Related topics
-->Windows Media Player provides a programming platform to create custom skins. Skins are sets of scripts, art, media, and text files that can be combined to create a new appearance for Windows Media Player. Using skins, you can change not only the way Windows Media Player looks, but how it functions. Not just where the knobs are and what they look like, but what they do, given the limits of the underlying Windows Media Player core technology.
Skin technology is very different from other kinds of programming; essentially you will be mixing programming and art in equal parts. You do not need to be an expert programmer (not much more than you already know if you have created webpages and done some simple scripting), nor do you need to be an artist (as long as you can use a graphics editing application). You'll be using XML (similar to HTML), Microsoft JScript, and whatever art programs you choose.
The skins documentation contains the following four sections.
Section | Description |
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About Skins | Discusses the theory of skins in abstract terms. You are advised to at least browse this section because skin technology is so different from other kinds of programming. This section tells you why and how things work, but only skims over the details. |
Skin Creation Guide | Explains what you need to do to create a skin. You will probably want to read this section because it covers the details of creating simple skins, and then more complicated skins that use particular skin elements. This section also includes tutorials on creating the art needed to create skins. |
Skin Programming Reference | Contains reference entries for every element and attribute supported by skins. Read the topics that explain the functionality that you want to use. |
Windows Media Player Mobile Skins | Provides complete information for creating skins for Windows Media Player Mobile. |