Alpine

[pyro]

http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/2610/alpinecadbyparrype7.jpg

A CD Art Display based on an Alpine MP3 Player.

Download (http://parry.deviantart.com/art/Alpine-CAD-94659515)

[barberio]

Hi pyro!

Looks very clean and useable.
I especially like the background and the big time display.

When I installed your skin, I detected some minor problems.
I had the same when releasing mine. So... ;) I can tell you.

1. When in SkinEditor -> Text, check the "draw guidelines" box.
The width and height of every textline is way too large, as you can see.
In textline 1 (title) you could use width:290; height:26; max char: 31 or 32 (title with more than e.g.
31 letters will be shown horizontally scrolled if * enabled), enable * Horizontal Text Scrolling. ;)

2. Do so for the other textlines 2-5. use the "draw guidelines" option to find the right values.
You may notice, that the genre and the time lines overlay, when a genre like "Electronic/Dark Wave"
is shown.

3. And i recognized that, if I draw the mouse over the ratings from the left to the right, they blink
at certain points. Carlos has opened a thread on that, because it seems to be a
common problem: http://www.cdartdisplay.com/forum/index.php?topic=915.0

And if you plan a re-relaese, you can use (with the new beta 0.5) the .cskin-format if exporting it
with the skineditor (automatic installation of skins). Shown as 7th icon on the upper right
("zip current skin").

I hope I didn't offend in any way. As I said: I had the same problems with my skin. ;D

[OtisBee]

@ barberio:

i couldn't have explained it better. ;D
i guess you've just saved me some time and part of my "duty". :D

thanks, my friend.
you seem to have internalized the capabilities of CAD very quickly. ;)


@ pyro:

apart from the things mentioned by barberio i can only add some minor suggestions that are merely related to my own personal taste.

well, since i'm a great friend of perspective impressions i wonder if it would be possible to add some more intense dropshadow to your skin.
also it might look really cool if the inner background of your case.png (the area where text and covers are displayed on) would be slightly transparent (maybe 80-90% opaque).

as i said, these changes are only a matter of taste and of course you can feel free to consider them or not without any given reason. ;)

anyways...
...thanks for the share. :)