Need Help With Skin Completion

[PHNX]

I have various questions regarding things i need to know in order to complete my skin. I will post them as i go along.

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Lets start with something simple. See the TV and RADIO buttons in the upper right corner? These buttons are supposed to call up the MediaLibrary in TV-Mode and Radio-Mode respectively. (Exactly like the BASE Skin does.)

What i need to know are the button-keycodes for these two functions.

[BSPeter]

Can't you perhaps find that in skin.ini file of Base-skin?

[PHNX]

Unfortunately not.

I dont know how they did it in Base, but there is no absolute keycode for these two functions.

Thats why i had to ask, because i just couldnt figure it out...

[PHNX]

I hope i didnt ask for any trade-secret,...

[BSPeter]

From Base-skin's ini:

[AddSkinArea]
BgImage=extbg
;TransColor=f400fd
NumSection=5
AttachAt=396,22
DefRect=78,0,117,103
DefSection=0
Btn1=exvideo,79,0,0,1;VIDEO
Btn2=exdvd,79,22,0,2;DVD
Btn3=exaudio,79,43,0,3;AUDIO
Btn4=exradio,79,64,0,4;RADIO
Btn5=extv,79,84,0,5;TV
 
[AddSkinArea.1]
Number=8
Rect=0,0,117,103
Btn1=exvbtn1,11,8,0,112;$lang.Menu.55
Btn2=exvbtn2,10,35,0,10;$lang.Menu.32
Btn3=exvbtn3,10,57,0,33;$lang.Menu.39
Btn4=exvbtn4,10,80,0,66;$lang.Menu.33
Btn5=exvbtn5,51,8,0,98;
Btn6=exvbtn6,49,37,0,98;Font, subs
Btn7=exvbtn7,47,58,0,98;$lang.Menu.31
Btn8=exvbtn8,51,80,0,103;Repeat mode
 
[AddSkinArea.2]
Number=4
Rect=39,0,117,103
Btn1=exdbtn1,51,9,0,117;$lang.Menu.107
Btn2=exdbtn2,51,32,0,118;$lang.Menu.108
Btn3=exdbtn3,51,54,0,119;$lang.Menu.110
Btn4=exdbtn4,51,77,0,120;$lang.Menu.109
 
[AddSkinArea.3]
Number=4
Rect=39,0,117,103
Btn1=exabtn1,50,9,0,103;Repeat mode
Btn2=exabtn2,50,34,0,5005;$lang.WID43.25
Btn3=exabtn3,51,64,0,73;$lang.Menu.18 $lang.Menu.19
Btn4=exabtn4,51,86,0,74;$lang.Menu.18 $lang.Menu.20
 
[AddSkinArea.4]
Number=0
Rect=78,0,117,103
 
[AddSkinArea.5]
Number=0
Rect=78,0,117,103

[PHNX]

Thanks Peter, i already found this when i checked the Base myself but thats not it.

In the case of these five AddSkin Functions, (including Radio and TV as 4 and 5), there must be more to it than just the plain numbers because numbers 1 through 5 are already occupied by other functions.

Example from Base skin.ini:

Btn7=vold,345,108,0,2;$lang.Actions.3
Btn8=volu,361,108,0,1;$lang.Actions.2

Btn1=exvideo,79,0,0,1;VIDEO
Btn2=exdvd,79,22,0,2;DVD

As you can see, 1 and 2 are VolUp and VolDown, yet they are supposed to be Video and DVD as well. Of course this cannot be, since one parameter cannot call two different functions in the same program. So the question is what are 1 and 2 really? The answer is they are definitely VolUp and VolDown, which means there must be some sort of 'trick' to reuse 1 and 2 for Radio and TV in the AddSkin Section.

And this trick (or better yet an absolute keycode) is precisely what i am looking for, because this goes for 4 and 5 as well. I dont know what functions 4 and 5 normally are since a button does nothing with them, but i can assure you they are not Radio and TV.


In any case thanks for your trying to help, i hope some dev can shed some light on this because it would be a pity if i couldnt complete my skin because of such litte details.

PHNX