Xion Gallery Launched at WinCustomize!
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Today, in response to popular demand from the skinning community here at WinCustomize, we have launched a gallery dedicated to skinning the media player application, Xion!
Xion is a growing favorite in the customization world because of its incredibly simple skinning system. Here's a bit from the Xion homepage about how skinning works:
Xion features a new standard in skin support. Baffled by script syntax? Pulling your hair out over slicing up skin elements? Crying over spilt milk?
Xion's approach to skinning will remove all scripting and slicing requirements that other skin systems have placed on users. Xion will directly read a .PSD file and using layer names, instantly create your skin.
Xion also supports direct loading from Zip files which allow you to package several .PSD files in the one package. This has the added benefit of being compressed and therefore consumes less disk space.
If you want to see samples of some of the work that is going to soon be added to this new gallery, check out this thread on our forums:
https://forums.wincustomize.com/?aid=154135
Special thanks to vStyler for the gallery icon set used on WinCustomize and applications like Stardock Central and the WinCustomize Browser. And, while Xion accepts .PSD files straight as skins, here at WinCustomize you'll need to zip them up first before submitting them.
I'm looking forward to seeing what cool looking skins the community puts together for this!
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Reply #22 Wednesday, June 6, 2007 1:23 AM
Id rather my music player be useable than skinnable.
Reply #23 Wednesday, June 6, 2007 1:34 AM
Aren't they all...
That goes for all skinnables .... each has a renamed zip format ....
Reply #24 Wednesday, June 6, 2007 3:43 AM
Reply #25 Wednesday, June 6, 2007 4:23 AM
Wow! This is a very impressive player from a skinner's standpoint. I just went through the tuts in a breeze and I'm having a blast making my own player skins. I'm not much of a skinner by nature but I gotta say this really does put the art (and fun) back into skinning.
My CPU froze up momentarily when I clicked 'choose skin' for the first time but it hasn't done that since. Everything's working fine for now.
Reply #26 Wednesday, June 6, 2007 6:14 AM
Id rather my music player be useable than skinnable.
What sort of speed PC are you using? Which version of Windows do you have installed?
If you could give me some more information, that would be great!
Thanks!
Cliff
http://xion.r2.com.au/
Reply #27 Wednesday, June 6, 2007 7:10 AM
Reply #28 Wednesday, June 6, 2007 7:30 AM
Best thing to do is select the files you want, add to zip and make sure the end of the name is .xsf, then take the .xsf file and add to a regular zip to upload here at WC. But you probably already knew that.
Reply #29 Wednesday, June 6, 2007 7:34 AM
I am testing skins in an XP virtual PC with no issues.Cliff, if I can provide more detail, I will. Let me know what might be useful.
Reply #30 Wednesday, June 6, 2007 7:51 AM
I actually added xsf to the file format list yesterday shortly after making the post
So the gallery accepts xsf and zip files.
Reply #32 Wednesday, June 6, 2007 9:23 AM
So the gallery accepts xsf and zip files.
Just in case anyone missed that...
Reply #33 Wednesday, June 6, 2007 11:32 AM
So the gallery accepts xsf and zip files
I Didn't miss it. That rocks.
Reply #34 Friday, June 8, 2007 6:12 AM
I tried Xion when Boxxi first introduced it months ago when it was fairly new. While I liked it, I too could not use it unless it was minimized to my task bar. The CPU's shot up when I had the player on desktop. It would freeze my cursor and I couldnt run anything else. Buzzh58 and I both have older pcs with older graphics cards. So were not sure what causes this issue. So I'm going to re-down load Xion and try it again on my old PC and then on my new laptop that is faster and has more ram, and of course a more up to date graphics card...
Reply #35 Friday, June 8, 2007 2:33 PM
but
works fine on laptop that is 6 months old running XP.
Reply #36 Monday, June 11, 2007 8:09 AM
I love it!
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Reply #21 Wednesday, June 6, 2007 12:31 AM