Skinning Windows Media Player

Monday, July 1, 2002 by mitchec | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

Has anyone got any idea how i can skin windows media player in full screen mode or apply windows FX to media player in skin mode
messybuu
Reply #1 Monday, July 1, 2002 2:46 PM
According to the Stardock newsgroups, skinning of WMP is disabled because of problems with it and WindowBlinds. You could work around this by renaming the Windows Media Player file to something else.
basj
Reply #2 Tuesday, July 2, 2002 12:50 PM
btw..is there somewhere that i can get a good WMP skin tutorial?

thanks
werewolf
Reply #3 Tuesday, July 2, 2002 12:54 PM
basj...

there is a whole manual at the MS developers website. It goes into great gory detail about skinning and the xml language used. I tried to find the address for you, but they keep moving stuff around

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JDavidHarper
Reply #4 Thursday, July 4, 2002 10:13 PM
Can someone explain why every time I try a new windowblinds skin, it resets the Media Player skin back to the default? It's quite annoying.
WOM
Reply #5 Thursday, July 4, 2002 10:26 PM
EnsRegis: Mine works fine whenever I change skins. Do you have the shareware version? If so, that my be the problem.
WOM
Reply #6 Thursday, July 4, 2002 10:33 PM
PS. The media player will not hold the all the time because of the conflict, but it does reskin when I change skins. But you have to keep the cursor on it.
joetheblow
Reply #7 Friday, July 5, 2002 12:52 AM
I saw WMP for XP and it looked like it was skinned in one of windows designs. I am not sure about windowblinds covering it in XP though.

And yes MS has extencive details as to how the skinning of Windows Media Prayer works. XML, Microsoft's Jscript and some HTML techniques. I am going to try to make some reallt simple skins before I go buck wild and do something like The Skin Factory. (that's allot of work).

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