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RPO R6V:
Hi all,

My "jukebox" is just a PC with its monitor and mouse on an end table, with the PC itself hidden under the table and patched into a stereo receiver on the other side of the room.  I don't want to use anything but the mouse to control it, so I was using Arcade Jukebox 7 quite happily until the last time I added some songs to my collection and the program decided it no longer wanted to recognize the tags for about 1/3 of my songs.  So, I just switched to WinCab and like it a lot.  I want my jukebox to be like an old, "singles based" jukebox, not a modern "CD based" jukebox.

Anyway, I miss some of the features I had with AJ7.  Can WinCab do these too?  I want to be able to click somewhere on the screen and clear the song that's currently playing.  (Sometimes when nobody is picking songs and the program is playing songs at random it plays a song I'm not in the mood for.)  Also, I'd like to be able to click a button on the screen and clear the queue (in case somebody accidentally clicks on the same song three times, etc.).  Lastly, AJ7 let me click on an on-screen volume control.  Can WinCab be set up to do any of these?  I love WinCab otherwise, just curious.  Thanks!

Chris:
Yes, all of these are possible.  You just need to add icons for your desired functions.  In addition, you can set it so someone can't select the same song three times  (In fact, this is the default setting).

So, presuming you're using default.skn, open default.skn in your favorite text editor and add something like this after the last icon in the file:

[Icon18]
x=0
y=844
w=52
h=52
FocusColor=yellow
ShadowColor=Black
Clickable=True
Action=BTN_SKIP

[Icon19]
x=971
y=844
w=52
h=52
FocusColor=yellow
ShadowColor=Black
Clickable=True
Action=BTN_CLEARQUEUE

This will create two invisible icons; the icon in the bottom left corner clears the current song and the bottom right corner clears the whole queue, presuming you're using the default skin in a horizontal mode.  If you want them visible, you'd need to put them in a more reasonable place and add an OffImage=myimage.jpg to make the button appear.  I presume you want the volume controls to be visible... give me a bit to whip up some icons for that.  The Volume actions are BTN_VOL_MUTE, BTN_VOL_DOWN, BTN_VOL_UP, BTN_VOL_MIN, and BTN_VOL_MAX.  By default it takes ten clicks to go from top to bottom, but that can be changed in jukebox.ini.

--Chris

(Edit: Fixed icon numbers and changed OnImage to the correct OffImage.)

Chris:
OK, here's a simple volume control:

[Icon20]
x=477
y=783
w=33
h=33
FocusColor=yellow
ShadowColor=Black
Clickable=True
Action=BTN_VOL_DOWN
OffImage=btnvoldn.jpg

[Icon21]
x=514
y=783
w=33
h=33
FocusColor=yellow
ShadowColor=Black
Clickable=True
Action=BTN_VOL_UP
OffImage=btnvolup.jpg

Attached are the button images; drop them in your Skins folder and you're all set!

RPO R6V:
Thanks Chris!  I'll try your suggestions tonight!  My next question:

I like to have the jukebox continuously playing songs at random (with maybe a 1 second gap between songs) unless somebody pics a certain song.  Is there a way to set up WinCab so that it will not play certain songs at random but will play them if somebody clicks/picks them?

Thanks a lot!!!!!

RPO R6V:
Okay, the volume control works perfectly.  The "clear current song" button works fine too.  But the "clear queue" button doesn't work on the PC I'm using as a jukebox.  Oddly, it works when I run WinCab on my other PC (the one I'm typing on now).  But even then it doesn't do quite what I had in mind.  It clears the queue, but it also aborts the song currently playing.  The "clear queue" button in AJ7 clears the queue of upcoming songs, but the song currently playing keeps playing.  But these are minor requests.  Please don't get me wrong, I love WinCab so far!

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