The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Software Support => DOS/WinCab => Topic started by: pacman on June 20, 2005, 05:09:42 am
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I really like the new cd4-1 skin which displays song titles sorted by albums but when I run it on my cab in 640x480 it is impossible to read text as it comes out too small. Is there a way to have a better resolution with this skin, do I need to update the skn file then ? ???
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I really like the new cd4-1 skin which displays song titles sorted by albums but when I run it on my cab in 640x480 it is impossible to read text as it comes out too small. Is there a way to have a better resolution with this skin, do I need to update the skn file then ? ???
You'll have to tinker with the skin. Edit cd4-1.skn and look in the [titlestrips] section for these lines:
SongsPerStrip=CD
Font=dvsans.ttf
FontSize=14
SmallFont=dvsansc.ttf
SmallFontSize=12
A couple of things you can do:
- Try a different font. Tahoma looks better at small sizes than the DejaVu font, but I can't redistribute it. You're likely to have it in your Windows\Fonts folder; find it and put the path to it in Font and SmallFont.
- Increase the font size. This may reduce the number of songs per CD.
- Try a bold font, like dvsansb.ttf for the Font and dvsansbc.ttf for the SmallFont.
--Chrus
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for your tips.. ;) but do you mean that the number of songs per Album is limited ? I am asking that because I would like to use your Wincab to play the Top 100 Billboard of every year from 1975 to 1999 meaning that each album will have 100 titles... ::) ::)
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for your tips.. ;) but do you mean that the number of songs per Album is limited ? I am asking that because I would like to use your Wincab to play the Top 100 Billboard of every year from 1975 to 1999 meaning that each album will have 100 titles... ::) ::)
It will split those into multiple albums. WinCab tries to simulate an electromechanical juke, not a video juke, so there are no scroll bars. If you have a 30-track album, you'll see one album with tracks 1-14, a second album with tracks 15-28 (labelled 01-14, but with a different album number), and a third album with the remaining two tracks. All three should show the same album cover art, if all the songs came from the same folder.
--Chris
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Hi Chris,
Thanks a lot for your clarification...I will try then to update the skn file for a better result ;D ;D
Thanks
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Hi Chris,
I have tried to play with settings as per your suggestions and now I can have something more readable but the thing is that song name is not fully displayed when too long;
I would suggest to do also a cd2-1 skin which would allow a better display for low resolution arcade monitor (640x480 and lower)...
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Hi Chris,
I have tried to play with settings as per your suggestions and now I can have something more readable but the thing is that song name is not fully displayed when too long;
I would suggest to do also a cd2-1 skin which would allow a better display for low resolution arcade monitor (640x480 and lower)...
Yeah, I need to create lots and lots more skins...
A cd2-1.skn would look almost exactly like cd4-1.skn, except for these changes:
In [Titlestrips]:
Width=987
In [StripGrid]:
cols=1
That should be all you need to convert it to a two-album display with a really wide song title area. (This is off the top of my head; I haven't tested it.)
--Chris
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Hi Chris,
Could you please specify where [StripeGrid] is located in the skn file as I do not find him ??? ???
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Hi Chris,
Could you please specify where [StripeGrid] is located in the skn file as I do not find him ??? ???
It's [StripGrid], not [StripeGrid]. It's the section right after [Titlestrips], and just before all the icons. The whole StripGrid section looks like this:
[StripGrid]
x=18
y=21
rows=2
cols=2
rowspace=7
colspace=27
CoverArtSide=Left
CoverArtSpace=4
So 2 rows and 2 columns make up the 4 albums you see; you're reducing this to 2 rows in 1 column. rowspace and colspace are the size of the gap between rows and columns, CoverArtSide is which side of the titlecard/art pair the album art appears on, and CoverArtSpace is the gap between the art and the title card.
--Chris
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Hi Chris,
Ooopps sorry OK I figured it out now.... :P :P :P I will give it a try this evening and let you know then ;) ;)
Thanks for your help!