Chris,
No need to apologise, it's your time, spend it on what you want to!
Regards
Gary
p.s. forget the fancy stuff, all I want for Christmas is touchscreen support under Win98!
chris, do you still have the link for the most stable version of doscab? i dont need all the fancy stuff. thank you for making such a great product freely available.Unfortunately, I can't have them both up at once due to lack of space. Most of the issues are for CD skins; if you are using the classic juke skins, you should be quite stable...
And can I have a scrolling "coming up next" please.Hmm... I could add a paging button to this similar to the way the Popular list works.... or are you looking for it to auto-scroll?
chris, do you still have the link for the most stable version of doscab? i dont need all the fancy stuff. thank you for making such a great product freely available.Unfortunately, I can't have them both up at once due to lack of space. Most of the issues are for CD skins; if you are using the classic juke skins, you should be quite stable...
--Chris
3) Unlike wincab... I do NOT want to see a mouse pointerIn JUKEBOX.INI, go to the [Display] section and set Mouse=Disabled
4) Unlike wincab... I do NOT want to see "on - screen buttons" . I want to use hard buttons on the control panel (there will be no mouse or keyboard available - just the control buttons). These buttons will run through an IPac to the PC. So it would redundant to see the buttons on the screen that may (or may not) match the buttons on the control panel.This requires a simple modification of the skin file and its background file. I'll see if I can throw together the changes.
5) The commands to control the juke would be simple keyboard commands and letters. (Clear = c) (select = enter). I have not fooled around with wincab enough yet to see if this is the interface - I assume so.Yes. See controls.ini for the control map and readme.txt for all of the available commands. If your input keypad (or buttons) have fewer than 10 digits, you'll need to edit the skin file to indicate the number of digits available and whether ot not the zero is available. I can help you make the changes if this is the case.
In short, I want the stripped down version that would act like a jukebox as close as possible.This is exactly what WinCab was designed to do.
I really like your software and have been using it for a while, I have a question though. I would like to setup another jukebox, for my kids to use, and one of the things I would need to do is have it clear the database every so often, they want to be able to have there friend bring in CD/DVD's with mp3 and include them for a party, etc. I firgured out how to do this in DOS, but I cannot get the new jukebox to run a sound card in DOS, so I am switching to Win98. I was thinking about having WinCab come up as my shell, but if I need to reread the database, the way I was doing it in DOS was to delete the contents of the data directory, how would I do this in WinCab. I am not going to run the songs from the harddrive, I am pointing WinCab to the CD/DVD drive to read songs from, works fine just a little slow to setup the jukebox initially. Ok, I know I have been wordy here, but basically how do I clear the database and reload it in WinCab, do I have to delete the contents of the data directory to do this?You do not need to clear the database; WinCab will verify all of the file locations on startup. If you do want to clear the database, you can just delete the files in the Data directory.
Once I figured out the SKN is a text file (not some binary file like Icon files) I started to look it over and it looks pretty easy.Documentation is obviously not one of my strong points. :) But there is a small amount, in the skins.txt file in the Docs folder, that explains most of the common skin settings.