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DOSCab/WinCab Jukebox 3.0 Beta 1 Released
Silver:
Done! I'd prefer to test in windows (XP) but can test DOS as well if you need......
Actually, I was planning to go dos all the way - but a complete lack of wireless networking dos drivers hindered that plan, with the exception of some expensive cisco gear....... so windows it is.....
I'll pm you my email for any contact....
thanks,
silver
froggerman:
Hi Chris,
I have been playing around a bit with the skins and I have found a small problem. There seems to be a white '0' on a black background in the very top corner of every skin. Note: this is not part of the skin, but displayed on top of the skin. See attach image below.
Chris:
--- Quote from: froggerman on September 28, 2004, 01:11:52 am ---Hi Chris,
I have been playing around a bit with the skins and I have found a small problem. There seems to be a white '0' on a black background in the very top corner of every skin. Note: this is not part of the skin, but displayed on top of the skin. See attach image below.
--- End quote ---
Yeah, this was a debug value I forgot to remove. I'll put up a fix tonight.
Incidentally, does anyone see a 1 there instead of a 0?
froggerman:
Hi Chris,
I found another small problem. If I set HighLetter=C it will still let me enter D. If I set HighLetter=D it will let me enter E. Not a biggie, just a little annoying.
I have been playing with your skins and the skin.ini file. This program is wonderful! The only thing that might be sort of nice is the ability to use more than one label design at a time. I know that it was common to do things like have the top row be Hits, or to put a coloured piece of plastic across a row. Have you given any thought to something like that. By the way, I love that fact that this is a single oriented Juke box program.
Keep it coming! ;D
Chris:
--- Quote from: froggerman on September 28, 2004, 11:43:56 pm ---Hi Chris,
I found another small problem. If I set HighLetter=C it will still let me enter D. If I set HighLetter=D it will let me enter E. Not a biggie, just a little annoying.
--- End quote ---
Whoops! Nice catch... thanks!
--- Quote ---I have been playing with your skins and the skin.ini file. This program is wonderful! The only thing that might be sort of nice is the ability to use more than one label design at a time. I know that it was common to do things like have the top row be Hits, or to put a coloured piece of plastic across a row. Have you given any thought to something like that. By the way, I love that fact that this is a single oriented Juke box program.
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That's coming. You'll be able to have a regular and Hit label for each genre, with a default regular and Hit label if nothing is set for a genre. The genre used is the one set in the ID3 tag. I'm toying with the idea of artist labels; I've seen this before for major artists like The Beatles.
The default skin will use the "standard" genre color-coding:
- Green was for Country or Country and Western
- Blue was for Blues or Rhythm and Blues or Soul
- Lavender was for Oldies
- Red lines on a white background were for miscellaneous or for the
unprinted blanks that the operators filled in by hand
- Red/pink was for Pop.
I also was toying with the idea of randomly having a handful of labels set in Courier no matter what the font is set for; it seems like on every jukebox there were one or two hand-typed labels. But I decided not to do this since a DOS system isn't going to have Courier and I can't include it in the distribution. This is a good time to note that the fonts in the distribution come from Ray Larabie of Larabie Fonts (http://www.larabiefonts.com/), who has generously made them available for free redistribution. He has many other fonts available, some for free and some full font families for purchase. The font I'm using us Blue Highway, which Ray designed to match the font used on highway signs. The real font used on old jukeboxes was usually Futura, but I can't distribute that, and Blue Highway is close.
--Chris
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