Hi.
I’m configuring a dual player layout with seperate playlists. each playlist has 3 players.
What I need to do now is:
1.Resize the caption font inside each player
2.Enable a 2nd browser, 1 for each playlist.
3.Disable the Events buttons
Just trying to emulate a piece of software called dualPlay which consisting of a 2 layouts of 5 players and 2 playlists with their own browsers.
If you like I can post a screenshot.
Any Ideas?
Oooh, WavCart DualPlay - now there’s a blast from the past… I’ve got a copy of that somewhere.
TitleFontx=
NameFontx=
StateFontx=
TimeFontx=
Where x is the Name/Style/Size etc
Thanks Charlie, tried that but does not seem to work in ver 2.
Will try again.
Wavcart Dualplay, glad some-one remembers it as my local hr station still use this with no mp3 support.
Hi.Still cannot get the fonts to resize in the players (9captions).
Also noticed that when loading from the browser in a 2 by 2 player config with 2 playlists you can get more than 1 player stating NEXT. Also occurs in a split ad playout layout (posted sometime ago by Charlie).
Is it possible to turn the NEXT warnng off?
Kind regards Tony
Tony,
Please post/PM your skin.ini
My player font details actually sit under [Player] as a single group as all are the same.
Charlie have sent it by PM:
Also posted here - its a very rough state with positioning errors still but should show what I mean.
layout.ini
[Toolbar]
Left=0
Top=0
Width=900
Height=70
[Browser]
Left=5
Top=575
Width=980
Height=405
[Playlist0]
Left=5
Top=265
Width=600
Height=280
LoadedRowColor=#FFFF00
[Player0_0]
Left=5
Top=5
Width=600
Height=120
NameFontName=Fixedsys
TitleFontName=Arial
TimeFontName=Arial
StateFontName=Arial
NameFontSize=8
TitleFontSize=8
StateFontSize=8
TimeFontSize=8
LoadedColor=#FFFFFF
[Player0_1]
Left=5
Top=130
Width=600
Height=120
NameFontName=Fixedsys
TitleFontName=Fixedsys
TimeFontName=Fixedsys
StateFontName=Fixedsys
StateFontSize=10
TimeFontSize=10
NameFontSize=10
TitleFontsize=8
LoadedColor=#FFFFFF
[Player0_2]
Left=8
Top=200
Width=600
Height=110
NameFontName=Fixedsys
TitleFontName=Fixedsys
TimeFontName=Fixedsys
StateFontName=Fixedsys
StateFontSize=10
TimeFontSize=10
NameFontSize=10
LoadedColor=#FFFFFF
[Playlist1]
Left=650
Top=290
Width=600
Height=280
LoadedRowColor=#FFFF00
[Player1_0]
Left=650
Top=5
Width=600
Height=110
NameFontName=Fixedsys
TitleFontName=Fixedsys
TimeFontName=Fixedsys
StateFontName=Fixedsys
StateFontSize=10
TimeFontSize=10
NameFontSize=10
LoadedColor=#FFFFFF
[Player1_1]
Left=650
Top=120
Width=600
Height=110
NameFontName=Fixedsys
TitleFontName=Fixedsys
TimeFontName=Fixedsys
StateFontName=Fixedsys
StateFontSize=10
TimeFontSize=10
NameFontSize=10
LoadedColor=#FFFFFF
[Player1_2]
Left=650
Top=200
Width=600
Height=110
NameFontName=Fixedsys
TitleFontName=Fixedsys
TimeFontName=Fixedsys
StateFontName=Fixedsys
StateFontSize=10
TimeFontSize=10
NameFontSize=10
LoadedColor=#FFFFFF
[Clock]
Left=850
Top=665
Width=530
Height=70
StateFontSize=10
TimeFontSize=10
NameFontSize=10
LoadedColor=#FFFFFF
[Date]
Left=855
Top=750
Width=530
Height=20
StateFontSize=20
TimeFontSize=20
NameFontSize=20
LoadedColor=#FFFFFF
ends
Kind regards Tony
Sorry guys about the font problem - just tried a skin.ini and the fonts resize as required.
Still would like to turn off the NEXT flag though.
Kind Regards Tony
Merry Christmas
Time for bed or the kids will be up.
Tony: don’t forget that in your skin.ini, you have ‘super-sections’ of [Playlists] and [Players]. These can save you one hell of a lot of duplication of effort once you understand how they work; and they streamline your skin.ini file into the bargain.
I’ll explain [Players] as an example, but the same principle applies to [Playlists].
Once you have a Player ‘design’ you’re happy with (fonts, font sizes, colours, etc., etc.), you will probably want all your Players to look the same, right? That is precisely what the [Players] section does: anything specified there is a default setting for all your Players in all your Playlists. You can still have individual [Playerx_y] sections, but these now override whatever is in the [Players] section, if you see what I mean?
For example, I run two three-player Playlists. I specify the fonts, colours, ramp time display, etc. in [Players] and use sections for the three Playlist 2 Players to change (override) only the fonts and sizes, since those Players are physically smaller, so those three sections have a handful of lines each. This alone has drastically reduced the size of my skin.ini!
Therefore, once you have your principal Player design ‘right,’ shift every setting you can to [Players] and ditch any equivalent setting under the individual [Playerxy] sections. You can then delete any [Playerxy] sections which are now empty.
With [Playlists], it’s the same story. I have all my Playlist settings stored there, and a one-line [Playlist1] section which specifies smaller column sizes because my Playlist 2 is physically narrower on screen than Playlist 1.
I will add a better description of this to the Wiki sometime, but I have to dash off a reply to help a chap with a timed break problem somewhere around here… 
BFN
CAD (‘we never close’)
Many thanks Cad, christmas presents all round.
Kind Regards Tony
edit
I must be doing something wrong so have posted the relevant parts from the skin.ini
[Players]
NameFontName=Fixedsys
TitleFontName=Fixedsys
TimeFontName=Fixedsys
StateFontName=Fixedsys
StateFontSize=12
TimeFontSize=12
NameFontSize=12
TitleFontsize=12
LoadedColor=#FFFFFF
Caption fonts still appear as 20 pixel
However if I add to the individual palyer elements it resizes as required:
[Player0_0]
Left=5
Top=5
Width=600
Height=120
TitleFontsize=8
StateFontSize=8
TimeFontSize=8
NameFontSize=12
The name font resizing captions.
Any ideas?
[Player] not [Players] !
Cheers Charlie
BLUSH<
REALLY sorry chaps, my first major ‘gaffe’ in here I think. >SIGH<
Of course I should have said [Player] and [Playlist]: sincere and abject apologies to Tony for the confusion.
As a penance, I’ve already corrected the Wiki topic (Custom Skins and Layouts) where I made the same schoolboy error.
BFN
CAD
Cad, mistake was all mine, if I had been up to speed I would have realised the error from the correct layout examples originally provided by Torben.