Make .WAL skins even faster!

[Mikwiththestick]

.WAL the fast in' easy way!
Hi this is my tutorial to fast and easy Winamp modern skinning

Lesson 1
Ok First things First you need to download the (simple skin.wal) you can get it at http://mikwiththestick.tripod.com/ click on "download file" then when you download it extract it all and put it into a new folder in your Winamp skins directory (Useally C:---Program Files --- Winamp --- Skins) After your done that open winamp and look at the skin i just had you paste in your skins directory. Once you are finished looking at it its time to get to work! First open up the folder called "gfx" then open up the picture called "base.png" in MSpaint GIMP or PSP I would recomend MSpaint for your first time. Then make it look like whatever you want it to a circle a square whatever floats your boat once you done that save your new look and open up your "skin.xml" in EditPlus 2 your skin.xml should look like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<WinampAbstractionLayer version="0.7">

  <skininfo>
    <version>0.96</version>
    <name>Winamp 3.0 Simple demo skin</name>
    <comment>Winamp 3.0 Simple demo skin</comment>
    <author>Christophe Thibault</author>
    <email>christophe@nullsoft.com</email>
    <homepage>http://nullsoft.com</homepage>
    <screenshot>skinshot.png</screenshot>
  </skininfo>

  <include file="../default/xml/studio.xml"/>
  <include file="../default/xml/gamma-presets.xml"/>

  <elements>
   <bitmap id="simple.base" file="gfx/base.png"/>
   <bitmap id="simple.eject" file="gfx/base.png" x="206" y="127" w="48" h="43"/>
   <bitmap id="simple.volume" file="gfx/volume-button.png"/>
   <bitmap id="simple.rewind" file="gfx/rewind-button.png"/>
   <bitmap id="simple.play" file="gfx/play-button.png"/>
   <bitmap id="simple.pause" file="gfx/pause-button.png"/>
   <bitmap id="simple.stop" file="gfx/stop-button.png"/>
   <bitmap id="simple.forward" file="gfx/forward-button.png"/>
   <bitmap id="simple.seek" file="gfx/seek-button.png"/>
   <bitmap id="simple.close" file="gfx/close-button.png"/>
   <bitmap id="simple.minamize" file="gfx/minamize-button.png"/>
  </elements>

  <container id="main" name="Simple Main window">
   <layout id="normal" background="simple.base">

    <slider
      action="VOLUME"
      x="150" y="90"
      w="127" h="30"
      thumb="simple.volume"
    />

    <button 
      action="PREV" 
      x="14" y="133" 
      image="simple.rewind" 
      tooltip="Previous"
    />

    <button 
      action="PLAY" 
      x="52" y="130" 
      image="simple.play" 
      tooltip="Play"
    />

    <button 
      action="PAUSE" 
      x="80" y="129" 
      image="simple.pause" 
      tooltip="Pause"
    />

    <button 
      action="STOP" 
      x="108" y="132" 
      image="simple.stop" 
      tooltip="Stop"
    />

    <button 
      action="NEXT" 
      x="149" y="136" 
      image="simple.forward" 
      tooltip="Next"
    />

    <button 
      action="EJECT" 
      x="206" y="127" 
      image="simple.eject" 
      tooltip="Eject"
    />


   <slider
      action="SEEK"
      x="68" y="63"
      w="220" h="28"
      thumb="simple.seek"
    />

    <button 
      action="CLOSE" 
      x="370" y="6" 
      image="simple.close" 
      tooltip="Close"
    />

   <button
      action="MINIMIZE"
      x="200" y="6"
      image="simple.minimize"
      tooltip="Minimize"
    />

   </layout>
  </container>

  <include file="../Default/xml/thinger.xml"/>
  <include file="../default/xml/minibrowser.xml"/>
  <include file="../default/xml/components.xml"/>

</WinampAbstractionLayer>

This skin was origanly made by winamp.com
If it does not then goto the other skinning tutorial made by rohan now with this all you have to do is change the looks of your buttons and sliders also change the postion of them by changing the number beside "x" and "y". then thats it your done!

[anubhav_har]

This is a good one man... keep posting these types/

[rohan]

milk with the stik, nice seeing you here. How the hell di dya land up here man. Enjoy forum-ing here. Everybidy here is relatively harmless, atleast they wont' bite...