This theme keeps getting better and better!

One issue: The rewind button on the amp console skips the song foward...at least when I try it.

Dynamp-0.51 doesn't load, but I got around that by using 0.05. However I still can't get mzscript modules to load, no matter what version I use. This basically means nothing works, and the theme is not usable. Which is a shame because I really like the look of this theme.

@coldwind: Dynamp 0.51 doesn't load here either (as mentioned), and I'm seriously thinking of replacing that module. The question is with what. As for the rew/fwd issue it's a bug in Dynamp, and unfortunately there isn't much one can do about that.

@hemebond: So mzscript won't load, eh? Weird. Works fine here though, I've never had any problems of that kind. Are you saying mzscript loads in your other themes, but not in popsicle?

@hemebond: Do you have a copy of msvcr71.dll on your system? That DLL is required by mzscript-0.9.13.

The popsicle bug reports seem to have dwindled more or less. I have fixed some problems with beta 2 and added a few small features. Right now I'm busy making a few additional flavors (feel free to send me any custom flavors you create). Expect a first release candidate sometime later this week.

Looking good West :) (Considering the bar looks exactly like my Lock.Solid bar... :D )

The Launcher icons resize thing needs work. It looks weird (like it moves, then resizes, then moves, then resizes.. ie; its not smooth)

icon05onenter !labelrepositionby icon05 -8 -8 16 16 10 10

I think its the animationsteps. There arent 10 steps in 8 pixels??? idk...

yeah I just tried it with 8 steps, instead of 10 :)
8 makes it smooth!.


Another thing, its a real "issue" with comdlgls: Clicking cancel hides the icon... You need all the icon changing functions to be run by the !ComDlgFile bang. thus if I click cancel it wont do anything ;)

Also: Seeing as you use !recycle for most of the changes, you could use IF ELSE ENDIF stuff for your popup settings.
So instead of:
turn On
turn Off

it would be:
IF Off
turn On
ELSEIF On
turn Off
ENDIF

etc etc... but you know all that ;)
it means you can reduce the number of folders you use in your popuptheme, which increases accessability/usabililty ;D

Also:
xPopupCustomalphafade is its own setting, it doesnt rely on xPopupAlphafade, so you need an IF around the customalphafade setting(s) :) (its weird, but makes sense... in a way)

After I did that (alphafading popup off) your theme looks great man, the gradients are superb.

but you need a font setting in your (them)evars.rc :D

cant wait to see when this is finished man.

Thanks for the comments fractal. Good point about the icon animations, looks much better now. I hadn't really reflected on that 8 pixels/10 steps thing... so thanks for pointing it out :)

As for the comdlgls issue, it has kindly been solved by xcal since the release of beta 2 :)

The custom alpha fade issue has also been fixed, I had just misunderstood how it was supposed to work. I thought [labelname]customalphafade was just the settings to use IF [labelname]alphafade was on.

Now, the theme popup isn't actually finished yet, I know it's a bit rough around the edges and I'm gonna add conditional statements to it. The problem is that real-time changes (like hiding or showing floaters) breaks the menu. If the floaters are turned off, the menu will still think they're on until a recycle happens. I thought !popuprescan might fix that but it doesn't. So I don't know what to do.

Finally: um... what font setting would that be?

After downloading and testing your theme i have come to the conclusion that i like it! It is simple and easy on the eyes. :D

Though i wasn´t that happy with the orange color it was easy to change to a blue color, wich i must say looks sweet.. :)

But i do have some suggestions for it.. :)
* Option to change "flavor". It is there, but it dont do anything.
*An option to turn on/off the cpu/ram would be nice, also on mouseover a tooltip with how much ram is used and such would be sweet. :)
*The launcher is kind of broke. If i disable it and recycle the box removes but the icons are still left. Also it seems like the popup dont "sense" if the "floaters" are on or off.
*A sulution to your problem with the popup not updating itself might be like i have done in my theme "Dangerous Environments". It is not a beautiful way but it works. ;)

Anyway this are just my huble suggestions. And for a beta it is really sweet! It makes me feel like a lousy n00b themer. And now i have seen how things should be done.. :)

One last thing... Since this is an imageless theme, how do you get the "icons" for the winamp controls?

Keep up the good work! Im looking forward to the next version, wich i hope come soon.. :P

* The option to change flavor isn't there -- simply because there's just one flavor! :) Additional ones will be included in the next version.

* Switch off CPU/RAM meter... well, I might add that. But why do you want tooltips if you're going to switch it off anyway? Actually I had a tooltip on the ram meter originally. But since you can't have tooltips on overlay labels (i.e. the meter background) I removed it. Looks kind of odd having a tooltip on the bar only, and not the background. Also, these meters aren't supposed to be extremely accurate or anything. Most people know how much RAM they have, and a quick glance at the meter will let you know roughly how much of that amount is free. Hence I didn't feel that a tooltip with the exact numbers was really necessary. But I'll reconsider it.

* Hmm... the launcher icons doesn't go away? Seems like I must have missed something in a script somewhere. I'll look into it.

* As mentioned in my previous comment, the popup doesn't get updated unless you recycle. I'll have a look at your theme to see how you solved it :)

* The icons for the player are simply characters rendered with the Webdings font.

I'm glad you like my theme, but I don't understand the bit about feeling like a noob... I'm just an oldschool LS themer trying to adapt to the new capabilities of the shell (which feels like an uphill struggle sometimes), and there are other themers out there doing much more advanced stuff. This is really a very basic and modest theme, and looking at other people's work I most often feel like a noob myself :)

Ahh, i should have figured that out with the amp controls! So easy! Good work! :)

What i meant with the n00b thing was mostly about the design of a theme and the look and feel of it. I am allways struggeling with that when im theming. I find it hard to find a look and feel that is unique and still very good for my themes. And that is something you really have nailed in the theme. I love the look and feel of it! :) I could have been more clear about it in my previous post. :)

The tooltip was just something i thought could be usefull. I usally just include it in my themes and sometimes i feel like seening how much my cpu needs to work while doing certain things. (AplhaFade e.g.) and sometimes i dont. Just a thought. Since i like to have the option to go from "minimal" to "fully featured" on a theme that felt like something good.. But then im a person that loves lots of options on a theme so i really can customize it. If you look at what you can configure in my theme (Dangerous Environments) there is alot of stuff to be customized. Im not saying you should do it, your theme dosn´t relly need so many settings..

If you want the "flavor" i did i can mail it to you but since it took like 15s to change it i guess you allready have done more for the next update... :)

And yeah, im sorry if nothing of the above makes any sense. It have been a though day and my brain is melting.. :(

I think West just has a good sense of style, aesthetics, etc. That's why his themes look so... polished, or whatever you want to call it. Some people have it, others don't. You can often recognize us (the others) by the way we dress. =P

Hey, at least my socks match.

hehe so true... :) Now where can i get a good sense of style... *Fires up the allmighty GOOGLE* :P

@Brian: Well... thank you! *blushes*

@n4orcer: I'd be happy to include the flavor you created, just send it my way :) BTW, I couldn't get your DE theme to work; it downloaded a few modules it needed but then -- nada. Nothing happens. Any idea what's wrong?

Ahh, you have encounterd my "netloadmodule-downloads-and-nothing-shows-bug".. :) Just recycle and everything should be fine. :)

then ill send the flavor over to you.. :) just gotta tweak it allittle more first.. :)

EDIT: Flavor has been sent. I hope its usefull.. :P