
Shock Skin Version 3.0 Transparent Release Notes
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Skin is for private use only! Any commerical use is prohibited unless approved by the author. Upon installing and using skin you agree not to use the software for advertising, selling, or other profiteering activities including, but not limited to, using the software to sell your hardware. You are free to modify, distribute or add to the code as long as it does not infringe upon the terms above. This skin is distributed as "open source" and all code shall remain open source if you choose to use it in any way.      

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Changelog from version 2.0: 

New layout to MP3 and VID browser menus, FM menu and SET menu, mostly tweaking of labels. Graphics completely redone on all skins in .PNG (portable network graphic) transparent format. A split screen mode for GPS is now available by hitting 'split' from the mp3 menu. A new menu is also found under set > background to change your background wallpaper. Select the background you want to use and hit 'apply'. You can add any .jpg file to the 'background'  directory in this skin and use it. Best wallpaper resolution is 800x480 or 800x600 wallpapers. Background path is written to a file called skin.ini when you change it. Upon first launch you may notice no wallpaper as the skin.ini has the path from my system and you need to select a wallpaper for it update the path in skin.ini. This version requires registering the GDIpluswrapper.dll with your system. If you have not done this yet please head over to the scripts directory in the skin and run REGISTER_GDI.bat. This will register the dll file necessary to take advantage of the transparent features. To Use GDI+ you also MUST set fastmode=-1 in RR.INI Also please make sure you are using roadrunner.exe from 4-12-2007 or newer, older versions of RR do not support GDI. Skin opereration is the same as previous release except with the addition of the exit and background menu. The 'sleep' button on the exit menu is coded to make the system hibernate. The logo.jpeg code has been removed from this version due to the ability to have any background present. Song slider in audio_player.skin has been fixed. You can now scoll song position again with the transparent slider. (this was broken in v2.0) Please install fonts located in the FONTS folder before loading skin. There is a 'development mode' menu launched by clicking a hidden button on the main menu on the right side centered between the date and time. This will launch menu_2.skin that has user defined button labels. This menu is still in development but serves as the framework for future versions that have more features. Right now the only button that has fuctionality is the "files" button that will launch the file management. I hope to add support for phones and album art very soon as these are requested features. A couple more small tweaks to the code to make it better or improve speed.        
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Right now GPS menu supports External GPS mode only. You must set GPS mode to 'external' in RRconfig. Full screen GPS mode is launched by pressing the 'NAV' button again in the standard gps mode. Full screen GPS is hard coded for iGuidance. If you dig into the External_GPS.skin you can see a comment line near the end to launch the full screen GPS app. You will need to modify this line in order to use an app besides iGuidance in full screen mode. 

The static bottom bar has different functions in certain menus but the same icons. The "X" on the bar is mute, the button with the 2 arrows is to toggle shuffle mode. Please note that neither of these buttons have indicators.

Audio Browser mode is launched from hitting 'MP3' button again while in the audio player skin. Bottons on right handle playlist navigation.
 
Video Browser mode is loaded when you hit press 'VID' button again in video mode. Play button now loads the selected movie in browser mode. 

The EWF menu is for embedded systems only. It serves no function unless you are running an embedded setup. If you are running XPE place the 3 batch files included directly on your c: drive to make the EWF menu work.

Lastly, this skin was custom designed for my system and how I use my carPC. I know everyone uses their systems differently so If you would like to add menus, functions, etc. I have included the PSD files so you can add or change the menu's.

Version 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 can all be installed and ran side by side. Versions 1.0 and 2.0 can be considered legacy versions at this point. 

If you have any suggestions please let me know so I can implement them into version 4.0

Most of the new code for this skin was generated with RRskineditor V0.3.024 and the skin can be opened and modified with this application.  

Enjoy!

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