User:Altglass/Skin-Designer Tutorial

Designing Process

First of all you have to design your skin in a graphics program like Photoshop or GIMP.

In the designing process you should think of the following components:

A main window containing:

a play/pause button

a next and a previous button

a faster and a slower button

a stop button

a time slider

a volume slider

a mute button

text information about the current playback

other buttons with specific functions like shuffle,repeat or making other windows and dialogs visible

A playlist window. Either integrate this into the main window or create a separate window for it. The playlist window should contain:

a button to add and a button to remove items from the playlist

a button to export and to import playlist files

a button to sort the playlist alphabetically

An equalizer window. This might also be included into the main window or elsewhere. This window should contain:

A slider to control the preamplification

10 sliders to control the different bands (60Hz, 170Hz, 310Hz, 600Hz, 1kHz, 3kHz, 6kHz, 12kHz, 14kHz, 16kHz)

A button to turn the equalizer on/off