User:Altglass/Skin-Designer Tutorial

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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