Create a simplified skin. Is this possible?

Bizzare

2007-06-25 11:14:47 UTC

An admirable goal, my friend, but sadly not one you will be able to
achieve easily with a simple WMP skin.

I believe you can only do this by using WMP as a remoted ActiveX
control object - basically you need to write a program (in VB, C++
or .Net) and embed WMP in your program. Then you can use the WMP
Object Model to do things like working with portable devices e.g. MP3
players.

The WMP SDK (for WMP v10) also states that:

"You can program these interfaces on a standard HTML Web page using
the Player control object model with Microsoft JScript or Microsoft
Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript). You can also program them
in skins by using Microsoft JScript."

So the HTML page route may be easier. I have not seen any examples of
this being done using skins and JScript, hence my somewhat doom-laden
start to this reply =)

Anyway, a good place to start is the WMP10 SDK (download from
http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/7/e/a7e58606-58a3-429b-afc0-50159db5bc13/wmplayer10sdk.exe)
Good luck!

Biz

Post by saltbalk
I want to create a simplified skin for Windows Media Player were I can copy
tracks to a mp3 player. I therefor want the skin to be divided into two
areas. First the library area where the music tracks will be. I want the
tracks to be shown as icons. Then a navigation area where the mp3 player will
show up when I connect it to the computer. Then I want to be able to copy the
files from the library area to the mp3 player by dragging and dropping the
files onto the mp3 player. This is all the skin will contain, nothing else.
No menues, no other button, no other choices in the navigation area. Is there
anybody out there who can tell me if this possible?
Christer