[IceEnclosure]

soo yea, I thought I'd be slick and change the color of the display on the iTunes widget.

I changed 'default.png' and 'body.png' and of course there's all the little yellow-green pieces too. well, upon changing them, voila, my iTunes widget is now transparent, with just the scroll wheel and the display showing the song playing, all while hovering over nothingness. This is not what I wanted.

I have the default pieces, and replaced them all and it's still doing it.

No need to tell me I'm an idiot, I already know that. Is there a fix? (besides maybe pacifist or something

oh, and - is what I was trying to do even possible? It looked beautiful, nice blue-ish screen with regular colored player body. It'd display for a second when it launched in dashboard, but then go transparent.. : \

[IceEnclosure]

what we all know it should look like:





what it's currently looking like:





what I wanted it to look like:




anyone know how I can get it back to normal? or sumthin'?

[Timan]

Just going to ask this, because I did this earlier, if you used photoshop to save the png, make sure you save it as png and not psd lol, I being stupid, saved it as a psd with a .png extension, it caused some problems.

[IceEnclosure]

Originally Posted by Timan

Just going to ask this, because I did this earlier, if you used photoshop to save the png, make sure you save it as png and not psd lol, I being stupid, saved it as a psd with a .png extension, it caused some problems.

a psd with a .png extension? hm.

this is a .png with transparency, it's the real deal.

additionally, the original .png files that were in the iTunes widget, once put back where they belong, continue to behave this way.

anyone??

[strokemouth]

Judging from the "?" in your picture, it looks like one of the images can't be loaded for some reason.

[IceEnclosure]

Originally Posted by strokemouth

Judging from the "?" in your picture, it looks like one of the images can't be loaded for some reason.

when Dashboard first loads after a restart, the image is correct, and the widget looks fine.. about three seconds later, poof, a blue question mark.

[IceEnclosure]

jeez, almost 200 views and two responses.

[CreepingDeth]

We love horror stories.
See if someone has another copy of the widget, erase yours, use his, try it, then use your mod. I'm not sure if each individual widget has a log or cache or something. Maybe that might be it. But what do I know?

[OptimusG4]

Did you try viewing the widget in Safari and looking at activity monitor to see what is up?

[IceEnclosure]

Originally Posted by OptimusG4

Did you try viewing the widget in Safari and looking at activity monitor to see what is up?

neat-o.. what will that do?

[IceEnclosure]

I can't seem to get Safari to view the widget.. lil help

[themarvelous3]

off topic, but i've never used Dashboard before 10.4 and i just have to say...it's ��ck*ng sweet! : )

[strokemouth]

Originally Posted by IceEnclosure

I can't seem to get Safari to view the widget.. lil help

Open the main html file in Safari (right-click the iTunes.wdgt, show package contents), not the widget itself. After it's open, go to Window -> Activity, or cmd-opt-A. If something doesn't get loaded, you'll see it in the Activity window.

[IceEnclosure]

thanks strokemouth (eww), that did the trick..

there was an additional file, dunno how I missed it (thanks spotlight!)

it's working now, I just need to figure out how to change the color of the text in the display window...

[IceEnclosure]

Originally Posted by themarvelous3

off topic, but i've never used Dashboard before 10.4 and i just have to say...it's ��ck*ng sweet! : )

your sig is ridiculous. lee large.

[Hi I'm Mike]

plus dashobard hasn't been out before 10.4!?!! So you have started using it when the rest of us started! Welcome to life.

[strokemouth]

Originally Posted by IceEnclosure

thanks strokemouth (eww), that did the trick..

there was an additional file, dunno how I missed it (thanks spotlight!)

it's working now, I just need to figure out how to change the color of the text in the display window...

Glad it's working, it looks great!

As for the text color, take a look in iTunes.css within the widget. There are choices for #titleDisplay and #timeDisplay. You should be able to change the colors with those.

[cybergoober]

Care to post your mod for download... for the graphics-challenged among us?

That blue-green one looked quite nice.

[IceEnclosure]

Originally Posted by cybergoober

Care to post your mod for download... for the graphics-challenged among us?

That blue-green one looked quite nice.

sure, gimme a day or so to put a folder together.. I'll post it in this thread methinks

[cybergoober]

Cool.

Thank you very much.

[themarvelous3]

Originally Posted by Hi I'm Mike

plus dashobard hasn't been out before 10.4!?!! So you have started using it when the rest of us started! Welcome to life.

hmmm...i thought i remembered seeing long discussions about it on here in the past.

i don't know who "lee" is.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by themarvelous3

hmmm...i thought i remembered seeing long discussions about it on here in the past.

And the current outcome of these discussions is that signatures may not be larger than 200 x 50 pixels. Yours is 300 x 205 pixels, and is thus far too big. If the mods see it, they will give you a warning to change it; if you don't, they will delete it and prevent you from being able to change your signature yourself.

i don't know who "lee" is.

If you're being sarcastic here, haha. If not, dear God. Ridiculous. Lee large = ridiculously large.



Ice: Nice mod, I like the blue one very much.

Looking forward to my copy of Tiger actually shipping (ordered on the 28th, just got an order confirmation e-mail today. Am expecting the thing to ship some time in September ), so I can start doing some of this cool stuff too...

[themarvelous3]

Originally Posted by Ois�n

And the current outcome of these discussions is that signatures may not be larger than 200 x 50 pixels. Yours is 300 x 205 pixels, and is thus far too big. If the mods see it, they will give you a warning to change it; if you don't, they will delete it and prevent you from being able to change your signature yourself.



If you're being sarcastic here, haha. If not, dear God. Ridiculous. Lee large = ridiculously large.



Ice: Nice mod, I like the blue one very much.

Looking forward to my copy of Tiger actually shipping (ordered on the 28th, just got an order confirmation e-mail today. Am expecting the thing to ship some time in September ), so I can start doing some of this cool stuff too...

yes i got it.


i must have thinking of the Dashboard theme.

[IceEnclosure]

prettty