Tested it out on my UMPC, turns out the custom background code wasn't forcing fullscreen. I looked at the code, and I made 2 typos.

http://www7.rapidupload.com/d.php?file=dl&filepath=34155

Fixed.

Oh, forgot to mention another bug/annoyance fix. When I added thumbnail generation to the photo mode, I increased the size of the list items when viewing the Now Playing list, thus limiting how many items fit on screen. I changed it so this size increase only affects photo mode.

Future additions, bug fixes:

-The other photo transitions (Slide, Mosaic, Kodak Moment) and if I didn't do it already, add random view order

-The caption in the second bar at the top is not kept up to date when you're browsing

-When watching movies, I disabled screen redraw cause it produced an annoying flicker.

-Battery indicator

-Restore/Maximize button

-Save/load shuffle/repeat states

-support dualview

-When you start viewing a movie, photo or the now playing list, then go back to the library you have to start from the beginning. I wanna make it remember your last position

-The flipping volume bar disappears despite me telling it not to

-The title of the current track can go into the buttons. I'll truncate the length

-That pink border when viewing programs

-Custom font color, since it's unreadable when you use a lighter background

-Correct the icons for audio and video files. The little frame is only for albums/folders/playlists

-Fix the opacity of the menu on the right side in Settings. I don't know why it's ignoring what I set

-Make it so when you click the thumbnail, while playing a movie, it returns to fill the center of the screen, not the fullscreen

-Maybe make the play button turn into a picture of a pause button when paused

Can anyone else find any issues they may have?

I tried this for the first time today and I am very impressed with the look of this. Well done. Other than that though I could not get it to work. My hardware buttons for navigating did not work (R2H) and I could not navigate to my entire harddrive with the stylus. I only saw "my documents" "My pictures" and "My movies". Is there something I missed? Ohh also I could not close the program either.Maybe something I did wrong?

HerDinky:

I tried this for the first time today and I am very impressed with the look of this. Well done. Other than that though I could not get it to work. My hardware buttons for navigating did not work (R2H) and I could not navigate to my entire harddrive with the stylus. I only saw "my documents" "My pictures" and "My movies". Is there something I missed? Ohh also I could not close the program either.Maybe something I did wrong?

To add more folders you have to click Settings, Library, Add Folder. It uses a media database type system (like the actual program does, but I do it a bit differently)

To close the program click the X in the top right hand corner.

This program makes no use of hardware buttons. Stylus only.

Now don't I feel like I have egg on my face. Don't understand how I could have missed the x. Thanks for explaining the workings of the program. Do you think there is any chance of getting the hardware buttons to work?

HerDinky:

Now don't I feel like I have egg on my face. Don't understand how I could have missed the x.

It's no problem. It looks different, it just threw off your pattern recognition

 Thanks for explaining the workings of the program. Do you think there is any chance of getting the hardware buttons to work?

You're welcome. I could easily get them to work. Keyboard controls are easier than the mouse actually. I'd just need to add a new item to the settings menu, and you'd have to press the hardware buttons while having text boxes selected (see my minesweeper's options menu for an example)

I could have it so one button is pause/play, one next track, one previous, one open/close fullscreen.

Tell me, does anyone know if all UMPCs have a dpad (that uses the arrow keys) Or is it just EOs and Q1s?

Downloaded it and it was good.

 

Does this leave any traces on the computer toher than whats in the Zip?

It creates a settings.hini file in the same folder as itself.

If cachethumbnails is set to true, it leaves *.thm files with the same name as image files in whatever folder it found those in

Progress report:

Ive fixed about half of the items on the list and a couple that weren't. Including dualview support, I'll upload it once house is over

http://rapidshare.com/files/46245069/eXPerience.zip.html

Rapidupload stopped working for me

Also, dualview only works for movies. Photos are displayed within the skinning engine, which only supports one destination. Which would be the original form.

As a note, the API I found is a pain in the ass. It may detect where your second monitor is, incorrectly. In which (annoying) case, I programmed it to assume monitor 2 is directly right to the built in monitor (1)

That's now the third case of Windows API not working properly. It's getting somewhat annoying

http://rapidshare.com/files/46264529/eXPerience.zip.html

Oops, forgot to test turning dualview off.

Currently there is a bug where if you turn dualview off in windows itself, while having dualview on in the program, the media window will be lost. I'll fix that in the next version, but it shouldn't come up too often

I've been using dualview for a few hours now. It works great, but I think the main form no longer receives state change notices from the media player control, thus no longer detecting when the current track is done. I'm sure I can fix that too.

http://rapidshare.com/files/46403175/XPerience.zip.html

NeoTechni:

Currently there is a bug where if you turn dualview off in windows itself, while having dualview on in the program, the media window will be lost. 

 I think the main form no longer receives state change notices from the media player control, thus no longer detecting when the current track is done.

Both those bugs have been fixed, among a couple others. Mainly things like forgetting to hide buttons when clicking stuff, like scrolling down in the Now Playing section would forget to hide the remove and favorite buttons. Resizing while viewing a picture now refreshes said picture.

You can now choose your font color. Except for the vertical text of the now playing and library tabs which are drawn directly into the skin.

All that's left is:

-The other photo transitions (Slide, Mosaic, Kodak Moment)
-Battery indicator
-Restore/Maximize button
-When you start viewing a movie, photo or the now playing list, then go back to the library you have to start from the beginning. I wanna make it remember your last position
-That pink border when viewing programs
-Correct the icons for audio and video files. The little frame is only for albums/folders/playlists

http://rapidshare.com/files/46409545/XPerience.zip.html

All that's left is

-The other photo transitions (Slide, Mosaic, Kodak Moment)
-Battery indicator
-Restore/Maximize button
-That pink border when viewing programs
-Correct the icons for audio and video files. The little frame is only for albums/folders/playlists

 

Oh, I forgot. I'll add hardware button support too.

So how does it work on other UMPCs? Do they just act regular buttons like on mine?

On mine I enter a program, and bind the buttons to act as any button on a keyboard. So I can detect those.

Hey NeoTechni, you should add something that detects the resolution, and new background images to fit different resolutions. Been playing with your app (which is very nice) on my UX180, all of the UX UMPCs use a 1024x600 resolution, and it would work with no problem on the UXs if you added a higher resolution background. At the moment, the maximize button works well, but there is a big white area where the background doesn't fit. Good luck with the app.