Rockit 4

You won't regret that move!

You know it's funny that a couple of years ago when I first started looking at software, Rockit was the first one that I picked as the one I should go with.

Later, after may others offering their recommendations and advice on what they thought I should use (and after trying them all out) I found myself right back where I started from.....Rockit!

This is not some "butt-kissing" but a true and honest opinion.

Stability, ease of use, awesome price is what made me finally come back home to the "mother-ship"..

Rick, I can't wait to actually show my first creation. It's just now in the design phase, but I think it will turn out pretty cool. Although, this one isn't for me, it does give me some additional ideas. lol

I like those two new skins... hell I might even consider getting Rockit... now that otsav has screwed me on price for the product I wanted... but those two skins would be tight if they had the autodj screen.... but it would need to be a bigger than what the standard skin had.... meaning it needs to display at least the next 10 to 20 songs... makes it easier to build a playlist if ya can see what's in it without having to scroll down a bunch... that's one thing i liked about ots av you had your music library on one side and a playlist on the other... maybe divide your new skins in thirds put the ML tree to the left the music library in the middle and the autoplaylist on the right... and make them scaleable so that if ya wanted to collapse one and expand another you could... know what i mean?

Thoughts?

If you can do that and come up with a midnight blue with oh... green LED style readouts... at 1280 x 1024 or maybe something scaleable between that and something smaller... a toggleable size that way if I want the skin to take over the screen it can and if I want to see my desktop for other purposes I could also... without much delay in changing skins...

If ya can do that I'm buyin'... at the end of February, maybe sooner just depends on funds.

I know since I'm not a Rockit owner... yet my thoughts probably mean squat... but just think about it and let me know.

OK, I didn't read the manual - - but how did you get an amazon downloads playlist? :sqerr:

Joker - customization is so simple. It's based off X & Y axis points on the screen and you just change the coordinates to put everything where you want it. The time consumer for me is creating the actual background, because that's where some of the skin wording/labeling takes place.

You can place your playlists anywhere and at any size you wish.

In fact, I'm working on tweaking the Bright Silver skin right now to increase the size of the autoque holding tank. I hope to have it done early this week.

Papa - he labeled it as such.

See, I would actually print out the manual and read it, but my printer is giving me a hard time...

Randy A said:

Joker - customization is so simple. It's based off X & Y axis points on the screen and you just change the coordinates to put everything where you want it. The time consumer for me is creating the actual background, because that's where some of the skin wording/labeling takes place.

You can place your playlists anywhere and at any size you wish.

In fact, I'm working on tweaking the Bright Silver skin right now to increase the size of the autoque holding tank. I hope to have it done early this week.

Papa - he labeled it as such.

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Sound simple enough but I suck at computer graphic and programing...

I wouldn't even know what to use to do all that in...

And if I did it would take me forever and a day to do...

I'll ask again once I'm an owner.

Dude... you have New Orleans in the "A" player..... warms my heart....

I wouldn't even consider it programming....you open up a file, change some numbers and see where you moved the parts and pieces. Trial and error is how I'm doing it. I save a good copy and start tweaking. Mess it up, save the good copy back over the top of my goofs and try it again.

Rick has done a good job of labeling things so you easily identify them and his instructions within the XML file is pretty self-explanitory.

SoftJock Rick said:

Not at all Rob. Just like you treat a potential client, so do I -- I charge less though


As Randy mentioned, you can modify Rockit 4 to your hearts content. Some things you mentioned, are not feasible with a fully user skinnable design though...

For example, making windows scalable, is virtually impossible, when the user has full control over the interface design. It's doable, but the overhead of keeping track of the users choices would be way too much, and mess up Rockit's stability.


The whole reason I made it totally user customizable, was so that I wouldn't have to do all these skins, and that other people would use their imaginations to develop them to fit their needs.

You can take any skin I've already done, and tweak it the way you want. All that is required is a knowledge of English, as the skin files are just XML text files.

Every function in Rockit is still available, even if not shown on the skin, so you can hide things, make them visible, etc.

Try it -- it's a lot of fun doing a skin, or just modifying one...

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are there any graphical xml editor's that can take that text file and turn it more into a drag and drop type setup... like building a web page?

I've screwed around with xml before and css too.... just curious.

Randy A said:

I wouldn't even consider it programming....you open up a file, change some numbers and see where you moved the parts and pieces. Trial and error is how I'm doing it. I save a good copy and start tweaking. Mess it up, save the good copy back over the top of my goofs and try it again.

Rick has done a good job of labeling things so you easily identify them and his instructions within the XML file is pretty self-explanitory.

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I'll have to look at that... later right now I'm at work so I can't jump into it... so to speak.

If it's labled good then I might be ok to setup things.... the way i'd like em'

hmmm... another project that will take my time and piss my wife off.... o well sounds like fun!

Ooohhh! I'm getting all giddy, like a little school girl! :sqerr:

Doing my "Rockit 4.0" upgrade tonight!

I spent the past hour tweaking the Bright Silver skin. I still have some final options to add and move around, but thought I'd share it with everyone before I called it a night.