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Adding a Playlist

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You can use playlists to choose from collections of your audio and video.

Using the artwork from your first skin, you can make a few changes to the skin definition file.

The first step is to use the shell you will use for most skins:

<THEME>
    <VIEW
        clippingColor = "#CCCC00"
        backgroundImage = "background.bmp"
        titleBar = "false">

        <BUTTONGROUP
            mappingImage = "map.bmp"
            hoverImage = "hover.bmp"> 
                
    </VIEW>


</THEME>

Now add a second VIEW, which contains a playlist. Place the following code after the of the shell code.

     <VIEW 
          id = "playview">
          <PLAYLIST/>
     </VIEW>

You will need to give this second view an ID so you can refer to it later. Add a PLAYELEMENT and a STOPELEMENT. These predefined buttons make life easier.

        <PLAYELEMENT
            mappingColor = "#00FF00" />
                          
        <STOPELEMENT
            mappingColor = "#FF0000" />

Finally, add an onClick event to the PLAYELEMENT to display a playlist in the second view:

            onClick = "JScript: theme.openView('playview');" />

You can see a similar working playlist skin in the sample section of the SDK.

Skin Creation Guide