Simple Skin - Is there a limit to title length?

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Jun. 29, 2009Algis

I am using the Simple Skin.

I am displaying only the titles of songs and videos in a bottom playlist, which is 320px wide. Titles and locations are stored in an XML file.The player is 320px wide. I would like the playlist to display a title as long as "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." I'm only getting "Boogie Woogie Bugle," which fills about half the width of the playlist.

Is this built in to Simple Skin? Is there a way of changing this in the Simple Skin source code fla? I see that the playlist is made out of dynamic text, which I assume it is getting from the XML. Is there a way of extending the space available for the title, or does it mean "rebuilding" the skin?

Thank you.

Jul. 01, 2009Algis

Answering my own question:

Open the skin source code .fla in Flash CS3.

Keep double-clicking on the player in the playlist area until you reach the "duration" dynamic text field (or "title" or "author"). Delete fields you don't want - in my case "author" and "duration". drag the "title text field to fill the entire available area.

Save the .fla file with a new name and publish the .swf file.
Use the newfile.swf as your skin.

Font changes can be made the same way

Jul. 02, 2009JensenF

I did not understand you mean, my English is not good.
Sorry

Jul. 06, 2009Algis

I was trying to quickly explain how I edited the "Simple" skin .fla file in the Adobe Flash CS3 program.

I'm afraid I can't explain it more fully.

There are extensive book tutorials and web tutorials about how to use the Adobe Flash CS3 program, and how to edit .flas files and to publish .swf files.

Sep. 08, 2009sl

@Algis: I wanted to do the same thing with the simple skin (so title was full width), but I don't have access to Flash CS3. Would you be willing to upload your edited swf file somewhere so I can use it?
A non-bold or slightly smaller font would be nice too, but not necessary. Trying to get player as close to 240 width and still have full song titles.

or anybody else that can do the same edit?

Thanks in advance!

sorry for replying to an older thread, but I didn't want to start a new thread since this already existed.

Sep. 09, 2009sl

Nevermind my above post, I found a copy of CS3 and was able to make the edits myself.

However, thanks to Agis for his 2nd post, it pointed me in the right direction considering I've never used flash before.

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