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skin.ini Reference

General Notes

File format and location

The skin.ini file must be located in the config folder, along with the other ini files managed by the configuration software (e.g. mAirList.ini). You must create it manually using a text editor.

The file uses the typical syntax for .ini files:

[Section1]
Key1=Value
Key2=Value

[Section2]
Key1=Value
Key2=Value

The available section names and key names are given in the reference below.

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Colors

All colors are specified in HTML color format, with six hex digits, e.g. #FF0000.

Fonts

For all fonts, there are four available settings:

FontName Name of the font, e.g. Arial
FontSize Size in pixels
FontColor Font color in HTML format
FontStyle 1 = bold, 2 = italic, 4 = underline, 8 = strikeout; add numbers to combine styles, e.g. 5 = bold+underline

In the reference below, we will only give the base name of the font setting, e.g. TitleFont – the available settings are then TitleFontName, TitleFontSize, TitleFontColor and TitleFontStyle.

Common Settings

Progress bar colors

The following settings can be used to change the appearence of the progress bar in the Playlist, Player, Cartwall and ProgressBar (for the global progress bar) sections.

ProgressBarElapsedColor Elapsed section
ProgressBarOutroColor Outro section
ProgressBarRemainColor Remaining section
ProgressBarRamp1Color Ramp1 remaining section
ProgressBarRamp2Color Ramp2 remaining section
ProgressBarRamp3Color Ramp3 remaining section
ProgressBarElapsedRampColor Elapsed ramp section
ProgressBarBorderColor Border around the progress bar and between parts in split mode
ProgressBarIdleColor Fill color when player is empty
ProgressBarIdleBorderColor Border when player is empty

Waveforms

InactiveColor Background color when player is empty
InactiveBorderColor Border color when player is empty
BackgroundColor General background color
NormalColor General waveform color
FocusedColor General waveform color when waveform has focus
CueColor Color of waveform before Cue In
PlayedColor Color of elapsed part
CueDataColor Color of cue data markers
CueMarkerLineWidth Width of the cue position/marker lines
CuePositionFont Font for cue position times (color is set automatically for cue markers)
PositionColor Color of current playback position line
PositionLineWidth Width of current playback position line
EnvelopeColor Background color of volume envelope
EnvelopeLineColor Line color of volume envelope
EnvelopeBoxColor Color of volume envelope nodes/boxes
EnvelopeLineWidth Width of volume envelope lines
FadeLineWidth Width of fade triangle lines
TimelineColor Color of timeline scale
TimelineFont Font for timeline scale
TimelineBackgroundColor Background color of timeline scale
TitleFont Font for item title
TitleBackgroundColor Background color for item title

Buttons

The following settings apply to all “graphical” buttons (not standard Windows buttons), e.g. the start/stop/… buttons of the players, and toolbars built from these buttons (e.g the playlist control bar).

The button settings are prefixed by a particular button identifier as specified below, e.g. PlayButtonActiveFontName.

UseGradient Use gradient fill? Default: off
<State>Color The background color
<State>GradientColor The gradient background color (if UseGradient is enabled)
<State>BorderColor The border color
<State>Font The font to use (for buttons that have text)
<State>FontColor The font color to use (for buttons that have text)

The available states are:

Active Button is active
ActiveHover Button is active, and mouse pointer is inside button
Inactive Button is inactive
InactiveHover Button is inactive, and mouse pointer is inside button
Disabled Button is disabled

You can also leave out the <State> part in the rule name to adjust the settings for all states at the same time. Use only Button as button identifier prefix, e.g. ButtonFontName.

Button toolbars

The following settings apply to all toolbars made of graphical buttons – currently only used for the Cartwall toolbar. The individual buttons can be adjusted by prepending their <ID> to the particular settings.

Height Height of the toolbar
FullWidth Use all available horizontal space?
BackgroundColor Background color
<ID>ButtonVisible Set to off in order to hide the button
<ID>ButtonMarginLeft Left margin in pixels
<ID>ButtonMarginRight Right margin in pixels
<ID>ButtonMarginTop Top margin in pixels
<ID>ButtonMarginBottom Bottom margin in pixels
<ID>ButtonCaption Button caption (for buttons that display a text)

Tree/list colors

All tree- and list-like components (e.g. the playlist, browsers, …) have a couple of common settings that can be used in the appropriate settings:

BorderColor
DisabledColor
DropMarkColor
DropTargetBorderColor
FocusedSelectionBorderColor
FocusedSelectionColor
GridLineColor
HeaderHotColor
HotColor
SelectionRectangleBlendColor
SelectionRectangleBorderColor
TreeLineColor
UnfocusedSelectionBorderColor
UnfocusedSelectionColor

Main Window

General settings

For the general settings, use the section [MainWindow].

Color General background color
Background Full filename of a background image to use; works only in custom layout mode

Toolbar

The section [Toolbar] controls the appearance of the toolbar in the main playout window.

Visible on or off (default: on)
List In “List” mode, small icons are used, with the text next to them; default: off
Captions Show button captions? default: on
AutoSize Automatically adjust size? default: off

You can also hide the individual buttons in the toolbar (and the separators between them) by setting any of the following values to off:

ShowNew New button
ShowOpen Open button
ShowSave Save button
ShowSeparator0 Separator between Save and Insert
ShowInsert Insert button
ShowProperties Properties button
ShowDelete Delete button
ShowSeparator1 Separator between Delete and Actions
ShowActions Actions button (if Menu Actions are defined)
ShowEvents Events button
ShowCartwall Cartwall button
ShowMixEditor Mix Editor button
ShowVoiceTracking Voice Tracking button
ShowBrowser Browser button
ShowSeparator2 Separator between Browser and mAirList
ShowAbout mAirList button

Playlist

Use section [Playlist] for settings that will effect all playlists, [Playlist0] only for the first playlist, [Playlist1] for the second, and so on.

Row appearance

The following settings can be used to change the appearance of the rows in the playlist:

DefaultRowColor The default row background color (if no other entry matches)
<Selector>RowColor The background color
<Selector>RibbonColor The ribbon color (since version 6.0)
<Selector>RowPadding The row padding (extra space between text and cell boundary)
<Selector>Font The font to be used

About selectors

Selectors allow you to specify settings that only affect particular rows, based on their type, state, etc. If you are familiar with HTML/CSS, this is pretty much like HTML classes and CSS class selectors.

For example, to change only the font of the “Title” column, use:

TitleFontName=Arial

Another example: Set the background to red for all items that are currently playing:

PlayingRowColor=#FF0000

You can also combine the various selector options – change the font style of the “Title” column for items that are currently playing:

PlayingTitleFontStyle=1

Generally, the selector for RowColor and RowPadding rules has the following form:

[Alternate]<Player State><Item Type><Item Class><Level>

For Font rules, there is an extra Font Category component:

[Alternate]<Player State><Item Type><Item Class><Font Category><Level>

The available options for the various components are described below. You can leave out any component, e.g. Player State, in which case the line will match all player states.

Remember that the skin.ini file is parsed from top to bottom. If there are multiple lines that match a particular row, the last line will have effect. So you should put more general rules to the top, and more specific rules to the bottom of the list.

Alternate

Rules starting with Alternate will only affect every other row – they allow you to create a striped table like this:

RowColor=#FFFFFF
AlternateRowColor=#F0F0F0

(Note that the – more general – RowColor rule comes first, it would override the AlternateRowColor rule otherwise.)

Player State

The following values can be used for Player State in order to select a row based on the state of the player in which the item is loaded:

Loading Player is being loaded
Loaded Player is loaded and ready
Next Player is loaded and ready, and is next in sequence
Playing Player is playing
Fading Player is fading
EOF Player is at EOF
Error Player has an error, or prebuffering failed
Paused Player is paused
PFL Player is in PFL mode
Empty Item is not loaded into any player
Played Item has been played
Skipped Item was skipped
Overflow Item is “overflow” (will be skipped due to a following fixed time item)

There are two special “Player State” values that are used for rows that do not represent playlist items:

Underrun An “Underrun” indicator node
Region A region node (when you expand a Region Container playlist item)

Item Type

This component selects a row based on the Item Type as set in the item properties. Currently, the following values are available:

Unknown
Music
Voice
News
Weather
Traffic
Advertising
Package
Jingle
Sound
Effect
Trailer
Promo
Sponsorship
Sweeper
Drop
StationID
Bed
Instrumental
Show
Stream
Container
Playlist
Command
Break
Dummy
Silence
Error
Other
Custom1
Custom2
Custom3

Item Class

In addition to the Item Type (which the user can edit in the Properties dialog), you can also select rows based on the Class of the playlist item:

File
Stream
Break
Command
Container
Dummy
Other

Font Category

The following fonts can be adjusted through the skin:

PlayerName The font used for the name of the player that the item is loaded into
Backtiming The font used for the backtiming info displayed in the “Time” column
Title The font for the title of the item
Artist The font for the artist of the item
Duration The font for the Duration column
Ramp The font for the Ramp column
Ending The font for the Ending column
Attribute The font for all attribute columns
Comment The font for expanded comments
Warning Font used to display warnings, i.e. the Underrun warning etc.

Level

When the Expandable Containers GUI option is turned on, and you click the + button to expand a container, there will be a hierachy of playlist items, and the playlist will act like a tree. (And the container could have another container inside!)

The optional Level component in the selector allows you to define rules only for a particular level in that tree, e.g. to use a smaller font for the items inside the container. Level 0 is the top level, level 1 is for the items inside a container on top level, level 2 for items inside a container inside a container and so on.

DefaultRowColor vs. RowColor

DefaultRowColor and RowColor appear to do the same thing, as they define the color for all nodes that have no specific skin.ini setting (note that RowColor has an empty selector, so it matches all rows). But there are two differences:

  1. DefaultRowColor only affects playlist item nodes, no “region” or “underrun” nodes.
  2. When the GUI option /Item-specific colors have priority over skin.ini/ is turned off (so that skin has always priority over item-specific colors/, and you have a plain RowColor rule, that rule would always override the item-specific colors. Use DefaultRowColor instead in this situation (it has always lower priority than the item-specific color).

Overlay

The following settings control the position and appearence of the ramp/EOF overlay display:

OverlayFont Font to be used for the overlay
OverlayFontColor Color of the overlay font
OverlayBackgroundColor Fixed background color; default: transparent
OverlayOutlineWidth Width of the font outline
OverlayOutlineColor Color of the font outline
OverlayPosition Inside the playlist display, as cardinal direction: N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW. Default: C (center)
OverlayPaddingX Horizontal padding
OverlayPaddingY Vertical padding

Progress bar

Use the progress bar color settings described in the General section above.

Control bar/toolbar

To adjust the control bar (toolbar) of the playlist, add section [PlaylistToolbar] and use the following settings:

BackgroundColor Background color
<Button>Button Appearance of the individual buttons, see General section above

The available buttons are:

AssistAuto Combined ASSIST/AUTO button
Assist ASSIST button
Auto AUTO button
Stop STOP button
Play PLAY button
Next NEXT button
Event Box with time of next event
EndTime End time box
HidePlayedItems Hide Played Items switch
AutoFloat Auto-Float button
MoveUp Move Up button
MoveDown Move Down button
EditBar Edit bar visibility switch
EditTiming Timing button (edit bar)
EditHourlyFixTime Hourly fixed time button (edit bar)
EditMoveUp Move Up button (edit bar)
EditMoveDown Move Down button (edit bar)

You can leave out the <Button> part to adjust all buttons at the same time.

Other settings

BackgroundColor Background of the playlist where no rows are
SelectedFontColor The font to be used for rows selected with the mouse
MainColumn Index of the column where the +/- tree buttons should appear, first is 0, default: 2 (icon column)
GridLineStyle dotted (default) or solid
ProgressBarHeight Height of the progress bar
ProgressBarMargin Number of pixels between progress bar and artist/title text
GridLines Show horizontal lines between rows, on or off (default: on)
VertGridLines Show vertical lines between columns, on or off (default: off)
HideSelection don't show selected rows when playlist loses focus; on or off (default: off)
ColWidths Widths of the individual columns in pixels, as comma-separated list of numbers; for the “auto size column”, use *; hide a column with 0
ColumnOrder Order of the columns, as comma-separated list of numbers
TitlePercentage How much of the width of the artist/title column should be used for the title in non-extended display? (default: 50)
IconSize Fixed size of the playlist icons, in number of pixels; default: 0 (auto-size)

Player

Use the section [Player] to adjust the appearance of all players, [Player0_0] only for the first player of the first playlist (PLAYER 1-1, in terms of remote control), and so on.

Colors

The background color of the player can be adjusted with the following settings:

<Player State>Color Background color for the particular state
BorderColor Color for border outline

Unfortunately, the following option is currently not available due to changes in mAirlist skin programming.
Player State can be left empty to adjust all colors at the same time, or use one of the following values:

Empty Player is empty
Loading Player is being loaded
Loaded Player is loaded and ready
Next Player is loaded and ready, and is next in sequence
Playing Player is playing
Fading Player is fading
EOF Player is at EOF
Error Player has an error
Paused Player is paused
Stopped Player is stopped (not used normally)
PFL Player is in PFL mode
FlashEOF Color used to indicate EOF warning

Fonts

The fonts for the individual states can be adjusted as follows:

<Player State><Font Category>Font

where <Font Category> is one of the following (or empty to adjust all fonts at the same time):

Name Name of the player
Time Time display
Title Item title
Artist Item artist
State Player state (e.g. CUE, ON AIR)

For <Player State> use one of the values from the table in the Colors section above, or leave empty to adjust all states at the same time.

Progress bar

Use the progress bar color settings described in the General section above.

Waveform

Use the waveform settings described in the General section above, prefix all settings with Waveform, e.g. WaveformInactiveColor=….

Buttons

ButtonSize Size of the buttons in pixels
<Button>Button Settings for particular button

See the list in the General section for the available button settings.

<Button> can be one of the following (or empty to adjust all buttons at the same time):

Start
Stop
Pause
Close
PFL
Loop
Hook
FadeOut
Reset

Other settings

ProgressBarHeight Height of the progress bar
ProgressBarMargin Margin above progress bar
WaveformHeight Height of the waveform
WaveformMargin Margin above waveform
VolumeSliderWidth Width of volume slider
VolumeSliderThumbWidth Width of volume slider thumb (default: VolumeSliderWidth - 15)

XML Layout

(todo)

Cartwall

Cartwall settings go into the [Cartwall] section.

General Settings

ToolbarVisible Cartwall Toolbar is visible or hidden; default is on

General color settings

ErrorColor Color of players in ERROR state
PlayerDarkFontColor Used in STOPPED, PAUSED, ERROR state
InverseFontColorThreshold The brightness value (0..255) below which the background color is considered “dark” (see next setting), default: 128
PlayerInverseFontColor Used when current background color is darker than InverseFontColorThreshold
ResizeNodeActiveColor Color of active resize nodes in design mode
ResizeNodeInactiveColor Color of inactive resize nodes in design mode
WindowBackgroundColor Background color for the Cartwall window
BackgroundColor Background of the Cartwall when no player is loaded

On Air Mode dependent color settings

The following colors can be adjusted based on the current “on air” mode:

<Mode>PlayerColor Default player color if no specific color has been set for that cart
<Mode>BackgroundColor Background color for cartwall
<Mode>GridColor Grid line color
InactiveBrightness Brightness adjustment for inactive players, default: 0.6

where <Mode> is empty (adjust all modes at the same time) or one of the following:

OnAir ON AIR mode
OffAir OFF AIR mode
PFL PFL mode

Tabs

Work in progress, reference might be incorrect.

These settings take effect from Version 6.2 Build 4111 on.

TabColorTabActive Color for active tab
TabColorTabHot Color when mouse pointer is inside inactive tab (“hover”)
TabColorTabInActive Color for inactive tab
TabColorTxtActive Text color for active tab
TabColorTxtHot Text color when mouse pointer is inside inactive tab (“hover”)
TabColorTxtInActive Text color for inactive tab
TabColorBrdActive Border color for active Tab
TabColorBrdHot Border color when mouse pointer is inside inactive tab (“hover”)
TabColorBrdInActive Border color for inactive tab
TabColorBrdBottom Border color for bottom line below tabs
TabColorBackground Background color for tab
TabColorOutActive Outline color for active tab
TabColorOutHot Outline color for selected tab
TabColorOutInActive Outline color for inactive tab

TabColorBackground takes precedence over TabColorActive and TabColorBrdBottom.
TabColorBrdBottom takes precedence over TabColorBrdInActive.

The color of TabColorBrdHot changes the border color of the empty “new page” tab.

Fonts

IndexFont Font for the cart index/number
TitleFont Font for the item title and artist
TimeFont Font for the time display

Progress bar

Use the settings described in the General section of this document,

Toolbar

To hide the cartwall toolbar, please use ToolbarVisible=off in the [Cartwall] section (see above).

The cartwall toolbar can be adjusted through the [CartwallToolbar] section. For the settings, see section Button toolbars above. The IDs of the available buttons/elements in the toolbar are:

Menu
Favorites
NewPage
OpenPage
SavePage
DesignMode
Color
Waveform
OnAir
PFL
Next

Other settings

IconMargin default: 4
TabFont Font used for the tabs of the individual pages
TabHeight Height of the tabs, set to 0 for auto height according to font
TabWidth Width of the tabs, default 200, set to 0 for auto width

Browser

Unless otherwise noted, all settings go into the [Browser] section.

General Settings

WindowBackgroundColor The general background color for the browser window
BackgroundColor List background
Font The font to be used
NodeHeight The height of the list entries; should be adjusted when FontSize is changed

You can also adjust the tree/list colors as described in the General section.

The following settings have only effect for the “new-style” browser window:

ButtonColorFrom
ButtonColorTo
ButtonHotColorFrom
ButtonHotColorTo
ButtonSelectedColorFrom
ButtonSelectedColorTo
ButtonSeparatorColor
SplitterColorFrom
SplitterColorTo
DividerColorFrom
DividerColorTo
HeaderColorFrom
HeaderColorTo
FrameColor
ToolPanelColorFrom
ToolPanelColorTo
ToolPanelHeaderColorFrom
ToolPanelHeaderColorTo

Toolbar

The settings for the browser toolbar go into the [BrowserToolbar] section.

Visible Set to off to hide toolbar
List “List” mode (small icons, text next to icon)
Captions Set to off to hide button captions
AutoSize Set to on to make buttons auto size
ShowAdd Set to off to hide /Add/ button
ShowRefresh Set to off to hide /Refresh/ button
ShowClose Set to off to hide /Close/ button

Database Window

For the Library browser and Playlist view in the mAirListDB window, there are

Font The font to use
NodeHeight Node height – increase when using a bigger FontSize

The settings go either into the [DatabaseLibrary] (Library list only), [DatabaseTree] (Library tree), [LibraryPlaylist] (playlist) or [Database] (all three) section.

Screen Objects

Some of the custom screen objects have additional skin settings.

Encoder Status

Section name for this settings is [EncoderStatus].

MicButton Settings for MIC button (see General section)
LineButton Settings for LINE button (see General section)
BackgroundColor Background color to use

Mix Editor

The Mix Editor will respect all color settings in the [Waveform] section. See section on Waveform above. There are some extra color settings for the Mix Editor:

WaveformEmptySpaceColor (where no waveforms are)
WaveformTitleDividerColor line below titles
WaveformTimelineDividerColor line below timeline
WaveformWaveformDividerColor line in between waveforms

Mix-Editor-specific color settings can be added to the [MixEditor] section:

[MixEditor]
WaveformInactiveColor=#000000

The Mix Editor in v6.0 and above allows editing of nested playlist items (containers). You can use separate settings for nested items by specifying the level number (first level has index 0):

[MixEditor]
Waveform0InactiveColor=#000000
Waveform1InactiveColor=#0F0F0F

Toolbar

The toolbar of the Mix Editor can be adjusted through the [MixEditorToolbar] section (see Button Toolbars above).

Names of the buttons are, from left to right:

Pause
Play
Elapsed
Total
JumpPrevious
JumpNext
ZoomIn
ZoomOut
ZoomOutFull
Undo
Redo
OK
Cancel