Metamorph Beta1.1 for Sonique 2 - Readme (08/29/02)/---------------------------
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IMPORTANT: if you are using an old version of Metamorph, you must either delete
your settings.xml file, or delete the "mrsmiles/eqpresets" section in the
settings.xml file.

Installation:
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To install this skin, first install the
included font (hooge05_55) to your Windows font directory.  Then, simply copy
or move the zip file to your Sonique2\interfaces\ directory.

New Stuff (Beta1.1)
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-ONLY Right click on lcd display will toggle drawer (resolves conflicts w/ new
  right click menu)
-Equalizer settings are serialized with SetString () (originally Bits' idea)
-Various UI tweaks
-You can now drag the player by drawer/window frames
-More compact playlist font (hooge05_55 by Craig Kroeger)
-Playlist sort-by-year added
-Playlist 'Jump' search function works now
-Different time display modes (left click on time display)
-Persistent window frame size (click on frame button to restore default size)
-More consistent hoverhints
-Donuts are good
-If you are reading this, you are much less lazy than me...

Features
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-Fits in title bar
-Resizeable window
-Custom EQ presets

How the hell does this work!?
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Metamorph is a skin for Sonique 2, the sequel to the excellent Sonique music
player.  You can find an alpha (already quite useable) at
http://sonique.lycos.com/sonique2.

Upon running Sonique 2, you should be able to switch to Metamorph using the
skins menu.  When you switch, you will be presented with the Metamorph
playbar.  A right click on the lcd display will toggle a drawer containing
buttons to manipulate the Metamorph instance.

Drawer Buttons (left to right)
- Show playlist
- Show equalizer
- Show sonique display
- Toggle always on top
- Minimize window
- Close window

The window frame can be resized by dragging parts of the frame.
- Right side: resize horizontally
- Bottom side: resize vertically
- Lower-Right side: resize both horizontally and vertically

A right click on the main LCD or a left click on the appropriate
drawer button will close the window.

Notes
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Sorry, foreign charsets that don't use standard latin characters aren't
supported at the moment (I don't know if they work or not).

Please disregard the mess that is the sonique window for now.  I haven't done
much with this since the default window interface is most likely going to
change drastically once the Sonique development team gets around to the later
stages of development.

The default equalizer presets were pretty much eyeballed from Sonique 1.96.
They're pretty crude, so you might want to tweak them for better quality.

I looked at the remotes and skins made by Revil, i4get, and Travelian for
inspiration regarding equalizer settings.  I also used the dev skin as a guide
for the window resize mml and scripts.

Thank you
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John and timsonique: for taking up the monumental task of finishing the player

The original SQ2 development team: for creating one helluva cool app platform

Revil, i4get, Ozz, bits, Travelian, and all other skin and remote devs:
for relentlessly exploring the capabilities of Mantis script

matt8066: for creating soniquex.com and making me realize that some people
          may have actually used S^Zero (motivation to get off my ass and
	  improve the damned thing :D)

The music that I listened to while making this skin :)