October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1176 pages
27h 33m
English
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Fun with skins
Whenever you’re using a program, the part that you see on the screen is just one snowflake on the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The real “guts” are in memory, and invisible. The part you see on the screen is called the user interface, abbreviated UI, and often referred to as simply the interface or skin. Some programs, including Windows Media Player, allow you to change the interface without changing the functionality of the program.
Windows Media Player comes with several skins for you to try out. These skins are for Now Playing mode, not for Library mode. To see them if Media Player is in Now Playing mode, press Alt to open the menu, and choose View 
Skin Chooser. If Media Player is in Library mode, right-click the area to the right of the breadcrumb trail, and then choose View Skin Chooser.
Click each skin name in the left pane to get a preview of how Media Player will look if you apply the skin. To download additional free skins, click the More Skins button above the left column. When you find a skin you like, click the Apply Skin button.
Figure 24.34 shows an example using the Blue Crush skin. Once you’re in a skin, point to various symbols and buttons on it to figure out what’s up. You’ll see the name of the control in a tooltip.
FIGURE 24.34 Media Player in ...
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