How to write a new Skin for SqueezePlay?

[AndrewFG]

In an other post http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55732 I was thinking of writing a Windows Vista "Gadget" to host SqueezePlay (or at least to show its "Now Playing" info)...

Is there any documentation that explains how to write a skin for SqueezePlay? Or how to interface with SqueezePlay in other ways? e.g. via a script in HTML?

[JJZolx]

In an other post http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55732 I was thinking of writing a Windows Vista "Gadget" to host SqueezePlay (or at least to show its "Now Playing" info)...

Is there any documentation that explains how to write a skin for SqueezePlay? Or how to interface with SqueezePlay in other ways? e.g. via a script in HTML?

Wouldn't you just use the CLI to communicate with SqueezeCenter do this?

[JJZolx]

Can anyone else help this gentleman? I doubt my reply was very helpful.

I'm also starting to wonder exactly what might be doable using SqueezePlay on the desktop. Is it akin to the web interface where you can kinda-sorta skin the interface, but you'll have to work within the strict confines of what's implemented on the server?

Or would 3rd party developers conceivably be able to write desktop Squeezebox control applications that don't resemble one another? Could one conceivably create, for instance, an iTunes/JRiver/Moose styled desktop application?

Or is it just open to installable applets that do things like showing the weather in Paris, or American baseball scores or playing Tetris?

[Skunk]

is it just open to installable applets that do things like showing the weather in Paris, or American baseball scores or playing Tetris?

The full screen skin is an applet too, so I would (as a user), guess that its resemblance to the default is just a first step, and that (as Pfarrel would say) something prettier is just a small matter of programming.

Program Files\SqueezePlay\lua\applets\FullscreenSkin is very well commented, and there's a great applet tutorial here* Andrew. Those and a book on LUA should do the trick :-)

http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.ph...y_Applet_Guide