A work in progress. A steampunk dialog box, a modification and improvement on the older version with the view to eventually creating a skin for the VLC media player. The next steps might be to create the same skin for the AIMP player and as I already have media player code for the Yahoo widget and Xwidget engines... well the sky is the limit. If I did all of these then we'd have a media player for several platforms and for Linux as well as Windows.

You'll notice a similarity between my design and Mordasius' VLC skin: mordasius.deviantart.com/art/V…

That's because Mordasius loosely based his creation upon my earlier steampunk dialog box. We had a "dialogue" and we agreed that Mordasius could use my initial idea as the germ of his own. You'll see his uses a few bits and pieces from my original dialog box.

I am working on separating the various components to make the left, right, top background areas to correspond to the locations within VLC.

Added a track position indicator
Widened the whole skin
Added some more mechanism at the bottom
Added more cables
Moved the upper position bar up a bit
Removed the very top bar altogether

Please let me know if you like it. Please note it is a work-in-progress but feel free to add a watch and when it is usable I'll let you know here.