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MM4 Rating stars are very small

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Is there some reason why the rating stars are so much smaller than they were on v3?
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Re: MM4 Rating stars are very small

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Where, what skin?
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MarineBrat wrote:Is there some reason why the rating stars are so much smaller than they were on v3?
Yes, its based on the icons I'm using. You already complained about them a long time ago when I first made this skin:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... ng#p197486

IMO the smaller stars are much more visually attractive than using a larger set of stars.
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Try the pulse skin.
I made the stars icons bigger there! :P
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Re: MM4 Rating stars are very small

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nohitter151 wrote:You already complained about them a long time ago when I first made this skin:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... ng#p197486
??? Not sure why you thought it was me that complained, but thanks for the link. I'll see if i can change them to the larger ones provided in that thread. I didn't realize that the tiny stars were only in the Vitreous skin.

Here's a comparison of how they look on my screen compared to a different machine running v3.2 and a different skin.

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Ah yes sorry it wasn't you.

anyway it's my opinion that the smaller stars are much more visually attractive. And the click-able area is the same, so it has no effect on the functionality.
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IMO nohitter's stars look way better than the ones in your second screenshot.

Anyway it's fairly simple to customize that.
Just create an Icon folder inside your Mediamonkey folder.
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Thanks guys. I just replaced the three ICO files in the MSZ file with the larger icons and called it Vitreous2.

bomb_16
half_star_16
star_16

I've been away from tweaking MM for a while now, and needed a bit of a refresher. :)
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nohitter151 wrote:You already complained about them a long time ago when I first made this skin:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... ng#p197486
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Hahaha That was me! and I still don't like them, but I take exception to your use of the word "complained" - in the context of those posts I was NOT complaining, I was commenting constructively and, I think I was congratulatory about your efforts also. I think your being a bit too precious! Fancy remembering that after all this time?
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paulmt wrote:
nohitter151 wrote:You already complained about them a long time ago when I first made this skin:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... ng#p197486
Hahaha That was me! and I still don't like them, but I take exception to your use of the word "complained" - in the context of those posts I was NOT complaining, I was commenting constructively and, I think I was congratulatory about your efforts also. I think your being a bit too precious! Fancy remembering that after all this time?
Much easier to remember the criticisms over the compliments :wink:
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nohitter151 wrote:Much easier to remember the criticisms over the compliments :wink:
fair call! :D
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