Winamp Skin -- using measures/paths in an image path ???

[Scrubs Abound]

I am new to writing on the forums and I apologize if my post is sloppy/incoherent, but I will try my best to follow standard formatting.

I've been working on a Winamp skin and I'm attempting to load album art from my hard drive. I am using some borrowed code that involves using the WebParser.dll plugin, but that is not my problem.

I have two measures:

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[mAlbum]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\WebParser.dll
Url=[mRSS]
StringIndex=4
substitute="?":"unknown" , " ":""

[mArtist]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\WebParser.dll
Url=[mRSS]
StringIndex=1
substitute="?":"unknown"," ":""

[mAlbum] returns the Album of the song that is currently playing
[mArtist} similarly returns the Artist of the song

I am running Windows 7 on my computer and so the path to my music files is:

C:\Users\Brent\Music\"ARTIST NAME"\"ALBUM NAME"\"SONG"

I have a local copy of the album art stored to "cover.png" in each album folder

I have a variable declared that is

pathname="C:\Users\Brent\Music\"

I coded up a meter for the purpose of debugging that looks like:

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[AlbumArtPath]
MeasureName=mArtist
MeasureName2=mAlbum
Meter=STRING
Text=#pathname#%1\%2\cover.png
X=200
Y=0

which when I play "Let Me Go" by 3 Doors Down off Seventeen Days album displays

C:\Users\Brent\Music\3 Doors Down\Seventeen Days\cover.png

which is exactly what I want it to do.


The trouble is that when I apply this method of creating a path name to draw an image, nothing happens...

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[AlbumArtImage]
Meter=IMAGE
MeasureName=mArtist
MeasureName2=mAlbum
ImageName=#pathname#%1\%2\cover.png
X=200
Y=20
W=100
H=100

So I guess my question is something along the lines of what are the limitations of using measures in the settings for meters?

I hope this makes sense.

[Alex2539]

Image meters are unable to read multiple measures, they can only read one. Instead you will want to use dynamic variables. Try this:

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[AlbumArtImage]
Meter=IMAGE
ImageName=#pathname#[mArtist]\[mAlbum]\cover.png
X=200
Y=20
W=100
H=100
DynamicVariables=1

[Scrubs Abound]

It worked, it worked! You are my savior. I spent about four hours trying to work this out this morning before I posted. I can't thank you enough.