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well i've just used vdj 7 live for the first time tonight and i gotta say it's the nuts, sound quality vastly improved (i use a gigaport sound card) and response of the dac 3 greatly increased i also thought i had a faulty play button on the left deck as with all previous versions it was very hit & miss if it worked or nit well with 7 it performed faultlessy on both sides(even the apparently faulty button) only slight fault i did find is the clock does not display correctly in the 4 deck 1440 x 900 skin
 
Posted Tue 19 Oct 10 @ 5:53 pm
are you sure about the clock? it looks alright to me.
 
karaokekev wrote :
only slight fault i did find is the clock does not display correctly in the 4 deck 1440 x 900 skin



Does it display at all?
Might be a missing font issue. We have used the LCD font for the clock since vdj 6, but maybe this font is not included in the VDJ 7 installer.


I've added the font here:
http://www.virtualdj.com/addons/12111/Digital_LED_font.html

Download the LCD.TTF file, and put inside Windows/Fonts

;)
 
no the clock displays but the digits are out of alignment making it unreadable, i will try the font though as strangly its working om on my pc at home that i test on but not on the laptop i use live
 
i have installed the lcd font (which was a;ready in my gig laptop) but clock still displays wrong but i have a lrger screen (20\") on my home pc and the 1440 x 900 skin displays perfectly i have latest graphics driver and i\'m using a ati graphocs card in my laptop, have included a screen shot to show the problem
 


no idea.. works fine here..
You can open the skin XML, and change the font.
The clock XML code is very early in the XML file :)
 
sorry try again with a better image of clock
 
Yes can't read the clock with the same skin looks just like the post above on my laptop.
Home computer looks fine LCD front installed on laptop also.
 
You are right about the clock is not clear, but it's a font issue. I mean LCD font requires large size to for better view.

Just make this change and you will see the difference.. (4 decks 1440X900)

<textzone>
<pos x="141" y="7"/>
<size width="79" height="20"/>
<text font="LCD" size="20" align="center" color="#d1d3d4" format="%fullhour"/>
<text2 font="LCD" size="20" align="center" color="#d1d3d4" format="%hour12"/>
</textzone>

You will find this script allmost at the top of the xml, or search for fullhour..
 
Thanks look's better.
 
And OR you can change the font...

That didn't work for my eyes so I used Arial...
It is easier to read for me...

You can also up the size a little more...
 
djdad wrote :
You are right about the clock is not clear, but it's a font issue. I mean LCD font requires large size to for better view.

Just make this change and you will see the difference.. (4 decks 1440X900)

<textzone>
<pos x="141" y="7"/>
<size width="79" height="20"/>
<text font="LCD" size="20" align="center" color="#d1d3d4" format="%fullhour"/>
<text2 font="LCD" size="20" align="center" color="#d1d3d4" format="%hour12"/>
</textzone>

You will find this script allmost at the top of the xml, or search for fullhour..





How do you actually change it? I highlited the text, but I could not edit it.
 
 
I've just experimented and found that the clock font looks bad if the skin you're using is not the correct size for your screens native resolution.

For example, my screen is 1920x1200 and if I load one of the new VDJ7 skins (which are all lower res) the clock looks bad.

So make sure that the skin you're using matches the native resolution of your screen.
 
my screens native resolution is 1440 x 900 and the clock still looks bad
 
A Man and His Music wrote :
djdad wrote :
You are right about the clock is not clear, but it's a font issue. I mean LCD font requires large size to for better view.

Just make this change and you will see the difference.. (4 decks 1440X900)

<textzone>
<pos x="141" y="7"/>
<size width="79" height="20"/>
<text font="LCD" size="20" align="center" color="#d1d3d4" format="%fullhour"/>
<text2 font="LCD" size="20" align="center" color="#d1d3d4" format="%hour12"/>
</textzone>

You will find this script allmost at the top of the xml, or search for fullhour..





How do you actually change it? I highlited the text, but I could not edit it.






A little help here.
 
go into my documents and open the virtual dj folder, then click on the skins folder, look for virtual dj 7 (4decks) open that and drag aand drop the 1440 x 900 xml file to your desktop, right click on it and select open with and use notepad to open it, change the text listed (its worked on mine) then save the file, then simply just drag and drop it back into the skins zip file to replace the original copy
 
Because of my poor eyes here what I have done...
 
alo people knew anybody have virtual dj 9
 
your obviously using a cracked copy, theres no such thing as vdj 9.

atomix just released version 7. so to answer your dumb question i would have to say on behalf of everyone here "NO".
 
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