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Skin Development Doc 5.0
updated: February 19, 2007
Making a skin for Quintessential Media Player is easy and flexible. No programming or scripts required, a bitmap editing program is all you need.

Adobe Acrobat needed to view doc.
(right-click and 'save as' to download)  
Skin Development Resources
QMP Skin Colors Tool
A helpful skin control color picker for finding the right control color to put on the skin map.  
 download 
Legend of all the colors, controls and respective skin files. A great help for skin map building
Map Control Color Legend 4.50 
Adobe Photoshop Color Palette 4.50
skin_map.aco | borderset_map.aco 
Corel Photopaint Color Palette
Corel Palette
PixelTamer Designs: QCD Tools
website 
Xymantix's Font Maker (Charset.bmp)
Download 
Winamp to QCD converter
website 
Mootang's Quick n' Dirty Skinning Techniques: Tutorial 1
Image 
Submitting your skin
Before you submit:
  • Create a 225x225 screenshot of your skin for the Skin Preview window in QCD. Please make sure the image you upload is actually a picture of the player and not one of a personal logo, your ass, etc. This screenshot will also be used in the online skins page soon to be found on this site as well in the skin preview window found in the QCD skin download preferences.
Click here for access to your devzone and upload your new skin. After uploading the skin it will be placed in a verification queue and given either a passing or failing grade. If you skin passes it will immediately be placed on the skins page and in the internal QCD skin downloader list. If for some reason your skin fails verification, you will be notified by email with the reason.

From your devzone you will be able to maintain all of your uploads to quinnware.com. It will also display to you what skins are waiting in queue for verification from us. Once you have uploaded your first skin and it passes you can access your devzone from the top right corner beside the 'your profile' link.
QMP Plug-in Development Kit
updated: January 21, 2008
QMP Plug-in Development Kit includes headers for player and media library plug-ins, plug-in samples, plug-in stubs, and developers guide.

This PDK requires QMP beta 120 or newer.
QMP Developers Reference Guide
API reference guide available in HTML.
Coming soon: completed guide! and downloadable version.
QCD Plug-in Installer (Zip to Exe)
updated: April 27, 2004
Create a proper installer for your plug-ins. Will auto-detect QCD install folder and determine proper plug-in locations from player's settings.
QCD Plug-in Installer (NSIS script)
updated: May 12, 2004
Sample NSIS script you can use to create a custom installation for your plug-ins.
Submitting your plug-in
Package your plug-in with the QCD Plug-in Installer (don't forget to test it).

Click here for access to your devzone and upload your new plug-in. After uploading the plug-in it will be placed in a verification queue and given either a passing or failing grade. If your plug-in passes it will immediately be placed on the plug-in page. If for some reason your plug-in fails verification, you will be notified by email with the reason.

From your devzone you will be able to maintain all of your uploads to quinnware.com. It will also display to you what plug-ins are waiting in queue for verification from us. Once you have uploaded your first plug-in and it passes you can access your devzone from the top right corner beside the 'your profile' link.
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