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You must take the display area size into consideration when creating artwork for skins.
Windows Media Player for Palm-size PC features a 240x245 display area, while the Windows Media Player for Pocket PC features a 240x268 display area. If you want to work with both sizes, start with the smaller Palm-size PC display, and then simply add the extra 23 pixels to the bottom of the background to accommodate Pocket PCs. Depending on your layout, the same skin definition file and images can easily be used by both versions.
If you are creating skins for a Handheld PC, you will need to create skins for the appropriate screen resolution. In addition to the default screen size, you must take into account the title bar and task bar and include a 26-pixel gutter at the bottom in case the task bar is set to autohide. Handheld PC skins use the following screen sizes:
Name (screen size) | Skin size with gutter | Active region size |
HVGA (640x240) | 640x188 | 640x162 |
VGA (640x480) | 640x428 | 640x402 |
XVGA (800x480) | 800x428 | 800x402 |
SVGA (800x600) | 800x548 | 800x522 |
Note that the names (monikers) for Handheld PC screen sizes do not necessarily correspond to names for personal computer resolutions.
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