Open Source Skin Editor for RR

**lbooker** · 03-24-2005, 02:49 PM

Originally Posted by sjwaldock

The only thing to make it perfect would be ability to drag and drop the boxes.

This will be available at some point. I haven't tried to do it just yet, mainly because it will be a pain. It won't be as accurate as nudging and sizing with the keyboard, but I guess i would be easier to drag/scale with the mouse, then correct with the keyboard or by changing the coordinates directly.

If I get selecting multiple objects working, there will be a whole new series of options I can implement like align, distribute, size to largest/smallest, etc.

I'm pretty happy with it now. Hopefully you talented skin designers out there will be able to keep up with Guino's new features now.

**mippen** · 03-24-2005, 03:08 PM

I must say that I really like RR.
I have my "CarPC" right next to me. Havn't installed it before but finally there is a great "dash" soft!
Have anyone collected all different skins that I guess is out there?
It would be great to get a collected list with small screenshots to select between.

I do not have a honda so the default skin isn't the best one for me :-)
I love the layout but there is some changes I would like to do. I guess that I need to check the skin editor.

Keep up the great work with both RR and the editor!

**vortex** · 03-24-2005, 05:22 PM

you can easily change the honda logo to something else like a logo for your car.

**Chita79** · 03-24-2005, 05:28 PM

hey vortex... if i wanted to change your latest skin in RR editor so that the GPS and video buttons are still on top of the audio player and i still have the "search" button, i can do that fairly easily now right? i can delete the "remove from playlist" button and replace it with the GPS button right? just makin sure ... thanks

**Arathranar** · 03-24-2005, 05:33 PM

you can easily change the honda logo to something else like a logo for your car.

Easy is not quite how I would describe it. You have to find the thread where all the different flash logos are posted, search through it until you find the one you need, download it. Replace logo.swf with it and away you go. It probably takes a good half hour for someone to understand and do all this in the best of worlds. It took me several days to work it all out and it's still a pain every time I download your skin updates.

Alternatively, you could load up the RRConfig.exe app go to (an as yet non-existant) entry that says: Show logo for : <drop down list of cars> and just have it work. I have that on my personal list of things to since it bugs me to have to fix up the logo every time I download your skin updates

I also want to add an option to use a jpg instead of a flash logo so that the jpg is just added on top rather than requiring an entire new empty skin file the way MediaCar required.

**vortex** · 03-24-2005, 10:19 PM

Well don't see what you have to change everytime you download my skin as it doesnt come with any logo nor does it delete your one so it displays the one you have already in your skin folder.

As for the jpg car logo you could technically do this but envolves modifing the skin.

But i do agree it's not easy to set things up the why you want it but atleast you can if you try hard enough

. Since guino doesnt do any skinning it's upto the skinners to create new skins to incorporate the new features.

**Arathranar** · 03-24-2005, 10:27 PM

Well don't see what you have to change everytime you download my skin as it doesnt come with any logo nor does it delete your one so it displays the one you have already in your skin folder.

Largely true except I want a jpg instead of the flash. I was thinking of adding support to RR for a logo entry that can be either. The user then configures it once to be what they want.

**sorensilk** · 03-25-2005, 12:19 PM

Originally Posted by Arathranar

Largely true except I want a jpg instead of the flash. I was thinking of adding support to RR for a logo entry that can be either. The user then configures it once to be what they want.

A much easier way to do it is just save the jpg as a flash file if you have Macromedia Flash. I'll do it for you if you want, it's very simple. Just get me the jpg.

**Arathranar** · 03-25-2005, 01:48 PM

I'd rather avoid pulling Flash into the process in order to just draw a jpg. I thought about it, but my personal preference is to keep things lean and mean

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**ccsnet** · 03-25-2005, 01:52 PM

Well done - its a nice little prog you have made there.. Should make the life of skinning easy for some.

Guino - just a thought - why not package this with the executable installer ?

Terran