Thread: hAv1c and hAv1cPlus Skin release - 800 x 480 (Transparency, custom font color)

I haven't tried your skin editor yet, gonna dl it tonight...

Since I'm only going to use one set of colors, i'll just use this:

/DEFINE R 255
/DEFINE G 255
/DEFINE B 255

L,030,060,160,020,#R#,#G#,#B#,18,"Bank Gothic Md:B","=menu", ""

It really doesn't matter unless i'd be using multiple text colors... right?

ok, what am i missing? I saved the files as .png, and I can change the color in rrconfig, but I can't select a background. it allows me to set the path to where my backgrounds are, but what do I need to do now?

ok, basically copied what johnwpb did for his skin to get the skins to change backgrounds...

here's one thing that I can't figure out, the backgrounds don't fill the J area correctly, see pic below. They apply to the skin correctly, I just want to preview the backgrounds correctly first. The picture is in the same aspect ratio as the red boxed area, but it stretches it smaller. I want the image to stretch to fill the red area (even if it's not that aspect ratio...)

using the J area in picviewer.skin will make an indicator with this code: "PICTURE:A"

If you change the J definition to an I defintion of code: "PICTURE" it will stretch to the area.. but chances are that if you change the screen's physical aspect ratio (in RRConfig) it will also fill the area.

for the background, sounds like you're missing background=path+file to the image of the background you want to use.

the I code worked.

The skin is in 800 x 480, the image area is 547 x 328 both are 15:9.

I wanted it like this so that I can see how streched it would look when I select it.

I was thinking; to change the font color on the fly, couldn't I just use the writetofile and addtofile tags to add the variables for the RGB colors to the color.skin?

Something like: "WRITETOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;/DEFINE FRed <variable>||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;/DEFINE FGreen <variable>||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;/DEFINE FBlue <variable>"

Or something like that so that it would take the variable defined in a list of 0-255 and save it to the color.skin. (there would be more to the tag above, but that's the gist of it...)

It should work.

here's some screenshots of the transparency working, the second pick is the background chooser, the three blank buttons will be used, but this is an early version of it.





The image fills the area in the same aspect ratio of the skin so that you can preview if it stretches or not.

Originally Posted by guino

It should work.

using the write to file? as long as I have it write the /define and end codes it should be fine right? what about the header (media car skin) When I tried it the first time, it didn't save the info into the file, if you opened up color.skin in a text editor, it was blank.

If we can get this to work, it would be like what johnwpb has, but simpler.

I got it to save correctly but,

how would I pull the information from the different variables though?
If I create three sliders with limits 0-255 each for R G and B, how do I separate them so that it's pulling the different variables independently of each slider? For example if I have Slider 1 = Red, 2 = Green, and 3 = Blue, and I want <Slider 1=var1> <Slider2=var2> etc... so that I can input it into the button tag? also, what syntax does the variable need to be in? (i.e. does it have $, <, etc wrapped around the variable?)

Or would it be easier to do a SD list? not really sure how to set up three different lists and pull info separately from each list.