Skin Guru's - Help needed

**2poor4mods** · 07-24-2009, 03:43 PM

Hello all,

I am currently developing a skin that uses gestures to emulate the flicking motion to switch screens, just like on today's smart phones. This part is done and my skin is almost complete, but I want to make an additional feature that I think would be cool.

So my question is if it is possible to have the gesture be a variable?

For instance instead of
"NEXT",E

I could put

"NEXT",$GEST_NEXT$

This is what I have done so far, but I haven't been successfull.

In Gesture.ini
"ESWIPE",$GEST_ESWIPE$
"WSWIPE","$GEST_WSWIPE$
"NEXT",$GEST_NEXT$
"PREV",$GEST_PREV$

Then in ExecTBL.ini
"ACTIVATEAREA1","SETVAR;GEST_ESWIPE;E||SETVAR;WSWI PE;W||SETVAR;GEST_NEXT;= ||SETVAR;GEST_PREV;= "
"ACTIVATEAREA2","SETVAR;GEST_ESWIPE;= ||SETVAR;WSWIPE;= ||SETVAR;GEST_NEXT;E||SETVAR;GEST_PREV;W"

And in the skin i have two areas for gestures, and they are outlined by a label to activate two commands:
L,0,100,800,400,,,,,"EXEC;ACTIVATEAREA1||= "
L,0,500,800,100,,,,,"EXEC;ACTIVATEAREA2||= "

So basically i want to have the gestures dynamically change based on which area of the screen is activated. Can this be done?

**guino** · 07-24-2009, 07:24 PM

Sounds like you want to switch the COMMAND executed by the same action.. to do this you should do the following:

Same label codes should work, so just change:

Gesture.ini:
"$GEST_E$",E
"$GEST_W$",W

Then in ExecTBL.ini
"ACTIVATEAREA1","SETVAR;GEST_E;ESWIPE||SETVAR;GEST _W;WSWIPE"
"ACTIVATEAREA2","SETVAR;GEST_E;NEXT||SETVAR;GEST_W ;PREV"

The only thing you have to worry is to set $GEST_E$ and $GEST_W$ on skin.ini or through ONSKINSTART before anything works (otherwise the variables will be empty and won't execute anything).

**2poor4mods** · 07-25-2009, 10:34 AM

oh ok. I didn't know the commands could be variables, just the actions. Is that universal for all the ini files? That tidbit could be useful in the future.

Thanks Guino

**guino** · 07-25-2009, 03:57 PM

Yes, anywhere you can enter a command code you can enter a variable and/or command/variable mix. Similarly, anywhere you can enter a label code, you can also use variables.

**Blue ZX3** · 07-25-2009, 08:18 PM

Could have gave an example too G...

Button commnd: "SETVAR;Pressed;2||MainButton$Pressed$"

Will try to Execute the translated command: "MainButton2"

This is the way the more advanced skins work, makes things harder to follow, but usually allows the skin author to use less screens by just using a lot of properly placed RR varibles.