Thread: RRSkinEditor BUGS / FIXES / COMMENTS / CURRENT PROGRESS OUTDATED

is it possible to
a. Fix the Tab order so that when you tab it goes in sequence with the boxes?
b. Make it so that when a textbox gets focus, the text is selected?

it would make skinning way way faster.

Profit, are you kidding me? You added resize and move by mouse?? I could hug you!! Why haven't I seen this before (especially before I spent 3 hours on my skin LAST NIGHT typing coordinates!!) Thank you so much for your work. It is greatly appreciated!!

Alright guys hit me all at once

Notepad sounds great. I dont have the current source at work so I will have to wait until I get home. The Notepad gave me a good idea as to how I will add undo to the editor. I'm not sure how easy it will be to add undo across multiple skins but I should be able to do it with current skin in view. Not sure if it will slow down the program but i guess we will see.

Default directory? Current version will use rrskineditor directory/skins for the default skin folder.

CdRsKuLL: Link to current folder should be easy to do.

Okay before i start on notepad here is my idea on it. To make it a virtual notepad linked to RRSkinEditor. So that when opened it will pull in the current skin and from there you can save and auto update to RRSkinEditor. That way you wont have to worry about not saving changes between the notepad and the editor.

Although if you want to have RRSkinEditor to just open any text editor with the skin file linked to it. You will have to worry about saving from one editor to the other.

Let me know what you guys think I can go either way or maybe even both

JPuma: Thought about that for a while. What if I created a properties box inside the view screen Sorta like photoshop has property box. Then I could display current object properties when selected?

J187: I will have to look into tab order. Not sure what you mean by text in the textbox?

Great tool!

Keep up the good work

Originally Posted by pRoFiT

Alright guys hit me all at once


J187: I will have to look into tab order. Not sure what you mean by text in the textbox?

So that when you tab into the box whatever text that is in there would get selected/highlighted. But it's not that big of a deal anymore since I found that you added click/drag. My idea with the tab order and selected text was to make it easier to fly through the text boxes and change the values quickly, but now, it looks like we'll be hardly editing in the text boxes except for with code and tooltip.

Originally Posted by pRoFiT

Alright guys hit me all at once

Notepad sounds great. I dont have the current source at work so I will have to wait until I get home. The Notepad gave me a good idea as to how I will add undo to the editor. I'm not sure how easy it will be to add undo across multiple skins but I should be able to do it with current skin in view. Not sure if it will slow down the program but i guess we will see.

Default directory? Current version will use rrskineditor directory/skins for the default skin folder.

CdRsKuLL: Link to current folder should be easy to do.

Okay before i start on notepad here is my idea on it. To make it a virtual notepad linked to RRSkinEditor. So that when opened it will pull in the current skin and from there you can save and auto update to RRSkinEditor. That way you wont have to worry about not saving changes between the notepad and the editor.

Although if you want to have RRSkinEditor to just open any text editor with the skin file linked to it. You will have to worry about saving from one editor to the other.

Let me know what you guys think I can go either way or maybe even both

JPuma: Thought about that for a while. What if I created a properties box inside the view screen Sorta like photoshop has property box. Then I could display current object properties when selected?

J187: I will have to look into tab order. Not sure what you mean by text in the textbox?

that all sounds good.
i think the default dir should be where your actual skins are located and where RR looks for skins, i see no point in having 2 dir for skins, just more stuff to config.

notepad idea is cool, in option one, are you locked into using "notepad" as the editor? I like textpad a whole lot better than notepad. Texpad can open multiple files all in the same window and can apply actions to multiple files loaded. For example, i used it to search through all my .skin files and change one font to another font instead of doing it manualy which would of took ages (over 100 instances). Texpad also notifies you if the file you have loaded has been changed by an external app (skineditor) and refreshes the data. This would be a cool feature for skineditor also. Maybe like an auto-refresh that will automaticly reload the data if it sees that its been changed externally. Or a pop up asking if you want to reload the entire skin if any single .skin file was changed externaly. You can also do some other cool stuff with textpad, it also supports templates for certain filetypes that will color the text based on if its an editable value or codestring etc, kind of like XML editors. This would cool for .skin files but has nothing to do with skineditor.

i think the property box idea is pretty cool. instead of having to double click on the list on the left. Floating or docked.

On a side note,
im still getting the crash with selecting S and Y objects, sometimes by highlighting them in the list will crash it, other times i have to click on the box to change the size/pos to get the crash. At that point, i have to go back to a version of skineditor that dosent allow click&drag to play with the object order to try to cure the crash. I can send you versions of my skin that have this problem.


Also, id like to take this time to THANK YOU and others who've worked on skineditor. It really helps a whole lot in developing these skins and if it did not exist, i absolutely would NOT be making skins for RR. I dont think the other frontend developers really understand how important a good solid and easy to use skineditor is. Perfect example would be Centrafuse (not to point fingers) but there isnt any editor available at all, the result, look at the selection of skins available.

So hats off to you and everyone else who has added code to skineditor!!

Originally Posted by liquid_smoke

Perfect example would be Centrafuse (not to point fingers)

As long as you're NOT pointing fingers LS,

Seriously though, I agree with you 100%