Thread: SKINEDITOR (So Good but So Bad) :((((

Somebody needs to update the skin editor, that's all.. I'll do it, but it's not going to be very soon, I'm working on different things right now.

it actually deletes those items as soon as it loads the skin.

the temp work around i just did because it is a big pain to have to add those lines back in everytime you save.

I created a button in the skin that will copy over backedup copies of any .skin i have that has the XPOS and YPOS lines.
This is basicly how the alternate main menus i have work. (but dont use the current skin release as a reference)
Involves a little autoit scripting but nothing complicated.
If you want i can send you a template of how i have it setup. Its one extra step but a lot better than having to edit the individual files by hand everytime.

the iDrive skin has a load of custom formating codes to allow my little configuration program to work.

skin editor just rips them out, as one user found when he did some minor mods.

here is the template:

unzip these files into your skins dir, and place any .skin files you want into the "BACKUP" folder and when backup.exe is run it will copy any files it finds with .skin extension (no other file type will get copied) into the skins dir and overwrite existing files of same name without any prompts.

In your skin just create a button that runs backup.exe

"RUNW;$skinpath$backup.exe||RELOADSKIN"

this will also reload the skin when the file copy is finished

Here is a much better solution.

First you need to update your objects.txt file for the RRSkinEditor
See this thread to get the latest version of this file
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/show...786#post939786
make sure you read the post i made (#9) that has an object you need to add to the end of the objects.txt file (critical for this to work)

Then after you have updated your objects.txt file for the skineditor, load your skin up and add an INC-Include, should be at the bottom of the dropdown list after you click the ADD button. In the textbox type the name of your file (without quotes) that will include the definition for the pop ups.

example.

In my .skin file i have

/, INC, Include file path
INC,POS.txt


in POS.txt i have

/POSX=272
/POSY=1

this will allow you to use the POS definition without worry of the skineditor removing these items.
If you have multiple popups with different values for the x,y pos just create a seperate .txt file for each popup.
The text file can be whatever name you want it to be also.

also in the future whenever any other new definitions are created that do not work with the skin editor, just use the same method.

Well, I downloaded the latest code that Profit worked on back in January, to TRY to make sence of it.... It is just too far eyone my programming skills! Hopefully someone with some programming knowledge can take the time to fix this one issue.

The problem, and I think anyone that thinks about fixing it knows, that if they fix this ONE thing, that they will be bombarded with other requests almost instantly!!!
Reminds me of an old childhood game "Hot Potao"

yeah, i agree with the almost instant bombarding of feature request.
There are a few things that people are dieing to get fixed or added.
Hopefully in the future it wont become a serious problem.

But if you follow the steps in my previous post it will pretty much make any definitions that aren't supported by the skineditor mute. Its also a nicer way of making skins if you want to include a bunch of elements on multiple .skin files.
You can stick any valid definitions or commands in the INC file, so if you wanted to have a series of buttons that are exactly the same but present on every .skin file, instead of copy and pasting all the labels and buttons to every .skin file, you just put them in that one txt file and put an INC on every .skin file. Change the one .txt file and it updates the whole skin.