Debug when developing new skin?

peecee · 03-02-2006, 10:48 PM

I am working on adding skins and ran into a slight problem tonight. When I added a new skin (copied from an existing one) and changed one of the buttons to call the new skin, nothing happens. I looked around for starting up RR with a debug switch and didn't find anything. What would cause the skin to not be called? I've checked and rechecked the spelling, but I don't know where else to look.

I managed to modify the menu.skin to call weather, so I am reasonably sure that I'm doing it right at least...

Enforcer · 03-03-2006, 05:45 AM

post your changes

peecee · 03-03-2006, 06:36 AM

Here's my menu.skin ...

MEDIACAR Skin
MEDIACAR MainMenu Skin
menu_off.jpg,menu_off.jpg,menu_on.jpg,menu_down.jp g

/, B, x, y, w, h, Command;COMMANDCODES, Tooltip
B01,11,73,141,106,"ASYNC","Syncronize Audio"
B02,151,73,198,106,"AUDIO","Audio player"
B03,348,70,104,75,"CDRIP","Rip CD"
B04,451,73,198,106,"VIDEO","Video player"
B05,648,73,142,106,"VSYNC","Syncronize Video"
B06,11,186,141,110,"POD","Podcasts"
B07,151,186,180,110,"RADIO",""
B08,470,186,180,110,"DVD",""
B09,648,186,141,110,"DVD",""
B10,11,305,141,106,"WEATHER","Weather Report"
B11,151,305,198,106,"XM",""
B12,348,335,102,75,"WEB",""
B13,451,303,198,106,"GPS","GPS"
B14,648,303,141,106,"WAR","War Driving"
B15,10,416,150,110,"PHOCO",""
B16,160,425,65,90,"MUTE","Mute"
B17,226,427,63,88,"VOL-","Volume-"
B18,515,426,63,89,"VOL+","Volume+"
B19,581,425,61,90,"MIXER","Mixer settings"
B20,643,415,145,110,"PCSTATUS","Computer Status"
B21,10,530,156,70,"SKIN","Appearance"
B22,166,530,156,70,"GAMMA","Gamma mode"
B23,320,530,160,70,"LAUNCH",""
B24,480,530,155,70,"MINIMIZE",""
B25,633,530,156,70,"EXIT","Exit"B23,11,73,339,106, "AUDIO","Audio player"

/, S, x, y, w, h, x1, y1, w1, h1, O, Style, Pointer file path, h2, Code;SLIDERCODES, Tooltip
S01,290,466,223,35,290,466,223,35,H,01,"POINTER2.g if",013,"MASTER","Master"

/, I, x, y, w, h, Code;INDICATORCODES
I01,185,455,30,35,"MUTE:b"

/, L, x, y, w, h, color R;RGB, G, B, font size;FONT, font name, Code;LABELCODES, Tooltip;LABELALIGNMENT
L10,165,15,470,45,255,255,0,26,"Arial Narrow:B","TRACKNAME","SCROLL-CENTER"
L00,415,440,50,30,255,255,255,13,"Arial Narrow:B","VOLUME","Volume"
L01,11,10,135,30,255,255,255,18,"Arial Narrow:B","TIME","Time"
L02,11,40,135,30,255,255,255,18,"Arial Narrow:B","DATE",""
L03,660,10,50,30,255,255,255,18,"Arial Narrow:B","=Car:", ""
L04,710,10,80,30,128,255,128,18,"Arial Narrow:B","TEMP1", ""
L05,660,40,50,30,255,255,255,18,"Arial Narrow:B","=Out:", ""
L06,710,40,80,30,128,255,128,18,"Arial Narrow:B","TEMP2", ""

/, F, x, y, w, h, Movie name
F01,333,162,135,160,"logo.swf"

END

Everything works except the "PCSTATUS" line. Here's that:

MEDIACAR Skin
MEDIACAR PCSTATUS Skin
PCSTATUS_OFF.jpg,PCSTATUS_OFF.jpg,PCSTATUS_ON.jpg, PCSTATUS_DOWN.jpg

/, B, x, y, w, h, Command;COMMANDCODES, Tooltip
B,725,510,75,90,"EXIT",

/, L, x, y, w, h, color R;RGB, G, B, font size;FONT, font name, Code;LABELCODES, Tooltip;LABELALIGNMENT
L,25,5,175,25,255,255,255,18,"Arial Narrow:B","TIME","Time"
L,25,30,175,25,255,255,255,18,"Arial Narrow:B","DATE","Date"
L,655,5,50,25,255,255,255,18,"Arial Narrow:B","=Car:",""
L,655,30,50,25,255,255,255,18,"Arial Narrow:B","=Out:",""
L,710,5,65,25,128,255,128,18,"Arial Narrow:B","TEMP1",""
L,710,30,65,25,128,255,128,18,"Arial Narrow:B","TEMP2",""

/, I, x, y, w, h, Code;INDICATORCODES

END

Enforcer · 03-03-2006, 06:49 AM

OK, look at all the buttons (they're the ones with B at the beginning), after the numbers you have some text in quotes, this is the command that the button is to run. Now some of those are standard commands within RR, check the skincommands.txt file for those, others are ones which presumably have been set up in ExecTBL.ini. Now my guess is that the command PCSTAUS is your own command and that you haven't set it up in ExecTBL.ini, because you need to have a LOAD command to load a different skin.

eg B20,643,415,145,110,"LOAD;pcstatus.skin","Computer Status"

NB sorry if any of the above is stating the obvious.

peecee · 03-03-2006, 07:33 AM

D'oh! I don't know how I missed that! Crap. Ok, well thanks Enforcer, that fixed it!