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<blockquote data-quote="fforde" data-source="post: 963107" data-attributes="member: 52082">Many many thanks catavolt! Looks great and I have added your current version of these files to the Moving Pictures installer. If you want commit access to the Moving Pictures repository where we store our Default and DefaultWide skin shoot me a PM.&nbsp;To everyone, I have <a href="http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/downloads/list?q=label:skin-designer-alpha" target="_blank">posted another build</a>, this one fixes some skin properties that are sometimes not initialized. It also adds a new launch parameter to jump into a category based on it's translated name, however I urge you all not to use this.&nbsp;EDIT: Sorry, here is a better explanation on the launch parameter thing. Linking to a category by name is bad because if the user changes the name of a category then your link breaks. This is a WAF thing, you dont want your basic home to break after you tweak your categories. Linking by name can be useful as a last resort though, which is why I added this new launch parameter. So if you have to link to a category from your basic home (or wherever) by category name okay... but just be aware that this is not reliable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fforde, post: 963107, member: 52082"] Many many thanks catavolt! Looks great and I have added your current version of these files to the Moving Pictures installer. If you want commit access to the Moving Pictures repository where we store our Default and DefaultWide skin shoot me a PM. To everyone, I have [URL='http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/downloads/list?q=label:skin-designer-alpha']posted another build[/URL], this one fixes some skin properties that are sometimes not initialized. It also adds a new launch parameter to jump into a category based on it's translated name, however I urge you all not to use this. [B][FONT=arial black][COLOR=#ff0000]EDIT: [/COLOR][/FONT][/B]Sorry, here is a better explanation on the launch parameter thing. Linking to a category by name is bad because if the user changes the name of a category then your link breaks. This is a WAF thing, you dont want your basic home to break after you tweak your categories. Linking by name can be useful as a last resort though, which is why I added this new launch parameter. So if you [FONT=arial black][COLOR=#000000][B]have to[/B][/COLOR][/FONT] link to a category from your basic home (or wherever) by category name okay... but just be aware that this is not reliable. [/QUOTE]

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