Skin Editing Tool Alpha 0.2 - NOT SAFE TO USE YET (7 Viewers)

[Alltaken]

p13man,

Yep that is normal. I expect it is locating and processing the images. There are a few images linked in the css file making it look nice, as well as any images that are linked in the skin XML file as textures.

The smaller the file the quicker it should load.

I'm not sure I've got a solution for it. The big question is, is it worth the wait?

Back to square 2 on the editing tools, currently re-doing it not quite from scratch. This time around it is promising to be better to use without a list of 240 possible tags to look through.

Cheers.

 

[Alltaken]

Hi Guys,

This tool is still being worked on, but its taking some time to define every possible control.

Does anyone know if the following XML is valid? there are two onup events, does one of these get ignored, if-so which one.?

Or more importantly, if it is valid, how do the two onup events behave?

<control>
<description>Radiobutton</description>
<type>button</type>
<id>105</id>
<posX>214</posX>
<posY>422</posY>
<width>50</width>
<height>45</height>
<hyperlink>30</hyperlink>
<textureFocus>Radiobutton_focus.png</textureFocus>
<textureNoFocus>Radiobutton_nofocus.png</textureNoFocus>
<onright>106</onright>
<onup>50</onup>
<onup>10</onup>
<ondown>99</ondown>
</control>

Cheers again guys.

Alltaken

 

[explodedk]

i would say the last on will be the one working .as far as i know the layout of the xml is stacking everything on top.so if 2 commands doing diff things in same position the lowest in the xml will be the one the skin uses.

 

[Alltaken]

Yeah that is my assumption too. However this exact thing is duplicated throughout Blue3Wide, which makes me suspicious...

Either it is intentional
Or it is a copy/paste mistake.

Cheers.

 

[Alltaken]

Does anyone have a theme they want me to convert over to this editing system?

I think the new stuff i am working on is ready to take the plunge...

 

[p13man]

Thanks, Alltaken

Alltaken Quoth Thus:

Does anyone have a theme they want me to convert over to this editing system?

At the moment I'm working on BleazleWide(Link Here) and Simple MP (Link Here). Either of these, please.

 

[p13man]

Simple Aid For Skinners

I've just uploaded an overlay grid HERE which will superimpose itself on any page that you want. The overlay is a grid which gives the X and Y coordinates of the screen thus taking out the guess-work whenever you want to move an object to another location. It's unpolished and at the moment only works with 720x576 skin but if enough people are interested I'll make it in other resolutions (maybe as a plug-in). See screen-shot below.

 

[Alltaken]

That's pretty cool.

If the plugin had a drop down option of screen resolutions that would be amazing.

p13man, are your skins in SVN? if so is that the easiest way for me to make updates (can I edit other peoples stuff via the MP svn?) and just co-ordinate a few days for you not to touch them while I make changes?

Cheers,

 

[p13man]

Alltaken: p13man, are your skins in SVN?

These aren't my skins, I like Bleazle (created by Bleazle but I don't know if he's named after the skin or the other way round ) because it's not too complicated and easy to tweak. I'll check whether it's in SVN and let you know. The other is the one I use in the bedroom (my girlfriend's domain), chosen because it's easy to operate and, more importantly, there's not much to translate (she's Laotian). Again, I'll check SVN status and get back to you.
Regarding the overlay, I wrote this for my own use and wondered if anyone else can use it. If a few are interested, I thought that would be a good motivator to write my first plugin. It's very simple a couple of drop-down lists, one with choice of skin size (although I might write some code for it to parse references.xml and make that automatic) the other would be an "apply to which page?" list. I'm thinking that the easiest way would be to create an extra button for the top bar to turn it on and off). Any suggestions would be most welcome, though.
I'll get back to you asap with the SVN details (if there are any).

 

[p13man]

Alltaken, sorry I was slow getting back to you. Bleazle skin isn't using the svn system but updating into the repository on a regular basis. Download here: MEDIAPORTAL - free media center - Bleazle V6
Forget about the other one, if you can do this one for me, I will worship at your feet.
Thanks once more.