newbie skinning problem

[xanax]

After making a copy of default.wal and unzipping it in a temp dir, I tried to begin skinning changing the player-background.png of this
copy of skin.

I zipped it back and renamed back the archive, but when i loaded my "skin-test", the background just didnot change ! :(

I don't understand how you -skinners- do to modify the skin.

[jimhaddon]

well, im a bit of a newbie myself, but, what I do know is, you dont need to zip your player, to be able to put it into winamp3. just unzip everything, and then put the folder, in the skins directory. Is that ok?

[Naamloos]

Default.wal (and it's subfolders) are read-only....
also if you change the size of it, you must delete studio.xnf to get the good size

[xanax]

Sorry but that just don't work at all.

I updated my skin (witch contains only three modified files since default.wal : player-background.png, skin.xml and skinshot.png) and set all the files read-only ON and after OFF, and I had the same result... and even if I delete the studio.xnf file or not.

When skins are loading, it used to change my cursor from the current to the busy one, but here, it does not change. Then, when I right-click on the taskbar icon of winamp3, that "waits" a bit and displays a huge black menu fitting my screen (1024x768) in the height. Everything gets slow and i have to kill the freeware.

http://sebastien.kerguen.free.fr/winforum/desktop_screenshot.gif

Isn't there a bug with the BETA 1 ?

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my conf:
PII-233 Mhz - 128 Mb SDRAM
17" monitor using a 4 Mb videocard cirrus logic 5465
Sound Blaster 128 PCI
Windows 98SE
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thx for helping.

[xanax]

DO NOT modify a skin in use. Winamp doesn't like it
mmm.. I don't think i do that.
When winamp3 crashes, I delete my skin file and studio.xnf and then re-modify my skin, I zip it, I copy it to "..\winamp3\skins" and I rename my skin file. I launch Winamp3, witch loads the default skin, (and the equalizer and the thinger), I choose my skin name in the submenu, and that's all... that crashes.

[xanax]

That does not work either (either or neither ?, sorry for the english).

[Gonzotek]

That does not work either (either or neither ?, sorry for the english).
That also didn't work <--Eliminates the either/neither ambiguity and flows better.

Are you sure that the "rezipping" isn't what is causing the problem? Many skinners are reporting popular zip utilities don't work with Winamp3. Try just putting the skin into /skins/ as an unzipped folder.

Also, try unzipping default.wal and naming the folder default2 (or something) and switching to it in WA3, if it works, you can just starting changing graphics in the default2 folder.

I think that skinners should use unzipped folders at least until the developers fix the "big" problems with wals -- fonts don't show up properly, the trouble I mentioned above, etc. But I'm not dictating, just a suggestion.

-=Gonzotek=-

[xanax]

Thanks Gonzo, you're my superhero.
I just did not know that I could use unzipped folders. Damned I am stupid. :rolleyes:

[Gonzotek]

That's two heartfelt comments this week claiming I'm "super". I feel all special and stuff. :) Thanks.

Good luck.
-=Gonzotek=-

[-[WonderBlood]-]

Originally posted by *****

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my conf:
PII-233 Mhz - 128 Mb SDRAM
17" monitor using a 4 Mb videocard cirrus logic 5465
Sound Blaster 128 PCI
Windows 98SE
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Time for an upgrade, or? :)

[Dallas]

I've gotten this problem before while working on my skins.... what i've found is that after I unistalled Winamp and Re-installed it, it worked fine... TRY IT!:)