Problems closing winamp

cptlee · 15th June 2005, 02:50

okay, I have no idea what in the world I did wrong. It keeps saying that there is a mismatched tag for the </WinampAbstractionLayer> I have checked to make sure that there is no other unclosed tags but nothing seems to do the trick. I have uploaded the skin.xml file to

http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/1901/skin.xml

Also, I can't seem to create a .wal zip file. I have tried just making the skin into a .zip file and then renaming using dos prompt as well as just zipping the skin into a .wal file and it always comes up as the default skin. So, those are my two questions. I have ripped out hair trying to figure all this stuff out.

Lee

leechbite · 15th June 2005, 06:05

you need to move your <elements/> on top of <groupdef id="equalizer" name="equalizer">. and replace it with </elements>.

cptlee · 15th June 2005, 14:05

When I did that it said that I had a missing line at 52 </elements> line. It also wouldn't display the main window anymore. This is driving me nuts. Thank you very much for your help... But this is just confounding me to no end... any other suggestions?

leechbite · 15th June 2005, 17:14

also on this line:

<bitmap id="background.main" file="player/main.png">

you need /> at the end. change it to

<bitmap id="background.main" file="player/main.png"/>

cptlee · 16th June 2005, 02:01

Can't belive that I missed that! Well, it still didn't work. I even tried just putting my elements and layout in someone's code that doesn't have any errors and it came back with errors... puzzelling... Thanks for all your help. Any other suggestions?

cptlee · 16th June 2005, 02:05

well shuck my corn, I managed to fix it... don't ask me how... well, I changed <elements/> to </elements> and got rid of some fonts I wasn't using and it works... NOW I CAN SUBMIT THIS BLASTED SKIN!! Leechbite, you are a God send. I've made like 8 attempts and finally, this is the first to work. I feel like a kid in a candy store... with money.

leechbite · 16th June 2005, 04:58

no prob.

cptlee · 16th June 2005, 06:18

My submission was rejected!

In Regards to Component: Noir_Kirika(145358)

That's all they put. Nothing more. That's just crap. I re-submitted it. I think it's a good skin.

Okay, I uploaded it to geocities.

http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/1901/noir_kirika.zip

It wouldn't upload as a .wal file. Inside the zip is the .wal file so you don't have to rename anything. Check it out, does it really suck that bad??

carlosp · 16th June 2005, 06:51

probably the reason is you zipped it wrong. you have zipped the *.wal file but you must upload the wal file and not a zip with the *.wal in it.

sbroadbent · 16th June 2005, 07:17

You may want to make sure the skin works as it should. I downloaded and loaded it on both my desktop machine, and my laptop and while winamp *says* it's using your skin, it's just displaying the winamp classic skin.

I highly doubt the skin you submitted was the winamp classic skin.

Quote:

Originally posted by cptlee
My submission was rejected!

In Regards to Component: Noir_Kirika(145358)

That's all they put. Nothing more. That's just crap. I re-submitted it. I think it's a good skin.

Okay, I uploaded it to geocities.

http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/1901/noir_kirika.zip

It wouldn't upload as a .wal file. Inside the zip is the .wal file so you don't have to rename anything. Check it out, does it really suck that bad??

cptlee · 16th June 2005, 07:18

No, it was to geocities that I couldn't upload the file as .wal. To winamp.com I could and did. I checked to make sure that it would work properly with winamp when I tried to load it. But did you check out the skin, does it suck?

cptlee · 16th June 2005, 07:20

where could I upload it as a .wal extention....

cptlee · 16th June 2005, 07:23

so, how do you guys zip it into a .wal file? I used winzip and renamed it Noir Kirika.wal ... It works on my comp...

sbroadbent · 16th June 2005, 07:28

Ok, I think I know what the problem was. When you created the wal file, you zipped the folder "Noir Kirika" that contained the files you had been working on, rather than zipping just the files themselves.

In this case, it's necessary to zip the folders frame, player and xml as well as the files screenshot.png and skin.xml without the "Noir Kirika" folder.

Here is a rezipped version that does work:

http://www.sbroadbent.com/skins/noir-kirika.wal

Submit this wal file instead.

cptlee · 16th June 2005, 07:38

okay, will do. What did you differently that made the file work? How did you zip it?

Thanks for all the help, I can't wait to finally get one of these new skins published.

sbroadbent · 16th June 2005, 07:53

To add to my other message, the skin looks ok. I'm not into anime all that much. On the downside, it takes up alot of screen space even if most of that is transparent. One thing I might do is make the equalizer a drawer that is normally hidden behind the "control center". The area that holds the play/pause/stop/etc buttons as well as the songticker and other buttons. Simply add an EQ button to have it slide to the right side.

I'd also make the fontsize of the songticker text (that displays the artist and song title) a size or two smaller so that more of the artist/title displays. Currently, that text has to scroll in order for me to see the rest of the word "Stormwitch" (name of the current band playing in winamp). That immediately gives it a negative.

Alternately I would switch the songticker location with the visualiztion. The vis does not *need* to take up that much space.

One thing I'd also do is give the Shuffle/Repeat/Crossfade a hoverimage like the playlist button has, so that when you move the mouse over those options it "lights up". Very easy to add.

Finally, the equalizer bands just seem too small to me but it may just have to do with the equalizer bubble being small. If you were to go with the hidden drawer idea, you could make it larger.

sbroadbent · 16th June 2005, 08:03

Quote:

Originally posted by cptlee
okay, will do. What did you differently that made the file work? How did you zip it?

Thanks for all the help, I can't wait to finally get one of these new skins published.

15th June 2005, 02:50	#1
cptlee Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 26	Problems closing winamp okay, I have no idea what in the world I did wrong. It keeps saying that there is a mismatched tag for the </WinampAbstractionLayer> I have checked to make sure that there is no other unclosed tags but nothing seems to do the trick. I have uploaded the skin.xml file to http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/1901/skin.xml Also, I can't seem to create a .wal zip file. I have tried just making the skin into a .zip file and then renaming using dos prompt as well as just zipping the skin into a .wal file and it always comes up as the default skin. So, those are my two questions. I have ripped out hair trying to figure all this stuff out. Lee

16th June 2005, 06:18	#8
cptlee Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 26	What the friggin' crap?! My submission was rejected! In Regards to Component: Noir_Kirika(145358) That's all they put. Nothing more. That's just crap. I re-submitted it. I think it's a good skin. Okay, I uploaded it to geocities. http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/1901/noir_kirika.zip It wouldn't upload as a .wal file. Inside the zip is the .wal file so you don't have to rename anything. Check it out, does it really suck that bad??

16th June 2005, 06:51	#9
carlosp Major Dude Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Hamburg, Germany Posts: 1,312	probably the reason is you zipped it wrong. you have zipped the .wal file but you must upload the wal file and not a zip with the .wal in it. my skins: Nokia 3650, Spiderman Freeform, M3 (Manual), Simpsons Freeform(Idea, Coding), Freeamp Metaskins: WooHoo-FER , Ar-7

16th June 2005, 07:28	#14
sbroadbent Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Brockville, ON Posts: 71	Ok, I think I know what the problem was. When you created the wal file, you zipped the folder "Noir Kirika" that contained the files you had been working on, rather than zipping just the files themselves. In this case, it's necessary to zip the folders frame, player and xml as well as the files screenshot.png and skin.xml without the "Noir Kirika" folder. Here is a rezipped version that does work: http://www.sbroadbent.com/skins/noir-kirika.wal Submit this wal file instead. Current Projects: Tarja Turunen (Nightwish) Skin.

16th June 2005, 07:53	#16
sbroadbent Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Brockville, ON Posts: 71	To add to my other message, the skin looks ok. I'm not into anime all that much. On the downside, it takes up alot of screen space even if most of that is transparent. One thing I might do is make the equalizer a drawer that is normally hidden behind the "control center". The area that holds the play/pause/stop/etc buttons as well as the songticker and other buttons. Simply add an EQ button to have it slide to the right side. I'd also make the fontsize of the songticker text (that displays the artist and song title) a size or two smaller so that more of the artist/title displays. Currently, that text has to scroll in order for me to see the rest of the word "Stormwitch" (name of the current band playing in winamp). That immediately gives it a negative. Alternately I would switch the songticker location with the visualiztion. The vis does not need to take up that much space. One thing I'd also do is give the Shuffle/Repeat/Crossfade a hoverimage like the playlist button has, so that when you move the mouse over those options it "lights up". Very easy to add. Finally, the equalizer bands just seem too small to me but it may just have to do with the equalizer bubble being small. If you were to go with the hidden drawer idea, you could make it larger. Current Projects: Tarja Turunen (Nightwish) Skin.

15th June 2005, 06:05	#2
leechbite Banned Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 635	you need to move your <elements/> on top of <groupdef id="equalizer" name="equalizer">. and replace it with </elements>.

15th June 2005, 14:05	#3
cptlee Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 26	When I did that it said that I had a missing line at 52 </elements> line. It also wouldn't display the main window anymore. This is driving me nuts. Thank you very much for your help... But this is just confounding me to no end... any other suggestions?

15th June 2005, 17:14	#4
leechbite Banned Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 635	also on this line: <bitmap id="background.main" file="player/main.png"> you need /> at the end. change it to <bitmap id="background.main" file="player/main.png"/>

16th June 2005, 02:01	#5
cptlee Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 26	Can't belive that I missed that! Well, it still didn't work. I even tried just putting my elements and layout in someone's code that doesn't have any errors and it came back with errors... puzzelling... Thanks for all your help. Any other suggestions?

16th June 2005, 02:05	#6
cptlee Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 26	well shuck my corn, I managed to fix it... don't ask me how... well, I changed <elements/> to </elements> and got rid of some fonts I wasn't using and it works... NOW I CAN SUBMIT THIS BLASTED SKIN!! Leechbite, you are a God send. I've made like 8 attempts and finally, this is the first to work. I feel like a kid in a candy store... with money.

16th June 2005, 04:58	#7
leechbite Banned Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 635	no prob.

16th June 2005, 07:18	#11
cptlee Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 26	No, it was to geocities that I couldn't upload the file as .wal. To winamp.com I could and did. I checked to make sure that it would work properly with winamp when I tried to load it. But did you check out the skin, does it suck?

16th June 2005, 07:20	#12
cptlee Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 26	where could I upload it as a .wal extention....

16th June 2005, 07:23	#13
cptlee Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 26	so, how do you guys zip it into a .wal file? I used winzip and renamed it Noir Kirika.wal ... It works on my comp...

16th June 2005, 07:38	#15
cptlee Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 26	okay, will do. What did you differently that made the file work? How did you zip it? Thanks for all the help, I can't wait to finally get one of these new skins published.

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