Copy-problems in Skinstudio 6.2

Hi,

Is there anybody who can help?

I had to stop creating a skin because of this problem.The skin is useless without the caption-buttons.

Please help!

Sincerely Ben

We'll,that leaves me with the feeling of a useless application.To bad.

I can't go any further with skinning,because I don't know how to solve this problem.
I have spend money at Object Desktop and can't use it for the full 100 %

Stardock Support: Would you please respond?
Is this a bug or what?

Sincerely Ben

I think what is happening is that when you make your copy, Skinstudio isn't deleting the old (overwritten) UIS files and they remain in the folder. After you make a copy, manually delete any old files with the original skin name from the skin folder. I expect you will not have any problems after that.

BwanaBen

everytime you rename a skin SKS has to rename every image

1-ex... Image=Azul Hi-Def\Azul Hi-DefStartPanel.MenuItemImage.tga

the example 1 above is an image that was created from scratch then imported I have underlined the skin name

2-ex...Image=Azul Hi-Def\RadioButtonNew.tga

the example 2 above is an image that was already there but then modified I have underlined the skin name

When SKS renames a skin it only does it in front of the backslash.

3-ex... Image=NewSkin\Azul Hi-DefStartPanel.MenuItemImage.tga

the example 3 above would be example 1 renamed

This is important because when you rename a skin there are a lot of images copied into a new folder and renamed

I saw you respond to the other post,So a good idea if you are starting with a skin you want to modify you are better off to make copy of the skin first store somewhere then you have a default to go back to .Now start editing the installed skin DO NOT DO A SAVE AS untill you are completely finished editing the skin so you only do it once.

1 more note I can not remember right off the exact # but depending on the skin name there is a maximum character spaces for any given image

4-ex...Image=Azul Hi-Def\CloseButtonPerPixel^OverlayImage.tga

renamed

5-ex...Image=Azul Hi-Def test 1\CloseButtonPerPixel^OverlayImage.tga

if the part above in green was "Someskinname That Was Long" like the example below

6-ex...Image=Someskinname That Was Long test 1\CloseButtonPerPixel^OverlayImage.tga

and the underlined characters total over max allowed that will also cause an image not to show!

If I can help let me know

Check what Night Train say first his reply came in while I typed very slowly .HE is the man!!!

Thank you 'guys' fot your responds.

What I did was:
                       In SKS I made a copy of 'Slider XP'-skin (wich is very beautiful made) with 'Test1' added to the name.
                       Than I opened the 'Slider XP Test1'-skin for editing.
                       I replaced the Startmenu-images for images of my own to start with.
                       I than saved the Test1-skin to Test 2-skin.
                       I did that several times until my Startmenu was complete.Only the last time didn't work anymore bacause the
                       Caption-buttons and CaptionTextBackground-image were gone.
                       I checked the Test 2-folder and skin if there were any changes in the images-names.There were none.

                       I opened the original 'Slider Xp' -skin to see if the Caption-buttons and CaptionTextBackground-image were
                       present and yes they were.
                       So a mede a new copy of it and there's were I noticed that all these and following copies missed the 
                       mentioned items.

In the case of AVMAN.There are no long names in the 'Slider XP'-skin.They al start with 'Slider' followed with the normal names.
Also there are no '/' in the names.
Should this eliminate the possible cause AVMAN mentioned?

I'll try later this day the possible solution of Night Train.
Should I only concentrate to the UIS-files?

Sincerely Ben

p.s. How do I post images in this message?

1st-Direct from Slider skin=Image=Slider\SliderStartPanelUserPane.tga

2nd-3 main files

(a)NAME.uis=contains window frames and most buttons and controls

(b) XPStuff.xp=contains start menu and taskbar items

(c) ShellStyles.xps=contains images you would see in My Computer or My Documents,like folder tasks file options area

3rd

take your image upload it to somewhere like imageshack or photobucket then get the url address click the pic.of the tree in the toolbar above the reply box(when you mouse over it says insert or edit image paste the link from imageshack where it says Image URL then click insert.

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