Making subskin the main skin

Tuesday, January 16, 2007 by Imzadi | Discussion: Skinning

Hi all,

I was wondering how you can take a subskin that you've been working on and make it the main skin? I started out making this WB skin with several subskins and have decided that the subskin better fits with the name of the theme. Is there an easy way (other than zipping the one skin by itself and importing the subskins into it?) to do this? This skin itself has 4 subskins. Hope this makes sense.
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jazzymjr
Reply #1 Tuesday, January 16, 2007 5:11 PM
What I did when I made a couple of complex skins (my Prism blind is the most recent), was have the master name with all of the subskins, and then added a descriptive word after each if the subskins: Prism Light, Prism Dark, Prism Rain. I hope that helps. You may run into trouble with renaming the skin in question, if you have already named your subskins. I don't name my skins till I am finished with them....while working on them, I just use initials for the blind names, then do a save as to name the skins when done. I hope I didn't confuse you too much. Maybe someone else can chime in and give you an easier way to do this.

Imzadi
Reply #2 Tuesday, January 16, 2007 5:55 PM
I've named them all already. That's kind of the problem. They're all saved in the one main folder as subskins, but I want to make one of the subskins the main skin. I understand what you're talking about, but since I've already saved them, I couldn't quite figure out how to do that.

Électro
Reply #3 Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:40 PM
Go in the folder where your skin reside.

Change the extention of the UIS file to SSS

(the UIS is your main skin)

Change the extention of the SSS file corresponding to the subskin you want as the main one to UIS

(the SSS's are the various sub-skins)

Open the SSD file and reorder the entries, making your now primary apears in the [SkinStyle0] section. Once finished, save the SSD to it's original location.

(the SSD is the Sub-Skin Directory)



Alain


jazzymjr
Reply #4 Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:47 PM
The only other thing I can think of for you to do is do a save as (new name) on the subskin you want as the main skin, and save it as a new blind. Then do the same with the other subskins, importing them into the new blind folder. That is a lot of work, I know, but since you already named them, I can't think of anything else to do. What you might try, is go over to SkinArtistry WWW Link. They are very helpful over there...they may be better able to help you.

Imzadi
Reply #5 Tuesday, January 16, 2007 11:48 PM
Alain, I followed you up to the last part. I opened the SSD and the substyle manager came up, and I moved the one I wanted on the top up...but that's all it let me do.

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