Editing Skins - Need Help Please
Tuesday, August 12, 2003 by T-Mo7556 | Discussion: Skinning
Hey guys. I downloaded this awesome skin called Sportsman. I wanted to change the whole thing to a different colour, so what do i do? open up all the picture files in photoshop and change them. Easy enough. But now windowblinds won't let me install it. I figured I could just make another folder called like Sportsman_Blue and put everything in there and it would work fine, but nooooooo. So i zp all the files together and then click "Install skin from disk" in windowblinds, navigate to the file and press ok, but does the skin install? nooooo. How do I get this skin to work!! This is for personal use only obviously, like I want to be sued or something. 
-Tony
-Tony
T-Mo7556
Reply #2 Tuesday, August 12, 2003 2:20 PM
Reply #2 Tuesday, August 12, 2003 2:20 PM
yea i just changed the colours of the bitmaps and the tga's. Well first I copied all the files to a "Sportsman_Blue" Folder and then changed those ones so I could keep the original one...but for some reason I couldn't get it to load, I dunno.
T-Mo7556
Reply #3 Tuesday, August 12, 2003 2:24 PM
Reply #3 Tuesday, August 12, 2003 2:24 PM
Seems I can't recolour the skin in the public free version........ghey >
I.R. Brainiac
Reply #4 Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:10 PM
Reply #4 Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:10 PM
Did your new folder have all the wb files or just the images?
Koasati
Reply #6 Tuesday, August 12, 2003 6:52 PM
Reply #6 Tuesday, August 12, 2003 6:52 PM
I think I know how to fix this,
Go to the Sportsman-Blue folder, and open the UIS file in a text editor.
Using the "find and replace" tool.
Set it to find sportsman, and the replace it with sportsman-blue. All instances.
Save it.
Open your WindowBlinds Configuration Window, or Display properties, and it should be there. 
T-Mo7556
Reply #7 Wednesday, August 13, 2003 7:38 PM
Reply #7 Wednesday, August 13, 2003 7:38 PM
does that mean i have to rename all the files too? like any files that have "sportsman" change them to "sportsman_blue"?? because there are a hwole bunch of like "sportsman.uis_button.checkbox.WB4" and stuff like that....
Koasati
Reply #8 Wednesday, August 13, 2003 7:52 PM
Reply #8 Wednesday, August 13, 2003 7:52 PM
Delete all of the .WB4 files, when WindowBlinds loads the skin, those files will be created. 
I just tried it........ worked for me..
T-Mo7556
Reply #9 Wednesday, August 13, 2003 7:53 PM
Reply #9 Wednesday, August 13, 2003 7:53 PM
ok i changed all the "sportsman" to "sportsman_blue" in the "sportsman.uis" files and renamed that uis file to "sportsman_blue" then i renamed all the other ones that i stated above to be "sportsman_blue.uis_button.checkbox.wb4" etc. etc. down the rest of them which are named different....Then I went into windowblinds and I saw a "sportsman_blue" in there but there was no previews, and when i applied it it was all messed up.
Oops nevermind, when i went back into the .uis file and looked at it, all the "sportsman_blue"s were "sportsman_blue_blue" for some reason hahahaha. There is one problem though, the scrollbars are still yellow and I don't know where the files for them are. But they don't even show up on the windows anyway so I dunno.
Oops nevermind, when i went back into the .uis file and looked at it, all the "sportsman_blue"s were "sportsman_blue_blue" for some reason hahahaha. There is one problem though, the scrollbars are still yellow and I don't know where the files for them are. But they don't even show up on the windows anyway so I dunno.
T-Mo7556
Reply #10 Wednesday, August 13, 2003 8:20 PM
Reply #10 Wednesday, August 13, 2003 8:20 PM
I wish you could edit posts, eeerrrrr
This is what I found out. When i went further down in the directory, and looked further at the skin, I noticed that the start menu was also not blue like it is supposed to be. (in the windows XP way) So when i scrolled down in the directory, I found a "xpstuff.xp" file. So i opened that up with notepad and changed all the "sportsman" to "sportsman" blue but it still doesn't work.....I'm stumped >
This is what I found out. When i went further down in the directory, and looked further at the skin, I noticed that the start menu was also not blue like it is supposed to be. (in the windows XP way) So when i scrolled down in the directory, I found a "xpstuff.xp" file. So i opened that up with notepad and changed all the "sportsman" to "sportsman" blue but it still doesn't work.....I'm stumped
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T-Mo7556
Reply #11 Wednesday, August 13, 2003 9:47 PM
Reply #11 Wednesday, August 13, 2003 9:47 PM
WHOA NICE! I MISSED YOUR MESSAGE ABOUT DELETING THE WB4 FILES AND I JUST DID AND IT WORKS! NICE DUDE! THANKS! I emailed you about MSN or AIM. reply to that 
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Reply #1 Tuesday, August 12, 2003 1:18 PM