New twist to the skin

[brewabel]

Ok, trying to do a couple major mods myself and here is the problem I'm having.

I'm moving the buttons along the bottom, but can't seem to get the screens to extend all the way across the screen.  I get a weird refresh on the main screen and it won't allow me to use the right side of the screen.

Keeps cutting everything off like the buttons are still there.  Have dug through this file and reached my limit of skin knowledge.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Just trying to get the front page straight first.  Disregard most of the code other than that.

[Wichtel]

Hi brewabel

you us an old Skinversion 1.05, currently we have 1.05.6

Can you give my a Screenshot because at the moment, I cannot comprehend your problem.

[Geezer]

Brewabel,
 Just a suggestion, try setting your maxheight and height to 288.  See if your images show then.  It looks like your cutting off the display size ot todayplus.  If that works, then you can go back to 266 only after you've done some major coorridinates adjustments.  But I could be wrong too. Just a thought after looking at you code.

Geezer

[brewabel]

Wichtel,

Had to do a hard reset between the time I posted and your reply.  For some reason, the problem is no longer there.  Not sure what happened.  Here are a couple shots of what I have running through my head.

What was originally happening is the right hand side of the screen was still being reserved for the buttons, so anything going past 211 pixels was getting cut off.

Doesn't seem to be an issue now though.

[Broesel]

What was originally happening is the right hand side of the screen was still being reserved for the buttons, so anything going past 211 pixels was getting cut off...

Brewabel, I think, the problem was, that you have to reload the skin
(by config.exe or stop and start the plugin), when you are adjusting the
defregions. This Information is only read once, when the skin is started !
So if you do not reload, the regiondefinitions stay in the memory, every
other thing ist updated through the time defined in region,...

Greetings Broesel

[brewabel]

Makes sense.  And of course the hard reset definitely cleared that out  

[Broesel]

Makes sense.  And of course the hard reset definitely cleared that out  

Yes, of course it did, but is hopefully no more necessary

btw. I like the idea, to have the buttons at the bottom of the skin to
have the full width of the screen.
I wanted to make an own skin that way, but didn't get time to finish
more than the mainpage, so I'm waiting for your skin to be published ???

Greetings Broesel

[brewabel]

Broesel,

Here's a better idea of what I'm looking at.  I'm actually going to change it all together as far as removing the buttons and using some tabs.  Also looking to make the launcher a tabbed part as well.  Thinking about making it static to where it's there regardless of which section you go to.  Find I use the launcher more than anything else.

Again, have a few ideas floating around.  Not sure it will be the full robust skin with rss and everything but will be the stuff I use the most.

I'm open to any ideas or suggestions.

[uk_skinner]

This is a similiar idea in 2B and UniSkin skin.  Shorcuts are accessible at anytime. Perhaps you can take a look:

http://www.jhollin1138.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1645
http://www.jhollin1138.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1738

[brewabel]

Definitely similar.  ZapMe1 is to blame for me doing this at all  

The UniSkin is the one that got me thinking about the unchanging launcher.  Don't really pay too much attention to the VGA skins as I can't use them anyway.  Looking at one probably more similar to rbg08's OSX Complete skin.

Either way, we'll see how it actually ends up

[ZapMe1]

Definitely similar. ZapMe1 is to blame for me doing this at all

You're Welcome !!  

[brewabel]

See post below.

Having access problems and it double posted.

[brewabel]

Have another place I'm stuck.  Hope you guys can help out with.

I'm trying to add a 6th day to my weather section and here are the problems I'm running into.  When I added a 6th day a couple different things happened.  First off, everytime I would select the weather page, it would soft reset my device.

I've remmed out the two lines you see in the code below:

Code Select Expand

imagebutton,162,163,wetter_button_detail2.png,t,7,4,0,3
button,162,163,95,13,-1,6,var1=6
forecasticon,6,82,180,,t
color,font,0_0_0
// forecast,date_dddd,6,163,163,,,l
// forecast,date_MM.dd,6,235,163,,,r
color,font,-1_4_-1
text,196,178,H:,l
text,196,188,L:,l
text,196,198,P:,l
color,font,195_0_0
forecast,high,6,236,178,, °F,r
color,font,0_0_195
forecast,low,6,236,188,, °F,r
color,font,-1_4_-1
forecast,precipitation,6,236,198,, %,r


When I rem these two lines out, I get what you see in the screenshot.  It doesn't soft reset me anymore, but I don't get the icons or the data.

Let me know what you guys think.

[uk_skinner]

brewabel:

 When I looked the city.txt in the buffer folder, I did not see the 6th day forecast.  If you open it under notepad and look the last one "this.swFore", I only saw the date up to "02/07/2005".  Did you see "02/08/2005" in your file?  If not, probably it is the reason you got softreset.  And the number you got probably was not right.  They could be the other information.

[Broesel]

When I added a 6th day a couple different things happened.  First off, everytime I would select the weather page, it would soft reset my device.

Well, there are only 5 days forecast in the cityx.txt, so I assume, the
softreset is caused by using the number 6 in forecast, ...

Don't believe, you can get a 6th day (only current day + 4)

Broesel

Edit: uk_skinner beats me again ...l