Problem with offsets (I think)

[arbitrajeu]

I've decided to illustrate with pictures, first, rather than expecting someone to debug my skin.

I use region 1 for the launcher, defined thus:

region,1,0,-1
defregion,1,122,0,118,16,1

I also use region 4 for each page of the launcher icons, defined thus:

region,4,0,-1

The defregion for 4 is defined above region 1, as follows:

defregion,4,0,0,0,0,3

Here we have the skin compressed, showing the date and launcher part:



Then, when I enable the RSS region, it's all offset of some reason:



The region for RSS is defined thus:

region,15,0,-1
defregion,15,0,0,240,56,2

But then when I enable the weather region too, it's all okay:



The weather region (0) is defined thus:

defregion,0,0,38,240,100,4

...
region,0,0,-1

It appears that my region 15 (RSS) is inheriting the x position from the defregion for region 1.  I've checked for rogue offsetadd commands and am using none that affect the x coordinates.

Any thoughts?

[srs]

1) Do you have a offset,offset_-1,offset_-1 after each defregion ?  this resets the offsets to what is defined by the defregion.

2) I would think this is the problem:

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region,1,0,-1
defregion,1,122,0,118,16,1


thsi defines region 1 to be
1) x = 122 +current x offset
2) y = 0 + current y offset

if you have the aforementioned offset command, it would make the current offsets equal to those defined in the defregion.

unless youre resetting the x offset back to 0 somewhere all subsequent command that rely on the x offset will be offset b y 122 pixels.

to reset the x offset you could do a offsetadd,-122,0 or offset,0,offset_-1 (this means set the x offset to 0 and the y offset to whats defined as the offset for the current region)

hope this help

[arbitrajeu]

Superb.  Just the job.

Whilst I had taken on board the "it's good practice to put offset,offset_-1,offset_-1 in every region", I'd not actually thought through what I was doing when I did it.  Thanks for pointing out that it is effectively like putting an offset,x,y command in periodically throughout the code.  Makes total sense now.

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