flagirl wrote:Hello
Can these skins be built on your computer and loaded into the emulator via the desktop?? Everytime I try to load to the emulator it is telling me no projects are found. I would really appreciate any help..
You have to create an sdcard for the emulator via command prompt, then manually push the skins to it. I can't remember exactly what you have to type, but when I get back in town I can find out unless someone else answers before me
is it correct that there is no way to change the background color of a selected word in the suggestion bar?
It seems to be always orange, but it would be really cool to modify it.
tls wrote:Hi there,
is it correct that there is no way to change the background color of a selected word in the suggestion bar?
It seems to be always orange, but it would be really cool to modify it.
That's right, but this could be added in a future version of the skin engine.
I have no idea how to do any of this, but I thought I'd play around and see if I could modify a current skin with my Droid X. I copied the zip file and modified the "pressed.9.png" by coloring it, and replacing it in the zip, I also modified the name in the skin.xml to reflect the new name of the zip file, and then the keyboard just shows up as the black keyboard, no skin, no pressed image (the file is there, but nothing happens when you press a key on the keyboard). The skin works fine up until I replace the pressed.9.png file. Can anyone explain to me why this doesn't work? Thanks. Again, I know I'm a tard, I'm just looking to understand why this simple modification can't be made. I also tried unzipping the file with Astro File Manager and altering the image that way, and then recompressing it into a zip, and this doesn't work either.
I did change the name of the skin in the skin.xml file, and even tested the skin with its new name and it works perfectly (I edited the skin.xml with the Silver Edit Lite app on my phone), and then I took the pressed.9.png and colored it with the native photo editor on my phone, and when that didn't work I tried editing it with Pic Say Pro. That didn't work either. Once I replace the pressed.9.png file, that's when the skin shows up as all black. I only edited the hdpi file, not the mdpi, and then I tried editing it via Paint on my laptop, but that yielded the same problem. Like I said, I have no idea what I am doing, I was just looking for an explanation why this doesn't work. And just in case you need this info, I didn't color the transparent pixels that are needed for the 9 patch. Anyway, I didn't mean to waste anyone's time, I was just wondering if anyone might know the precise reason why this doesn't work. Thanks.
don't know for the editors in your phone, but Paint on your laptop does NOT handle transparency, that's probably why you got a black skin
try using Paint.NET or the GIMP, or even Photoshop if you know it.
