bea: have look at my quick notes tutorial. Then if you have any questions we can just take it from there. <br />Tut:
http://www.spoono.com/tutorials/skins/quick_notes/#3 <br />QN:
http://www.lowdimension.com <br /> <br />As for the html question, it is similare. In fact there are apps that use xml based skinning, so they would be even more similare. That usually isn´t the case though. Lets take quick notes for example. Here is the text file for the skin in my tut: <br /> <br />[Author notes] <br />Skinname=Spoono Sample <br />Author=CutTheRedWire <br />E-Mail=CutTheRedWire@hotmail.com <br />Website=www.spoono.com <br />Description=A sample skin for learning purposes. <br /> <br />[Skin Settings] <br />Left=2 <br />Top=17 <br />Width=196 <br />height=132 <br />Windowcolor=$00000000 <br />Fontname=Arial <br />FontSize=7 <br />FontColor=$00707070 <br /> <br />: Basically everything to the left of the equal sign is a variable, and everything to the right is what you put in to control it. The first part is pretty self explanitory. It´s information you put in about yourself like credits in amovie or what not. The second part is a bit more tecknical. It´s controlling where the text area is on quick notes. If you´ve used the program, you´ll see what I mean. If not, I´ll put it to you this way: you have to tell the app where a person can type on the skin, and this is where you do that. Left & top are where it starts. Width and hight ar how big it is. The colors are in hexadecimal (I think you know what that is, if not I can explain). I think the font entries are self explanitory as well. They control how quick notes displays the fonts in the text area. <br /> <br />Now to really get a feel for what these settings are doing you should play with them in a skin. If you aren´t sure how to go about that, then just divid a number in there by 2, save the file, and reopen the app. <br /> <br />Now this is just one example. A very common thing you will see in other skins is the name of the images you are using. In quick notes they have to be certain ones, so it doesn´t need them. I hope this gives you a lot of specifics you´ve been wondering about. <br /> <br />Again, I´m open to any questions, as are most the ppl here. Heck, 90% of them have already skinned this app before. :P Even if you don´t use the app or the skin, it is a nice simple stepping stone to take. Hope I didn´t get too elimentary, or condesending. Just wanted to give a thurough answer and I got a lil carried away. ^.^;
