Here's the situation;

I make a UIS2 skin with a normal looking Start Panel. I want to make a substyle with a compact Start Panel so I choose to duplicate the current skin without copying the graphics since they are all exactly the same. All I want to do is change some of the metrics of the Start Panel.

I edit the start panel in the newly created substyle to my liking and save it.

POW! When I load up the original skin and/or apply it, BOTH the original skin and the substyle have the same metrics applied for the Start Panel.

Huh? Ok. So I re-edit the original skin with the old Start Panel metrics and save it.

POW! Both the original skin and the substyle have the edite Start Panel metrics applied [again]. Grrrrr!!!!

So I've found that the only way to get the same skin with the exact same graphics to have different metric information is to duplicate the original UIS2 skin *and* the graphics associated files. This doesn't make sense to me and I know it must be wrong.

Doing it this way DOUBLES the size of the Windowblind distributable and I don't like that. I *know* this can be done differently but I don't understand it well enough, I guess.

I hope I didn't confuse anybody.Can somebody help me on this, please?

Thanks mucho grande!
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