Beatnik is not the problem. I know how Beatnik works.

I never skinned anything in my life...Thats my problem

I think i have something working. But i'm warning ya...Its pretty simple. I'll keep working on it though. not ready for show yet.

wow elvee, thank you! good luck ... and, if you figure out how to skin something, please let me know!!!! hahaha ... i've tried ... i failed ...

Well back to the drawing board

hey James, no need to put down your skinning skills, actually your Rainlendar skin is one of the most complete around, and the alpha blending is sweet. needless to say there are a lot of apps that are much easier to skin.

there is a little bug though (in Rainlendar, not your fault). when you apply images with the skinning gui, it will write hardcoded paths to Rainlendar.ini file. this makes the skin unusable for people that do not have installed the skin in the same directory as you (all non-english users and probably a lot more).

fixing it is easy. after you finished skinning and everything works nice on your system, open Rainlendar.ini with your text editor and remove the paths.

example:

DaysBitmapName=C:\Program Files\Rainlendar\Globes by Jim\Days.bmp

-------->

DaysBitmapName=Days.bmp


i learned this on this message board as well, when Renato asked about the app and people were complaing that the skins seem to be incompatible. so i opened the file and had a deeper look into it (as a LiteStepper i am a little ashamed i trusted a gui for skinning that much, hehe)

Thanks for the info Moshi. I didn't know about that problem in Rainlendar.

And Jafo, I agree with you. Instructions and tutorials are handy, but the best way is to get in there and get your hands dirty, so to speak.

I dunno. let me know when you figure it out. So far I can make rectangles and flood fill them...

Hey, Chris......what's a rectangle?

and why would you want to flood it?....

Listen to Koasati....

A rectangle is a circle with too much anti-aliasing.

Elvee, I, too, am in the midst of taking the plunge. Our similarities don't end there, GIMP user here too. I think what makes it all that much more complicated is trying to learn GIMP, and skinnning, and SkinStudio, and etc. I made hard copies of the more helpful tutorials, and have tried sleeping with them under my pillow. Rather than get too frustrated, I give it a day or two between attempts so that I don't feel too incompetant.

We ought to keep in touch ............ we may help keep each other sane through the whole process!

I got started theming Litestep by porting NextStart themes. Took the pressure off on the graphics side until I was familiar with the nuts 'n bolts. And the graphics program doesn't have to be fancy. Hell, I'm still using Micrografx Draw and PhotoMagic. Talk about primitive.