Norfolk_boy

Thought I'd do a quick update for this little skinner's aid.

If you haven't heard of this before, the skinner panel gives you a small box on screen allowing you to reload an see changes in a skin with two clicks of a button - no need to go to the preferences screen. It's quicker way of reloading your skin when working on it but it's mainly indespensable for those times when things go wrong when skinning, allowing you to make changes and reload when not possible with the game interface.

The box is also fully draggable with the mouse to wherever you want it on screen so it won't get in the way of anything.

SCREENSHOT

INSTALLATION AND USAGE

1. Find the 'global panels.xml' file of the skin you wish to use the tool with and open it with a text editor.
2. Scroll to the very bottom of the file and find </panel> right at the end of the file.
3. Copy the code below and paste it JUST ABOVE </panel>.
4. In preferences make sure 'use skin cache' IS NOT ticked and 'always reload skin on confirm' IS ticked.

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">&lt;!-- RADESTOCK'S SKINNER PANEL --&gt;&lt;container class="titled_box" title="Skinner Panel V1.1" width="160" height="50" appearance="boxes/hints" colour="black" size="8" alignment="centre"&gt;&lt;layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="bottom, right" inset="100"/&gt;&lt;attachment class="moveable_attachment"/&gt;&lt;widget class="action_button" text="Reload Skin" auto_size="vertical" appearance="button/button" width="148"&gt;&lt;attachment class="test_global_attachment" get_property="scid" value="23" mode="0" set_property="hidn" skip_if_null="false" skip_if_resetting="false" priority="1"/&gt;&lt;event id="click_event" event_id="sPRF" event_target="scrn"/&gt;&lt;layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="bottom" inset="5"/&gt;&lt;layout class="centre_in_parent_attachment" alignment="horizontal" offset="0"/&gt;&lt;/widget&gt;&lt;widget class="action_button" text="Confirm" auto_size="vertical" appearance="button/button" width="148"&gt;&lt;attachment class="test_global_attachment" get_property="scid" value="23" mode="1" set_property="hidn" skip_if_null="false" skip_if_resetting="false" priority="1"/&gt;&lt;event id="click_event" event_id="conf" event_target="scrn"/&gt;&lt;layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="bottom" inset="5"/&gt;&lt;layout class="centre_in_parent_attachment" alignment="horizontal" offset="0"/&gt;&lt;/widget&gt;&lt;/container&gt;&lt;!-- END OF SKINNER PANEL --&gt; </pre>

Now to reload a skin all you need do is click the button in the box twice: One click will take you to the preferences screen and change the button text from 'reload skin' to 'confirm' - a second click reloads the skin.

As always feel free to use it and pass it on but don't post it on other sites and say it's your own work. Down with that sort of thing. :thup: