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Originally posted by Gary Toner:
So i finally decided to have a crack at skinning on FM06, so far so good it's nothing radical.
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I've ran in to a few problems, such as the year being cut off in the date and I can't seem to find the xml to move the home|europe|england out from under the tree menu, i'll try to move it along a bit once i find it.
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Breadcrumbs Home|Europe|England
To get the breadcrumbs menu (home|europe|england bit) in front of the tree menu (called sections area in xml files) you can have it so that the tree graphic ends when it gets to the footer that contains the breadcrumbs, open the global panels.xml file in the panels folder for your skin (open with notepad/wordpad or webpage editor), scroll down to the lines that look like this:
<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> <!-- sections area on the side of the screen --><container id="sect" file="sections"> <!-- stick to left of screen --><layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="left"/> <layout class="fit_children_attachment" alignment="horizontal" offset="0"/> <!-- stick to bottom of header panel --><layout class="stick_to_object_attachment" target="head" get_side="bottom" set_side="top" inset="0"/><!-- stick to top of footer panel --><layout class="stick_to_object_attachment" target="foot" get_side="top" set_side="bottom" inset="0"/> </pre>
Depending on the skin the code may be a bit different, but this code above will tell the tree menu to end at the header and footer.
If you want the blue bit of the tree menu to be behind the breadcrumbs menu, then just cut and past the code for the sections panel in the global panels file, higher up the file, you'll want to move all the code inbetween:
<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"><!-- sections area on the side of the screen --><container id="sect" file="sections"></pre>
And <pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> </container></pre>
Move the code so that it is above the code for the header and footer in the global panels.xml file, this makes the sections panel sit behind the header and footer.
When you move the sections code, make sure it is BELOW this bit of code:
<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> <!-- Panels Box --><!-- Contains global panels - also the container for the screen --><container id="pnls"> <layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="all" inset="0"/></pre>
Your best off making a copy of the file before editing it.
Date
This one can be a bit tricky, open the header.xml file for your skin, I don't have the swoosh skin code at hand so I'm assuming you have the date to the left and the news ticker/progress bar in the middle? So as far as I can remember you need to tell the game to increase the container size for the date, find this bit of code in the header.xml file (yours may be slightly different):
<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"><!-- ticker area --><container><layout class="arrange_horizontal_attachment" layout="180,-1,180" align="centre" offset="0" gap="0"/><layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="top" inset="-32" /><layout class="stick_to_sides_attachment" alignment="all" inset="0" /><container/></pre>
On the first line you want to change the
layout="180,-1,180" bit, increasing the 180 numbers should leave more room for the date to show, don't increase by too much otherwise the ticker may have problems.
(Also to ensure the quickflicks showup, you may want to change them so that they take on the teams text colour).
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