Richeh

Hi. Having a problem ive faced before that i got fixed. In the set friendly instructions screen for your players i cant scroll in that part unfortunatly i dont know which xml file it is i need to edit and which parameters to edit also. Currently using the Chameleon skin, but i ran through all the skins i have installed, including the standard one and its the same for them all.

Could someone just explain how to remedy this situation so i can scroll down the page to set some instructions.

Thanks in advance much appreciated.

Cato-one

The file you need to edit is '\data\screens\int freindly inst.xml' (including the misspelling of friendly), or '\data\skins\<your skin>\screens\int freindly inst.xml' if the skin you use has an amended version already.

I'm afraid I'm not prepared to sit through creating a test game, signing enough international players to fill that screen, then playing to the first international friendly date just to test what to do with this one for you. However, based on the future transfers panel you had the same problem with, I would suspect that it's a case of finding the line which begins '<widget class="table"' and removing the text that says 'stretch_to_fit_rows="true"'. Obviously you'll again need to re-start FM05 to test it's worked correctly.

Obviously (I hope) it is essential that you back up the xml file before making any changes to it. That way, if it doesn't work in some unexpected and nasty way, you can put it right easily.

Richeh

Thanks for that Cato. I had thought it would probably involve changing the " stretch_to_fit_rows" line or similar. and yup i always make a back up incase i balls it up.

Much appreciated mate cheers

Richeh

Having had a look through the various skins i have i cant seem to find in any of them " data\screens \int friendly inst.xml " Nor can i even find " data\skins\myskin\screens\int friendly inst.xml ". Looking through the XML files that where there i was clueless as to which of the files i did find in the various skins would contain the parameters for editing to make sure i can scroll in the friendly player instructions.

Don't mean to sound daft, and i aint i just havent got a clue about how XML works etc so dont know what does what.

Richeh

what an idiot i am. I was looking in the completel wrong folder! What a fool i am. Now i'll just hope i fix it. Shame we cant edit our posts.

Richeh

Removing stretch_to_fit_rows doesnt work it actually vanishes instead, i tried fiddling around with other text in there and it still doesnt work so im now stumped

Cato-one

Fair enough, I'll make a test game later and play around with it. Time for Chelsea to buy the entire Icelandic squad, I think.

michaeltmurrayuk

Try finding a similar screen that does scroll and see what code is different.

I've found that just deleting bits of code tends to make things disappear, you generaly need to change the code or remove the code and add different one in.

Have you tried replacing true with false?

Cato-one

Heh. That was largely what the initial assumption was based on - Richeh had a similar problem with another screen a while ago which I found a solution for. I wasn't in a position to test this one, so suggested he try basically the same thing this time too, with the disclaimer that I hadn't tried it :p

Richeh

haha liked the chelsea iceland comment Cato.

Michael, that was what i also tried but currently i havent been asked to submit any further friendly instructions so i'll have to wait with that one to see if it works. I also did try replacing true with false and again nothing positive happened the opposite did screens where vanishing.

In the mean time im still looking for text to input into freindly inst.xml that will allow me to scroll inside the friendlty instructions.

Thanks.