michaeltmurrayuk

I've managed to find out how to edit most parts of the skin (header, footer, sidebar) through trial and error and looking varies xml files of different.

There's just a couple of things I'm stuck with:

1. Which xml file controls the layout of the middle part of the screen (the one with the team screen, player profile, league table etc...). What I want to do is have the middle part so it touches the header, footer and sides of the screen, like it does to the sidebar.
(red arrows on the screenshot are where I want the section stretching to).

2. How do you move the picked buttons so they go down the left hand side, I edited the picking.xml file, but that just made them disppear from the top, and not appear on the left.
Would the file I have to edit be the same as the one for 1.?
(Blue arrow shows what I mean).

Screenshot

3. Which graphics files control the colour and style of the main section. (The black/gray container) I had a look through the skins\graphics folder but couldn't find any files that look like that?

4. How do you get it so that the sidebar goes underneath the header and footer?

Thanks.

michaeltmurrayuk

I've solved problem 1, involved moving the screen content area code, from the bottom of the global panels xml, to near the top and then adjusting the inset values. (Though this does seem to have broken the full screen mode):
Full screen problem

Though I do have a new problem this time with the match title panel, the menubar menu doesn't appear in match, well the actual graphic does but the breadcombs and options menu don't show. I can not seem to find any code in the match title bar.xml that controls the menubar?
menubar problems

radestock

1. I wouldn't have moved the screen content area from where it is, I would have just altered it's inset. It is set up to fill the remaining space.

2. I would download aurora and take a look at how it is done there.

3. for this you need to look in graphics/boxes/titled/. It is a 9 area panel so it can be stretched horizontally and vertically.

4. This is a little more involved as the sidebar uses the header and footer as 'stick to' points. A panel will appear above another if it is below it in the xml file so you would need to move the sections panel above where header and footer are mentioned and then stick it to 'top' and 'bottom' rather than head and foot. Then it is a case of insetting from the top and bottom so the text is not under the header and footer.

5. I notice there is also a red arrow pointing at the quick flicks. These are in the header.xml and are fairly simple to move around. see how I've changed it in chameleon2006 compared to how it is in metallic. If it is the graphics file you are after to change then it is in /navigation/quickflicks or something like that.

Not sure what you have done to get rid of the menubar and breadcrumbs.

michaeltmurrayuk

Yep Noticed after I'd done it that way, it wasn't the best method. (messes up the full screen).

Been looking at that, but the maker has made loads of changes, which makes finding stuff harder.

[qoute]3. for this you need to look in graphics/boxes/titled/. It is a 9 area panel so it can be stretched horizontally and vertically. [/quote]

Yep found that by randomly recolouring folders full of graphics

[qoute]4. This is a little more involved as the sidebar uses the header and footer as 'stick to' points. A panel will appear above another if it is below it in the xml file so you would need to move the sections panel above where header and footer are mentioned and then stick it to 'top' and 'bottom' rather than head and foot. Then it is a case of insetting from the top and bottom so the text is not under the header and footer.[/qoute]

Thanks, I'll have at look at that.

[qoute]5. I notice there is also a red arrow pointing at the quick flicks. These are in the header.xml and are fairly simple to move around. see how I've changed it in chameleon2006 compared to how it is in metallic. If it is the graphics file you are after to change then it is in /navigation/quickflicks or something like that.

Not sure what you have done to get rid of the menubar and breadcrumbs.[/QUOTE]

I was going to ask how to get the game to use the clubs background colour, as white quick flicks won't show up on a white page, but found how to do it when I was searching the forum for skinning help.

michaeltmurrayuk

Thanks radestock, got it all sorted now apart from the match screen.