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HPBEME:
Thanks for the check zybex. I anxiously await the outcome of other resolution/scales you investigate.
Don’t know what is going on with the zip file… having to delete the previous version, the older files, Main.xml still being capitalized (the main.xml file I uploaded was definitely lower case)… all very weird. I downloaded the skin from the accessory page a couple of times with no issues - except it took about a minute to download 1.66mb… that’s unusual. Slow servers at JRiver this morning I guess.
The zip I uploaded was named Dream in Blue_1.1, but I have no idea how you create an MJP file, so Bob sets all that up. Judging by a couple of other skins, it does not appear to be standard practice to add the version# to the accessory ID for the zip filename – maybe to ensure it overwrites the old version with the latest to avoid multiple copies of the same file?
kensn:
Enjoying the skin. Thanks for all the work!
Ken
HPBEME:
kensn, glad you like the skin... thanks for acknowledging the work involved. A belated thanks to Aardvark and DesertPilot as well!
Have any of you tried the different skin configs included in the skin folder? If not, just overwrite the current main.xml with main2.xml, or main3.xml, etc. to change it out (MC only recognizes main.xml and ignores the names with numbers). To see pix of all the configs, go here to view/download a PDF showing them all: https://www.docdroid.net/Rlg6sth/dib-configs-pdf. I recommend just downloading it, as viewing it on the site directly is pretty slow. That said, you can advance the slides 1 at time via arrows at the page bottom, which is contrary to a previous post where I stated you can only continuously scroll (a less than an ideal way to view slides).
FYI: default skin is main1a.xml. Note that main1 has a 3D recessed window around the track info & track-bar, and main1a.xml does not. If after trying different configs you prefer the original, just rename main1a.xml to main.xml.
zybex:
--- Quote from: bob on February 16, 2021, 08:55:25 am ---I don't think that's it, I think you just got it before i bumped the version in the mjp (the small text file you are talking about)
We'll check on the next release.
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No, I just tested again. There are 3 bugs on the skin download/install process:
1. existing 877.zip file in the Downloads folder is not overwritten when running the new .mjp file - it just decompresses the existing ZIP again without downloading the new one.
(On this skin, both v1.0 and v1.1 of the MJP link to 877.zip. This ZIP file was updated on the server, but the new one is not downloaded if the user already has the old one on the Downloads folder)
2. I deleted the old 877.zip file and re-run the 877.mjp. Now it downloads the new ZIP, but the extraction does NOT overwrite existing files. So the skin is not updated (the capitalized Main.xml remains, though the new ZIP has a lowercase updated version)
3. Old files on the skin folder are not deleted before extraction. So the folder ends up with a mix of new and obsolete files.
To update correctly, I had to delete the old "Dream In Blue" skin folder, as well as delete the old 877.zip from my Downloads folder. The skin install process should delete/overwrite any existing ZIP file (or download to a random filename), and should delete the old Skin folder entirely to avoid merging contents.
bob:
--- Quote from: zybex on February 16, 2021, 02:31:30 pm ---No, I just tested again. There are 3 bugs on the skin download/install process:
1. existing 877.zip file in the Downloads folder is not overwritten when running the new .mjp file - it just decompresses the existing ZIP again without downloading the new one.
(On this skin, both v1.0 and v1.1 of the MJP link to 877.zip. This ZIP file was updated on the server, but the new one is not downloaded if the user already has the old one on the Downloads folder)
2. I deleted the old 877.zip file and re-run the 877.mjp. Now it downloads the new ZIP, but the extraction does NOT overwrite existing files. So the skin is not updated (the capitalized Main.xml remains, though the new ZIP has a lowercase updated version)
3. Old files on the skin folder are not deleted before extraction. So the folder ends up with a mix of new and obsolete files.
To update correctly, I had to delete the old "Dream In Blue" skin folder, as well as delete the old 877.zip from my Downloads folder. The skin install process should delete/overwrite any existing ZIP file (or download to a random filename), and should delete the old Skin folder entirely to avoid merging contents.
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It should link to the same file. if the OS renames the second download that's going to be an issue.
If the browser caches, that will be an issue perhaps, I'll check caching in the script.
Note that has worked fine in the past.
I'lll check with Matt on version numbers in the mjp.
You are letting MC run the mjp from the download directly with packageinstaller, right?
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