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Feature Request: Allow skinning engine to search custom directory for artwork.

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markf2748:

--- Quote from: Matt on December 29, 2024, 01:25:01 pm ---It seems to me that including your custom artwork in the skin folder is a nice answer. What's the problem with that? If you want it in multiple skins, you need to copy. But then the skin is self contained which is good.
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Indeed worked, after I added all the required entries in <Art>...</Art>.


--- Quote from: EnglishTiger on December 29, 2024, 02:01:03 pm ---The purpose of the <ART> .... </ART> section of the main.xml file is to tell the Skinning Engine the name of the image you want your skin to use in a specific part of the skin because if it's not listed in that section it will use the image from the Default Art Folder.
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Nobody is forcing you to rename those images that will be listed in the <ART> .... </ART> section the only rule that applies to that section is the entry in the Name="..." part of the instruction has to be identical to the name of the Image it is replacing in the Default Art Folder.
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Thanks for the clarification.  Worked as you describe without renaming the files, as long as they were entered in <Art>...</ART>.  In the end, I used standard filenames as the root and prefaced each with "_mf_" so the type (A2) files all appear clustered in a Windows alphabetical file list, usually at the top.  Then I also added same preface to standard filenames in my artwork development folders for consistency.  I will eventually update their internal "Export" filenames within Inkscape.  If using them in .../Data/Custom Art/, I remove the preface, thereby reverting to the standard filenames.

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