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A Guide to Standard View Skinning (Updated 18 March)

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marko:
As I mentioned to you, ET, earlier via email, this is a Herculean task you have set yourself. Progress thus far has been impressive, both in rate, and meticulous attention to detail.

Would you like something else to check on? I found it this week when I moved from 32 bit MC to 64 bit MC... It's those main frame close/minimise/maximise/restore buttons...

I'm on Windows 10. On 32 bit, Noire, and others, like some of mine that borrowed the code, the correct buttons were used, but on 64 bit, the default platform buttons are being used. I had to change the platform version value from 10.0-? to 22H2, and then the buttons showed up correctly. Not really sure what's up with that at all.

I'm thinking I'll have to add a line in the so that both flavours of MC are catered for. I've no idea how long it's been like that, hopefully not since the day I released them!

Awesome Donkey:
ET, you're the awesome one. :D This is a huge undertaking and I highly appreciate the work you're doing on these skins, updating them and getting them all organized, especially for platforms outside of Windows. In fact after your phase 2, that was enough to get me off my butt and update my Modern Cards Mica skin forks to the latest Modern Cards skin changes (and managed to fix scaling support for the Mica skins too, which I had to previously remove due to issues when scaling). I really should get around to releasing those, huh? :P


--- Quote from: marko on March 02, 2025, 11:39:08 am ---I'm on Windows 10. On 32 bit, Noire, and others, like some of mine that borrowed the code, the correct buttons were used, but on 64 bit, the default platform buttons are being used. I had to change the platform version value from 10.0-? to 22H2, and then the buttons showed up correctly. Not really sure what's up with that at all.
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Now that's interesting, I wonder if it happens on Windows 11 too? I would imagine it would, hmmm.

EnglishTiger:
Marko and AwesomeDonkey thank you both for your, appreciated, kind words and Marko for being there when I've needed some help deciphering some of the more complex instructions in the main.xml file.

AD hearing that even stage 2 had motivated you to revisit your ModernCards Mika skin fork brought a smile to my face, it even had me doing a fist-pump. Getting that kind of feedback makes completing my task/undertaking worthwhile.

Marko - I remember reading about Win 10 22h2 catching a lot of people/software out and I think it was down to it having 22h2 in the version field and not the expected 10.0.nnnn format.

Awesome Donkey:

--- Quote from: EnglishTiger on March 02, 2025, 12:52:47 pm ---AD hearing that even stage 2 had motivated you to revisit your ModernCards Mika skin fork brought a smile to my face, it even had me doing a fist-pump. Getting that kind of feedback makes completing my task/undertaking worthwhile.
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There's actually more too. Remember a few months back when Craig added the Mac system button support and you mentioned the Blue Steel and ThunderStorm skins weren't working correctly and I posted crude fixes for them without any way to check/test them as I didn't have a Mac (at least not since I stopped using a Hackintosh)? Your feedback and testing, along with your comments on your experience with the M4 Mac Mini is what made me start seriously think about getting my first legit Mac (and iPad, also my first iOS/iPadOS device) and actually helped convince me to purchase both a M4 Mac Mini and iPad a few days ago (it took me a bit as I had to add a KVM into my setup first and had to do some extensive testing to make sure everything still worked correctly before pulling the trigger on the Mac). The iPad I got Friday and it's excellent and I'll have the Mac Mini around mid-week so I'll be back on the Mac train. So thanks for that kick in the butt too! :D

markf2748:
Impressive and valuable effort.  I look forward to comparing your details against notes, organization, and formatting I have been adding to my own skin over the last few months.

First suggestion:  Please add a versioning scheme to your PDF Skinning Guide.  Just adding a version number with date to the cover page would be very beneficial going forward.  Something more elaborate, like sidebars on sections that have changed, highlighting, or very brief summary notes documenting the changes would be even more helpful, if it can be done without significantly hindering the main work.

Thanks.

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