STEP 3 It's All Coming Together Now.
I know that the last page was tough to get through.
But the advantage of learning it this way is that you
will be able to troubleshoot problems in the future
when you have huge xml files.
Proper linking of files is the most important part
of skinning Winamp 3 without having problems.
If you understood the last section and have a firm grasp
of the concept of linking files then this next section
will be a breeze and you will begin to understand how
files come together to create a skin.
In the last section we directed the skinning engine to read
all the default xml files except the Player.xml
and the associated files connected to it.
Now we must give the skinning engine a file to find.
So once again. Fire up your Windows explorer and go to your
skin folder that you created in the last step. Right now you
should have a skin folder with the skin.xml file in it.
It's time to create the folder that will hold all of the
rest of your xml files.
Create a new folder called xml
Thats it. Now we need to put something in this folder.
Paticularly the player.xml
Lets create that file now.
Open up your text editor again and lets get started.
This one is fairly straight forward and again if you
understood the last section then this will make sense to you.
In this new text file you will be directing the skin
engine to 2 additional files. Plus telling it what part
of the skin you are creating. Lets have a look at the code.
[include file="player-elements.xml"/]
[container id="main" name="Main window"]
[include file="player-normal.xml"/]
[/container]
Thats right, this means that we need to create 2 more
xml files because we just pointed the skinning engine
to 2 more files. The player-element.xml and the player-normal.xml
In addition we have told the skin engine that we are
working on the main container. This is pretty simple
stuff don't you think?
This is what our chain of files looks like so far.
------>player-elements.xml
Skin.xml --------> player.xml -------> ------------------------------
----- - ------>player-normal.xml -
- -
- Main container -
------------------------------
If you understand this at all. You now understand
that we are well on our way to creating a container
called main. This is the same thing you would do
to create a custom container, but we won't get into
that now. You should now save this file in the
xml folder that you created earlier.
In the next step we will be defining what is going
into this container called main.
The elements of disaster and the jigsaw of perception.
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