balala wrote: ↑April 15th, 2023, 6:27 pm
There is an error message related to your skin, which should be fixed:
Invalid cursor - This message is related to the
MouseActionCursorName=..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\Windows\Cursors\aero_arrow.cur option of the [MeterBlurredBackground] meter. Don't really know why did you used so many
..\ strings. I know what this mean, but my question is why so many?
Otherwise the skin works, there are no other errors, so it's alright. Do you check the log when realize a skin?
Hi Thanks, Did you notice that
"this was the one skin I did not write from scratch". The original did not work at all, I just fixed it, ONCE IT WORKED PERFECTLY (at least on my PC). Then I just added a master password, and the ability to change the user password. The line of code you mentioned above I didn't touch. It appeared to be working ok so I left it alone, TBH I have no idea what those are, I took a fair bit of time understanding the parts that were broken, then more time fixing them and even more time adding much needed improvements. SO once all that "appeared" to be done, I decided to leave well alone with the parts which appeared to be working ok.
That's pretty tricky code for a beginner to fix and modify, TBH I thought "Thank #@*$" thats done, and went back to my own all original files, that I do understand top to bottom. I mainly sent it to show you that I was clearly crediting the original author, (Even though his code didn't work).
Where did you see the error message please, I haven't seen one?
Log? Ermm, Log??? (didn't know there was one). Sorry I have not got round to reading the instructions, so there will be "a great many things" I am blissfully unaware of, obviously when I get a problem, I totally focus on it until I beat it. (Trial and Error). So the question of a log has not come up, but sounds useful. Where is it? or will that be obvious now I know to look for it?
I have taken in so much totally new learning so quickly, I am literally dreaming in code, waking up to scribble something down, but it is such a small drop in such a vast ocean, I think I'm at saturation point for a bit. I wasted three hours today trying to work out how to do something, only to "EVENTUALLY" realise that I had already solved that problem on one of my other skins, I spent the entire time "Overthinking it,and then trying increasingly complex solutions, none of which worked, when I saw how I did it on my earlier skin. I kicked myself.
I will look for the log, and try and find that error message, and whats causing it.
Thank you again for you patience, and for understanding, that I could very easily be blissfully ignorant of certain things due to my slightly unusual approach to learning new things, (while not perfect it works fairly well for me - on the whole). Being in my seventies it's probably too late for me to now try and learn things in a more structured way, like most people appear to, though I can often see the advantage... especially with hindsight once I have figured something out the hard way).
Thanks again... Please continue to point out anything I'm not quite getting right.
Keith