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- GetRight skins are compressed in .ZIP files (renamed to .GRS).
- To have them automatically used when downloaded from a server,
- just rename the .ZIP file to end in .GRS (test.zip to test.grs)
- GetRight will do the rest!
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- Skin FAQ:
- Q: How do I test the skin I made?
- A: Use a ZIP program to compress the files, then rename so ends in .GRS
- instead of .ZIP. Then just double-click the file. GetRight will
- prompt for a name. The skin will then be available on the download
- window, Options button, then Skins menu.
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- Q: What is that little black circled area on the templates?
- A: That is the color used for the transparent area on the window.
- Transparency works best if you use one of the Windows System
- colors for the transparent color (bright green or purple or something).
- Avoids any dithering problems if people have a very low color display.
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- The Skin .GRS file must contain a file:
- SKIN.BMP
- This is the bitmap used for the window.
- It contains all the images (background, buttons both up and down, etc.)
- There are two templates
- TEMPLATE_NOAD.BMP (for registered users who don't see an advertisement)
- TEMPLATE_AD.BMP (for evaluation users who see an advertisement)
- Most bits should be obvious.
- Dark gray titlebar bar below is for window without focus.
- Big red bar is unfilled working bar, big black bar is filled.
- Two shades of red are the working for when segmented, upper is the
- total progress, lower for showing which bits are done (the multi-colored
- graph on the non-skinned version. Black and white below that are for
- the filled versions of those.
- Transparent color tip (in the circled area):
- Transparency works best if you use one of the Windows System
- colors for the transparent color (bright green or purple or something).
- Just avoids any dithering problems if people have a very low color display.
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- Optional, but recommended:
- SKIN.INI
- (All INI items are optional.)
- This can be used to define colors for the text on the window and other
- items. If not included, Black text will be used.
- [Colors]
- TEXT_RGB=0x0000ff
- TEXT_SHADOW_RGB=0x000000
- TITLE_RGB=0x0000ff
- INACTIVE_TITLE_RGB=0x000080
- BUTTON_RGB=0x0000ff
- BUTTON_DOWN_RGB=0x0000ff
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- To offset the title-bar text a bit to take into account any slightly
- different types of title setup.
- [Offsets]
- TITLE_X=0
- TITLE_Y=0
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- Set transparent=0 if your skin doe not have any transparent areas and
- is a solid rectangle. Helps to speed up the loading a bit if it doesn't
- need to calculate the region needed.
- Set shadow=1 to do shadowed text.
- TEXT_SHADOW_RGB color is used to draw the shadows.
- [Options]
- TRANSPARENT=1
- SHADOW=1
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- Used for menu under the currently selected skin, NAME is shown, opens URL if selected
- [Author]
- SKIN_NAME=Your name for the skin
- NAME=Your Name
- URL=http://www.your_home_page.com/
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- Other files may be supported in the future (like SKIN2.BMP, or DONE.WAV) but aren't used for now.
- Having other files in the ZIP file won't hurt anything, just make it larger for people to download.