How to use baseskin?

[rig]

Actually I mean baseskin thememanager. I get the error "object reference not set to an instance of an object" when I go to the Themes menu.

[McBainUK]

Firstly I would like to say that MixMan and myself are in the process of writing up the documentation for the ThemeManager and the BaseSkin.
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There are a few requiements in order to use the ThemesManager.

1)You must be using the BaseSkin as your current skin, download from here.

2)Then you need to download some themes from here.

The theme pack EXE file is created with WinRar so it is possible to extract the contents of the themepack with this or IZarc into a sub directory of the /skins/baseskin/Advisor.#ThemeName# directory. This is where the ThemesManager looks for themes.

In the next realease of the baseskin / themepack system Mixman is planing to offer direct support for the ThemeManager in the theme.exe so you won't have to do the extraction yourself.

Mark

ps some more posts about this stuff here and here

[fidoboy]

I'm also getting 'object reference not set to an instance of an object' error. I've download gbpvr, installed baseskin and some themes, when i select themes from main menu i get that message... what i'm doing wrong??

[McBainUK]

Reproduce the error and then post your GBPVR.exe.log file

[rig]

Thank you, it works now. Why isnt the default path for installing themes set to c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr\skin\baseskin\Advisor.name (path needed for themanager to work) instead of what it is now? That was why thememanager wasnt working for me.

[MixMan]

Hello Rig

I have to redo all ThemePacks, so they will install themself to an Advisor.xxxx directory.
The ThemesManager is brand new, so I haven't had the time to do it. But I will soon......
Until then you can save an ThemePack EXE file into the BaseSkin root and use WinRar and "Unpack to" Advisor.xxxxx direcory name.