New Skin: Chameleon

[Fatman_do]

Once I am able to upload to upload the latest to the wiki I will do so.

My job is in serious jeapordy. I went from working 50+ hours a week to today being told 35, and the outlook is grim. I may have to make sacrifices like dropping comcast tv and cable internet and dropping to 24K Netzero limited usage. My field is really limited in my area and I may have to make a career change. This is not meant as a sympathy post, but as a warning that I may have to give up maintaining this in the near future.

The wiki is down right now for me, I will try to post it later.

[Old Dog]

That sucks!

[Fatman_do]

Here are some additions feature.

Buttons, buttons, buttons, oh, and I have buttons.
MCE2 buttons with different color options from blue to chrome.
Contour buttons using exact colors in the xml file (way different look in my opinion so I had to tone down the shine)
Water buttons.
Water with driftwood selected.
Flat Blue - Hi vis buttons (original and transparent)

I don't believe I added any backgrounds.

I de-bundled buttons found on skin packs wiki page to lessen upload (ha!).

Used outline text for menu buttons to better cope with lighter backgrounds and buttons. (I will need to develop skin effects to cope with this problem with panel text ect.)

Added text mask in Appearance Manager skin for the above reason.

Listbox in main menu is now a skin effect that can be turned off so it doesn't obscure more picture related backgrounds. (Tip from Old Dog)

Bundled task images from various creators, just browse to proper directory under ..\Chameleon and use batch file in that directory.

Is a two part download due to upload issues. Chameleon.zip is fully functional without extra images. ChameleonAppearancePack.zip is all other images.

That is about it. I did fix a few more .xml files.

That's my skinny for now.

Edit: Wiki updated with appearance pack download.

[Fatman_do]

I fixed a small problem with text on selected program in TV guide.

My connection to the internet went down late yesterday (not just wiki problems) and had not been able to update this until then.

[MixMan]

I made a Advisor Theme pack of the Pirates skin today.
The "skin" will have a longer lifetime then.... I guess.
It takes time to maintain many skins with XML files, does't it ?

I had to make the XMLs more flexible......they are getting better every day.
I also "composed" a couple of more themepacks to of skins from the old wiki.

[Fatman_do]

I'll have to look into that.

The Pirates images are not my creation (as is little else).
Look at my readme file for proper credits for the Pirates images. I did ask for KingArgyle's permission before I used them. Even though he is not the original creator of those images, I did ask for permission first.

The readme file is a separate link so one does not have to download the whole skin.

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/uploads/Skin/Cha...Readme.txt

[MixMan]

Yes I saw that readme earlier.
Sounds like you are a layer, writing a file like that.
I should have something simular on ThemePacks page.

Aha, I thaught that you ported the Pirates skin.
I have registered on the Snapstream Forum and will ask Darren_E about permission to use the images.

[Fatman_do]

But my work deals with confidential, classified military\commercial projects. We have to read pages of legal documents just to be able to do our work.

[Old Dog]

Yuk.

[Fatman_do]

When talking about Non-Disclosure Agreements. Some potential customers make you sign those before they even ask if you can help them.