Skin Scaler app - Is this likely to work?

[Kevl]

Hi

Have seen lots of fine skins on the wiki.

I'm looking to put together a hi resolution skin so as to allow 1:1 pixel mapping onto my plasma.

This has a 1365 x 768 pixel res.

Most skins on the wiki seem to have a much lower res than this.

Given I am artisticly challenged then rather than try to produce my own skin I am looking to modify existing skins.

I have looked at the skin definition text files and these seem to have two types of coordinate references which dictate where primatives are placed on the skin.

I am thinking that if I write a simple script which grabs the skin files and parses them for "loc" and "size" coordinate pairs then I ought to be able to rescale the skins from the current size to any size.

I simply need to work out what the scale factors X and Y need to be and change the coordinates after the "loc" and "size" by multiplying by the required scale factor and turning result into an integer.

I might also need to change the size of fonts (presumably have font height multiplied by Y scale factor.)


Before I spend time writing this, is there milage in this approach or are there hidden problems?



Kev

[JavaWiz]

I actually have already built a C# program to do this for the Wide Screen versions of the Community Skins. Fatman_do has used it, I believe his results have been pretty good. (See SearchWiz wiki page, look for the SkinResizer.zip download).

I am at work at the moment, I can send you the source later today when I have access to my development machine.

[Kevl]

Many thanks.

I will take a look at your existing application.

I didn't realise there was such a utility.

Will save me a good few hours of coding and skin trashing.


Kev

[JavaWiz]

Here is the source code.