skinning

[PsYcO]

so, i found the wiki page for themes earlier, i liked the look of the dark theme, so i downloaded it to take a look.

but it didn't work, so i went exploring, and it seems that it didn't understand *any* enter commands(the .ini just produced a lot of box's in where a new line was meant to be) so i've started re-doing the .ini, and there seems to be an awful lot of code that seems pretty standard. i can understand the need for it, but there's not a great deal of customization, involved in most of the themes.

i can only really see 2 styles, and a third if you count the default green and black one.

so i was wondering. would it be possible to separate the theme and the colour scheme? opening the gate to real scummvm customization.

if so, how easy, or hard, would it be? i assume i would have to recompile a new build? modifying some of the code/script? is there any wiki page that would explain to me what the steps are, or teach me some basics?

[sev]

Computer illiteracy....

Hint 1: learn about line endings and how to convert them with pkzip.

Hint 2: read Wiki a bit more. There is a full description for GUI theme config.

Hint 3: computers are not about pushing random buttons and keys. Read documentation, use Google before you try.


Eugene

[PsYcO]

broken link: http://www.thekrest.de/wip/scummvm/

or is this the current one?


ive read up on line endings, while i feel this is largely pointless, i did it anyway. though i couldn't find anything related to pkzip and line endings

i read that before, witch is why i said that the .ini's are mostly identical.

ive read the documentation. most, i feel was unrelated to what i wanted to know, but i did it anyway. but i did stumble across a todo list, witch kinda half answered my original questions(in a very vague kind of way). the "Developer's Guide to ScummVM" status if your curious, or lack there of.

[DrMcCoy]

ive read up on line endings, while i feel this is largely pointless, i did it anyway.

In the likely case you still didn't get it:
Different operating systems use different byte sequences to denote a line ending.

though i couldn't find anything related to pkzip and line endings

The unzip I've got installed here as a "-a"-switch that "auto-convert[s] any text files". I got that just by running "unzip --help".
The manpage reveals:
"The -a option causes files identified by zip as text files [...] to be automatically extracted as such, converting line endings, end-of-file characters and the character set itself as necessary."

...Which is just what you need.
Your unzip may have a different switch than "-a" to do that though. You just have to look something up yourself for a change...