Shoutbox

please can sombody tell me what ive done wrong please? the attached zip file contains my skininfo file and the xml file for my options panel i need help fixing this.

It would make it easier if you could describe the problem, and give us some screenshots if necessary. We need to know what went wrong so we know where to look. Looking through all files isn't a very good idea, since we probably won't find the error.

i used deep blue skins options file as a base and maintained its directory structure and everything, i added in my custom options and viola i kept getting messages saying that the skin has no user definable options when i take the stuff out of skininfo thats used to refer to my options file everything works fine, however now this file will not even run in the messenger plus interface tester, i dont have use of xmlspy anymore to test against the schema as i refuse to pay £800 for a piece of software, so someone needs to go thrrough my options file and figure out what i did wrong, patchou any ideas?

make sure the editor you are using can indeed save out to UTF-16 because there are a lot that cant and thats what causes it not to work.

i didnt see a utf16 option in there however it atleast at first worked in the interface tester but now it doesnt so something in the file must be wrong right?

the two things that can make the file not work is either an error in the code itself or not using UTF-16. It's one or the other and there isn't any real way of knowing without going through the file yourself and making sure everything is right

eg not having duplicate ids, correctly opening and closing elements etc.

ok willz here you go

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<Interfaces xmlns="urn:msgplus:interface" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsichemaLocation="urn:msgplus:interface PlusInterface.xsd" Name="InterfaceOptions">
   
    <Window Id="WndOptions" Version="1">
        <Controls>
            <Control xsi:type="StaticControl" Id="LblInfo1">
                <Position Top="4" Width="200" Left="5" Height="15"/>
                <Color>
                    <BaseColor>
                        <Saturation>1.1</Saturation>
                        <Brightness>0.7</Brightness>
                        <Transparency>240</Transparency>
                    </BaseColor>
                </Color>
                <Font><Bold>true</Bold><Size>11</Size></Font>
                <Caption>Skin Options: 365 Skin</Caption>
            </Control>
           
            <Control xsi:type="LinkControl" Id="AboutUrl">
                <Position Top="222" Width="250" Left="5"/>
                <Caption>365 Skin: Created by UK Skins United (2007 - 2008)</Caption>
            </Control>
           
            <!-- Contact List -->
            <Control xsi:type="StaticControl" Id="lblCL">
                <Position Top="24" Width="150" Left="5"/>
                <Caption>Contact List/Caption>
                <Font><Bold>true</Bold></Font>
            </Control>
                   
                <!-- Contact List: Remove -->                   
                <Control xsi:type="StaticControl" Id="lblCLRemove">
                    <Position Top="35" Width="150" Left="15"/>
                    <Caption>Remove/Caption>
                </Control>
                    <Control xsi:type="CheckBoxControl" Id="RemMailBtn">
                        <Position Top="46" Width="150" Left="25"/>
                        <Caption>Mail Button</Caption>
                    </Control>
                    <Control xsi:type="CheckBoxControl" Id="RemOimBtn">
                        <Position Top="57" Width="150" Left="25"/>
                        <Caption>OIM Button</Caption>
                    </Control>
                    <Control xsi:type="CheckBoxControl" Id="RemSharedBtn1">
                        <Position Top="68" Width="150" Left="25"/>
                        <Caption>Sharing Folders Button</Caption>
                    </Control>
                    <Control xsi:type="CheckBoxControl" Id="RemSpaceBtn">
                        <Position Top="79" Width="150" Left="25"/>
                        <Caption>Spaces Button</Caption>
                    </Control>
                    <Control xsi:type="CheckBoxControl" Id="RemTodayBtn">
                        <Position Top="90" Width="150" Left="25"/>
                        <Caption>Windows Live Today Button</Caption>
                    </Control>
                    <Control xsi:type="CheckBoxControl" Id="RemDialerBtn">
                        <Position Top="101" Width="150" Left="25"/>
                        <Caption>Live Call Button</Caption>
                    </Control>
                    <Control xsi:type="CheckBoxControl" Id="RemSMSBtn">
                        <Position Top="112" Width="150" Left="25"/>
                        <Caption>SMS Button</Caption>
                    </Control>
                    <Control xsi:type="CheckBoxControl" Id="RemSearchBar">
                        <Position Top="123" Width="150" Left="25"/>
                        <Caption>Search Bar</Caption>
                    </Control>
                   
                <!-- Contact List: Add -->                   
                <Control xsi:type="StaticControl" Id="lblCLAdd">
                    <Position Top="145" Width="150" Left="15"/>
                    <Caption>Add/Caption>
                </Control>
                    <Control xsi:type="CheckBoxControl" Id="AddSkinopsBtn">
                        <Position Top="156" Width="150" Left="25"/>
                        <Caption>Skin Options</Caption>
                    </Control>               
                   
            <!-- Conversation Windows -->
            <Control xsi:type="StaticControl" Id="lblConvo">
                <Position Top="24" Width="150" Left="180"/>
                <Caption>Conversation Windows/Caption>
                <Font><Bold>true</Bold></Font>
            </Control>
           
                <!-- Contact List: Remove -->
                <Control xsi:type="StaticControl" Id="lblConvoRemove">
                    <Position Top="35" Width="150" Left="180"/>
                    <Caption>Remove/Caption>
                </Control>
                    <Control xsi:type="CheckBoxControl" Id="RemInviteBtn">
                        <Position Top="46" Width="100" Left="180"/>
                        <Caption>Invite Button</Caption>
                    </Control>
                    <Control xsi:type="CheckBoxControl" Id="RemSharedBtn2">
                        <Position Top="57" Width="100" Left="180"/>
                        <Caption>Sharing Folders Button</Caption>
                    </Control>
                    <Control xsi:type="CheckBoxControl" Id="RemWebcamBtn">
                        <Position Top="68" Width="100" Left="180"/>
                        <Caption>Webcam Button</Caption>
                    </Control>
                    <Control xsi:type="CheckBoxControl" Id="RemCallBtn">
                        <Position Top="79" Width="100" Left="180"/>
                        <Caption>Call Button</Caption>
                    </Control>
                    <Control xsi:type="CheckBoxControl" Id="RemActivityBtn">
                        <Position Top="90" Width="100" Left="180"/>
                        <Caption>Activites Button</Caption>
                    </Control>
                    <Control xsi:type="CheckBoxControl" Id="RemGamesBtn">
                        <Position Top="101" Width="100" Left="180"/>
                        <Caption>Games Button</Caption>
                    </Control>
                    <Control xsi:type="CheckBoxControl" Id="RemBlockBtn">
                        <Position Top="112" Width="100" Left="180"/>
                        <Caption>Block Button</Caption>
                    </Control>
                   
            <!-- Customization -->
            <Control xsi:type="StaticControl" Id="lblCust">
                <Position Top="145" Width="150" Left="180"/>
                <Caption>Customization/Caption>
                <Font><Bold>true</Bold></Font>
            </Control>
                <Control xsi:type="CheckBoxControl" Id="WordWheelLoc">
                    <Position Top="156" Width="150" Left="180"/>
                    <Caption>Move Word Wheel To Bottom</Caption>
                </Control>
                <Control xsi:type="StaticControl" Id="lblSTheme">
                    <Position Top="178" Width="150" Left="180"/>
                    <Caption>Choose A Theme/Caption>
                </Control>
                <Control xsi:type="ComboBoxControl" Id="Theme">
                    <Position Top="189" Width="150" Left="180"/>
                </Control>
        </Controls>
    </Window>

</Interfaces>

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ive looked through all that and cant find a single thing wrong with it, xmlspy is the only editor in all of human existance that can save as utf16 and i cant afford the £800 price tag so now what do i do? can someone write me a better editor please?

SuperEdi, something I used in university. It's free and it can save to UTF-16. Google it and you'll find it.

Notepad saves to UTF-16 fine.

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Originally posted by vikke
Notepad saves to UTF-16 fine.

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yep but I find one level of undo to be kind of annoying, no safety net for people who don't know if the change they make is going to work