Classic Shell: Forum

I'm trying to customize a skin and i've extracted all the resources in the skins folder and named like this:

1.txt
1.bmp
2.bmp
...
...
...

When i select the custom skin in classic menu i can see al settings but the bmps are not loaded.

What is wrong ?

P.S. I'm using classic shell 4.20 beta

The proper skin editing procedure is to download http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/
then edit open with
from there you can edit the code, or export any .bmps contained within properly

so i've to recompile the script every time ? i just want to avoid that like explained in the tutorial.

Create a zip file with the exact files you have extracted and attach it here.

This is the content of my skins folder, all resources are from aero glass skin.

For some reason the 3.bmp file fails to load. I don't know why. I will have to investigate over the weekend.

ok, tnks!

BTW, resaving the bitmaps with Photoshop CS2 fixes the problem.
What program did you use to save the bitmaps?

I'm using photoshop CS6.

The compiled skin works fine, the uncompressed one not, same resources.

Ok, resaving all bitmaps with photoshop (CS6) solved the problem. Something is wrong in the bitmaps saved by resource hacker.

I found the problem. The BMP file consists of 3 parts:
1 - the file header
2 - the image header
3 - the pixels

The image header contains the size of the pixels section (part #3). The files you have incorrectly use the sum of the sizes of parts #2 and #3. Some programs ignore the size and read the image anyway. The Windows API I use to load the image is more picky and fails.

BTW, I recommend you enable the "Report skin errors" setting at the bottom of the General Behavior tab. It will show you extra information to help you troubleshoot the problems.

Tnks for your effort Ivo!