I bought the Raven theme for FTP from TiltBuster but it did not work properly. After some email correspondence the Note Icons theme was generated which is now on the site and this "almost" works. I have emailed several times to the person who sold me this theme but he has decide not to reply for some reason.
I would be grateful if someone here could help me solve the problem. I am sure it will be easy but I do not understand how the "layout.xml" and the grahics folders work together. Perhaps there is something else I do not understand.
FTP has coloured note rings. The 1st one is numbered 0 and the last one is numbered 13. It identifies these in our notes file by ColourIx="x" and the one I have a problem with is numbered 5 (the 6th one in the list - it is yellow)
If I have code 5 selected, this theme actually colours it with the 7th one in the list ColourIx="6"
Everyone from 0-4 and 7-13 are fine.
However, if I choose 5 I get a grotty off yellow colour that is not actually one of FTPs colours at all but if I choose 6 I get the bright yellow that is ColurIx="5"
The note icons seem to me to be in a folder in Graphics called NewTable/Common/PodBadges/
There are 14 svg files named rank-diode-01.svg to rank-diode-14.svg so the developer seems to have added 1 to every IX that FTP uses in his numbering system. If I look at these svg image files, 1-5 are as per the colours that FTP shows in its colour drop down notes choices (Ix 0-4) 6 is that grotty off yellow that FTP does not have and 7 is the yellow I want. 8-14 are as FTP
So, it appears as if 6 and 7 are numbered the wrong way round AND 6 instead of being a lime green as it is on FTP is actually this off yellow.
It seemed to me that If I altered the 2 names I would solve the problem. So I renamed 6 to 7 and vice versa. However, this makes no difference when I run FTP it still puts the grotty off yellow if I choose yellow in FTP and equally if I choose lime green it gives me yellow.
NB the FTP software gives the correct colours in it's lobby and the colour code is right in the xml file.
so it seems maybe to this novice to be identifying the files rank-diode by using %1 as a placeholder or something?? where %1 is replaced by 1-14 as required?? I have no idea
The RankDiodes.png file
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imageshack has added an x for some reason it is not there in my folders on my PC
We see that the 6th one is the grotty yellow colour and the 7th is the yellow I want. Is THIS where the reversal is coming from?
However, if I switch badges ON (which I do not want) I get the correct colour for Ix="5" (having renamed the svg files as before) i.e the 6th one in the list of colours even though that is the 7th along on the png file. So is it looking at the svg files in the podbadges folder. If so, why is it not looking when I have badges off??
I know this is long. I have tried hard to explain everything but if you need more..... I am here
Cheers all
T
Last edited by _dave_; 12-21-2010 at 02:18 PM.