Disk Dock skin making guide

1.0 beta

This is just a guideline to make sure that the skin you compose works with the mechanics of the dock and the settings utility. The skins concept itself is still a beta.

MECHANICS OF A SKIN
1. There are two things that make up a skin, the .ini file and the folder with a corresponding name (eg.Disk Dock.ini and the Disk Dock folder) 2. Three names MUST match for the skin to work properly. The .ini file, the folder and the Skin Variable in the .ini file, all have to match! (Highlighted in the pictures)

WARNING! If these three things dont match, the skin wont load and/or the settings
utility wont know witch skin to modify.

CONTENTS OF THE SKIN FOLDER

1. Disk Base: this folder contains the plain white body images of a 100% opacity. These are the images used to change the opacity of the dock through the settings utility.

2. Disk: this folder contains the body images identical in shape to the ones previously mentioned except these ones are the actual skin.

NOTE: All the files in folders Disk and Disk Base are 516x516 pixels in size (except Player.png and Power.png. Also the files in those two folders have exact same names. Also the POWER and PLAYER images might appear just as text but they actually have a background shape that matches the approprieate areas in the skin. The shapes opacity is set to 1%. It works this way for me, you can change and experiment though ;)

3. Google: Only contains two images, very universal if I can call them so. You can still change them of just copy them over to your new skin.

4. Icons: Self explanatory, all icons go here, resizing every icon is a manual operation but it is not hard to do. This folder also contains Icons.ini file witch holds information of paths, names and co-ordinates specificly for the set of icons in every skin separately. This allows for different sets of icons through out different skins.

5. Player: Obviously hold the images and .ini file for player, can be modified to whatever you want but takes time.

6. Power: Same as player, change if you really want to.

NOTE: Power, Player, Icons and Google must be included in every skin! Disk and Disk Base however, exclude them and you get Disk Dock Plain