Skins for Stu’s Quiz Boxes
One of the great features of Stu’s Quiz Boxes is the ability to change skins for the program. The image below shows the Main Menu of the program which appears when you move the mouse to the top of the screen. Selecting “Skins” from the menu pops up a list of all available skins and a double-click swaps the skin immediately – even mid-game.
So basically, a school or company could make their own skin with their emblem or a school photo and have that made into a Quiz Boxes skin. Then, as you uncover the game board you reveal a second image…
Skins now available for download at this site:
- Skin: Porcupine Tree
- Skin: Honda Cars
- Skin: Final Fantasy
- Skin: David Beckham
- Skin: Modern Surreal Art
- Skins: The Energy Set (contains 4 separate skins)
- Skin: Fluids
- Skin: Colored (Great for Juniors!)
- Skins: Computing/Electronics (contains 2 separate skins)
- Skin: Beijing Olympic Games
- Skin: U.S. Politics
- Skin: Christmas
- Skin: Independence Day
- Skin: WWE – Wrestlemania
PLEASE NOTE: All skins are currently hosted at MediaFire. If the site is blocked at your school, you will need to download the skins at home.
Other “skinning” instructions and guides:
Stu,
Tough question maybe? I have created my own skin. The photo is sliced to the proper proportions however boxes 1 through 9 is showing the defalt skin and the rest of the boxes are showing my photo. How do I correct this malady?
Thanks
Bruce
Hi Bruce. All of the image files that relate to your skin shuld be in a folder of its own inside the SKINS folder. Open that folder in My Computer. Look through each of the images in there. Do they all belong to your skin or did you somehow manage to put other images into that folder? That’s where you need to look. Jeopardy only displays images that are in your select skins folder. Make your own folder in there and make sure that the only images that are in there are for your skin and that they are all named properly. It will then work fine.
I know the steps for making the skins are very clear. However, I haven’t been successful. I have created a folder within the SKINS folder that contains the three images that I want to use. I have verified that the images are resized to the specified size and that they are jpg files. I then copy the MakeJeopardySkin file into the folder that contains my images. When I double click the file MakeJeopardySkin, I get the following error: The system cannot find the patch specified
Any suggestions to resolve this problem?
Hi Grace. OK. Inside your Jeopardy folder, do you have a folders called skinbuilder, quizzes, skins and sounds? If yes, then the skinbuilder folder is in the right place. If no, you need to put skinbuilder there, not somewhere else.
Inside the skinbuider folder, you should have two files and a folder:
ReadMeFirst!.txt (well worth reading), MakeJeopardySkin.bat and a Resources folder. In the Resources folder, there must be exactly eleven files. If there aren’t go download a fresh copy of it and reinstall it.
So inside your Skins folder, you have your folder (with a short name) with your three images and they are named background.jpg, foreground.jpg and final.jpg? AND they are resized exactly to the dimensions specified in the ReadMeFirst file?
Finally, can you verify the error message for me? Is it cannot find the “patch” specified or the “path” – there is a big difference. If it is the latter, the problem should be fixed by you checking the above stuff I’ve just referred to. If it is the latter, I’d suggest you try do it on another PC to rule out the PC being the problem. Please let me know how it goes.
Thanks so much that fixed the problem. Thanks for the support.
Excellent Grace. Well done.
Stu
I am trying to create a skin with no luck. I have my 3 images; they are the correct size, they are in the correct folder which is in the correct location. When I try to run makejepordyskin, which is in the folder with the pictures, I receive the same message every time telling me that I must supply the 3 images of the correct size. I have verified the sizes several times and they are all correct.
What am I doing wrong?
Hi Clay, Did you verify you have done everything according to my answer to Grace above? Next, make sure you have NOT named your files background.jpg.jpg – make file extensions visible in Windows, so you can verify this.