Comments on: Skins

By: paralleldivergence

paralleldivergence — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:27:43 +0000

Glad you liked it Kurt. Ask your teacher if you can work with your class to create your own quizzes using QuizBoxes.

By: Kurt Green

Kurt Green — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:16:30 +0000

My Teacher showed me one of ur quizzez and i loved it i am currently in year 5 we did the maths one it was fun

By: paralleldivergence

paralleldivergence — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:40:05 +0000

Hi Dave,

Extensions. The bane of a newbie’s life. You need to make sure that extensions are VISIBLE in Windows. Do this:

Open My Computer (or Computer in Vista/Win7). Press ALT-T to display the Tools menu. Choose Folder Options. Click the View tab. DESELECT the option that says “Hide Extensions for Known Filetypes”. Click OK a couple of times to get out.

Now you can see the extensions you need to know about.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:19:50 +0000

This program is exactly what I am looking for. I have a staff meeting this week and it should make it interesting, But, boy, it was frustrating getting this to work.
HINT: A change to your instructions.
When making skins, your directions specificaly state make three pictures to a certain size and then label them background.jpg, foreground.jpg and final.jpg. And when doing that doesn’t work the DOS screen comes up saying that you have to make three pictures to a certain size and then label them Bbackground.jpg, foreground.jpg and final.jpg.
But that will not work. You can’t have the extension ‘.jpg’. Please explain that to other newbies. Also, including pictures was hard to figure out. Again, don’t use the extension ‘.jpg’.

But other than that, this program is great.

And, any way to change the font color for the numbers when I put my skin on.

Dave

By: paralleldivergence

paralleldivergence — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:36:55 +0000

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.

By: Clay

Clay — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:16:54 +0000

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?

By: paralleldivergence

paralleldivergence — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:59:48 +0000

Excellent Grace. Well done.

By: Grace

Grace — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:52:04 +0000

Thanks so much that fixed the problem. Thanks for the support.

By: paralleldivergence

paralleldivergence — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:36:16 +0000

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.

By: Grace

Grace — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:50:41 +0000

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?