EZ-Flash USA Forum

You knew it wouldn't take long, right ?

We've had a skin viewer / builder for the EZFlash III, EZFlash IV and now for the EZFlash V.

Instructions

Download

Run the Executable and navigate your way to the directory holding your EZFlash V skins.
Double Click a skin to view.
This program only lists and supports Zip files.

Select the various check boxes to see the skin with or without those images. Some images are mutually exclusive and as such those check boxes will ghost whilst another is active.

If a 'startup.mp3' file is available it will be played.

Clicking on the top image will turn the close button on and off. This will likely be removed in the next version as it no longer serves a purpose.

Known Bugs

* Some users are experiencing problems loading / running the program.

Future Development

* Preview Saving
* More preview options
* You tell me

Thanks

Many thanks to cracker for testing, coding and moral support, and for the EZV "Game" Logo.

Well damn, I just started working on exactly this last night.

VB can flip images easily. If you're using it in a picturebox:
PictureBox1.Image.RotateFlip(RotateFlipType.Rotate90FlipNone)

It obviously will list all the other flip types too.

Edit:

This program definately doesn't work for me. Does not display anything

HHmm, odd that it doesn't display anything.

There's nothing that complex in the code that would cause that problem.

I take it the program loads up fine ?

All I can think of right now is to drop the two ocx's and the dll into your C:\Windows\System32 directory. If it's not displaying anything, it might be because the unzip.dll is not registered.

Try selecting an archive and double clicking, then looking at the C:\Windows\Temp\Vskin\ dir. I'm wondering if it's because VB won't make multi level directories and you don't have a C:\Windows\Temp directory.

When I tried that command, I get nothing. .RotateFlip doesn't show up in the dropdown as an available option.

Edit: I updated the archive, the other thing I realised is that VB will create directories but not multi-level directories. I've changed the extract dir for the zip files.

I've also changed when the temp files are deleted and the startup.mp3 file should get deleted as well now.

The program doesn't work for me either and I've tried copying the files to windows/system32. Only when I check settings does a generic settings window appear and the EZV logo when I check overlay, both appear regardless of what directory I'm in.

I just realized that the skins had to be in zip format. You didn't mention that which is why it wasn't working for me (I assumed it would load directories). I'm going to continue work on mine though.

The method I mentioned for VB is VB.Net only I guess

Nice going Slade - works nicely (once you know to select ZIP files, hehe).

Here are is my feature request list:

- Use colours specified in the skin.ini file.
- Transparency (#00FF00 is reserved for transparency)

Just for the record, 'progbard.bmp' is the program title bar. sb_*.bmp are the scrollbar graphics.

Hey Scrawl, can you make a list of all the images and which they are used as?

Like I couldn't figure out what the scrollbar graphic was until your post, haha.

Not to highjack the thread but here's my progress...uses colours from the ini and everything.

There's a good article here about skinning standard Moonshell. Everything in this article applies to the EZ-V version.

In regards to EZ-V specific artwork:

• uncheck.bmp : Checkbox in Settings screen
• checked.bmp : Checkbox with tick in Settings screen
• desktopbn.bmp : game icon background. Only displayed when icon + description is available.
• ez_mp3.bmp : MP3 icon. Displayed when a MP3 file is highlighted
• help.bmp : Help window - Displayed when you press Start
• progbar1.bmp : Savegame progress bar. Scales horizontally
• progbar2.bmp : Savegame progress bar background
• progress.bmp : Progress window (Save to MicroSD, etc)
• setting.bmp : Settings window (L+R to view)

When distributing a skin, only include *.bmp and skin.ini. You can also include startup.mp3 if you want to change the welcome sound.

One final note - the EZ-V specific bitmaps do not support transparency. The standard Moonshell bitmaps do - use colour #00FF00 (100% green).

I remeber a post a long time ago, thinking the EZ4 skin forum wouldn't get used at all...

mine is looking for random dll's D= how to fix?!

have two problems:

when extracting to its own folder I get the following error:

System Error &H8007007E (-2147024770).

So then I left the extracted folder with the contents where it was, and extracted the files again but in a directory with zip files in the same directory and found the error disappeared, and the program launched.

However, highlighting a zip file with skins in them gave the error Unzip Control 9.

Anyone any ideas on how to get this working?

Firstly:

Please scan the executable for viruses. I was infected recently with a nasty virus that has managed to dig it's way fairly deep into my files.

Secondly. At this stage, no. I'll look at creating an installer soon. I spent most of last night trying to remove this virus infection from my computer. AVG missed the initial file that caused the infection, however the computer seems clean after several scans / reboots.

@Cobalt` the program should only be looking for:

Unzip32.dll
Unzip.ocx
TreeFolder.ocx

I did happen to leave one file attached when uploading, but the current build has that removed. If my computer is still clean tonight, I should be able to get an updated build running.

I've been speaking to Cracker, and he thinks it could be the Windows Media Player control that I use to play the audio.

I have two options:

1/ Use an alternative media player plugin for VB
2/ Compile two versions of the app, one with and one without the media player option installed.

I'll get a new version out soon, I'm in the middle of adding some extra features (colours from the ini, and the scroll bar pic), and I don't want to have half features written whilst I adjust other issues.

I might be another day or two, I have some family commitments that are taking up my evenings of late.

Can you upload it? Thanks