Topic: Screenshots Galore! (Read 116 times)

redfiver · « **Reply #15 on:** July 15, 2003, 09:15:00 PM »

whoops... yeah, it is on the xbox and such... just not in my post.

I can get some of the skins in that folder to work, just not all of them. I've come to determine after trying several skins that the MXM_skin.xml files aren't always working.

I pop them into IE and get a XML Parsing error on some, others are just fine. so, I installed the ones that didn't get an error and they work fine.

I was suprised to find that so many of the ones I downloaded from allxboxskins didn't seem to work.... :-(

TCB · « **Reply #16 on:** July 15, 2003, 09:33:00 PM »

Dalma · « **Reply #17 on:** July 16, 2003, 02:10:00 AM »

jlm5151 i've seen you added devoid to your skins folder. I am using 0.9n as well and most of the skins work but mxm locks up when trying to load devoid skin.

did you just unrar the devoid skin and placed it in mxmskins folder..?

jlm5151 · « **Reply #18 on:** July 16, 2003, 08:03:00 AM »

You need to watch it when unraring some of the skins and just sending them over, sometimes they are folders inside folders if you know what I mean.

BenJeremy · « **Reply #19 on:** July 16, 2003, 08:00:00 PM »

QUOTE (redfiver @ Jul 16 2003, 11:57 PM)

I tried downloaded some skins again, and still no dice. For Devoid, I get this error when opening the xml file in IE:

Internet Explorer Script Error

An error occured parsing the XML file.

Line: 94
Char: 15
Error: A string literal was expected, but no opening quote character was found

Then, in the source, this area is highlighted:

QUOTE

<LayoutElement Type="Text">
   <Constant>MXM Surface Enhancement</Constant>
   <Pos x="590" y="380" w="460" h="35" />
<Justify x=right/>   <------------------------------------This line is the highlighted one
   <TextColor>0xFFFFFFFF</TextColor>
   <Proportional>true</Proportional>
   <Timer Type="delay">0</Timer>
   <Timer Type="cycleon">3000</Timer>
   <Timer Type="cycleoff">21000</Timer>
</LayoutElement>

any ideas on why this is happening? I see this same line many times in the XML file, but since it can't even get past this one, don't know if there are other possible errors, and I know very little about xml to be able to figure it out. Weird that it works for others and not for me.. didn't do anything weird, just downloaded it and un-rar'd it.

QUOTES!!

You have:

<Justify x=right/>

It should be:

<Justify x="right" />

Note the space before the end of the null tag indicator, too.

BenJeremy · « **Reply #20 on:** July 16, 2003, 09:02:00 PM »

QUOTE (redfiver @ Jul 17 2003, 12:54 AM)

Thanks BenJeremey, that solved the parsing error and I can see the code in IE now.

but, i placed Devoid and another skin in my skins folder, reboot the system, try to use that skin, but when MXM reboots, it gets stuck at "initializing skins" and I have to hard reboot the xbox to go into safe mode and remove the bad skin.

Then, i try just to put the skins in the skins folder, but MXM still hangs at the init skins area.

Removing the skins totally from the skins folder solves it and I can get back in. I've had this happen with a couple of skins already... i wonder if it's just something with me since others don't seem to have this problem. Any other config type things you've come across that could cause the hang?

Devoid may have issues if: 1) you have no audio tracks ripped or 2) funky names for your music tracks

Johno · « **Reply #21 on:** July 17, 2003, 04:11:00 AM »

I cant get MXM to find my skins folder on E:MXMskins
I don't use MXM.xml, as for some reason I am using menu.xml

Here is a copy of my menu.xml

*not needed now*

I have put the MXMSKINS folder in my E: drive and it has 3 folders in there with 3 different skins!"

At the moment all MXM does is see the 2 default skins stored in the xbe!

Many thanks for any help in advance guys

Johno

EDIT: I put the mxm.xml file in and added the line <skinspath>E:/MXMSKINS</skinspath> and now it works fine!!

koldfuzion · « **Reply #22 on:** July 17, 2003, 05:53:00 AM »

QUOTE (redfiver @ Jul 17 2003, 05:54 AM)

Removing the skins totally from the skins folder solves it and I can get back in. I've had this happen with a couple of skins already... i wonder if it's just something with me since others don't seem to have this problem. Any other config type things you've come across that could cause the hang?

try going into E:\UDATA\00004321\ and delete the Pref.xml (seriously it wont affect your box, just removes MXM preferences)

Then reboot, should still boot fine.

Copy over a skin one at a time, make sure it still works fine and continue doing it that way.

If it locks at the skins init screen again, just delete the pref.xml once again and it should boot up ok.

I've seen it lock up on a skin, and once the pref.xml is deleted, it would boot with that same skin.. but i couldnt figure out why.

I havent had this problem before but not lately on 0.9n what version are you using?

BenJeremy · « **Reply #23 on:** July 17, 2003, 06:07:00 AM »

Don't forget Safe Mode, which will allow you to boot using the internal skin.

I plan on offering a very basic internal skin (no previews, very simple layout) as a last resort in Safe Mode.

Trying different options in safe mode can reveal the source of the problem.

redfiver · « **Reply #24 on:** July 17, 2003, 12:42:00 PM »

Yeah, that safe mode is cool! I was really happy to see that! that was the only way I could figure out which skin was causing me issues.

great info on the prefs file... I was wondering where that prefs file was!

Once again though, I really like MXM. It is very cool!

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