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Topic: Invalid Skin File (error line 0 in the xml)

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This is the error message I'm getting when trying to delete the value "%pbpm" from the v4.1 "Full" skin. Is this the way I should be editing the file to hide BPM's? That's what it seems to say in previous threads on the subject... I opened the file with notepad, saved it as an xml, put it back into the zipped "VirtualDJ" skin folder, and it gives me that error message. Should I be doing something to the file to make it compatible with VDJ? Is this the right way to get rid of the BPM counter?

Thanks!
 
Posted Thu 26 Oct 06 @ 7:00 am
That's exactly how you should edit the xml, however you cannot leave the empty value (format=""), you must either

  1. delete the whole <textzone> element,
  2. delete just the <text> definition of the element if there are multiple definitions present (i.e. <text>, <text2>, ...),
  3. replace it with other function (e.g. "%pitch"),
  4. or leave an empty space if you want "empty" text field:
    example of the display on/off switch: 

    <text font="LCD" size="18" color="#FF0000" format=" "/>

    <text2 font="LCD" size="18" color="#FF0000" format="%Ppitch%"/>


more info: Skin SDK

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I just started getting this meeage with Vmix skin and I never tried to delete anyting.

Maybe I accidently deleted something.

What could that be that I deleted?

Cyder was looking into it.
 
Thanks for the help! But still, a problem... This time I did an experiment, changing nothing at all in the file, but simply changing its name... Put it back in the zipped VirtualDJ skin folder, and poof, I get the same error message - "Invalid Skin File"... So clearly it's not something I'm changing in the file that is causing the problem. Could it be how I am editing it? I think it must be, cuz that's all I'm doing ... This is what I'm doing exactly:

1) I extracted the "VirtualDJ" folder from within the skins folder
2) I made a copy of the file "Basic", back into the zipped folder

Should I be doing something to this file to convert it back into the format it needs to be in the zipped folder? Zip it somehow? How do I do that? Or what could be causing this problem? I mean, all I'm doing now, is copying the file to a folder, then putting it back into the original folder again... Same exact file, no changes... and I'm getting this error "Invalid Skin File"... What am I doing wrong?
 
sounds like you might have missed a line or character in the xml
If you don't want the BPM just pm me and ill edit it for you
 
No.

Listen.

I didn't change the file at all.

This is what I'm doing:

I extract the file
I re-compress it

I get an error message, and it does not work. I am not doing a damn thing to the file except extracting and re-compressing it. What the !@#$* is going on here?
 
Wait I got it! Nevermind, sorry for wasting all your time :) I didn't realize it, but you need a bitmap file of the same name to go with the xml file... I was changing the name of the xml without creating a bitmap file with the same name...
 


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