Category:STIXE Settings.ini

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[edit] Introduction

Settings.ini is the most important file that defines a Stixe skin. It is a DTD file that contains around 500 entities to specify coordinates and colors for the slicing and placement of each elements in a window. Although 500 seems to be a big value, these entities are very easy to change once you get the logic.

Warning: Removal of any line in the file will cause your skin to malfunction. Please only edit the numbers inside the ' 's.

[edit] General Rules of the Format

The first few lines enclosed between are the descriptions of Settings.ini. Lines between are regarded as comments and will not be parsed by Trillian, so you can write anything to make a note about the skin.

Most lines in the file is formatted this way: 

<!ENTITY iniDefaultFontFile		'arial.ttf'>
  • <!ENTITY % is the beginning of the line. Sometimes % is not there, and it is included for technical purposes.
  • iniDefaultFontFile is the name of the entity. All of them starts with the letters "ini", which can be translated into "Settings for" in English. Therefore, in this example, you can understand the whole name as "Settings for Default Font File".
  • 'arial.ttf' is the value. They can be a file name, a name or usually a number, depending on what the setting is about. What you need to change in the file are all these values inside the ' ' quotes. Do not forget to include the ' ' quotes! For example, if you want to change the value to verdana.ttf, you will type 'verdana.ttf'.
  • > closes the line.

[edit] Sections

Entities are organized into sections to able skinners to find an entity easily in a logical way. Most sections are based on elements, with a couple exceptions:

[edit] Common Entities

Entities in most other sections are composed in a repetitive fashion, usually in a few common ways with either:

All of them specifies the same properties of their corresponding element. You can kill many birds with one stone by using a few elements to understand the rest of them.

[edit] Other Sections


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