BootSkin question

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really strange thing, I made a bootskin with no progress bar. copied the ini from one of the sample bootscreens that also did not have a progress bar, edited my file names accordingly, zipped it up, changed the .zip to .bootskin, opened bootskin, imported, got a message that said "imported successfully", BUT.. the skin I made is not in the list to choose from. If I look at the bootskin folder the one I made is in there with the proper files also, but it just does not show up as a selection choice in bootskin. any suggestions?
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well was your image 640 x 480 resolution? Did you convert it to 4 bit? Is the name of the .ini "bootskin.ini"?
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
make a couple of click on "your boot".bootskin file directly
or be sure progress bar and screen are on 4bits/px and 16colors .bmp with colors palette accorded.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
make a couple of click on "your boot".bootskin file directly
or be sure progress bar and screen are on 4bits/px and 16colors .bmp with colors palette accorded.


He said it installed fine just didn't show up in the BootSkin program viewer. He's also not using a progress bar so there are no multiple palettes to match.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

He said it installed fine just didn't show up in the BootSkin program viewer.


opened bootskin, imported, got a message that said "imported successfully"


i have just suggested that i could directly open (by couple of clic) the file and not imported with boostskin i had this mater one or two times at beginning...


He's also not using a progress bar so there are no multiple palettes to match.


when i talk of progress bar i talk about this

and sorry i had never seen a bootskin without thus if the two thing and screen picture are not accorded colors palette and are not in 4bits per px and in 16 colors the bootskin (software) don't show that he consider like an error file.


Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
really strange thing, I made a bootskin with no progress bar. copied the ini from one of the sample bootscreens that also did not have a progress bar, edited my file names accordingly, zipped it up, changed the .zip to .bootskin, opened bootskin, imported, got a message that said "imported successfully", BUT.. the skin I made is not in the list to choose from. If I look at the bootskin folder the one I made is in there with the proper files also, but it just does not show up as a selection choice in bootskin. any suggestions?


Have you checked in explorer, if your bootscreen is in a folder under the program?
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
UPDATE : Thanks for the help but the person I was trying to create the thing for in the first place decided she didn't want it anymore so the project got scrapped. maybe I'll try again with one a little more simple than a college logo.