Making two or more skins into one compound skin using substyles....Help

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Dear Ann Landers

I've made a substyle before using the same skin, don't remember how, but I got it to work Now I am trying to make two skins into one compound skin using SkinStudio 4.30 Build 921. This is what I have tried. I open the first skin in SKS and go to Insert => New Substyle => Import another skin as a Substyle. It opens up asking for image files. I go to the skin I want to import as a substyle click on an image and get an error Is there anyway of doing this without creating an substyle of the existing skin and manually importing all the images one by one and then going through the skin again reworking all the colors and margins?

Signed
Befuddled and Confusticated in New Hampshire
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
If I could get a newgroup reader to download ALL the messages in a newgroup, I could find the answer for you. But I guess I just don't understand newgroups, and the how the readers work. Neither Opera's newgroup reader, or Outlook Express will download more than just a few newsgroup posts. I know the answer's there, coz I ask it once, and got a very helpful answer. (that I can't remember) 



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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Me too.....newsgroups too confusing to find stuff and use. Thanks for replying. Maybe there is someone at Stardock I could email and ask? It seems pretty clear in SKS....the option clearly says Import another skin as a SubStyle...it just doesn't want to work the way I think it should work
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

IPlural pointed me in the direction of a newsreader called Agent, and I'm so far enjoying it..... Thanx to John, and Agent, I have your answer.....................

Make backups of both skins folders, or make work copies of the original
skins under another folder.
Navigate to the folder of the skin you want to change to a subskin.
Change the *.UIS file to *.SSS.
Make sure that there are NO images that share the same name if they are
not identical.
Move all of the folder's files to the new folder. Open the *.SSS file
and update the paths to the new location.
Create a *.SSD file or edit it if it already exist. Add referances to
the various skins (use any preexisting one, from any compoune skin, as a
template)
You can also use skinstudio, but I personaly never done it


Alain

 

It may be a bit of a hassle to do it this way, but it works.





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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

And there's also this response from Mr. SkinStudio himself.......

In Skinstudio open the skin you want to import to,
then from the main menu
Insert->New substyle->Import another skin as substyle.
Browse for that skin or subskin and press OK

Done

Adam





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Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Curtain number 2...the one from Adam is the the one I want to work and maybe it's broken or maybe I'm broken. It asks for an image file and then you get an error. I changed it from asking for an image file to all files and Selected the uis file instead and still got the same error. The only way I've been able to get substyles to work in SKS is to "save as" one skin as a substyle of itself with a new name, then individual import the files from the other skin one by one, then changing all the settings like margins and colors, etc.....this is as much work as Curtain number 1.