Dude, I am far from being an expert...I'm the first one to admit it. The best way I have learned is to look to see how things are done in other skins, try and find the forum post matching my issue, then ask the questions on how to do something. You will find that that is virtually how everyone has been doing it here from the start.
Did you know i never have worked with Photoshop...i even don't own the software.
If that is the case, a video tutorial would never be able to assist you. Photoshop is a beast all on its own, and the primary thing you have to understand with that software is everything is done in layers. Remember that and your well on your way already. Everything else is to add effects the respected layers. Most tutorials are based on this.
Just like xlm..as a programmer..it's childsplay but for me it's indian signlanguage
You will find that it is "indian signlanguage" for most people. A video tutorial would not be able to show anything different from what you can read on the internet about xml. It would be more boring to watch a video of someone typing code on the screen then to read on how functions are done.
I had to search for one hour on the forum to find out what Amc was
A quick search of the forums here on "AMC" revealed 24 matches (including this one) on the subject. From there you could "Google" Ant Movie Catalog to find out more details on the software...where to download and how to use it. Then read the numerous other post on how to set up the plugin. That plugin is real easy to set up.
Again a quick search here on MPC revealed 51 posts on the topic. From there again you could "Google" Media Player Classic for more information on the software itself.
I have friends here, who never even heard of winamp.
With the utmost respect to your friends, do they even have the internet? If they do, do they have a favorite search engine? I'm not going to go any further with that one.
You two alone have over the 600 reply's on this forum alone so most of the terms for you are music in your ears....for me its most of the time Chinees
Trust me, look at some of my posts and the questions I ask. The responses aren't always music to my ears either, so I ask for help to simpify. Like I previously stated, we're all here to help each other. I think rembetis did an excellent job on your post here:
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... ght=#32241
on setting up a goto button. And once you understand how to open the skin editor, for directional buttons:
1) in a skin that has buttons that do function of what you want, open the skin editor.
2) Goto the screen that has the particular buttons.
3) Click on the button to select it.
4) In the editor window, click on the "Item/Event" tab.
5) Write down any and all events that are linked to that button.
6) Close the Skin editor window, press F2 to open the setup window.
7) Select Events tab.
8 ) Scroll down and find the event that matches the one you wrote down that links the button.
9) View the commands that are setup for that event, write them down as well.
10) Goto your own skin or screen, create an event that utilizes those commands, then goto the skin editor and link the button of your choice to the event you just created.
It's just not worth someone to create a video tutorial for the above as it is basically universal for all buttons you want to create and easily described above.
A big helper here now is the "Xlobby Event and Variable reference sheet" (
http://www.xlobby.incolby.com/EventVari ... m#category) for a list of every command you can do in the events section of setup (and more).
As stated, I do like the idea of video tutorials, and are worth it, but they should be common enough for all to benefit. Creating specialized tutorials, though may help out a select few, would not be beneficial as a whole. Maybe even a poll on what people would like to see documented via video, so some courageous soul could do something that most people would have use for.
by kasje on Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:25 pm 
