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Creating a Skin
Creating a skin is easy. There is an example skin that shows the basic capabilities of what you can do
and it has documentation describing all the fields and values needed in the skin file (this information
is in the .ini file)
Download Example Skin
Submitting a Skin
After you have created a skin you can choose to publish it and make it available for other POP Peeper users.
Submit your skin
Here's what you need to do:
- If you haven't already, register an account
- Click Submit your skin and fill in the following details:
| Detail | Max Length | Notes |
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| User Name | n/a | The username you created at poppeeper.com |
| Skin Name | 30 characters | |
| Skin Description | 255 characters | |
| Account Info? | Y/N | Does the skin display which account received new email? |
| Message Info? | Y/N | Does the skin display message information (ie. subject/sender)? |
| Filename | 25 characters | Do not include the extension |
- You also need to include three attachments with the email. The name of each file will be based
on the filename you provided above:
| File | Filename | Notes |
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| Thumbnail Preview | [Filename]_tn.gif | - This must be a 150x75 thumbnail of the full preview.
- Graphic should be a .png, .gif, or .jpg file * |
| Full Preview | [Filename].gif | - Actual-size Image
- Graphic should be a .png, .gif, or .jpg file * |
| Skin | [Filename].zip |
- Archive must be a portable/max-compressed .zip file
- One skin per archive
- Archive must contain the subdirectory path (ie. "/MySkin/")
- All files must be contained under this subdirectory
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For example, if you created a skin with a filename of "myskin", you would include three files named:
myskin_tn.png
myskin.png
myskin.zip
* - When creating the preview images, please select the image format that creates the smallest file with
an acceptable quality.
Changes from v2 skins
Skins that are designed for POP Peeper v3 have the following changes:
- Graphics can now be bmp, gif, or jpg (jpeg is not recommended in most cases since there may be problems with transparency)
- New Slider effects (see example.ini for more info)
- User can override certain values such as transparency and slider effects
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