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Skinning for beginners - Foundation skin, skinning tools, and tips
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THIS SKIN IS NO LONGER COMPATIBLE WITH CURRENT KODI VERSIONS!



Foundation skin: Updated for Eden

Foundation is a very simple but fully functional skin designed to be used as either a base for creating new skins or as a learning tool for anyone interested in what makes a skin work.

It comes with both 720p & 1080i coded XML's and I've also included a screen shot folder of every window/dialog XBMC uses to make things even easier.

To get the most out of it you'll need to either make a new keymap.xml or add this to your existing one -

PHP Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<keymap>
    <global>
        <keyboard>
            <F5>XBMC.ReloadSkin()</F5>
            <F6>Skin.ToggleSetting(DebugGrid)</F6>
            <F7>Skin.ToggleSetting(DebugInfo)</F7>
            <F8>Notification(Testing 123,Hello world)</F8>
        </keyboard>
    </global>
</keymap> 

F5 - Reload skin
F6 - Show/Hide the Debug Grid
F7 - Show/Hide the Debug Info
F8 - Activated the KaiDialogToast.xml

Frodo download

Credit goes to Jezz_X for the textures.

Other useful links -

TexturePacker for Mac OS X

Sublime Text 2 - XML editor

Debugging/skinning aid for any skin

Skin XML Converter

Skin repository creator

How to test Peripheral settings

How to test Karaoke

How to test DialogFileStacking


Eden Update

Changelog -

2.0.1

Added: <!-- Foundation --> tags to all windows
Added: Exit button visible condition
Removed: Dummy controls from DialogPeripheralManager.xml and DialogPeripheralSettings.xml

2.0.0

Changed: Debug grid and Window/Dialog label handling (see Custom_Debug_Overlay.xml)
Changed: Activate Video window controls
Changed: DialogContextMenu.xml
Changed: DialogButtonMenu.xml
Added: DialogPeripheralManager.xml
Added: DialogPeripheralSettings.xml
Added: DialogPeripheralManager.jpg
Added: DialogPeripheralSettings.jpg
Removed: MyVideo.xml
Removed: MyVideo.jpg

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Donations for this skin gratefully accepted

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Awesome, Very helpful for newbie skinners / modders like myself!
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Cool need a new "Basic" skin, when I tried using "Basic" as my base for Carmichael I got all these odd positioning errors and just odd errors in general that werent solved till I moved to Confluence as my base...
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