Sticky Skins

[UrbanCyborg]

I'm having a problem with creating and modifying control skins in VMD. The program appears to be caching module configuration information somewhere internally, and it uses that preferentially over changes you've made to the art associated with a skin, even when you erase the skin and skinproject files externally, and recreate the skin from scratch. When you check the new skin and skinproject files, they seem to refer to the correct art, but assigning the skin to a control just assigns the old art. Anyone else hit this (and, I hope, solved it)?

Reid

[Streakenw]

Have you tried clearing the cache or temporary files directly in VMD?

[ChR_is]

i've had so many issues with the skin editor..

make sure to either rename the new image files or to replace the image files from the resources directly. VMD doesn't appear to update it's cached resources when the name does not change.
On my windows machine the resource directory is in ".../<user>/documents/Voltage Module Designer/resources". You can try to access it from within the skin editor by opening a skin and copying the path.

still, when i edit a skin i need to restart VMD in 4 out of 10 times for the change to take visual effect.

Good luck fighting the skin editor

[Aarnville]

i've had so many issues with the skin editor..

I'm glad it's not just me. I've just spent all morning trying to make sense of why it visually updates sometimes and not others, with no real conclusion. I now just restart VMD to make sure I'm seeing the latest skin edits. And to add insult to injury, having finally "won", I put my new control on a module then decided it I didn't like it so I replaced it with a standard knob.

All learning I guess.

[Waverley Instruments]

I too feel your sticky skin irritation!

make sure to either rename the new image files or to replace the image files from the resources directly.

Yep, that's my workaround too - you need to force the update. I hope these issue are logged so we might see a fix in a future update. Can't remember if I put one in for the sticky skins issue or not.

-Rob @ WI