folks Skincare

folkKJ v2 is able to load a skin. If you can't find any skin, a file with 'dat' extension under the folder 'skins', you can use one of the WinAmp skins. Before folksKJ reads a WinAmp skin we need to do some preparations. There are three simple steps to be followed:

Unzip the WAL-file (WinAmp 'modern' skin)
Run folksSC (Skincare) to prepare new XML-files
Run encoder on the new XML-files

Before you do that you can check the net whether someone has submitted a same one already. Please check http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/softkaraoke/files/Softwares/folksKJ/skins/ for the latest.
Here are the details of the above steps.

Create a directory (e.g. myskin).
Open the WAL-file (WinAmp skin) with WinZip.
Extract all files from the WAL-file into the directory myskin.
Run folksSC and select the source file skin.xml by opening the directory myskin. Parallelly, the contents of the file will be displayed on your right hand side if a skin.xml file is found.
After clicking on [Create], all required information are extracted in a new directory of the skin name (under folksSC). A text file will pop up with some skin information.
Close the text file and confirm the dialog box to run the Kyra Encoder.
At the end, a new DAT-file is generated under the skins directory.

The new skin will be listed on next start of folksKJ and you can access the list by press [Ctrl]+[F12] on the folksKJ control board (when the player is stopped).
Function key [F12] allows you to toggle between skin and standard GUI.

Notes:

folksSC only prepares the skin information to be read by Kyra encoder and it does not change any of the graphics. No new skin is generated.
folksSC might fail to read some WinAmp skins because it's still in very early stage.
folksKJ v2.00s can only display rectangle skin.
If a button doesn't react on a mouse click it could be that the button is not in use or it's disabled in that state.