Ok, so this is my first post in these forums ever, as i'm fairly new to the site. makes sense huh? anyway, in creating my first Logon screen i ran into an error, an i noticed i'm not the only one who seems to have run into it. so whats the problem with that? no one has answered the question! people have tried but it didn't work. i'm going to post the solution to the problem that i found, as well as one of the others.
the error:
upon loading a freshly made login screen a parser error box pops up with the following message:
Value Creation failed " at line 14 (yes, just like that)
solution found from another:
-go into Theme.ini, down to the 14th line (not including the lines that are inclosed in brackets)
-check and make sure the file that is being assigned exists in the projects folder and isn't corrupt (ie. Bitmap_xxx.bmp)
-replace said file with one from a working project
problem with this "solution"?
-the parser error has nothing to do with the .ini file
this frustrated me because so many people acknowledge the posted and said thanks for answering and that they'd get back to him after they tested the method. well, no one got back to him on whether it worked or not. i'll tell you right now, for me, it didn't work, because once again, the problem doesn't lay in the .ini file, its in the UIFILE.TXT
UIFILE.TXT contains the "source code" for the screen you're making. the "line 14" refered to is in this file. i'll even point out the exact line that they are refering to:
background: rcbmp(100,6,#40FF00,1280,900,1,0);//rcbmp(100,6,#FF00FF,0,0,1,0);
this is in the first style block: framess
now, whats the problem and what can you do to fix it?
answer: nothing is wrong with the code and changing the code will NOT help at all, the problem lies with in the image you're trying to use as the background. chances are one of the following from what i can guess:
-you browsed for a none .bmp file (.jpg was my error) and LogonStudio didn't convert the file correctly
-the image you chose wasn't a compatable .bmp (i made mine into a 24-bit bitmap image and it worked)
if you want to use a certain .jpg image, open it in MSPaint (i say this because it has the simplest of options and is most readily availible to everyone) and go to file >> save as, and choose the file type to be a 24-bit bitmap. in LogonStudio, browse for the new .bmp image, make sure your mask won't affect the image in a bad way (try to chose a mask color not found in the image (lime green works well most times). save and apply and switch users. tada, your parser error from line 14 should be gone, with any luck anyways.
i hope this has helped you find the answer you've been looking for, assuming that this works for people other too. if you've experienced this error, or are currently trying to figure out whats wrong, please leave feedback saying whether it helped or not.
ps. moderators, this was the only place i could find to post this, please feel free to move it to the right topic, thank you
