If you know html and css its a piece of pulpcake. (and it'll take a while so buckle up and keep your hands inside the vehicle at all times.)
First of all, to do this you'll need to have access and know how to use html, css, winrar and a webserver (can be your own pc ofc).
If you don't have this lose all hope and run around in circles manically (or just keep using the default skin, it's pretty awesome and well designed imho)
Let's roll shall we?
- Navigate to the your pulptunes install dir.
- Locate PulpTunes.jar
- Unrar it in a new folder (I'll name it yournewfolder for the purpose of this tutorial)
- Navigate to yournewfolder/pulptunes/resources/mainTemplate.html
- Now here's the tricky part, it fetches the css file from the pulptunes.com server so what you are going to do is snag the file from their server, move it to your own and update the links in the mainTemplate.html (if you have no clue how to do this, I suggest sticking with the default)
- Ok lets rejar (cool new word, use it!) our stuff, go to yournewfolder and select everything in it. It should be 5 folders. If its not, you fail, go back to step 2 and wait two turns.
- Right click the folders (with all of them selected) and click "Add to archive".
- Set archive format to ZIP
- Set compression method to Store
- Change the archive name to PulpTunes.jar
- Shut down pulptunes (let's call it PT from now on)
- Change the PulpTunes.jar file in your install dir to PulpTunesBACKUP.jar and drag your freshly jarred PulpTunes.jar in the instal dir.
[li]Ok you figured out how to rejar, unless you edit the html you should be fine just messing with the css for now. Lets start up our PT. - Open your PT webpage and OH GAWD ALL THE IMAGES ARE GONE. Stay calm, keep breathing, it all makes perfect sense. We moved the css file so the image references are all wrong now. You can either fix them, grab all the images from the server and upload em to your own or you can do what I do and just strip all the images and markup and start from the bare frame.
- Good luck with fiddling around. There's probably better ways of doing this, but this is my way and it works just fine (for me).
If you have any questions I'll be hovering around the forums for a few days to answer them.
And remember, the only reason why you are able to do this is because it's an open source project. Got to love it!
EDIT: I wrote this whole thing thinking it was plumtools instead of pulptools *facepalm* anyway, fixed.
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