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Forum: VirtualDJ Technical Support

Topic: Deck Order
So I see the Option for Deck Order, but what I REALLY want to do is change the order of the waveforms on the screen. Right now, Deck 1 is at the top, followed by 2, then 3, and four is at the bottom.

Is there an easy way to change it so from top to bottom, the waveform order to 3-1-2-4?
 
Inviato 5 days ago @ 4:36 am
Not without a skin edit, and honestly it's a reasonable project for a new skinner to take on.
 
Kind of what I thought. And I'm guessing re-arranging just that info would be relatively easy to do, assuming someone knows how to edit skins ? Or is this a much bigger project? I've tried to work on a skin once on the MacOS platform, but didn't get very far. Any idea if this would be easier on Windows?
 
The platform doesn't matter. The skin code is the same.
 
understand the code is the same between platforms... but which one might be easier to try to edit on?
 
the same.
 
For default pro skin you want to be looking around
line 4406 MAIN WAVEFORM
in panel <panel name="topwave">
scroll down 70 or so lines into panel <panel name="fullwave4"
in this you'll find the deck specifiers for all 4 scratch waves
<scratchwave deck="1"

you're just swapping numbers.
 
So I'm half-way guessing on the MacOS, this is the Pro.xml file, located in the skin.zip file, located in the Resources in the VDJ Package? I was actually able to find the lines to change, created a new XML file, changed the permission on the new file and zip it up... but I'm not there yet.

MAINLY asking if I'm actually in the right place to start with. If so, the rest I think I can figure out.
 
Sounds right, but I don't know the full ins and outs of mac skinning and the file system.
I don't know if this applies to macs but a mistake I make a couple of times a year on m$ is rezipping the extracted folder when I'm done, this is wrong, you need to rezip the contents of the extracted folder then move the zip up one directory.
 
Wow. That is one piece of info I would have never figured out. Am not quite there yet but I think I'm on the way. THANKS!
 
Quick update. SUCCESS! I had to also edit a "landing zone" parameter... but so far, this works fine. Also guessing I'm going to have to re-edit this file with every update... but now that I know what to do... that should be easy. I would have never figured it out without your help. Thanks!
 
no your edit is a local file you can use it after updates.