packing a RC2 theme question

[Mick.]

I created an RC2 "Curve" variant theme but im having trouble loading it.

After i load it to my forum and select it in my profile, it shows: "Unable to load the 'main_above' template."


I have these folders and its files...

-CSS
-images
-languages
-scripts

and the files,

-index.php
-index.template.php
-theme_info.xml


Is there something wrong with this?

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<theme-info xmlns="http://www.simplemachines.org/xml/theme-info" xmlns:smf="http://www.simplemachines.org/">
<!-- Theme name, used purely for aesthetics. -->
<name>simpleB&W</name>
<!-- Author: your email address or contact information.  The name attribute is optional. -->
<author name="BlueDevil">[email protected]</author>
<!-- Website... where to get updates and more information. -->
<website>http://www.simplemachines.org/</website>
<!-- Template layers to use, defaults to "main". -->
<layers>html,body</layers>
<!-- Templates to load on startup.  Default is "index". -->
<templates>index</templates>
<!-- Base this theme off another?  Default is blank, or no.  It could be "default". -->
<based-on></based-on>
<id>bluedevil:simpleB&W</id>
</theme-info>

[Mick.]

For some reason when loading the new theme in Admin, is not showing (RC2) next to the theme's name in "Theme Settings".

Its because in the server when looking at the new theme's folder, is showing the index.template.php, index.php and template.info and some images empty at 0kb.

It seems the ZIP is not saving the folders and files right.   Any ideas?

[ethankcvds]

What program are you using to compress the theme. How are you compressing it Zip, BZip, or GZip?

[Mick.]

What program are you using to compress the theme. How are you compressing it Zip, BZip, or GZip?

Im using WinZip and compressing it as Zip.

[Arantor]

It doesn't like the & in the theme name.

[Mick.]

It doesn't like the & in the theme name.

I changed the name and the same thing happens.   How about capital letters?

[Arantor]

And the ID too. & isn't normally permitted in XML because it means something else too.

[Mick.]

Heres my current one....

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<theme-info xmlns="http://www.simplemachines.org/xml/theme-info" xmlns:smf="http://www.simplemachines.org/">
    <!-- For the id, always use something unique - put your name, a colon,

and then the package name. -->
<id>bluedevil:BlueSkies</id>
<version>2.0 RC2</version>
<!-- Theme name, used purely for aesthetics. -->
<name>BlueSkies</name>
<!-- Author: your email address

or contact information.  The name attribute is optional. -->
<author name="BlueDevil">[email protected]</author>
<!-- Website... where to get updates and more information. -->


<website>http://www.curvevariations.com/</website>
<!-- Template layers to use, defaults to "html,body". -->
<layers>html,body</layers>
<!-- Templates to load on startup.  Default is "index". -->


<templates>index</templates>
<!-- Base this theme off another?  Default is blank, or no.  It could be "default". -->
<based-on></based-on>
</theme-info>

[Mick.]

This what ive done....

I copied the index.template.php, index.php to my new theme.

Also copied the images folder with everything in it except the mainblock.png and the gfx.png.  I replaced them with my own.

Same with the CSS folder.

Im thinking the problem here is the theme.info

[Arantor]

And that's saved as theme-info.xml in the top directory of the zip archive?

[Mick.]

And that's saved as theme-info.xml in the top directory of the zip archive?

At the moment its called theme_info

Hmmm..... ill try your way.

[Mick.]

Nope. That didnt work.

The 3 main files are still shown as 0kb in the server.

[Arantor]

Can you attach the theme zip file here please?

[Mick.]

here..

[Arantor]

Have to say I'm mighty confused. I don't get why it's doing that, sorry

[Mick.]

Have to say I'm mighty confused. I don't get why it's doing that, sorry

Did you find everything correct?    Where you able to load it and see "'main_above' template." ??

[Arantor]

No, it doesn't work for me either but I have no idea why.

[Mick.]

No, it doesn't work for me either but I have no idea why.

That sucks.   lol.     

[Mick.]

You know,   im using the WinZip "Evaluation Version".  Is this a problem?

[Arantor]

Don't think so, I was able to open the zip just fine. Might want to try 7-zip though...