install help

[reefman]

thanks again  -see attached images of screens regarding calender problem

poom filter screen

any ideas

[Broesel]

thanks again  -see attached images of screens regarding calender problem

poom filter screen

any ideas

O.k. that is a problem, that was caused by your TodayTheme. In the
slider-skin, in the calendar-section,  the font-color is taken from the
TodayTheme.

There are two ways to fix that:

1. Try another TodayTheme or

2. change the skintext (slider.txt):  Find the lines (two in calendar-section):

color,font,-1_9_-1

and change them to another color-code
Example:

color,font,0_0_0   --> black
color,font,255_255_255 ---> white

The three values in the color-code are rgb-values as known in html or
graphic-progams like paint.

Hope, that helps
Regards Broesel

[reefman]

hI again - thanks for that

whatever I've done has now given me visable options in the filter list which was previously blacked out teh same as the calenders

dont want to change anyhting else  - what do you suggest??


thanks again for patience

[tree99]

thanks again  -see attached images of screens regarding calender problem

poom filter screen

any ideas

O.k. that is a problem, that was caused by your TodayTheme. In the
slider-skin, in the calendar-section,  the font-color is taken from the
TodayTheme.

There are two ways to fix that:

1. Try another TodayTheme or

2. change the skintext (slider.txt):  Find the lines (two in calendar-section):

color,font,-1_9_-1

and change them to another color-code
Example:

color,font,0_0_0   --> black
color,font,255_255_255 ---> white

The three values in the color-code are rgb-values as known in html or
graphic-progams like paint.

Hope, that helps
Regards Broesel

More information about color can be found in the skin reference:

Theme Colors


When the R value of the color parameter <R_G_B> is set to –1, then G
can be set to one of the following values (B is ignored in this case and can
be set to –1)


Value----------Description

   4----------today screen text color

   5----------start button background color

   6----------today screen line color

   7----------bottom bar color

   8----------top bar color

   9----------top bar text color

  13---------notification color (left)

  14---------notification color (right)

When you change the color values to be positve numbers 1-255, then the
color will be the RGB value you designate. If you are not familiar with
RGB colors Broesell gave you a good start. There are very good
explanations of how RGB colors work online.
 
I modified the slider skin that comes with T+ to create my own skin.
The slider skin uses color references to the PPC OS theme.

(this is the them you choose for your PPC OS outside of T+, it is the
theme that affects the OS and all programs, similar to changing how
you change themes on your desktop computer.)

The slider skin references colors this
way so that your T+ skin colors will match what ever theme you choose
for your PPC. If you were to go into the PPC theme settings and change
the top bar color it would also fix the problem where your skin uses the
color -1_9_-1. The 9 in the G value refers to the top bar color in your
PPC theme. ( see exerpt from skin reference file above.)

When your skin has color refereces to the PPC theme, you can change
how T+ looks by changing the PPC theme. Sometimes the problem is not
in T+ or the T+ skin, it is in your PPC theme color choices.
This is nice when you change PPC theme because T+ plus with adjust with
it to match and be readable.

This might sound a little complicated, since you are new to T+. It was
complicated to me before I started changing color values in my skin and
then seeing how my skin looked. I thought I would give you an
explanation of how color values in the skin work since you are getting into
the skin file now.

So, the reason why you cannot see the text is because your font color is
set to be the top bar color in your PPC theme. The top bar color in your
PPC must be set to black. You are displaying black text on a black
background. It can't be read that way. Also the slider skin is set to have
a black background in the calendar. This can also be changed, but I do
not remember at the moment.

[reefman]

thanks for that will reload original slider.txt and have another more informed go now

cheers

[reefman]

back again

what should the base path be set to??

thanks

[jhollin1138]

@Reefman: Not that I want to blow my own horn, but if you are happy with the Slider skin, you might want to have a look at my old tweaked Slider skin.  Unfortunately, I am no longer working on it.  

[Broesel]

back again

what should the base path be set to??

thanks

It should be your install-dir (program files/TodayPlus ?)

Regards Broesel