First off- Thanks for the great plug-in/skins/community/etc.
I'll also say that I've read the entire Brighthand thread twice searching for answers to these two questions. I'm sure they're in there somewhere.
I've downloaded v 9.5 and begun customizing for my preferences. The first changes I made were to the cities for weather and cities for the clocks. Those changes worked the way I wanted them to.
Next I changed the owner info- by replacing the SRS default information with my own. That change worked correctly, however now the elephant PNG never displays. I'd like to get this working again since eventually I'd like to use my own graphic. Any suggestions?
Next I changed the CF card meter to look at my SD card. I changed the config file to look for SD Card- and the label says SD Card now. But the meter is actually reading my internal storage capacity and doesn't seem to be looking at my SD Card. Any ideas about what I've done wrong?
Thanks.
About the elephant image. Looks like you have some comma deleted too much. Can you add your config file or maybe quote a bit from it so we can have a look at it?
Thanks for the speedy offer of assistance- This community is great.....
I've attached my config file for your review.
After reviewing it on my desktop- I hope the solution to the SD card issue isn't as obvious as it looks now.... I'll wait for a response before I attempt to change anything else....
Thank you.
Sorry about that...... Here is attachment
As Doemaarwat said, you have a comma deleted. Look for:
imageowner image,\Program Files\TodayPlus\elephant.png
and replace to:
image,owner image,\Program Files\TodayPlus\elephant.png
Notice the comma between image and owner. :)
Every message I send here begins with a thank you-
The comma did it- now my elephant is back....... When I get ready to use my own graphic- what size should it be in order to fit into that region- or is it automatically scaled?????
I've tried looking around to change the storage meter so that it will see my SD card- but I'm not having much luck yet?
Thanks you guys....
if you changed this line storage,SD card,\SD card\
did you change all instances of cfcard1 in the skin to refer to SD card, also ? if not just change the line back to storage,cfcard1,\SD card\
the cfcard1 is just an identifier that the skin uses to get the directory form the config and doesn't mean anything in and of itself. I probably should have named it something generic like "storagepath1" so as not to confuse people.
Thank you Doemaarwat, Eitel, and SRS-
In a little over three and a half hours (on a Sunday no less) all of my functional/configuration issues have been addressed and everything is working as it should be. If "commercial" S/W developers offered this level of support the PC/PDA world would be a much better place (or at least a less frustrating place).
One question that might have been overlooked concerned the size of the elephant image- does it need to be a specific size or does it get "auto-scaled" somehow????
Thanks again for all your help :D
the image is not autosized, so if you want an image that works with the default skin, make it the same height (or less) the width could be different, but you may need to tweak the positioning in the skin a little to make it look nice.
What is the image size? Is .png the only image type allowed?
--paqque
paqque,
Nope, I am still using a bitmap for mine...
The image size of the elephant is 100x56. And PNG, JPG, and BMP are supported. That where SRS's words (I thought I read in another thread). He also said that maybe other formats are supported, but he did not test it yet.
Thanks snaggle and Doemaarwat!
--paqque