Way to add a program to the Today Screen

[joelw135]

I put the following in the config file. At the top under the name of the skin

shortcut,quick2,\windows\iexplore.exe,Internet Explorer

Then I went to Start Settings Today Then Item and ok.  I also tried reset. Am I missing something in skin file?

[Blazingwolf]

I put the following in the config file. At the top under the name of the skin

shortcut,quick2,\windows\iexplore.exe,Internet Explorer

Then I went to Start Settings Today Then Item and ok.  I also tried reset. Am I missing something in skin file?

You need something like the following in the region of the skin file you want the launcher to appear:
shortcut,4,0,quick1,s
button,4,0,16,16,-1,0,%quick1

Change to your desired position on the screen and whatever shortcut # you are using.

[bino]

Joel - have you tried simply uninstalling the skin (and possibly TodayPlus) and then reinstalling and trying to work from a base skin (like what is included or OSX). Your problem may simply be something little. Also make sure your TodayPlus Folder looks like this

Folder:
Buffer
Skins
Weather Icons
Images

Files:
Config.txt
Various others

Config.txt should be in the parent directory!

[joelw135]

I did remove everything and started with a clean slate.  If someone would tell me where in region 0 on the slider skin to put the lines that mite help. Thanks.

[fishboy]

Try placing somewhere after

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region,0,0,-1
defregion,0,0,0,240,18,1
offset,offset_-1,offset_-1
offsetadd,0,2

and before

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offsetadd,0,16
endregion,0,0

Make sure its not inside any of the "if..else" statements.

[joelw135]

Thanks for the reply, but I have no luck.  It is exactly where it was surposed to go but nothing shows. Thanks.

[arbitrajeu]

Thanks for the reply, but I have no luck.  It is exactly where it was surposed to go but nothing shows. Thanks.

Please attach your (zipped) slider.txt file to a post and we'll take a look at it.  fishboy's instructions should work, from what I can see.

[joelw135]

Thanks here are the files in zip format The edit to config is at the top directly under the title slider.  The edit for the skin was directly after the start of 0 region.

[fishboy]

I believe your problem is the capital letters before the shortcut and button commands in both the config and skin files.  All commands use lowercase letters and apparently TodayPlus is case sensitive.  

Also, you are missing a comma after quick1 in the config shortcut command and you button command is missing a parameter and comma before %quick1.  Refer to the previous post to format the commands correctly.

TodayPlus is very unforgiving when it comes to the format of commands.

Here are the corrected files.

[joelw135]

Even with those corrections, it will not show.  Any other ideas? Thanks

[arbitrajeu]

Even with those corrections, it will not show.  Any other ideas? Thanks

You might want to reload TodayPlus by going to Today->Items and clicking Ok to refresh from the config.txt.

[joelw135]

Ok I think it is there but it is burried behind the Day and date of Today Plus.

[arbitrajeu]

Ok I think it is there but it is burried behind the Day and date of Today Plus.

Yeah, it would be.  You just need to play with the x coordinate til you find the position you want.  That region is only 18 pixels high, so you don't have much flexibility.  You get the idea though...

[scott51]

Thanks, I figured out the problem.  Stupid error on my part. I hadn't noticed the category name was lower case.