Rainlendar - can I use the term "tweaking" for adjusting something?

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Anyway.  I'm hacking away. I need to be able to read the silly things. Currently I'm doing the trial-and-error thing with the fonts, but is there someplace documented just what all those numbers mean? Overall size. I'm thinking that there are no variables that allow me to simply resize an existing background instead of making a new one of a different size? I'm trying to replace a program called iCalendar, which I found really nifty, for Rainlendar as it seems to still have real support and forums. A feature I miss is the ability to click on any day on the calendar to get the events/to do list for that day. It seems that wherever I click I still have the current events/todo. Is that an operator error? Or perhaps can I change something to  trigger it?  Thanks, I'm the world's worse pest.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

What version of Rainlendar are you using? If the new one perhaps this page will help.

http://wiki.rainlendar.info/index.php?title=Main_Page

If you're using the 0.21 version (older version) then when you right/click on the skin there's a documention page that explains all the how to's.

Hope this helps.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thanks, I'm the world's worse pest.
End of quote

It's an absolute...you're the world's worst pest .... JAFOCHECK ...;)

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Not much help there. It told me though that there are XHTML (new style) and INI (old style) skins. Of course I'm cussing at the old skins, I can't even find where it stuck the new ones - but it isn't where the old ones are (in the skins folder)

I've got the fonts half figured out, definitely learned how to size the windows, kinda figured out the buttons (my test them looks like it has measles) BUT I haven't figured out which variable or set of variable set the spacing between the calendar numbers. But I guess that is all for naught as they XHTML is the new and going thing - I haven't begun to figure out that one (and don't see how it can be anywhere related to HTML which I have been messing with since early 1990)

 

On my way though, having fun except for the lack of sleep.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The old Rainlendar skins work in the newer version, so if you make them, use one of the older skins as a template to get you started. Drop the skin into whichever version of Rainlendar you are using, then edit the .ini file to adjust things once you have your graphics in.

Try reading this for version 0.22.1:  http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/Rainlendar/Manual.html

There is a section called editing skins on that that might help you.