dashboarders please help

just cured my quirk. the 5 backgrounds are jpeg files. i read them into an art program and stored them back out as jpeg files, overwriting the old files. put the skin back on the ipaq, and it now works perfectly. something in the way the files were initially jpegged caused the images to take a long time to resolve every time that the background had to be changed. now nearly instantaeous. Oh well, one of life's mysteries.

my 5 new jpeg backgrounds shrunk from 23k to 11k apiece when i read them in and stored them back out. the originals must have been very dense images. and a bit too much processing for my older, slower ipaq CPU.

Hey Bangkokboy... sorry I was on vacation since Monday... I used a fairly low compression on the jpeg's so that the images were not too distorted by the compression... as you know the original images were Bmp's... I do explain in the readme file that there is a delay when switching between modules... I felt the delay was worth the great looking images by Treetog.

Static - thanks much. i missed that point in the readme. i'm looking at my more compressed jpegs and yours, and they look equivalent, but my ipaq isn't hi res color. that skin really turned out superb, with treetog's magnif graphics, and your DB adaptation tweaks. i think you're right about the delay, and i'll probably use your jpegs now that i know that nothing is wrong.
Tell us again how to make magic S - i thought i remembered, but couldn't get it to work! gracias

hold down the atl key and on your numeric keypad type 789... you can play with the alt key and 2 or 3 digit combos to get all kinds of characters some normal some are not...

§tatic

There is a tool in windows called Charmap or CharacterMap or something like that. It will show you all the alt key sequences for any font you have installed. It's pretty cool.

thanks all!