Rainlendar Help
Using bmp instead of fonts for months...
Sunday, May 28, 2006 by RPGFX | Discussion: OS Customization
Hi all... just looking for a bit of help. If I want to use bmp as my rasterizer instead of font for the month or year or whatever, how do I go about doing so? Any help would be appreciated. This would open a whole new world of ideas for me creating rainy skins...
Thanks!
Thanks!
RPGFX
Reply #2 Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:09 PM
Reply #2 Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:09 PM
That's exactly what I was wondering. I didn't know how they needed to be arranged. So vertically is the answer according to your images. And the 0-9 will properly cover all the dates? Or do I need to do 0-31. And is there any way to do the year with this method?
werewolf
Reply #3 Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:46 PM
Reply #3 Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:46 PM
0-9 will cover all date and years too, although you could make different kinds of images for each. I just looked into some of the other skins I have and there are a few which have the weekdays horizontal instead of vertical. There is an excellent help file at his site...here are 2 entries of interest:
DaysBitmapName
Filename of the days bitmap. The bitmap must contain either numbers from 0 to 9 or from 0 to 31. All the numbers must be same size.
DaysNumOfComponents
Number of components in the bitmap. If the bitmap has numbers from 0 to 9, set this to 10. For numbers from 0 to 31 use value 32. Note that with 32 numbers the 0 is never used, so it may hold anything.
The tutorial is here: http://vapaa.dc.inet.fi/~rainy/Rainlendar/Manual.html
DaysBitmapName
Filename of the days bitmap. The bitmap must contain either numbers from 0 to 9 or from 0 to 31. All the numbers must be same size.
DaysNumOfComponents
Number of components in the bitmap. If the bitmap has numbers from 0 to 9, set this to 10. For numbers from 0 to 31 use value 32. Note that with 32 numbers the 0 is never used, so it may hold anything.
The tutorial is here: http://vapaa.dc.inet.fi/~rainy/Rainlendar/Manual.html
RPGFX
Reply #4 Sunday, May 28, 2006 10:17 PM
Reply #4 Sunday, May 28, 2006 10:17 PM
Thanks so much Werewolf...you have been very helpful. I've never been a big fan of the way fonts appear on rainlendar... I've been wanting to use all images but never knew how. This info you supplied is wonderful. Thanks again! 
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Reply #1 Sunday, May 28, 2006 7:37 PM
Sorry that the weekdays are so small, but if you copy the images into your graphics editor you can see what they are.
I hope that is what you were asking about