The Shape Of Things
Saturday, August 25, 2007 by Tarney | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Discovering WinCustomize, and the imaginative creativity and kindness put forth by its Members and Skinners has continued to make my computing experience fun and enjoyable. Thank you all.
I do have some technical questions which I post here, not really knowing if this is the appropriate location.
1. After downloading certain Rainlendar Skins, I see the Days of the Week on the Calendar are too close together; they overlap. This occurs only occasionally when the Days are abbreviated with 3 letters i.e. Sun, Mon, Tue etc., and therefore makes the skin unusable or undesirable.
I've just started using Sysmetrix recently, and I see the same problem on some of those skins as well; some of the words or phrases overlap or are not quite lined up correctly.
Is there something (simple?) I can do to resolve this problem, or is the problem a result of how the Skin was built?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
2. This may not be a WinCustomize issue. It could possibly be a rookie-user issue! After each successful download, a warning message "Unexpected parameter 'C:\Docume" (etc.) appears from Rainlendar2. This message pops up with any completed download, not just a Rainlendar download. When I click "OK" another warning message pops up, containing a top-to-bottom list of command letters followed by a brief description of what that letter command does.
I'm lost on this one! Did I perhaps make a wrong choice in my initial setup of Rainlendar, and as a result this message appears? Does anyone know of a solution, short of deleting and reinstalling?
Thanks for taking the time to review these issues.
I do have some technical questions which I post here, not really knowing if this is the appropriate location.
1. After downloading certain Rainlendar Skins, I see the Days of the Week on the Calendar are too close together; they overlap. This occurs only occasionally when the Days are abbreviated with 3 letters i.e. Sun, Mon, Tue etc., and therefore makes the skin unusable or undesirable.
I've just started using Sysmetrix recently, and I see the same problem on some of those skins as well; some of the words or phrases overlap or are not quite lined up correctly.
Is there something (simple?) I can do to resolve this problem, or is the problem a result of how the Skin was built?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
2. This may not be a WinCustomize issue. It could possibly be a rookie-user issue! After each successful download, a warning message "Unexpected parameter 'C:\Docume" (etc.) appears from Rainlendar2. This message pops up with any completed download, not just a Rainlendar download. When I click "OK" another warning message pops up, containing a top-to-bottom list of command letters followed by a brief description of what that letter command does.
I'm lost on this one! Did I perhaps make a wrong choice in my initial setup of Rainlendar, and as a result this message appears? Does anyone know of a solution, short of deleting and reinstalling?
Thanks for taking the time to review these issues.
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Reply #1 Saturday, August 25, 2007 8:53 PM
Hi, Tarney ....my guess is that you're having a font problem - the overlapping text. Skins will often have a font file included, intended to be used with that particular skin. If that font isn't installed/found in the system a default is used....with results as you see.
Any skin file format can be downloaded by right-click save-as and rewrite the extension to 'zip' so the file can be opened and viewed - always a handy idea if/when things are not working right.
If you then see a font file [ttf] double click it to instal...then try the skin again....see if there's an improvement...