dashboarders please help
Thursday, January 2, 2003 by Bangkokboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
i put the new DB skin "Pixtudio" on my ipaq. Looks great, but has an operational quirk: when a data display mode icon is tapped, there's a noticeable 2 second delay before the data on the screen changes. Looked all thru the .dsh file, even commented out the "TodayFile =" line, but still am totally baffled by this one. ( All my other skins respond nearly instantly to Toolbar 1 icon taps). Thanks for any advice. 
Bangkokboy
Reply #2 Thursday, January 2, 2003 3:29 PM
Reply #2 Thursday, January 2, 2003 3:29 PM
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.
citats
Reply #3 Thursday, January 2, 2003 8:25 PM
Reply #3 Thursday, January 2, 2003 8:25 PM
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. 
Bangkokboy
Reply #4 Thursday, January 2, 2003 11:39 PM
Reply #4 Thursday, January 2, 2003 11:39 PM
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
Tell us again how to make magic S - i thought i remembered, but couldn't get it to work! gracias
citats
Reply #5 Thursday, January 2, 2003 11:47 PM 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
Reply #5 Thursday, January 2, 2003 11:47 PM
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
werewolf
Reply #6 Friday, January 3, 2003 10:34 AM
Reply #6 Friday, January 3, 2003 10:34 AM
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.
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Reply #1 Thursday, January 2, 2003 3:23 PM