Add a pic in description box.

[lionhrt]

I Tried:

desc[pn]=['<img src="./graphics/adware.jpg" width="250" height="150">
     Ad-Aware is designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components. With the release of Ad-Aware SE Personal edition, Lavasoft takes the fight against Spyware to the next level..']

I tried <li> but did not look right

Just add as many   for the amount of spaces required 5-10 i would say

Edited June 29, 2005 by lionhrt

[almulder]

Thank you, this is just what I wanted, the look for a proper paragraph. You know how you indent the beginning of each one. I think it looks more professional this way. (when it is more that a few words) and it makes it easy to add bullets and align them correct.

Thanks again.

[lionhrt]

Also tried this but tends to run off the screen depending on where the scrollbar postion is and the anount of bullets/text.

but take a look anyways see what i mean.

desc[pn]=['<img src="./graphics/adware.jpg" width="250" height="150">
<li>Ad-Aware is designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware,
<li>Ad-Aware is designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware,
<li>Ad-Aware is designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware']

Wow! OK, so WinCustomize has tons of 128x128 .png files for use with the ObjectDock. Most are transparent backgrounds, so a little Photoshop work to resize and add a white background produces this:

Personally i like this idea myself.

Edited June 29, 2005 by lionhrt

[Lost Soul]

Also tried this but tends to run off the screen depending on where the scrollbar postion is and the anount of bullets/text.

but take a look anyways see what i mean.

desc[pn]=['<img src="./graphics/adware.jpg" width="250" height="150">
<li>Ad-Aware is designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware,
<li>Ad-Aware is designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware,
<li>Ad-Aware is designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware']

Wow! OK, so WinCustomize has tons of 128x128 .png files for use with the ObjectDock. Most are transparent backgrounds, so a little Photoshop work to resize and add a white background produces this:

Personally i like this idea myself.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

yea im gonna go with the transparent icons myself its alot smoother then using snap shots of the progs

[blinkdt]

The extra graphics really sweeten things up. I think it's going to be a lot easier convincing someone to install Azureus if they find the blue frog than to simply describe the program as a BitTorrent client ("oh, sounds geeky, think I'll pass").

Couldn't find icons for a few programs, notably Belarc Advisor and Acronis True Image, but substitutions are better than nothing.

@Lost Soul Don't know how it's working on your end, but the .png transparencies produced a grayish background in contrast to the rest of the white tooltip background. Maybe it would work well as a transparent .gif? I stuck with the .png format and used Photoshop to add an underlying layer, colored it white, saved it as .png and all is well.

[Lost Soul]

The extra graphics really sweeten things up. I think it's going to be a lot easier convincing someone to install Azureus if they find the blue frog than to simply describe the program as a BitTorrent client ("oh, sounds geeky, think I'll pass").

Couldn't find icons for a few programs, notably Belarc Advisor and Acronis True Image,    but substitutions are better than nothing.

@Lost Soul Don't know how it's working on your end, but the .png transparencies produced a grayish background in contrast to the rest of the white tooltip background. Maybe it would work well as a transparent .gif? I stuck with the .png format and used Photoshop to add an underlying layer, colored it white, saved it as .png and all is well.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

its not working to bad for me,,, ive noticed a few of them have the greyish background as you talked about and to fix that on most of the ones ive seen so far ,, all i did was open that image up in paint program and fill the back ground color in with white to make it match,, most of the time this will work as a fix,

[glent]

Wow nice work guys ,Wpi looks awesome now!!

[enuffsaid]

Great thread! Fantastic input from everybody here. Thanks for these fine additions. I've just started using WPI, and I just might use these additions myself.

Good work, guys!

[lionhrt]

@blinkdt:

Since you mentioned using pgn files for the descript box. I not having the luxury of using wincustomine for the games i have since they would not be present.

Is there a way to say use an icon imaging package that will extract the icon file and resize it to 128x128 pixels just still keep the clarity of the icon image. If so you know a good one that will produce png files from icons?

Thanks in advance lionhrt

UPDATE

w00t I'm a Junior

Edited July 1, 2005 by lionhrt

[Lost Soul]

@blinkdt:

Since you mentioned using pgn files for the descript box.  I not having the luxury of using wincustomine for the games i have since they would not be present.

Is there a way to say use an icon imaging package that will extract the icon file and resize it to 128x128 pixels just still keep the clarity of the icon image.  If so you know a good one that will produce png files from icons?

Thanks in advance lionhrt

UPDATE

w00t I'm a Junior

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

you could use a icon extractor like this

http://www.gregorybraun.com/IconEx.html

then you could convert the file to a jpg or png or even gif or any file type and resize it at the same time with this

http://www.reasoft.com/products/reaconverter/

both programs can be used for a trial period

hope this helps you out m8

[lionhrt]

Thanks LS for the advice I will give them both a try.

LH

[blinkdt]

Those both look great, Lost Soul. For converting between .ico and .png file formats you can also try AveIconifier2, just drag and drop and all done, very intuitive.

Don't know how well this will work in preserving image clarity, lionhrt, especially if the icons are 16x16 or even 40x40 and you are trying to take them up to 128x128. I can almost guess.

Another option: many proggies have a setup.bmp file in the CD root (or the application data directory after setup is started), those might work well--and be consistent--for you. In fact, you will probably want to reduce them in size.

Edited for typos.

Edited July 1, 2005 by blinkdt

[Kelsenellenelvian]

HOLY SHIIIIT!!!!

This problem has bee buggin me for awhile as a lot of peeps had asked for it.

I am glad It really was a feature WPI could already do!

Thank you guys.

[batman75]

Awesome information!

I was thinking about this the other day