Change the "Letters" pngs coordinates

[Kondorito]

Guys, I don't know if I am rusty and cannot find the option, or it simply cannot be done.
I had a small creative spark yesterday and wanted to try some ideas for a theme, tricking the artworks and special arts. Basic rough sketch:

 

The problem comes with the search by letter function. I want to make the search to show like this:

 

So, I modified the pgs in the Letters folder, each image instead of containing its corresponding letter, contains the whole alphabet, and the letter in question highlighted.
The problem is that the letter  image is placed in the middle of the screen, taking the X axis 0 of the image:

 

Can the letter pngs be moved? I even tried making a transparent 1024x768 canvas and placing the image in a fixed position, but even though it changes its height, it still centers it on the X axis.

Thanks!

 

[Bungles]

I found the same issues with the Favourites arrow, now matter what I did I couldn't change the X Value.

I was trying to move it to the right some more but both the below images would put it in the same position. I guess its locked the right edge.

Great Idea but it might be one of those ones that we cannot change the location of.

[Bungles]

Can I ask is your clock embedded into the special art? I always wanted to know how to achieve this.

[Kondorito]

It is a visual mock-up, until I find the way to create a time/date/weather swf and be able to place it in there. I tried playing with Aeon Nox special art in Flash, and removing the bg, but doing that breaks the widget.

I found a clock swf, but cannot make it visible in the theme, maybe it helps. Attached.
If only I could understand this stuff without having to invest hours and hours (as I feel it is quite easy to do).

 

Digital_date_clock-002.swf

[Bungles]

Bugger.. @dark13 Tell me your secrets!! 

For now I guess I will just keep my Rainmeter addon running. 

 

I guess this is it?

 

[Kondorito]

42 minutes ago, Bungles said:

Bugger.. @dark13 Tell me your secrets!! 

For now I guess I will just keep my Rainmeter addon running. 

I guess this is it?

Could be, but it lacks the clock, which is the most important info for me xD

[Bungles]

I didn't even notice that.. haha. 

Well if you don't end up figuring it out and done mind using a 3rd party program/add on I can help you setup a custom rainmeter clock/skin.

 

[Kondorito]

Can the rainmeter clock stay always on top while in the FE? Customized size, color, font, position? If so, then it sure helps

 

I found this code for doing the swf date/time, but cannot understand where to use it in Flash XD (Im like a monkey with a shotgun).

 

import flash.utils.Timer;

var looper:Timer=new Timer(1000);

var dayOfWeek_array:Array = new Array("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday",
"Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"); 


var time:Date;
//use uint type instead of number for these vars.because they won't contain decimals!

var month:uint;
var day:uint;
var year:uint; 


var hour:String;
var minute:String;     
var day_str:String;

var hour12:uint;
var AM_PM:Object;




looper.start();
looper.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, looptime)

//execute the function when starting app
looptime(null);

function looptime(event:TimerEvent):void{
    time=new Date();

    month=time.getMonth();
    day=  time.getDate()+1;
    year= time.getFullYear();

    hour12=time.getHours()>11?time.getHours()-12:time.getHours();
    AM_PM=String(time.getHours()>11?"PM":"AM");
    time.getMonth();

    hour= hour12>9?String(hour12):"0"+String(hour12);
    minute=time.getMinutes()>9?String(time.getMinutes()):"0"+String(time.getMinutes());
    day_str=dayOfWeek_array[time.getDay()]


    Day_txt.text = day_str;
    Date_txt.text = month + "-" + day + "-" + year;

    Time_txt.text = hour + ":" + minute+AM_PM;
}

[Bungles]

33 minutes ago, Kondorito said:

Can the rainmeter clock stay always on top while in the FE? Customized size, color, font, position? If so, then it sure helps

Sure can, all the elements of it are able to be changed and moved to preferred locations.

 

 

 

[Kondorito]

Found a channel in Youtube from a HS user @FernandoCaldas, that has some themes with the special art A with embedded date and time:

 

Asked him over one of his videos how he managed to make it, or if he could point me in the right direction. We'll see. Share your magic/knowledge @FernandoCaldas

 

[Bungles]

I am looking into this tutorial to see If I can mimic the "Data-scrapper" Dark13 has in his Aeon Nox Theme. It also might shed some light on how to add time/date fields etc also.

http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/loadvars_bc/

Its all new to me, but I will be victorious.. they cannot stop me!!