Layout Editor: Calendar Notes Object

(Not available in the Lite version)

This window allows you to customize your calendar notes object on your layout. To add/modify the actual notes on your calendar notes object, use the calendar notes editor.

The dropdown list and listbox on the left of the window allow you to manipulate all settings of the calendar notes object. The right of the window displays a preview. To update this preview, click on the "Update Preview" button or enable the "Auto update preview" option.

The "Reset" button at the bottom-left will reset all the settings of the calendar notes object to the default values. Use the "Export" button to export your current calendar notes settings to a file, so that you can later import that again by using the "Import" button. Fonts that are not installed on your system but are used in an imported calendar will be replaced by another font on your system.

Note: When you export your template you can put a .JPG file in the same folder with the same name as your template. Wallpaper Cycler will use that JPG file as a preview of your template. For examples, see the "CalendarNotes Templates" folder in your Wallpaper Cycler installation folder.

The dropdown list at the top-right of the window displays all parts of a calendar notes object. The table below shows all the available parts. Note: when you click on a setting in the settings-tree on the left of the window, a little description of that setting is shown at the lower-left of the window.

General

Changes some general settings of the calendar notes object. Most of these settings are self explanatory. The more difficult are explained below:

Date Format: Allows you to specify a formatting for the date on the calendar notes object. The format consists of one or more codes which are preceded by a percent sign (%). Characters that do not begin with % are used unchanged. The following codes can be used:

%a	Abbreviated weekday name.
%A	Full weekday name.
%b	Abbreviated month name.
%B	Full month name.
%d	Day of month as decimal number (01 – 31).
%j	Day of year as decimal number (001 – 366).
%m	Month as decimal number (01 – 12).
%U	Week of year as decimal number, with Sunday as first day of week (00 – 53).
%w	Weekday as decimal number (0 – 6; Sunday is 0).
%W	Week of year as decimal number, with Monday as first day of week (00 – 53).
%x	Date representation for current locale.
%y	Year without century, as decimal number (00 – 99).
%Y	Year with century, as decimal number.
%%	Percent sign.

The # flag may prefix any formatting code. In that case, the meaning of the format code is changed as follows.

Format code	Meaning
%#a, %#A, %#b, %#B, %#%	# flag is ignored.
%#x	Long date representation, appropriate to current locale. For example: "Tuesday, March 14, 1995".
%#d, %#j, %#m, %#U, %#w, %#W, %#y, %#Y	Remove leading zeros (if any).

Preview

The preview section allows you to change some settings of how the preview at the right of the window is rendered. You can specify if you want a checker pattern or not and you can customize the checker pattern.

Header Cell

Changes the look of the header cells. (See font note)

Header Cell Current Day

Changes the look of the header cell of the current day. (See font note)
This is an overriding of the Header Cell settings. If you don't want to override a setting leave it set to don't override or -1 or 999 (see the little description at the bottom of the properties list).

Header Cell Day With Note

Changes the look of the header cell of days with a note. (See font note)
This is an overriding of the Header Cell settings. If you don't want to override a setting leave it set to don't override or -1 or 999 (see the little description at the bottom of the properties list).

Header Cell Weekend Day

Changes the look of the header cell of the weekend days. (See font note)
This is an overriding of the Header Cell settings. If you don't want to override a setting leave it set to don't override or -1 or 999 (see the little description at the bottom of the properties list).

Header Cell Weekend Day With Note

Changes the look of the header cells of the weekend days with a note. (See font note)
This is an overriding of the Header Cell settings. If you don't want to override a setting leave it set to don't override or -1 or 999 (see the little description at the bottom of the properties list).

Note Cell

Changes the look of the note cells. (See font note)

Note Cell Current Day

Changes the look of the note cell of the current day. (See font note)
This is an overriding of the Note Cell settings. If you don't want to override a setting leave it set to don't override or -1 or 999 (see the little description at the bottom of the properties list).

Note Cell Weekend Day

Changes the look of the note cell of the weekend days. (See font note)
This is an overriding of the Note Cell settings. If you don't want to override a setting leave it set to don't override or -1 or 999 (see the little description at the bottom of the properties list).

¹ Font Note: When you select the Font setting, a button will appear and when you click that button a new window will allow you to configure the font. This window does also contain a Color setting, but you can't use that to change the color of the text. If you want to change the color of the text you have to use the option Text Color in the settings tree.