Text Editor

(Not available in the Lite version)

On a few places, Wallpaper Cycler will show you the following text editor window.

The buttons in the toolbar are self-explanatory. The F-button will allow you to change the font of the selected text. The last button allows you to add text-commands to your text. The following commands are available:

• Wallpaper Name (%wallpapername%): Will be replaced with the name of the wallpaper.
• Wallpaper Full Name (%wallpaperfullname%): Will be replaced with the full name of the wallpaper. The full name includes the folder name and extension of the file.
• Category Name (%categoryname%): Will be replaced with the name of the category that contains the wallpaper.
• User Name (%username%): Will be replaced with the user name of the user currently logged into Windows.
• Computer Name (%computername%): Will be replaced with the name of your computer.
• IP Address (%ipaddress%): Will be replaced with your current IP Address.
• Quote (%quote:xxxx%): Will be replaced with a random quote from the selected quote file. xxxx is the name of your quote file.
• Quote-author (%quoteauthor:xxxx%): Will be replaced with the author of the random quote above. xxxx is the name of your quote file, which would normally be the same file as for the %quote:xxxx% command above.
• Notes (%notes%): Will be replaced with the notes that you've specified with the notes editor.
• Date (%date:xxxx%): Will be replaced with the current date. xxxx is the format of the date. Learn more about the date format.
• Time (%time:xxxx%): Will be replaced with the current time. xxxx is the format of the time. Learn more about the time format.
• Feeds (%feeditem:x;x;xx% or %feed:x;xx%): Will be replaced with parts of a news feed or feeditem. Learn more about feeds. x and xx are parameters. Learn more about these parameters.

You can use HTML formatting in your text.

Date Format

The date format string can consist of the letters in the following table. If you use spaces to separate the elements in the format string, these spaces will appear in the same location in the resulting date string. The letters must be in uppercase or lowercase as shown in the table (for example, "MM" not "mm"). Characters in the format string that are enclosed in single quotation marks will appear unchanged in the same location in the resulting date string.
 

Time Format

The time format string can consist of the letters in the following table. If you use spaces to separate the elements in the format string, these spaces will appear in the same location in the resulting time. The letters must be in uppercase or lowercase as shown (for example, "ss", not "SS"). Characters in the format string that are enclosed in single quotation marks will appear unchanged in the same location in the resulting time string.
 

Feeds Parameters

The easiest way to use feed commands is to use the last button on the toolbar of the text editor to add the feed commands for you.

There are 2 feed commands:

%feed:x;xx%

This allows you to insert information about a specific feed into the text. It accepts 2 parameters. The first parameter is the index of your feed. This is a number starting at 0 that represents your feed. The second parameter defines what information about the feed is shown and can be one of: Copyright, Description, LastBuildDate, Link, Title or Webmaster.

%feeditem:x;x;xx%

This allows you to insert information about a specific feeditem into the text. It accepts 3 parameters. The first parameter is the index of your feed. This is a number starting at 0 that represents your feed. The second parameter is the index of the newsitem that you want, starting at index 0. 0 means the most recent newsitem for that specific feed. 1 means the second most recent newsitem for that feed, etc. The third parameter defines what information about the feeditem is shown and can be one of: Author, Category, Description, Link, PublicationDate, Subject or Title.

Color Table

Colors can be specified in HTML in two ways—by using a color name, or by using numbers to denote an RGB color value. An RGB color value consists of three two-digit hexadecimal numbers specifying the intensity of the corresponding color.

For example, the color value #FF0000 is rendered red because the red number is set to its highest value, FF (or 255 in decimal form).

The following table lists the color names that you can use besides writing your own using #xxxxxx:

User-Defined System Colors

Windows maintains a set of system colors for painting various parts of the display.

Users can set system colors for future Windows sessions using the Windows Control Panel. The following table illustrates the correspondence of these color names with the colors defined in the Control Panel.