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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2026 2:35 am 
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ZODIAC Theme final update in gallery.
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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2026 5:37 pm 
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I am REALLY glad I am doing battery maintenance. One theme which I attempted to do the whole enchilada a while back for information, had the battery falling a little short. It also tells me now I have balanced the info out more, that my Laptop battery is not in good condition which I otherwise might have missed until too late.

The theme 'Pastel' will be another that I will update when done...back to maintenance.

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2026 7:51 pm 
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An interesting topic, Pastel! We’re looking forward to seeing your work in the gallery! Thank you very much for your effort!


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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2026 4:22 am 
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Apologies to any devout Winstep Email module users.
For whatever reason(s), I still cannot get any of my three emails, Proton, Gmail or Yahoo to allow validation. to test thoroughly. It could well be me, but if any text is off-center from where I intended, I truly have no way of knowing. This is why lately, I do not include any numerical or size displays in email modules and only an image that changes. If by some miracle I get it working at some point, I will adjust themes that have data displayed. It is also possibly my Cisco 1010 between me and the Broadband where unfortunately, I definitely will not be changing any ACL's. for I.T technophobe's, yes, the POP/IMAP & SMTP ports for mail on each are open.

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Thu Aug 20, 2026 4:08 am 
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UPDATES IN GALLERY AS FOLLOWS:

Mainly QoL stuff and under the hood and some graphic improvements. I found mainly three that needed it surprisingly. If anyone thinks there is more sing out.

Foundation - (Around page 22)
Pastel - I strangely did not seem to upload it a year ago so it's at the front.
Water - Battery update and Health addition.

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Thu Aug 20, 2026 6:23 pm 
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The Zodiac theme is great! Zodiac signs are changing on your desktop! Thanks a lot to BassdudeNZ! I wish there were more such topics!


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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Thu Aug 20, 2026 6:31 pm 
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ppetroff60 wrote:
The Zodiac theme is great! Zodiac signs are changing on your desktop! Thanks a lot to BassdudeNZ! I wish there were more such topics!


You are most welcome :)

It was one of those "I wonder if this will work?" - things - and it did.
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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Thu Aug 20, 2026 6:34 pm 
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There will be a last update to the Foundation theme I recently updated.

For some reason, the disks displayed differently depending on whether laptop, desktop or widescreen or with a different GPU and scaling.

So I completely redid the vertical and found the redone version seems to have a solid degree of consistency.


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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Thu Aug 20, 2026 7:10 pm 
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BassdudeNZ wrote:
For some reason, the disks displayed differently depending on whether laptop, desktop or widescreen or with a different GPU and scaling.


Scaling should not affect the proportion of the bitmaps. Next time please send me a screenshot so I can try to figure out what might be wrong.

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2026 3:08 am 
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winstep wrote:

Scaling should not affect the proportion of the bitmaps. Next time please send me a screenshot so I can try to figure out what might be wrong.


It does if the skinner gets the padding and tiling completely wrong, which is the 'for some reason'. :)

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2026 4:30 pm 
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FOUNDATION FIXED

I came to realize that nobody who downloaded the last update and there were a few, said anything about the Horizontal disks being completely messed up.
Honestly, I did not notice it either because I had it on Vertical.

The Horizontal does not look like this on the last download, but it does now on the one I just re-uploaded.

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@Jorge - for whatever reason when I update on another machine via Preferences and I say 'Yes to all" when it asks to overwrite, it still does not. Is this a bug? It does not give any error messages, it just does not overwrite even though it asks to, and seems to??? The only way I am having success is to open the directory, copying the files and manually overwriting.

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2026 5:36 pm 
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BassdudeNZ wrote:
@Jorge - for whatever reason when I update on another machine via Preferences and I say 'Yes to all" when it asks to overwrite, it still does not. Is this a bug? It does not give any error messages, it just does not overwrite even though it asks to, and seems to??? The only way I am having success is to open the directory, copying the files and manually overwriting.


Could be a bug... I'll have to test it here.

Step by step so we are on the same page, how exactly are you updating the theme via Preferences?

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
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winstep wrote:

Step by step so we are on the same page, how exactly are you updating the theme via Preferences?


A picture tells the story best - here is the entire process :) - The result is no different double-clicking the Xtreme file.

(I deleted what I put here... I must have changed something that makes my life easier and I thought perhaps you may have done it with the menus...all me... When I work out what I did, I'll be content.)


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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
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I deleted this post.

I found one that changes my workflow - so it must have been something I have done in the config files. When I work out what it is I did, I will upload other themes requested. It may be a while.

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 Post subject: Re: Theme approach
PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2026 1:57 am 
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ZODIAC theme - minor overlap fixing.

When I created the images for the Zodiac theme they appeared aligned. I noticed a slight discrepancy where today's change has part of the leg of its predecessor overlapping into the white space. I have since fixed it.

However, I won't update the theme just yet until the moon does its full cycle back to Leo so I can be 100% sure no others do the same. I could not really anticipate this, even though the images are nearly 400% of their normal size.
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