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PostPosted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:09 pm 

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I found weather icons I liked. Numbered them accordingly. Placed them in a zip file then opened it. Put them in the icon folder. The set comes up for me to choose. But when I do, all I get is a box with an x in it. No icon pictures. When I preview the icons in my set the pictures show. Can anyone help me so I will be able to use my set of icons I am using ? Thank you in advance.


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PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:48 pm 
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Please post a link to your ZIP file and I'll check it out.


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PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:51 pm 

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I don't really know how to post a link to the file. Can you please give me instructions on how to do that? Thanks


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PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:10 am 
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What format are the images; png, jpg, bmp?

To link to a zip file you must first upload it to a hosting server. There are many free ones, I use RapidShare myself: http://rapidshare.com/ Once uploaded it will give you the URL/link to post.


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PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:48 pm 

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The files show them as GIF. Here is the link you requested. http://rapidshare.com/files/247419216/E ... a.zip.html . I see your icons are also GIF, so I'm hoping that will not need to be changed. I found these icons here listed under helpful links. Thanks, Michelle


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PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:48 pm 
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Chubbywuz wrote:
I found these icons here listed under helpful links.

"here" ??

Now for your icon problem look at the icons in the WW Skins\Icons folders. Look at them using a Windows Explorer View of List. Look at a couple sets of them. Now using the same View look at your's. See any differences? ;-)

Nice icons BTW.

PS These threads might interest you:

viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1632

viewtopic.php?f=23&t=553


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PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:49 pm 
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Chubbywuz, you need to remove "ec " from the beginning of your icon files. BTW, you're missing the following icons:

-.gif
48.gif
NA.gif


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PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:02 pm 
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:eek: Maybe you need to review the threads and instructions I posted for Chubbywuz also Mike. :lol:

BTW Chubbywuz this CMD script when located in the icon folder should take care of the renames for you.

Code:
@echo off
for /F  "delims=> tokens=1" %%i in ('dir *.gif /b') do (
   call :REN %%i)
exit

:REN
set GIF="%1 %2"
set nuGIF=%2
ren %GIF% %nuGIF%


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:58 am 
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So where is the revised icon set Chubbywuz? We'd like to see(use) them. :icon_smile:


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 11:41 am 

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Well I thought I'd try making a set of icons, but apparently I'm not knowledgable enough to do it. I do not know how to put the CMS script into the folder. I don't even know what that is. Thanks for all your help, but I think I'll quit trying, whatever I do does not seem to work. I'm new at trying to create things for the computer.Maybe in a few days I'll try again.


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 1:32 pm 
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Don't give up!! It's not that hard. And you have all of us here to help you so you're not alone.

As for the script:

Open Notepad.
Then highlight the script posted above and click on Copy.
Back to Notepad click on Edit and Paste.
Then click on Save and choose the icon folder with your icons for the save location, giving the file a name that ends in .cmd. Like Fixit.cmd or My1stscript.cmd, or goofy.cmd.
Once saved open your icon folder and dbl click the .cmd file.

You could manually rename each of the files but what fun would that be.

With the files renamed you will be 66% finished with your icons. Read the threads I pointed to before for further guidance and if you get lost come back and ask for more direction.

Creating icons can be tedious but very rewarding when you're done.

Ok?


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PostPosted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:06 am 
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Hey!! What happened to the new icon set? We've been looking forward to it for over a week. :icon_smile:

You've done the hardest part, you collected the icons, you just need to tweak their organization a bit.


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PostPosted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:39 am 

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Had a really bad week. Mother in law in hospital, found out she has cancer. Hopefully I'll be able to spend some time this week & work on them. Maybe with all the help from you guys, I'll get the set to work.


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PostPosted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:46 pm 
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Oh Michelle, I'm sorry. I didn't know. Take you time with the icons.

And I will say a prayer for your mother-in-law.


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PostPosted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:32 pm 

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Well things at home have calmed down. So thought I would try fixing icons again. For some reason the icons in my folder were all screwed up. Went in & re-ordered them again, GUESS WHAT, THEY WORK!!!!!!! Next thing, how do I do it so that others can use the set? As I had said before, I followed a link in the forum(www.jdawiseman.com) &then was redirected to www.nordicweather.net. Found about 5 pages of different weathr icon sets. This one is Environment Canada on pg. 3. So please let me know how to make them available here for others to use. Once I get them up, I hope you like them. Please let me know what you think of them!


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