Nice work PiNkY - just shows you're not always a slacker

Sek,

Yes, a compulsive rebel but only on the even days of the month. On the odd days I am a rebellious compulsive, yin and yan you know.

Mousie,

The email error seems to be fixed. Now about the Custom Text boxes, they don't seem to behave the way I think they ought to. Either
1. I don't understand how they're supposed to work or I'm doing something wrong(entirely possible)
2. There's a bug
3. You're still in the process of coding that part, it's not complete yet

I want to create a Custom Text with height 60 and 2 text boxes. It allows me to input all the parameters but doesn't save the 2nd text box when I click Continue.

OK, it saves the 2nd text box and all the parameters are displayed when you re-edit the Custom Text so that much seemd fixed. Unfortunately now another bug is revealed, it doesn't display any text. Well, at least it doesn't in the banner I am trying to build.

I have 2 banners built, #19 which is the upper banner in this post and #104 which is the lower. #19 was built before you fixed the "didn't save 2nd text box" bug. #104 was built after the fix. #19 has a Custom Text with height= 60 and 1 text box placed at Y= 55. It displays that correctly, plus a 2nd Custom Text of height= 40 plus several project stats of height= 20.

In #104 I have several projects selected with height= 20 and light blue background plus a Custom Text with darker blue background, height= 60 and 2 text boxes placed at Y=35 and Y=55. On the Finish page that Custom Text displays properly on the lower half of the page where all the frames for the final ani-gif are displayed but the ani-gif displays as you see below. In think it should be 60 high with 2 lines of text at the bottom on darker blue background and 1 line above that showing the projects. Or am I confused about how it's supposed to display when all the frames are spliced to create the ani-gif?

The trouble that both of you ended up with is basically due to different size images being used in the final animation.


retsof - If you would like to add custom text, you need to change the dimensions of the custom text box. By default, it uses the dimensions of the "Original Teal/White" layouts. When the dimensions of the various images are different, the final image is somewhat unpredictable.


Dagorath - As I mentioned to retsof, the final images are somewhat unpredictable when using images of different sizes. I haven't sat down to figure out what sort of order it puts them in, or what determines the final size of the image. I do know it seems to pick one of the various images sizes, and use that size for the entire image. In your 2 cases, one time it picked the largest one, the other time it picked the smallest one. I'll have to research a bit more eventually...

Aha! I think I have found the culprit. I am in the process of building another banner and I have discovered that adding Climate Prediction causes the problem I've been seeing with the 3 line (height=60) Custom Texts. Delete Climate Prediction and it works perfect. Add Climate Prediction back in and it breaks. Delete it and it works again. Try it, I think you'll agree.

Also, I've found that it doesn't matter what order you add the Custom Text and the projects, contrary to Retsof's theory (if I read him correctly). It seems to be Climate Prediction and there may be others, I haven't tested all yet.

I've put my latest creation in my sig, see that the sequence begins with a box 60 high with 2 text boxes, then you see a box 40 high with just 1 text box then the projects kick in at the top. But if I add Climate Prediction it will break, tested and verified as I said above.