Skin

Skin

When reminder popup to remind you something you set in WinPIM, you can notice that the reminder is not a regular window, it's a window with 'skin'.

Change Skin

When reminder window pops up, right click the non-text area,  move to Skin. Then select your favorite skin.

Customize Skin

It's easy to make your own skin or modify the skin.

In WinPIM program folder (default is C:\Program Files\WinPIM), you can find a 'Skins' sub-folder. And in Skins folder, you can find some .ini files and some picture files. You can customize the .ini file to customize the skin. A sample (Default.ini):

[Setup]

WinPIMSkinVersion=1.0

// The Picture file of the skin, it can be BMP, Gif or JPG format. The default folder is the Reminder folder.

Picture=skin_default.gif

// RGB Color, the Red, Green and Blue color value should be 0 to 255

// Transparent Color

PicTransColor=255,0,255

// Text Color

TextForeColor=129,129,129

// Text Background Color

TextBackColor=255,255,255

LinkColor=

// Text Range: Left,Top,Width,Height

TextRect=140,116,220,187

FontName=

FontSize=

// The translucent value should be 0 to 255

Translucent=255

// Play this sound when skin pops up

Sound=

// Message Header, show in the beginning of the message. Default is: Today is [$date], it is [$time]. I have [$event] thing(s) to remind you:

MessageHeader=

// Message Header, show in the end of the message. Default is: Remember? Right click me to let me remind you later.

MessageFooter=

// You can user some key words in MessageHeader and MessageFooter:

// [$name]: User Name

// [$date]: Date

// [$week]: Week day

// [$time]: Time

// [$event]: Events Count

// Define the number of Events Count area

[Count]

FontName=

Rect=357,45,377,65

Color=255,0,0

Tip!

You can download some skins at our web site and you can also email us your skin to share with others.