How to install custom Panel Art in My Money

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Custom Panel Art, also called "Ribbons" for historical reasons, are the images displayed on main panels throughout the application, for example:

Image:ribbon.jpg

Customizing Ribbons is very easy. First off, you will need to create a folder in a predefined location that will be picked up on a system start-up. This predefined location is install-dir\system\skins\ribbons

where install-dir is the root of your program installation directory

For example, if a name of your new pack is My Pack, you will then create a folder

C:\Program Files\My Money\system\skins\ribbons\my pack assuming default installation directory.

Next, please create 4 graphics files that you would like to place on the panels. File should be in the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format. File names should be 0.png, 1.png, 2.png and 3.png Try to keep file sizes reasonable, less than 500k, larger files take up memory and more time for initial loading.

The name convention is hardwired and 0.png will be placed to the first panel, 1.png to the next etc.

To finish the pack, please create a property file named ribbon.properties

and place it into new folder

Here is a typical ribbon.properties

############################################
# My Money Configuration File
# 
# Ribbon (Panel Art) Configuration
# 
# Format: 
# id=xxx, where xxx is a numeric id
# name=yyy, where yyy is name to be displayed in dialogs
#
# Important:
#
# 1)
# The folder should contain 4 PNG files, named 0.png, 1.png, 2.png and 3.png
#
# 0.png will be placed into Ledger/Register panel
# 1.png will be placed into Account Manager panel
# 2.png will be placed into List manager
# 3.png will be placed into Reports manager panel
#
# In addition, folder should contain ribbon.properties with configuration info
#
# 2)
# File name case is important on MacOS and Unixes, please make sure file names are lowercased
#
#

id=21
name=Western Germany

## END OF FILE


The only important pieces in this file are id and name tags, everything else is a comment.

Once you have your new pack setup please restart My Money and your changes should become available through the Options/Themes dialog.

We provide a sample pack "West Germany" for illustration purposes, you may use it as an example to get you started. Please note that the images contained in the sample pack are copyrighted, they are to be used only for personal/non-commercial purposes.

If you feel like sharing your Ribbon art with others you can upload it into a user contribution area on file forums.

Please note that

  1. you need to own the copyright to your images and
  2. we reserve the right to reject the submission; we will not accept pornographic or erotic art for example. Images that deemed to be of a low quality or of a low interest to other users are also going to be rejected
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