Overview
The Appearance Toolbar allows the display of calendars, events,
categories, priority types, and locations to be customized. The fill color, gradient pattern, and font may be modified to visually
distinguish between these elements.
Why upgrade to Pro?
The Pro version allows individual events to have their own
customized appearances, overriding any calendar, category,
priority, or location colors. These customized event
appearances can be adjusted via the Appearance Toolbar.
- The effect of changing an appearance from the Appearance
Toolbar will depend on the "Color Events Using" selection on the
View menu. For example, when coloring events based on category,
selecting new colors from the Appearance Toolbar will update the
selected category appearance.
- The Calendar Properties window can also be used to change
the calendar appearance.
- The Event
Category Editor, Priority
Editor, and Location
Editor windows, accessed from the
Tools menu, can be used to
change appearances of the respective item types.
- To change the appearance of a calendar or event, first select
it. Calendars can be selected by clicking the calendar
name in the Calendar List.
Events can be selected by clicking on them in the
Calendar View. Categories, priorities,
and locations can be selected from the respective tabs in the
Calendar Items area of the main
window. After a
selection has been made, the associated appearance can be modified by
adjusting the controls on the Appearance Toolbar. These
controls are described in more detail below.
Default Appearance Toolbar Settings
Each time a new calendar is created, a random pre-generated default
appearance is applied to it. For example, the first calendar
could have
the following appearance toolbar settings:
An event created using these appearance settings will look
like the example below:
There are over 50 pre-generated default appearances.
These are randomly selected when a new calendar is created. The
example below shows a few of the default appearances.
Appearance Toolbar Controls
An appearance can be modified
using the
following 9 controls on the Appearance Toolbar:
1. Font Name
- The font can be selected from a drop down list of all fonts that are installed on the system.
- The currently selected font will be at the top of the list.
2. Font Size
- The font size can be selected from a drop-down list.
- The available sizes range from 6 (very small) to 20
(very large).
3. Font Color
- The font color can be selected from a drop down list of
colors.
- If a custom color is desired, the "More Colors..."
option can be selected from the list. This will cause a
standard color dialog to be displayed where a custom color
can be defined.
4. Font Style - Bold
- The font bold style can be toggled by
clicking the bold (B) button.
5. Font Style - Italic
- The font italic style can be toggled by
clicking the italic (I) button.
6. Font Style - Underline
- The font underline style can
be toggled by clicking the underline (U)
button.
7. Background Color 1
- The primary background color can be specified using the
Background Color 1 drop-down.
- This color will be used in conjunction with the
secondary background color and background gradient style to fill the event
blocks that are shown in the
Calendar View and
Desktop Calendar.
8. Background Color 2
- The secondary background color can be specified using the
Background Color 2 drop-down.
9. Background Gradient Style
- A gradient style can be specified from the drop-down
gradient control.
- The control shows the currently selected background
colors, as well as the font options, to give a visual
indication of what each gradient style will look like.
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