Help with shortcut plugin...?

[Guest jmechan]

Hello All,

Now I've had a good trawl through the previous posts on plugins and so on but haven't yet found a way to do what I want to do. Can anyone help me please....???

I am attempting to modify the AlysonH homescreen, replacing the Profile section with a shortcut (to my hotmail, which I use constantly). So far so straight forward, you would think. And yes, it does work, but I can't get the b'stard thing to display the same background picture (as it did when the Profile section was in). I'm trying to use the code as shown below. Can anyone tell me why it doesn't work...? Thank you very very very much...

Jon

<plugin  clsid="{A1536C57-6AC2-4c31-9542-B144B0E9D076}" name="myicons1" height="20"> 


  <background b-border-width="0"/>


  <format state="selected" bgcolor="transparent" bgimage="IPSMApplication DataHomealysonH_PRO.jpg"/> 


  <shortcut icon="61" width="50%" action="http://mobile.msn.com/hm/folder.aspx"><text></text></shortcut>


	</plugin>

[Guest statscat]

I think it only support bmp files,

try saving the jpg as a bmp and altering the link to that instead, this is just a hunch mind you.

[Guest jmechan]

Not sure...all of the other sections use jpgs...that's where I stole the code from...! I shall give it a go anyway...

Thanks,

Jon

EDIT

Nope, that didn't work. Nice try though....

[Guest statscat]

I think this is what you have to do.

You were ending you background before the format began as the slash closes the tag.

<background b-border-width="0"/>

the format tag needs to be encapsulated in the background tags for the plugin to parse the format information correctly, I guess its just fussier about its tag nesting.

But this will successfull load a bitmap as th plugin background when the plugin is highlighted.

[Guest jmechan]

For the benefit of anyone else reading this thread, it does have to be a .bmp as well as framed in the tag.

Cheers,

Jon