CONTROL PANEL HOW TO
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This text will give you a discription and how to add aliases and external applications to your Control Panel. Please be sure not to add new icons to your the MAIN CONTROL PANEL. Your settings will not be saved on updates. Applications, games, utils, and custom control panel will be safe for you to add your own.

Note that certain icons are made for Windows XP and shadowing will look white on a black background if you are not using Windows XP.

When adding new icons/commands and saving your configuration they will not displayed unless you close your window and running it again.

Credits:
byte187 = coder 
KnightFal = construction
testers = regulars on undernet #nexgen


BASIC CONFIGURATION BELOW
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[cp0]
titlebar=Utilities
bgcolor=0x000000
textcolor=0xFFFFFF

[cp1]
title=Main Panel
tip=Go back to main control panel.
command=dll $adll ControlPanel controlpanel/controlpanel.ini | click
icon=graphics/back.ico

[cp2]
title=Utilities Panel .INI
tip=Utilities Panel configuration.
command=run notepad.exe controlpanel/utils.ini | click
icon=graphics/text.ico

[cp3]
title=Notepad
tip=Window notepad
command=run notepad.exe | click
icon=graphics/notepad.ico

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Discription

titlebar
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The titlebar text will be displayed on the panel window title in brackets [titlebar]. Do not confuse this with the icon. Make sure your line is place under [cp0].
Below is a example of a titlebar:

titlebar=custom control panel

bgcolor
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This is background color for your panel. It uses html color code in addition with the placement of the first two chracters "0x" in begining of the color code which is not part of html color code. The examples below are just a few of many colors. If you do not know html colors please use a search engine on the web to find some good resources on html colors.

Examples of colors:
black: 0x000000
white: 0xFFFFFF
lightgrey: 0xCCCCCC
darkgray: 0x666666
red: 0xFF0000
green: 0x009900
lightgreen: 0x00FF00
blue: 0x0000FF
yellow: 0xFFFF00
cyan: 0x00FFFF
violet: 0xFF00FF
purple: 0x993399

So to make the background a color you must make sure that it is under [cp0] or it will not work. Here is example of the line for a black background:

bgcolor=0x000000

textcolor
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This of course will color your text. It uses html color code just like background color. See bgcolor for examples of colors.
Here is a example of the line which should be placed under [cp0] for the red color text.

textcolor=0xFF0000

title
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This will display the text beneath icon, usually you want to name your title after an app/util/alias/game.
Example you want to add a title to an icon to your custom control panel that joins your favorite channel on irc:

title:#nexgen

tip
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This will display the balloon tooltip that appears when you set your mouse over the icon, great for giving a brief discription of the icon.
A exmaple of a toolip is shown below:

tooltip: My favorite undernet channel, and home of Team Nexgen (#nexgen).

command
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Used to execute an alias or external application. If you are wanting to use a external application like a game or application you must use a full path to the application with the mirc command "run" placed in front. You can use mirc variables or aliases for the the command. Examples below:

mirc alias command:
command=whois #nexgen

external command:
command=run C:\Program Files\Ahead\Nero\nero.exe

icon
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The icon is self explantory, it is the image that is displayed in control panel which you click with your mouse to execute an alias or external application. Control Panal uses .ico files. You may find many websites that have collections of icons you can download freely. Try www.iconfactory.com for icons. I suggest storing your .ico files in graphics folder in acidmax.
ie:

icon=graphics/text.ico




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