Skin Settings

You can customize appearance of desktop calendar. There are separate settings for small and full-size calendars.

Spacing box allows to change spacing and padding for cells of calendar.
Days cell spacing - between cells of calendar days and Title cells
spacing - between cells of all calendar titles. Usually value of Title
cells spacing is bigger than of Days cell spacing.

Day cell padding and Title cell padding indicate inside interval
between the text and cell borders.

There are several groups of calendar elements (month title, weekdays titles, days titles and notes). All available groups can be selected in the tree. Here is the complete list of available groups of elements:

• Month title
• Weekdays titles
• Week numbers
• Days
  • Common days
  • Today
  • Holidays
  • Special days)
• Notes

The following parameters can be set for a group of elements (click an appropriate field to set needed parameters):

TEXT

• Font (font name)
• Font style (normal, bold, italic, bold-italic)
• Font size
• Text color (is chosen from RGB color models palette)
• Text aligment (left, center, right)
• Text orientation (horizontal or vertical)

BACKGROUND

• Background style (none, solid color, image stretch, image tile)
• Background image name
• Background color (is chosen from palette)
• Background transparency (% of transparency)

BORDER

• Border type (none, single, thick, double)
• Border color

Note. Not every group of elements has all the listed parameters. Some parameters are not available for certain elements.

All changes of parameters are displayed in the preview box immediately.

When you change parameters for a parent category, they automatically apply to all subcategories as well. For instance, 'Days' is the parent category for 'Common days', 'Today', 'Holidays' and 'Special days'; but 'Cells settings' is parent category for all other categories. So, if you set Font size=8 for 'Cells settings', Font size will be the same for all categories. 
Each group of elements (except 'Cells settings') has 'Individual' column in settings box. If it's needed to change generic parameter to individual or vise versa, check/uncheck 'Individual'.

In case you use the feature Chameleon skin (see Skins) you will see the additional window Chameleon settings.

You can customize calendar colors for each background color zone: red, yellow, green, cyan, blue, magenta, black, grey, white. The background color means a basic color of image (for example, blue for an image with sky and clouds, yellow for a sunflower field and so on).

The main principle of this feature: preview a background color (in the Chameleon settings window) - customize a calendar color (in the main Screen Calendar options window) - click OK. Screen Calendar has default settings for each background color, for example, to show red holidays over green background or black common days over magenta background, but you can select any other calendar colors. 
Click the Get as now button to display current background color; the cursor (a little square) is in the appropriate zone of the color circle; you can change the color sector by dragging its edge. To block background color changing (to fix the little square cursor) click the button with a lock Lock color changing. Click this button again to unlock this feature. Reset default button returns all default color zones. Also, you can click either any sector or an approach square from the color line under the color circle to customize calendar colors for all possible backgrounds.
After you customize calendar colors for needed background colors, click OK or Apply. The default background color settings will be saved on your computer so you don't have to customize them every time when you change background image or when you switch to Chameleon skin again. So your custom chameleon settings for all background color zones become default settings.

You can get more skins at our web site www.screencalendar.com. Screen Calendar skins (*.csz file) load automatically.