Creating a Custom Icon for Your Main Menu Page

Submitted by admin on Mon, 03/27/2006 - 9:20pm.

One of the most common ODB customizations involves changing the title of the ODB main window and the large title text that appears just above the main control buttons. The Access database fields are Wintitle and progText respectively, and both are located in the Settings area as described in the previous section.

The default value for WinTitle is “Organizers’ Collaborative” and the default value for ProgText is "My Database." You can change progtext to the name of a web-compatible image file; usually this will be an image whose extension ends with either .gif or .jpg. The image must be located in the folder where your ODB database is located, or in the folder where you installed ODB. ODB will look first in the folder where the database is located. To create an appropriate image for your logo, use any graphicsediting program like Photoshop, Fireworks, or Windows Paint. If your image will not use the full 132 x 99 size, it’s a good idea to fill the extra pixels with the color value that matches the “sidebarcolor” setting in ODB. The default sidebarcolor value is D8D8D8 hexadecimal, or 216-blue, 216-green, 216- red for graphics programs that use decimal numbers.