If you're having trouble with using TextTone or maybe just can't
get the right results, then this page may solve your problem. Listed
below are answers to various technical problems. If, however, one of
the answers below still doesn't solve the problem, or you're
experiencing any bugs in the software, then you can submit them for
attention using the form at the bottom
of the page.
For output I choose to copy the final HTML code
to the Clipboard. However, when I go to paste it into my HTML
editor, I get either nothing or something completely different. Why?
This problem happens because you have performed
some other Clipboard operation (cut, copy, etc.) from another
application after finishing with TextTone, but before trying to
paste the HTML code. The other application has either cleared the
Clipboard, or replaced the code with it's own data. To prevent this
happening in the future, paste the HTML code straight away, before
doing anything with any other applications.
I pasted the finished code into my WYSIWYG web
page authoring program, but instead of the coloured text, it just
shows the HTML source code. Why doesn't it interpret the code?
You need to paste the HTML source code into your
authoring program's HTML code view. To find out how to show the page
source, consult your program's help material. If your program does
not have an HTML source view, you will need to add the TextTone-generated
code after creating the page, by opening it in a plain text editor,
such as Notepad.
I specified a long/large piece of text, but in
the preview box I can't see the tail end of the text. Does the
preview box scroll?
Unfortunately, in the first edition of v1.05 of
TextTone there was no scrolling feature for the preview box. As a
workaround, you could start off with a low figure for the size, and
then preview it with this small text. If the colours are to your
liking, then you can go back and increase the font size before
finally outputting the resultant HTML code.
A scrolling feature was added in the second
edition of TextTone v1.05. If you are missing this feature and do
want this functionality, then you will need to download the current
edition. The first edition can be identified by it's EXE file size,
which is 90KB, compared to 379KB for the current release.
I chose a different background colour for the
text, but when I output the coloured text to an HTML file, it didn't
show the page background as this colour. Why not?
The background colour feature is there for
comparison only. Quite rightly, it could have been implemented to
change the background colour of the generated template page, but as
there is also an output option to paste the HTML code to the
clipboard - which cannot make use of a page background colour, as
the code is intended to be pasted into an existing web page - then a
trade-off had to be made. It was decided that the user should be
able to compare background colours against their coloured text, but
leave the final specification for background colour of the
containing page for later.
Is there a version which allows you to choose
colours from a web-safe palette?
No, not at present. However, if you desperately
want it to use colours from the 216-shade web-safe palette, then
follow this procedure:
- On step 4, having clicked one of the 'Change...' buttons to
pick a colour, click the 'Define Custom Colors' button in
the resultant window that pops up.
- Enter the red, green and blue (RGB) numeric values for your
web-safe colour into the appropriate text boxes on the
right.
- Click 'OK'.
I have a hexadecimal-format HTML colour value
like "#C7DFFF". How can I convert that to RGB values?
There's a handy trick for this that you can do
with the Windows Calculator. Start the Calculator (it's normally
found in the 'Accessories' folder on your Start Menu) and follow
these simple steps:
- From the 'View' menu, choose 'Scientific'.
- Choose the 'Hex' option on the left of the window.
- Enter the first two digits (e.g. "C7").
- Switch back to the 'Dec' option on the left.
- Voila! You have your decimal value for red. Repeat steps 2
to 4 for each subsequent 2-digits in the HTML colour string
(e.g. "DF", then "FF") to give the green
and blue values..
On the last step (step six) of the program, I
chose to create a template file. I gave a filename and TextTone
asked me if I wanted to view it now. I pressed 'Yes', but my web
browser program was not started to view it.
This may happen because, even though you may have
web browsing software installed, it is not registered in Windows as
the default viewer for files with an 'htm' extension (or whatever
extension you gave the template file, if different).
There are two possible solutions to this problem.
The first (and recommended) option, depending on the web browser, is
that there may be a setting for it to check whether it is the
default viewer for HTML files upon it's startup. If you set this
option, and then exit and re-run the browser, it will probably ask
you to confirm if you want to do so. Otherwise, it will probably
have done it automatically.
The second solution is to create the association
between HTML files and browser application manually. To do so,
follow these steps:
- View the folder where you saved your template file in
Windows Explorer or My Computer.
- Whilst holding down either Shift key, click the right-hand
mouse button on the template file's icon.
- Release the Shift key, and select the 'Open With' command. A
window with a list will appear.
- Make sure the small box labelled 'Always use this
program...' has tick in it. If not, click on it.
- From the list, select the web browser application you would
like to use.
- Click the OK button.
To test that this has worked, go back to Windows
Explorer or My Computer and double-click the template file's icon.
It should be loaded up into your chosen web browser application
automatically.
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