SlickRun doesn't remember my preferred date/time format

[fernman]

Hi, I am new to SlickRun, which I chose after careful consideration
out of a number of similar programs. However, there is for me one
major annoyance which, if I am unable to fix it, will lead to me
abandoning it.

I have set it up with the name Slickrun in the day/date slot, using
the "YourTextHere" option, and I have chosen %pow% to dispaly the
Power Status of my netbook in the time slot.

This is fine until after each time I reboot or restart, when Slickrun
loses this, and instead displays seconds followed by lower case
letters "l" and "i" followed by the day/month/year in numbers. For
example, 35li02/04/2010. The only thing of my preference that does
not change is the background colour and bold black font I chose. The
figures look bad, and I am already fed up with having to go into SetUp
each time to put it back the way I want it.

Is there a solution, please?

[EricLaw]

What exactly is your default string? What exactly is the string when
you start up?

What locale does your computer run in?

-Eric

[fernman]

Eric, it's ok, thanks, I have got round the problem by setting up the
command line so that it does not display anything at all.

[EricLaw]

If it's not too much trouble, I'm very interested in the answers
anyway.

[Howard Matthews]

Hello Eric, I hope these are the correct answers!

 

My default string in the Date field is "SlickRun"

this is following the example "YourTextHere" in the Custom Date Format.

I have also tried it without the quotes, viz SlickRun but it made no difference.

 

In the Time field I entered %pow% as per the option in the Custom Time Format.

 

When I start up, the command line displays seconds followed by lower case letters "l" and "i" followed by the day/month/year in numbers.

For example, 35li02/04/2010

The figure 35 in my example represents the seconds, and is of course variable.

 

I am not at all sure what you mean when you ask what locale my computer runs in.

 

I know now it is something to do with my computer, which is a Samsung N130 netbook running Win XP Home and IE8, because as a test I have installed SlickRun on my Dell desktop computer running Win XP Home and IE7, and there the display shows correctly.

 

I hope this information helps you.

[EricLaw]

Thanks for the note. Yes, it's absolutely required to use the
quotation marks around your custom plain text strings... If you don't,
then the normal letters of your text will be replaced with date/time
values.

So, for instance, this:

"Your Text here" %fm% dddd m/d

will work, but this:

Your Text here %fm% dddd m/d

will cause all sorts of strange problems, because the parser will see
that first Y character and say "oh, I'd better put the year in there"
and so on.

I tried the first (with quotes) and restarted SlickRun with the idea
that maybe the quotation marks were getting lost during the save/load
process but wasn't able to reproduce any such bug.

On Apr 6, 3:42 am, Howard Matthews <howard.fern...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Eric, I hope these are the correct answers!
>

> My default string in the Date field is *"SlickRun"*

> this is following the example "YourTextHere" in the Custom Date Format.

> I have also tried it without the quotes, viz *SlickRun *but it made no
> difference.
>
> In the Time field I entered *%pow%* as per the option in the Custom Time

> Format.
>
> When I start up, the command line displays seconds followed by lower case
> letters "l" and "i" followed by the day/month/year in numbers.

> For example, *35li02/04/2010*