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Hilo

I downloaded a few user generated Landscapes. I placed the unzipped .PNG and the unzipped .YWL files in the YoWindow folder. The sky is always black in any of these. The photos look beautiful otherwise. One example is Glacier National Park #1 at link:
http://yowindow.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=3354

I am on Windows 7 Professional, using an at-work computer. YoWindow works fine with the airport and standard Landscapes.

Thanks for any help!

Rick

Hi Rick,

it is really very easy to import the landscapes to your desktop edition following this tutorial:

How to install YoWindow Landscape? Installing a landscape is easy.
Let me explain with an example.

This is one of many posts in our Landscape Collection featuring Colosseum.
Rome, Colosseum post

1. Find a link to colosseum.zip file at the bottom of the post.
2. Download colosseum.zip
3. Unpack colosseum.zip
4. Add colosseum.ywl to YoWindow •Run YoWindow (desktop edition)
•Go to main-menu/Landscape/Add...
•Click "Browse..." button and then find colosseum.ywl at the place where you have unzipped colosseum.zip
•Click "OK"

That's it, you should see Colosseum inside YoWindow.

Werner

Hi Werner

Thanks for the assist. I think I have fingered out the issue. I created a folder within the YoWindow folder named "img". I placed all of the .png photo files into that folder. Now everything works like a charm.

The current tutorial does not mention what to do with the picture files.

Would it be possible to mention "img folder creation" in the Tutorial? I am certain to forget before the next time I want to add a landscape!

Thanks again!

Rick

Mallorca wrote:Hi Rick,

it is really very easy to import the landscapes to your desktop edition following this tutorial:

How to install YoWindow Landscape? Installing a landscape is easy.
Let me explain with an example.

This is one of many posts in our Landscape Collection featuring Colosseum.
Rome, Colosseum post

1. Find a link to colosseum.zip file at the bottom of the post.
2. Download colosseum.zip
3. Unpack colosseum.zip
4. Add colosseum.ywl to YoWindow •Run YoWindow (desktop edition)
•Go to main-menu/Landscape/Add...
•Click "Browse..." button and then find colosseum.ywl at the place where you have unzipped colosseum.zip
•Click "OK"

That's it, you should see Colosseum inside YoWindow.

Werner

hackney1 wrote:The current tutorial does not mention what to do with the picture files.

Would it be possible to mention "img folder creation" in the Tutorial?

That eventually would cause problems with certain landscapes. There don't has to be a folder called "img" with the pictures in it. A user who creates a landscape can write any path to the ywl-file (which is a simple text-file (UTF-8 format)).
If this user has organized his landscapes with another directory-structure manually placing pictures in an "img"-directory won't work.

So you have 2 choices:

1. unpack the zip-file from the forum and use it as it is - provided the uploader hasn't make any mistakes
2. unpack the zip-file from the forum and move the ywl-file and the picture to the folders of your choice - like you want the structure of landscape-files be organized. In some/most cases you would have to adapt the path to the picture in the ywl-file manually after that

Got it, thanks!