Bank Genie
Software for Managing Bank Accounts

by Ideas for Gardens.com
User Guide - Applies to Bank Genie 4 and Bank Genie Pro 4
Last updated: 28th February 2018

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Index

Introduction

Getting Started

Setting Up

Preferences

User Guide Options

Bank Accounts

Bank Groups

Categories

Category Groups

Tags

Manage Transactions

Standing Orders

Process Standing Orders

Online & Downloads

Transaction Analyser

Net Worth

P&L Years and Groups

P&L Reports

Invoices

Password Protection

Database Protection

Quick Backups

Backups (with history)

Create a New Database

Open another database

Restore

Pack

Importing Data

Broken Transfers

Where is everything?

FAQ

Glossary

Common Controls

Index by Program Name

Acknowledgements

About us

Product support

Sponsored Links

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Using your own photos with Bank Genie

When you use the Picture arrow keys in Treeview mode in Bank Genie, the program looks in a known folder location for photos.

To use your own photos, you simply copy a photo into the folder used by Bank Genie.
We will refer to this folder as the IMAGES FOLDER .

Any photo copied into the IMAGES FOLDER will work, and the full image detail will be shown.
However the image may need to be edited to avoid distortion

The following topics explain the process:

  • Locating the Images folder used by Bank Genie
  • How to create a correctly proportioned photo for use with Bank Genie

Locating the Images folder used by Bank Genie
The location is different for each installation.
To locate the IMAGES FOLDER in your installation, click the Help tab on the menu, and start the program About Bank Genie - BS400
Screenshot
The Core Data folder is shown in Item 6

The IMAGES FOLDER used by Bank Genie is located in a sub folder of the Core Data folder. Sub folder name is images.
Thus if your Core data folder as shown by BS400 is:
C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\user\LOCAL SETTINGS\APPLICATION DATA\IDEASFORGARDENS\BANK GENIE C4\
then the IMAGES FOLDER is:
C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\user\LOCAL SETTINGS\APPLICATION DATA\IDEASFORGARDENS\BANK GENIE C4\images

How to create a correctly proportioned photo for use with Bank Genie
To avoid image distortion, you simply crop a suitable photo to the aspect ratio used by Bank Genie.
The optimum aspect ratio is 13x15 i.e. the Height to Width ratio is 13/15 and the height is smaller than the width.

  1. Either:
    a) Make a copy of the original using the program My Computer
    Save the copy in the IMAGES FOLDER as discussed above

    OR (a safe way)

    b) Edit the original using using Microsoft Office Picture manager
    Under the File tab, click Save As
    Navigate to the IMAGES FOLDER as discussed above
    Enter a NEW name for the file and click Save
    EXIT the program (thus closing the original - do not Save when closing)
    Tip (applies to either method - a or b):
    In this example, Ive copied a photo named Cambridge367102129_f5e8abdc91_b.jpg and given the copy the file name: Cambridge367102129_f5e8abdc91_b-cropped.jpg
    The photo was taken by Eric Hardy, High Wycombe, England
  2. Edit the NEW image you created (in this example IMG_1386-Label-8x10) using Microsoft Office Picture manager
    Make sure you are editing a photo in the IMAGES FOLDER as discussed above, and make sure it is a copy of your original
  3. Click the Picture tab on the menu, then click Crop
    Screenshot
    This may differ in your Photo Editor
  4. You can now select a region of your photo to use as the image for a label.
    Screenshot
  5. Save your changes
    WARNING: Once you save your changes, you can NOT undo the cropping operation, hence our reminders that you use a copy of your original.
  6. Start Bank Genie
    Use the arrow buttons to browse through the images until your personalised photo appears.
    You may wish to click the Set button to make this the default photo

 

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