[Need Help] Making my own widgets/skins for SPB 3.5.x - General Questions and Answers

Hey there!
I'm currently busy with making some skins for the digital clock in SPB, but I really don't know how to make my PSD file into a real widget skin.
For example I have made this image:
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I hope anyone can help me with this or does know a guide how to make it into a skin. This way I can provide you guys lots of skins/widgets!
Thanks in advance!

Just watch in the folder where the standard skin file is.
So you can see how you have to "slice" etc the pics.
Thats the way I do it with skinning programs.
I dont have SPB so I cant say you an exact way but so I would do it.
Regards

The easiest/best thing to do would be taking a direct look at how the standard spb widgets are made
The dat files are just zip files renamed to .dat so you can easily look what's inside with just winzip (the password for all of them is b0fm18zq)

Ok, that is great! Thanks.. The only thing I don't get is how do I use transparent in .bmp? I see all the red and black stuff at parts that are transparent in the SPB shell?
So my question is now, how do I add transparecy to .bmp files and how do the 'mask' images work?
Thanks in advance!

Moved as not theme release.

PhysicalMagic said:
Ok, that is great! Thanks.. The only thing I don't get is how do I use transparent in .bmp? I see all the red and black stuff at parts that are transparent in the SPB shell?
So my question is now, how do I add transparecy to .bmp files and how do the 'mask' images work?
Thanks in advance!
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Transparency is handled through the mask bmp, the darker the areas on the mask the more transparent the corresponding areas on the resulting image
Mask needs to be a grayscale bmp
Images (most of them) need to be 16bit bmp
Do not use 24 or 32 bit bmps 'cause they're gonna disappear during swiping

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[Help Please] Simple Graphics Request

Hi
I am using the Blackberry Redux theme and have a problem.
The problem is that the phone in the upper-left hand corner allows me to choose the volume profile I would like, however, there is no icon for Vibrate Profile. I have tried to contact the design, but have had no luck.
I also tried to create my own (spent 15 minutes) in Paint, but that didn't turn out transparent and ruined the whole theme.
Is there anyway someone can take one of the images below and change it to vibrate? It does not have to be fancy or anything. The first one is for "Normal/Loud" profile and the second one if for "Silent" profile.
I would greatly appreciate is someone can help me out with this so the theme can be close to perfect. Thank you very much in advance to anyone who helps me. Thank you!
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Possible suggestion:
Since the first image (currently used for Loud/Normal Profile) already looks like its for vibrate, mayone someone can change it so that the noise lines are coming out of the earpiece and mouthpiece. Then i can just use that for the Loud/Normal Icon and then use the current Lound/normal icon for vibrate.
Just a suggestion. i am not picky, I just want to finish making the theme perfect before school starts and I don't have any time to change my phone around. Thank you.
You need paint.net (free) or photoshop (not free) or gimp (free) to edit images that allow transparency.
PS i recommend paint.net
i'm sorry but i don't really have th time.
you can use any software that supports the use of the png format.
just 2minutes in Fireworks
hope that is okay!
tomoffel said:
just 2minutes in Fireworks
hope that is okay!
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Thank you so much!
I tried it, but it isn't transparent.
Is there anyway you can make it .PNG format? thank you
it actually IS transparent.. but it's not a regular JPG file.. it's an arithmetic jpeg.. which is rarely supported.
you can use photoshop elements to decode it.
reup in a few minutes try it as png, dunno why it is a jpg..
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/7316/profilevibratexf8.png
tomoffel said:
reup in a few minutes try it as png, dunno why it is a jpg..
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/7316/profilevibratexf8.png
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Perfect! Thanks!

[Wallpaper] from HTC Desire.

Hi,i extracted the wallpaper from htc Desire
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Donwnload here (rapidshare)
Only the first is new
thanks for that new one!
Err, htc_wallpaper_01.jpg has a light blue line at the left edge. Does anyone else have a better copy?
The other thread is closed and I was directed to this.
Edit: Nevermind, I just opened up Gimp and spent a couple of minutes patching up the line. Better than nothing I guess.
Can anyone upload it to somewhere else? cheers
Install wallpapers to original wallpaper folder?
Hi, Thanks for these. I was wondering is there a way to install these images into the original exus wallpaper folder since I want them to show up in the normal wallpapers menu after long pressing on home screen?
I mean I have them them installed on a folder on my sd card for now but that would be much better. My phone is stock/unrooted.
Cheers
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Hi, Thanks for these. I was wondering is there a way to install these images into the original exus wallpaper folder since I want them to show up in the normal wallpapers menu after long pressing on home screen?
I mean I have them them installed on a folder on my sd card for now but that would be much better. My phone is stock/unrooted.
Cheers
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can you tell me where is the original nexus wallpapers folder as i cannot find it
woohoo! thanks
hoss_n2 said:
can you tell me where is the original nexus wallpapers folder as i cannot find it
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There is no folder. They are packed within the Launcher apk.
!!!
Thanks a lot. I've been looking for the graphite wallpaper and i could only find 640x480 versions. Great job putting them here
Hi to all, where can i get the orange tm wallpaper i don't know the name of wallpaper but it's like 'the road with orange line... i've looking for it so long????

Waze Icon

anyone who has this app downloaded... knows that the quicklink icon is bad quality.. it kinda bothers me.. so is anyone up to making a better one??
cause thats the only "ugly" icon on my quicklinks and i would like to remedy it... any takers?? or perhaps someone could guide me and tell me how to do it.. so i can proceed?
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I made this (and I am definitely not a photoshop expert as you can see) and this is not glossy unlike Dinik Anastasia icons but it does sort of do the trick for me.
i have switched out many bad icon using CSMI (change start menu icon). works like a charm...
note - i realized that it does matter wherever you store your new icons (meaning you can't switch them and delete the original graphic) and you can't move them around at will. so i just put them all in a folder on my sd card and now no problems.
cheers.
k8sh said:
I made this (and I am definitely not a photoshop expert as you can see) and this is not glossy unlike Dinik Anastasia icons but it does sort of do the trick for me.
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how would i go about using your icons? just save to my comp?
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how would i go about using your icons? just save to my comp?
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Yep, just save to comp then transfer to phone. You will have to use an icon changer program app like JWMD icon changer, or CSMI (if you search those here on XDA, you will find the cab files with the instructions on how to use them). I use JWMD since it has intuitive UI and is easy to use. Changing icons is a tedious process since you have to do it one icon at a time. Good luck!
thanks.. i think i got it to work.. cheers
i got this one. maybe someone can make white corners transparent. no soft installed right now
Here you go.
hmm now there is a big white frame around.
maybe you can make it like the other two
thx
no white frame
It is a png file, the white background is transparent. And you are welcome.

[Modding] Help with transparent notification bar + theme preview

I try to make my theme but I have a problem.
I want the notification background transparent but I don't know how to modify it.
I try different way but not success.
Anyone can help me?
Thanks
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Small preview of the theme I working
I have also % of battery and trackball wakeup (thanks to eug89 for compile java)
that top grey part is called title_bar_portrait.9.png and is located on framework-res.apk. the part you want to make transparent is called status_bar_background.png and is also located in framework-res.apk
not sure if you have edited .9.pngd before but it you have to do more than just replace the image for it to look right. also im not sure if that part can be made transparent in froyo as i am currently having trouble with it. however if your making the theme for CM just adjust the transparency in photoshop, gimp etc
hope that helped
Have anybody get the status_bar_background.png transparent on FroYo ROMS?
Ok.
So the problem is froyo
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Have anybody get the status_bar_background.png transparent on FroYo ROMS?
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i dont think so. froyo doesnt seem to allow the image to have any transparency
Theres a Xeudoxus app that patches services.jar to enable that transparency. Didn't find exact details as too which particular file (s) are affects (for morphs). I hate when people do that (hiding details ), I will investigate after work.
For more info see this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=700703
Thanks Britoso.
Now I have the theme with transparent.
Now I have to fix the bar "Notification" because are also trasparent.
Also I have to investigate why It have some crash when I use metamorth for apply theme.
edit.
perfect all I want.
I have only investigate for crash when using metamorph.
Thx britoso from that other thread and xuedoxus for the app
finally got it working on my theme(frf91)
pretty cool theme!

Massive EVO wallpaper collection. Over 1800! (Updated: 2/4/11)

Hi everyone. Here is a collection of wallpapers resized for for your EVO home screen (960x800), most of which are from interfacelift.com. ENJOY!
Original file names kept intact, so don't worry, they are indeed 960x800.
This is a very bare form. I hope to get some sort of site going in the future that is much more organized
I will be adding more as I find them.
Index of /evo/wallpapers
Index of /evo/wallpapers020411
zip file: http://www.freeza-inc.com/evo/wallpapers.zip
Update 2/4/11: http://www.freeza-inc.com/evo/wallpapers020411.zip
Also, to utilize multiple wallpapers on your phone, I use a program called WallSwitch, which you can customize to automatically change your wallpapers at a specified interval.
Attached below is a file that if put in the directory of your wallpapers, will hide them from galleries, and tells android not to index the files. Having tons of wallpapers in your gallery might slow it down initially as it tries to index and build thumbnails of them. Just go ahead and unzip and toss the ".nomedia" file into whatever directory you're trying to hide from gallery.
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Thank you!!
No problem
+1 on WallSwitch. Great app. That was actually the first type of app I sought when I got me EVO. I love change so I have something like this running on all of my machines...
And big thanks for all the walls. This will take me a while to go through.
Pretty excitied about this. Thanks.
DUDE! I've been wanting that nomedia thing forever. Thanks a TON!
Thanks, this is bangin.
For those who don't want to add another program, how do you add wallpaper to the system folder?
I tried and noticed it's locked up.
TIA!
Thanks, I'll Check'em Out
wicked! Cheers
Would it be possible to get this from somewhere that's a little faster than 6.7 K/sec?
All of these wallpapers seem to be distorted; as if they were resized to 960x800 regardless of their original aspect ratio instead of being properly cropped and then resized. As long as the wallpaper doesn't have anything circular in it like the moon, sun, or a ball, it's not too noticeable.
Updated OP with over 150 new wallpapers. ENJOY!
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