Hi again,
Changelog
V3 updated:
-cleared the program panels ongs, so there is no overlapping reflections.
-the settings menu error was solved.
-new shortcut in start menu via which you can access the programs panel menu.
Remember, that you must uninstall any previous version before you install the new Cab. If you have the current v3 installed there is no longer a need to install the fix dunc posted.
We have finally managed to get everything to work and we now are able to provide you with "THE ONE AND ONLY WIDGET". The Widget, that you NEED to have on your homescreen.
This is the SimClock v3.
After hard days of work dunc managed to get the script straight and the Widget got ready to be shared.
Again we obviously want to thank Poyensa for his amazing work on the settings menu, rat_2665 for his patience, support and guidance with problem functions in the scripts, MichelDiamond for his help with the required reg keys and everyone on the DreamTeam for the superb beta testing over the last few days as we got closer to release - without them we wouldn't have the perfect home screen widget!
Now take a look at this :
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The SimClock v3 comes with many new features and a redone menu. The Installation is quite simple. Just uninstall any previous versions of the SimClock and then install JML Menu. You can find the link a little later in this post. After that just install the v3 cab and softreset
As you can see on the Screenshots we have included a function that lets you choose whether you want the panels displayed on top of the clock, or below, when you want to add the widget to you homescreen.
I wanted to start with the most impressive feature of the SimClock and this is most likely the new program panel we integrated, that can hold up to 14 quicklinks to programs You can access the program panel by pressing the black background of the widget. By default it is set to show 7 quicklinks. But if you press one empty quicklink you can choose to display 14 and choose the exe files you want to be inside the panel. Furthermore, if you want to you can set a costum icon for every quicklink. If you want to do that make sure the icons are 64x64, 128x128 or 256x256 pngs if not Sense will become very slow and might crash
Another very interesting feature is the ability to set day and night switching options. You can set colors and opacitys in the new menu that change when you check, that you want Day/Night switching.
You are also able to enable a background png that switches day and night, too. If you want to edit the pngs, just edit SimClock_ClockBG_Day.png and SimClock_ClockBG_Night.png and overwrite to your windows directory. If you change back to not using a png then you have to restart sense.
These are the most impressive new features. Furthermore we added:
-Vibrate on Press
-Autoclose panels after a set time.
-Ability to set your own flashlight app.
We hope you enjoy this new Version of the SimClock and plz give us feedback
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SimClock v2
As you can see we added some very handy options and addons into this Widget.
But before I tell you what we added I want you to know, that you can edit EVERYTHING in this Widget!
Now for the new features. There now is an option that displays your next alarm time and if you want it can also display how long until your alarm starts. Furthermore we included dunc's Battery widget into v2 so that you now have the battery indicator in 4 different Layouts in 1 Clock widget.
We added a second comm toggle panel which holds switches for Flight Mode, Phone, Data (the data toggle is just a disconnect switch when connected, it doesn't reconnect), Wifi, Bluetooth, Profile and Flashlight. In addition we extended the Quicklink Panel of v1 with anpther quicklink for the File Explorer of you choice.
To access all this amazing features there are 3 Press Areas:
This should give you a quick overview. By repressing the minute and hour digit press areas you can close the Panels again.
Well now the Menu. I have made a little image for you, so that you can see the layout of the JML Menu brought to you by poyensa
As shown you can change the color of all Battery Layouts, the Alarm and the "Time till Alarm", the Background, the Digits, the Date line, and the Line. Furthermore the line and the Backgrounds opacity are editable.
The Battery addition comes in 4 Layouts: Text Battery, Circle Battery with value, Circle Battery with value and % and Circle Battery without value. This way you have the full costumization ability for this Widget.
The Alarm Time etc of course only shows up, if you have an Alarm set
You can also set the path for your favourite File Explorer which than will be accessable by pressing the sixth quicklink. If you are using Resco Explorer you would need to enter \Program Files\Resco Explorer\Explorer.exe.
For any other Programs like Total commander, just find the .exe and then enter the path and you are done
If you want to access all these features you should install the JML MenuSense which you can download here.
If you dont install this you cannot access the Menu, but all the other stuff should be working
Ok that should be enough info We now hope, that you enjoy this widget in which we put much effort and time. Have fun with it^^
You can find the Cab at the end of this post
This is v1
Hi Guys,
its time for some stunned expressions on your faces
After a hard time getting this Widget and all the new features it contains ready we are proud to present to you the SimClock Widget!
This is a collaboration work between Dunc001 and me. Also we want to give tons of "Thank you's" to poyensa who integrated the MenuSense into the Widget and also scripted the .xmu-file!! Thank You!!
To access the extended Widget Settings Menu feature you must first have JMLMenuSense installed. There is no need, but we recommend you install "JMLMenuSenseV1.60.cab" made by JMHL which you can find right here.
This is necessary, so please make sure you install this!!
So but now for the Widget:
The SimClock Widget comes in 4 Layouts. These Layouts define the appearance of the Date text, as you can see in the 4 Screenshots above.
That alone of course isnt it.
Now for the special features :
The SimClock's black background panel reaches the whole screen and is resizable in height. Also when you are resizing it the Clock itself always stays the same size. Only the Background and the line are beeing stretched.
The really cool stuff is coming now:
When you press on the Digits or the Date Text a Quicklink Panel will open beneath the Widget. Within this Panel there are 5 Quicklinks:
Alarm
World Clock
Calendar Tab
Tasks
Contacts
All of these Quicklinks work and take you to the respective tabs or menus
You can close this Panel by clicking on the Clock Widget again.
You should leave a little space beneath the SimClock Widget because if something is put right there, where the Quicklink Panel is supposed to be displayed, it will just be shown behind what ever you have put there. So leave a little space for the Quicklink Panel
If you want to place widgets like a weather widget etc onto the black background panel, you should keep in mind, that the SimClock will most likely be placed over the Widget. That is because the SimClock was the last Widget you installed.
To make it appear in the right fashion we would recommend you to check your registry and uninstall the Widget you have installed after your BG widgets, if you are using them or if not, just any other widget which occupies a slot with a number from 1-10.
If you just install the SimClock after that it will be installed in that very slot and be placed behind all the Widgets which are installed in higher slots
Most of you will know, that you can change colors etc via registry. Thanks to the help of poyensa we managed to make this process a whole lot easier!
When you press on the Clock and let the Quicklink Panel appear you can press into the Red marked area on the screenshot. This will then take you to the Menu you see next to the screenshot.
Within this Menu you can easily change the Color of ALL components, which are the Background, the Line, AM/PM text, Hour Time, Minute Time and Date. Furthermore you can set the opacity for the Background and the Line. This makes it very easy for you to costumize your SimClock and make it fit your personal desires.
A short screenshot of how it could look like can be seen above on the very right screenshot
The installation of this widget is as easy as the procedure for all the other Widgets.
Just install the Cab and softreset
We hope you enjoy this Widget^^
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Good fellows! Great job! Thanks guys!
there is one question:
in JMLMenuSense i set value background opacity "0", but little background all the same remains, this is normally? sorry for bad english
Hi Nordpolcamper, Dunc & Poyensa,
Once again, BIG THANKS for sharing with the Xda family all this amazing work you guys are doing, we really appreciate it!!!
Best regards.
Guys: You do a hell of a team.
And keep me installing stuff in my phone.
I better get a better phone...
Thanks.
PMoto
Thats great , like Ive sad in Poy thred You , Poy , Manalas , Dunc and Mr Beo are great designers and make users and me much more happy. Thx to you and rest this platform is still alive and I don't want to change to anything else and about the dreamteam heh I'm a prophet or something Ive writed about making one in Poy thred not knowing that its Thx again Guys !
Thank you guys appreciate your compliments
lapis21 said:
Good fellows! Great job! Thanks guys!
there is one question:
in JMLMenuSense i set value background opacity "0", but little background all the same remains, this is normally? sorry for bad english
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Hi lapis
you have to set the opacity to at least 1 if you set it to 0 then the press area will be visible and the background completely gone. So just set the opacity to 1 and everything should work
WOW!
Awesome stuff as always. Great job Nordpolcamper,Dunc001 and poyensa!
Looking forward to installing!
Hello
I set the value background opacity "1", but a little background is different, it's how you can be fix something?
lapis21 said:
Hello
I set the value background opacity "1", but a little background is different, it's how you can be fix something?
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Well I tried it on my device again and again And if I set the opacity to 1 then the background is gone completely
I would suggest you perform a softreset and then try again to adjust the opacity. You have to press Save and Exit if you change anything
If it still wont work plz try uninstalling and installing the widget again should the problems still be there, then plz tell me again^^
bravo!
went to the darkside with nandroid...but you guys keep pulling me back!
Nordpolcamper said:
Thank you guys appreciate your compliments
Hi lapis
you have to set the opacity to at least 1 if you set it to 0 then the press area will be visible and the background completely gone. So just set the opacity to 1 and everything should work
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There is a safeguard built in so you can't set the opacity to 0 (as npc says this renders the background inactive which means you can't remove or resize the widget in Edit Mode). If you try to set it to 0 the setting will default back to 40 - clever stuff eh!
Nordpolcamper said:
Well I tried it on my device again and again And if I set the opacity to 1 then the background is gone completely
I would suggest you perform a softreset and then try again to adjust the opacity. You have to press Save and Exit if you change anything
If it still wont work plz try uninstalling and installing the widget again should the problems still be there, then plz tell me again^^
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remove a widget, install it again, nothing has changed - little background is also visible , help please
You did it again Thanks a lot for this amazing app.
Keep it coming
Quitti
lapis21 said:
remove a widget, install it again, nothing has changed - little background is also visible , help please
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hi lapis, please open SimClock setting and set BG opacity to 1; save & exit; go to registry hkcu/software/htc/manila/cht.dtsimclock.background.opacity and be sure is set to 1; then report back; if not changed do a restart sense.
poyensa said:
hi lapis, please open SimClock setting and set BG opacity to 1; save & exit; go to registry hkcu/software/htc/manila/cht.dtsimclock.background.opacity and be sure is set to 1; then report back; if not changed do a restart sense.
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Hola Poyensa,
unfortunately nothing has changed, changed the registry, reboot, but all the old
I like this SimClock more and more! thanks Dunc001 & NordPolCamper for make it. You have bring the CHT Widgets to a superior stage with the quick-links-pop-up and the settings screen. Regarding this setting screen, this is possible only because the work of JMLH in JMLMenuSense and all the credits must go to him. With JMLMenuSense everybody can create Sense looking menus in a easy way and no need program languaje knowledge. More in the official thread ... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=885959
poyensa said:
I like this SimClock more and more! thanks Dunc001 & NordPolCamper for make it. You have bring the CHT Widgets to a superior stage with the quick-links-pop-up and the settings screen. Regarding this setting screen, this is possible only because the work of JMLH in JMLMenuSense and all the credits must go to him. With JMLMenuSense everybody can create Sense looking menus in a easy way and no need program languaje knowledge. More in the official thread ... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=885959
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You are most welcome Sensei Thinking about a v2 release, maybe with a second popup panel above the main background with comm toggles...
it looks like we could make folder widget :"]
What a fabulous piece of work!
Simply outstanding!
Wow! Well done fellas, thanks for your hard work!
Related
Hi guys.
First time I make an app publicly available for windows mobile.. This program lets you change icons for programs in start menu and then, of course, in the quick links on the home screen. You can associate any PNG image (with transparency also) to any program in start menu: works both for applications AND folders. You can also reset* the original icons if you wish.
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Changelog
Version 1.4 - Current
New: Import/Export icon configuration: dumps to an XML file all the icons that have been changed, so you can reload them back later.. or after flashing a new rom Remember to leave the csmi_exported.xml on the root folder of your MicroSD card (if you don't have an SD card, put it instead in the root of your device).
New: In the list are now shown only the items actually present in the start menu, so you should get much less "phantom" icons on bad cooked roms (when the cooker adds an item, then removes it in the start menu but forgets to clean the registry )
New: Main icon list now scrolls up/down instead of left/right
New: When you are browsing for new icons, you can see the name of the application on the upper section of the dialog box. So many times I forgot which icon I was changing, it really pissed me off.. but not anymore!
New/Fix in 1.4a: Added an option to not filter icons.. tell me if this solves some problems!
Fix in 1.4b: Some localization problem solved.. should prevent errors during CSMI startup! Can't test since I've only got a WWE Rom Please report feedback! Thanks!
Version 1.3
New: OpenFileDialogEx dropped in favor of standard Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Forms.SelectPictureDialog: that's what you have been waiting for.. finally image preview during icon selection!
New: CSMI now remembers last used folder
Version 1.2
New: CSMI now forces HTC Sense icon cache to be updated when necessary: should solve some annoying problems Once an icon has been updated, just remove from HTC Home and re-add it!
New: Updated icon - up 128x128 pixel resolution based on drik's icon pack. The icon is very similar but I had to do it myself in order to increase resolution up to 128x128 (his was 90x90 and according to tnyynt the best resolution for rounded icon is 128)
Version 1.1
Bugfix: If there is already a backup-ed icon, it wont be overwritten after changing twice the same icon.
Bugfix: There should be no more problems with resetting icons to their original state.
New: Apply and Reset buttons are enabled only when necessary.
Version 1.0
Initial Release
Known Bugs
Version 1.3
While browsing for PNG images, transparency isn't rendered correctly (black background). That's Microsoft's fault. Even HTC's Album has the same problem. In a future release I will have to write a custom OpenFileDialog Class perfectly suited for this task only. But for now I'll just stick with it, works well and it's FAST!
Version 1.2
New icon's rounded corner are not as rounded as htc home screen's. This results in some blank space at the corners (ONLY IN HOME SCREEN). Will be fixed in the next release.
About menu doesn't work
Version 1.0
Reset functionality does not work very well at the moment: does work in most cases but if a start menu item didn't have an icon associated with it in the registry then you CAN'T reset original icon using CSMI v1.0 - you have to manually remove the application's registry key value "Icon"
If you change more than once any icon you won't be able to restore it's original aspect Sorry guys, I'll update the app ASAP.
What if CSMI can't apply an icon?
Delete all files located in \Application Data\HTC\ProgLauncher
Change that icon with CSMI
Remove the application icon from the homescreen
Just add back it back in Sense homescreen.. that's it!
That, however, applies only to HTC Sense: if you want Windows Mobile Start Menu icon to be updated (this applies to v1.2+ too), just soft-reset your phone!
Update!!
I've found a bug/feature in manila which prevents some icons to be changed.
Since many users were complaining about not being able to change some icons I've started investigating the problem and found that if you try to use a custom icon which have the same filename of one of the images found in \Windows then Manila will always load that instead of your customized one.
In order to easily fix the problem, just rename your icon
This bug affects ONLY manila, therefore in the start menu everything will look fine BUT in the Homescreen you will always have the original icon!
Download Links
--> Download the latest version here [v1.4b] <--
--> Dinik's Icon Set (HQ 128x128) <--
--> Drik's Icon Pack (SQ 90x90) <--
--> Zenkinz's Folder Icons <--
If you like my work and want to offer me a beer..
Really Awesome! Thank you Eraser!
Just some questions. Does PNG icon needs a particular resolution?
Is there a limit or a suggested size for PNG file??
Then:
you have to manually remove the application's registry key value "Icon"
Which is the right registry key?
Glad to be helpful
I'm currently using 256x256 png icons But the optimal size should be 96x96 if I am not mistaken.
The correct registry key VALUE to remove is "HKLM/Security/Shell/StartInfo/Start/[the_application]/Icon"
Seems not to work with every application. I just tried to change the Internet Explorer Icon. Works for the Start menu but NOT working in the shortcuts on the today screen (shows the old icon). Tried 96 x 96 and 256 x 256 pixel PNG - none worked for the directlinks on today
suggestions?
I assume this won't work with Camera, Google Maps or YouTube either then.
I changed them manually in the registry but even though I clear the Sense cache it won't load them
Hi guys.
Don't worry, the application works You just need to restart your phone! Some times you don't need this, just change the icon and then add a new shortcut to the Home screen. Sometimes however (when you have already that icon pinned to the homescreen) you need to soft reset. Microsoft WM6.5 Start Menu, differently from HTC Sense, requires you to soft reset your phone in order to see the new icons.
PS: don't mess with HTC Sense cache.. just reset
Are you sure you're not lying.
I believed you but it did nothing and now I'm even more disappointed
Would you be kind enough to test the YouTube and Camera application as it doesn't work for me.
Hi, I've just tried with youtube and at first it didn't worked: that's because sense had cached yt icon, while in windows mobile start menu worked as soon as I resetted the phone. I then just removed YouTube link in the home screen, deleted the youtube icon in \Application Data\HTC\ProgLaucher, and then re-added YouTube link in the homescreen.. that did it..
That is currently a limitation in wm6.5 / sense.. I will add some "fixes" in future versions but you will always be required to soft-reset..
Just released v1.1 which fixes the problem mentioned in the first topic (resetting icons to their original state)
Strange. It works but once an icon is changed on my HD2, it won't allow a change to another. Almost as if it's a one shot deal. However, on the sense shortcuts, it will allow a change back to the default icon but no matter what you then change it to it will only change to the original icon you swapped the default to.
Bug?
there were some bugs in v1.0 which have been fixed in v1.1
what version were you using when you found that bug?
Eraser85 said:
Glad to be helpful
I'm currently using 256x256 png icons But the optimal size should be 96x96 if I am not mistaken.
The correct registry key VALUE to remove is "HKLM/Security/Shell/StartInfo/Start/[the_application]/Icon"
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Sense has 120x120 slots, anything below will be scaled and thus blurred. Use 120x120 if you have square icons and use 128x128 for rounded edge icons, because it's a bit difficult to match Sense's slot rounded edges. Anything above this is a waste of space.
very cool but rapidshare says I need to be a premium member to download
Can someone provide a mirror? RapidShare is nice for sharing the occasional file for a couple of friends, but not really suitable for releasing an application to a much largen audience.
strange, i have a premium account.. give me a moment to add another source for download
Eraser85 said:
there were some bugs in v1.0 which have been fixed in v1.1
what version were you using when you found that bug?
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1.1.
It only seems to effect the sense shortcut icons. The start menu shortcuts are correct.
Understood. Maybe then you can try to remove the icon from sense, remove the corresponding icon from htc cache and then re-add it to the homescreen.. in this way you are forcing htc sense to re-create items in cache
Thanks...
Excellent post ! I was just wondering how to do this ...
Thanks a lot Eraser85
Thanks, works nicely. The only exception is messenger which uses two registry keys for the start menu and manilla icon.
Here are a couple of icons I (re)made/adapted.
Hey Folks!
Can you give me a source where i can get other (fitted) icons for this application? seems to be very useful!...
Since many people are applying over 15 cabs for transparency effects alone, and often add 16/20 icon quicklinks, BG4all, and the same must-have tweaks and mods, I have undertaken to combine them all into one cab file. I couldn't bother having my program overview clogged with 20 cabs and reinstalling everything with every new ROM, so here is one cab to do all at once. You will only have to add your custom apps and you're done!
Before you install the cab, check the list of included components so you don't double-install. If any of the components are already installed on your device, uninstall them first. It is ok not to do so for transparency elements, but can cause issues in particular for:
- Clock
- 16/20 quicklinks
Please chose one of the following:
Puremind 1cab4all_9shcuts_v1.3 (Manila 1921+1922)
Puremind 1cab4all_16shcuts_v1.3 (Manila 1921+1922)
Puremind 1cab4all 20shcuts_v1.3 (Manilla 1921+1922)
Changelog
v1.3
added support for Manilla 1922 in portrait mode
added transparency for internet seach bar, internet tab quicklinks, twitter bar and home menu info box.
v1.2
added all registry tweaks
added tranparency for contact and internet quicklinks.
added transparency for start menu
v1.1
Added 16/20shortcuts
Added transparent rain weather animation and transparent home menu quicklinks
Future changes
Swipe input
Personalizer 2.0 (to replace telecom operator with blank text or any other text of your choice)
B&S Tweak 1.6
My best wallpapers
Max TF3D for the best full screen wallpaper deployment method (allows regular wallpaper change without having to cab your entire collection and no HDwall patch needed)
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This release contains the following elements:
Transparency Elements:
Touch X BG Music Tab Transparency (1 file)
Touch BG Calendar Tab Transparency (2 files)
Touch X Calendar BG Transparent (7 file)
Calendar Text Removal (WWE only) (1 file)
Touch X Remove Top Curtain (1 file)
Touch X Transparent Slider (8 files)
Transparent Rain Weather Animation (1 file)
Transparent Quicklinks (4 files)
Contact BG only frame.cab (3 files)
Internet BG frame only.cab (4 files)
Transparent Twitter Bar (1 file)
Transparent Home Mini Info Panel (1 file)
Transparent Internet Seach Bar (1 file)
Transparent Clock with Black Digits (7 files)
Other must-have Elements:
Smaberg 1 Percent_Battery_LEO (2 files)
Button Icon in Messaging (0 files)
Reset and Wifi Toggle (4 files)
Other Elements (varies by version)
Vovichek_Jamerecords 16 Quicklinks BG4all (8 files)
Gzregorz 20 Shortcuts (9 files)
Registry Tweaks
Increase Number of Opera Tabs to 9
Enable Haptic Feedback in Opera for Link Clicking
Enable Clickable Links in Zoomed Out Opera
Enable WirFi n
Enable LED Notification Setting in Sound and Notifications for snms, missed call and voice mail
Disable Auto Screen Lock
Activate Voicemail after 15 Seconds
Allow real exit through pressing X in HTC Album
Enable Graphical Send Icon Button in HTC Messaging
Hide Reappearing HTC Icons from Start Menu (You may need to change their shortcut's properties to hidden by accessing them in Windows/Start Menu/Programs folder).
Add an Extra Row to Menus to Show More Options
Add an Eighth Row to Comm Manager for 3G
Incease Picture Quality of Camera Photos
Improve Camera Recording Quality of MPEG4-VGA Videos
Unlock Additional Video Recording Formats
If you wish to further customize your clock, just overwrite the current clock with a cab (see clock cabs in post 2).
If you have further cabs that you think are worth including, please let me know and I will update this file.
Please check my manilla and ROM version in my signature for compatibility. You should be aware that some of the tweaks will not work on your ROM due to localisation or manilla version issues. But as a general rule, if you can find an individual can that works for you, it can be integrated into a custom version for you.
Check my other work here:
The Best HD Wallpapers
I am also including other versions below:
One Cab to rule them all (continued)
Instructions to remove an element you do not like:
You can usually delete the files corresponding to that element, unless that element also has some registry keys or shortcuts attached to them.
Here is the overall cab structure if you would like to manually remove one element in order to create you own customized version. In the same manner you can add any clock you like by replacing all clock-related files (deleting existing files and adding through cabinet -> add files):
Only the Wifi/Reset buttons install shortcuts
The following elements add registry keys:
Wifi/Reset buttons
Smaberg 1% battery
Touch X send button in messaging (reg key only, no attached file!)
Vovichek_Jamrecords_16shcut_bg4all_m1619 / Gzegorz 20 Shortcuts for Manila 2.5.1921
Microsoft .NET 3.5
But those elements are usually must haves, so no real need to remove them.
Changing the clock to your favourite clock:
At the moment I have included 3 cab versions, one for each clock design (individual clock cabs attached). If you would like to change the clock to your favourite clock, just delete the clock related files as highlighted in the picture above, and add your own clock files (from Max TF3D pakage for example). Make sure you change the install directory to %Windows% for the files to become effective.
This is a very good idea. I've often found it a pain when you want to get a particular look and have to install 20 cabs, especially after flashing/hard reset. Nice one matey.
Personally, I won't use this though, because I don't go for the transparent look. I like the slider bar and the top and bottom bars, but I had to post and give the title of this thread a...
MASSIVE LOL
One cab to rule them all - lol. Best thread title ever
mastar of owning! just one question, can i put calendar text back? i find it very useful!
PaoloWeckl said:
mastar of owning! just one question, can i put calendar text back? i find it very useful!
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Yes you can. This items is actually language specific, so it may actually not operate if you don't have the English language.
If you do, just save a copy of the 2c89bd29_manila file from the Windows folder and copy it back to the Windows folder after installation. It is just one file that is responsible for this.
Or you can open my cab with WinCE Cab Manager and delete that file in my cab so it won't install. I should provide a note on this in my first posts.
johncmolyneux said:
This is a very good idea. I've often found it a pain when you want to get a particular look and have to install 20 cabs, especially after flashing/hard reset. Nice one matey.
Personally, I won't use this though, because I don't go for the transparent look. I like the slider bar and the top and bottom bars, but I had to post and give the title of this thread a...
MASSIVE LOL
One cab to rule them all - lol. Best thread title ever
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Hehe, pretty much describes what it does
You can actually delete the elements that you don't use by using Win CE Cab manager (you can download their test version). I have now posted instructions on how to do this in the second post. This is very easy for the transparency elements as these add no shortcuts and no registry key, you only have to delete the relevant files in the cab (use cab structure overview in my post to determine which files you need to delete)
Nice work man, I've been waiting for something like that but I guess I'll wait a bit more till' you make the 20 shortcut version. Thanks and keep up the good work.
ivakissolo said:
Nice work man, I've been waiting for something like that but I guess I'll wait a bit more till' you make the 20 shortcut version. Thanks and keep up the good work.
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20 shortcut version has now been posted!
Fantastic work. Bloody brilliant idea. Thank you - so much time will be saved
Good Job
Looks Promising ....
kepp it up mate.
picture links are all broken.
spajdr said:
picture links are all broken.
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The quicklinks are transparent in all versions (quiklink transparency cab) so you can chose to have the first row blank for a cleaner home but the quicklinks are there and you can add applications. This is the normal behaviour (see screenshots).
In the 20 shortcut version, though, there is an issue, as the quicklinks will not update the icon until after a reset. I will look into this.
Where can I get a cab that gives me 20 quicklinks but without the BG4all? It makes the timing of the twitter/weather updates impossible to see on a lighter background.
Thanks in advance.
kenkiller said:
Where can I get a cab that gives me 20 quicklinks but without the BG4all? It makes the timing of the twitter/weather updates impossible to see on a lighter background.
Thanks in advance.
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Check my wallpaper thread for better readability on the Leo:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=607832
Otherwise the link to the 20 shortcut cab is in the sticky thread at the top of the Leo Themes and Applications section!
puremind said:
The quicklinks are transparent in all versions (quiklink transparency cab) so you can chose to have the first row blank for a cleaner home but the quicklinks are there and you can add applications. This is the normal behaviour (see screenshots).
In the 20 shortcut version, though, there is an issue, as the quicklinks will not update the icon until after a reset. I will look into this.
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im not sure if you understand me, but screenshots not showing, thats why im telling links to pictures in first post are broken
puremind said:
Check my wallpaper thread for better readability on the Leo:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=607832
Otherwise the link to the 20 shortcut cab is in the sticky thread at the top of the Leo Themes and Applications section!
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I have looked at all the cabs that have to do with 20 quicklinks, and all have B4all included.
Can you direct me to which one that has only 20 quicklinks but NOT B4all? There are however cabs for B4all, but without the 16/20 quicklinks.
Thanks for the wallpaper thread, i am already using them, but I'm looking for an alternative....afterall having wallpaper on the home screen is enough for me.
Please give a screenshot - wonder how would my phone look after installing this ruling cab?
p.s. best thread name ever, endeed!
did the cabs work together with 1922 Manilla Build?
futureshock said:
did the cabs work together with 1922 Manilla Build?
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I wonder that too...
spajdr said:
im not sure if you understand me, but screenshots not showing, thats why im telling links to pictures in first post are broken
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My apologies. I misunderstood. The screenshots are up again.
I uploaded my digital clock widget, mClock. I plan on adding more styles and/or options. Let me know what you think, what you would like to see as far as options go and whatever else.
I've attached the QR code and screenshots.
For the fonts in the screenshot I just grabbed some off the web and put them on the sdcard.
Fonts: 1979, Acens, Colwell, Orbitron-Medium, and the built in fonts.
Report bugs: http://bitbucket.org/knoxcoder/mclock/issues
Xml help http://www.maroonedsoftware.com
Templates (skins) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9856429
There is also a donate version, mClock.donate
Looks great so far!
I have some suggestions though,
First of all, I really want a real 24 hour clock instead of the 12 hour clock available.
4x2 widget would be awesome.
Perhaps custom date formatting, for example, I cannot currently do "Sunday, November 7". The default android formatting options would be nice i.e "EEEE, EEE, HHHH, MMMM, d and so on."
Perhaps click to open application..
Maybe shadow options?
Larger font size than 100px? I currently use 128px which perfectly fits my screen from side to side.
Separating different lines would be awesome, for example, I might want month and day number on one row and weekday on another.
24 hr clock: I have the code almost ready for that
4x2 widget: Easy to add
Date format: Sunday, November 7 is already supported. You can turn off the year portion on any of the date formats and change the separator to ,(Space).
Click to open app: I've been thinking of a good way to handle this. I also need to allow clicking to open the options page. I've thought about dividing the clickable area to allow different launch options. If you have a good idea I'm all ears.
Shadow options: The blur effect overwrites the shadow. I haven't figured out a way to get both to work. I may settle for toggling between shadow or blur. But I did have the shadow working on a test build so it's doable.
Larger fonts: Easy to change
Different lines: That's where the different styles/formats come into play. Those take a bit more work but I do plan on providing that sort of thing.
Update to 1.3. Includes 24 hr clock, 4x2 widget and increased font max size
Exellent app mate! Congratulations! I m using it whole evening! So good, so far! I have no further wishes about this app! Loving it!
About the click to open app, why not a application in the launcher for the settings?
24 hour clock option should disable AM/PM automatically?
Still not seeing 4x2 widget?
I like shadow because it can act as both solid blur, shadow and the color is configurable.
Blur seems cut off at top and bottom at big font sizes?
I know it's a hassle for almost no difference but perhaps render it as text instead of a bitmap?
I know I sound whiny but this app has so great potential and is already better than the rest of the clocks, simply awesome work. Love it.
New update fixes the 4x2 issue. I forgot to add it to the manifest file... Also I disable the am/pm if 24 hour mode is on.
As for the shadow, I'll work on it next. Hopefully should have it ready tomorrow night. I have code already that allows you to select the shadow color, x & y offset and the shadow size. It should just be a matter of getting it all in shape and tested.
For the app launch. Do you mean put a item in the configure screen that will launch the app?
The blur getting cut off is a side effect of the clipping, I have an idea of how to solve that but I'm going to delay the fix for now.
I don't mind the suggestions, I like to know what can be improved.
Seems the update service crashes(or simply doesn't start) a lot on 1.3.1 with the 4x2 size?
Text won't fill the 4x2 widget correctly, fonts seem limited to a too small size(only 24 hour clock, won't fit width)?
Another suggestion of mine, 24 hour clocks usually display a leading zero when the hour is a single digit?
What I meant with app launch was to have a normal app (the ones that show up in your app drawer ^^) for configuration and launch custom apps with the widget.
Right now I have no clue why 4x2 doesn't work. It works on the emu but not on the device. The other sizes seem fine though. I'll look into it tomorrow.
Very cool looking digital clock widget! Great design.
My new favorite clock app !
What I really like about it is the way you can change colors.. gradient is a nice option.
Nice work mate !
Upload the APK please
Could you please attach the APK file here for the comfort of downloading?
It would be a great help.
Thanks
Arindam
Added the apk file to the original post.
New release now has shadows, more layout options, another clock format and some bug fixes. However I wasn't able to figure out the 4x2 widget issue so it's disabled for now.
looking awesome.
Good luck on the 4x2 widget.
Figured out the 4x2 issue. Still trying to get a good design on handling the app launch feature. One problem is you can have multiple widgets so if I disable the tap to config then you'll have to delete and re-add to change options. One idea is to have a popup that you either choose the app or the config, not as great as just tap to launch.
Awesome...The best clock widget till date...works great on my xperia x10.
Sent from my X10i using XDA App
The clock seems kinda small, seems there is a lot of space to spare. See screenshot, bottom is the size I would want(Self-made clock widget), top is current size.
Awesome update man, 1.5 is simply awesome.
There's something "wrong" with the 1.5 version (market update)..
I've downloaded and installed your attached 1.4.1 file in first post just to be sure my eyes were ok..
When I set clock colours (white 100% and white 50%), the gradient is not as smooth as it used to be on 1.4.1
For the size not being as large as you want, try bumping up the font size and turning off clipping. Set the date's vertical alignment to bottom and the clock's to top. That should give you what you're looking for. And if the font size is maxed let me know and I'll increase it.
For the gradient issue. I know exactly what why it happens. I could go into tech details but basically to get the 4x2 working I had to reduce the rgba depth. I'll go back and increase it for all the smaller sizes.
Yeah, font size was maxed out. Perhaps make that setting a text input, shouldn't have any limits and be precise enough then.
Hey knoxcoder, I LOVE your widget, but as Poodlemastah points out, there's this major drawback of not being able to launch our app of choice when tapping it. This is a must have for all clock widgets.
Most of us like to set our alarms by just tapping on the clock widget, and right now I find myself using TWO clock widgets because of this... yours because it's the best looking, and another one in the adjacent home screen just to launch the alarms app... lol.
Even if it means having to re-add the widget once you add this feature, I still think it will be worth it in the long term... it's just a must-have for most people.
As Poodlemastah has suggested, I think the behaviour most of us would expect is:
Both the "add -> widget" option from the home screen and the icon in the app drawer will take us to the config screen. There, we can set all the parameters as we want them (including which app to launch).
Now, as you've said, there can be multiple instances of the widget, so maybe the ideal setup would be being able to "save" different clock configs from the settings menu (without necessarily applying them to any instance), then choosing which one of them to apply at the moment we add the widget to a homescreen. That way, it wouldn't be such a hassle to re-add them everytime, because the config would be saved.
It would be a matter of making the user conscious of this change by just re-arranging the settings menu: when we open it, it shows the options "Create new clock...", "Edit existing clock...", etc. That way, they would realize each clock is saved independently, and they would be asked for a name first of all, so that they would actually remember what it was called when they want to load it up.
Example:
· I open mClock settings
· I'm presented with 3 options: "Add existing clock to home screen"; "Create new clock..."; "Edit/delete existing clocks...".
· I choose "Create new clock..."
· I'm asked for a name, I name it "My clock".
· I'm then presented with the clock settings screen, which I procceed to adjust to my liking.
· At the bottom, I see 2 buttons: "Save" and "Cancel". I click "Save".
· After that, I'm taken back to the settings screen.
· I now choose "Add existing clock to home screen".
· I'm presented with a list of the existing clocks already created.
· I choose "My clock".
· The clock is added to a home screen (the central one, I guess?), and I'm automatically taken there to see it.
Another way to add a clock would be to go to a home screen, choose the "add widget" option in the launcher, and choose "mClock", in which case I would be taken to the same settings menu as before. The only difference would be that the clock would get added to the same screen from which I called the "add widget" option.
I don't know if this would be such a big hassle to make, or if it's impossible at all, since I haven't done any Android development yet. I'm only talking from a usual programmer and UI designer point of view
Let me know what you think.
Hi Guys
At first let me thank Cookie Monster for his awesome CHT which makes the value of our HD2 become infinite
This is our, which are jonas2295 and me, Nordpolcamper, contribution for all the people that amaze us with new stuff everyday here at the xda developers.
We got knocked on to the topic of this Theme with this little Thread.
Because this is our first Theme we would like you to give a lot of feedback, whether we are on the right track or not, because we most definitly make more than just one theme
If you think, "woah, I do not want to read the whole post, because it is quite a lot" and if you do not need a guide for installation etc and some infos, then just grab the files install and you now what to do But if you feel a little insecure, then I would suggest you read this Thread and I hope, that we answered all the questions you might have had^^
So but now for the Theme^^
As the name of the thread suggests, we offer you a Tron Legacy Theme. I assume, that you all have heard something about the film or the whole Tron...Legacy
Well we worked hard over the last few days and we accomplished this:
The Theme comes in 3 different colors, which are a light blue, a light red and yellow, to make it fit to your personal favours
We edited the HD Mini Lockscreen as well and want to share it with you.
But at first this:
Install this Theme on your own risk. We have tested all the cabs and they do work fine on the HD2. On other devices there were no tests, so we dont know. But if you dont have CHT v2 installed it will not work for you. So make sure, that you DO HAVE CHT v2 INSTALLED, BEFORE YOU POST, THAT IT DOESNT WORK FOR YOU, plz. I heard, that the device slows down, when you dont have an HD2. That is no problem with the files, it is merely , that your device doesnt have the power, that the HD2 possesses.
But now you might wanna have a look at that:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
As you can see, we edited the HD Mini Lockscreen, the Page Indicator, the standard CHT Analog Clock, the SMS and Email Widget, the Toggle Switches, the Miscellanious, the Walls and the Softkeys. As I already said, we to provide all these costumizations in 3 different colors
This is a quick guide, so that you can find the files you need much quicker
Here are some more pictures of the files that you might download, so that you can get a better impression, on what you are actually getting.
The Softkeys and the Switches etc.
The Lockscreen
and The Walls
Of course you can download the Widgets as well, but We didnt make another Screenshot of those, so just look at the first picture
The Wallpapers for the Homescreen are all 1440x800 and colorised by us to fit the Theme. The Lockscreen Walls are all 480x800 and are also colorised
You can get them at the end of this post.
We uploaded the Theme in 3 big CAB Files just choose the color you like most and get all of it
For those of you, who do not want the whole theme, there are all components available on the second and following posts
We really do hope you like our Theme and enjoy the components we have done for you. Furthermore it is very important for us, that you give us constructive feedback and criticism, so that we can improve this Theme and upcoming ones
Now for the Instructions^^ We have tried to make it as easy as possible for you, because we know, how annoying it can be if it isnt clear what to do But if you follow my little guide here you will not run into issues ^^
If you want to install the whole Theme, then just install the cab with the color of your choice, and perform a softreset. If some components doesnt show or you have issues, look into the following guide first, before asking a question that wouldnt have been asked necessarily^^
General
-At first CHT 2 has to be installed
Toggle Switches and Misc
-Just install the cab with the color of your choice and perform a softreset
-You can add them to the Homescreen via Edit mode, or to your quicklinks grid
Softkeys
-Just install the cab with the color of your choice and perform a softreset
-You have to enable CHT2 Softkeys in your CHTE first.
-The Background of the Softkeys is blank.
Page Indicator
-Just install the cab with the color of your choice and perform a softreset
SMS and EMail Widget
-Just install the cab with the color of your choice and perform a softreset
-By default the color of the text in the widgets is black in CHTE. To be able to read it, go to CHTE, then widgets settings, select the Messages/EMail widget and change the main text color and the sub text color to "255,255,255". That will make the text color to white
-YOU NEED TO HAVE THE WIDGETS INSTALLED BEFORE YOU INSTALL OUR THEME!
Analog Clock
-Just install the cab with the color of your choice and perform a softreset
-To make it appear, go to Edit Mode, Add Widget, Main Clock and choose analog 2 for the layout and you are done
Lockscreen
-Just install the cab with the color of your choice and perform a softreset
-YOU HAVE TO ENABLE CHT LOCKSCREEN IN CHT2 AND MAKE THE LOCKMODE TO "HD MINI" TO MAKE IT APPEAR TO YOU. Otherwise our cab will not do a damn thing
-Of course you know, just slide down to unlock ^^
Walls
-First you should enable HQ Wallpapers in CHTE. Got to CHTE, then Miscellaneous and tap "HQ Wallpaper" in Wallpaper mode. Then Menu, Apply Changes and then again Menu and Exit.
Then lift up your Softkeys and tap "Set Wallpaper" press the "X"-Button, if you have any other wallpaper active and then just tap "Very Wide Portrait: 1440x800" and choose the Wall you like
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With that you should be ready to go. If you still have questions after reading this post, than just ask and we will try to help you out
Just a suggestion:
I can highly recommend you using a word clock or read clock, like the one from poyensa, drec etc. Because the look awesome in this Theme
So Now we hope, that you enjoy our Tron Legacy Theme and give us feedback
As some sort of disclaimer now, we did all these files ourselves. There was now stealing or anything else involved. This Theme looks the way we wanted it to look and nothing more But if you do think, that we might have stolen your idea, or simply used your files or copied something, then just pm us on that concern and we will prove you wrong
The Walls were found using Google.com. We edited them though, but credit to the ones who made them.
So enjoy yourselves and you might wanna tap the Thank Button to the both of us, if you like this theme
Jonas 2295 & Nordpolcamper
Tron Style SMS and Email Widget and Tron StylePage Indicator Part 1
Tron Style SMS and Email Widget and Tron StylePage Indicator Part 1
Tron Style Page Indicator Part 2, Toggle Switches + Misc, Softkeys and Tron Style Ana
Tron Style Page Indicator Part 2, Toggle Switches + Misc, Softkeys and Tron Style Analog Clock Part 1
Tron Style Analog Clock Part 2
Tron Style Analog Clock Part 2
Wallpapers for Lockscreen
Blue Style
Red Style
Yellow Style
Madraum made some different wallpapers
U can find them at the end of the post^^
+
Jonas2295´s HD-Mini Lockscreenslider
Bonito77 made an awesome clock for this theme
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10638172&postcount=24
Program Icons
i made some icons for my most used programs
-BSB Tweaks
-TCPMP
-MESSAGES
-Nitrogen
-Taskmanager
-Opera
You can find these icons in the .zip file named icons.zip
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I changed some things
You can find the new ones in the .zip named New Icons
.... etc.....
U need to install JWD Icon Changer (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6332443)!
After installing u can select the icon you want to change and then u have to select the icons made by me
If you don´t know what to do write a PM
The Icons fit to the blue theme ,because i use this ^^
If you like them PLEASE press the thanks-button
Great work guys!
Thanks .....
Excellent! thankyou very much indeed Congratulations for a very good work and nice theme.
Really cool work and thank you from me for this. I think i have to change back to GTX . Hopefully DarkNinja will see this.
Dunc001 said:
Great work guys!
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poyensa said:
Excellent! thankyou very much indeed Congratulations for a very good work and nice theme.
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mike2nl said:
Really cool work and thank you from me for this. I think i have to change back to GTX . Hopefully DarkNinja will see this.
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Wow thank you very much guys I am honoured by your compliments
but what do you mean mike2nl?^^ because of the taskbar ?
it's really very great work
I like it and will try to my blackstone
Ha, been waiting for something like this to include in my SwitchingCollection
Congratulations on it to both of you Now that you´ve started, well, there will be an increasing demand on the appropriate set of icons to go with the themes too
I know which themes I´ll be using for my tests this weekend.
Muchas gracias again
BHS Interceptor said:
Ha, been waiting for something like this to include in my SwitchingCollection
Congratulations on it to both of you Now that you´ve started, well, there will be an increasing demand on the appropriate set of icons to go with the themes too
I know which themes I´ll be using for my tests this weekend.
Muchas gracias again
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thanks,mate
hope you enjoy the theme and like it for a long time
if everything does function after your testing session please post it so we know if everything runs as well as on our devices
I love the icons
i will post some icons for opera,htc messages,taskmanager etc. so everything even the program icons are fitting to the theme ^^
jonas2295 said:
thanks,mate
hope you enjoy the theme and like it for a long time
if everything does function after your testing session please post it so we know if everything runs as well as on our devices
I love the icons
i will post some icons for opera,htc messages,taskmanager etc. so everything even the program icons are fitting to the theme ^^
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You can count on it ;-) I´ll let you know how everything works out.... Regarding icons, can´t wait till you release them. Something that would mae it very easy for sharing is to use the "default" names as used in ROM, so change would be very user friendly If you want the "state indicators" display the text in the same color as the theme, just ask Poyensa, he changed the white for black (to use with white icons)
Great work !
I made wallpaper and yup I know its a crap but maybe someone will like it
Nordpolcamper said:
Hi Guys
At first let me thank Cookie Monster for his awesome CHT which makes the value of our HD2 become infinite
This is our, which are jonas2295 and me, Nordpolcamper, contribution for all the people that amaze us with new stuff everyday here at the xda developers.
We got knocked on to the topic of this Theme with this little Thread.
Because this is our first Theme we would like you to give a lot of feedback, whether we are on the right track or not, because we most definitly make more than just one theme
If you think, "woah, I do not want to read the whole post, because it is quite a lot" and if you do not need a guide for installation etc and some infos, then just grab the files install and you now what to do But if you feel a little insecure, then I would suggest you read this Thread and I hope, that we answered all the questions you might have had^^
So but now for the Theme^^
As the name of the thread suggests, we offer you a Tron Legacy Theme. I assume, that you all have heard something about the film or the whole Tron...Legacy
Well we worked hard over the last few days and we accomplished this:
The Theme comes in 3 different colors, which are a light blue, a light red and yellow, to make it fit to your personal favours
We edited the HD Mini Lockscreen as well and want to share it with you.
But at first this:
Install this Theme on your own risk. We have tested all the cabs and they do work fine on the HD2. On other devices there were no tests, so we dont know. But if you dont have CHT v2 installed it will not work for you. So make sure, that you DO HAVE CHT v2 INSTALLED, BEFORE YOU POST, THAT IT DOESNT WORK FOR YOU, plz. I heard, that the device slows down, when you dont have an HD2. That is no problem with the files, it is merely , that your device doesnt have the power, that the HD2 possesses.
But now you might wanna have a look at that:
As you can see, we edited the HD Mini Lockscreen, the Page Indicator, the standard CHT Analog Clock, the SMS and Email Widget, the Toggle Switches, the Miscellanious, the Walls and the Softkeys. As I already said, we to provide all these costumizations in 3 different colors
This is a quick guide, so that you can find the files you need much quicker
Here are some more pictures of the files that you might download, so that you can get a better impression, on what you are actually getting.
The Softkeys and the Switches etc.
The Lockscreen
and The Walls
Of course you can download the Widgets as well, but We didnt make another Screenshot of those, so just look at the first picture
The Wallpapers for the Homescreen are all 1440x800 and colorised by us to fit the Theme. The Lockscreen Walls are all 480x800 and are also colorised
You can get them at the end of this post.
We uploaded the Theme in 3 big CAB Files just choose the color you like most and get all of it
For those of you, who do not want the whole theme, there are all components available on the second and following posts
We really do hope you like our Theme and enjoy the components we have done for you. Furthermore it is very important for us, that you give us constructive feedback and criticism, so that we can improve this Theme and upcoming ones
Now for the Instructions^^ We have tried to make it as easy as possible for you, because we know, how annoying it can be if it isnt clear what to do But if you follow my little guide here you will not run into issues ^^
If you want to install the whole Theme, then just install the cab with the color of your choice, and perform a softreset. If some components doesnt show or you have issues, look into the following guide first, before asking a question that wouldnt have been asked necessarily^^
General
-At first CHT 2 has to be installed
Toggle Switches and Misc
-Just install the cab with the color of your choice and perform a softreset
-You can add them to the Homescreen via Edit mode, or to your quicklinks grid
Softkeys
-Just install the cab with the color of your choice and perform a softreset
-You have to enable CHT2 Softkeys in your CHTE first.
-The Background of the Softkeys is blank.
Page Indicator
-Just install the cab with the color of your choice and perform a softreset
SMS and EMail Widget
-Just install the cab with the color of your choice and perform a softreset
-By default the color of the text in the widgets is black in CHTE. To be able to read it, go to CHTE, then widgets settings, select the Messages/EMail widget and change the main text color and the sub text color to "255,255,255". That will make the text color to white
-YOU NEED TO HAVE THE WIDGETS INSTALLED BEFORE YOU INSTALL OUR THEME!
Analog Clock
-Just install the cab with the color of your choice and perform a softreset
-To make it appear, go to Edit Mode, Add Widget, Main Clock and choose analog 2 for the layout and you are done
Lockscreen
-Just install the cab with the color of your choice and perform a softreset
-YOU HAVE TO ENABLE CHT LOCKSCREEN IN CHT2 AND MAKE THE LOCKMODE TO "HD MINI" TO MAKE IT APPEAR TO YOU. Otherwise our cab will not do a damn thing
-Of course you know, just slide down to unlock ^^
Walls
-First you should enable HQ Wallpapers in CHTE. Got to CHTE, then Miscellaneous and tap "HQ Wallpaper" in Wallpaper mode. Then Menu, Apply Changes and then again Menu and Exit.
Then lift up your Softkeys and tap "Set Wallpaper" press the "X"-Button, if you have any other wallpaper active and then just tap "Very Wide Portrait: 1440x800" and choose the Wall you like
---------------------------------
With that you should be ready to go. If you still have questions after reading this post, than just ask and we will try to help you out
Just a suggestion:
I can highly recommend you using a word clock or read clock, like the one from poyensa, drec etc. Because the look awesome in this Theme
So Now we hope, that you enjoy our Tron Legacy Theme and give us feedback
As some sort of disclaimer now, we did all these files ourselves. There was now stealing or anything else involved. This Theme looks the way we wanted it to look and nothing more But if you do think, that we might have stolen your idea, or simply used your files or copied something, then just pm us on that concern and we will prove you wrong
The Walls were found using Google.com. We edited them though, but credit to the ones who made them.
So enjoy yourselves and you might wanna tap the Thank Button to the both of us, if you like this theme
Jonas 2295 & Nordpolcamper
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how about max sense?can i install the theme or not because i heard tha cht creates problems with maxsense
Simply amazing!!!
pat2496 said:
it's really very great work
I like it and will try to my blackstone
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thanks again
don´t forget du give aus feedback and if u like it hit the thanks buttons of us
maverickgrrrl said:
Simply amazing!!!
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Thanks mate
Madraum said:
Great work !
I made wallpaper and yup I know its a crap but maybe someone will like it
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looks quite cool
if u make some in each colours and send it to me i will post them in the first post ?!?
would be great ^^
BHS Interceptor said:
You can count on it ;-) I´ll let you know how everything works out.... Regarding icons, can´t wait till you release them. Something that would mae it very easy for sharing is to use the "default" names as used in ROM, so change would be very user friendly If you want the "state indicators" display the text in the same color as the theme, just ask Poyensa, he changed the white for black (to use with white icons)
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We will see what we can do
leoncupra said:
how about max sense?can i install the theme or not because i heard tha cht creates problems with maxsense
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ämhhh i don´t know because we are using only cht and we designed it for it ^^
but if u want u can try it on your own and give us feedback if everything works in maxsense
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This isn't so much a theme as a showcase for just how far we can push CHT now. I have spent the past few weeks creating new widgets and quick/freelinks, editing and adding to existing core CHT widgets, editing core CHT lua and mode9 scripts and basically seeing if I could enhance the CHT experience for everyone. A huge amount of credit has to go to Poyensa, rat_2665, MichelDiamond and everyone else on the beta teams who have put up with my neverending requests for help and advice (a few months ago I had never so much as opened an lua script let alone have any knowledge as to how to write them!). Thanks in particular to Poyensa who's original background widget provided the spark for this whole idea, and to zaxXx from away back for creating the original page switcher widget which gave me the idea for one of the new sets of links.
OK, so over the next few posts I will explain to you screen by screen what has gone into the layout you see above. I will share all of the new and edited widgets, the new links, the icons, scripts, links, tweaks and everything else that makes it up. I'll also be posting the original photoshop files for some of the icons/softkeys/etc so you can extend the sets or edit them as you like. But as an initial overview of what there is to come here is a list:
NEW - Page Switch Quick/Freelink Set
NEW - All People (Contacts) Quick/Freelink
NEW - Calendar (Month View) Quick/Freelink
NEW - MinimalWeather widget
NEW - Extended Background Widget Set (7 in total - user definable) incl edited home mode9 file by Poyensa to allow up to 40 widgets and place all seven backgrounds behind nearly everything else on screen
EDIT - CHT Standalone Weather Widget - 3rd layout option added
EDIT - BL Weather Widget
SKIN - HD Mini Lock Slider and Notification Icons
SKIN - Manila Lock Slider
SKIN - CHT Music Widget incl edited lua and mode9 scripts
SKIN - CHT Standalone Clock (only because after everything else I couldn't be arsed making another widget )
SKIN - Quick/Freelink Icon Frame incl CHT_Freelinks lua edit so contact links show frame but internet bookmarks don't (needed for weather screen)
SKIN - Page Indicators
SKIN - Softkeys and dock
SKIN - Toggle Switches and Icons
SKIN - Email and SMS widgets including (if required) email widget mode9 edit so it now uses a different qtc image than the Sense email tab)
ICONS - for lockscreen quick launch of dialer and camera, and several other apps
Probably more stuff that I can't remember!
UPDATE - Friends screen modified again with addition of skinned RSS reader showing Facebook status feed. Click on the image to jump to the tutorial...
I also use the TouchX cab attached below to remove the top bar background where the page indicators/etc sit.
There are tutorials in the next seven posts showing you exactly what to do to set up each screen. Each post has the relevant widgets, links and icons attached along with URL links to any additional info or software you might find helpful. The BLUE SK-i Source zip attached to this post contains everything. Click on the following links to jump straight to any of the individual tutorials:
Page Switch Links Tutorial - includes new Page Switch Links
Background Widget Set Tutorial - includes new Background Widget Set
Friends Screen Tutorial - includes new All People Link
Weather Screen Tutorial - includes modified CHT Weather Widget
Agenda Screen Tutorial - includes new Calendar (month view) Link
Media Screen Tutorial
Lockscreen Tutorial - includes new MinimalWeather Widget
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask.
Thanks to:
co0kiemonster for CHT 2.0
MichelDiamond for the utterly amazing CHTS and Loco, and for all his help and guidance
Poyensa for his work on the original background widget.
mike2nl and Poyensa for the modified home.mode9.
rat_2665 for the massive amount of help and guidance he has given me getting to grips with lua (and helping me to make my widgets work!)
zaxXx for the original Page Switcher widget
Nordpolcamper for his excellent themes and for letting me bounce a lot of this stuff off him
BHS Interceptor for the massive amount of work he is doing with MD on making theme switching with CHTS even more amazing and for his help identifying some of the manila files I needed to find
Everyone on the CHT/S/A beta teams for all their help
Without all of you none of this would be possible
GUIDE TO THE EASY BITS OF THE THEME
The next few posts cover the new and more involved elements that make up BLUE SK-i and guide you through how to construct each screen. You will need an icon changer to apply some of the new icons to Programs (I use JWMD Icon Changer), and I've included CFCGUI in the Source zip in case you want to edit any of the manila qtc files. But to get you started here are some basic instructions for the centre screen and the email and messaging screens.
Getting Started - the CHT settings
The settings used in this theme are as follows:
CHT lockscreen enabled with HD Mini lock screen selected
One level with 7 pages and page 4 as default
Quick link and freelinks with icon frames, text background and text all hidden
All Snap to Position settings (freelinks, widgets, etc) set to 5 pixels
Enable lockscreen sliding set to On in Freelinks
CHT Softkeys enabled
Subtext colour for SMS and Email widgets set to 11,75,136
Enhanced Animation
Show Page Indicator
HQ Wallpaper
Subtext Color set to 173,233,255 (used by Appointments and Tasks widgets)
Don't Link to Widgets set to OFF so notification icons jump to email/SMS widget screens when pressed.
PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS IN POSTS 2 & 3 to install the new Page Switch Links and Background Widget set before you do anything else.
Then you need the following widgets installed (only install these after you have successfully installed the background set):
CHT Standalone Analog Clock - included in the zip folder
BL Group Weather Widget V3 - thanks to Moonah
The rest of the widgets are new or modified and are included later in the thread.
Centre Screen including toggle switches:
1. Page Indicators
2. BLUE SK-i skin for CHT Standalone Analog Clock widget
3. BLUE SK-i toggle switch set - only the ones shown are included but you'll find a link at the bottom of this post to the Token icon set so you can make your own if you need more. I made the Restart Sense one to match. The lightbulb icon is a Program freelink to Flashlight. Don't ask about the 3G/Auto toggle switch - I could tell you but I'd have to kill you (all I'll say is keep watching the CHTS thread for the next release...)
4. BLUE SK-i skin for CHT Softkeys and background
Email and SMS Screens:
The skins for the email and SMS widgets took a little bit of doing. I wanted the same look for them as the backgrounds on the other screens but you can't use light transparencies here because of the way messages are 'stacked'. If you try to use a transparent message background all you end up seeing is the text from the messages below so you can't read anything. So I took screenshots of the screens I was going to place the widgets on and then used those screenshots to select the exact section of the wallpaper that would be visible on those screens (Page 3 for email and page 5 for SMS). I then took a png copy of the existing email and SMS background qtc files and overlaid them on the relevant sections of the wallpaper image. I then selected the background shapes and used the selection to cut out the shapes from the wallpaper image. I then placed the cutouts over the original png images to get the positioning correct and deleted the original images. It was tehn just a case of adding the same semi-transparent black overlay as the background widgets (15% Opacity) to the new message backgrounds and adding some drop shadow to finish off. Converted them back to qtc using CFCGUI. It is then just a case of placing the widgets on the correct pages and positioning them so that the image lines up exactly with the wallpaper. I reckon the effect is pretty much spot on! I have included in the zip folder the Photoshop file I used for making them which is hopefully self explanatory if you want to try the smae thing with any other wallpaper of your choosing. I have also included the Photoshop file for the three small icons used in both widgets (new message, delete and menu).
Additionally I have edited the co0kieemail.mode9 file so that the email widget now uses a different background image to the Sense email tab so you don't need to worry about text colours on the email tab not showing up if the background you use for the widget requires a light text. If you want to add this tweak you'll find it in the zip in the Email/SMS folder in a subfolder named Email mode9 Mod. The manila name for the new qtc file is
The theme cab attached to this post will install all of the basic elements of the theme which do not require any additional widgets so basically the Page Indicators, core CHT toggle switches, notification bubble, softkeys and dock bar, music widget skin and mode9 edit, quicklink icon frame and CHT_Freelinks.lua edit, email and SMS widget skins. Each of these elements are also included in the zip folder individually as both seperate cab files and just as file sets if you just want to copy and paste.
The BLUE SK-i Source zip folder attached to this post includes a subfolder named 'Cab Files' which includes cabs for the various basic elements of BLUE SK-i, plus folders for each element of the basic theme which contain the actual files (manila files, pngs, etc) along with any relevant Photoshop psd files you might need to extend or edit to meet your own requirements.
The 1440x800 wallpaper is attached in the BLUE SK-i Wallpaper zip. I don't have any wallpaper set for Lockscreen in the Set Wallpaper screen so it just picks up the first 480 wide section of the main 1440x800 wallpaper.
CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE
Wallpaper - Above_the_cloud_by_bo0xVn on deviantArt
Toggle switch icons based on Token set by awOken on deviantArt
Softkey bar based on one I found somewhere in the Android Themes forum - sorry, can't remember who it was by but thank you!
Clock skin is one I made based on THIS - thanks to vide infra for the screenshot
Media and social networking icons based on ones I found buried in THIS set by tiheum over at deviantArt (resized and reworked by me)
Some amazingly useful links for you:
Amazing library of icon sets HERE - by Falloutboy2000 in the Samsung Galaxy S Themes Forum
Amazing wallpaper sites - Wallbase and Interfacelift
DeviantArt for pretty much anything!
Amazing collection of free fonts over at dafont
CHT Home Page Switch Links
OK, so let's get down to it! There are two really cool things at the core of BLUE SK-i, the first of which are the new CHT Page Switch Links. I knew from zaxXx's original Page Switcher widget that it was possible to create something which would let you jump directly to each page on the CHT widget level (Level 1) but wanted to have more flexibility. So I set about creating a completely new set of links to allow you to do just that.
Once you install the Page Switch Links cab and soft reset (the first of many many many you will have to do to get all of this to work!) you will find in the Add Free Link menu a new choice - Home Page Switch Links. So, long press on your home screen wherever you want to place a switch link, select Add Free Link>Home Page Switch Links. IN here you should only be able to see visible the page switch links for the number of portrait screens you have set in CHTE. So if you only have a three screen setup you should only see Page1, Page 2 and Page 3, but if you have a seven page setup you should see 1-7 (you get the idea I'm sure!). Select the link you want and place it as normal. Now when you press on it you should jump directly to your chosen screen.
The page switch links respect your animation setting in CHTE, so if you have animation turned off the switch should be pretty much instant. If you have animation turned on (either setting) then you should briefly see your wallpaper scrolling to your chosen page and then your widget's/links/etc will appear.
In the screenshots the page switch links are the words down the left side of the screen and the home icon in the top left. Well actually that isn't stricly accurate - for BLUE SK-i I wanted to add a little more functionality to the 'sidebar' so I skinned the CHT_email and CHT_messages notification icons to match the page switch icon skin. So the MAIL and MESSAGES icons in the screenshots are actually the notification icons, which means you get the message count alongside and as you know in CHT 2.0 pressing these will take you to the screen with the email/SMS widget on it so it does the same thing as the page switch links. It took a bit of playing about to get the positioning of the text within the 128x128 png right so the message count bubble sat close enough to the text, but also so the text could be exactly lined up with the page switch links when placed (look at the actual icons and you'll realise what I mean - otherwise the bubble would have sat too far out into the screen).
The link cab installs with just basic icons - just the text PAGE 1, PAGE 2, etc - but as with all of the other CHT icons they are just png files stored in \Windows on your phone. They are all named CHT_pageswitch_1.png, and so on. If you want the full BLUE SK-i look I have attached a zip file containing the BLUE SK-i skinned page switch icons, a cab to install them (if you're feeling lazy ) and a Photoshop psd file which you can use to add/edit. The home icon is used for CHT_pageswitch_4.png in BLUE SK-i as it is the page I have set in CHTE as the default page (middle one of 7).
To get the full BLUE-SKi setup for the 'sidebar' that you see in the screenshots takes quite a bit of setting up (there are six links on each of the seven screens so 42 links to place in total!) but once you've done it the functionality is great. I did look at trying to edit the CHT_Freelinks.lua to add the ability to 'pin' freelinks just like you can with widgets but there is an awful lot to it, and as you don't want exactly the same links on each page anyway I decided not to do this at the moment.
CHT Background Widget Set
And the second really cool thing at the core of BLUE SK-i is the background widget set. I basically took Poyensa's original background widget and used it as a base to create seven identical widgets, giving you pretty much endless possibilities for creating cool new backgrounds on which to place and combine other widgets/freelinks/etc and have them look like one complete widget. It also means that you no longer have to build backgrounds into the wallpaper to get this effect, which also restricts you to a maximum of three screens.
I have also added in complete defineability (if such a word exists!) allowing you to specify the opacity value, width, and height for the background and even the ability to specify the name that will show for the background in the Add Widget menu! All of these definitions are set by simple registry edits so you'll need to get hold of a reg editor if you don't already have one.
The attached zip folder contains seven background widget cabs which will install the backgrounds you see used in the screenshots. You can choose to install any number of these and after you have installed them you can easily edit them using the reg changes and new images. However to get them to appear behind everything else on screen you first need to update the home.mode9 file. You will find a cab to install the mode9 and make the necessary reg edit in the zip folder with the widget cabs. The one Poyensa has edited for me is based on a 40-slot fix beta by mike2nl and makes the first eight widget slots appear behind eveything else so I have his original background widget and my seven installed and working perfectly. As an added bonus, and because the backgrounds will use up to eight widget slots mike2nl's mode9 is also modified to allow up to 40 CHT widgets to be installed (the original maximum was only 20) so you shouldn't run out of space!
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUCCESSFUL INSTALLATION OF BACKGROUND WIDGET SET
1. Using registry editor go to HKCU\Software\HTC\Manila and scroll down until you find the widget slot entries - CHT.AddonWidgets.Slot0/1/2/3...
2. Take a note of the widgets you currently have installed in slots 0 - 8. These are the slots which the background widgets MUST be installed into.
3. Exit your reg editor and uninstall the widgets you have just noted down - don't worry you can reinstall them all again once you've installed the backgrounds. You can uninstall all of them at once without soft resetting every time, but once you've uninstalled the last one you will need to soft reset.
4. Install the Modified Home Mode9 cab and soft reset again.
5. Install Poyensa's original background widget first and then each of the seven new ones in turn - again you only need to soft reset after you have installed all eight. You don't have to install Poyensa's one or for that matter the whole of the new set, but you might as well so you have as much flexibilty as possible.
6. Final checks in registry to make sure everything has gone to plan - go to HKCU\Software\HTC\Manila again and first check that CHTI.AddonWidgets.Count is now set at 40, then scroll down and check that the eight background widgets have installed correctly in slots 0 to 8. While you're there you might as well also scroll back up to find the entries that have been added further up for each of the 7 new background widgets - CHT.duncBG1.Width\Height\Opacity\Name. These four entries for each widget allow you to completely redefine it as many times as you like
7. Reinstall any widgets which you removed to make space and soft reset again (I did warn you!)
OK so if all of that has gone to plan you should now have eight background widgets successfully installed on your phone which you can place/move/resize like any other widgets but which should always appear behind nearly everything else on your home screen (with the exception of the CHT Music Widget and the CHT Text Clock widget - no idea why and Poyensa hasn't been able to figure it out yet either).
OK so now you want to edit the backgrounds to suit your own theme...
HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY EDIT BACKGROUND WIDGET SETTINGS AND IMAGES
You can replace the manila files for each of the backgrounds and edit the dimensions and opacity in the registry but there are a few rules you MUST follow to avoid any problems.
The first thing that you need to understand is that manila likes qtc images to adhere to certain dimensions. After looking into problems with the Oxygene clock widget not showing properly on some ROMs rat_2665 and santod discovered that to avoid any problems with images not showing or showing as a white box the images you create and convert to qtc files need to have dimensions (width and height) which are exactly 2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256 or 512 pixels. They can be any combination of these (16x512, 128x128, 512x128 and so on). OK so now that I've said that you can forget this for the first step!
1. Create the image you want to use for a background - don't worry about the size at this point, just get your image how you want it on screen.
2. Check your actual image dimensions in pixels.
You now have two choices depending on how much detail there is in your background image. If it is a simple image (just a black background for example) then:
3a. Resize your image using the allowed dimensions listed above to whatever dimensions are closest to your actual created image, so for example is you have created an image 280 wide by 150 high the resize (squash) it to 256x128. Don't worry - you can set the actual size again in the registry and manila will 'stretch' it back to your desired size.
...or if your image contains high detail such as gloss or actual images etc then:
3b. Choose the dimensions from the list above that are greater than your actual image size, so for example if you have created an image that is 432 wide by 480 high then select 512 x 512. Now resize your image canvas to this size and place your image in the top left of the new space. Again, don't worry if you have blank space around your image as the widget doesn't respond to touch other than in Edit Mode for moving and resizing so the blank space isn't going to interfere with anything.
So now you've created your image and resized it or resized the canvas:
4. Save your image in png format.
5. Using CFCGUI convert your png image to qtc format (I've included CFCGUI in the zip folder).
6. Rename the qtc file to the correct filename for whichever background widget you are editing as follows:
Background 1 - 34AC1773_manila
Background 2 - 4B42A9EB_manila
Background 3 - 34F48AA9_manila
Background 4 - 72D50B6D_manila
Background 5 - 266188FB_manila
Background 6 - 5E4310E5_manila
Background 7 - 303E6A92_manila
7. Copy/overwrite your renamed manila file to \Windows on your device.
8. Edit the background settings in the registry to suit your new background. If you used option 3a when resizing then simply make the Width and Height settings the size you actually want it to be. If you used option 3b then you need to specify the Width and Height to match the actual image size (canvas size) otherwise manila will squash/stretch it. You can also set the opacity value. Finally edit the Name entry so you can easily identify which background is which in the Add Widget list.
If you have copied a new qtc file to your device you will need to restart Sense for the changes to take effect. However if you have only made reg changes and not actually replaced the image file then all you need to do is long press on your home screen and select Edit Mode. The changes will take effect as soon as Edit Mode activates so you can close it again straight away.
And that's it! Quite a lot to take in I know but once you've done it a couple of times it really is a breeze. I'd suggest starting off by playing around with the reg settings for BG6 or BG7 to start with as they are just simple semi-transparent black squares - try editing all four reg entries and watch the effects on background and menu entry.
How to: Friends Screen
1. Friends Background
2. New All People Addon Link
3. Contact Freelinks
4. Social Networking App Freelinks
5. RSS Widget Mod showing Facebook status feed
6. Facebook app freelink
OK, so this screen is pretty simple to set up. Obviously you need the background widgets correctly installed then first off place the Friends Background widget on screen.
Number two is another new Addon link - this time it provides direct access to the All People contacts page. It has always bugged me that the People tab in Sense only initially takes you to the Favourite Contacts page, where actually I use the full Contacts (All People) page much more. So I created this new link. Download and install the link cab and soft reset. You will then find it in the Add Free Link menu in the Miscellaneous section, named Contacts. In this theme I have used a different icon which is attached to this post. After you have installed the link just download the new icon and copy/overwrite it to \Windows on your phone. Then place it in the top left of the background as shown.
Next place as many Contact freelinks as you like (it is designed to take 9, but if you scale the links down you can fit 16 or even 25 in!
Then I placed the two freelinks in the top right. The Skype icon is a Program Freelinks to the Skype app, and the Twitter one is the Twitter tab link.
Using the RSS widget to display your Facebook updates is pretty straightforward. I followed there instructions for THIS post in the CHT thread:
1.) While logged into facebook go to http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?friends
2.)Click on "My Friends Notes" in the right column under "Subscribe to These Notes". The page that open should have a url beginning http://www. followed by something like: facebook.com/feeds/friends_notes.php?id=12345678&key=123e4567d&format=rss20
3.)In the url address bar replace "friends_notes.php" with "friends_status.php"
4.)The finished url will look something like: facebook.com/feeds/friends_status.php?id=12345678&key=123e4567d&format=rss20 with the id and key being unique to your account.
(http://tjshome.com/blog/212/facebook/internet/guide)
5. Open the RSS Hub and add a new channel using the 'I know the Channels URL (RSS)' option and enter the url you have just found. I then named the channel 'Facebook' and clicked Finish.
6. If you only want your Facebook feed to show you need to delete any other channels you have in the Hub.
You need to have Poyensa's modified Resizeable RSS Widget installed (attached below) - if you already have the original RSS widget installed then uninstall it first and install the new one. Once you have the widget installed you need to install the BLUE SK-i skin which adds in Poyensa's mod allowing you to specify the colours for the Header and Text. It also adds in the two required registry entries (CHT.RSS.TitleColor and CHT.RSS.TextColor), sets the colours as shown and adds the transparent qtc files to remove the widget background and RSS icon.
You'll need a Sense restart to make the changes take effect, then add the RSS widget with 4 lines visible.
Finally place a Program freelink for the Facebook app and make it small enough to fit as shown.
Now a touch on the facebook icon opens the Facebook app, and a tough on the text opens the RSS feed as usual.
How to: Weather Screen
1. Weather Background widget
2. Modified CHT Standalone Weather Widget
3. Modified BL Group Weather Widget V3
4. Internet Bookmark Freelink
I love this screen! When I'm running Android I use Palmary Weather and whilst this isn't as complete it looks just as good!
The first thing to do is install the modified CHT weather widget attached to this post. If you already have the original version installed then you must uninstall it first, soft reset, then install this new version. The new version now contains a third layout option (the original two are still there and unaffected) which is shown in the screenshot.
BL Group Weather Widget Mod:
You also need to make sure you have the BL Group Weather Widget V3 installed. I tried to decompile the lua scripts from Moonah's widget cab to edit them and add this as an additional layout option but didn't have any luck so I have ended up editing the mode9 file instead. This is fine for this theme which uses the 5-day forecast with Detail layout, but the changes also affect all of the other layouts which mean they are all messed up a bit. I have posted in Moonah's thread asking for the widget kitchen so I could edit the raw scripts and remake the cab but he hasn't replied and as you can't PM him I am stuck with this solution for now. Now you need to open your registry editor again and find out which widget slot the BL Weather Widget is installed to on your phone (HKCU\Software\HTC\Manila and scroll down to CHTI.AddonWidgets.Slot? and look for BL_Weather. Take a note of the slot number.
In the zip folder you'll find a subfolder named BL Weather Mode9. You need to open the Widget Mode9 Filenames.txt and rename the manila file to match the filename required for the slot you have the widget installed in. Then simply copy/overwrite the renamed file to \Windows on you device and restart Sense. Then add the widget to the Weather screen and select one of the 5-Day with Detail layouts.
The edits to the layout have basically removed the current day icon and temp, removed the black dropshadow, resized and correctly aligned the day name in the details section and sorted out a few minor spacing and alignment issues. Although the current icon and temp have been removed in the upper section of the widget the detail section remains unchanged so it defaults to showing the current weather info, and returns back to it after a timeout if you press on the any of the four forecast icons to show those days detailed info.
The final preparation is to open your Opera browser and browse to your favourite online weather source. For me it is bbc.co.uk/weather and then set my home town as the default location and show the current 24 hour forecast. You then need to save it as a favourite, navigate to the Sense Internet tab and add it there as a Favourite Bookmark. Then you need to open your File Manager and go to \Windows\Thumbnail. In there you will find pngs of the mini screen captures that Sense uses for the Internet Tab favourites. Identify which one is the screencapture of your weather favourite and replace the png with the 'more weather online' png included in the zip. To do this you need to rename the 'more weather' png with exactly the same name as the one you've just identified (it is a very long name that will look something like {94CA7D97-ACD4-15CE-59F1-3E6170C59991}.png! Then copy your renamed more weather png into the Thumbnail folder and overwrite. (Thanks to Framwella for the info on how to do this - HERE)
Now build your screen - background first then CHT Weather widget ('Modified' layout option), then BL Weather Widget (5-Day with Detail layout option) and finally add the Bookmark freelink you have just saved.
And there you have it - a full featured weather screen with animated current icon which links to either the Sense weather tab or whichever weather app you have specified in CHTE, a four day forecast with details, and a quick link to your favourite online weather service
The weather theme shown in the screenshots is based on the Tick weather icon sit by xiao4 on deviantArt. Credit for the Tick skin for the BL widget goes to Mr BeOTP2 who created it for Windroid a few themes back. This skin is included in the zip - just install the cab and it will overwrite the existing icon set in \Program Files\TitaniumWeather\Spil. There is a Sense style icon set for the BL widget by sodycc HERE - you'd need uninstall the widget first then reinstall using his cab, then overwrite the mode9 file as described.
7/2/11 - If you are having problems with the MinimalWeather widget showing a white square where the temp should be then download the MinimalWeather Fix zip, extract and overwrite the manila file to Windows on your phone, restart Sense and issue should be resolved - apologies, just a problem with the dimensions of the qtc image (I should have known better )
How to: Agenda Screen
1. Weather Background
2. New Calendar Addon Link
3. CHT Appointments Widget - Slim Header, extended to show three appointments
4. Program freelink to SenseTasks (always goes to main screen with task list and 'New Task' button.
5. CHT Tasks Widget - Slim Header, extended to show four tasks
I use the slim header layout for the Appointments and Tasks widget as the 'Agenda' and 'To Do' text is part of the background. The I added back in the links to give the functionality to access the date picker (Sense Calendar Tab>Month View) and the New Task feature in SenseTasks. I have also used the CHT Transparent Calendar cab attached below which works a treat.
Why a new Calendar link I hear you ask? Well, the problem with the CHT Calendar Tab Link is that it always takes you to whatever view you left he Sense Calendar tab on the last time you were there (so if you were in a specific day it takes you back there). I wanted a link that always took me directly to the date picker (current month) view. So I made another Addon Link which does exactly this.
To get exactly this look you need to edit the text colours in CHTE> Miscellaneous as shown:
The icon I made for the SenseTasks link is attached below. I used JWMD Icon Changer to change the icon.
How to: Media Screen
1. BLUE SK-i Skin for CHT Music Widget
2. Music Background (lower section)
3. Program freelinks
This is the easiest screen to set up, although it did take a bit of working out because I couldn't make a background for the whole screen like in the other screens as the music widget is one of the ones that always appears behind any background widget. So I had to skin the music widget background with a straight cutoff at the bottom, then make the music background identical but cut straight across at the top so the two could be placed together on screen to give the impression of one single background!
Just install the music skin cab below which includes the coOkiemusicplayer.lua and mode9 mods to change the text colours. BTW, the album art shown in the screenshot is the No Album Art default image included in the skin cab.
Then add the Music Background and position the two to give the single background effect. Then it is just a case of adding in program freelinks in the lower background section to whatever you like. Mine are from left to right:
Audiobooster
FM Radio
myPlayer
Games folder shortcut (see THIS post for instructions on how to do this)
Bookmark freelink to youtube.com (see the How to: Weather Screen post for instructions on how to add your own icons for bookmarks)
How to: Lockscreens
1. MIUI Analog Clock Widget
2. Poyensa's original background widget, Full Screen 25%
3. Modified CHT Weather Widget, Graphic Only layout
4. MinimalWeather widget
5. Quick launch program freelinks
6. Slider Notification icons
7. HD Mini Lock Slider
I use the CHT HD Mini lockscreen for BLUE SK-i because I love the functionality of the message/email/missed calls notification in the lock slider where if you slide to unlock touching on the notification icon it takes you straight to the email/sms widget or the Call History screen.
I also love the ability on any CHT lockscreen to add Program freelinks so you can slide to unlock directly to those apps. I use Camera and Dialer quick launches as they are my most used apps.
The BLUE SK-i Lockscreens cab attached below includes the skin for the HD Mini lockscreen shown, plus a skin for the Manila style lockscreen, although as you may have already skinned the CHT email and message notification icons to work with the page switch links and they wouldn't look great used on the Manila lockscreen I'd recommend sticking with the HD Mini option.
So to build the screen first open CHTE and enable the CHT Lockscreen, selecting the HD Mini style.
Then make sure you have the widgets installed that you want to include. I have attached the MIUI clock cab and the new MinimalWeather cab (more about that below), and you can find the modified CHT Weather cab in the How to: Weather Screen post.
Then from your home screen open the CHT menu and select Edit Lockscreen Layout.
Place the background first, then add the clock and the two weather widgets and finally any quicklaunch program links you want to include.
Once you are happy with your layout just slide to unlock and the changes are saved.
MinimalWeather Widget
This is a really simple little widget I made as an 'Add On' for the BL Weather widget. You have to have this widget installed first as MinimalWeather gets the temp and condition info from the registry entries the main widget creates. I tried to find out where Sense gets it's information from but couldn't get my head around it so this was the best solution I could come up with!
It has three layouts - temperature only, conditions only, and temp and conditions. Also you can edit the text alignment and colors through the registry as shown:
The settings for alignment are:
0 = Aligned Left
1 = Aligned Centre
2 = Aligned Right
Values in the two colour strings need to be in 255,255,255 (RGB) format with no spaces.
Any changes should be live and shouldn't require Sense restart to take effect. At the worst you might need to enter and exit Edit Mode.
Lockscreen Quicklaunch Icons
The two icons I made for the Camera and Dialer quicklaunch links are attached below. Just use JWMD Icon Changer to replace the icons as normal.
4/2/11 - Uploaded new cab for MinimalWeather Widget including fix for wrong reg key name for setting alignment.
7/2/11 - If you are having problems with the MinimalWeather widget showing a white square where the temp should be then download the MinimalWeather Fix zip, extract and overwrite the manila file to Windows on your phone, restart Sense and issue should be resolved - apologies, just a problem with the dimensions of the qtc image (I should have known better )
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(sorry, don´t find the words atm)
Three letters come into mind.
WOW.
WOW indeed!!
Nice job Dunc.
I have known you were busy with this, as I could see your activity in the Dbox.
I applaud you for your time, effort, and skills used to make all of this happen.
I only wish I had more time myself, to join in the fun now and again.
Unfortunately school has now taken the forefront for me again.
So, anyhow, thank you very much for all your hard work.
Keep it up. You've done a great job improving your skills.
Congrats on another job well done.
Fantastic looking Theme !!! Great results
jings crivvens help ma boab!
when I saw this in the today screen thread I was impressed.....
now im freaking out!
you really have raised the bar with this one Dunc.
congratulations on such a fantastic achievement!
Fantastic
Simply outstanding work
Amazing
Wow Dunc,
This looks amazing, thank you for your many contributions. I will eagerly await its release.
Thank You so much
David
can not wait weather widget > hehe. Nice theme Dunc
Hola Dunc, looks very nice but most of all, you´ve done and achieved great things
Looks like all the long days and even longer nights working on this, and learning for this have payed off. Congratulations and my highest respect for it. Keep it up, muchas gracias for sharing and hopefully also "teaching" or "tutoring" others
Looks really good dunc! Great job ^^
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WOW is right. You my friend are very skilled at your work dunc, and you have done such a outstanding work on this theme GREAT JOB this is why I still have my WINMO...
Wow^^ So finally
A lot of things changed, but it looks way better than before You are the man ! ^^
Good job! Very nice theme! Congrat!