ok .. i have an ideea for a new UI for the blackstone ..
those anyone know of an existing skin or UI that allows you to put yous icons on the today screen and move them arownd from page to page like the iphone .. basically an interface on the today screen betwen the upper start bar and the lower one on witch apper only the icons(backround remains the same) and the icons can be sorted on diferent pages witch you can freely move through like the iphone ..
it wold be cool if someone could make this .. ore just strip down the winterface UI..give it a backround and make`it fit between the lower and upper bars ..
please excuse my bad english .. hope you understood what i want
waiting for an answer ..
kind regards
have you considered using Wisbar Advanced Desktop 2 (WAD2) or Mobile Shell 3 (MS3)? they both allow you to rearrange icons and the like. WAD2 is much more flexible, but it does require more work...but it's relatively easy to pick up.
good luck
The iphone look-a-like apps went out of fashion yrs ago you like this plain boring screen with icons?
Oh and there's at least 4 apps that do this already, did ever consider a quick search of the entire forum or the internet?
shruff said:
The iphone look-a-like apps went out of fashion yrs ago you like this plain boring screen with icons?
Oh and there's at least 4 apps that do this already, did ever consider a quick search of the entire forum or the internet?
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the ideea is to have the icons on the today screen(just the background area) and insted of having diferent tabs like the spb 1 (i don`t know witch version) to have them placed on diferent screens and to swipe your finger to move to through the screens with the animation that the iphone has (that will be the only thing that resembles the iphone .. i don`t want a UI that takes all the screen ).. the Wisbar Advanced Desktop 2 seems to do something and i kind of love the ideea even if it`s not what i want .. but it`s too laggy and the lower "start bar" or what ever it`s called is changed as well ..
i searched day and knight and found nothing like this .. that`s why i started this new thread and gave`it this title .. to atract the developers .. maybe .. just maybe someone will love the ideea and start developing ..
P.S. ... i will consider giving giving a generous donation to the guy who will make this possible ..
cheers
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Hi all
Have now virtually achievd my perfect TODAY screen, but for ONE problem. It is just SLIGHTLY too large, thus bringing up a scroll bar on the right hand side- with around 1mm of scroll!!
I have done all I can to shrink and move things, and I believe I now have 2 options left- neither of which I know how to do......
1) Slightly reduce font size on owner information (which I want to keep), AND?OR get the phone no. oto the same line as my name.
2) I wish to keep the screen lock option that appears on today by default (the padlock that stops any screen activations in your pocket). Am wondering if I can add this to one of my SPB PocketPlus tabs as a shortcut- but have no idea where the .exe file is to point to.
Any help much appreciated,
Justin
Why dont you post screenshots. More great suggestions will come in for sure.
Yer tiz.......
Don't laugh- but I love the colouration of the guava theme with the black of the orbit! - just don't like black with black
You can just.... see the tip of the "device unlock" padlock at the bottom of the screen. All is adjusted to optimum (as far as I can tell)- apart from the 2 points I mentioned at the start of the thread- owner info, and device lock shortcut.
Thanks again
Justin
Rainbow-Lentil said:
Yer tiz.......
Don't laugh- but I love the colouration of the guava theme with the black of the orbit! - just don't like black with black
You can just.... see the tip of the "device unlock" padlock at the bottom of the screen. All is adjusted to optimum (as far as I can tell)- apart from the 2 points I mentioned at the start of the thread- owner info, and device lock shortcut.
Thanks again
Justin
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Hi bro,
If you made some search through the net you would find the solution. I've made search, I've found the souliton.
Just try the attached file, I think that's exactly what you need...
Cheers,
B.
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cant you make the size of pocketbreeze plugin a little smaller?
Or just reduce the size of SPB Diary... in worst case there appears a scroll bar in the Diary window...
SPB diary, and pocket plus have been made as small as possible. The scroll bar to the right is what I am trying to get rid of, ans the today screen extends down too far.
zsitvayb- thanks mate- that zip file has allowed me to shortcut the device lock onto the spb tabs. This has reduced the info at the bottom, and lost me the scroll bar. Can now see 5 days of wether- not 4!!
Would still be interested though in any way of tinkering with the owner info appearance on the today screen....
Remove your soft keys
I use wisbar advanced3, it has the option of removing the soft keys from the today screen, then using AEButton plus I made the soft key buttons have the same function as they originally did, soft key/1 press, contacts/long press, and I have lost no functionallity at all with a bit more real estate. Hope that makes sense. Also the features of WA3 are great and your today screen would look even better with some nice WA3 icons on the taskbar. If only it was free.
Thanks unique boy (tempted to call you uniqua- but unless you have young kids, or are a student you may not know the "backyardigans"!!).
Understand what you are saying- interesting idea. Does the wisbar affect speed at all??
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SPB diary, and pocket plus have been made as small as possible.
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That's not quite true. Remove one of the tabs (in Diary settings). After that you can decrease the height by another 20 picsels or so.
But this would then lose the fuctionality that I built up???
Use this cab to remove soft keys
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That's not quite true. Remove one of the tabs (in Diary settings). After that you can decrease the height by another 20 picsels or so.
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If you are using SPB 2.5.5 you can make the tabs horizontal and then add a custom tab and inside the custom TAB move the weather or any other today plugin...!
Like what I have done on my screen...
cheers
Have you tried using slide to unlock.
I find this great and you wouldnt need the lock icon on the screen.
Just a though and help you need pm me
WA3
As far as I can tell WA3 does not slow down my artemis. The skin I use is called "reflections" it can be found on lakeridge's forum. Nice new wait cursor, lovely cascading menus, float window. I like it.
Thanks to all- certainly a few ideas there to try.
Keep up the good work- invaluable resource!!!!!!
Hey ya'll.
I've been working on a new idea for the sliding panels layout. It is fully functional so far, I am currently working on the exe for everyone, so that you may keep your current layout order and all icons, then have them swapped to the new panel layout.
Below are some pics of what it looks like. For all intensive purposes, what I have done is position the layout of the screen so that the panels still move left to right, but scrolling between panels is done also left to right using the icons at the bottom of the homescreen. You still push up and down to scroll between the panels, but it appears as though it's moving left to right.
I am still going to spice up the resolution of the pngs for the different icons, but here it is so far. In a few days, I will have a cab posted for everyone to download. This is a solo project for me, so it will take a little longer since there is no one but me working on this.
Check out post #2 for additional pics.
Let me know what you think!!
Here are some more photos
Here's the rest of the shots I have so far.
the pictures look great.
im just not sure what you mean by the up/down and left/right etc. stuff.
could you explain?
but besides thatttt... good job =]
easy
Simple, Watson.
LOL, what I meant was, you scroll through the panels just as before, there's no difference in the motions.
With this new layout though, instead of your condensed icons running from top to bottom, I have put them at the bottom of the screen in a bar/slider.
Now you have the entire homescreen to display your active panels, and have an even COOLER row of condensed icons, that scroll as you move from panel to panel. That's it.
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the pictures look great.
im just not sure what you mean by the up/down and left/right etc. stuff.
could you explain?
but besides thatttt... good job =]
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It looks like the launcher/panel/bar/whatever in MacOS X. "Mousing over" the icons with the up/down keys shows the panel for that icon. Right and left then work just like they do now. Right?
Yep
Right-O me matey. By the way, wassup beartard, we haven't talked in forever. How's it going? I'll get with you on the im, later.
Hope you like this. We can customize this to make it work anyway you want. This has a bar like you call MacOS X, I'd like to refer to it as more of an "Object Desktop" kinda thing. I will have some more theme ideas for this as well with some new dll's for the bronzeres.dll. You can already see some of that from the screenshots I have.
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It looks like the launcher/panel/bar/whatever in MacOS X. "Mousing over" the icons with the up/down keys shows the panel for that icon. Right and left then work just like they do now. Right?
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Hi i love the idea and am going to try it out.
suggestion thought i think it might look cleaner if the panel on top the active one i mean had some sort of border or something to case it in. I bet that intails alot of work but i thought that might look nice.
maybe a light round cornered rectangle of equal proportions for all panels transparent just a faint white? LOL like the original slideing panels but youre setup lol
Looks really sweet so far man, will it include your weather app as well? Great work looks like it will be a much needed change to sliding panels!
It does look great, good job
Good job, it looks great. So when will this be available to use for download?
I am about ready
I have this setup for layouts already. I am trying to figure out how the hell to customize this for everyone, I am having luck, but it's coming along slowly.
I am glad you all like this so far. I am going to make this work with my weather app, plus as far the weather app is concerned I am gonna have to make it have this app be compatible, so there is a lot to do. I wanted to let you all know that the way this works will cause all of your custom panels to be located over a general "small" icon on the bottom row.
What I mean by that is, this uses your iconpaths in your registry, so that you don't have to use my custom made icons. You can keep your own. But since all of the custom panels have the same GUID value in the registry, it will put your icons for your custom panels all over the bottom row and not look pretty, so in order to fix this, I have to put all of your custom icons in one area on the bottom row of icons. If you look at the screenshots, you can see what I mean. All of your active icons will display over the generic hard drive icon, which represents your custom panels. Other than this one thing, it works flawlessly. Unless I here some serious flack about that one thing I just mentioned, I should have this out in a day or so.
Later
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Good job, it looks great. So when will this be available to use for download?
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Oh right on, well I will be waiting for this. Thanks again for putting something like this together.
Here's some more shots
I have toyed around with having a background for the icons at the bottom.
I am gonna make several different layouts with different pics, but this structure of the homescreen will stay the same regardless. It will always be a left to right sliding look.
Also, I have gotten integrated with my weather app.
Also, I have made some new xml's for this, you can choose from the iconbar uptop, which will have new icons, you can also have one with no iconbar, or one with the topbarnotes plugin on top. All of these will come with a version with a background for the iconbar or topbarnotes and a version of each with no background.
I will post more screenshots later. Got the family thing to do for now, enjoy.
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Oh right on, well I will be waiting for this. Thanks again for putting something like this together.
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this is tight.. i like this.. im waitin on u no pressure
Fantastic!
I love that you have the actual battery and signal strength percentage...
I absolutely love it.
Looks like a useful util
Thnx
So when is launch date?
Looks nice so far...
will it support portrait mode ?
OD man your killing me. I can't wait to try this out. I have been waiting for the install since you first posted this. JK don't rush it.
I would like to learn how to customize the lock-screen for the HD2 I am looking for a tutorial but have not found much.
I don't really want to mess with the rest of the phone just the lock screen for now.
s2u2 is okaaay and the CHT 1.7.1 lockscreens whilst looking nice behave like crap on my phone getting stuck all the time and even though it's disabled the HTC lock cames back every now and then, it's a lot of butthurt and I'd like to have a play.
So yeah, is there a tutorial for working on just the lock-screen of the default manila 2.5 lock screen?
What about these type of customizations?
http://pocketshield.net/skins
pckshd said:
What about these type of customizations?
http://pocketshield.net/skins
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Commercial advice ...
In fact the most customizable you will find, but yes not free.
haha thats what i thought xD
a user named pckshd (=pocketshield) will of course advice pocketshield ...
but dont think that pocketshield is crap, its very good with many options...
if youre lookin for a free alternative, take a look at the lockscreens in cookies home tab editor, there you can for example set the HD mini Lockscreen =)
cheers,
sallal
I'm a big fan
Hi,
Long time ago (I think since I bought the phone and installed the first ROM), I had a wallpaper on the home screen that was moving if I moved to left or right.
It was like wider then the resolution of the screen (480x800 I think), it was like a square, and so I could see a part of it in 1 window and when wiping left or right I could see the next parts of the wall paper..
I hope thats clear enough..
Any way, how can I do that?
Do I need a special ROM that has it? or theres like an app or option or something?
I'd love to get some sollutions,
Thanks !
Yarden.
Hi
That option is not available in Sense 3 or 3.5 because the homescreens go in a continuous loop, so there would be a big line along the point where the edges of the wallpaper meet. Thats why it isnt implemented. That feature is only available in Sense 2 or third party launchers.
I hope you understand what I mean.
Oh, I suspected that thats the reason..
Thats sucks :\ I don't wanna go back to old sense..
I wish they will solve it some how.. like stretching the edges and combining them to a loop or something..
Any way, thanks for the answer..
ok so ive gotten many questions answered on xda and done many things from here also i am greatful for all the help i have gotten .... i have also become a rom junkie of sorts and tried many roms i have three i pretty much stick to at the moment and enjoy ... but im wanting to make a few key features unique to my phone if possible and i am thinking they would fall under themeing or apps so plz bear with me ..... i want to know how i can change the graphics of the buttons on my phone dialer pad and my keyboard??? i have seen themes with blood splatters or what looks like them or paint ball slpatters along with logos of football, basketball teams or whatever else on the space bar .... knowing that they can be changed to look like splatters with logos also i want to change mine from square or rounded buttons to wolf paw print with a wolfs face on the space bar ... is there a way for me to do this????? or an app that will allow me to do so? im really interested in this and want to do so ... thanks