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New Sliding Panel Homescreen!!! ODPanels!!

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.
jcrain11 said:
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
jdoggraz said:
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.
jdoggraz said:
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.

[Q] Can i use a different wallpaper for each homescreen?

Is it yet possible to have a different wallpaper for each homescreen??.. Or are we still stuck with jus the one that spans all homescreens?

wingnutta said:
Is it yet possible to have a different wallpaper for each homescreen??.. Or are we still stuck with jus the one that spans all homescreens?
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I don't think it's possible yet.
Think we're just stuck with them spanning across all the homescreens.

MnmlThang said:
I don't think it's possible yet.
Think we're just stuck with them spanning across all the homescreens.
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hmm.. try this.. screen resolution.. divide width by 7 and in each section of the width add your own wallpaper (in paint) and put it onto the phone and should work.... just thoughed of that so it might no
xx

We're stuck. MaybeTasker is your way to go. You can change background pics and icons by triggering application, time, date, location, event etc. So it's just a bit more than changing a background pic.
(Tried to link to Taskers homepage outside the forum, but as I'm new here it's not allowed. Ok so far, Google is your friend.)

wingnutta said:
Is it yet possible to have a different wallpaper for each homescreen??.. Or are we still stuck with jus the one that spans all homescreens?
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I don't think this is possible. In Sense, the phone automatically scrolls through your current wallpaper.
I believe in LauncherPro, there is an option where you can disable wallpaper scrolling, but I've not seen any way of getting a separate wallpaper for each homescreen

wingnutta said:
Is it yet possible to have a different wallpaper for each homescreen??.. Or are we still stuck with jus the one that spans all homescreens?
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Now you can with "MultiPicture" live wallpaper...works great for me so far...nice transition effects between screens also...just search for it at AppBrain or the Market.

nope
davewjr said:
Now you can with "MultiPicture" live wallpaper...works great for me so far...nice transition effects between screens also...just search for it at AppBrain or the Market.
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Sad to say i can't get it to work on standard note 10.1 with ics (4.0.4)
tried all workarounds in program but no luck, can you please explain how you did it?

[Q] Wide home screen wall paper

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..

How to fit wallpaper as static without stretched

I am trying to get some wallpapers to fit, when i view them they look good for the screen, but when i set them as wallpapers they get realy messed up.
I tryed alot now including apps that should resize them to fit etc.
the wallpapers i try to use is from here:
http://s700.photobucket.com/albums/ww2/aandrew1967/walls/#!cpZZ10QQtppZZ36
Only ones i get to work are the wide ones that are very rare.
Is there a way to fit the other wallpapers you see there, the tall normal ones ?
Hope someone can help!

Digidice said:
I am trying to get some wallpapers to fit, when i view them they look good for the screen, but when i set them as wallpapers they get realy messed up.
I tryed alot now including apps that should resize them to fit etc.
the wallpapers i try to use is from here:
http://s700.photobucket.com/albums/ww2/aandrew1967/walls/#!cpZZ10QQtppZZ36
Only ones i get to work are the wide ones that are very rare.
Is there a way to fit the other wallpapers you see there, the tall normal ones ?
Hope someone can help!
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I think I know what you're talking about. It's a problem with the way ICS and JB handle wallpapers.
I found that using wallpaper wizardrii or multipicture live wallpaper will do the trick.

kylec said:
I think I know what you're talking about. It's a problem with the way ICS and JB handle wallpapers.
I found that using wallpaper wizardrii or multipicture live wallpaper will do the trick.
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Download 'crop wallpaper' from the gplay.

subhani said:
Download 'crop wallpaper' from the gplay.
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I tested crop wallpaper from play store, and selected the part i wanted to use as wallpaper, clicked set wallpaper and the picture is still stretched out and don`t look like how i selected to crop it.
Something is messing up the pics by stretching them.
Also tested the first mentioned app and that one dosen`t work eighter.
Any more ideas i can try ?

Wallpaper Wizardrii is what you need. Press 'Set' and choose 'Crop Portrait'.

if all your looking to do is set a static wallpaper and not have it scroll with screen swipe then you can only enable this on a third party launcher. Sense has a permanent wallpaper scroll and thats why it stretches those pics for you. I recommend apex where you can set static non scroll option.
Alternatively, as mentioned by first reply here, multi picture live wallpaper will also do the trick so long as you set the source folder to contain the ONE wallpaper of choice because sense forces the wallpaper to change automatically to another on screen swipe. If you only have one in the selected source folder, it should just swipe to the same paper of your choice. I may be wrong.

scream_clarity said:
Wallpaper Wizardrii is what you need. Press 'Set' and choose 'Crop Portrait'.
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Sorry that was also a no go..
Must be something that stopping me to crop the pictures, could be some function in my ROM or ST(suite Tools)
Not sure how i should solve this, maby reflash without Suite tools.

I also use apex launcher with wallpaper option set to fixed when I want my wallpaper not to scroll
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My UCCW Skin Collection

I'm in the process of reorganizing and editing my UCCW skins since I know more about it than when I first started. I'll be uploading edited and new skins shortly. The widgets I make currently are all 5x2 size except the Daft Punk skin. That was my first attempt at making an actual skin, I'm still fairly new to this app. I have no idea how to get weather icons to show up again. Once I get an idea I start working on it, and I usually wind up changing a few things before I'm done with it. I'm so indecisive at times it's irritating lol. I'm open to ideas and suggestions, as well as critiques (don't be to harsh, I'm still new).
I was using Nova Launcher with Prime add-on for the Daft Punk skin, Scarface skin, and Elegance Skin. I'm now using TSF Shell which I LOVE for the Mortal Kombat skin, Killer Instinct skin, and Swirl skin. The hotspots I assign and use are pretty much universal. I don't want to "force" you to use an app you may not even want. If anyone runs into an issue with one of my skins, please advise me of it so that it can be corrected. I use wallpapers I've found on the internet and/or Zedge. I'm not trying to take credit for things that aren't mine.

Thanks for the uccw skin. what widget is that on the bottom right showing att lte network connection?

technut said:
Thanks for the uccw skin. what widget is that on the bottom right showing att lte network connection?
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You're welcome and the signal widget is called Network Signal Info. There is a free and pro (paid) version. I'm using Pro. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.android.telnet2&feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiZGUuYW5kcm9pZC50ZWxuZXQyIl0.

Assassyn said:
You're welcome and the signal widget is called Network Signal Info. There is a free and pro (paid) version. I'm using Pro. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.android.telnet2&feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiZGUuYW5kcm9pZC50ZWxuZXQyIl0.
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Awsome!!! thank you

technut said:
Awsome!!! thank you
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No problem at all.
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I make widgets for my frequently used things, here's my latest...I keep finding more ways to use uccw, it's almost endless.

9wire said:
I make widgets for my frequently used things, here's my latest...I keep finding more ways to use uccw, it's almost endless.
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That's a very nice setup you have. You're right, the possibilities are practically endless for this app. I'm still learning how to use it and do certain things with it. I do have a question that maybe you can answer, where can I get additional font files to use for the widgets I create? I happily donated to show support for something that will keep me occupied since I'm constantly changing things around on my phone. I've attached a few examples, but I'm not using them right now.

You can use ttf files, just make a folder called "fonts" on your sd card, I find them all over the net for free.

9wire said:
You can use ttf files, just make a folder called "fonts" on your sd card, I find them all over the net for free.
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Thanks I will search for some tonight after work. I fixed the time on the screen, just noticed that.

http://www.dafont.com/ttf.d592
http://www.urbanfonts.com/free-fonts.htm

9wire said:
http://www.dafont.com/ttf.d592
http://www.urbanfonts.com/free-fonts.htm
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Thanks for those websites, they've come in handy for me. I have a question for you though, are you familiar with making full screen widgets? I'm trying to make one now and honestly, I see why people just search for themes. I used to have an HTC Inspire 4G so I decided to try and make a HTC Sense 2.1 style widget. I can't get the sizing right, and it's a hassle trying to actually use it. I tried to make it Apex/Nova launcher friendly first because I don't think everyone has/wants TSF Shell. You can see the issue in the screen shot, and to do that I had to enable resizing and overlapping widgets and then send the full screen one to the back. I preferred the sizing abilities in TSF Shell because I can be more precise when adding new widgets/folders/apps but just make sure to add the full screen uccw widget last but even still, there's no send to back option so would the transparency in the widget allow me to use the other items on the screen? I know this is a very difficult and round about way to have a sense style look because there are plenty of themes for it, but I was just thinking outside the box compared to what I've already created.

I haven't really tried anything like that, and I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do. Are you trying I to have like a wifget-in a-widget sort of effect?

9wire said:
I haven't really tried anything like that, and I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do. Are you trying I to have like a wifget-in a-widget sort of effect?
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Exactly, I've done it before in Nova Launcher just on a smaller scale and only because I positioned certain widgets on top of others for a look I wanted all on one screen. I've put this particular project on hold until I learn how to use the send to back option in TSF Shell if it even has one.