I'm trying to find a way to make the text I'm specifying look like it's being chiselled on the background I'm setting; whether that background be a piece of wood, or a piece of marble, etc.
I tried searching around for these types of font, without much luck.
The other option I tried was to use the font options to create the effect; once again, without much luck.
Any help would be appreciated.
What kind of font options did you use?
The easiest way to do what you're asking is to find a font that looks like what you want, make the font itself semi-transparent and add a shadow offset by a couple of points to the left or right and make the shadow solid. One could also make the shadow offset by a point or two vertically to create the depth you're looking for.
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Dafont.com is a great place to look for fonts.
Thanks for the tip.
It's given me a good place to start. Tried some test widgets & it's heading in the right direction.
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I know everyone is really into having slim panels. Maybe not everyone, but enough that it is it's own craze. Anyway, I am trying to steer away from that idea just to see what is possible with the homescreen. I have made some Big panels for everyone to check out. They work perfectly.
I want to say that so far there are cprs for big panels for the HTC, 6 Day Forecast!!!, and Normal with background layouts. I will finish the others later. I need to not talk out of my butt and say I will get this done now, it will probably be the end of the weekend. I will do all of the CHomeWeather layouts and the standard 320x240 layout.
Below are the new, updated screenshots. They are sweet. Also, in the zip is a copy of the screenshots and the NEW CPR's. You have to unzip the zip to your pc. Next open up the extracted files and notice they say big at the end of the name before their file extension, .cpr.
Just rename the cpr you want to use to the same name it has now, just delete the part that says "big". That's it, drop into your cpr folder in the CHomeWeather folder and agree to overwrite. That's it. Now your panels are big. I will try to get with Organic to see if he is interested in including these layouts in his next release.
Thanks to Organic for giving me the original cprs, and thus saving me a lot of leg work on making sure everyone is using the same cpr's.
By the way, all links, programs, myFaves contacts, soft keys, everything works like it is supposed to.
Leave some feedback. I will try to make the changes that are most popular. Hope you like.
Update: I finished the iPhone layout. It looks really nice, I think. Same rules apply about renaming the cpr. Enjoy. Check out post 2 for the new screenshot!!!!!!!!!!!
Updated Pics: now includes iPhone
Here's the rest of the screenshots I have.
Update: Added ss of the iPhone layout. These are all the new weather v3.
not bad man not bad at all, I usually prefer the slim but these seem pretty nice. I will give them a try once you post it up. Thanks man.
I think you have a lot of wasted space. Might as well make use of the extra space.... right ?
Thanks for the input. I must say, I thought you would realize, I haven't altered it at all other than make the panels large. I haven't adjusted the images or text for crap. I will though, today. Just wait. I think even you, Org will have something nice to say. Thanks for the opinion anyway. All input is greatly appreciated.
Later.
I will be done with this tonight. I just got home, so it will take a few, but it will get done, tonight.
Bigger panels with more information on would be, as my kids would say, awesome.
Is there a way to mix panel size? Larger ones for weather info, smaller for single items like battery life?
Or am I being unrealistic and ungrateful?
alright.....
The way this works does not allow different sizes for panels. I would love to say there is a way around this, but I don't think there is. Each panels size is declared in the panel itself, but also at the beginning of the file, it states what size panels are in general, so the phone knows how to navigate and properly display them. If, you get it wrong in the panel, stuff just gets cutoff, no big deal
But, if you do this at the beginning, it makes the scrolling "off" and none of the screen works like it is supposed to. I tried.
So, hope this answers your question. I will be writing these files. I don't know if the new weather panel cprs are different than the old ones, yet. I will find out tonight. Also, I will add cprs for the default cpr for the landscape layout. Later
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Bigger panels with more information on would be, as my kids would say, awesome.
Is there a way to mix panel size? Larger ones for weather info, smaller for single items like battery life?
Or am I being unrealistic and ungrateful?
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New Update, check out the 1st post
good job on the update man, respect the work you do out here man good job once again.
Outer, the big panels look nice. Good work! It's good to have more choices. Now we have slim, regular, or fat daddy. Keep it up.
question is....in a regular panel you are restricted to 79 or 80 characters to be printed into that panel.
Can you figure out how many characters you are restricted to in these fatties?
Hopefully you are allowed more characters.
You have the same number of characters available. Just because you make the PNG bigger, doesn't mean you get more characters too. lol
What would be a nice trick is.. either using bigger fonts or using BOLD typefaces And of course... maybe center everything... like the page counters
Since Outer posted these, I've been playing with them and came up with a few variations.
I'm thinking a Nokia with a really big, rectangular screen
...but then, Nokia's were always my favorite phones.
Update: Iphone layout added
I have now added the iphone update. I personally like the new 6day forecast layout, but if you still like the old styles and use one of the other panels for forecast data, then here you go. This was the favorite for everyone for ever. Try it out. The new layout looks good. The new cpr's are in the 1st post. The screenshot is updated in the 2nd post. Enjoy!!!
Hello xda's, altough I'm not that technically savvy, I managed to learn how to create and manage icons to use in creating Chome Configs panels. Thanks to some xda members like Stylez and Nrg for their help so here it goes, and please correct me if I'm wrong.
Find your icon, I like using the icons from www.iconspedia.com, their icons are hardcore and of course hi-res.
The icon size is 22x22 with the highest dpi you can manage. To resize the icons I use Paint.Net(Stlyez ) this program is so ridiculously simple its not even funny, just play with it for a minute and you'll have your icon outputted in no time at all.
Icon Name (like the say, "don't know why it is, it just is" lol)
To have some common factor I use the name Chome in my icons that will be used in my panels ie.
chome_gps_sat_active.png
chome_gps_desat_inactive.png
or you can just name it - icon_sat_active.png and icon_desat_inactive.png but again notice the common factor
I don't know why its sat_active.png and desat_inactive.png but all the icons have to end in that format. Once you have your icons launch Chome Config and create your panel ie. Gps, once you see it go inside and create your 1st page, at the top it says:
Panel Icons:
here you'll follow the aforementioned format including the path of the icons like so:
\Windows\chome_gps_sat_active.png;\Windows\chome_gps_desat_inactive.pg
I highlighted the ";" so you don't forget, if you mess up the icon name or path, you'll end up seeing a red icon with an "x" in the middle, alerting you that something is wrong
The active icon is the icon that will show up when you select that panel and the inactive icon is the icon that will show up when you are not in that panel. If you put the both icons the same, then common sense dictates that the panel will use only one icon for inactive and active views, a lot folks like to have inactive and active icons just to show a little contrast but the choice is strictly yours, and that's why I think this is such a great piece of software, its so configurable yet simple to use once you get the basics. Below are a couple of my icons I used for my Gps panel that holds the following apps: Garmin, Google Maps, Live Search. The little color icon is my active and the bw is my inactive and the original, so you're able to compare the scaled down versions
Well I hope this helps someone and again if some of the more technical members can add some more knowledge, please comment
Good post man, looks like it took some time to do this... So lets keep this post up in order for people to see it and not start new threads asking questions on this topic...
Re: Setting Up Panels
To carry on the subject here is how to set up your CMYApplication the same goes for all panels.
Here is what it look like:
I have set up Opera Mobile
The Red arrow is the name of panel when condensed "not on the panel"
The Blue is the name shown on the top of panel when expanded
The Green is the location of the .exe "program want to open"
The Purple is the location of the picture .png "i place mine on storage card in a folder called PNG"
You may find that page 2 doesn't show as i think there is a bug i have had it on both ROMs hide the page and make a new one to get 20 pages for 20 programs
Hope this helps.
Excellent guys !
stylez said:
To carry on the subject here is how to set up your CMYApplication the same goes for all panels.
Here is what it look like:
I have set up Opera Mobile
The Red arrow is the name of panel when condensed "not on the panel"
The Blue is the name shown on the top of panel when expanded
The Green is the location of the .exe "program want to open"
The Purple is the location of the picture .png "i place mine on storage card in a folder called PNG"
You may find that page 2 doesn't show as i think there is a bug i have had it on both ROMs hide the page and make a new one to get 20 pages for 20 programs
Hope this helps.
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Nice post man... I like the picture tutorial
Re: Making Panel
Here is a video of me making an Office panel please do not copy my location of the .exe's as they will be different.
But this will show you how to make your own panels
Hope it helps.
YouTube:
stylez said:
Here is a video of me making an Office panel please do not copy my location of the .exe's as they will be different.
But this will show you how to make your own panels
Hope it helps.
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Looks nice man for sure
jdoggraz said:
Looks nice man for sure
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I try my best lol just on the up to my Tube, then will post link saves people having to download shame that can embed vids on here, or can we?
I did some searching around, but I couldn't find an answer. Has anyone indexed these panel icons, and the reference numbers for the default? I'm trying to find a panel icon for the myfaves in black and white, so that I can add it to my quick dialer panel. Any thoughts?
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I did some searching around, but I couldn't find an answer. Has anyone indexed these panel icons, and the reference numbers for the default? I'm trying to find a panel icon for the myfaves in black and white, so that I can add it to my quick dialer panel. Any thoughts?
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There you go.
This is such a good post lol I use it still lol as I tend to keep forgetting 1 or 2 steps...
lol, stylez did a great a job on the video, we should have more of these, how about one for featherweather2, any takers
Nice work I somehow managed to not comment a long while back. I figured some of this out thru trial and error but some of the tutorial actually helps me tinker even more if I want too. It just sucks that one must redo all of it again with a simple flash...
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Nice work I somehow managed to not comment a long while back. I figured some of this out thru trial and error but some of the tutorial actually helps me tinker even more if I want too. It just sucks that one must redo all of it again with a simple flash...
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Thanks.
There must be more we can do through walk through edit.cpr? I got a how to change the panel with PE which i could upload but maybe we need a thread deicated to it all?
Blackjack2 you could change the title to something else like Video & Picture tutorials?
Just a thought...
I feel dumb but is there any docs on how to use Chome I cannot seem to figure it out and I don't want to mess anything up.
Thanks!
You're looking at one buddy, just ask and we'll tell you.
This was very helpful, as I was sort of lost. I had the right idea, but some things weren't totally right until the picture tutorial that stylez put together. Thanks so much.
Great job to both of you.
I added a link to this thread in the original CHome Configurator thread.
Opera on panel
Hello,
Ive been trying to add favorites from opera to a panel, is there a tutorial somewhere how to do this ?
I actually have not been able to add Opera mini to a panel but I think this is how I installed Opera mini..I went to mini.opera.com and installed it but to access the application I have to go to start/java/launch opera.. I can find opera in the application list if I use the template for apps in ChromeConfig and it does add it to a panel it just doesnt work lol
So if anyone knows how to get either of those to work would be awesome.
Thanks in advance.
Hey guys,
Thanks a lot for your tutorials but I am still not able to get my icons to show up. The icons on the top bar(_sat_active.png and _desat_inactive.png) show up just fine but it is the individual icons that dont show. This is the case for both my applications as well as my contacts. Any suggestions?
how can i create a shortcut that will always take me to the dialer/keypad. what i mean is that if check my call log and the press return button, next time i will open phone app it will take me to the log tab which makes me to use my other hand to tap on keypad tab.
thanks
+1 for the question. I am also looking for this!
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Hope this helps -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12021463#post12021463
I am trying this. will keep posted if this works.
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nop. that dosent work.
Hey, I found a solution (after almost year after the problem was posted)
Create a temp contact with some minimum number. ex. you can create a contact named 'dummy' and number as 0 or +91 which is applicable for every number you dial in India. Install DesktopVisualizer. then create its widget(1x1) and ask it to launch shortcut of type 'direct dial', select above created contact as target. Now, DesktopVisualizer has a limitation that from a widget, it can not directly dial a contact instead it will launch dialer tab with that number typed in there. We can use this limitation to solve our purpose. Check check box that says launch dial pad blah blah. and done. this widget click will launch dialer tab for you. the number we gave is 0 or +91, so it dose not affect dialing any number ahead.
Hello
Could anyone write me a quick overview of creating icons for the HTC Desire.
I have looked, and searched ( Which seems to search google and not the site), as much as I can through the forum. I am a artist and would like to create a few icons packs, as I own this phone.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
B2k_ru
It depends on what ROM are you using.. If your running LauncherPRO,GOlaucher or ADWlauncher/X then its very easy to create some icons. If your artist like you mentioned, then create some in Gimp/Photoshop, save it as .png, and transfer them into your phone. Then you must find setting in your laucher to change the icon image from your SDcard. Thats not the science
Hey there, and welcome to the forums.
I've been creating my own icons for quite some time, and I've found that this works the best no matter what launcher are you using.
1. Create your icon, If you're going for the 1x1 then a good resolution would be 128x128. If you want 2x1/1x2 tiles then you need 128x256 or 256x128. You get the idea. Save in .PNG and make sure the parts you want to be transparent are so.
2. Move your icons to your device, if moving a lot of icons, USB is the best but if you just need 1-5 icons transferred then Dropbox is very handy.
3. Download "Desktop VisualizeR". It allows you to create shortcuts with your own icons, with or without label texts.
If you want to change the icons you have on the dock, then it's very launcher-specific. I have LauncherPro, if you click and hold your finger on a dock icon, a menu pops up in which you can change the icon, the app, etc.
If you have any more questions, don't be afraid to ask.
Good luck!
Thank you Rafalema!
That is exactly the information I was after. If I could see the Thanks button I was +1 you, but for some reason I cannot.
However, as I cannot, I would like to say thanks again , I could not find that information for the life of me.
Regards
B2k_ru
The Thanks button appeared after posting, so I have now +1ed you.
Thanks again lol
Thanks!
And when you're done with your icons/icon set make sure to post them in the 'Themes' Section!
Okay, I have been reading and reading a ton about moding and even wrote my first android app to get an idea what was going on.
I know where to find the icons (using nijamorph), and am making changes but not having it show up. I am trying to change my bluetooth icon in the status bar. I have found stat_sys_data_bluetooth_connected.png and stat_sys_data_bluetooth.png in a couple different places. Have made changes but the phone doesn't change. How do I find the location of the png that the system is using??
Bob
Have you looked in systemui.apk, res, drawable-xhdpi?
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When i edit pngs it takes me a little bit of trial and error, unless i get some help. You could hit up Naddict, i know he will know which ones to edit.