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[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Thanks :)

Do other skins (I mean other than the neon one) work normally?

I honestly have no idea why that one should act weird: they're all working fine on my phone...

I always test the skins before releasing them, but I don't have a 1280x800 honeycomb device to test on, so I can't really try to reproduce the issue.

Could you please try some other skin, like maybe "silhouettes" or "Marble Tiles" or "Polished" or "Glow Drag" and see if they all do the same or if the problem is only on the jeans one?
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Global update for Fancy Widgets clock skins: all current FW clock skins have been updated :)

Details in the first post ;)

Enjoy :D
[Android Themes] Shawn_230:
Thanks for the reply. I don't see what could be the cause either, I looked at the files but didn't see anything that would cause layout issues.

I just tried the silhouettes and marble tiles weather skins, they are broken and look just like the jeans fabric screenshot.

I suppose the neon one is an anomaly, I'll just keep using that for now (I'm using the free version of BW anyway which isn't supposed to have skins, I'm guessing the developer will patch that hole soon).
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Uhm.... I'm maybe starting to see a pattern here.... :cool:

Jeans fabric, marble and silhouettes skins have something in common which the neon one (older, directly ported from my old skins for windows mobile) does not have....

Jeans, marble and silhouettes are all HQ skins, whereas neon is LQ

Sounds like there could be a glitch or something when using HQ weather skins on a device with your specs (could be either honeycomb, or the screen resolution, or both)

You could try and confirm it by testing other HQ and LQ skins, and see if my guess is correct.

Moreover, you could also try turning the jeans skin into a LQ one, just use some graphic software to resize the images to, say, 130x130, and see what happens.

(be sure to use a software which can handle png transparency though, otherwise you'll mess it all up... GIMP could be a nice and free option, it's what I use to create the graphics in the first place)

Keep me posted! ;)
[Android Themes] Shawn_230:
So this did the trick, I just resized them all to 130x130 in PS5.

Cheers!
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Great! Glad it all worked out in the end! :)

Also, nice to know about this glitch.... could be an useful info should some other user meet the same issue :p
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Global update for Fancy Widgets weather skins: most current FW weather skins have been updated :)

Details in the first post ;)

Enjoy :D
[Android Themes] meanmug:
Im glad to see 1 of my favorite devs contributing to 1 of my favorite widgets. I guess know my android phone will start looking alot like my wm phone.
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
eheheh thanks!!! :D

lol maybe even better, if I may say so myself :p

After porting the skins I've made for wm in the past I've already made a number of new ones :D

Not having to deal with the annoying bmp+mask used by spb on winmo has made my life easier and designing a skin much more comfortable and fast ;)
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Released 7 new skins (1x BW clock, 1x BW superclock, 2x BW weather, 1x FW clock, 2x FW weather) :)

Details in the first post ;)

Enjoy! :D
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Released 6 new skins (2x BW clock, 2x BW superclock, 2x FW clock) :)

Details in the first post ;)

Enjoy! :D
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Released 5 new skins (1x BW clock, 1x BW superclock, 1x BW weather, 1x FW clock, 1x FW weather) :)

Details in the first post ;)

Enjoy! :D
[Android Themes] firejuan:
Awesome BW skins

I'm enjoying your BW skins. Any plans of making brushed metal toggle widgets? I really like the brushed metal clock and weather skins. It would be nice to have a complete set. Thanks for making my phone look better.
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Added to my to-do list ;)
[Android Themes] mayfield103:
Hey Cos what's up? Glad to see your still cooking up some great skins. I'm still using the white droids skin. Hey I was wondering if there is a way to make the numbers less crooked I like how they look but sometimes the look like a curvy road.
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
lol but that's just how the font looks, wouldn't know how to alter it :p
[Android Themes] mayfield103:
droids

thats cool
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Released 1 new skin (1x BW toggles) :)

Details in the first post ;)

Enjoy! :D
[Android Themes] apus2:
Vostradamus you are always great! ;)

Ciao
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
lol thanks! :p :D
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Released 2 new skins (1x BW weather, 1x FW weather) :)

Details in the first post ;)

Enjoy! :D
[Android Themes] bababuy23:
Thanks for this compilation of beautiful widgets skin.

They´re really cool...

1 beer for you, and a tuna can for your cat:D
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
thanks! ;)
[Android Themes] webmastir:
nvm. del this post.
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Oh well, thanks for the bump... lol :D :p
[Android Themes] jgraper:
It's a pleasure to see your work here after switching from SPB MS on a windows phone to a Droid 3. I especially like the Oregon Ducks superclock, being a big Duck fan.

Thanks for the great work.
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
You're welcome!! ;)

And it's great to see someone else coming from spb ms on winmo to an android device and still liking my stuff :p
[Android Themes] jgraper:
Any chance you would port the two Oregon Duck skins over to Fancy Widgets. Have Beautiful widgets also, but Fancy just seems a little better on my phone.

Thanks for your great work.
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
I don't exactly remember what it was, but I think there was a reasong for not porting them when I first converted all the skins from BW to FW.

I'll try taking another look into it when I'll find a bit of time and I'll see what (if) I can do ;)
[Android Themes] jgraper:
Decided to give it a shot myself. Used your fine BW skin and changed filenames to corresponding FW ones. Worked just fine. Landscape background is a little stretched, but it will suffice until football season is over !!

Thanks
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
haven't had much time lately, otherwise I would have tried it myself, sorry :p

Yep, what you did should work (as you noticed the background should be a little bit reworked though), but it's ok only for personal use 'cause to submit it to Fancy Widget authors it would have needed more work 'cause the graphics (numbers included) are not their standard size (even though they still work) :p
[Android Themes] enemyneno:
Can someone tell me how can i install this into beautiful widgets?
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
just unzip the skins you're interested in inside

data\beautifulwidgets\skins (for normal clock skins)

data\beautifulwidgets\wskins (for weather skins)

data\beautifulwidgets\scskins (for superclock skins)

data\beautifulwidgets\tskins (for toggles skins)

data\beautifulwidgets\bskins (for battery skins)

or, even easier, download the skins from inside beautiful widgets itself: all my skins have also been added to its online repository :)
[Android Themes] desspil:
Great job, it just what i needed !

Thanks a lot ! ;)
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
You're welcome!! ;)
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Released 3 new skins (1x BW clock, 1x BW superclock, 1x FW clock) :)

Details in the first post ;)

Enjoy! :D
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
wooohoooo 2 updates in the same day :p

This one was unplanned, I got a last-minute request which turned out to be a quick thing sooooo, here we go! :D

Released 6 new skins (2x BW clock, 2x BW superclock, 2x FW clock) :)

Details in the first post ;)

Enjoy! :D
[Android Themes] eli314:
good work

great work... looks really boring to make so much :)
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Well... making them, not so much. Packaging them, a little bit :p
[Android Themes] facetubespam:
sooo random question: I installed a couple of your beautiful weather skins, but only a few of them showed up in the selection menu when I go into Beautiful Widgets to choose the weather skins.

For example, I installed Glow Drag and Neon, but only Neon shows up :/
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Hi there, sorry for the late reply: I've been out a couple days :p

What you're experiencing is quite weird indeed... never heard of something like that :confused:

Have you checked that the folders are really where they're supposed to be and that the missing ones didn't get somehow altered, maybe in the folder name or something like that?

You could also try to simply download them again directly from inside the app itself.

Lemme know if any of the above works
[Android Themes] facetubespam:
Alright, well I reinstalled it and now it works........odd because I tried it last time numerous times and it didn't work then.

Thanks!
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Glad it all worked out in the end ;)
[Android Themes] saul1991:
hey man can you get the clock skin "solid black" for me?
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
I guess I'm still half-asleep.... what do you exactly mean? :confused: :p
[Android Themes] saul1991:
its a clock skin but i dont know wether its on fw or bw its called "solid black"
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Got it, but if it's already a skin.... why don't you just download it from the app itself? :confused:
[Android Themes] saul1991:
Thanks man I think cause I have the free version I only got like 10 skins to choose off
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
If I'm not mistaken, you can get the full version of beautiful widgets for free on getjar ;)

It's completely 100% legal, nothing shady: getjar provides a number of paid apps for free to the end users, and at the same time they somehow reward the developers for every download (I've been told about it by one of BW devs) :)

Give it a try ;)
[Android Themes] saul1991:
Thanks man I checked it out but I the download button only took me to the free fw in the android market..
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
I was talking 'bout Beautiful Widgets, not Fancy Widgets... that's the one with the full version on getjar for free ;)
[Android Themes] saul1991:
Thanks man I got it. Nice find. Can you still upload the solid black skin for fw???
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Is "solid black" the actual skin name? I can't find it on fw skin list

Sent from a galaxy far far away....
[Android Themes] saul1991:
yeah thats what some other members told me heres a pic of it
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Weird... I opened the downloadable skins list on FW, I've put them in alphabetical order and scrolled down to the "S", but I can't find this "solid black" :(
[Android Themes] saul1991:
ahhhhhh man thanks for looking though... can you look for ClassicBlack skin

Namnsdagar

it kinda looks like it..
[Android Themes] saul1991:
Its called classic black

Edit:thanks bro i go it already... thanks for the help
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Sorry for the delay: been little busy with Xmas holidays :)

Glad you found it already! :)

Sent from a galaxy far far away....
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Little update today :p

Released 3 new skins (1x BW clock, 1x BW superclock, 1x FW clock) :)

Details in the first post ;)

Enjoy! :D
[Android Themes] MR_XXIV:
Would it be possible to make me weather skin for fancy widget like the one on this screenshot ?? I would highly appreciate if it is something you can make for me, thanks in advanced :D

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21219544&postcount=3841
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Well, if you mean that layout of date+time+battery+weather, that's not something I can do with a skin for the layout of the widget is handled by the application itself, not by the skin :(

If, on the other hand, you're only referring to the graphics.... I would need the full set of images which, unless you have a source for them, I don't really know where to get :p
[Android Themes] MR_XXIV:
Thanks for the reply ill try and get the images for you if not thanks anyways :D
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
You're welcome :)

If you manage to get the images (along with their author's permission to use them of course) feel free to buzz me ;)
[Android Themes] pvezzoli:
Analog&Digital clock

Hi

How are you?

I wonder if I can ask you kindly if you could make a clock 9Analog clock & Digital clock ) something like the att: picture for the Samsung Galaxy Note?

Let me know the cost?

Paolo
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
I'm sorry but neither Beautiful Widgets nor Fancy Widgets support anything like that... there's no analog clock in them... :(
[Android Themes] moosc:
Do you take request? I have a idea for a super clock skin.
[Android Themes] kikisp:
@ Vostradamus

I think that he means on graphics..this is miui fw skin and i would love to see it ported to bw..

so if you can i would be very gratefull
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
I do take requests (at least as long as they're within reach of my skills lol) :p

What did you have in mind? :)

Ehm... sorry but... what post were you referring to? :p :o
[Android Themes] moosc:
OK this picture no background just the helicopter with the time and date I guess its for the super clock widget on be

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Ok, let me see if I got it right...

you mean taking that photo, removing the background and using the only helicopter as a background image for the clock?

Not sure how it would turn out: the superclock does not take the full width of the screen, it has some free pixels on the side. The helicopter is not whole: its blades are cut, so the resulting clock would seem badly cut off, missing a piece of the image...

Another issue is that the helicopter is not really 9-patch stretchable, so you would either need 3 background images (4x2 widget, 4x1 widget and 2x1 widget) or decide to design the clock only for one of the possible widget sizes (and adapting that photo for a 4x1 widget be a no-go for the needed image is too narrow)

Other than that, you would also need to think of what kind of font you'd like for the clock digits
[Android Themes] kikisp:
@ Vostradamus

sorry i meant on this

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=21219544&postcount=3841
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
I guess you mean that clock+battery+weather in the screenshot?

I'm afraid that's not possible...

1) bw can't handle battery and weather in the same widget

2) when you create a skin you can't really decide where to put what: elements positioning is handled by bw itself... you can only draw the graphics
[Android Themes] kikisp:
no no..i meant only on weather skin..its called miui and its for fw only at the moment..but i would love it for bw too..

thx for trying to understand me lol :)
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
lol now I finally got you :o :D

If it's only the weather skin I guess it can be done, technically. What we would need though is the original author permission to use his graphics 'cause it would not be polite just "stealing" them without a word :p
[Android Themes] Chowmomma:
Anyway you could do a chow chow clock skin???? Pink??
[Android Themes] rhodiggah:
Can someone take a look at this? For some reason, i am unable to get this to work. Kept saying the skin is corrupted.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=22053790
[Android Themes] KoekwousNL:
Hmm don't know yet, need some more time to decide ^^
[Android Themes] 7thwarrior:
been looking a while for this stuff :) thx bro
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
I guess that can be done... will take a shot at it as soon as I have a lil time ;)

Weird, it looks fine to me, at least looking at the files :confused: Will try to put it on the phone and see what happens

Mmmh.... you really need to quote the post you're replying to... I tend to lose track of ongoing discussions otherwise lol :p

You're welcome!!! ;)
[Android Themes] Chowmomma:
Thanks soooooo much!!!
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Released 9 new skins (3x BW clock, 3x BW superclock, 3x FW clock) :)

Details in the first post ;)

Enjoy! :D
[Android Themes] Chowmomma:
Omg luv thank you!!!
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
lol you're welcome :)

Actually, I too love those adorable chubby furballs :p
[Android Themes] Chowmomma:
Me too, I have 3 of em lol hence my username ;)
[Android Themes] Chowmomma:
29 downloads already!
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
I guessed as much :p

I used to have a yorkshire years ago back when I was younger and living with my parents, we had to pick a small dog 'cause we would have felt bad with a larger one and no garden to let it run around free, but I've always loved big fluffy cute things like them :D

Now I have a cat (see signature lol) 'cause I could not leave a dog alone at home almost all day long when I'm at work... and I picked a fluffy furball of a cat of course :D

... and counting: now it's 46 :p
[Android Themes] Chowmomma:
Well chows are so misunderstood, just like me lol

I been showing off my new clock, so love that u added a black one to the mix!
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Nice setup! :)

If I may throw in a lil advice: you could set BW text to pink, so that it will be more visible and it will also look better with the clock ;)
[Android Themes] Chowmomma:
Good idea..

I had played with different colors and had hot pink but maybe a softer pink like clock would look nice, I'm all into transparent apps and Widgets now

You did an amazing job!! Thank you so much
[Android Themes] Chowmomma:
Hows that look?
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Delicious, perfect! :D
[Android Themes] Chowmomma:
I changed my system font to match clock, looks alot better

Delicious huh? Lol
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Yep, even better than before... Just great! :)

Sent from a galaxy far far away....
[Android Themes] moosc:
Ok the standard widgets would work. Maybe a block style font that looks like 3d in silver. Ill look for some more pictures of airwolf and see what I can get..

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Ok, got it :)

If you want, you can also take a look here and see if you find a font you would like to use for the digits :)
[Android Themes] etp23:
I use the 1x1 weather widget on top of mclock and it it finds a way to get under the clock anybody know the fix? And also how do I just make it show the tempeture?
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Haven't played around with mclock much so far, so I fear I can't help you with that :(

Are you using BW or FW?

I think FW could be more customizable when it comes to what you want or don't want to show (not 100% sure though, 'cause I'm using BW) :p
[Android Themes] moosc:
I guess this font will do

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Uhm... and what about something with the same font style, but a less "aggressive" 3d look, just to keep it a lil bit more elegant?

Something like this, for example:
[Android Themes] etp23:
A www I'm on bw :(
[Android Themes] moosc:
Yea that looks great.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk
[Android Themes] TheWeasl:
one married man is understanding the other ;)

TABatalk'd directly from hell :-)
[Android Themes] TheWeasl:
what up...nothin' new? :D

SGTapatalk'd from me to you :-)
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
I apologize for the delay :p

I was actually planning to release today some of the portings I was working on last friday, but this morning I woke up feeling not too good, and all the stuff I was working on is at office...

The doctor gave me some pills and said I'll need to rest at home 'til wednesday, so I guess those releases will have to wait til thursday :o
[Android Themes] TheWeasl:
tststs...that's what i call "la dolce vita", lol...

just kidding!! get well soon and take your time...i'm happy with the 3 skins i got from you already...

hope you get better soon and ask your wife to take care ;)

SGTapatalk'd from me to you :-)
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
lol I will, thanks :D
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Released 6 new skins (3 x clock, 3 x battery) :)

See first post for details and download links ;)

Enjoy! :D
[Android Themes] TheWeasl:
damn...thats useless for me...i need 'em for the weather...:D

SGTapatalk'd from me to you :-)
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
lol sorry :p

One more weather's coming (probably) tomorrow though... ;)
[Android Themes] TheWeasl:
i hope so...that's what i'm waiting for...rofl

SGTapatalk'd from me to you :-)
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Released 5 new skins (3 x battery, 1 x clock, 1 x weather) :)

See first post for details and download links ;)

Enjoy! :D
[Android Themes] TheWeasl:
n1 dude...keep it up :D

black'ish neon would save my weekend...lol...

SGTapatalk'd from me to you :-)
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
blackish neon? :eek:

sounds quite strange... neon effect usually works best on quite light colors... I thought you talked about blackish glass some time ago, that could work, but blackish neon? mmmh...
[Android Themes] TheWeasl:
damn...you are right...this time i'm not out of english, but out of brain :-)

black'ish glass would look great on my light background...

here's a picture of my desktop...i think than it's clearer...;-)

SGTapatalk'd from me to you :-)
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
I'll try adding some light shades of black to the glass opaque skin ;)

Can't give you an ETA though, for it's almost weekend and probably I won't be able to work on it before monday :p
[Android Themes] TheWeasl:
that'll be nice.

and don't rush, enjoy your weekend and if you got time "just do it" ;-)

for now: thanks again for your great skins and have a nice weekend B-)

SGTapatalk'd from me to you :-)
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
You have a pm ;)
[Android Themes] ghenarys:
[Help] How to change toggles skin

Hello from France,

First of all, thanks sharing your stuff.

I thing I missed something because the toggle buttons are stil with old skin.

Thanks for helping
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
OK, let's try to understand what's wrong.

First of all: how did you install them? They're supposed to be placed inside the tskins folder.

Once they're there, of course you need to select them from bw settings menu.

If you're not sure where to put them, you can also download them from within bw itself: they're already been added to the official repository :)

hope I've been useful, and please don't mind any typos: I'm on the phone LOL :P

_____________________________

Sent from my I9000 shouting very loud :)
[Android Themes] ghenarys:
My folder wasn't the good one.

I change it. Now it's mnt/sdcard/data/beautifulwidget/tskins/Vos-Squareglass

I put wifi toggle on one of my LauncherPro desktop but it's still old skin even after restarting LauncherPro
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
OK, now the folder is right.

Now you just need to set the skin:

- run bw as if it was a normal app

- you will be in the settings menu

- scroll down to the entry "select skin for the toggles" (or something like that: my menu is in Italian :P )

- click on it and then select the new skin

This should be it :)

_____________________________

Sent from my I9000 shouting very loud :)
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Sorry then, but I think there's no way in bw to set which piece of info you want to show and which ones you don't :(

Ok, great, so the font is set :)

Now you just need some suitable pictures of that helicopter... happy pic-hunting! :p
[Android Themes] etp23:
Alright man Thanx a bunch
[Android Themes] rawrv42:
Here's a skin I came up with

Its for fancy widgets

preview here:

http://rawrv42.deviantart.com/#/d4pim0a

Zip is below

leave comments, suggestions etc :)

And no....i swear I'm not obsessed...lawlz
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Nice skin, good job! :)
[Android Themes] Vostradamus:
Released 12 new skins (4x BW clock, 4x BW superclock, 4x FW clock) :)

Details in the first post ;)

Enjoy! :D
[Android Themes] rawrv42:
Thanks,

As one of the previous posts stated, inspiration was from you, so thank you for enlightening me :)

~Vrawr

Oh and also thank you for keeping this thread alive and updating it with stuff on a steady basis, really good job, must have taken forever~ (as I go back to the OP to browse the updates lol)

Also, question:

How are you creating your number styles/fonts? are you using some sort of program that generates the numbers or starting from scratch on paint/gimp or the like?