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[Touch GSM General] hoppinghippos:
Hi Frufo,

ah yes, it is the forward, backward, play etc icons that I am referring to. I have set using touch setting, the correct programs to launch according to the video, photo or music tab and it launches fine. Only prob is when I launch audio manager and minimise it to go back to the cube, the forward, backward, play icons are still under the video (1st slot from the top) position. But this is a minor issue only really I"m fine with it, just wondering if there's a simple way of solving it.

Would you mind however posting the icons without the words? As I would like to use different programmes in the cube like adobe reader (which your book icon is perfect!!), thanks!
[Touch GSM General] evlimeca:
Ok, sorry man im a retard, but do i need to change the files? and repalce them with what? or do i just need to go in and edit the AL_X.png files to display? all sides of the cube work jsut fine even the highlighted files...all except C0.brn. could you give me some info on what needs to be done?

again, and maybe i'll ask a chef to do this for me, but i'd like a list of all the graphical files used by windows and the plugins, I've talked to a friend of mine who is a hell fo alot better at graphical design than me and we've come up with a really cool idea...life imitating art sort of thing. I'm super excited to get it going, but first i need to track down and pinpoint all the files that need to be changed. anyone know of such a list including these things?

1) cube, small and big icons,

2) HTC home plugin, icons, clock numbers, weather icons (although im not sure i'll play with these, they're already super pretty)

3) start bars and task bars for the phone

4) is it possible to easily change the background of applications? i.e. file explorer.

5) also, i'd really enjoy redoing the keyboard skin, the grey and black with urgandy is ok, but it could definitely use some texture.

6) telephone dialer.

actually frufo i'm sure you have this entire list as you've already redone everything. maybe we could work out a deal where you send me the .bmp files, or we could just have a convo and you tell me what all needs to be edited. I'm hoping if i get a list, i can have the graphics overhual doen in about a week, minus htc home...thats going to take quite a bit of time and effort, especially if i get into the weather icons.
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
yes you have to change all the AL_X.png graphics. see the attached file for an example of what it should look like.

actually i don't have a list. but for the cube, the home plugin, wheater, dialpad, commanager and so on all the graphics with a file name ending with .png are used. they are all located in the windows directory of the touch, about 540 files. take a look at these files and you will know what you have du change. oyu can also take a look at my commangager, dialpad, audiomanager skins in this thread to figure out which files are used.

for the cube you have to change the brn files like you have done allready.
[Touch GSM General] evlimeca:
im confused

ok so i can just save the .bmp as a png file then import it into my windows file? if this is true why do all of the other .brm work and not the one? sorry man i just do graphics...no idea about getting it to work.

working on a carbonite style skin right now, its looking pretty good. I wish i was using photoshop though, it has a lot better options than corel. My laziness to go and get photoshop actually makes me use a whole lot more time than it would take if i just took the taxi to the software market. sigh,
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
Again:

the Ax, Bx, and Cx.brn are only used for the rotating animation. when you see the conatct screen the file you see is the QD_Bkdg.brn, when you are on the media screen, you see the MH_01.brn,MH_02.brn and MH_03.brn files and when you are on the app page you see the files AL_01.png,AL_02.png, AL_03.png, AL_04.png,AL_05.png and AL_06.png (one files for every icon).
[Touch GSM General] mikewtw:
How to get cube to rotate both ways?

Anybody here knows how the animation works to get the cube to rotate both ways? Mine only spins from LEFT-to-RIGHT (when I slide finger left-to-right)

When I rename the A1,A3,A5, B 1-3-5, and C1-3-5, I can get it to reverse the rotation flow - but still that doesnt give me the two-way rotation I'm looking for.

Anyone can help?
[Touch GSM General] warriorvibhu:
well should not happen if you have named all of them correctly.. i mean its weired i never faced such a problem.. anyone plzz i would like to know abt this...

I again ask have you named them correctly... just check the original files and name ur files accordingly. thats the best way to check..........
[Touch GSM General] Maalox:
Great slide Anubis9! Can you maybe post your psd files so i can mod the icons in Photoshop?
[Touch GSM General] Anubis9:
Ok,sure, here you go. All the anims in 4 files. I don't know why it couldn't upload everything in just one zip file.

But I think it would be much easier to just use the original A0 B0 and C0 and modify the icons there. And after that make that small animation by rotating and moving the two layers with the requiered images (A0,B0 or C0). That is how I did it.
[Touch GSM General] Biffert:
Flip 3D

Inpired by the Flip 3D task swither used in Windows Vista. A flip 3d kinda twist to the Biotouchcube (not a cube anymore :P)

Have fun :) (Edit: APL Icons are removed - so the animation is clean - see third screenshot)
[Touch GSM General] r0p3:
Wow - that's really great - this avoids lots of frustration if you deleted the wrong bytes and make it even much easier.

Great first post BTW.

What about to modify your program to be able to process a 24bit bmp directly to get rid of the need of Photoshop?

It's not too difficult - I can explain you the theory - I did that long time ago in Visual Basic but I don't have a compiler at the moment.

@ Biffert: Thanx man - this rocks!

I will update the first post later with links to all your great work - thank you guys!
[Touch GSM General] Seed123:
If I replace my files with the ones here, will I be able to revert back to the originals just by deleting the new ones? Coz there are like loads of files in Biffert's version.. just makin sure before i replace mine :)
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
backup all the original files and you are secure
[Touch GSM General] Dannydeman:
Very nice find. But how do you make custom animations? I understand everything, but how do I make a custom animation?
[Touch GSM General] vlodeck:
Dannydeman: you have to edit every bitmap. They all glued up together make animation.
[Touch GSM General] Biffert:
Each .brn file represents a bitmap file that is part of an animation. The complete animations are built from series of bitmaps. See the startpost for more details on which files belong together and form the animations :)
[Touch GSM General] Dannydeman:
Ooo I understand, very nice find. Is it also possible to customize the use of the finger? From bottom to up for example ?
[Touch GSM General] am0k:
i'd be very happy if you guys could work that out.

i'm on 56k and can't get ahold of ps cs2.

and so far great cube mods :)
[Touch GSM General] Biffert:
If you mean the gestures it reacts to, I think not. That is probably coded into the biotouch executable :(
[Touch GSM General] bram_smulders:
am i reading this right??

I thing we can edit the media part of the cube also with this method, or am i just thinking stupid?

Gr. bram
[Touch GSM General] Biffert:
The enitire cube (or whatever you want to make of it :P) can be changed now :)
[Touch GSM General] r0p3:
No you are not thinking stupid and

Yes! you can edit all the graphics of all three sides of the "cube" now :D

Just take a look at the .bmps I made from the brn files in the first post.

You can edit each of them.

But of course you cannot resize or add buttons.

Edit: just saw that Biffert and me posted at the same time - just take the answer you like more ;)
[Touch GSM General] r0p3:
edited first post with all useful things to completely customize the cube or what ever it will be.

Tell me if you find other useful things to add
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
this is my first try, the "louis vuitton style" cube with slide out/fade in animation.....

thx to r0p3 and devil_inside

Installation:

to change the look of the buttons you have to replace the *.png files in the windows directory of your touch...

to change the look of the cube you have to replace the *.png and *.brn files in the windows directory or use the CAB Installer from petervbeck

phonepad and comm manager buttons doesn´t support landscape mode

edit: buttons for audio-manager added

edit 2: link to CAB Installer and to the vuitton style phonepad buttons added

edit 3: link to the vuitton style comm manger buttons added

CAB File from petervbeck

Phonepad Buttons

Comm Manager Buttons

here you find a vuitton theme from rob_pinnington:

Vuitton Theme
[Touch GSM General] ben0s:
@ frufo200

Very nice, can U tell me how to install this "louis vuitton stale" ?

Many thanks,

ben0s
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
unzip the brn and png files and copy them with total commander or something like that to the windows directory. this will overwrite the existing files and change the look of your cube to the louis vuitton style cube, maybe you have to do a soft reset..

backup your files before...
[Touch GSM General] r0p3:
Yeah this is the very first completely modified solution - the animation looks great - and now I have a designer Touch which doubles the price when I ever would sell it. :cool:
[Touch GSM General] evlimeca:
grr

ok i've added the al files to my .zip, but the problem is i cant upload it right now. great firewall of china is getting in the way. (youtube shuts down this week for china, so everything is super sensitive) can someone please add me on hotmail so i can direct send the file to them and they upload it to me. i think otal its a few megs zipped up.
[Touch GSM General] Sponzert:
Send me an PM with you're hotmail.
[Touch GSM General] cirian75:
1st ever post here.

Hello :D

Looking at getting a MDA (HTC) Touch from T-Mobile Uk in Jan08

these alts to the touchflow cube are great:)

how about an Apple (dirty word) style coverflow one?
[Touch GSM General] l3v5y:
I've just created a set of cabs and exes for a few of the designs. Some of the cabs may not say so, but you MUST soft reset your device after the installation is complete. To install a different version, you must uninstall the previous one first.

More to come soon!
[Touch GSM General] nion:
great!

anyone could post some screeshot?!?!

pleaze
[Touch GSM General] l3v5y:
Forgot about that... Doing it now, although, not all of them work I've discovered...

EDIT: Or rather, I would be doing it now, but my screen capture program decided to die, and I now have to find where I put the damn CAB.
[Touch GSM General] Neo XL:
Maybe the files you want to overwrite, are in modus "read only" and can´t be overwritten. Also show the registry settings of Biotouch to Ext_Rom, not to windows. At first they must be changed and the write protection of the files must be removed.
[Touch GSM General] l3v5y:
I think I just put the wrong files in the installer... I'm currently working on a Reg file to run the cube from a storage card to remove those problems.
[Touch GSM General] l3v5y:
Registry settings for storage card!

Create a folder called Cube on your storage card.

Place Cube files in \Storage Card\Cube.

To change transition only Import Bioutouchstorage.reg

To change transition and images Import Biotouchcomplete.reg

To restore to Windows, import Biotouchwindows.reg

Restart.

If there are any problems, I should be able to sort them out, but I can't troubleshoot ATM - Activesync killed my PC!
[Touch GSM General] l3v5y:
It would have helped if I'd attached them!
[Touch GSM General] r0p3:
Hey man - you're so f...ing great! ;) :cool:

you found the reg entries for the pathes of the cube files - you're a hero!

Also big thanks for the cabs and exes!!!

Are there some new transitions/animations among them? Or are they just cabs from existing one's in this thread? (would try them on my own but I am very short of time at the moment - screen shots would help very much)

You will get special thanks and links on the first page when I know more details and get an OK that they are running fine!

Great job!!!
[Touch GSM General] l3v5y:
Thanks...

The cabs are just cabbed up forms of some of the touch files on the first page.
[Touch GSM General] l3v5y:
Has anyone found a way of changing what is launched by the Contacts thing at the bottom of the contacts face to the cube? I want it to launch PocketCM but haven't yet found the Reg file.
[Touch GSM General] mlh1553:
How to...

Im a newb but I can read very well. I have an xv6700 and I was able to just drag the v1.0 right over to the phone and it works PERFECTLY!! Thanks for all of your hard work.

The only thing that I would really like to do is customize...I have saved the so called "one step" rar files with different stiles by VLODEK but I do now know what to do with them to make or should I say apply them to the phone and get them to work.

Can someone please help. Thanks again for all of your hard work.
[Touch GSM General] l3v5y:
I think they either contain a .cab installer, or you extract them straight into the \windows directory.
[Touch GSM General] mlh1553:
Ive tried the cab installers and will not work. Maybe it is not the same or is not compatible with FTouchFlo. Dont know but I would really like to figure it out. I should remind again that I have an xv6700 and FTouchFlo is working perfectly on my phone. I just want to be able to customize it. Any links to the proper thread would be much appreciated. Thanks for any help
[Touch GSM General] l3v5y:
I have no idea how FTouchFlo stores the required files. The cabs should work with most versions of TouchFlo. Does it store them in the ExtROM?

Once I have worked out how FTouchFlo works I shall post some type specific cabs... I'm a little busy ATM so might take some time.
[Touch GSM General] mlh1553:
It automatically stores on main memory.
[Touch GSM General] ccc030:
Fresh Stuff

Anybody interested in an cube-iconset like this... so i'll go on working on it. i guess you better dont use it right now, its not 24bit at the moment!!
[Touch GSM General] ccc030:
....continue..

.......continue..
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
very nice green ones....did you use the eclipse icons?

please share your complete set if it is ready.

btw:

looks a little bit like my skin i made for an german page last month.
[Touch GSM General] l3v5y:
I like them... Make more and make them work!!!
[Touch GSM General] ccc030:
oki, i upload the complete set tomorrow and yes, its eclipse but modified a lill bit to get 3d style. you're german - GUTEN TAG ;).

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complete set will be ready tomorrow evening. ;)

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[Touch GSM General] l3v5y:
Shall I make some cabs for them?
[Touch GSM General] ccc030:
miam miam yes, that would be nice. do you need it converted to 24bit or like the ones i upload.

i post the rest of the icons tonight or tomorrow afternoon.
[Touch GSM General] l3v5y:
What I need is the files that are used in the cube. I can convert them from normal .bmps if required, but it's easier to create a cab from the .brns.
[Touch GSM General] hrvojesf:
Very nice job, but your Reg_Files are broken. 1. Biotouchwindows -dont bring things to normal 2.Biotouch from storage -dont change call scren with faces

Can you fix it.

Can you make reg file that brings all to original Touch.
[Touch GSM General] l3v5y:
I don't have much time in the next few weeks, but I should be able to sort it...
[Touch GSM General] a2k:
Wow!!!

How about a black theme!!!!
[Touch GSM General] a2k:
Can someone please be kind enough to post the blue

AL_xx.png and AL_xx_HL.png files as BRN files for me as my Sprint Touch will only read the launcher images in BRN format.

Thanks!!!!!
[Touch GSM General] a2k:
BRN Conversion Please

Would one of you gurus out there please convert the attached images to brn format for me. I've spent the entire night with and numerous attempts only to end up with ugly distorted looking icons.

Even with the png2brn I had not success.

TIA!!!
[Touch GSM General] dandomin:
Sprint?

Anybody know if this will work on the new Sprint phones with TouchFLO 2.0?
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
the files you have attached are the original blue al_x.png files that where used on the app page of the cube. you don´t need to convert them into the brn format.

you can find all the orginal blue icons and animation files in this post

btw.: the tool is called bmp2brn and with this tool you can convert bmp files into brn format.

i think you misunderstood the first post ;)
[Touch GSM General] veeru27:
There you go!. Attached are the BRN files you requested
[Touch GSM General] a2k:
Thanks again Veeru.

It appears this WILL NOT work with the new Sprint phones.

Images do not show up!! :-(

Maybe given a little time someone will figure out a solution.
[Touch GSM General] a2k:
Didn't work with Sprint's new Touch.
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
can u please give me a list of the png and brn files on our phone?

are you sure that you have to convert the files u postet into the brn format?
[Touch GSM General] sirgawain123:
Luis Vuitton Link Update

LUIS VUITTON LINK UPDATE

Although not related to the cube, post Nr7 keeps links to a complete LV customization.

Poorlyduck has been so kind to produce a LV calculator skin:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=1634802&postcount=55

May be PostNr7 , when updated, should include this link in LV theme.
[Touch GSM General] slypher:
WOW, very sophisticated...i love it!

-s
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
hi,

thx for the link :)

thx for you feedback :)

its allready finished and the files you can find in in this post
[Touch GSM General] masamuneto:
hello

your skin look very good, but i would like to know something. When i copy/paste all files in Windows, i must overwrite all windows icon by yours ?

Because when i look your screens, the icons comm manager, mail, task etc ,they aren't same place than original.

If i overwrite all, that replace all icon lke on your screens ?

i forgot i french rom.

j@ne

cedric
[Touch GSM General] Dangeruss3:
Sprint BRN Files

Here are the BRN files extracted from the new Sprint Touch. I'm going to work on some simple modifications in Photoshop, but I'm not sure how I'm going to get the angles to work on custom icons. Enjoy!
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
if you want to install one of the new cube styles you have to overwrite the existing files with the new ones. after that you have to adjust the programm path, if the order in the new cube isn't the same than your old one.

you can do this easliy with the program touch settings from carlos_uk, that you can find here.
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
i think this should work on sprint's new touch too, the only thing is that the new sprint touch as some more brn files for a smoother animation (A2,A4,B2,B4,C2,C3.brn) you have to create this new files by your own if you use one of the skins here. the old touch only as the brn files A0,A1,A3,A5 an so on.
[Touch GSM General] klmsu19:
i changed png app icons in paint to 24 bit bmp and then used bmp2brn but the icons are kinda blurry on the sprint touch but the gray backgrounds are ok....why?
[Touch GSM General] aloshka:
Cube is stupid

Sorry for the title, but why do the damn 6 programs have to be hardcoded. Couldn't they do an app launcher EXACTLY like the speed dial tabs? I mean just have +'s. Just my opinion sorry to place it here.

I'm working on creating icons from spbshell root menu launcher into this 2x6 grid. Was wondering if anyone else be interested...
[Touch GSM General] daniel_rh:
Icons...

Some icons in PNG format you may like...
[Touch GSM General] daniel_rh:
Preview of the icons packs
[Touch GSM General] klmsu19:
???????????????
[Touch GSM General] frufo2000:
give us a screen shot and/or your files, maybe this will help us to help u
[Touch GSM General] klmsu19:
the zip file has one bmp i made in paint from a png icon posted in here. then theres the bmptobrn.exe (24-bit) i used. then the resulting .brn also included a screenshot of the issue (the bottom right icon for the included files but u can see the top left did it too).
[Touch GSM General] ACE001:
Sprint touch & replacing mediahub

I've got the Sprint touch & I tried replacing the mediahub after stopping it with memmaid, with the modified one but it's not giving me permission to do it. I can't even see the windows directory from my Vista pc to do it from there. How do I get around this?
[Touch GSM General] MrZ123:
Hey all, awesome stuff here. I just got the Sprint Touch, so most of these do not work. I want to add Slingbox to the 3 app side of the cube on the bottom row, but I am no photoshop expert. Can someone tell me how to distort the SlingMedia icon properly so that is looks good when I put it on each of the sides of the rotating cube?

Thanks
[Touch GSM General] MrZ123:
I am having the same issue exactly. Does anyone know how to fix this?
[Touch GSM General] techmonkie:
I'm having the same problem as well. From what I can tell it's because when you try to save the file as a 24 bit bitmap in Paint, it messes up the file. Refer to the original post when it says it's a very peculiar file format. (16 bit bitmap w/ a weird bitmask).

For those of us that don't have Photoshop or access to the original .brn files for the 6 apps on the application side of the cube (Email, SMS, Internet, etc), if anyone could post those 6 .brn files (12 if you count the highlighted version of the files), I would be eternally grateful... I hate having Sprint branded equipment, and I find that their icons are very.. useless to me.

For those who want specific filenames of what I'm looking for, I'm referring to the AL_01 / AL_01_HL to AL_06 / AL_06_HL files. I have them in .PNG format, but I can't get those to work directly with the cube on the Sprint Touch; it wants .brn files only. I don't have access to Photoshop, and when I try to convert these files to the 24 bit bitmaps via Paint, I get the blurry files.

If you need the .PNG files, look towards the first page and you will see the downloads for the Original Blue Cube files.. the ZIP w/ the .PNG files is there.

If anyone has access to these .brn files and has a moment to post them, I'd be very grateful.

Regards,

Tech

P.S. I've taken the time to make a 'clean' set of animations for the default grey cube. If there's an interest for them, I'll post them for download over the next few days. Contact page has the shadow faces on it, but the other sides are completely blank and ready to be modded.
[Touch GSM General] MrZ123:
I am using photoshop, yet I still get the weird lines through the icons. I am saving as 24bit bmp and then using the bmptobmr converter on the first page. What am I doing wrong?
[Touch GSM General] klmsu19:
24-bit bmp should work too theres another version of bmp2brn for 24-bit a few pages into that thread i used.
[Touch GSM General] puck404:
I killed the media hub and biotouch on my sprint touch to attempt to install the BRN graphics but it still said that i do not have permission to do this. anyone have an answer on how to get these files replaced.
[Touch GSM General] MrZ123:
Using the default file browser doesn't work easily. If you download a program such as Resco file explorer then it will force the overwrite.

Anyone have any answers on this striping issue on the Sprint Touch with icons?
[Touch GSM General] MrZ123:
Nobody knows why we are getting the lines through our icons? Are the AppLauncher icons supposed to be put on the phone as .brn files or .png files?
[Touch GSM General] techmonkie:
If they are, I can't get them to come up correctly on the cube once I change the registry files to link to them... I just get a black box where the icon *should* be.

It's kinda frusturating.. I'm so close to making it a 'stock' Touch phone, but those god forsaken Sprint icons are driving me crazy :(

Tech
[Touch GSM General] puck404:
is there an automatic update feature on the weather app. for the sprint touch?