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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kulet78:
Customize Menu not working

For everyone with non working customize menu link see my below reply:

Customize Menu not working is not due to my theme. Please check your registry and make sure you have everything correct. What I did after installing 2.1 to restore 9 menu icons was to just create a new key called "Games" then copy all the contents of My Menu key to it. Then I just changed the Image (dword) value to 8 and Text (string) value to Games (or whatever title you want).

Hope this helps.

I myself had the same problem. It seems that if you made a back up of your 9 menu registry prior to upgrading to 2.1 and restored it after installing 2.1, the customize link is not working. So I just re-installed 2.1 again to restore default registry settings and manually added the 9th menu.

And for others with memory problems, my themes use a lot of graphics and multiple pages so naturally this will suck up a lot of memory.

I'm in the middle of creating a lighter version with only Launcher, Homescreen and 1 Contact page. No more MRU, no more Calendar. Calendar is integrated in the Time page.

I try to create 1 theme that would suit most people's need and variations for others with odd need but I can't accomedate all since this is only a hobby of mine.

Hope this clarifies some things. Have a good one.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
Thanks kulet78 for your themes! :)

I know kulet couldn't accomodate all requests so i tried to learn how to modify custom themes to suit my needs. Mostly, I just change icons, slightly modify layouts, rearrange tabs, and add items that is not included in the original custom theme like the connection icon, just to suit my needs.

Again, thanks kulet! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] henk-jan:
Kult78: thanks!

Kulet78: you are my man. Al your skins are awful good. The colors are great, the concept is great, everything is great, also the memory consumption, but it is worth all of it. Thanks a lot!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] henk-jan:
Kulet78: thanks!

Kulet78: you are my man. Al your skins are awful good. The colors are great, the concept is great, everything is great, also the memory consumption, but it is worth all of it. Thanks a lot!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gabriel713281:
Does anyone have the full version??!?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RoboDad:
OK, I have finally finished my updates, so here is release 2.1 of the PointUI theme.

As you can see in the screenshots, I have incorporated the connection information into all but the basic Now tab. I tried to suppress the carrier name from the display, but I was unable to find a way to hide it. If anyone else has succeeded in this, let me know and I'll try to add it to my theme. I have also included a new Voicemail icon, as well as newly-upgraded Stardock weather icons (including larger 96x96 icons for the weather page, and a full set of 16x16 icons for the detail displays).

Other changes are the inclusion of the current time on the calendar tab, an additional menu icon choice based on the Pocket Informant logo for those who don't want a Games icon (settable via the registry), and a plethora of layout options for using the theme. I received so many requests for different variations of tab layouts and placement of the calendar info, that I decided to split the theme into two parts. The first part (RoboDad's PointUI 2.1 Base.zip) contains all of the graphic embellishments, but none of the layout information. To use the theme, you will need to copy the base file, plus one of the layout files, to your SPB folder on your device. You have ten, count 'em, TEN layouts to choose from. Here is the breakdown:

Layout-tabcal contains the basic calendar on a separate tab, but no MRU tab, and no close button.

Layout-tabcal+close contains the basic calendar on a separate tab, and a close button, but no MRU tab.

Layout-tabcal+mru contains the basic calendar on a separate tab, and an MRU tab, but no close button.

Layout-ext_tabcal contains the extended calendar on a separate tab, but no MRU tab, and no close button.

Layout-ext_tabcal+close contains the extended calendar on a separate tab, and a close button, but no MRU tab.

Layout-ext_tabcal+mru contains the extended calendar on a separate tab, and an MRU tab, but no close button.

Layout-timecal contains the calendar on the time page, but no calendar tab, no MRU tab, and no close button.

Layout-timecal+close contains the calendar on the time page, and a close button, but no calendar tab, and no MRU tab.

Layout-timecal+mru contains the calendar on the time page, and an MRU tab, but no calendar tab, and no close button.

Layout-timecal+mru+close contains the calendar on the time page, and an MRU tab and close button, but no calendar tab.

I know that probably looks a bit confusing, but it is really pretty simple. You just need to decide whether you want the basic calendar tab, the extended calendar tab, or the calendar on the Time page, and then choose between having an MRU tab and/or a close button, or neither.

I don't seem to be able to attach any files right now, but as soon as I can, I will post everything.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Moe5508:
Hey Robodad, can you please post here...P1tater's dedicated folder for SPB Mobile Shell v2.1?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RoboDad:
Done! The files are in a "RoboDad's PointUI Theme" subfolder.

Here's a link to the share again, in case someone needs it:

http://www.4shared.com/dir/6846995/ed0c1081/SPB_Mobile_Shell_21_Icons.html
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mkpugh:
3 Contact Pages

Hi

Fantastic theme. Would it be possible to do a version of Layout-ext_tabcal+mru but with 3 contact pages?

Mike:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iNiels:
Great but.....

Greatball,

I love really love the theme its looking verry nice but i have a few question,

- i don't like the iconset sorry is there possibility to release a few versions with different iconsets?

- is it possible to change the names off the contact pages in ex. Favorites, Private and change the not used icons or change the 9 to 6 icons per page?

Keep up the good work and sorry for my english!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gfreek:
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Bravo Greatbal and 420Mac (by far the best vista theme)! you guys have certainly raised the bar in terms of graphics:)

420Mac my only small criticism would be the launcher icons if you don't mind can I change the icons, as I have some nicer vista folder icons that would really complement your theme. let me know what you think.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Telephonmann:
@420Mac: Very nice - just don't like the wallpaper that much ;)

Could you please tell me how to remove it?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jbh00jh:
Can one of you savvy guys put the Diamond Theme in a cab file so

us not so experienced

guys can install it on a

vzw xv6900????

Pleeeeezzzzeeee!!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] alunde:
Bravo Greatbal and 420Mac (by far the best vista theme)! you guys have certainly raised the bar in terms of graphics:)

420Mac my only small criticism would be the launcher icons if you don't mind can I change the icons, as I have some nicer vista folder icons that would really complement your theme. let me know what you think.[/QUOTE]

Hi gfreek,

Great looking theme.

One prob,it eats up RAM??

I have been using the Sony PS3 skin for som time and after a softreeset i have 19mb of ram.

With this Skin i have 5,5mb free??

Anybody why is this??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] avram_z:
There is a CAB in post no.746.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dirtred:
i wish i knew how to do what you mean.the last time robodad made the key and upped it here.i wish someone would do that now.......................please:confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] newtonik:
Nice theme 420Mac, I may try to see how it looks with the Blueray background. Blueray is my favorite color and I have pretty much everything (backround, comm manager, wmp, sus2) in BlueRay thanks to kulet.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Telephonmann:
Here it is:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mic_888:
looking forward to this! :D

what a good looking theme - thank you to greatbal!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] notisz:
If someone could help the poor vga screen users by converting these beautiful themes to vga

:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mic_888:
I really like the digital clock so I renamed the da_dclock.dat to ma_dclock.dat and copied this over to my mobile shell folder and it displayed in the now screen - but I've got a square screen so it was skewed to the left and wasn't quite big or wide enough.

So I edited the index.xml file plus resized the dface_m.bmp file just a little then re-encrypted the dat file.

When I soft reset though, my now screen just came up with no clock.....I've tried re-editing the index.xml and bmps again and again with different co-ords and just tiny increments from the orig data but no joy.....

Can anyone give me some advice..??? :confused:

When I have more time I'd really like to have a go at creating my own theme for square screens as I'm getting quite jealous of all the stuff out here!! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dirtred:
LIFESAVER!:)thanx a mil!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sobralito:
I'm using greatbal theme por SPB MS2.1 and it's great. I've only one small problem. I want to use a button to call the dial tab but when i assign dial tab to a button i get the weather tab. Does anyone know how to fix this ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kwickone:
Hey guys, I am not a skinner by any means, but i would like to play around with the .dat files anyway...mostly for layout changes.

I know there is a beginner thread for Mobile Shell with some really good info, and a how to change icons thread.

What I was hoping for is a BASIC list of each relevant .dat file, what each file is for, and maybe what the basic changes one might make are.

I apologize if that sounds like a lot. I was just thinking of something like this:

qa_layouts.dat ---> primary file for MS tab layout ---> can add/remove tabs, change this or that, etc.

Anyone else think this would be valuable besides me?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] formula84:
^^^^^BUMP^^^^^
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] CCRRAR:
The following post has a link to a French language site that has a PDF attached. I do not speak French but you can decifer alot of information. If anyone wants to attempt to translate it that would be spectacular.

Rob

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=378367&page=19 post #185
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] samadhi23:
thank u all

special thanks to greatbal ... i#am new here, but i still know all your skins !!! i love it ...

every skin is beautiful and i love this forum !!!!

@GREATBAL: are u still workin on the wm7 theme???/skin??? for 2.1?

i can't wait for that!! :)

at the moment i use the diamond skin!! awesome!!! thx for that!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kwickone:
Excellent find. I cannot translate, but maybe someone can!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dianeofarcadia:
replacing the subcontact page

I have picked up robodad's blue theme and absolutely love it, although my problem is with the spb contact page (with the dial pad). The print is tad to small for me. ;)

I would like to replace the .dat file back to the original. Will I be able to do that to just that page and still keep the theme for the rest of the shell? - if so what would the file(s) names be so I can restore just those. (is the contact list page with the dial pad on it).

Thank You - and everyone here has some amazing stuff!! Looking forward to seeing more.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jopiej:
Combination of Sony PS3 Icon with Diamond Clock

Guys,, this is a combination of Diamond's and sony PS3 themes for 240X240 screen.

I haven't converting all greatbal's diamond themes yet, just wanna share these good looking clock and Icon for square screen user.. :D

enjoy!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NiteStalker:
Carbon & Aluminum [Final]

Heres the completed release for SPB Mobile Shell 2.1, will be completing the dialer and today tsk soon.

Rename qa_logo_lamborghini.dat file, to qa_logo.dat to change the display from ferrari to lamborghini images. I will release more Logos when the dialer and tsk are released.

At popular request here is the full release, DOWNLOAD HERE!

Enjoy! I used Ferrari as the default, but I did make it easy to change the logo. Rename qa_logo_lamborghini.dat file, to qa_logo.dat to change the display from ferrari to lamborghini images.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mikentucson:
Diamond Theme - QA_Layouts

could someone edit the qa_layouts.dat file on the Diamond Theme so you can gesture through the whole theme..

Digital Clock/Calendar/MRU/Weather/1contact-page

exclude:

Analog Clock

Programs Menu (keep MRU page)

1 contact page

i've been trying to edit all the appropriate files and can't get it right for the life of me.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Hugo381:
Any possibility to request this theme without the Games Icon, instead have a File Explorer Icon. I make that games menu into a File Explorer. Looks fantastic though. Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] firesong:
Any ETA for landscape support?

Appreciated.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aamk:
Thanks for the great theme. I have tried on my device and got the following problems;

1-weather screen as attached,:confused:

2- the date shows only the day "22."

3- the top bar is a little bit mixed.

All other screens are great and organized.

Can this be fixed???:(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RoboDad:
Are you talking about the Speed Dial page, or the actual dialpad page? My themes so far haven't made any changes to the dialpad, so there shouldn't be anything unusual about the font on that page. I did reduce the size on the Speed Dial page a little, but not much.

Unfortunately, there isn't any way to selectively pull that page out of the layout without either a) losing all of the other layout changes, or b) editing the layout files to change the font to a more useful size.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nameht83:
greatbal another question for you:

Is it possible to replace the big weather screen with the detailed weather screen?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] thorus:
Nice one !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tft:
anyone creating some cool blue skins?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tft:
is it possible to have this theme in blue, like spb 2.1 shell blue? once you are finish is it easy to make other colors? or maybe provide some additional background colors.

cheers
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fmc000:
Nice work. Many thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] paulsg63:
OK... Here is the qa_layouts for:

gestures through correctly the following screens...

Today, Calendar, Launcher and Weather.

The only issues are, I can't find where to move the tab backgrounds to be in the same spots as the tabs. ... lil help?

Also, the date on the Calendar banner could be a size bigger.

Other than that... it works.

Paul G

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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wittanny:
Hi jopiej,

Nice one. Care to make 240x320 and 320x240? or could you tell me how to do it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dianeofarcadia:
I got the user guide out to be sure about the page. It is the spb contact page, the lower portion is a look up guide/tool....

but thank you for answering the question. I am just going to get use to it because I don't want to loose this one. ;)

thanks again.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] abumhmmd1:
same request !!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Dredd67:
Ha. That's a nice one. I really love the PS3 icons. :D

Good job ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
sorry, nobody at the moment knows how. if you read through the thread, i posted that I can't put more details on the weatherpage as in city name, etc. Took me 2 sleepless nights to finally give up. :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jopiej:
Yes Indeed.. thanks a lot for your nice Icon's.. hehe.. :)

combine with greatbal's diamonds clock.. it is a perfect themes for me now.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] !Kernel Panic!:
Greatbal - love the theme but only 1 tiny little issue...my carrier name appears over top of the volume & battery icon. Has anyone else experienced this?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] _KaPPa_:
I have the same problem... :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] paulojdaniel:
Me too... any help...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jopiej:
hi.. yap sure.. what themes are you using now?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tom108:
to change the Carrier name use this.

http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-personalizer-v2-0.html
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jbh00jh:
I downloaded the cab

(thanks) and it's great!

The only problem I found was the battery,

carrier name,and volume

icons are all on top of each other. Other than that,it rocks!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jbh00jh:
Thanks man , that fixed

my problem !!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Heefy:
Me too unfortunately. Is there a planned fix soon to be released? I have seen the link to the free ware site allowing you to download software that allows you to change the carriers name but I can see how it will help as it the location of the carriers name that appears to be at fault.

Looking forward to an update. Thanks for this great theme.

H
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wittanny:
I modified (with my little knowledge) azzambm's iPhone Styled theme:

I really love to have greatbal's clock in PS3 theme (other things just like PS3)

Please.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] IABovine:
greatbal, this is absolutely the best theme I've seen to date (and I've played with a lot). Excellent work. Just out of curiosity what are you using as a home page theme with it?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pntzamaras:
any chance that you can convert any of this for 320x320 screen? (samsung i780)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
i installed SPBWatcher. So I don't have a Today theme. My default home is the SPB Now screen. :)

I did post the background images few pages back, for those would like to make this as the wallpaper.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
Fantastic, this may be the one I use, just a quick question, what are the last two icons in the bottom tray? I assume contacts and weather maybe?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bapssystupr3m3:
not trying to rush u greatbal as you're so great with the diamond theme start already...but any eta on when the next one will come out with the fix for spbphonesuite and landscape?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jonesj8:
So has anyone else experienced this problem with the Diamond theme, It seems as soon as I installed this theme onto my HTC Touch it started to lag. Not really sure why that would happen because it isnt really that different than the other themes besides the look. Could it possibly be all the extra tabs for the 3 different photo dialers, 2 clocks, and 2 programs?

If this is causing other people problems then my request is to eliminate the extra tabs and just have the one clock, and the one dialer tab. This would also re-enable the slide across the screen to work as it did previously. If you have this theme then you know exactly what Im refering to. Thanks for the input...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] txzman:
jopiej - great job for us Treo users. Question: I know the instructions for adding the 9th icon are in this thread - but for some reason I cannot find it. Do you have the 9th icon / instructions for this black theme? Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
I don't know if I could ever make a fix for those using SPB Phone Suites. I don't use it.

Re landscape support, just keep posted. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] _KaPPa_:
That program change only the operator name....

don't fix the bug...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] louiedoesit:
i had the same issue .. i had 2.0 then i install 2.1 as it comes .. then i change my server name to \s/ one letter works like a champ .. copied the diamond an poof all fixed
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] baka.yarou:
Diamond Theme

I'm using the Spb Phone Suite.. not sure with the version, but it integrates itself with the Spb Mobile Shell... but it looks actually really bad.

So if you could do something about it, I (if not we) would appreciate it =)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kwickone:
Read 3 posts up. Greatbal, just commented on this.

For a follow up question I have (and note my noobness in skinning MS), can you specify the icon size in the .dat files? Or is it just an image you have that is used as is?

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] _KaPPa_:
How did you setup your today screen with spb now screen?

Excuse me x my orrible english....:o
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NiteStalker:
tft, if you want it blue select blue fron the themes settings under tools, it will change to blue.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Marcos200:
this is the one ... great job

well,

i`m fan of the diamoud theme.

wonderfull great design , very good , same size and aspect in all icons in the diferent tabs, also the same size for fotos speed dial.

clean colour, very usefull tabs, etc.

but like in the others themes made by this great skinner, allways the same bug.

in the appointments tab, calendar, if you chose none in the weeks of calendar and in the next alarm , in order to have only the apointments in the tab, the tab allways freeze.

for is important to have a tab showing only the appointments , along the total available size of the screan.

other possibility to improve is the get rid os the top bar in all the tabs, is a waste of space in my opinion.

last but also important, the colour pallete for changing the themes not working..allways black.

thanks a lot for your greet work, you are really talent, congratulations.

you are the one.:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] baka.yarou:
Oh sry.. I didn't notice it, although I browsed the last 10 pages to find a solution.

And for your question, I don't know its size, I don't even know where it is.. I'll try to look for it.

EDIT: I've searched for it and I think the file lies in the data folder of Spb Phone Suite.. so it means that it will change the pictures in Phone Suite as well :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gammarho55:
i was having the same problem... i had to totally re-install MS 2.1. every time i would close out of an app it would take a few seconds for the theme to catch up. not sure what the problem would be... but i can't wait for the bugs to get worked out. it's truly an amazing theme.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] achok:
Question about VGA and Landscape

Hello all,

Wondering if anyone can advise. Trying to use MS 2.1 on Athena (upgraded from 2.0) but the screens still looks squished. Downloaded a few VGA versions, and no luck. Also uninstalled, and installed again, adding VGA version again..but still squished. Not sure what I'm missing here...figure that 2.0 --> 2.1 shouldn't be too much of an issue, and can't seem to find any answers anywhere else.

Thanks,

achok