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[Windows Mobile Themes] bobsbbq:
Blue I know you were working on the Battery meter. Just an idea, how about the battery meter in the shape of a pencil and fit on to the white of the page?

Anyway it looks good, I'm waiting on more development to finish my highway theme, but not in a hurry as I now have a i900 to work on a new theme.
[Windows Mobile Themes] bobsbbq:
Blue here are some ideas, graphic are not perfect but you can get the idea and you are much better with graphics than me.
[Windows Mobile Themes] abumhmmd1:
its just the idea of using simple colored icons ; and Im glade U LK it .
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
@ bob: the pencil is a brilliant idea. i have done another different thing and post it tonigh then we can discusse. but maybe i use ur pencil idea for the signal bar ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] henkj:
Thank you for this skin! But....

Blue

this is my first post in this forum!

I admire the work of Daz with Todaylife and your design, espacially The Monday Morning.

I'm reading since this weekend ). But would you take some suggestions, I am not able to do it myself (I'am not a skinner (yet??)):

1. if you would use a drawn picture of mail, sms etc (as if it was fast drawn during the meeting, no color, no background, just a sketch like the icons you use in your other skins for TL) you could use the post-it as counter for it: the screen would be a little bit easier for the eye when no new sms/email and more attention when there is (thinking of a way Mo uses it looking without unlock)

2. The battery could be a drawn fat line just like you use in volume: the line could be placed just below the date: there is a thin line now without any function..full battery=long line, weak battery is short line (last in different color?)

3. If the status-counter was made as a post-it, than I would like to replace the number by a scratch (as in the volumepage) like counting in a cardplay: I, II, III, IIII and than strike trough (as 5), maybe in blue color as if some has written down the count....
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
@henkj: also some great ideas.

-the postits would be nice as counters, yes, but without unreaded sms/email i would have just this two little post its on screen.

- the grey line as batterymeter, the next good idea. maybe i use this for signal

-the handwritten counters sounds also nice.

i will do some testgraphics and post it.

but anyway you are welcome to mod my skin and post it here. You just have to replace my graphics with yours and modify the x and y coordinates for that.

@bob: i like the pencil idea. but how about a pencil not filled as a battery but with different sizes\lenght?
[Windows Mobile Themes] b.mann:
Not a huge problem for me, but to change the language back to english, it that in the .xml docs that i need to change? Vielen dank!
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
@beman: i use german in the appointments (just two words) and in the launcher applications, both can be changed i the portrai and landscape.xml and appointment.txt. I explained it detailed post one ;). I use my language because i use todaylife everyday.

The appointments .txt works for any todaylife skin ! so you must do that only one time and can override in any skin appointments.txt with yours !

okay here is what i did and thank your for your feedback and ideas:

1. a pencil that lays on your note book for signal strengh (thanks bob), its getting longer when signal is getting better :D

2. a colored somthing, we call it "Eselsohr" (sorry dont know the english translation), on the right for battery, this changes color form green to red (full battery-empty battery) AND it rolls up or down depending on the batterystate:D i will rework it because i want the battery text inside it (next Problem: text lays allways over graphics)

here are some graphics:
[Windows Mobile Themes] iceaxe07:
when i select volume control, my screen get hangs always

is there a bug or did i do something wrong??

i'm using Bluephone theme and Kasier phone.

thanks
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
slide up or down to change volume and slide to the left for going back to first tap. this should help.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Fresh2Death:
this is is nice! can somebody make a dial pad to go with this??
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
okay new graphics for "mondaymorning" theme are up and also some changes in the "bluephone" theme, please look at first post.
[Windows Mobile Themes] kwill:
thanks alot for the skins. the monday morning one is great!
[Windows Mobile Themes] synghyn:
Blue

Just to be clear, upper right corner looking not rolled over at all, with a greenh tip is fully charged, and it looks more rolled over as it depletes, yes?

Pencil for signal strength is really cool and seems pretty obvious in terms of reading it.

Nice changes, looks really good.

Syn
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
thank you. yes when its fully charged its just a little bit rolled over with a small green corner. this gets bigger and the color changes from green to light green, yellow, orange , red.
[Windows Mobile Themes] henkj:
Thanx, but not now!

Blue, thanx for your answer and i understood the message: get to work yourself! I will, but the work wil at first be: practice on grafics :D! I think it will be no good having bad graphics in a beautifull skin because of another idea!

I like your "Eselsohr" as a nice and original solution: it draws more attention, when more action is needed! DAZ makes it easy to put the "Eselsohr" on every page and that I can do that myself now!
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
yes, you can put battery and signal on any page, i wanted the look clean so its only on first tap.

if you want i can post some icons and post.it-counters so everyone can modify the theme. you can also use the bluephone icons or the glass icons from my others skins or any png graphic, just replace them and you must correct the x-positions of the 3 notify and the exitapp icon.
[Windows Mobile Themes] henkj:
Great service!

Blue, that would be a easy start to change your skin if you would be so kind to post some icons and post.it-counters so everyone can modify the theme:D

I modified the "eselsohr" to sit on every page, but the launcherpage is stil a problem, because there is anochter background picture in use (i can lower the go-postit to make place for the Eselsohr, but the special launcherbackground gives me trouble: i can't see it on that page after changing the xml-code ;)

You have a hint for this for me too?
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
the launcher is a special side/app, its not a tap.you can´t put signal or battery or anything else on it. you can change only background and the lauchicon on the top right.

also i think its not neccessary to have this info on a side you use just for 5 seconds.

i´m personally away from the thing that i must have as much infos as possible on every page. the skin style today goes to lighter and cleaner skins.

but play with it, you will learn a lot of the functions. i will post postit counters in some hours.
[Windows Mobile Themes] iceaxe07:
quick que, is it possible to make the calendar more interact??

now is just static and showing today date.

i wish we could slide left or right and click on the date to add new appointment.

thanks
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
at the moment u can choose in the config.xml if it should switch between two months when tapping OR if i should open a dayview. so both should be easlily possible. but this and more interaction is a job for the Programmer Dazzlingdaz.

im sure that switching AND open a day will come soon.

but i think for more than this interaction u must use a special app like Thumbcal
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
here are your counters, hope thats what you mean, but you must use different notify icons because postit on postit is too much ;)

You can use Icons from my other skins or any png graphic, (you must play a little bit with the x coordinates).

And give me a sceenshot, i did not try this new counters :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] henkj:
Nice Counters!

Blue I'm happy with the new counters and I will deliver a new screenshot later this day! Thanx:D
[Windows Mobile Themes] henkj:
Life isn't easy all the time!

Blue, being happy with your new counters i tried to make new icons myself to replace the postit-icons that would get a postit-counter (because 2x postit is to much!)

But Daz don't like my icons: i got a error because of the format of the icons

would you take a look en help me out again?
[Windows Mobile Themes] blibble:
henkj - how are you saving your png files? Try using Export for web option. Daz uses Adobe Fireworks as his standard and exports as PNG32. Hope this helps
[Windows Mobile Themes] henkj:
Blibble

i use Adobe Photoshop and i saved for web png 24:confused:
[Windows Mobile Themes] blibble:
I had the same problem a while back. Some icons were ok and some weren't. In the end I just imported the psd files in to Fireworks and exported as PNG32. Sorry I can't be more helpful.:confused:
[Windows Mobile Themes] bobsbbq:
Monday Morning theme for i900 Omnia

Ok Bluemetalaxe, here is my conversion of your Monday Morning theme for Omnia users, and a link and photo to use if you want to update your main page.

Everyone Thank Bluemetalaxe for his good theme. Thank You.

Thread is here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=418298
[Windows Mobile Themes] hamansan:
Bluemetalaxe: Thanks for your great theme.

Bobsbbg: Thanks for your effort to convert it to Omnia.
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
thanks for your work BOB.:D

I just took a look at it. A good job, just some thoughts:

1. Calendar:

- stretch the calendar to bottom on portrait. Use bigger font size for calendar on landscape and/or stretch it a little bit to left and right.

2. Background lines

you have a little problem with my grey background lines in Portrait. You can fit the appointment settings for this or you can overpaint them with white (RGB: 235/235/235) or better: cut out one line, overpaint the rest and put the grey lines back where ever you need them. U can display more appointments on first tap because wqvga has a lot of space.

3. Clock and notify icons: Portrait: Because of the more free space i would place the Dateline, the notify icons and the clock a little bit more to bottom.
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
@All: i also have sometimes problems with graphics that i cant explain (I use Corel Paintshop pro, the only one on earth :rolleyes:)

1. when i'm doing a own graphic and start with a blank png its never a problem. Even if i dont use any tranparency (for example my monday morning battery)

2. when using a graphic i found somewhere that has transparenc parts its also no problem, but when there is no transparency i have a problem. Todaylife needs this alphachannel and i tried everything to export pngs with optimisation and so on. The only thing that helps in such a case is

- to make it a little bit transparent (99 %)

- or make a new blank png and import that graphic in the blank png.

Its confusing :eek:, i know, but maybe this helps someone.
[Windows Mobile Themes] bobsbbq:
Thanks for the tips, I made some but the problem with the calender is if you stretch too far the highlighter for the day gets stretched too big. I made new lines for appointments. I will update the file on my thread now.
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
MARIO ?!

This is a first preview of "Mario!" Theme/Idea

Needs a lot of more work, but just want to know if anyone likes such a funny skin ?
[Windows Mobile Themes] FatBoyExtraordinaire:
Mark down one in favor of it. I have a MArio theme I'm trying to set up and this would complete it perfectly.
[Windows Mobile Themes] docnas:
wow these are some awesome themes it seems tht spb mobile shell is going to be junked soon thumbs up for the work
[Windows Mobile Themes] dianeofarcadia:
Thank you for sharing this, took a minute to think but it makes sense. ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] dazzlingdaz:
Blue.....I have a challenge for you....

A friend of mine wants a "girlie" skin done - based around the theme of Snow White / Disney - needs to be very pink and sparkly

Up for it?
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
i' ll think about it, but its definitly not my style :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] dazzlingdaz:
Mine either - but - it's for my mates little daughter - she is only 7 - but great with a PDA and wanted to see her reaction :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
okay, i understand, but i make a quick one and do just modify one of the skins. did you read my bug reports in you thread: cut icons, missing graphics when battery is low and not working appointments on tap 2 ?
[Windows Mobile Themes] dazzlingdaz:
Yeah I saw those - will have a look when I get back into it - I have to catch up with everything - bloody typical the one week I take off - I land 3 new contracts!
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
mmh, i know what you mean, but here is my Gift for you (still in progress). Its a lot of work because i decided to give you not just a iphone with snowwhite background ;)

I tried a lot, but i will use this whee stickers Icons because the fit perfectly to this kiddy skin. i made it simple. To close you just must press the battery.

(if you look at the bluetooth icons and the battery icon you can see that there is missing the last line of pixels)

i post it in one or two days (i´m sure will be only one download :))
[Windows Mobile Themes] dazzlingdaz:
Hehehehe that looks awesome! :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
yes, the world first kiddy skin for windows mobile, a complete new market :D

and this or another more comic like red apple will be my notify counter ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] dazzlingdaz:
Loving the apples - copied the bitmap onto my phone and showed my friends little girl and she had a massive smile on her face hehehe so it obviously works!
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
OKAY, i use my sticker style apples for SnowWhite. Its up and much more. Read first Post please.
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
i just have made my own whee backgrounds, anyone likes that ? it uses the same xmls like snowwhite and free! so u just have to repalace the background pngs, nothing more ?
[Windows Mobile Themes] FatBoyExtraordinaire:
You truly are a beast with these themes. I love checking this thread and finding new goodies. Question though, would these work on a T-Mobile Dash. I keep showing my friends and now they want to use them too.
[Windows Mobile Themes] fards:
arg,

must hide *that* theme from my daughter, she's going to want me to convert it to realvga, for mine and I'm not having pink on my phone... :P

may spend some time getting the free one converted though if I get a chance.
[Windows Mobile Themes] dogshit81:
Hey Blue nice skins you have

Am using your black glass theme convertered for 240x400

Seems like the 12hr clock will not look good because need space for the first 0 and when its 1 - 9 the clock looks funny.

Got any ideas to make it look nicer or maybe could ask Daz to create a align center command for the clock.

Thanks again....
[Windows Mobile Themes] dazzlingdaz:
I thought about the align for the clock - but since its made of individual digits and for the customization needs to be kept that way - isnt really practical to align the entire clock - since you could have the clock on a slant or vertical for example.
[Windows Mobile Themes] joshrys:
can this be made into a plugin? so that this could be integrated into Ultimate launch...
[Windows Mobile Themes] dianeofarcadia:
1+

great work on all the themes blu!
[Windows Mobile Themes] dogshit81:
Hey Daz how about making an option to enable to have 0 displayed and 0 not displayed. eg. 07:00am or 7:00am.

Well if its not a hell lot of changes to be done would love to see it. If not I can live if it small matter only. Thanks alot for this prog......
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
he he, some downloads of snowwhite :)

@ Alll: the appointments.txt and config.xml must be reworked only one time by you and then can be used in any todaylife skin. just put it in the skin folder and override original.

@fatboy: this runnes on any wm 6.0 and 6.1 phone and needs netframework, but wm6 has this, i dont know what a Dash is (because here t-mobile uses different. names) but if its wm6 try it. Again: NO need to install, just start the todaylife.exe.

@ joshrys: this doesnt work with UL. And this is okay because i can skin the whole screen and doent have wm taskbar anymore.
[Windows Mobile Themes] dazzlingdaz:
I kinda did this on purpose with the clock - since the only digit on the left would be either a 1 or blank with a 12 hour clock - I figured you could use the extra space to the left for the AM / PM gfx? just an idea - maybe I will stick an option in the config.xml for "allowleadingzeroinclock"
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
yes,i have two skins with a little am/pm space problem.

i just found out that the snowwhite theme has a old config.xml. so u cant change timeformat. so please use a confiq.xml from any of my other themes, i ´lll correct this.
[Windows Mobile Themes] FatBoyExtraordinaire:
Cool, I'll let them know.
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
wheee copy is up :rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Themes] FatBoyExtraordinaire:
Yes. Another day, another theme! Quick question, how do you lock Free!?
[Windows Mobile Themes] abumhmmd1:
WOW

THANKs bluemetalaxe
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
your welcome,

the sticker themes are locked with the green arrow on top right.

to close todaylife press on battery.

Developing of the last three themes was easier because they are based on excactly the same xmls, i "only" had to make 24 :eek: Background pictures (8 on each theme with Landscape) and fit the xml so that it looks good on every sticker theme.

Now i hope there comes never a update for todaylife, because 7 themes updating will be hell ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Ghost_kh_07:
I can not use contacts tab and button calls can not work! how to config it!
[Windows Mobile Themes] FatBoyExtraordinaire:
Good looking out on the answer.
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
the button calls doesnt work, it just shows missed calls, hope Dazz makes this with next update.

some of my older themes have sensless taps without function at the moment because i can easier add new functions then.

the 3 sticker themes dont have sensless taps. in this themes i linked the SMS button to pocket cm by default, so you can easily open a contact manager. But you have to correct the path to pocketcm and other applications, if you have a english device rework application.txt and replace "Programme" with "program files". Look in explorer where the app that you need is, and correct or add other apps in applications.txt

i know that this isnt easy for beginners, but if you understand how, than you can change anything on this app and i makes fun.
[Windows Mobile Themes] dazzlingdaz:
Until I get the contacts page up and running - why not assign contacts or Pocket CM on the application launcher page?
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
yes DAZZ, i had it there, but contacts are often needed. So i must tap launcher, scroll, search and tap (this needs longer than have it on first tap).

The other reeason why this makes sense is that pocketcm can handle SMS (take a look at it) so it makes sense for me (at the moment) to open pocket cm when new sms is arrived.
[Windows Mobile Themes] burkay:
hi mate,

your skins look awesome but I am having trouble running them. Actually the software runs but nothing is "clickable". I don't see any clock, no images etc. I can only see the background and appointments and date on the screen. The rest is not visible and I can't tap anything on the screen. It seems like the theme half loads and then freezes. Any ideas?
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
mmh, interresting. i found out one bug some days ago: when my battery is under 10 % i have exactly this effect. so please check your battery. if that isnt the problem contact DAZZ in his thread.
[Windows Mobile Themes] burkay:
that shouldn't be the problem because I never let it drain below 50%. I will ask Dazz to see if he knows anything about this. May it be something that I need to fix in the config files? What is the application.txt file for?
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
okay. ask him please, but the config.xml should not be the problem.

in the application.txt you must write in/correct the paths of all applications that you want in you Launcher.
[Windows Mobile Themes] jnov36:
BMA, I have to say WHOOA! Great work man. I just found todaylife today and plan on trying it out. Your icons and skins are sweet. Keep up the good work.
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
thank you. hope today life development does'nt stop so i can give you more functions in the skins.
[Windows Mobile Themes] henkj:
First mod is working!

@ Blue:

after my holiday(without the web:eek:) i tried to follow your advice (post 126: making icons transparant); I'm not quite happy, but it is working!

so i can give you a screenshot of my mods on your monday morning:

i changed a few icons (sms, email, phone, volume, lock, exit) and used your new counters on Post-it.

when there is no news, than no Post-it, and is easy to see any change even when screen is locked.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Juan83:
Cool Man, you using it on your omnia?
[Windows Mobile Themes] dioxda2:
Great .. gonna try it out ~~ :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] TonyJ999:
MondayMorning Missing Notifier??

Blue,

Have to say I really LOVE your work it is superb!! :)

I hope you don't mind but I have been using some of your graphics for my WAD setup for a while now and particularly the "sticky" images for missed calls etc in the Monday Morning set up. I was just wondering though did you ever do one for voicemail as it appears not to be in the set??

I know TodayLife appears to have stopped at the mo but is there any chance you could finish that one graphic??? Pretty please...:D:D
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
hallo, yes todaylife seems to be dead.

you can use of course any graphic and play with it. some of my skins don't have voicemail support because it's something that is not used here. if you look at my glassblack or glassnature skins you will find voicemail icon/support on top left. is this okay for you or do you need another graphic?
[Windows Mobile Themes] TonyJ999:
I know - it's all very sad as TodayLife had/has great potential. These Today screen programs (claunch, Freestyl, moGO, todaylife, PointUI etc....) all seem to start well and then stop just at that crucial moment. :( It's demise was one of the reaons I went back to WAD (now in version 2 format) - you might have to pay for it but at least it works and allows me endless customisation with notifications that work!!

Anyway, I was looking for a similar icon to your yellow Postit type notes that you use in your Monday Morning skin but with a narrative of say VMAIL.

There is a screen dump attached to show you the missing item. I've tried playing in Photoshop but can't get the "sloping" narrative effect... :)

Cheers in advance if you can help.
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
oh yes, very sad,when these apps become really hot, the guys just stop any development. misterious :confused:

okay, i`ll post here a Vmail postit icon tomorrow.

;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
@Tony: okay as promissed here is you voicemail post-it-icon:
[Windows Mobile Themes] TonyJ999:
Cheers for that Blue!

I've also sent you a little something via PayPal for your time and to keep those icons coming! Hopefully it went ok as my German is not that good!!!! :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
oh, okay thank you. The first donation since months ;)

But as anyone here i do this just for fun. But thanks anyway :rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Themes] deadsea:
Hi bluemetalaxe first off a big thank you for the themes. My wife loves the mondaymorning one.

Got something that i need to check with you. Which release of todaylife did you package into the monday morning theme? I did the adjustments to the portrait/landscape xml to fit the themes to a htc diamond and overall the thing runs fine. But once i replaced the todaylife with the latest 276 one, i get a white screen.