yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mpenguin14:
wow, i just assumed 0.8 worked better

There are 2 main differences in 0.8

(1) 0.6 and 0.7 tried to edit \Windows\HTCHomeSettings.xml file and tell it to use images in thr M2DC directory, 0.8 overwrites the original image files and doesnt try to change the path in the xml file. So I assumed 0.8 would use less space because it no longer keeps a local copy of images

(2) The backup functionality of 0.6 and 0.7 was incomplete, M2DC was not parsing the xml fle correctly in order to read where all of the files were coming from, so only 200 or so files were being backed up, rather than having all 400+ files be backed up. So maybe this is why 0.8 takes up more space... I am looking into a more efficient compression library now to save more space.

thanks for the feedback
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JstarLuvsTina:
word!

i was up all night reading and trying to get that thing to work..and still the only thing that worked with no issues is the normal .cab way!

so i downgraded all the way to v0.6.97, to rearrange and take off the tabs
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Anolnx:
Purple .tsk

Due to request, here is the purple .tsk to go with the purple theme.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mpenguin14:
ahhh, very true, a cabbed version.would be great for UC, I am a big fan of sashimi personally. It slipped my mind that people might be making M2D theme part of their UC routine. I am looking into developing an app that can extract cab files on the actual WM device... maybe i can find a way to create a cab from a m2dc theme?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] GODZSON:
Fellowship

Thx for the compliment.. regards to the proper credits, I didnt know to whom to give it to cause so many people have been using and posting and my homie Lepsyfou sending it to me after sending it to KidAlbert.. therefore the reason for saying props to everyone from the previous themes.. not to disappoint anyone and leaving some1 out.. But it's kewl I love the creativity and fellowship in here.. Hope to see more theme posting.. you got nice themes to bro .

Hope you and every1 up in Xda enjoy there day and have a blessed onw!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] laakness:
Carbon Fiber Button

This isn't a theme or a big deal but thought I would share. I created a carbon fiber lower button for the selected tab. Subtle, but an addition to the theme I was using.

Overwrite the file in the \windows directory.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
Well, if you install it on the storage card it wont take any extra space from the memory...

On the other hand, mpenguin14 , if you include the original blue theme in m2dct format (already on the first post) you have no need to make that original backup on the first place.

;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
theme construction

my thème ( thanks probex laakness, etc lol) no finish skin

preview

Edit: please help me , i can"t make hh colon ( attached)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spacemonkey333:
Here is a second skin for my "NOVA" series. Lightened it up a bit.

WHITE NOVA:

Download zip here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/150969118/WHITE_NOVA_by_spacemonkey333.zip.html

Download cab here( Thanks to P1Tater):

http://rapidshare.com/files/150991358/Spacemonkey333_Touchflo_2D_White_Nova.cab
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] alexisd:
Sry for the noob question but how i can apply and use these skin,i have the sprint diamond cdma version.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] S2W:
s2w RED SCARLET

Here goes the red scarlet theme... tell me what you think?

Thanks to P1Tater for providing a cab for the theme...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] AllTheWay:
You need to go to the Diamond section. This is only for TouchFLO 2D. You have TouchFLO 3D!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PROBEX:
Wow some really amazing skins being churned out over here guys nice work to everyone keep it up.

And thank you to those who have used bits and credit the original designers for them. I don't think anyone has a issue with pieces being used but its nice to have a little thank you in the postings. Agian great work guys.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] c.moe the mogul:
Yeah my 5 day forcast was jacked up too. it was kinda half and half. like the background .png was covering some of the weather graphics. so i uninstalled the cab and im just gonna wait till u fix it cause that skin is CRAZY!!!! I gotta have it so if u get it resolved let me know! Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spacemonkey333:
OK. I hard reset my device and installed the cab. Had the same problem with weather. However, when I hard reset my device again and just dropped the files from the zip download into windows, everything worked smoothly. Have you tried that yet?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] c.moe the mogul:
I'll give er a try Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Royals:
so has anybody figured out how to put the diamond flipping clock in manilla2d
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mpenguin14:
hmmmm... ok, You guys have convinced me, the next release of M2DC will not require you to make a backup before you can use themes. The option to make a backup will stay, but you will have to go to the backup tab of M2DC to do that.

I will put up the link to the original blue skin, but since I release the source to M2DC under the GPL I wouldnt feel comfortable distributing those images since I dont have permission from HTC to distribute them

The other thing that takes up space is that M2DC saves a copy of each theme in the M2DC folder, I do that for convenience, should I not do that?

Thanks for all of the suggestions and feedback
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kidnamedAlbert:
ah thanks!

thats what was ****ing my storage up on my phone last time :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bedaweed:
Thats awesome...you sohuld try different colour
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] blazingwolf:
So does this mean that there are two copies of a theme on your device? If yes, then I definitely suggest you don't do this.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kidnamedAlbert:
agreed. my HTC Herald doesnt have good memory.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] P1Tater:
You already provided the zip file so I thought I'd supply the cab. Hope you don't mind.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] schnitzelbrain:
Just a suggestion to all theme makers, on the people tab.

The name of the people is just a stenciled word in the frame, the color of the name comes from the backgnd. now if the frame of the people and the backgnd is both dark....guess what, you dont see a sh.... of the name :)

I know, the poeple you see as pictures but sometimes u do not have a picture so please lighten up the frames of the people or give at least so much color diff between border and backgnd that we can read the names.

The dark themes are so nice but this is a killer
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] P1Tater:
You provided zip so I provided cab. Hope you dont mind.

http://rapidshare.com/files/150991358/Spacemonkey333_Touchflo_2D_White_Nova.cab
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spacemonkey333:
Not at all. Thanks!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JstarLuvsTina:
P1 and ATW u two are .cab creating animals thank you for that!

S2W : Scarlet Red goes great with The Scarlet Knights of New Jersey..thats right u guessed it Rutgers Univ! thanks for that

Spacemonkey : nice work for second rendtion of a great theme! keep up the good work
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] S2W:
First Thank you P1Tater for creating the cab. Awesome!

Hey Jstar, I spend a lot of time in Jersey so I agree! lol :) Thanks!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] P1Tater:
Not a problem. Glad to help out.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mlin:
If there are duplicate copies, then I think there is no need for the extra save. When starting with .zip themes, I just erase the .zip after the .m2dct is created so there is only one copy.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rwertz14:
Looks more like an Alabama Crimson Tide scheme. That's right, go SEC:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JstarLuvsTina:
negative dude.. R.U.!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] P1Tater:
Go CANES!!!!!

Even though they are not that good this year.:D

Sorry to hijack the thread, I couldn't resist.

Now back on track.

:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JstarLuvsTina:
ok ok last post regardings sports here..

guys we can do this all day..

im a die hard Jets, Rutgers and Yankees fan..

all 3 teams have given me heartache and sleepless nights..but god damit theres always next year! LOL
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] GODZSON:
Canes all the way..!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rwertz14:
I'm a die hard UT Vols, Braves and Falcons fan, and I'm lookin at next year already!:(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JstarLuvsTina:
i hear that man..

tis the year of the upsets..

lets stop talkin about it..im starting to tear up..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spacemonkey333:
SERIOUSLY EVERYONE! Don't make do a Texas Longhorns skin!.....Hook'em Horns!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rwertz14:
If you do an Orange and White theme, it can be either Texas or Tennessee. Go for it. :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] S2W:
Oh oh... I can now see some sports teams brewing up for themes... lol :cool:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tilt4life2:
If you guys start doing sports themes, I would love a Houston Rockets theme. That would be the greatest thing. Or an Oakland Raiders theme.

I think a Raiders theme could look sick because of all the different Raider logos that are out there.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JstarLuvsTina:
raiders arent worthy of a theme :)

make a jets theme ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
I will have to really learn English to participate in your discussions :o because frankly I translate Google translated phrases completely mad :(

( sorry my very bad english)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] claus1953:
@S2W

I tried to install your new skin but i could not make it work, neither with the cab nor by copying all files manually. Always tap here to launch TouchFlo comes on. Even after reset it is not working.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] S2W:
Did you disable the TF2D from the today settings before adding the files to window?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] claus1953:
Yes i did that, in fact it is the first skin of many i have tried out that is not installing.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pgxd:
Thk you very much
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wdbanks:
Im having the same problem...dont know why yet.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mpenguin14:
Thank you very much for the feedback guys, I really do appreciate it.

M2DC 0.6, 0.7, and 0.8 all have the same "Import Theme" functionality. When you press the import theme button you get the file chooser tree, and you can choose your theme. As long as your theme has a htchomesettings.xml file in it it the theme file (zip or m2dct) is copied to \M2DC\Themes.

So it looks like people do not want this functionality, duplicate files are created.

The way I look at it there are 3 other ways I could do this, listed below in order from easiest to hardest

(1) Instead of copying the file move the file (The original copy is no longer left behind, therefore there is no more duplicate files)

(2) Add a way for the user to tell M2DC to remove the original file, like a checkbox in the file tree that says "Delete original file" or add a popup window that says ("would you like to delete the original file?" with "Yes", "No", and "Cancel" buttons)

(3) Rather than copying or moving the file just keep track of all of the files that the user has asked M2DC to import, there would never be a duplicate file this way, but at the same time it introduces a lot more work for me.

Any suggestions?

Right now I am going with #1, just moving the file to the M2DC directory as this is just a 1 line change in code, I amwilling to do the other options if people don't like #1
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JstarLuvsTina:
+ 3 on this..

i dunno what the problem is.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] S2W:
Try this one out and tell me if it solved the problem...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pseudoproto:
Is there anyone out there interested enough to make a steampunk theme with analog clock? I love me some gears.:D

I normally don't like to request because everyone is doing this on their own time but I think it would be just cool as hell.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] blazingwolf:
Hmm, I think #3 is the best option but I understand that it is code intensive for you. Let's try #1 and see how it works. We can decide from there if it is working well or not. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] griffin911:
I would love to see a steampunk theme!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wdbanks:
This didnt work either...:mad:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] S2W:
Try it without the HTChomesetting...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] showaco:
Here's one I've been working on the last couple of days, not finished yet but getting close.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] claus1953:
Looking very nice there, have to try it out as soon as awailable.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
My today for the moment ( 1 hour max lol)

:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Royals:
can someone make a sprint diamond theme
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kidnamedAlbert:
funny thing is, i already have one made :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kidnamedAlbert:
amazing theme :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spacemonkey333:
Nice Work!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Royals:
what about the home screen
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kidnamedAlbert:
i made a sprint theme. clock and everything.

want it?

here it is

kidnamedAlbert's Sprint theme.zip = Cab format

Sprint.zip = Manilla 2D Customizer format
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wdbanks:
still a no go
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Royals:
thanks kidnamedAlbert for all your help
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kidnamedAlbert:
no problem

HEY ALL I HAVE CREATED A NEW THEME. making screens right now. oh and thanks to kulet78 for the inspriation with his blue void theme(plus i used his icons ;))
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ldostang:
I actually had a cowboys theme before I changed to the gold mod. I had posted a preview here that was in the very early stages. but I think I accidentally over wrote some files when working on the gold mod. I had also started working on a ut theme. but lost interest.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
hello my friend, how are you,

this skin is beautifull, great work :D:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spacemonkey333:
Sports theme

OK Folks...

I created a pole for those of you that mentioned your favorite teams a few threads back. The winner of the pole gets the skin!

Vote here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=433144
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] penta_a:
Where can I get that nice effect on lower bar (home, people....)?

I couldn't find it among posted skins in page 1
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ameet:
Here's your clock hands brother :) Red hour & minute and yellow alarm

Oh you bad boy!! :D You are going to keep me busy busy busy with the skinning :D Thanks a bunch. Keep em coming brother
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kidnamedAlbert:
well here it is

my "Red Void" skin for TouchFLO 2D.

very thanks to kulet78 for the inspiration and icons, twolf for the "big clock", me for alot of the red work and clock background :D

copy ESM_background_pattern.png to windows folder if you want red start menu backgound
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wdbanks:
Now thats what Im talkin about! NICE SKIN!:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spacemonkey333:
Very nice...Crisp & clean...good work!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kidnamedAlbert:
thanks bros :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Royals:
hey that sprint theme you gave me doesnt have the htchomesettings or nothin
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kidnamedAlbert:
you sure? blah blah blah
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
Here you go

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2696593&postcount=1254
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pseudoproto:
I think you want the tab bar from stewdog:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2696690&postcount=1257

That clock is cool though.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JNGold:
kidnamedAlbert,

Love your type R skin. Could you possibly make a cab that would include the typ combo analog and digital clock?

TIA!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kidnamedAlbert:
sure. ill include the NEW .xml

how doyou feel about the bottom bar?

would you like it red? with white icons?

im not really diggin the white bar anymore... and the clock, how bout some red numbers?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kajoe:
Thank you GODZSON for your great theme. I only do not know how to install. I have installed the cab. After that I have copied all the images in the zip file to the windows root folder. (I had to rename some old files into the windowsfolder, otherwise it was not possible to copy the new ones) After that I have to install the Wisbar you say. I couldn't find that. There is allso a folder "Blue Bars WA3". Where do I have to copy that to? I tried to restart Touchflo, but it failed to open. Can you help me a little with this problem? I love your theme. Thank you very much. I allready found the Cab file. Thank you very much.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tyguy:
You're the man!

THANKS ababrekar (see attached, comes GOOOOOD with the neon theme)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ameet:
Yum!! Looking good out there :D Gonna play around with Lepsyfou's clocks now ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] AllTheWay:
That would be awesome. I'd be willing to pay for that one. Anyone, anyone?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kidnamedAlbert:
ask spacemonkey333. he asked earlier if anyone wanted sports themes. im sure if you pay him he'll do it pretty fast ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cpt.bert:
How about sharing that beatifull clock? maybe make it a cab :rolleyes: would love that!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kidnamedAlbert:
why not just use the whole skin? ;)

dont like it huh? :(

hah im kidding. yeah ill cab it up.

i LOVE that clock.

Here you go :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cpt.bert:
Thanks!! i like your theme! but just not the bottom bar icons :) no offense
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kidnamedAlbert:
its all good. i dont like them all that much either. but do i find good icons? like for windows or something
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] deonidis:
Somebody ask for Tiger osx.

This is my vision,

i used icons from Knobi
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bornotty:
Im tired of the all same kind of themes including few of mines with all gfx work and all.. so I thought of working on a theme based on flat images yet new and attractive.. so i came up with this..

but need to know few stuff from you'll..

here's a very very early preview..

now what i want to know is how to keep the hh_fw_tab_bg_fill bottom bar background color and hh_fw_tabbtn bottom bar slider button color same..?? I used the same color value for both but when I apply the skin the bottom bar button looked bit darker not making it the same.. I kept the button mask default full white.

please help on this..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Charusen:
Great Theme

Bit of a newbie question,

I wanted a red start menu background. I downloaded the .cab version and sent it to the phone. Checked the windows folder and the above file is already there. Do I need a .tsk version?

Matches my Burgundy Touch very well.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] imfloflo:
Have you use the same level of white? full full white on both ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bornotty:
yea.. i did that.. but im not only talking about the bottom icons but the bottom TAB too.. :o
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Royals:
yes im sure:confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MrDSL:
I can't get this theme to work for me either..Same thing touchflo won't load after loading the theme.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] S2W:
I reworked the theme setup and placed the clock skin in a different folder.

Just make sure you have a diamond layout for the clock like TF2D digital clock by pcarvalho, and copy the clock files over it.

Try this out and let me know.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MrDSL:
Still the same thing here and thats the clock i used.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] S2W:
wow that is strange... let me go back to the drawing board and iron it out. I apologize for the inconvenience.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kidnamedAlbert:
you have to overwrite the file.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kidnamedAlbert:
Can someone take a look at my theme? Everytime I navigate to the messages tab, TouchFLO freezes and i have to soft reset in order to get it to unfreeze but then freeze again when i try to go back into the messages tab.

I know someone else encountered this problem but this thread is WAY too big to search through.

If anyone could help me, i would be very grateful. :)

Thanks,
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spacemonkey333:
Just installed your theme. No problems at all. Messaging is fine along with everything else. I tested all buttons and tabs. Uninstalled, reinstalled and still fine.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kidnamedAlbert:
i know. try this. remove email tab and music tab. move messaging tab to the second tab and people to the third.

tell me if it freezes.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MarcoPolo78:
NIce !!

Cant Wait for this one !! Looks really good :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MrDSL:
No problem at all. I have tried it with the new manilla and older manilla and its the same. Right now I'm using an older manilla since themes work with it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sherrypizza:
need help.....

how i can edit this

Edit the HTCHomeSettings.xml, how can i locate xml n how can i edit it....

thx...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spacemonkey333:
stand by...

I have to install customizer first. I don't use it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spacemonkey333:
Sure thing. Screen locks up on messaging...weird.

You know what...thinking back, I quit using m2dc because this happened to me before. I don't think the problem comes from your skin.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kidnamedAlbert:
alright man
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kidnamedAlbert:
actually, i tried it before without m2dc and it froze. so thats when i used m2dc thinking that i messed it up.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spacemonkey333:
ok, now all of my tabs are frozen. Uninstalled. I wish I could be more help, but I am not XML savvy... sorry man.