[Windows Mobile Themes] don_pipo:
Dark Diamond for PocketCM 0.29+

***Version 0.9.4

Last updated: November 22th 2009

***Changelog

-Added custom edition for square resolution phones (square screen only!)

Try it here.

*0.9.4

-Some cosmetic corrections

-Fixed layout problem when sending SMS to multiple contacts

-Rhodium design for SMS input box

*0.9.3

Another update due to requests!

-Added option for no header

-Added counter options too

*0.9.2

Minor update to satisfy some users' requests!

-Inverted theme (white) in Rhodium style ***Not complete/Need work! (Requested by PaulDays)

Preview

-Option for plain backgrounds (Requested by AlainL)

-Option for bigger and bolder fonts (Requested by AlainL)

-Enable using SIP for searching -> Available in no index views (Requested by bartbk)

Still pending requests:

-Square resolution support

New translations:

-Italian!

This release include also call log translations since daily 0.30.155 and corrects a bug with index that appeared in 0.30 daily builds.

*0.9.1

Minor update for QVGA: Changed fonts for better readability.

New fonts package also, don't forget to download it.

I made a mistake in first uploaded file that affects only WQVGA resolution. If you see a red background, please download the file again.

***My message to you

Hi there,

To sup up things a little, I've continued working on original Dark Diamond theme created by Lukymat for PocketCM.

I first have arranged things a little for personal use then, discovering PocketCM coding possibilities, I decided to get further in theming and share my work.

With Lukymat's help, I added things here and there, corrected a lot of others things, reworked code and graphics...

Many thanks to Tene, PocketCM developper and Lukymat for helping at this.

I'm releasing a "0.9" version which looks still like a beta to me... This is as a matter of fact because PocketCM is still in developpement with a large room for improvements too.

There's a lot of changes since my previous 0.3 release. I'm keeping the same idea of skinning in HTC TouchFlo's spirit and stay away from bugs as much as I can.

Please be aware that PocketCM is not completely stable in its current version, but this is the only one compatible with this skin.

Fell free to express you support, thanks, suggestions and remarks

Hoping you'll appreciate our work.

***Links

Downloading webspace (Use this link if direct links don't work)

PocketCM 0.29

French topic here :)

***Direct links

Theme

Fonts

French translation

English translation (some personal changes and also a base for translation to other languages)

Other translations also available:

Italian -> thanks to Netjerikhet!

German -> thanks to TomAngel!

Dutch -> thanks to h.ketelaars!

Czech -> thanks to Mr.74!

Spanish -> thanks to anxo!

Follow webspace link on Mediafire (or search this thread) to download the language files.

"Read me" file

You should not distribute this theme. Please only link to these webspace links.

For any use or modification of this theme, please contact me!

***Installation (in the right order)

If it's not already done, install CAB version of PocketCM 0.29.

Copy "Dark diamond 0.9.zip" directly in PocketCM folder "Program files\PocketCM". Don't unzip it!

Copy fonts in "Windows" and/or "Windows\Fonts" or "Windows\Polices" depending on your ROM language.

Copy language file(s) in PocketCM folder.

Launch PocketCM, load theme via options screen, load language file.

Eventually here, select "Wide resolution" if you have a wide phone.

Restart completely PocketCM.

***Screenshots

(Screenshots are in French, but skin is English-friendly!)

Customizable contact list/search:

Contact details and SMS:

The keyboard is PocketCM Keyboard 0.14 along with the great Nottingham's Black Diamond skin which I like a lot.

Two types for menus:

Options...

Landscape mode:

***Custom theme settings

Since PocketCM 0.29, it is possible to add custom settings to themes.

Useful or not (!), I added these custom settings to Dark Diamond:

-Show/hide default contact picture,

-Show/hide alphabetical index,

-Align contact picture on left or right side of the list,

-Colors schemes (HTC's green by default, blue, red, yellow) -> You want to see a new color scheme -> Ask me...*

-Choice between different style for checkboxes,

-Choice between two styles of menu (a fast basic menu or a HTC "Quick list" style menu),

-Formatting options for contact name in list,

-Formatting options for the second line in list to show either phone number or company or both.

Possibilities are almost inifinite, so if you have a bright idea, please share it with me!

Some custom settings need time or a restart of PocketCM to be applied. List formatting need the entire contact cache to be rebuild, this can take time depending of the number of contacts you have.

***Release notes

This release of the skin is designed only for PocketCM 0.29 and perhaps later versions.

It is not compatible at all with previous versions, because it uses new features.

I designed this release in one unique package, one for all resolutions PocketCM can handle properly and natively: QVGA and VGA, standard and wide.

Wide resolutions are handled in this theme via a custom option.

This relaese is zipped entirely to be fully compatible with PocketCM, as a consequence it's a bit slow at its first launch.

Despite of numbers of optimizations, this release is still "heavy", I'm working at recompressing graphics with not too much alterations.

PocketCM 0.29 should be installed via the CAB version, it should be more stable than the ZIP one.

***Limitations

-Please restart completely PocketCM after having loaded the theme, so that it displayed correctly.

-Please select wide resolution if needed immediately after having loaded the theme (see below).

-PocketCM has to cache the whole skin the first time, so please allow each screen to load and display one time before crying about it is slow. The theme will be slow only for the first time each screen is displayed.

Then it's fluid and responsive.

***A side note for wide resolutions WQVGA and WVGA

To release the skin in one package, I'm dealing with PocketCM limitations, so I added a parameter in the option menu to activate wide resolution WQVGA and WVGA support.

Until this parameter is activated, the skin behaves in standard resolution, and has graphical glitches.

If you have a WVGA or WQVGA phone, this should be the first thing you have to do when you select the theme: check the "Wide resolution" box!

***Fonts

You should copy Helvetica fonts in the "Windows\Fonts" folder before using the skin.

/!\ Eastern Europe/Asia and other languages with special alphabet should uninstall the fonts if characters aren't properly displayed. These fonts support fully Western alphabets only.

***Languages

I include with the skin language files that are made to work with the skin: they add translations to skin parameters, plus some modifications I personally prefer.

Fell free to translate from English or French to your own language! (Apart some changes I made, English is added for this purpose also...)

Enjoy!

Alex, also known as "don_pipo".