[Touch HD Themes and Apps] maxycy:
How to use Home Layouts

This is the main core of all the components. The app is basically build around this component. Without this component, analog clock, personalized text and font color is not possible.

Home layout affects the outlook of your home tab. How your clocks, appointments, call history, dates, alarm, etc position and behavior are determined by this component.

Without going too much into technical details, the main file controlling all these settings are in 1c684cd8_manila. This file can be edited with Mode9Editor and is only for advanced user. Messing wt this file can stop your TF3D from functioning.

You should see another 2 files in the home layout folders. 5c9aa261_manila basically controls the background setting of the hometab. This is where BG4all is made possible. Another file 2a3d01cc_manila is a lua script that controls the behavior of the manila and is responsible for showing the same wallpaper for all tabs. That is why for BG4all setting, this file need to be modified and deployed.

Now that we know what the 3 files are for, let's try to understand what I have done to these files.

I have now created 3 types of home layout. All the home layouts will be upgraded to this very soon.

1. BG4all

2. Default

3. Mix

BG4all does not need further explanation. This will give you similar wallpapers on all tabs. The wallpaper used is the standard wallpaper that you would deploy through SETTINGS>WALLPAPER or in v3.3, you can now do the same wt the component "WALLPAPER". If you are using an analog clock layout configuration, you need to first load a wallpaper or else the home tab will be white in color as it attempt to load a wallpaper.

Default uses only manila type wallpapers and disable the use of standard wallpapers. Even if you load any wallpapers, it will not display it. Since I have broken down into 2 seperate components, WPaperP and WpaperL, you can now afford to have 2 seperate wallpapers for portrait and landscape respectively. Also, it tends to load much faster than BG4all especially when turning fm portrait to landscape.

Mix uses the original files settings, where you can display standard wallpaper on home tab only. The good thing here is that you can now also change your default wallpapers on other tabs. Thus, giving you 3 types of wallpapers at the same time. Again, if you are using analog clock layout, a standard wallpaper need to be deployed or you will see the same white screen in home tab. The loading time is quite similar to Default.

Hope you are still wt me here. ;)

Now, if you have selected a home layout component for eg, "TF3D Dutty Home Layout", you will now see the component items. They are labeled as the above types and self explanatory. If you chk them carefully, you will realise that I have created 5 different layout configuration for each types.

1. Flip Only

2. Analog + Flip 1

3. Analog + Flip 2

4. Analog Only

5. Analog Only Special

Flip Only

This is the original layout configuration with the big flipclock followed by Appointments and Call History. However, this file has been tweaked specially by me to enable Personalized Text and Font Color.

Analog + Flip 1

This layout configuration adds an analog clock. If you are using an analog clock layout, you have a deploy Analog Body and Analog Hand components to display them. Personalized Text and Font Color has been enabled.

Analog + Flip 2

Another layout configuration wt analog, flip clock, apointments and call history. Personalized Text and Font Color has been enabled.

Analog Only

Flipclock has been disabled for this layout configuration. The analog clock can be re-postioned anywhere on the screen by simply holding and drag across the screen. However, the function also disable appoinments. In this layout, I've included the call history.

Analog Only Special

Similar to Analog Only except that the analog clock has been enlarge to cater for the special clocks. Call History has been excluded for this layout configuration.

Going forward, there will be more different type of layout configurations. :D