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[Windows Mobile Themes] crazysane:
Vostradamus I wanted to let you know that I finally got your xml file installed with MSkip's proplus ultimate. I also figured out how to install the xml file using winrar. The directions for doing that are as follows:

1) Install a clean spb mobile 3.5 shell

2) Install the version of MSkip's theme pack. (ProPlus Elegance, ProPlus Ultimate, or ProPlus Ultimate Elegance)

3) Next you need to connect phone and grab the qa_layouts.dat file from Program Files/ SPB Mobile Shell folder.

4) Using winrar do not extract or change the file extension. All you need to do is open the .dat file with winrar and drag the file called WidgetsZioGian.xml and drop it in the file list inside of winrar.

IMPORTANT: Before importing the xml into the dat file make sure you enter the password of b0fm18zq as stated by many. This allows the placement of an added xml without having to change your file extension or having to re-zip and rename.

5) Reboot phone and now install the cabs of what you want color added to.

6) Reboot once more and then go and change skin to parts you installed cabs for and you will find the new color versions being listed.

**I hope this helps others that may have had the same problems. If still unable to make that work I can share my ProPlus Ultimate with Vostradamus Colored Mods for Spb Mobile Shell 3.5 (QVGA/WQVGA/VGA/WVGA) for a QVGA version. Just let me know.)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Congrats on getting everything to work :)

and thanks for the tips for other users ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Released version 2.02 :p

ChangeLog, detailed info & download links in the first post :)

Enjoy! :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Released version 2.03 :p

ChangeLog, detailed info & download links in the first post :)

Enjoy! :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Released Version 2.04 :p

ChangeLog, detailed info and download links in the first post :)

Enjoy! :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] tacchan23:
I have the same problem with bigicon with text :(

let's hope SPB fixes it in the new release!
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
you're welcome :)

just to be sure, anyway, I'll try experimenting a bit about the text thing, if I'll manage to put together something good I'll buzz you ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] stefaie:
<<I guess you're using some of mskip mods

Mskip hijacked what originally was the current date widget and renamed it as "baking panels"... you should find my current date stuff in there>>

As always , you're right...It was the only widget that I don't open to see in it !!

Thanks a lot for your help ,I must be stupid ,I'm so sorry to disturb you of your way :Continue to give us your fantastic widgets that we alaways wait like christmas ,because ,like" a box of chocolate ,we didn't know what we will have"

thanks
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
lol you're not stupid :) Current Date is the least used widget, that's why mskip hijacked it, because there were more people interested in backing panels than in current date... Being it so rarely used, there's nothing strange if you didn't notice it was missing until now ;)

About new widgets....... stay tuned: I'm currently working together with wrzlgrmpft on something new... most probably it will be ready in the next few days :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] claus1953:
I would love to have some new skins for the contacts. I use normally only text for contacts and would like to have some options for the text box, more beautiful visually.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Contacts do not really support graphical skins :p they're limited to the text with the contact name or, if available, his picture.

The ones I made (hexagon) use a little "trick"... the graphical part of the skin is not a contact widget but a shortcut widget with invisible icon, then there's a specially formatted contact widget placed right over the shortcut ;)

Is this solution ok for you? If the answer is yes, then what kind of graphics would you like?
[Windows Mobile Themes] claus1953:
I tried the hexagon skin but i do not see anything besides the contact picture. I would like some nice frame with rounded edges with inside the contact text if this is possible.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Of course you do not see anything besides the contact picture :) as I wrote before, it has to be used together with a link widget

- be sure you have installed hexagon links too

- add a link widget to your screen, doesn't matter to which app you make it point

- change its skin to "hexagon empty"

- now add a contact widget

- change its skin to "special hexagon"

- place the contact over the link

that's the way it works: it can work only using this trick because contact widget cannot have a graphical background.

I could set up a similar trick using, for example, my current "circle" and "big box rounded" link background... would it be ok for you? :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] claus1953:
Yes i would love that a lot.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Ok, I will see to it :)

The upcoming release will be published tomorrow, so I won't make it in time... but I'll set up something for the next one ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Released version 2.29 :)

ChangeLog, detailed info and download links in the first post ;)

Enjoy! :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] tacchan23:
Any chance to have a special Digital clock having a weather background like the special Analog clock? maybe iPhonish style (at least the space for putting big swuared icons inside :P :P
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Uhm... it's possible, but I don't know if it would make much sense... with the time and date plus all the widgets placed over it the weather in the background would hardly be visible...

About the iphone like icons to be put in the various sections... wouldn't the whole thing be too large in the end? (currently the sections are 80 pixels wide, vgawise, with the ones you're talking about they should become 120.... it's 1/3 more!!!)
[Windows Mobile Themes] umasiva:
Hi, I am really happy about your contributions. Thanks a lot. I have a request. Your special digital clock with status icons is great. However is it possible for you to remove "new email status icon" and "weather status icon" and make one for me?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Uhm... I fear I don't really get what you mean... :confused:

Both the email status and weather icons on the multifunctional digital clock are widgets on their own that you, if you want, place there... so if you don't need them you just don't put them there :p

I got the feeling that I'm missing something here... could you explain me in details what you need? ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] tacchan23:
guess ur right... I like to write before thinking:P

just I liked the idea of having the weather as the background :( (even without the other status icons, just time and date... maybe using bordered transparent numbers for the clock? just a tought, no idea if it makes sense^^)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Well... a digital "almost transparent" clock placed over a weather widget working as its background can make sense, just maybe as a new combined widget instead of a mod of the current digital multifunctional one :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] jacko5:
Vostradamus,

Thank you for the diamond weather widgets :D

I have installed both small and medium versions.

I find the medium widget rather small compared to other medium size weather widgets you have made.

Is there a reason for this ?

Can the medium one be made bigger ?

Once again thank you for your efforts :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
There's no special reason for it.... because it's the same exact size of my other medium ones :p :D

The reason why it seems to be smaller is because most of the other widgets' graphics almost fill the whole area, while Diamond graphics are more based on little details rather than sheer size.

An example:

- stardock widget, partly cloudy condition: there's a HUGE sun filling almost the whole widget area and cloud drawn over it

- diamond widget, partly cloudy condition: there's a soft, nice looking sun with birds shadow over it, and some light clouds over it which extends on the sides

It looks smaller because the sun is not that huge, but the width of the widget is used up almost to the last pixel by both of them...

I'm attaching a vga picture in edit mode to show what I mean :)

I dunno if making them larger is gonna be a nice idea... they would become rather large in size, heavy on device memory... :eek:
[Windows Mobile Themes] jacko5:
Thanks for the quick reply.

I think i will stay with medium stardock weather widget :)

I don't like the size of the medium diamond weather widget.

Keep up the good work :D:D:D
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Well, if you really think its needed I can still make a larger one, not caring about the device memory :p

Currently it's 200x200 pixels (on vga), I can make it 240x240 max (that's the size of the original BeyondInfinity graphics).

Your choice ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] jacko5:
Sound good :D

How about trimming the clouds at each side and making the sun / birds look bigger ?

I don't think the wispy clouds at each side serve any purpose as you can hardly see them.

What do you think ?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Better leave the graphics uncut, in the "partly cloudy" condition it's just some clouds, but in other conditions there could be more important details :)

I'll set up a "large" version using the original size, it should be large enough to fit your taste I think ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] jacko5:
Many thanx, i look forward to it :):)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Peterjac:
Hi,

I think the size needs to be like MSkips "ProPlus Standard (Medium) and (small)"

Can it be done with this icon set.

Mant thanks.

Peter
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Well, two sizes are already available, they're in line with all my other weather widgets (same sizes for all of them)... I'll be making a larger one, but I surely can't go over 240x240 'cause that's the size of the original graphics... if I should enlarge the originals the images would became sort of blurred and surely not goodlooking :p
[Windows Mobile Themes] Peterjac:
Also noted that the "Temperature small and Temperature Medium Black are blue, on my device.

Can you check.

Many thanks.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Really weird :eek:

I just checked, they look black both on my device and my emulators... and I confirm the code sets the color to 000000 which is indeed black :confused:
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Released version 2.30 :)

ChangeLog, detailed info and download links in the first post ;)

Enjoy! :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] moxycalt:
Hi vostradamus, I've just installed your new sticker weather icons and well they are in the list of widgets but the image is not there.....what did I do wrong ??
[Windows Mobile Themes] FranzB:
Hi Vostradamus,

i am new to your widgets. I downloaded the version (w)vga for my touch hd.

I installed your alarm clock widget and then i tried to change the alarm to your new skin. But i only see the two default skins from spb. Maybe its the problem because i have german rom.... ?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Jackasrot:
Hi Vostradamus,

Thank you very much; your widget set is amazing.

I like the “digital clock” in the “Digital Multifunctional Clock 1”.

Is it possible to have it alone? without the surrounding frame.

Half-screen in width should be enough (like asian digital clock), thus even narrower than “Digital Multifunctional Clock 1”.

Ciao
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Hi there :)

Things to check:

- are you sure you installed the right version for your device screen resolution?

- did you run the xml installer too?

if the answers to the above questions are both yes, then attach your qa_layouts.dat on here so I can take a look at it
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
nope, rom version should have nothing to do with it, don't worry :)

after installing the widget(s) you choose, did you run the xml installer too?
[Windows Mobile Themes] moxycalt:
The answers are yes, here you go !
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Would you like it with no frame at all or do you mean with a frame limited to the clock only, without the sections for the additional widgets?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
qa_layouts seems to be ok, the xml has been correctly imported... :confused:

- what device do you have?

- did you install the widgets in device memory (and is mobile shell in device memory as it should be?)
[Windows Mobile Themes] FranzB:
ups.... xml installer i forgot.... sorry. Now it works ok. Sorry.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
no problem :) glad it's working ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] moxycalt:
Yes it is, I've installed the led batterys and they work. I have an omnia i910.:confused:

Edit: GOT IT ! I just tryed to reinstalle both weather widgets and it work !

Thanks man !!
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
uhm... this is quite weird... :confused:

can you check if in your mobile shell folder there are these files?

- qa_weatherStickersMedium.dat and qa_weatherStickersMediumSkin.dat

(if you installed medium size)

- qa_weatherStickersSmall.dat and qa_weatherStickersSmallSkin.dat

(if you installed small size)

Oh, and another important thing I forgot to ask you before.... you are not running mobile shell 3.5.0, are you? Those weather widgets work from 3.5.1 on....
[Windows Mobile Themes] alwa6heq:
Excellent

:)
[Windows Mobile Themes] moxycalt:
Reinstalled and it work ! Thanks !
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Thankyou :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Glad it's working :)

Can't really get what was going wrong though :p
[Windows Mobile Themes] FranzB:
Hi Vostradamus,

Sorry, i am asking again... :D

Would it be possible to habe a calendar widget which only shows the number of appointments (for one week for example) and a task widget that only shows the number of tasks ( perhaps the number of the next 7 days) ?

Like:

2 Appointments

5 Taks

By the way. Your widgets are amazing.

Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Themes] jacko5:
Thanx for the update :D

The large diamond weather widget is really large :eek:

But not to worry i have deleted a few shortcuts on my today screen, now all

is Ok.

Once again thank you for making that large diamond widget for me :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
I fear I can't do that :(

What I can do are mainly "cosmetic" changes... making this nice to see, improving the way they look...

Functional changes would require access to the source code of mobile shell, which unfortunately is not possible... at least until spb won't release a sdk (it's already been asked several times by many users on spb forum... so far we've all been ignored)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
lol is it too large? :p

I made it so that if you compare the sun with the stardock one in partly cloudy condition they're quite similar in size :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] Jackasrot:
I'd like with no frame at all.

So doing you can consider even to draw different types of empty frame, so it is possible to have several combinations and layouts.
[Windows Mobile Themes] jacko5:
Lol well at the moment its raining, so i guess thats the largest widget in the diamond group :)

I will see what its like when it sunny :D

Either way its staying on my home screen :cool:

Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Ok, no frame then... is that background ok or would you like it different?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Not sure the rain is the largest :p

Heavy snow could be larger :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] FranzB:
Hi Vostradamus,

after playing for hours with your fantastic widgets, i have another question:

The widgets Status-Icons (missed calls, emails, sms) ... can they be in another font ;)

I mean the "text big" ones. Perhaps like the 'digital clock combo"-font ?

If this can be realized..., could you write for missed calls in german 'verpasste Anrufe' and for sms 'ungelesene Nachrichten' ??

If not, no problem.

Thanks in advance
[Windows Mobile Themes] rubadub234:
as always VWW, your work is excellent!

thanks for the millionth time:)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Peterjac:
Hi Vostradamus,

The best weather todate, the Diamond Large is just brilliant, you are able to do so much more when you don't have borders or backgrounds.

Many many thanks for this one.

Peter
[Windows Mobile Themes] O.a.T.:
Hi Vostradamus,

Really like the layout (time & date and size) of your Christmas digital clock. My only observation is that the red font doesn't show very well, at least on the smaller date font. Wonder if you would consider a similar style without the Christmas theme in different colors? Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
This can be done for sure :)

- go to http://www.1001freefonts.com/ and choose a font that you would like me to use for that

- give the me german translations for all the 4 status widgets (status widgets are all together in a single file, so I must draw them all)

Looks like in german they're gonna be quite long, should I make them as wide as the whole screen or would you prefer them smaller?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
and you're welcome for millionth+1 time :p :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
lol looks like the diamond weather has quite a lot of fans :)

you're welcome! ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
So you mean without snowman and without snow on the numbers?

Getting rid of the snowman and keeping the same widget size the numbers should be larger, is it ok or would you prefer shrinking down the size too?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Jackasrot:
I think that a white-text one and a dark-text one without any background could fit any purpose.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Got it, I'll see to it :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] O.a.T.:
Yes, without snowman and snow on the numbers. Same size widget with larger numbers and possibly different, better contrasting colors would be perfect. Thanks for your consideration.
[Windows Mobile Themes] O.a.T.:
I've downloaded the latest pack several times from MediaFire and when I go to decompress I've been getting a single error on the Weather Manilla Medium Widget using 7-zip. Maybe a corrupted file? Haven't been able to download from your FileFactory as all their free downloading slots are currently used. Anyone else seeing this?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Try redownloading again and using winzip :)

If there will be other reports of this issue I'll reupload the file, but it's been verified after upload and it resultd ok
[Windows Mobile Themes] O.a.T.:
Same problem with winzip 14, after downloading again. This is the message I rec'd in the log....

"Extracting Vostradamus Weather Manilla Medium 3.5.1 (vga).cab

CRC check failed"
[Windows Mobile Themes] claus1953:
Thanks for the new version of the Widgets.

I tried to install the contact skins, but could not figure it out. I have seen that widgets can only be installed in one of the home screens, not on the favorites contacts screen, so i guess there i can not skin the contacts right?

I added a widget on one of the home pages, selected change skin and applied the rounded box contact skin. With this the widget disappeared from the list preview and also from the screen. Then i tried to add the contact, and when i changed the skin to small text blue for example, a small contact picture appeared on the list preview, and by clicking ok the picture was fix and the screen and could not be moved around or deleted or anything. I had to delete the registry to get rid of it again.

Also i could not figure out how to apply the multifunctional digital clock 2 to have the weather background and the battery like you mentioned.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Weird... I'll reupload it and update the link tomorrow in the morning... pls be patient until then ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Uhm... judging from what you write, it looks like something went wrong with the installation (dunno exactly what though)

I'd suggest you uninstall

- big box rounded links

- contact tiny

- contact small text

then reinstall them and the xml installer in the end

These are the steps to use them (if the installation went ok)

- add a link widget

- edit layout -> change skin

- select "b. box rounded empty" (any color): the widget should now look like the big box link, but without any icon

- add a contact widget

- edit layout -> change skin

- select either "tiny" (if you want it with the picture) or "text small" any color (if you want it with just text): the widget should now look like a small pic (if "tiny" and if the contact has a picture) or a text contact name (if "text small")

- place the contact over the link

- done

About the multifunctional digital 2, here are the steps to configure it like the example:

- add a weather widget

- edit layout -> change skin

- select "Multifunctional - digital 2"

- add a digital clock widget

- edit layout -> change skin

- select "Multifunctional 2"

- place it over the weather widget

- add a battery widget

- edit layout -> change skin

- select "Multifunctional - digital 2"

- place it over the clock

- done
[Windows Mobile Themes] claus1953:
Lol....i forgot to install the new xml installer... now it works.

Also could install correctly the multifunctional clock.

Grazie mille ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] O.a.T.:
No problem at all, and a continuing big thanks for all you do for all of us.
[Windows Mobile Themes] umasiva:
Hi, I understood what you are saying. I thought the multifunctional one comes with the status icons in built. Sorry for the assumption. I need one more help. I saw the transparent multifunctional digital clock. Its great. Can you do it without any borders?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
eheh you won't believe it but..... sometimes it happens to me too while testing new stuff... I go nuts looking for what's not making things work only to realize I forgot the xml :p
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
vga zip reuploaded and first post link updated :)

(weird though... I tried to download the "old" one and I was able to extract that cab without problems)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Another user already asked for the multifunctional digital clock with no borders and no background, it's already in my to-do list for the next release ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] O.a.T.:
Downloaded new zip and it unpacked just fine with 7-zip. I have that on my laptop, while I have winzip on my desktop. Weird indeed. Thx for reuploading since it did fix the problem on my end.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Great, glad to read everything is ok now :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] tampaboy1984:
Hey Vostradamus I appreciate your work on these widgets they look great and I have them installed over the SPB Espresso Theme. Only thing I have noticed so far that bugs me is that your weather widgets ie. Diamond, Stickers, and Stardock have a red hue box around the wigdet. If you yourself put a grey to black background on your phone and put one of the before mentioned widgets over it you should see what I'm talking about. Can you fix this please?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
I never noticed it so far, most probably because I never used such a solid background.

Looks like you're right, and the funny thing is: it's supposed to be transparent... there must be some kind of strange problem (bug?) in the way mobile shell handles transparency. I've run some tests, and so far I've been able to turn it from red-ish to white-ish and make it lighter and maybe less annoying, but it's nonetheless still there... will keep trying everything I can come up with, but it seems I have to run "random" tests 'cause the color-palette combinations that should result transparent according to how mobile shell should work seems to be sorta useless about this issue :confused:

(I bet the guys at spb didn't even notice it 'cause all their weather widgets are either small with very few and small transparent areas or bordered and of course with a border around it you won't notice it)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Ooooook, after several more tries it seems that I finally found a workaround :D

I'm preparing the fixes, will start with diamond, stickers and stardock that you mentioned and include them in the next release ;)