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[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
The photo picker is not finding a folder to cache it's thumbnails .. I may have made a mistake with detecting the storage folder. You have a Diamond? what is the full path of the internal storage? I thought it was "\Internal Storage\" but I do not have a diamond to test it. Or is it different because of your device's language?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
Glad you like it!! As far as the bug you mentioned, are you able to open any other image for crop/resize? or is it just that one landscape image that will not work? Whappens if you start the program and try to open that image first? (and then just tap the portrait/landscape button to rotate the crop rectangle). One thing you can try is to delete the "thumbCache" folder from your storage card and see if that corrects the problem. Let me know what happens.

The sense menu integration doesn't look different yet, it just makes the photo picker pop up when you choose "Weather wallpaper" or "Animated wallpaper" from your home screen menu. I will change the way it looks soon, so it's more obvious :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] icke:
On german Diamonds the path is: "\Interner Speicher\"

Got the following regs:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\AppInstall\volDeus BG Tweak\ExecutableFiles

\Programme\volDeus\BG Tweak\tbrefoneventwform.exe=(value not set)

\Programme\volDeus\BG Tweak\volBgTweak.exe=(value not set)

\Programme\volDeus\PhotoPicker\PhotoPicker.exe=(value not set)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
There is a registry key you will need to change so that the photo picker will point to the correct location. The key is "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\volDeus\ThumbCache\CacheRoot", and you will need to set it to your storage folder .. "\Interner Speicher\" ... Let me know if this helps.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Boushh:
Trying the update now.

I just thought of this idea. Would it be possible to have it make a cache of how you crop each image in the directory or something. Say I navigate to folder "HQ Wallpapers" and go through and crop image 1.jpg, select it as my background and then reopen photo picker and go to photo 2.jpg, select my crop and chose it as my background. could photo picker add (or update the thumbnail cache file) with the updated cropped image (but not overwriting the original 1.jpg of course) then have the program refer to the cache file when automatically changing the photo?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Tung_meister:
just upgraded to the latest artemis (v13 23569) and your mod has stopped setting the main menu background, so it has to be set manually and then rebooted as the transparency for the menubar doesn't adjust for the new wallpaper, though taskbar does.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
I need someone with a device that has no external storage card slot to help me with testing. I have a solution that should prevent the issue that icke is experiencing, and eliminate the need for setting the registry key I mentioned, even on non-english devices. I would appreciate if someone with a Diamond/Diamond2 or other device that uses internal storage, could spend some time on yahoo, msn, or skype. I would like to resolve the issue before posting any major updates. Please PM me if you can help.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
Was this a difference you experienced only after changing your ROM? or did you download a new version of BG Tweak as well?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Tung_meister:
after changing the rom, on the previous build of atermis i was using (v11 3563) the start menu background changed with your mod yet now it dosen't. was using the latest beta on both roms.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
I had considered giving the option to create a "library" of backround sets (portrait and landscape, pre-cropped). I assumed most users would prefeer to just point at a folder full of images and let BG Tweak do the work for them. I could combine both options though.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
As soon as I have time I will look into it, are both versions of the artemis ROM available for download? This is an issue I am very interested in since the start menu background never updates on my device without a soft-reset ... I would very much like to find out what the difference is between the two versions of the ROM you are using, so I can possibly solve the start-menu issue for everyone. Any information you can find out on your own would be very appreciated. Also, if you are a member of any IM service, I would like to add you so we can talk about the issue in real-time. PM me with your IM details if you are interested in helping.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] papichulothrawn:
My start menu background also doesnt' change without a soft reset. I have a rhodium on t-mobile using Energy's latest 23568

-R
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Boushh:
My menu bar and task bar have never updated without a soft reset, I'm assuming it has something to do with Santod's BG4All that he cooks into his ROMs, works fine after a soft reset though.

The first thing I'm noticing with the photopicker and v.6b6 I'm noticing is it's not displaying all the images in my BG folder (there's only about 10 files in it). I deleted HTC's .albumcache just to see if that made any difference, but it didn't. If you'd like I can send you a copy of the folder so you can test. Just let me know.

*edit*Okay, I discovered what was causing it to not show some of the images. I will only display images with a lower case file extension (eg. .jpg) but not files with all uppercase file extensions (eg. .JPG), which sometimes happens, should be an easy enough fix though.*edit*
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
It's not that, it's an issue I have been wrestling with for a while now. Can't figure out some logic in the OS that governs which stwater_****** file is used as your today screen background and wether it's loaded as soon as the files are changed. Still working on it.

Ah, thanks alot for the report .. A stupid mistake on my part, will be fixed in the next update. (these types of things are the reason I don't like updating the title post right away :) )
[Windows Mobile Software Development] antaed:
Hi volDeus,

I prepared a set of scrollbar thumbs to match the folder design.

Tell me if this is ok or you're thinking of something else.

antaed

i think we have to ask sternas to share the shell32.exe and aygshell.dll files from the new wm 23569 build
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
Great, I'll check them out in a bit.

The shell files will only effect wether or not your device boots. :) Everything else is the fault of BG Tweak or the included Sense UI MOD.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] nexima:
I not understand the question, could you please rephrase. (I use the translator google)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] antaed:
also upgraded to artemis 13. the tweak is running fine for me, the only problem is the with the known default lockscreen wallpaper issue.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] papichulothrawn:
Good thing I reformat all my files and use lowercase out of habit ;) (What a nerd I am!)

-R
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
Funny, there had been a handful of images on my device that didn't show in the photo picker as well, but I have such a mess of files on my device I never noticed until you mentioned it!! Anyway, the problem has been fixed and it will be in the next update.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
When you install "BG Tweak", do your bars have any change.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] icke:
Great!...now works like a charme!!!:)

Thank You!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] c0de_junkie:
Does anyone have 23569 files?? thanks a lot!!!!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
Excellent, let me know if you can help with some testing so this won't happen to anyone else :) PM me with your IM account if you can help. I have Windows Live, Yahoo, and Skype .... can get AIM as well if neccessary.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] antaed:
+1 i confirm the tweak doesn't work on the new artemis 13. it is very strange because:

- it worked right after the flash

- i tried to change to another wall and i got a photopicker error - see screenshots

- cht stopped working after i uninstalled the tweak

- i realized i didn't delete the thumbnnail cache from the sd card after flashing the new rom. so i deleted the cache folder and reinstalled cht and the tweak. now the tweak worked again with olny one problem - after setting a new wall with the tweak it did show in all tabs but the home tab where i could only see it through the transparent bars and the slider background. the rest of the screen i could not change whatever i tried.

- i unintalled the tweak and had to reinstall cht again. now i found that the default animated walls from manila don't display correctly, all of them are missaligned at the slider area. the rest of the walls, default or personal, are all ok no matter if i set them as weather or animated walls.

i hope this helps
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
Yikes ... well I have made alot of internal changes since the last CAB so rather than try to trouble-shoot all these problems I'll just get a new CAB up as soon as possible, and go from there.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] sykozylot:
hi. i have the HD2 and i downloaded v0.6b4 and 21889. i stuck the contents of 21889 directly into my SD card and ran the other cab from my phone, rebooted, and such.

then when i tried adjusted the transparency and did a soft reset, my phone froze on booting during the "Stick Together" screen for about 10mins. i took the battery out and put it back in and tried again and it still froze. this happened around 3 times. then i did a hard reset because it kept freezing during the boot process.

right after the hard reset, i retried it all, with the same results. was there something i'm doing wrong?

thanks.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
Sorry for your trouble, it's a common problem. I would suggest trying one of the methods outlined in post #2 to obtain your shell files on your own, instead of downloading the ones I posted.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] papichulothrawn:
Hi volDeus,

Here comes the strangest thing: My wife and I have the same phone. Until 0.6b6 All my comments went for her phone as well. So today, I upgrade to Energy's latest. We have the same cabs, the same apps, etc. I did mine first, with no problems. I did hers and the sense wallpaper won't change. The start wallpaper does. I've tried all the various combination's on the settings tab. Nothing. The top and bottom bars "are" visibly changing, it's just the background. I'm stumped. They are the same model: Rhodium. They have the same Rom: Energy.RHODIUM.23569.Sense2.5.Cookie.May.09. They have the same apps and cabs installed. (In fact, hers has a few less because she doesn't read comics or play the same games ;) I'm stumped. I will try to go back to the previous version, and see if that makes a difference. I don't expect an answer, just sharing that apparently, 2 "identical" phones.... aren't identical.

-R

(Edit) I installed 0.6b5 on the wife's phone. The phone immediately picked up the previous background that I tried before I uninstalled 0.6b6. Strange. So, I go to start -> BG Tweak.. but it doesn't load...? So I load from sense "Menu -> Home Wallpaper -> Weather Wallpaper". BG Tweak loads, and I'm able to select a background and change it. Strange. I'm thinking of uninstalling and trying 0.6b6 again... but if it works, is it because of remnants that aren't installed? The above attempts were from a freshly flashed ROM... After I task 29'd it....

(Edit) So, I uninstalled 0.6b5. I reboot. I reinstall 0.6b6. It picks up the wallpaper from 0.6b5. I change the wall paper using sense which brings up your photo selector. I choose, and it applies the background without problem. So, solution, but very strange.

Can't wait for the next version ;)

-R
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
Like I told antaed, I have made so many internal changes since I posted v0.6b6, it's not even worth troubleshooting. :) Just stick with whatever was working for you and stay tuned. :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] oedsdemeer:
@volDeus

When will the autorotation background of the imagetab be fixed? Have to wait for version 0.7?

Great app btw!! :D
[Windows Mobile Software Development] nexima:
This will only change the background in the Start menu.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] gluonyc:
Oh!!! You have been to Portugal! :) It's my Country!

I want to thank you for this wanderful tool... it works like a charm! :) But I have one issue I don´t understand... it's related to the transparency of the bars... it works well on the windows menu but in sense there's no transparency at all! I didn´t try the option of the special tweak because it says it's for wm 6.5 and I'm using a cooked room of wm6.5.5 with sense 2.5.2012 on a Toshiba TG01
[Windows Mobile Software Development] firstflyer:
New 23569 Roms hanging on boot

Any of you having problems with the new 23569 roms and the device not booting--

One of the problems I found (using the NRG Cookie 23569 May 9th rom) is that this build from NRG is a hybrid. I tried numerous times to extract the shell32.exe and aygshell.dll files and they always seemed to extract properly, yet my HD2 would hang on boot. I then thought being a hybrid of 23569 and 23563 I would try the files out of the 23563 build and--

lo and behold, everything worked perfectly! This may be the case for other chefs' roms.

I am using the v0.6b6 build and its GREAT!

Many thanks to VolDeus for this app and his time!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Boushh:
LOL, I'm actually using the files from 23566 for his hybrid ROM with everything working perfectly on 0.6b6 (except for the known cookie lock screen issue).
[Windows Mobile Software Development] icke:
For those guys, whose not changing bar-transparency, try this:

1. Install awesome mod from volDeus and without softreset select transparency and background...then reset device.

2. Open HTC picture&video...navigate to the same pic you've chosen bevor in BG Tweak and set transparency there to 0

3. Open again volDeus...select the SAME pic you've chosen in 2 steps bevore...accept the questions with 'OK' and leave BG Tweak without softreset and turn your device in landscape.

Now the bars looks like they should...these steps helped me on my Diamond (SYS 6.1 21056) and HD2 (SYS 6.5.x 23568&23563)..."Use HQ..." enabled and "Use 'fake'..." disabled on both devices.

Maybe those guys with quoted issue will help this.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] nexima:
Thanks, helped! I have all happened!!!:)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] cwizardtx:
Good catch. I wonder how much begging it would take to have NRG just pack those two files in a subfolder for us when he cooks the roms.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] gluonyc:
I found out now that in my TG01 if I press the button to apply the transparency the pda wont boot again... I found it hard even to start a light. remove the battery and waited a long time and nothing... couldnst even initiated the hard reset process... I was almost giving up and preparing to flash the rom again when finally, with no explanation, the hard reset menu appeared... uuuuuffff :)

just to warn anybody with the TG01 to not try to use transparency (but it works on start menu and today screen)

this new version (...b6) is great and the thumnail loading it's preaty fast on my tg01! the only thing it's missing to be final release is a way to rotate the pic for landscape. Keep the good work and tnks :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Putra:
All of a sudden this morning, I had this photopicker error:

values does not fall within the expected range (pics attached).

I've tried deleting the album.cache in my wallpaper folder. I've also reinstalled the v0.6b6 cab. Still gave me the same error.

I've then uninstalled, manually deleted the photopicker registry entries, soft-reset and reinstalled and soft-reset again. Still gave me the same error.

I didn't reinstall CHT as it's cooked into my ROM... Anyone else had this problem?

Reverting to v0.6b5 (without photopicker) at the moment without any problems...

UPDATE: I re-read antead's post & realized he said: delete the thumbnnail cache from the sd card. I had deleted the album.cache instead. After deleting the thumbCache folder in the root directory of my SD card, I reinstalled v06b6 and now it works normally again. Most likely the thumbCache folder became corrupted after I deleted/added some wallpapers.

Hope this help someone else who may be having the same prob....
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
I'm not certain I understand your problem. If you are referring to the issue with versions of Sense UI that show the image tab in landscape only. I don't think I will be addressing it soon. If you would like to post a screen-shot to make sure we are talking about the same issue, please do.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
Please try one of the newer versions and see if it resolves your problem. I will be posting the latest CAB today as soon as I finish replying to messages. Check the end of the thread.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
I have been many times, but not often enough :) I have plans to hopefully move there in a few years. I will post a link to the photos and videos of the trip a bit later.

Try with the newest version I am about to post. (v0.6b7) If it does not resolve your problem, send a screen-shot so that I can understand your issue better.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
Thank you for the info, I had suspected it might be a problem for others also. I will add a statement to post #2 and mention your ROM specifically.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
I am glad you had been able to fix the problem on your device. Although simply adding or removing images shouldn't corrupt the cache, there are some other situations that can. I will be making the caching system safer and more efficient in the future.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
Update!!

New Version -- v0.6b7

Another intermediate update for the close followers, a few more small changes and it will make it to the title post.

Changes:

Full Sense UI menu integration for stock, Co0kie's Home Tab v1.71, or MaxManila v3.0. (Check out the Sense menu where it used to say "Home Wallpaper"!!)

One CAB works with stock, CHT, and MM. Install Sense MOD for your version, from the "Settings" tab in BG Tweak.

Slightly more user-friendly background setting process.

Very accurate kinetic scrolling in the photo picker.

Thumbnail caching system auto-detects your storage card or internal storage, regardless of your device's language.

A handful of other bug-fixes. (let me know if I addressed your reported bug yet)

I haven't solved the CHT lock-screen issue, but don't worry, it is the very next problem I will attack.

The next few features you will see are...

Rotation support and brightness adjustment in the image preparer.

Service mode bar refresher.

Automatic background cycling.

BG Tweak skinning support.

Lots of internal changes that will hopefully make things smoother and faster.

I am also looking into a way to control which Sense tabs are skinned, for those of you who do not want the BG4All effect.

Please test this new version and let me know what issues you find!!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] saugbaer:
0.6b6, I had problems

the 0.6b7 works perfectly :D

lockscreen only the problem (the white top left is gone)

see picture

sorry google translater:rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Software Development] birdra:
got trouble with 21869. the files don't work, device doesnt boot anymore
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
Anyone who downloaded the latest CAB I posted, please re-download it. There had been some problems with the way it packaged so I made a new copy.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] xborfi:
thank you master! this is a MUST HAVE app ;)

BTW, I have to report a bug with 6b7 cab, in home page of cookie in menu the edit home layout button just disapeared and instead tweak background is available!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] DaOnlyRecless:
Thanks to the new TMOUSA LEO ROM, a new COM2 sys build (21892) has appeared. I will try to dump the necessary files as outlined in post #2.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Boushh:
0.6b7 is working great! It's applying the background to NRGz ROMs without the need of a reset now, I had to flip it to landscape for the BG change to take effect on the MB, but I've always needed to soft reset on earlier versions.

I really like the new sense integration menu and picker interface and the scrolling in the photopicker is much better than in the last build. Great job!

*edit*

I just noticed that too.

*edit2*

The repackaged one I just downloaded sorted out that problem. Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
Thanks for the support!! :)

Sorry about that... I was having a lot of trouble packaging the CAB correctly. Download it one more time and you should be ok.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
Sorry for your trouble, please try one of the methods outlined in post #2 for obtaining the shell files on your own. Also, try only setting the opacity for one bar at a time. Some ROMs are a hybrid of two different builds and when using both shell files from one build you experience the boot failure. The task-bar uses shell32.exe and the menu-bar uses aygshell.dll.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
Great, if you are successful I'll add them to post #2.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] volDeus:
I'm glad it's working out for you both! I'll be working on the issues with the menu-bar and the lock-screen very soon.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] grgiannis:
Look this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=681341
[Windows Mobile Software Development] antaed:
very nice update voldeus, no problems for me except the known lockscreen issue.

the only minor thing to report is that right after installation the tweak didn't remember the opacity values but the bars kept their previously set transparence. with previous updates the values were remembered after installation.

i would also add something interesting i noticed after installing the update. the home screen returned to a custom wallpaper i've had right before installing the tweak (set the manila way after flashing).

oh, the kinetic scrolling is fantastic! ;)

antaed
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Putra:
I experienced the same prob again not long after I reported it. I'm pretty sure it was caused by deleting some wallpaper from my folder. This time, I simply deleted the entire cache folder in my storage card. No need to uninstall.

Upon running BG Tweak from the home page, everything works fine. Except photopicker was a little slow in showing the wallpaper, most likely because it was rebuilding the cache folder.

PS: This was for v0.6b6... I'm installing b7 now :) Thanx volDeus!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] andy andy:
Diamond

Gen.Y D2X R2.6[WM6.1 21056][UC][SENSE2.5.2012]

Shell files are taken from post # 2 (aygshell.dll = 347 kb, shell32.exe = 314 kb)

1. Why can't set opacity value to 256 ? ( i type 256 but when i press set bar automatic change back to 255)

3. I set both opacity to 0 but my bar still black :(

Help please........

Thank you
[Windows Mobile Software Development] xborfi:
anybody noticed that the TASK bar is not 100% transparent?!!

( this can be distinguished more when you make the top curtain transparent )

it is sth like 95% transparent which can be distinguished specially when you use white background.

I tried many builds like 21891, 21899 ,21901,21903,23569..... but all have that issue!

ANY FIX FOR THIS PROBLEM?!:)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] xborfi:
I have downloaded the secound file. the menu is now ok but another problem !

- when I want to choose background I see an error page that quit the program!(6b7-3rd release)

*****************FIXED BY DELETING THUMBNAIL FOLDER IN STORAGECARD**********************