[HD2 General] samsamuel:
Get and unpack Chome Visual Editor

copy original LS_LockScene_480x800.cpr file from your phone /windows/lockscreen/ to the chome folder

copy all the png graphics that start 'htc_' from your phone /windows to chome/windows on the pc.(not necessary, you can happily edit without this step)

The starred section below is what chome instructions say you should do, and is connected to importing registry, however i can't make it work properly yet, so this is kind of useless for now, and again, it isn't necessary for these simple positioning edits.

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*copy bronzeres.dll from phone to chome/windows

*copy cmhomeres.dll.0409.mui from phone and rename it cmhomeres.dll in chome.windows.

*You need ROMExtractor from Cotulla to get the .mui file

*http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=1571715

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If you want to enable the animated arrows on the lockscreen left and right of the slide button, open your LS_LockScene_480x800.cpr in notepad, and look for the two sections that have been commented out. Find and remove the entries

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and

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there are 4 of them.

EDIT using the animated arrows affects music playback when in standby. i guess that's why it comes commented out.

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Run CVE (chome visual editor) and open your lockscreen.cpr

The first thing you will see is that the buttons aren't there. I haven't figured out about importing registry and what not yet, only tinkering with the layout.

At the bottom of the preview, set the size to 480 x 800 and zoom till you can see it all. I opened the default wallpaper.png in windows/ folder and erased the background to leave it clear, get rid of that ugly coloured thing.

on the left, open the tree at 'scene'.

Of the 5 entries, the three layers are Lockslider, Notifications list (for missed calls, txts, email) and TimeAppointment. Pretty self explanatory which is which.

If you select those three on the left, and look at the info on the right, you will see these three panes are given positioning info relative to the top of the screen.

So the notification List panel has a Top value of 115. (And it also lights up blue in the preview, not all panes do this)

Sub items of the main panels have their positioning relative to the panel, so notification/focus has a top value of 0 - the top of the notification panel.

IMPORTANT - if you move an item above the start of its panel, either by dragging, or by setting a top/left/right or whatever outside the panels edge, it won't show when you use the lockscreen.

This is most notable when dealing with the

TimeAppointment/DateTime and

TimeAppointment/Appointment

because they have zero height and width, so don't show up shaded blue on the preview - easy to mistakenly move a time/calender entry above it.

We're going to keep it simple, and not mess with the sub entries, just rearrange the three panels. Time/calendar at top, msg/call notification panel in the middle, and unlock slider at the bottom.

Select the LockSlider panel on the left, and on the right, set the Top value to, say 650

Select the TimeAppointment panel, and on the right set top to 0

Select the Notifications List, set top to 250 and height to 400

Don't forget to move the TapOrSlide and SlideToUnlock entries to just above the LockSlider, select them one by one and set top to 630 for both. You will also see on the right that different options have come up. Font, colour, shadow etcetera.

Now lets tinker with the time / appointment display a little.

Select and delete the ugly red calender symbol, and then with the entries for time, date, appointment subject, just play with them. Personally i move things by manually editing the top/left/right etcetera rather than the mouse.

TRAP - select TimeAppointment/Appointment, see the small blue dot? if you drag the appointment items above that they wont show, so be sure and set that's top value to 0.

In the image, subject will not show.

If you select DateTime, you will see this has a top value of 14, so if you move the clock up without changing it, you get the top cut off.

If you want to play with graphics, click and select the calender icon as a test, and you will see on the right there are two references to a file in the windows folder, you can edit that, but you need to edit both refs or it wont change.

Testing

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Copy to your phone, move to windows/lockscreen, and soft reset. A bit of a pain, the soft reset, but it won't update till you do.

and that's it, i haven't gotten into anything deeper, I'm going to branch into kitchens and see if i can get importing the registry to work, but here's how mine looks for now.

and version 2...

I don't know what the buttons down the left do, certainly nothing for me.

If anyone knows more about using this prog, please let me know.

I'll add as/if I find anything about how importing registry works.'