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[Windows Mobile Themes] micromacro:
Done

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Thank you for your help!

Thanks to your indication have also resolved this problem!

I have opened "va_misc_now.dat" (.zip with password), I have replaced the files "widget_wireless.bmp" and "widget_wireless_m.bmp" of MobileSense Theme with those original, and is now just as I desired!

Suggestion:

Considering that it is very easy to also replace those icons. why don't you foresee to also modify those icons?

You make to perform to MortScript the operations that I have done and you can also propose some changes to those icons (1 set at a time, about 200 kB each set).

Thanks to lot

ITA

Grazie per il supporto!

Grazie alla tua indicazione ho risolto anche questo problema!

Ho aperto "va_misc_now.dat" (.zip con password), ho sostituito i files "widget_wireless.bmp" e "widget_wireless_m.bmp" del tema MobileSense con quelli originali, e ora è proprio come desideravo!

Suggerimento:

Visto che è così facile sostituire anche quelle icone, perchè non prevedi di modificare anche quelle?

Fai eseguire a MortScript le stesse operazioni che ho fatto io, così puoi proporre delle modifiche anche a quelle icone (1 set per volta, circa 200 kB ogni set)

Grazie mille.

;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Yep, I've been thinking about that already... I guess sooner or later I'll add that function too :p

ITA

Già, ci avevo già pensato... immagino che prima o poi aggiungerò anche quella funzione :p
[Windows Mobile Themes] ironhead65:
ENG

Is there an echo on this forum??

ITA - Yahoo Babblefish (appologise if it translated poorly)

È ci un eco su questa tribuna??

:D:D :eek::eek: :D:D

--Ironhead

--Ironhead - Yahoo Babblefish (appologise if it translated poorly)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
lmao thanks for showing me that I should never ever ever ever ever trust that yahoo automatic translation engine ahahahah :D:D:D
[Windows Mobile Themes] albarona1:
please Vos.

I want to ask about if I wonder any widget in any theme, how can I use it ..?

just widgets ...

thanks
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Uhm.... I'm afraid I didn't quite get what you mean....:confused:
[Windows Mobile Themes] albarona1:
I mean that I use your pro. msm in my device

but I like some widget in some themes ( like android widgets )

how can I get these widget in your program

thanks again
[Windows Mobile Themes] JVogler:
Custom Wallpaper Issue...

So I'm sure this is a problem with SPB MS, but I will post in in this forum since everyone here seems to be the most knowledgeable on the subject. When I use MSM to add custom wallpaper (backgrounds) to SPB Panels, mainly on the call log is where I notice it the most, they show up fine. But when I scroll through the call log the background doesn't stay in place always. A quick flick on the screen and its fine, but if I hold and scroll slowly the background 'sticks' and smears and makes the screen unreadable until I release with stylus. Is there any solution, besides removing the wallpaper all together?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
I can't include in MsM packages a widget designed by someone else without his permission... so you should do it yourself "manually".

Unfortunately, it's not just copying some files in some folder, there are other things to do (xml definition file, ini file for registry entries....) try taking a look at the guide attached to the first post about how to create a widget :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
first time I hear this, I'll try to reproduce the issue and see if I can understand what's causing it :confused:
[Windows Mobile Themes] JVogler:
I never use the .bmp format, so I converted .jpg to .bmp using Adobe Photoshop Elements. I'm not sure if that is the best way to do it...just opened them and 'save as' .bmp file. Maybe i will try converting them in another way, or is it possible to use the .jpg file directly as panel wallpaper?

also after posting I went back and checked everything more carefully in case more info was needed...and it is just the call log that I can reproduce this every single time with any picture...well besides a picture of a solid color, but I'm sure it's still doing it...just not noticeable. Thanks for looking into it...hopefully it's something easily fixable.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Uhm.... a couple questions:

what pixel size are the pictures you're using?

what bmp format you saved them to? (they should be saved at least 16bits, that is at least 65k colors)
[Windows Mobile Themes] laverne:
bmp sticking

this used to happen to me when i saved the bmp as the wrong size. what i did to fix it was resize the image to my screen size which is 240 x 400. that would make sure that it fits the screen. the screen sticks in the areas that the pic isnt covering... if that makes sense. so try to resize the pic to ur screen size and save it to bmp. Hope that helps. Laverne
[Windows Mobile Themes] JVogler:
I have them sized @ 240 X 320 which should be correct for the Kaiser, and then the 'resolution' as Photoshop calls it @96 but I have tried changing that to a few different things like 72, 144, 128...is there a preferred resolution setting for Kaiser display? Should I be downsizing the 320 part of the dimensions to accommodate the taskbar and menubar? Not sure how many pixels each are, but if I take into account those two things i think I would end up with about 240 X 280.

Vostradamus: I believe it is 24 bit, the one time I checked 16 bit, the picture didn't even show up correctly at all...I will try some trial and error with those settings upon saving as .bmp and see if I can find one that works. Is there a better program for converting to .bmp format? Also is there a way to see if the background is going to work right without restarting mobile shell every time?

Thanks for taking the time to answer back both of you...btw I finally had to add the word 'Vostradamus' to my dictionary because i type your name so much on here...lol.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
240x320 should be fine for your device :)

24bits should be fine (actually, 16bits should be ok too, dunno why it didn't show up right when you tried it) :confused:

I think any program should be ok for converting to bmp: its a veeeery simple format :) If you want a small, simple, nice and free one you can try irfanview (not able to save 16bits though, but ok for 24bits)
[Windows Mobile Themes] JVogler:
I've tried all settings and sizes with same results...I even tried downloading wallpapers directly from online already in .bmp format and I still get them sticking and smearing until I lift finger/stylus. Seems like only option is remove wallpaper unless anyone has any other ideas.

Tried 4 different programs for converting images...all the same...I even tried using a screenshot from my phone using Spb Screenshot...so it was a perfectly sized .bmp actually created by my phone with no change. So I am now at peace with the fact that I will not have a wallpaper for my call log :) I'm also at peace with the fact that 4 hours of my life are now gone, and I will not be getting those back! lol Thanks for the help..but I'm not spending anymore time on this :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
lol well, if I'll find anything about this issue I'll give you a buzz, until then..... just forget about it :p
[Windows Mobile Themes] ziko87:
Sorry, my bad! It does the same thing here - when I slowly move my finger, the wallpaper "sticks" to to it. No problem when I scroll fast though...
[Windows Mobile Themes] ironhead65:
Can you "actually" translate what the Yahoo Babble...said? I'm curious how well I was able to offend using that tool!

:D

--Ironhead
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Well, reading it close to what you were trying to get translated I can sorta guess what kind of sick reasoning the translation engine followed (which is kinda hilarious), but if I just read the "translation" alone it does not really make any sense :p

If you try the same translation on google translate you get a much better result, maybe not 100% perfect, but very close and definitely understandable :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] ironhead65:
You know, thinking about it...

When I made a new Pro panel, it had the default MsM background. I could add contacts, etc. Then I would slide them around the screen, everything was perfect.

Then, in order to use some of my contacts that were text only, I tried to figure out how to remove the background. As I could not figure that out, I made a 640x480 and 480x640 "black only" bmp. I saved it as monochrome.

Now, when I go in to edit my widgets, I also get the smearing. I thought it was something else I did that caused it. For instance, I actually have changed the menu bar to be totally invisible (one of the MsM widgets). So, I assumed that was what was causing it.

How can I TOTALLY remove all backgrounds? Or is adding in the bmp the way I did the proper way? I think then I will try reverting the menu bar to see what started the smearing (as it was not occuring after I added the panel...only after I edited it).

--Ironhead
[Windows Mobile Themes] ironhead65:
Ok, thanks! I just don't want to be off offending people for no reason!

One MUST have reasons for offending others!! :D:D

--Ironhead
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
the "black only" bmp is the right way to do it, just not monochrome... at least 16bits, but 24bits should be ok too :)

(don't ask me why.... it's a spb mistery like a lot of other things) :p
[Windows Mobile Themes] ironhead65:
Wow, I changed the file from Monochrome to 24bit (16bit was not an option) the filesize went from 38k to 900K!!!

Seems to have resolved my issue. That is really screwed up! Why would "wasting" more memory provide better performance!?

--Ironhead
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
for the same reason why a lot of mobile shell registry entries are uselessly tangled, or the same reason why page index in the registry behaves differently between lifestyle and professional panels, or the same reason why digital clock backgrounds can only be grayscale otherwise they either screw up or vanish while swiping, or the same reason why you can define a skin for wireless widgets and it shows up in the list but gets the graphics from a fixed file instead of the declared one, or the same reason why counters in status widget will always be white no matter what color you define it etc. etc. etc..... that is: no logical reason at all other than spb sick reasoning lol :p :D :eek:
[Windows Mobile Themes] JVogler:
Dang it...try as I did to ignore it...it's going to bother me until it gets sorted out...so if anyone figures out the mystery of what makes a wallpaper smear I'm all ears!
[Windows Mobile Themes] vizarati:
I have been playing with this for quite a while now and i love it. Thanks alot!!

Two things i wanted to ask. First how did you get the menu's transparent in the pictures from post 3 or this image: (http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/9471/glassq.png)?

I would love my favorites menu and if possible the start menu transparent.

Second, are there any icons that can be used for the phone profile widget? I like to use it cause it faster for me but the only icons are the default system ones =/

THANKS

PS!! one more thing was wondering about. I have the samsung omnia 2 from verizon and it had a cube app of some sorts. however after installing sbp and msm thats app is gone =/ any idea where it went? x_x

and wow sooooo sorry but i was looking at the widgets that comes as the default widgets and noticed a myspace one (in the today screens), however there is no way to use the myspace widget in the msm, sbp shells..
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
You're welcome :)

What do you exactly mean by "menu"? If you're referring to the bottom bar (the menubar), in the screenshots you mentioned I just used the "ButtonsNumber" advanced menubar. MsM though can only apply menubars to lifestyle or professional panels, but not to the "favourites" one.

The icon used by the profile widget is part of mobile shell... There can be different ones if you install spb phone suite, which integrates with mobile shell, and can handle quite a lot of "advanced" profile options.

The "phone profile" widget, on the other hand, can use every active MsM "link" skin :)

I have an Omnia 2 myself (not verizon's though), I know the cube app :) It didn't disappear when I installed mobile shell, nor MsM (which couldn't possibly disable something like that)... I still have it where it was before, dunno what could have happened to yours :(

(do you really use the cube app? I find it quite heavy and kinda useless lol) :p

I guess you're referring to one of the widgets in samsung touchwiz interface? (I'm not sure about it 'cause disabling samsung touchwiz was the first thing I did when I took the phone out of the box for the first time lol) :p

If that's the case, I'm afraid the only way you have to use that thingy is to use (aaaargh) samsung touchwiz instead of mobile shell... I SOOOOOOOO do not recommend this lol :p :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] kenziesgrandma:
Good Morning Vostradamus. I have a request for you if possible. Could you make the Glass digital clock (the one with just the glass numbers) so that it uses 4 digits all the time in 12 hr time? Like 08:15 instead of 8:15? I just like it better that way. Still loving the program, fine tuning all the time. I have it now so that I have 5 lifestyle pages (everything I need) and still have 66-68 free megs of ram on a fresh boot.

thanks

Kathy
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Added to the to-do list ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] laverne:
hi Vos

hi there. Hows the catching up on the backlog at work coming along? shame it seems your to do list is growing more enormous by the day. ;)

wanted to know if you know when spb ms 5 will be available? ive been looking out for it but no luck yet.

hope u having a good day. chow xxx

Laverne
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
catching up done :)

Been ill for 3 days, but now I'm better and I'm finally gonna start on the requests :p

I have no news about mobile shell 5, I still think spb is taking its time waiting for WP7 to actually come out so they'll first take a look at it :p
[Windows Mobile Themes] vizarati:
Ok what I was referring to in the first part the transparent menu or so it looks like to me, is in that screen shot you have http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/9471/glassq.png, the bottom one for the Favorites Menu. I was wondering how you have an image in the background or if the menu it self is transparent, also the task manager and agenda screens in that same image.

Thanks for the "link" suggestion it works great with the profile widget.

I never really used the cube app, its just when you looking for something that was there and all of a sudden its gone it just drives you insane (at least it does me). Ill look into it and see what happened to it =/

The myspace thing doesn't matter anymore i actually went and deleted mine last night lol.

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While im typing up this response (sorry its so long) I was wondering if you could make a text only weather app. Like just the numbers not the one you have already that says "sunny intervals" and stuff. I liked the number font in the digital clock skin "No B.Ground - Full White", just if it was smaller and maybe black.

-The reason why is I love the MSkip ProPlus Standard weather widget skin thing but if it just showed the temperature as well. With just a temperature skin i could overlay it.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Uhm... in that screenshot I just added a background image to the "favorites", "spb menu", "task manager" and "agenda" panel :) There's a function for it inside MsM, you can add a background image to almost every panel of mobile shell, even different images for portrait and landscape mode :)

You're welcome! ;)

lol I admit I know the feeling :p

Weather temperature is a system written text, so to have it with a particular font I should add the font itself to MsM, which I'd rather avoid 'cause fonts can be quite large and must be installed in device memory....

About the temperature only weather widget itself (font apart), it's already available in MsM, two sizes and 7 colors each (black, white, blue, cyan, green, red, yellow) ;) It's called "temperature small" or "temperature medium" :) They all use a standard font surely available on every WM device :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] vizarati:
Ok thanks for the temperature thing i had to reinstall the MSM and readd the widget library to see it. The background option though for panels, I dont see it. Maybe im not looking at the right thing can you tell me which category its in and all? Thanks. I hate having a phone thats smarter than me =(
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Sure, no problem :)

Panels -> SpbPanels Wallpaper

EDIT: be sure to use images the size of your screen, and saved at least 16bits :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] vizarati:
Thanks your a life saver =). Umm I reinstalled the MsM Full Library from mediafire but i still didnt get the Temperature set you was talking about. Is this another set that I need to install from the mediafire folder?

EDIT: Umm how do i check my screen size LOL (im that stupid when it comes to this phone)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
They're in the base library (or in the full one too of course) :)

You can find them inside the "weather" category

Being just a text with the temperature, they do not have a preview image... so if you're looking for them in the preview menu you're not gonna find them, but they will show up nonetheless in the activate menu ;)

just check the screen resolution of your device (if you're not sure, just google something like "<phone name> specifications" and you should find the needed info) ;)

qvga -> 240x320

wqvga -> 240x400

vga -> 480x640

wvga -> 480x800
[Windows Mobile Themes] vizarati:
you rock man!! only one last thing to ask and that is about the spb backgrounds, do they have to be a certain file type? or can any of the basics work (.jpg .png .bpm .gif etc..)

and i have a wvga screen

ooh and umm how do i take screen shots of my screen? like print screen on a computer, can phones do that? i know i shouldn't be asking but since your the phone master i thought i would :eek:

EDIT: I installed the weather widgets you mentioned but the black's do not show up. If i activate them in the skin's it puts up the white ones not black and white also puts up white. Any idea why?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
They need to be bmp files, saved as 16bits or 24bits :)

Spb has a nice free app for that: spb screenshot :)

Uhm... that's quite weird... :confused: maybe try deactivating and reactivating it
[Windows Mobile Themes] ironhead65:
Strange...I just made my menubar for my lifestyle page "Side Buttons"

I also use MH-widgets. I had to re-install my MH-Widgets to get them back. And then, after that, I ended up with "Side Buttons Original"

No big deal, just an FYI. I can use the "Side Buttons Original", they are fine! :eek:

--Ironhead
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
huh? You mean that changing a menubar made your mh-widgets disappear? :eek:

That's more than weird... there's no way I can think of for a menubar change to "disable" some random widgets :confused:
[Windows Mobile Themes] ironhead65:
yeah, I am not sure...it was only the one...I think it was more the art, as the other "invisible-clock" MH-Widget seemed AOK.

Doesn't matter so much...maybe later on I'll try to re-install the "Side Buttons" menubar. Could'a been some other thing I've done...

That's why I didn't say it was a problem...just a fact of something that seemed to correlate! Esp. since you said you dont' know how it happened...I'm willing to accept that as "I broke something"! :p

--Ironhead
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
I'm kinda curious... lemme know if you figure out something else about it :p
[Windows Mobile Themes] vizarati:
ok i did that and as i move the widget around the font is black but as soon as i place it somewhere its white. does it sense color or brightness? im using a dark-ish back ground but im using a the MSPlinks weather widget so its bright allways a big'ol sun up till even midnight lol.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
uhm, nope it sure doesn't sense any color or brightness...

I'll try to reproduce the issue, will let you know as soon as I'll figure something out
[Windows Mobile Themes] albarona1:
hi Vos.

I want to ask abou the new ver. :) if you planing that

we ( I think all of us ) wait for it

but please if there >>> it may includ android widget

thanks alot
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
I don't have an ETA at the moment, but I'm working on some pending requests already ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] ironhead65:
Looks like MW-Widgets isn't happy when I change around the menubars.

BUT it seems happy at the moment. What I ended up doing, was editing BOTH menubars to be what I wanted (I have a contacts HUB and my main lifestyle HUB).

Then I re-installed the MW-Widgets cab.

Finally, re-injected your XML changes, and re-configured the menubars to be the SAME. Looks happy now.

I don't know why this happened...but it just seems the underlying "art" disappeared until I did the above steps. Kind of what happened when the invisible link disappeared. I had to re-inject your XML to make it re-appear.

At any rate...just some strangeness. Maybe I'll pop MW an e-mail see if he might take a look, or :o (doubtful) maybe he'll let you include them. I really only use 2 of his widgets, so it really would save me some space to "inject" ONLY what I wanted from his library...instead of the WHOLE thing.

--Ironhead
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Uhm... that's really weird... a menubar change does nothing more than

- injecting the menubar xml to qa_layouts

- modifying the panel's xml to make it use the new menubar

- adding menubar graphic files to ms folder

so nothing that's "widgets related"

I don't really get how this could corrupt any MH widget...

the only thing I can think of is: if some of MH files should have the same filename as a particular menubar files, they could be accidentally overwritten.... but the chance of something like this happening is VEEEEEEEERY low (I always try to use "particular" filenames just for this reason), plus you would have had no way to get it to work no matter the sequence of installations you tried to follow :confused:

Uhm.... do mh widgets contain something that's not... widgets? :confused:
[Windows Mobile Themes] ironhead65:
Ok, strange:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=567049

I don't remember ever seeing a modified Menubar from his stuff...but last time I updated MS (from 3.53 to 3.55), I did download the latest MH-Widgets...which apparently the SE version (which I installed) has a modified Menubar...strange thing, I never had a modified menubar until just the other day (I used MsM to inject it). PLUS it didn't have any effect on his widgets until I changed the Lifestyle...PLUS why would it do ANYTHING to only ONE of the MH-Widgets?

Wow, I'm thinking this is going to get chalked up to some SPBMS craziness!

--Ironhead

P.S. Maybe because of this, I should get MH involved in the discussion about why changing my Menubars made his battery widget go crazy?

P.P.S. Do you know how I'd make a shortcut to a specific page on a hub? All I found were making shortcuts to "normal" SPB stuff or "new" hub links.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8282538&postcount=2734
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Uhm... I think a part of the mistery is being solved....

after reinstalling MH widgets you ended up with the side buttons original menubar 'cause the "modified menubar" of MH widgets is exactly the same as the "side buttons original" lol :p

So I guess MH widgets installation includes a lifestyle panel definition pointing to a "side buttons original - like" menubar, which overwrites the current lifestyle panel definition (or at least that's what it looks like) :D

The part about his battery widget acting weird when you changed the menubar is still kinda misterious though :p

EDIT: forgot one thing... I don't think it's possible to link to a specific page of a panel (or at least I haven't found a way to do it so far)