Database Users

Touch Themed Calculator

Hey guys,
Was wondering if anyone knew of a big button calculator that's skinnable, preferrably one that's already touch themed? I've tried gcalc but I'd prefer something more finger friendly and doesn't require me to switch views to do % or clear.
Thanks!

i created a touch skin for gCalc using photoshop, but when i use it on ppc it looks horrible - like it can only render in 256 colours... any ideas?

i just found out that you can actually skin the default calculator that came with windows mobile... there is a black skin that looks nice for touch
you can get it here (but you have to sign-up 1st)
http://www.spbclub.com/program_skins.php?program=Calculator

amanakbar said:
i created a touch skin for gCalc using photoshop, but when i use it on ppc it looks horrible - like it can only render in 256 colours... any ideas?
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that is because the display/WM6 only has 16 bit color depth, which makes the shading effect look awful.
Try to save it as dithered gif. Although it is only 8 bit color it should look much better.
Maybe you can use Adobe Photoshop to save it as dithered 16bit .bmp
Or simply take the (dithered) background from the Touch Home plugin. You find that as .png in the \windows folder

thanks for the tip...
anyway anyone knows how to create a skin for the default calculator? mind telling me how? the black one looks good but i want to try my hands on creating a more touch theme one

Thanks for the great skin, however I would also like to know how to make these skins, so if someone knows, please share! =D

Here's my try ...
Install the SPB Black Skin and the copy the SpbCalc_P.gif in the Touch "Windows" directory (replace the old one). Start calc.exe ... that's all
View attachment SpbCalc_P.zip
I only made the Portrait skin since I don't use the landscape mode
Here's a screenshot :
Enjoy ...

it works n looks great... thanks

Jayz2K said:
Here's my try ...
Install the SPB Black Skin and the copy the SpbCalc_P.gif in the Touch "Windows" directory (replace the old one). Start calc.exe ... that's all
View attachment 51735
I only made the Portrait skin since I don't use the landscape mode
Here's a screenshot :
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just replace the SpbCalc_P.gif inside the my device >>Windows file...
(only replace the file that i supost need to have in my Windows file)
this is gona replace the default calculator skin of my htc touch... and after just come to programs and launch the calculator... nothing else????

If you installed the Spb skin first and replaced the gif file in the windows directory ... nope ... nothing else to do ... just launch calc .exe
Spb skin here : http://www.spbclub.com/skin.php?skin_id=57

thanks nice skin...

here a calculator I made (thanx Jayz2k for your work) :
http://www.planete-htc.com/index.php?mod=forum&ac=voir&cat=72&id=9220&debut=0#post69042
there is a second one but if the calculs are correct the skin doesn t work...
i don t know how to put the images on xda-dev but you ll see them following the link above...

Hey nice going there Jayz2K. I acutually liked this one so good that I shaved down the original SPB Black Skin (from 372kb to 57kb) and created a cab for your image. Thumbs Up
File removed:
ELF_CalculatorSkin.cab (56.5 KB, 111 views)
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The ELF Calculator Skin is now perfected.
I have redone all the graphics from scratch and polished off the design.
This in my opinion has led to a more clean and true ELF like look.
A big thanks still goes out to Jayz2K for the inspiration.
The file size have increased a bit but I'm sure you will agree that it is worth it.

mate thats excellent. love it
thank u n Jayz2k so much
just what i've been looking for

@theincredibledede ... nice skins
Great work btw, I really dislike the standard one.

very nice calc, thx very much

realy nice skin, thx very much.
is it possible to change the blue into a grey?

mmm
Copied to the windows Dir... started Calc... still the same nasty one..

Thanks for the easy cab cersion nanoflower, it looks super nice.

nice.... very good theme....
as should be default theme made for htc...

Some themes for Pocket CM

Hey everybody,
I created some themes for the great Pocket CM (v0.15), feel free to try these.
Allblack.cmt:
A clean and simple as possible theme, black background, white letters, thats all
Apple.cmt:
White background and a lot of apple logo's, Somehow I just can't get this theme to work the way I want to, but as I don't want to use it for myself I stopped working on this one. Feel free to use these and please give me some feedback.
HTCTouch.cmt:
Inspired on the HTC Dailer plugin
And my personal favorites:
PimpedTouch.cmt:
HTCTouch with some cool b&w backgrounds
Silver:
B&W theme with silver accents, custom icons and nice backgrounds.
Update
Silver2
Because Pimpedtouch was a winner, and I liked the silver one, I've combined them into silver2 (how original).
Another update
Sunset
I wanted to bring some color in your life, so here a theme with some nice sunsets, but still usable.

Please post some screen shots.

1&2 = Silver theme
3 = allblack
4 = HTC Touch
5 = Apple (work in progress)
6&7 = Pimpedtouch

That's cool..Great work thx Pimpedtouch is very nice ...

Themes are (especially the "pimped") very clean and smooth. No hiccups, lol. Way to go!!! I look forward to more of your work.

Vga Themes Required
any chance for VGA Themes

Grea themes, thank you!

Pimped looks GREAT!!!! One question though:
Are these QVGA compatible? (I have a Treo)

These themes are all QVGA (240*320)
I can (try to) make a VGA theme, but I don't use those.
@ farehmani: which one do you want in VGA?

This is my first VGA theme.
Please give comments, I have a QVGA device, so I can't test this one...
Please upload screenshots too, because I'm curious how it ended
Some information, it has some Iphone-like buttons and backgrounds of dark cities (nightshots). Also a lot of transparancy, I don't know if pocketCM supports them all.

Please post screen shots. If they are like the pimpedtouch theme. I am all for them. That theme was hot.

The Blue theme on the pcm forum is my favorite..
love it!

I don't have a emulator, so I cannot test the VGA version...
can somebody please test the VGA version and post screenshots?

Here you go, VGA version of Dark City. Everything displayed (icons, letter, pictures), is just huge and literally spilling of the screen.

Is that the screen on a VGA (480x640) or QVGA (240x320)screen? Somebody at the Pocket CM forum said it worked ok, so I'm confused...

Daanmannetje said:
Is that the screen on a VGA (480x640) or QVGA (240x320)screen? Somebody at the Pocket CM forum said it worked ok, so I'm confused...
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QVGA (240x320) screen, HTC Herald P4350

o thats the problem, the VGA theme is for 480x640, if you use it on a 240x320 it looks like your screenshot....

VGA
hi tested the dark city in my imate jasjar (480x640)
Its white in color, and when u press the phone button for some seconds.. the Minimize, Close, Settings, Contacts buttons are only white boxes..
the screen doesnt look like the one posted by robosiris

amrarian said:
hi tested the dark city in my imate jasjar (480x640)
Its white in color, and when u press the phone button for some seconds.. the Minimize, Close, Settings, Contacts buttons are only white boxes..
the screen doesnt look like the one posted by robosiris
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my apologies.. now it looks like robosiris ... i renamed the zip to cmt and copied in the folder. no i extracted the zip.. and then copied the cmt file.. so it looks exactly like robosiris..and the scrolling is very good in this theme..
thanks

Can you post some screenshots in 480x640 for me please? Then I can see what to improve...

WM7-ish themes (PocketCM 19, tsk & S2U2)

I dont expect "Great job" posts since I am a desktop developer not a graphic artist but here they are anyway
PocketCM and S2U2 are portait only for now
PocketCM 19: Based on the look of the WM7 Email screenshots
S2U2 : Just a Portrait Wallpaper.
This is alpha stuff but at least it works. I will fix up the niggles as I go along,If there are anyone willing to help it will be greatly appreciated.
Enjoy

PocketCM :
3rd screen - you could make highlihted text white...imo.
i like clean look of this one(could you make greyscale version?).

Like I said ...its a work in progress and this is a community after all, all input is greatly appreciated

Keep up the good work
Glad to know another good thing is coming from the rainbow country (SA)

if any of you have used the wisbar advance theme called "Aero Luminescence (aka WinMo 7)", it has the same exact color scheme of the actual WM7 leaked screenshots. i don't know how the developer did that, because he released it.. maybe a year ago. check the lakeridge software forums for it, btw.
sorry i'm way off topic. i just noticed that your tsk looks like it's from Aero Luminescence. i really like the pocketcm theme, thanks.

all m th images were edited in paint.net, could this be why the gradient looks crap in the S2U2 wallpaper?

Looks good man keep up the good work!

if you changed the format of the images at any point that can change the quality of them (further more bitmap gradients aren't that great if you use bitmap i use png)
the program paint.net would not effect quality, only how you use it

[THE] S2U2 1.4x & 1.5x Diamond Theme (Mar 01, 09)

I thought maybe someone might be interested in HTC Diamond theme for S2U2 so I made my own. It's not perfect and the clock is not mine, but I've made there a couple of changes - used original TouchFLO 3D icons, used original WM 6.1 icons for statusbar, made all new slider (matching the HTC Touch style), fixed and cleaned the background (found here on XDA). All info is in enclosed ZIP file.
Enjoy.
EDIT (March, 1st): Screenshots slightly out of date.
LATEST VERSION 1.5x: Initial release (March, 1st)
LATEST VERSION 1.4x: V04 (February, 8th)​
Version history 1.5x:
Initial release
All files updated in order to comply with 1.50 version
Included original S2U2 1.50 Diamond style as well as my Diamond Glass style
Version history 1.4x:
V04
Updated "redcircle.png" by original TouchFLO 3D images
Updated "system.png" by original HTC and Windows Mobile icons (alarm icon from TouchFLO 3D, WiFi nad BT icon from HTC WM)
Removed black background from "system.png" in order to make it compatible with light wallpapers = no more black rectangles
Added landscape "manila" wallpaper
V03
Corrected some "manila" clock files
Deleted screenshots from the pack
Added two new wallpapers
Added "glass" version of wallpaper and clock
Updated "readme.txt" in both Czech and English
V02
Cleaned the wallpaperb.jpg
Intial release
Known limitations of the skin/S2U2:
(red = 1.4x, blue = 1.5x, black = both)
I haven't designed the skin for neither S2P nor call answering. The skin was designed to look exactly like on the pictures I've enclosed.
The clock format must be set to "HH:MM" (01:30 format), otherwise the clock will be bad-positioned.
You can't use the "show large battery" function because it would mean there are no flips under the clock (the flips are parts of the wallpaper - just have look at the templates).
I STRONGLY RECOMMEND TO UPDATE TO THE LATEST 1.5X VERSION SERIES.​

Very nice work, i know some released a similar version earlier but this looks like it fits in with TF3D alot more. Thanks!

Nice work, thanx
Diky, rad vyzkousim

Great job. If I may make a small request though as to change the white flip clock to the glass flip clock? I would really appreciate it. I use the glassclock on tf3d so it would just match better thanks in advace

kingbean said:
Great job. If I may make a small request though as to change the white flip clock to the glass flip clock? I would really appreciate it. I use the glassclock on tf3d so it would just match better thanks in advace
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Even though I said there would be no updates or whatsoever, I think that shouldn't be a big problem for me. If you were able to get me a screenshot or point me, where to get the source files, I can give it a try.

wizaard said:
Even though I said there would be no updates or whatsoever, I think that shouldn't be a big problem for me. If you were able to get me a screenshot or point me, where to get the source files, I can give it a try.
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Here's a posting with a screenshot and a .cab file of the Glass Clock. Thank you again very much!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2570674&postcount=8

I will do my best - I've sent a PM to the author, so now I'm waiting for his reply. If everything goes well, the result will be here within a day. Please be patient.

nice theme. works nicely!
I made a new background to go along with my wallpaper.
VGA - my current wallpaper, got it from wallpapers thread.
wallpaper.jpg - modified for use with this theme

arkavat said:
nice theme. works nicely!
I made a new background to go along with my wallpaper.
VGA - my current wallpaper, got it from wallpapers thread.
wallpaper.jpg - modified for use with this theme
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Nice work! Just a little note - why do you have the "flips" moved slightly to the right? Is it on purpose? Anyway - I've made another version if anyone found it useful.
kingbean said:
Here's a posting with a screenshot and a .cab file of the Glass Clock. Thank you again very much!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2570674&postcount=8
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Done and included in both pack (since V03) and templates.

Farkin Sweet! Thanks a ton for creating this, I REALLY appreciate it. Especially the templates! (Once I realized that it wasn't actually a real flip clock and half of it was part of the background.)

Great to hear that - anyway - just a little note - I haven't received any answer from the glass clock author, so I had to "rip" the source files from manila themes using the Manila Editor. The numbers are made by myself (actually edited), but I hope it looks pretty much like the original you wanted.

Wow, good job on that. I opened your glassclock template in Photoshop, inserted my own wallpaper, and sharpened it. Here's how it came out. (the only glitch i have found so far is that when the clock goes from 12:59-1:00 that the numbers slide over and no longer match up with flip clock outline.) Because of this, I'm not sure if my wallpaper for landscape will match (I have a TP). But I made one anyway. I also added a little more dimension to the slider and posted it.
:Edit: I got the glass to look a little more glassy/transparent. Now if only I could get the one in tf3d to be the same lol

The thing is that the clock format must be set to "HH:MM" (01:00) instead of "H:MM" (1:00) - there's unfortunately no other way. But I think I've mentioned it in the readme file. And what more - that's true that I haven't made the landscape wallpapers either.
EDIT: I've added the ZIP file containing the landscape templates. Thanks for your great idea!

Thanks for another template. Glad I could give you the idea. I took your advice about the clock and other than the a big "0", it's balanced. so I can deal. I also got bored and remade the slider icons again, and again, and again check 'em out! tell me what you think.

I think they're pretty good!

Great stuff. Thanks for your help.
Is there anyway to make the flip clock flip? Mine does not flip.

As far as I can tell - it's impossible.

That is what I figured. thanks.

[stopped!.. on to something else -see last post!] htctoucher's Microsoft retouched

Hey everyone!
I decided to stop this theme!
its not fun enough for my taste.. a little too generic even
I might start working on some palm pre inspired skins like this for pcmc:
so stay tuned?!
UPDATES AS OF 4/13/09:
Dialer skin added (see post #2)
wm6.5 skin added (see post #3)
s2u2 skin updated (vga support added and graphical errors fixed)!
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s2u2 Preview:
*not everything is shown (one wallpaper, some of the buttons/sliders)*​
INSTRUCTIONS:
-- backup original s2u2 gfx file if you wish to keep the original skin
-- unzip the qvga or vga gfx folder from the .zip file attached depending on your devices resolution
------ (excluding wallpapers, vga works with wvga and qvga works with wqvga)
-- there are different styles of unknown and nopicture callerid wallpapers, buttons, sliders and wallpapers within the zip
------ choose the one you want to use and name it to the correct filename (arrows.png, buttons.png, buttonl.png, wallpaper.jpg, nopic.png, unknown.png)
-- copy/move the gfx folder into your s2u2 folder and overwrite originals
-- you will want to disable the bottom bar and topbar in settings, and it would probably look best to disable the s2text for the dialer screens too in the lang file
FAQ:
Q: Are the call buttons/sliders hardcoded into a particular incoming caller wallpaper?
A: No, use whichever unknown or nopic wallpaper I have included, select either slide2end, slide2answer or simple answer and end buttons in s2u2 settings and you will see the sliders/buttons/wallpapers work independently from one another
Q: Will there be more FAQs??
A: Yup, as soon as I get more
WARNING:
I havent been able to test all aspects of the VGA version, but it should all work
If you encounter any issues (graphical) please upload a screenshot and/or description so I can work to fix it
Enjoy!
htctoucher

dialer and commmanager skins!
Preview of the comm manager and dialer skins:
..
**if anyone knows why in the dialer incall screen portrait the disabled pause and add call buttons are still htc-styled please let me know..
I skinned every image I found that corresponded to that part of the dialer but they havent changed!**​
DIALER INSTRUCTIONS:
-- first note that it is a QVGA skin, i dont know what the most popular VGA dialer is
-- unzip cab from zip attached
-- uninstall any previous versions of opal phone canvas if you have them installed
-- install the cab to device, not storage card
DIALER KNOWN ISSUES:
-- Not everything is skinned in the dialer, and there may be some issues as it is impossible for me to test everything
That being said, I tested everything I could, and I cannot find any skin-related issues
I tried my best to skin everything but there are over 200 files so it may be that I missed some
-- Also, I am still working on how to change the font color for smart dialing portion of the opal phone canvas
If anyone knows, please post or PM me!
it is the opal phone canvas, and I think its done by registry keys but the cab I used didnt install any
**comm manager coming as soon as i figure out which version this is so I can make the cab..
any help pointing me in the right direction would be great! (its part of NFSFAN's 6.5 rom)**​
here are just the files for opal phone canvas
only use these if you already have opal phone canvas already installed (the version WITH THE INCOMING SLIDER
http://www.4shared.com/file/101415925/b94b89f1/htctoucher_opalphonecanvas_retouched_files_only.html
Enjoy!
htctoucher

windows mobile 6.5 skin!
Preview of the skin for windows mobile 6.5 users
This theme will *only* work if you are running WM6.5!!​
INSTRUCTIONS:
-- download the .zip attached
-- unzip the folder "files to put in windows directory" somewhere so you can look inside it
------ the Titanium_240x320.cpr file fixes the date issue mentioned above, and the StartMenu_GridScene_240x320.cpr will change your start menu from 3 to 4 columns
-- choose which files you want to copy to your device, and do so
-- soft reset
------ you will not see the changes until you soft reset
KNOWN ISSUES:
-- some of the graphics of the lock screen have not been skinned, like the locked dialer for example
when I get more time I will skin these as well
Also, I was going to make a cab, but figured not everyone will be using titanium weather and may not want some files or 4 column start menu etc.
If cab is requested by some of you, I will make one, but its a pretty simple installation anyway
Enjoy!
htctoucher

just in case, this ones reserved for even later

Typical htctoucher Theme.Looks really cool.The Blue is allways royal.loved the arrow for ur s2u2.It would be cool if u add mort button skin.Great work.

Very nice icons for notifications! The slider needs a little touch up. Anyways, great job ! You need to update your theme color like blue to other colors. Blue is getting bored...

Amazing look and pretty impressive.

wow that baby is sweet lookin....please make a QVGA theme as well

Looks great and I am already looking forward to using it .
One question though, what formats will you make? WVGA?
Cheers!
// X

I love it! I cant wait to see the rest. good work!

you're pimping again

looks great.

Yes, please!
When you get finished with all this, mind if I cook them into a ROM? possibly some minor, minor branding involved (just on the M2D and/or S2U bg if you'll let me do so)

Man.. you're sick.. in a really really beautiful way.
Where do you get all those graphics? The notif icons look reeeaaaallly good. But try using a different color for the bkgnd.. maybe red? or purple? or yellow? or green? o orange?

Looking good!!

wow! great response!
wow i only posted this morning and alraedy got a LOAD of feedback.. very motivating! thanks to everyone who has posted!
now i will try to answer all of them.. because i can (and i want this theme to have a lot of user input because ideas/concepts are best developed when bounced around - thats the great thing about this community!)
sathya said:
Typical htctoucher Theme.Looks really cool.The Blue is allways royal.loved the arrow for ur s2u2.It would be cool if u add mort button skin.Great work.
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hope its not too typical
yeah i will probably do a mortbuttons skin to go along with the startmenu hook as i am now using that
haizn24d said:
Very nice icons for notifications! The slider needs a little touch up. Anyways, great job ! You need to update your theme color like blue to other colors. Blue is getting bored...
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yeah i like the notifications too, agreed on the slider, gotta fix up the edges and the white lock icon.. forgot to do that before i flattened it and uploaded the preview
i think i will do multiple colors, but i am not sure how to implement other colors (should multiple backgrounds with one dominant color, or one background with a melding of multiple colors?)
i agree blue is overused, but to be honest, its my favorite color! and microsoft uses it a LOT (maybe i will bring in some cyan/very blue green as that is the color scheme in vista?)
what do you think?
ahdeshpande said:
Amazing look and pretty impressive.
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well thank you!
much appreciated, glad you like it
ranasrule said:
wow that baby is sweet lookin....please make a QVGA theme as well
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qvga is a definite as my device is qvga
this is gonna be my first theme where i attempt to do ALL RESOLUTIONS!
wvga, vga, wqvga, qvga
we will see how it goes, its gona be hard to test and honestly i wish i had a vga device (i have qvga, which means i can guess what wqvga would look like.. but i have no idea what vga/qvga will look like on device or how to position things in xmls cuz i cant test)
so please.. anyone with an old vga device, send it my way!
or if anyone knows a really good emulator.. i am using microsofts sdk, but it doesnt look good/right
Xfinity said:
Looks great and I am already looking forward to using it .
One question though, what formats will you make? WVGA?
Cheers!
// X
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thanks! glad you like it
check the response above
shadowline said:
I love it! I cant wait to see the rest. good work!
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i cant wait either
red_hanks said:
you're pimping again
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that i am, gotta keep my pimp hand strong, flex it often and consistently
nir36 said:
looks great.
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thanks!
Travito said:
Yes, please!
When you get finished with all this, mind if I cook them into a ROM? possibly some minor, minor branding involved (just on the M2D and/or S2U bg if you'll let me do so)
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what do you mean by branding?
i would love for people to build roms with these graphics, i think that would be amazing
for vogue roms at least i am going to ask NFSFAN if he would be willing to use my graphics in a rom, or allow me to use his rom with my graphics.. hopefully he agrees!
DaVince said:
Man.. you're sick.. in a really really beautiful way.
Where do you get all those graphics? The notif icons look reeeaaaallly good. But try using a different color for the bkgnd.. maybe red? or purple? or yellow? or green? o orange?
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haha thanks
i get them from my head! (i make all of my graphics from scratch)
yeah i am thinking of doing multiple backgrounds with different dominant colors.. maybe to match the tsks
JonasSavimbi said:
Looking good!!
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thanks for all the feedback!
i will have more previews tonight
please post any suggestions on what to improve, what you would like to see, suggestions for the background etc, anything you want

Looking forward to see this finished, maybe you can additional colors such as black.

wow, looks awesome buddy

htctoucher said:
thanks! glad you like it
check the response above
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I noticed your response and all I can say, fantastic news!
htctoucher said:
please post any suggestions on what to improve, what you would like to see, suggestions for the background etc, anything you want[/B]
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Not at the moment besides keep up the great work!
// X

Love it
//Drakfisken