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Where can I find or make my own dialer skins? On the upgrade in the o2 active you have the ability to change dialer skins, but I can't seem to find where they are located.
Sorry zabes where are you referring to in the ability to change dialer skins?
On the XDA II I think the dialer sking is a collection of a dozen of so *.jpg files that live in the windows directory.
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Dialler Skin
Hullo,
Here's two of my Dialler Skins made using some excellent wallpaper from the net and V2R's Skin Creator.
Free to all, you will need to install the PSK Installer.exe from http://www.ppc-club.com/
Have Fun
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hshortt said:
Hullo,
Here's two of my Dialler Skins made using some excellent wallpaper from the net and V2R's Skin Creator.
Free to all, you will need to install the PSK Installer.exe from http://www.ppc-club.com/
Have Fun
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I'm not sure if the PSK Installer can handle depressed buttons. For unknown reasons, Microsoft decided to store the skin as a set of image files - except for the depressed key, which is a resource inside a DLL. I made two DLLs for two of the better known skins. If you have access to a resource editor, you can change those to whatever you want.
This issue has been discussed in this forum earlier, use the Search feature to find the thread. And here's the URL to my two DLLs (sorry, German only): http://www.tadzio.com/ppc/index.html
Cheers
Daniel
YUP! Your depressed buttons dlls are also really good but I'm glad you popped in to make them known again.
My choice is the Candy red DLL for these skins really as it really makes the skins look good on the device.
Maybe you can help me to design some more depressed buttons in different shapes, let me show you what I mean...
In the attached image, you can see the round buttons, the problem here is that the depressed button dlls are the normal round corner rectangle shape, which makes the skin look less good on the device.
Cheerio
Howard
hshortt said:
Maybe you can help me to design some more depressed buttons in different shapes, let me show you what I mean...
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I can certainly help you, but you can also do that yourself. You need to find a program that can edit resources inside an executable file (DLL counts as executable). Many Borland IDEs can do that, as well as Visual Studio. I'm sure there are other resource editors as well, I just don't know them.
So, all you need to do is open the only bitmap resource in one of my DLLs, edit it, then write it back to the DLL.
Again, if you want me to, I can also help you and put some images into a DLL. Just email me the images (as BMP files).
Cheers
Daniel
Thanks Daniel,
I'm going to get an editor on my machine and give it a go. Thanks for the help.
Cheerio
Howard
Got the PE Explorer resource editor which is nice.
Extracted your candy red icon file, now I just need a nice icon maker! haha
I also found that you if clear the registry setting for the depressed button, then the phone skin won't show any depressed state, while not as pretty as the depressed button it's another option.
Cheerio
Howard
1. The dialer skins above workd gd, but does anyone know how 2 change them apart from manuly, by clicling on the skin wer it is saved at my documents.??
2. Has any1 got the serial 4 V2R Skin2Chose 2.0, and if yes how can i get hold of free skins?
http://www.yorch.net/apps.htm
this is a free skin chooser
asking people for seriel nr.s in this forum is bad taste since many people who come her make programs and you just might end up asking people if they got a seriel so you can nick their software
if you use yorch's skin chooser then the skins must be put in
the dir called skin in the path you have installed the program
Ooops! lol :lol: didnt kno that I shouldnt do that! Well new member sooo!
By the way thanx the link al try now!
Actualy this is very useful n free thanx a lot, im done now, dont need 2 crack that anymore. lol
Rudegar,
Is the Yorch Skin Chooser XDA II/MS Mobile 2003, compatible?
Yes, it works great with WM2003
i av a problem with this XDA Skin Chooser, when a click on ACTIVATE a little windonw comes up sain: Activating... then a click OK n go 2 check the new skins that i apply but they not there, the original one comes up.
Any idea y??
Yep, you need to perform a soft-reset in order to actually activate the skin, mate...
I did the softreset bt still on ma original skin................?!?!
Hi, I just uninstalled the PSK Installer (didnt try any skin), but I´ve lost the Windows default skin, and I have now a new blue one.
Does any one know hoy I can try to make this change again?
I have the XDA Phone Skin Chooser, which used to work fine, but now it doesn´t change this blue new one.
Any ideas? :roll:
Thanks in advance.
Hi Buddies,
Another Dialer Skin Generator - Dialpad Maker Deluxe
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=12731
Enjoy !
Cheers,
Bong99
I've hosted some more skins and ring tones too at my site
http://www.howardshortt.com
Cheerio
This is as far as its got so far
ftp://ftp.xda-developers.com/Uploads/Universal/VGA so far.zip
Note to have your own windows boot screen replace with your own welcomehead.96.png
You use at own risk, nothing to do with me, but ive not had any troubles so far. This will create a security hole in your WM5 windows system.
thanks for the efforts carnivor, but i dont think the ftp is working, or basically i cant access it. tried the browser and an ftp client. cannot connect to the server, it times out.
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=BA_FTP_Site
access the ftp through there
Would love to give it a go, but just not quite brave enough - anyone post any screengrabs of some popular screens to see?
Thanks a bunch for creating the zip file, Carnivor. Makes things nice and easy
I managed to rip the MSN messenger dlls from my kjam. Here they are. Messenger now works fine in VGA mode.
rilot said:
I managed to rip the MSN messenger dlls from my kjam. Here they are. Messenger now works fine in VGA mode.
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Those files were set with Read Only and System attributes and Activesync refused to copy those files to my Jasjar until I removed those attributes. After that they copied fine.
Thanks for the files
Brett
wicked, just popping them onto me JJ now, i was going to ask if someone could post them from another phone, the site was down, it was horrible i was awfully lost without it
What do the VGA Messenger dll's do exactly?
joebongo said:
What do the VGA Messenger dll's do exactly?
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Allow MSN Messenger to work when in real VGA mode. Without them the app just hangs or fails to start up.
Ok, those dll's are purrrfect!!!!!
ive attached the latest vga stuff time date stamped
its got the msnm dl''s alldone in it.
also i dont really think the phone skin is going to be a major problem, i see on buzz's site they're skinning the phone app, i used a couple of the tweaks to change my qvga dialler background, so maybe the rest aint as hard as first thought. I say that in the tense that buzz prob speant hours of brain cells working it all out.
Ohh rilot, you are a deamon, msn this res is wicked!!! 22 contacts in landscape mode, godda be some kind of a record, i mean its actually useful now, better than the usual 2 is it? hehe
Can anyone post some screengrabs?
I'll try to get some screenshots up tonight.
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here ya go, was before i started playing with the ozvga settings tho, looks better now
Carnivor, looks lovely: get the feeling that guy in the first pic just felt his trouser pocket distend and rip with the jasjar. Man, I'm afriad to pocket it and get a hernia. But it has such a nice solid feel to it, like a mini tombstone. They should advertise that as a feature! Engraved...
I've also noticed that I can feel the electric charge buzz when using it and holding the metalic top. I'd be careful of using it in the bath!
Carnivor: how do you find wisbar's skinning? Does it impact on speed? It's quite cool.
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wisbar is good, the .12 is alot better, but you do still notice the improvement when you close it.
buzz, i was refering to buzz_lightyear, a guru on things wm based
Ok I'm a nOOb here, can someone tell me what to do with the .CAB file in the archive ?
Please
Carnivor, this is just awesome! Working well with WA2 AND WAD! Quite surprised was I!
Some issues I am having that u may already know how to solve, in which case I'd appreciate ur input:
- Fonts tough on eyes. What changes do u recommend over and above ozVGA settings?
- Some dialog boxes only show half the text b4 the yes/no buttons overwrite the bottom part. Any ideas?
- PIN pad is all overlapped; not a big deal
- BUT, phone pad is a bit of an issue; too small and I have to turn off quickdial. Any ideas on this?
- My SIP keyboard loses its skin. Can the skins on buzz's board be applied somehow?
- Calculator keys too small; do u know of a working calc app cos I truly need a calculator available at all times
- My oh-so-pretty WA2 and WAD hi-res themes need to take a trip back to low-res world else the buttons are too big! Darn!
I'm gonna try sticking to this mode. Hell, all the apps I've got working well on WM5/VGA work just as well under this mode, so why go back? and PIE is OH SO PRETTTTTTYYYY!!!!
PS: What do u use for screen shots on WM5? Would like to post a few of mine.
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- Fonts tough on eyes. What changes do u recommend over and above ozVGA settings?
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hmmm.... that's what i'm thinking - for the Today screen anyway. i wanna be able to read the stuff here with a glance, and the teeny fonts make that difficult. is there anything we can do about this?
im looking for app that let me change my slider sound on my tilt? i tried using app called slidesound but it dont work that well
Sliding Sounds
Here's two That I have:
Do you how to in stall them using reg. edit...pm me if you don't and I'll step you though.
First one is a transformer sounds
other is light sabr from star wars
I would like to know how to reg edit since I haven't found the word 'piano' in total commander?l QUOTE=mike19722;1937298]Here's two That I have:
Do you how to in stall them using reg. edit...pm me if you don't and I'll step you though.
First one is a transformer sounds
other is light sabr from star wars[/QUOTE]
i have found some sounds i like now i just need to kno how to put them in the folder for sliding sounds
heres a cab that i found in a transformers sliding sound forum. just install the cab and reset. then you can just copy whatever wav file into the windows directory that you want for the sliding sounds. you just have to name them custom-in and custom-out. its real easy and you dont have to touch the registry.
kwill said:
heres a cab that i found in a transformers sliding sound forum. just install the cab and reset. then you can just copy whatever wav file into the windows directory that you want for the sliding sounds. you just have to name them custom-in and custom-out. its real easy and you dont have to touch the registry.
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ok..and what about the default sounds? i tried the slidesound app.and it played the default sound and the one that i wanted
If someone could still help me find the reg edit folder or method of "changing my own oil". There is a little pride I get from plyaing around in the reg edit especially there is the element of risk when working in it.
Thanks for the help
you'll need a registry editor, like phm, total commander, or resco, before you can do anything at all
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you'll need a registry editor, like phm, total commander, or resco, before you can do anything at all
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link to PHM Registry Editor? please
I have total commander and was trying to get help with it. Can any one help me with me using Total Commander. I don't mind downloading something else if its easier.
Hey, check out the post I did a little while back. It may help...
Ryan
thanks that helped
thanks that helped
Hey, Do you have to use a Registry Editor in order to change the slider sound? Or is there another option? I would also like to know if anyone here could possibly walk me through the steps. Thank You
Hi All,
Don't know if somebody already posted this, but I couldn't find a thread about it.
I just saw a link in a Dutch forum regarding a website where you can create your own panel.
Here's the link: http://www.mysonyericssonblog.com/x1panelcreator/index.php?step=1&lang=en
It's just that my Italian is not that good, so I cannot find the guide. Maybe somebody here can find it and explain how it exactly works. But it sure looks promising.
Herman
Here is the English tutorial
BTW. It's an HTML panel designer
WOW Nice find,
without reading it all yet, will do later, it looks like it will be incredibly simple to do something such as a program launcher.
cool, i'm thinking of making a Hyves panel (dutch facebook like social website)..
Groet, Steven
this sounds great but i dont know how to program in html
anyone one able to give me a basic guide
Wow! This is a great find!
Now I just need to come up with some good panel ideas...
Nice!
What you guys want?
Ganondolf said:
this sounds great but i dont know how to program in html
anyone one able to give me a basic guide
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Get hold of a WYSIWYG website editor and use one of those..
I think dreamweaver is still available as a trial, try that to build what you want to see, then save the page as html.
otherwise there's huge amounts of websites that give tutorials on html, it's not difficult at all.
SE Panel SDK supports native panel (i.e. panel developed using windows programming technique) and html-based panel. the latter will be more designer-friendly, but probably won't be sophiscated as the native since API will be limited. That said, with all the panel request on running certain app as the background, I got to say html-based panel might just well do the job.
This is a really awesome find. Makes things simpler/quicker...
Taking requests for HTML panels. Need an idea for my first panel
Evostance said:
Taking requests for HTML panels. Need an idea for my first panel
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Try a simple program launcher, that should give you a taster of what to do.
Evostance said:
Taking requests for HTML panels. Need an idea for my first panel
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what about some sort of task manager panel, maybe if possible with more info than the standard task manager. it could include info for battery, ram, cpu use, heat etc. a sort of all in one info panel/task manager
Ganondolf said:
what about some sort of task manager panel, maybe if possible with more info than the standard task manager. it could include info for battery, ram, cpu use, heat etc. a sort of all in one info panel/task manager
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Sounds like a good idea.
At the minute im just making a simple development panel.
Just so people can see how it works when they look at the HTML of the panel etc.
Ive managed to open .exe's etc, just wondering how to open sections of the .exe.
For example: clock.exe opens up the alarm bit where you can set alarms. However im wondering if the tabs on that part are also part of clock.exe
Does anyone know how I can access \\Windows of my X1 on my PC? I can only seem to access it using Total Commander on my X1 and to be honest. Its hard to scroll through thousands of files on such a small screen lol
how about a games panel?
Ganondolf said:
how about a games panel?
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Thats dependant on the games you have installed. I could do it with the games already on the phone but other than that, each person would have to customise it for their own phone
Evostance said:
Thats dependant on the games you have installed. I could do it with the games already on the phone but other than that, each person would have to customise it for their own phone
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could the panel have settings in the panel manager, where the user could add and delete games?
Evostance said:
Does anyone know how I can access \\Windows of my X1 on my PC? I can only seem to access it using Total Commander on my X1 and to be honest. Its hard to scroll through thousands of files on such a small screen lol
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As long as you've got activesync or the vista version installed you should be able to go through my computer.. But I'm on my linux machine at the mo so can't say what exactly the path is.
I don't think you can overwrite files in x1 windows btw direct from the pc.
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As long as you've got activesync or the vista version installed you should be able to go through my computer.. But I'm on my linux machine at the mo so can't say what exactly the path is.
I don't think you can overwrite files in x1 windows btw direct from the pc.
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Ah nice one. I had to unhide my OS files in file explorer on windows
EDIT: HTML Dev Panel V1 here
can someone tell me what im doing wrong, i have no programing exp so it may be something simple. i tried to make a simple panel that has a pic as a background and a pic as a button that sends u to another pic. i have uploaded the cab and the folder with the html code and pics. any help in what im doing wrong would be great
I've searched and searched and searched. But yet to find anything working well.
I'm trying to find a customizable soundboard app. There's so many sounds ide use (Dave Chappelles Rick James, Mr T, Anchorman... I could seriously go on forever)
If there's nothing out there you guys and gals could suggest for me, is there any devs out there that could point me in the right direction on how to write this app.
Cheers peeps
use this program http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-wdaft-for-wqvga-vga-qvga-and-square-mobile.html as a base. in the explorer, you can switch the sounds and graphics to what you like. p.s. this program friggin rocks!
Dude, your gonna get busted posting warez here.
Dude, your cant post warez here. read the rules
how is it a ware? it says its beta and its listed as freeware on that site.
Sorry dude. Didn't actually read it. saw the site 'ppcwarez' and though it was
my bad
Nice lil app. but how would one change the sound s and such?
its all good. i installed to my sd. i go to my device/sd card/program files/godaft. in the two folders are the images and sounds. you can make your own images or go to iconspedia.com and grab some free icons and replace them with the originals. then you can grab the sound files you want to use and replace them with the ones in there. i dont know what format it is either .wav or .mp3, but you can grab an mp3 converter freeware app from somewhere to change it. the only thing you gotta do is make sure you rename the file you put in with the one you take out.
Sweet,
Ive managed to change the header and sounds to dave chappelle's rick james.
There's only one problem. The buttons still read 'harder, better, faster, stronger'
I cant find anything related to these in the skin folder.
Any ideas?
ok i just checked and there is no button associated with the words. my advice is to just reverse-engineer the app until you find the text written into it. try using a .cab decompiler/extractor or visual studio. if you dont know how to do this then maybe look around on here for people who deconstruct files. i would look and try to write you a new board but i dont have the time and resources right now. you might also wat to try to find another sound board like the fart app. not all of them have all images cooked into it.
Dude,... this is THE BEST app ever invented. Work has never been that easy,... I put "shut up", "go away", "bring me coffee" and "cu tomorrow" in the app and I never ever have to open my mouth again
Post
Post your sound board once you finish
bennyj71 said:
Post your sound board once you finish
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I didn't actually edit the program itself. I just created the 4 sound files (*.wav) I wanted and named them L1.wav, L2.wav, L3.wav and L4.wav
Then I replaced the original sound files in the Godaft/Sounds folder with my own ones and now the first 4 buttons play my sounds. The buttons are still called "work it", "make it", etc., but they play my sounds. So if I would add more sounds, it might become hard to remember, which sound is on which button,... but the 4 I have are all I need and easy to remember
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ok i just checked and there is no button associated with the words. my advice is to just reverse-engineer the app until you find the text written into it. try using a .cab decompiler/extractor or visual studio. if you dont know how to do this then maybe look around on here for people who deconstruct files. i would look and try to write you a new board but i dont have the time and resources right now. you might also wat to try to find another sound board like the fart app. not all of them have all images cooked into it.
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Thanks buddy.
I used 7-zip to extract the cab file and got loads of files. Extensions are .001 all the way to .052 (I'm guessing these are the resouces) and an XML file (used to install)
I've looked through the XML in notepad and cant find anything there.
So its in the resource files somewhere. How do i open these files?
Ive checked out Visual Studio, but not sure which version I'm after as don't know which language this apps written in.
I'll grab the all-in-one package though
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If you mean the Rick James soundboard I'll post it when its done. But I'm quite new to all this. Never written an app before. So might be a while lol
Fin9ers said:
Thanks buddy.
I used 7-zip to extract the cab file and got loads of files. Extensions are .001 all the way to .052 (I'm guessing these are the resouces) and an XML file (used to install)
I've looked through the XML in notepad and cant find anything there.
So its in the resource files somewhere. How do i open these files?
Ive checked out Visual Studio, but not sure which version I'm after as don't know which language this apps written in.
I'll grab the all-in-one package though
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it sometimes sucks that you have to use multiple extractors to dig out one simple image. i still got an eye out for another soundboard for you that is much simpler to edit to your liking. there was also a guitar app i seen that was crazy simple to switch...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=482726. there is only 6 sound options and you have to skin the buttons the same as guitar strings.
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-wdrums-mobile.html
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-fart-machine.html
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-flaxbox.html
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-mobile-fx.html
a few soundboards i copy and pasted from my phone on the way home from work
emcn84 said:
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-wdrums-mobile.html
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-fart-machine.html
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-flaxbox.html
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-mobile-fx.html
a few soundboards i copy and pasted from my phone on the way home from work
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The first one, with the drums has very good reaction. Like it! Didnt have the time to customize it yet...