I can't creat a Transparent form. Someone can help me....^_^!
Form.Opacity
You want the Form's Opacity property.
See Creating Transparent Windows Forms on MSDN
The Opacity property isn't actually available in the .net compact framework, so I think the only way would be to render direclty onto the screen, but how would you tell a control to render outside the form?
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Are there any Theme Generators that will do landscape mode out there? I'd like to make some.
thanks,
Dino
Dino,
Have a look at this site:
http://www.ida.net/users/oe1k/programs/ThemeBuilder/
It'll show you a way to create landscape (& portrait) themes.
Regards,
Albondigas
try this
http://www.thememaker.biz/thememakerproplus.htm
Loaded with Imaging features no other Theme making program has:
Theme Making features that allow you to create great themes faster and easier!
A Multi Document Interface that allows you to have as many images as you need opened to create your theme.
Image editing capabilities including:
Cut
Copy
Paste
Paste to new image
Duplicate
Crop
Clear
Flip
Reverse
Rotate
Shear New
Resize
Canvas Resize
Remove Redeye New
Numerous ways to select image data and modify the selection including:
Select All
Rectangle
Rounded Rectangle
Ellipse
Freehand
Magic Wand
Invert Selection
Expand and Contract
Image Effects including:
Posterize...
Mosaic...
Blue...
Sharpen...
Add Noise...
Emboss...
Gradient Filter...
Edge Detect New
Oil Paint Effect
Stitch New
Picturize New
Color adjustments including:
Grayscale
Invert
Brightness..
Contrast...
Histogram Contrast...
Hue
Saturation
Gamma Correction
Remap New
Balance Colors New
Colored Gray New
Fundamental Paint functions including:
Brush
Pen
Eraser
Fill
Gradient Fill
Color Picker
Transfer themes to PocketThemes.com web site if you are a registered author.
The ability to show or hide the theme you are currently working on to allow more room for the images you are using.
NEW Ability to create themes for the new WM 2003 SE devices in both Portrait and Landscape orientation!
NEW Ability to create VGA size themes that will work in the VGA SE devices and modified VGA devices.
NEW Print function an Print Preview!
NEW Theme Browser allows you to browse your themes on the PC and see thumbnails of the main images. Click here to view this new feature!
Four primary ways of importing images into your theme gives you unparalleled versatility.
Load directly from file
Directly from an active image in the editor.
Directly from a selected area of an image.
From a unique pan-window function.
The ability to adjust Today Screen text for screen captures to post on web sites.
Transparency adjustments for menu and main image that allows you to set the color of the transparency! No other Theme program does this!
Ability to define your own default colors for your themes.
A Color Picker tool for the theme that allows you to accurately and easily set the colors of the Command Bar and Title bar to the colors in the Theme.
The ability to set colors in the Information Dialog box to the same colors as the main Title bar with one click!
A setting that makes the Information Dialog box Title bar the same colors as the main Title Bar automatically! Or in reverse of the main Title Bar!
With one click reverse the colors of the Title Bar!
Set colors of theme by either selecting the item form the menu or just clicking on the item in the theme.
The Auto Color feature automatically sets the colors for the Title bar, Title bar Text, Command bar, Today Screen Text and lines and the Menu Transparency to match the basic colors of the Main Image with the click of a button!
NEW Web Tuned image save where you can adjust the properties of the image for quality or size.
The ability to capture frames from video sources. AVI, MPG, WMV and MOV video files. Video capture devices.
NEW Predefined image resizing for rapid theme creation.
NEW SE image preview screen showing areas of image that is used for Portrait and Landscape modes to see the areas of the image that is used for each orientation.
NEW Stitching functions allow arranging of images on pages for printing and display.
NEW Screen capture function allows the capture of any portion of the screen you define with the mouse.
ThemeMakerPro also has numerous I/O features no other Theme Making program has:
Screen captures of Themes for web posting.
Saving the images of an opened Theme, both main and menu.
The ability to acquire an image from any TWAIN compliant device such as a scanner or digital camera!
The ability to transfer themes to and from a Pocket PC that is Synced with the computer that has ThemeMakerPro installed on. Requires ActiveSync to be installed first.
Having worked with rlToday, and currently coding an app to do something similar, I have wanted a couple of times to display text with an outline (ie white text with black outline so it is visible on any background) but simply printing a black version of the text in a bigger font underneath white text in a smaller fontsize does not work because of the way fonts are scaled.
However, this got me thinking...
What if one were to design a set of custom fonts for this purpose?
The way I am thinking, you would need two fonts - an "inner" version and an "outer" version. The outer version would have to be scaled about the centre of the letter, not about the baseline, and I would imagine that the spacing on the inner font would need to be as wide as the characters on the outer font.
So, before I waste loads of time getting font editors and seeing if it can be done, I would like to ask if anyone knows if this would be feasible, or if they have successfully done it or failed.
Another idea I suppose would be to print the outer font 4 times (left one, right one, up one, down one) - I guess this would have the same effect but at the cost of speed.
In an ideal world, it would be nice to not have to make an inner font - just to have to make an outer version of existing fonts, but I am not sure this would work unless you could set the spacing of the stock inner font wider.
Comments, suggestions please.
The classic path approach isn't working on WM?
Ultimatelaunch does it...I have two colored text and it looks pretty sweet. The font is called 'juice' not sure if that has anything to do with it though
What is this "Classic path" method you speak of?
At a guess I think you mean drawing a line around the font programatically?
This is not an option for some things, unless you have access to the source code - it would be nice to have a solution that could be implimented without needing to code for it in the app. For example, rlToday would benefit nicely from just such a system.
OK, so it has been done before then, although I did search around the net before I posted, honest!
It seems that the term used for the "inner" font is a "fill" font. I am going to try and find a freeware fill + outline font combo, pls let me know if you are aware of any.
Synned said:
Ultimatelaunch does it...I have two colored text and it looks pretty sweet. The font is called 'juice' not sure if that has anything to do with it though
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When you say "Ultimatelaunch" does it - what do you mean? I bought UL and I do not see the font on my system or in the UL dir.
I see a "juice" font on the internet that is a fill+outline set, but it is not free.
So if it is possible, I may well have a bash at doing a free one myself. At the very least it would be worth doing just the numbers for SMS / email counts in rlToday
An update here:
My main use for something like this was to be with applications such as rlToday.
However, stefanux is now writing XIAMultiTheme (XMT) which is compatible with, and extends rlToday. One of the things XMT does is allow you to specify a directory as a font, and it will look for image files named accordingly
ie if you wanted to print "123" you would need "1.png", "2.png" and "3.png" in the directory you specify.
I have made a 16px high font of numbers in transparent PNG (Great for overlaying message counts onto icons) and added it to the XMT project for now.
If the need is still there in a while I will look at making a fill font combo and releasing it, maybe as part of the XMT project, but for now this is a good enough solution for me.
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Is it possible to mod the fish panel? I'd like to change the background color (the white is too bright for me) and if possible maybe change the clock as well.
UP!
There isn't a metode to change something????
This panel is the best for me!! Let's pump it
Yeah!
we should be able to customize it, or at least make it like the growing panel (changes with day time). but still giving us complete control over it would be best. we should be able to change the background color to any solid color, have a default color of the sea with the effects of a real one (water moving and all that) and adjust its depth in water (brightness), plus the clock, and adding smaller fish and plants.
NOW THAT WOULD BE COOL!
i second that, would be really cool if we could change the fish and make it so that it grows by itself (when youre in a different panel) and the fish age and die and have kids and you can change the colour they change to when you get a message and stuff or their names
without the source-code just changing the background colour would take a long time
reverse engineering
and sonyE is not much for opensource it seems
So it's impossible to do.. sh*t..
imho then it would prob be easier / faster to make a new fish panel from
scratch
of cause panels are written in pure c++ win32 so the development
is a bit more steap then if it was .net but if it was .net it would perform poorly
as is the curse of .net compact framework
http://rapidshare.com/files/189717709/TF3D_HD_Template.zip
Here you'll find a Photoshop file with basically all screen elements of the TF3D HD manila interface present.
Unless I've missed something all icons/button/etc are present except for the weather section. I've only included the main icons there so you can put your flag on the moon..
If somebody feels like mapping out every raindrop like in this psd file, please let me know so I can update the file
The bmp files of the photo and video sub menu's are present as well.
These will go in the windows directory.
I plan to add the blackstone dialer .. but am not sure it's that much needed.
The main idea was to map out the Manila files.
I've build it from itjes Full HD cab for the X1. As far as I know it should work for all other touch HD manila setups..
import/export
I've used the mode9editor to extract all png's.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3095189&postcount=1
The mode9editor has a batch import/export function.
When you use the layer names in the PSD file you're able to batch import all icons you'll change.
Transparency
Most icons will have either a red pixel line border or at least 2 red pixels at the corners.
This way you can select the alpha channel of the layer, crop your image and have to correct dimensions for the png/qtc file.
All you then need to do is remove the red pixel before saving.
For 99.9% of the images you can do it by a color select unless your new theme will be red
Buttons
All buttons that have a press and rest stage have been linked to each other and put on top of each other. In the corresponding layer you'll notice this soon enough
Tiny pixel files
There are a few images that are 1x1 or 2x2 pixels. These are present and I've tried to make all layers in logic order to be easy to find.
Some pixels are 100% transparent and therefor red which was easier to find
Batch PSD export
There is need to find or create a photoshop action that will:
- select layer
- crop by alpha selection
- remove red pixel
- export by layer name
- repeat this process for all layers
If there's anyone out there that can help me make such an action please do. As I have limited experience in advanced photoshop actions
All suggestions and help (especially with the photoshop actions) are welcome!
With a little help this can be an easy automated template for our own redesigning fetish
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check here if you want to stay up to date on this and other things
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=477268
Would like it for someone to try the mp3 player on the touch HD.
Please check the upper thread for the zip file and let me know if it works there.
thanks allot!
Flash files are used widely, but when people use it, they always need new demand. People always chase perfect. SWF files optimization is one of the chasing things. Here is the tip for how to optimaiz flash swf files.
General optimization
Please use symbols, animated or otherwise, for every element that appears more than once. You need to use tweened animations when you are creating animation sequences, because these animations occupy less file space than keyframs. Use movie clips instead of graphic symbols for animations sequences. You need to reduce the area of change in each keyframe as possible as you can to make the action happen in as small area as possible. Try your best to avoid animating bitmap elements and use bitmap images as background or static elements.
Colors
You can use Color menu in the Symbol Property inspector to create many instances of a single symbol in different colors. Then you need to use Color Mixer to match the color palette of the document to a browser-specific palette. Use gradients sparingly. You need about 50 bytes for filling an area with gradient color. You can use alpha transparency sparingly because it can slow playback.
Texts and fonts
You need limit the number of fonts and font style. Please use embedded fonts sparingly because they can increase file size. Select only the needed characters instead of including the entire font for Embed Fonts options.
Lines and elements
Do your best to group elements. You can separate elements that minimize the number of separate lines that are used to describe shapes by using layers. Reduce the number of special line types as possible as you can, such as dashed, dotted, ragged. Solid lines require less memory and lines that are created with the Pencil tool need less memory than brush strokes.
With these tips, you need not to spend extra money to buy some software or tool. What’s more, these tips are easy to understand, you are not required much flash knowledge.