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Wallpaper Smoked

No matter what .tsk file I use, when I use the option in the settings to display image as baccground. It's always grayed out which seriously makes the pic look crappy. I know I can just use a load of different .tsk files but I don't want to do it that way. I want to be able to change the baccgroud pic at anytime with having it smoked out with some gray transparent layer.
Is the a registry hacc I can do to stop it?

I don't know if there is a registry hack but at least, there is a workaround. Instead of using the today applet to select your background picture, you can use the Pictures & Videos app. Select the picture you like, there is a menu item to set a the selectted picture asToday background just set the transparency level at 0% and you are set

Thanks. Works perfectly.

Glad I helped, but actually you got me thinking. So, I tried to figure out if there was not a way of setting the transparency level via a registry hack as you suggested. I didn't find anything because it's not stored in registry.
What actually happens when you choose a background picture is that wm5 creates 2 pictures (stwater_240_320 and stwater_320_240) in the \windows folder. So instead of relying on the today applet or on the pictures and videos app, what you could do is delete these 2 pictures, then copy your homemade pictures in the \windows folder and rename theme to the above mentionned names. It should let us have a different image when in landscape mode instead of a cropped one. The 240_320 has to be 240x268 and the 320x240 340x188. Why 268 and 188 instead of 320 and 240 ? Because the taskbar and the menubar are 26 pixels wide and (2x26) + 268 = 340 !

Graphic artist Icon and Tab Created Art

Post your best created icons. 128 and 64 .png. Or taskbar icons. You may have swiped a great icon and modified it-as long as you created it, and you think it is great. Post it here. I will start by posting a few of mine.
I want to limit this thread to icons -no clocks, wallpapers, tweaks, etc. If you want you can post the modded manila file as well, but most of us probably already know how to do that.
Thanks
Jim

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The calendar is from Dman-he coded it from scratch and it is very cool, with finger flip control. Someone was passing around call history files-but there was a flaw in the 2694 manila control file that did not allow the menu of text messaging to be selected. I fixed that.
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2. People
3. Call History
4. Text Mess
5. Email
6. Calandar Thanks Dman
7. Internet
8. Photos and video
9. Music
10. Settings
11. Weather
12. Communications
13. Sounds
14. Sprint TV
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other ways to change home wallpaper?

Hi all,
I was thinking how would be nice if someone could add a menu option for viewing pictures - use as touchflo3D background ( or maybe some picture viewer app which can do this ). Because always when you want to change the background you must slide across the screen to settings tab, select the wallpaper option, click on no ( no default wallpaper ), choose the folder and finally found a picture what you want in that so small thumbnails, click on it and go to the home tab to see how it looks like. But specially in the women pictures you find out (after this ridiculously long procedure) that she has a clock across the face xD.
Correct me if I am wrong. The app with the thumbnails is htc album right? Why there is no possibility to see the image in fullscreen before you select it as wallpaper (as it is in htc album tab) ???
this is so annoying for me, what do you think?

Few things I can't figure out how to do with my HD2

1. is it possible to have a wallpaper changer? could you recommend me the right app\link?
2. is it possible to have games in our quicklinks? or do we have to go to startmenu?
3. in games ive made subfolders for strategy , role playing etc.. how can i put icons on those folders?
4. when i click albums quicklinks, it brings up camerashots and says no photos or videos found, on bottom left side i have the options to view albums, and then it shows all albums on my phone. is there away for me when on homescreen and select albums it will show me all albums immediatelly?
thank you.

You can put games in the Quicklinks. The phone came with Guitar Hero in the quicklinks.

i realize that.. i mean the folder games. sorry
can i put the folder games in the quicklinks?

anyone have any tips for me please?
ive come up with another thing that annoys me about my layout.. maybe there's a workaround someone knows?
when going into albums storage card it shows all the folders on my storage card for images.. is there away for it to show them like a tree? meaning not show all subfolders right away? i have a folder in my storage card named wallpapers, and inside that are 15 folders, (portrait.landscape, high res. etc..) when i open albums they all show up.. i'd like it to just show wallpapers then IF I CHOSE wallpapers then it would show the subfolders.
Thanks

xtacybyme said:
1. is it possible to have a wallpaper changer? could you recommend me the right app\link?
2. is it possible to have games in our quicklinks? or do we have to go to startmenu?
3. in games ive made subfolders for strategy , role playing etc.. how can i put icons on those folders?
4. when i click albums quicklinks, it brings up camerashots and says no photos or videos found, on bottom left side i have the options to view albums, and then it shows all albums on my phone. is there away for me when on homescreen and select albums it will show me all albums immediatelly?
thank you.
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What do you mean by wallpaper-changer? You can adjust your wallpaper if you go on settings-tab and then on personalize.
If you want to customize your icons, use this app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=567080
and search for custom icons in themes / apps area.

wallpaper changer - i had a SPV C550(HTC) and there was a proggy for changing the homescreen wallpaper every 10,30 seconds etc.. so curious if anyone has found the similiar thing for there htc.. where it would change the homescreen wallpaper every 10, 30 seconds or minute. but when backlight turns off the changer would stop of course.
thanks for icon changer info
any tip son the albums questions?
4. when i click albums quicklinks, it brings up camerashots and says no photos or videos found, on bottom left side i have the options to view albums, and then it shows all albums on my phone. is there away for me when on homescreen and select albums it will show me all albums immediatelly?
5. when going into albums storage card it shows all the folders on my storage card for images.. is there away for it to show them like a tree? meaning not show all subfolders right away? i have a folder in my storage card named wallpapers, and inside that are 15 folders, (portrait.landscape, high res. etc..) when i open albums they all show up.. i'd like it to just show wallpapers then IF I CHOSE wallpapers then it would show the subfolders.

xtacybyme said:
4. when i click albums quicklinks, it brings up camerashots and says no photos or videos found, on bottom left side i have the options to view albums, and then it shows all albums on my phone. is there away for me when on homescreen and select albums it will show me all albums immediatelly?
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No I dont know how to show all your albums just by clicking on the quicklink, but you can navigate to your favorite album and hit the right softkey. There you can choose "set album as favorite". Now, when you click on the quicklink, it will allways show up your defined album instead of "no albums found".

To the OP,
Have you looked at this...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583638
WB

Calendar for Android

Hey folks,
I have been into this app which has a lot to do with calendar and dates.
I am still confused about the libraries available for it, I will be requiring the calendar to have following features:
- The calendar should change (by month) when I swipe UP or DOWN
- The boxes of month should have specific colors according to the events of that particular day, eg: red for urgent issues, green for vacation and so on
- The boxes should also have ICONS like weather updates for that particular date
- A LIST VIEW of the calendar will also be needed
If anyone has seen any which can accommodate these features, do let me know.
Cheers
Alex

Hey Alex,
for me, these seem more like programming issues, rather than library ones.
For the first one (The calendar should change (by month) when I swipe UP or DOWN) implementing a gesturedetector is the best way to go Imo.
The other three are simple coding issues, like setting backgrounds, drawables and implementing a listview.
As a tip, you should check out a library we made called "CalendarWrapper" (sorry, I can't yet post links, search for it on GitHub). Basically it's a wrapper around the CalendarProvider, so there's no need to mess around with cursors, everything can be done with object methods. It lacks a few features though.

I don't think there are any ready to use libraries with these specific features, so I'm afraid you will have to build it yourself. There are a few date picker / time picker dialogs floating around, or android-times-square from Square, but you'll have to look into extending it with the specific features like image overlay support for the weather/icon.

caldroid
Have a look at caldroid, it does not have all the functions you seek but is very customizable.
Since you are asking for too much in one library, you will have to do a lot of coding on top of any library that you choose.

thankx
Thankx guys, CalendarWrapper did give me something to look into but caldroid has almost done the job for me.
I have finished the bulk of the job with caldroid now it is printing images inside the dates and list view left.
I do know where to start for list view but printing icons inside boxes could be tricky
Will update you guys when I am done with the APP and put it on play store.
Cheers