is there any way to increase it to make it finger friendly. 5-7 extra pixels should be enough be enough.
anybody has idea?
THE GRIZZ said:
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Unfortunately no. One thing that doesn't work: messing around with the system font size. I thought that might increase the size of the bar at the bottom but it didn't work. There may well be a registry entry that would increase the font size and thus the "touchability."
THE GRIZZ said:
is there any way to increase it to make it finger friendly. 5-7 extra pixels should be enough be enough.
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Here is a pic of a stock Asus P565:
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Idk how they do it, but you might want to look into it.
dwizzy130
the picture is exactlywhat i want i just hope this is not a photoshoped picture
Possibilities
There are several possibilities there.
I don't know the resolution of that thing, but it could be that the bars are stock, the fonts are smaller, could be that it's using a non standard today screen but infact a plugin/overlay/shell. The bars are images saved in the theme files, so it's possible that using an advanced theme editor they were able to create non standard layouts, but either way I'd hazard a guess it's not something you can just do with registry/font/file edits on the device.
through a lot of messing of my own, I have been able to acertain atleast that no one thing you change in the UI is going to stay at just that.
Changing the folder background colour for example (like I set the programs folder background to black and font to white) meant that in my mail app and many others i couldn't read the text because it also affected their font colours.
The highlights on a lot of text boxes inside apps are now black too, so unreadable text, certain sections of various windows changed, etc etc.
So, either way, it will need some theme editing or some extensive modifications to the theme layout.
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the picture is exactlywhat i want i just hope this is not a photoshoped picture
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The pic is real. If you don't believe me, google asus p565.
dwizzy130
what I've come to realize, is that the icons and soft keys use the same pixel count as any other winmo phone, it's just that the pixels are smaller on our phones...lol
im bumping this in case someone knows something now
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Guys n Gals,
I've knocked together a small program further to ZeBoxx's request.
It's used to set the colour of the soft keys etc, by command line/shortcuts/launchers.
eg VJBaseHue.exe 187
will give you a nice purple colour
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On my website.
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really a cool proggy
I am currently testing code by code...I've tried to key in 3 different conbination code...doesn't seem to work though... now am testing the color coding.
Zack, I don't understand. You mean you're trying to find the right hue code by code? The colour wheel on my website might help you, or basically load up any art program, screengrab your theme, and use the colour picker to find the colour your want. Even the standard Windows Colour Picker in MSPaint will show the hue you need.
Post some screenshots in your VGA themes thread if you have any luck :wink:
V
I think I got it now :wink:
guess I must be dreaming lol.I was looking for dark blue and not realise that hue does not come with such colors lol...
Thanks Vijay am doing some minor test wiht my themes I'll post some screen shots soon :wink:
I was looking at VJBaseHue trying to figure out how to get the two bars 100% black (still no luck) when I found something else. Modifying the SHColor value has an effect on the tray above the soft keys. Normally it is an ugly line across the today screen that forces up the scroll bar at the same time, the icons like wirelles use the space. After randomly modifying SHColor the line dissapeared and so did the scroll bar. Also the icons moved down and to the right to be in the corner taking up less space. It seems strange that a colour setting can change the whole layout of the today screen, do yo know the reason for this VJ?
I don't know offhand Odeean, I imagine it might be some kinda buffer overflow etc..
Let me know what values you use, and if I ever get the WinMob source in my hands, I'll have a look!
V
Don't worry, I can't copy/paste from my reg editors and the value is too long to be bothered reading and typing I also have not been able to repeat what happened, I only now seem to be able to make it do the opposite. When I have no tray, modifing it brings it back.
I made a super simple skin for my Athena to organize my today screen better. I thought it might be vaguely useful to others so here it is. The items aren't perfectly lined up and uses no images. It currently has the date, calender, time, 5 applications, sms, email and missed calls counters. I may add tabs, weather and other stuff one day.
The skin is the top part:
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rlToday skin for 96 dpi
Very nice,
can this work on my xda atom life?
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I made a super simple skin for my Athena to organize my today screen better. I thought it might be vaguely useful to others so here it is. The items aren't perfectly lined up and uses no images. It currently has the date, calender, time, 5 applications, sms, email and missed calls counters. I may add tabs, weather and other stuff one day.
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Neat Ta!
Changed it around a bit, by swapping the date and time, so that it stills shows the time in portrait and then shrunk it to 110 to fit everything into my start screen.
fards said:
Neat Ta!
Changed it around a bit, by swapping the date and time, so that it stills shows the time in portrait and then shrunk it to 110 to fit everything into my start screen.
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Sorry for the newbie question, but where should these files be put? I've tried dropping them in the Windows directory and then going to Settings/Today to see what appeared. Nothing did.
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Sorry for the newbie question, but where should these files be put? I've tried dropping them in the Windows directory and then going to Settings/Today to see what appeared. Nothing did.
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Ah, it needs the rlToday plugin, which can be found in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=269650
here's mine. Love rlToday!!
You can download the skin from rlToday's main page under skin forum. These guys have made a phenomenal program!!!
does anybody know how to:
1) disable/change the gradient color of navbar
2) disable/change the gradient the start button when pressed
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I've been messing with both Microsoft\Color\SHColor & GWE\SysColor but still couldnt find anything that'd affect the white gradient
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does anybody know how to:
1) disable/change the gradient color of navbar
2) disable/change the gradient the start button when pressed
??
I've been messing with both Microsoft\Color\SHColor & GWE\SysColor but still couldnt find anything that'd affect the white gradient
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Look here....
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Look here....
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This program is for pocket pc's and I think that anheuer talk for smartphones. Anyway for smartphones look in this tutorial to find some info about the color schemes changing of smartphone homescreen.
http://www.modaco.com/content/Smart...ion/233425/Tutorial-Creating-XML-homescreens/
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This program is for pocket pc's and I think that anheuer talk for smartphones. Anyway for smartphones look in this tutorial to find some info about the color schemes changing of smartphone homescreen.
http://www.modaco.com/content/Smart...ion/233425/Tutorial-Creating-XML-homescreens/
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umm,... what?!?!
The app i linked is for phones with touch screens..
the app i linked can be used to change colors of about anything of the windows os.
i still couldnt disable the white gradient that appears when start/soft key is pressed. This is WM6 I am using btw
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i still couldnt disable the white gradient that appears when start/soft key is pressed. This is WM6 I am using btw
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Did you use the App i linked?
i use it and i have wm6 as well..
you can change about anything with this...
oh yes Ive tested it. It's basically what I've been playing with in syscolor, only difference being it is easier to edit in uitweak as I don't have to find the hex in syscolor blob. It still doesnt do what I want
I want to get rid of the following white gradient....it might even be a bitmap overlay...:
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Also, I'd love to get rid of the start button text, as well as app titles on the task/navbar. So far I haven't found any solution in system level. I know this can be done in the code level.
I've had my G1 for almost a week now, and during this time I have modded it, added a custom boot image and much more. However, there is one thing that has really been bothering me. And that is the colordepth of the screen. At 65,000 colors, it really isn't impressive at all. Pictures seen from far away are okay, but close up you can notice the phones attempts at creating an additional color (little dots of the same color in a web fashion) which really is kinda annoying. Also, why is it that wallpaper images on the G1 always look so blurry and fuzzy?
The default wallpaper feature sucks and uses some kind of compression that blurrs the wallpaper image. Use Wallpaper Set & Save instead, for full quality wallpapers.
The color depth of the G1/Dream is abysmal, but there's not much that can be done about that.
Is wallpaper set & save only for png's? Or does it make jpg's look better also? All my wallpapers are jpg format
Works great with jpg too.
I gave wallpaper set and save a try but I didn't notice much difference, I will keep experimenting with it.
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I gave wallpaper set and save a try but I didn't notice much difference, I will keep experimenting with it.
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Here's an enlarged example of the difference between default the wallpaper feature (left pic) and Wallpaper Set & Save (right pic):
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Notice the "cracks" are a lot more defined in the right pic, giving more detail, and the colors are deeper/more vivid too.
Wow, your right that is very good. It must just be the wallpaper that I am using that probably isn't very clear in the first place. The only reason I am using the wallpaper I currently am, even though the quality isn't great is because it has a dock. Is there anyway I can put a dock on my own wallpaper? Is there a program I can use or a tutorial?
If you're relatively comfortable with photoshop and know how to utilize layers and blending options it's easy to make your own "dock". If not then it's quite tricky.
Haha yeah that would be a problem then. Ah well, Im sure ill get around to learning it one day.
I got a few wallpapers I like from Windows that I want to use to my 1 page homescreen on my android. However, it always makes me take a portion of the picture. Is there a way i can just use the entire picture since i use only 1 homescreen anyways? I use launcherpro plus.
You probably need to just resize the pic to whatever the stock resolution is, which I don't know and am trying to find out myself.
I had a similar issue in that most wallpapers for andriod that I DLed from various places seem to be too big for any version I've tried on my HD2, and the common ways to select wallpaper force you to crop out a smaller portion of the picture to use.
I assume this is due to resolution restrictions, but why is it so small on the HD2 builds when it has such a big screen? It's probably a simple fix, but I've just started using andriod & haven't had time to figure it all out.
yeah, but i don't know how to resize the picture because that means i would have to figure out what portion of the cropped size the box takes for the first screen, figure out the how to stretch my picture to contain only that portion, and then try to match it perfectly to fit the screen. I'm pretty sure that is definitely not the way to do it. haha man, this is frustrating. I'm also trying to figure out if HD2's android can be flashed with other roms so we can get modded apps, change our status bars, lockscreens, etc.. i know this is just the beginning but im too anticipated!
anyone please?
Have you tried the HDWall app? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=503511
If I remember correctly, you can just edit & resize the image without having to create a .cab file for WinMo. Then, just move that image over to the phone and apply.
The thing is, i'm trying to get the wallpaper for android, not windows.
you need 960x800 wallpaper because of the way the wallpaper moves along each tab.
Just take your 480x800 wallpaper, and use photoshop (or paint.net or something) to expand the canvas to 960x800, leaving your original wallpaper in the middle.
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UGHHH
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/4965620317/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/4965620373/
pictures didnt work.
YES! got it. For anyone who is wondering how to do it, resize the picture to be 1440x800. after, make the selection box as wide as you can and center the picture as best as you can. you may have to experiment a few times because you can get a strip of white from the empty border if it is not 100% centered. Because of this, i make the box SLIGHTLY smaller then maximum size.
Alright, not to be annoying, but the quality goes down by a lot when i fix the images. can this be prevented?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/4965715657/ - how it looks with the canvas stretch.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/4965715529/in/photostream - how it's suppose to look. The box can't be stretched however, which was my original problem.