because it really drives me nuts that the home clock does flip when i unlock the phone.. i wanted to get rid of it. existing manila files didnt work because of the HVGA resolution.
but here is a patched manila that u can copy to the windows directory on the phone (with resco explorer) and replace the original one to get rid of the animation. credits go to that thread which supplied the online patcher:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583161
You can just try to change the animation background with any static ( not animating) image!
Click menu background background with animated images AND find from your Album any picture (static) you want!
And buy buy animated weather!
its about the clock animation and not the background.
Yes, you are right! Sorry!
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I have seen various posts about changing paths and icons in the cube, but what i would like to know is . Is there a way of having it match your today screen instead of charcoal colour. Imagine having your theme Guava bubbles and your cube reflecting the same.Would be nice if someone could come up with a way
I Think you've juste to edit and chnge each color of uour *.png installed in your Windows directory or HTCHome directory
Just copy them to your Windows Desktop to view which one you have to edit
and then replace them
The only problem is that the animations themselfs (when the cube is actualy moving) are hardcoded. It shows when you have some different icons on the cube. When rotating, the old icons appear on the locations you had new ones
I think someone was trying to edit the animation as well.
The animation is actually a sort of movie thing so it uses less resources. Its hard to change it, since no one knows the format But someone is editting it so it moves different I thought.
The animation is formed of multiple ".brn" files. There is an application to transform brn to bmp but nothing to merge from bmp to brn so for the moment no color edition is posible during the animation.
thanks for all the info people. much appreciated. i guess with time this situation will change but for now will keep default. cant see no point in changing something if its gonna use defaults as soon as you rotate.
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The animation is formed of multiple ".brn" files. There is an application to transform brn to bmp but nothing to merge from bmp to brn so for the moment no color edition is posible during the animation.
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so it would be at least possible to "debrand" a branded cube when I take the .brn files of an unbranded Touch?
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so it would be at least possible to "debrand" a branded cube when I take the .brn files of an unbranded Touch?
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if its possible let me know..
other question: how can ich change the hh_launcher*.png icons, the ones on tab 3 of the homeplugin? overwrite doesn´t work.
thx
frufo2000 said:
if its possible let me know..
other question: how can ich change the hh_launcher*.png icons, the ones on tab 3 of the homeplugin? overwrite doesn´t work.
thx
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Try to overwrite all the *.brn files in \windows with the attached original HTC ones and your cube should be debranded - but you have the icons from HTC and the links "behind" the icons from your provider.
It is possible that they are different.
If you want to get back simply delete all those files and your original ROM files should come back instead.
But to be save backup all your*.brn files before
I think it should also be possible to overwrite the hh_launcher*.png icons.
Simply disable the HTC Home element in your today screen settings before overwriting these files. Should work in my opinion
Where are the rest of the animation BRNs
r0p3 said:
Try to overwrite all the *.brn files in \windows with the attached original HTC ones and your cube should be debranded - but you have the icons from HTC and the links "behind" the icons from your provider.
It is possible that they are different.
If you want to get back simply delete all those files and your original ROM files should come back instead.
But to be save backup all your*.brn files before
I think it should also be possible to overwrite the hh_launcher*.png icons.
Simply disable the HTC Home element in your today screen settings before overwriting these files. Should work in my opinion
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Hey, I downloaded your zip file, but it was missing several animation brns. I'm looking for the following in the same original HTC format.
A2.brn, A4.brn, B2.brn, B4.brn, C2.brn, C4.brn
Thanks!
Or,....
You just take these "clean" files and have no icons on the rotating cube .
I'm not in a mood of sorting them out for you just download and take a look wich ones you need
Greetz,
Hi there, im thinking about the issue that you cant use a background for all tabs in TF3D, so i am trying to find a solution for that.
We need to find out where in TF3D the XML definition of background tiling is, so we could deactivate that, and replace the manila background tile with a normal wallpaper.
What do you think?
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Hi there, im thinking about the issue that you cant use a background for all tabs in TF3D, so i am trying to find a solution for that.
We need to find out where in TF3D the XML definition of background tiling is, so we could deactivate that, and replace the manila background tile with a normal wallpaper.
What do you think?
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That would be great, one of the most annoying things of TF3D is the background only works on the Today screen. I guess another option would be to find the graphic file within the manilla files that contains the default one. I have seen a couple themes where they have changed that default image, I think it was the Orange one.
added to thread subscriptions, maybe we can do this and it will be so much better!
Thanks, look at the Vodafone theme for example, there is a blank white background. Can we customize the original files like this just with a wallpaper?
I found out that there is a 2bd5bb26_manila (Background image only on O2 theme) in the o2 theme.
When we could use this manila file for other themes too, we would have solved the theme problem!
there's one thing i don't really understand here.
in the o2 default blue theme, the gradient background (for all the tabs) is saved as an image of the width of 1 pixel. i tried to substitute it with another, wider image, but it didn't work.
in the htc black theme, on the other hand, there's no direct image for the background, instead, only the tiles are coded somewhere as image files.
how does it work then, i mean how does manila know how the background is encoded, whether it's a 1px-wide image that needs to be stretched or a tile that fits onto the background "floor" or whatever else on other themes?
if we could find the place where it's encoded what (and how) manila uses for the background, then i guess we could play with it a little more
This is what i have found about the background question in TF3D...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2558844&postcount=180
I haven't had any more time on it .. but I think we have to wait until we can change the mania/GLES files...
I hope this can be done
Hey guys,
is it possible to create some animated weather icons for our manilla 2d? maybe like rumball did for weatherpanel!
I looked into the files and i found out that the one and only animated weather is the rain!
There are about 30 *.brn files. It is possible to convert these files into bmp-files.
I found a tool in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=325424
Who knows how to edit the manilla 2d?
greetings
anybody who wants the same or can help me?
i put a request in directly to Rumball...let's see if he answers
Rumball already made a complete animated set, how many more do you need?
The set he already made takes up a good bit of memory as is, and you can only have so many icons.
As I indicated at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2720685&postcount=22, I'm willing to support this by generating BRN files of my animations...but there are a couple of things that need to happen first:
1) M2D uses BRN files to render its animations. My understanding is one BRN file per frame of the animation. Someone would have to figure out how to modify Manilla-2D so as to get it to look for BRN-image frames (and therefore display animations) for all the weather conditions (currently it only does this for rain).
2) my WeatherPanel animations are about 40Megs in size and consist of about 1000frames of animation. So that would translate into 1000 BRN files that you'd need to have in order to replacate my weatherpanel animations in M2D. As TheChampJT above suggests, these BRN files will take up a LOT of space and therefore would obviously need to go on a storage card. Therefore M2D would also have to be modified to look for its BRN files on the storage card rather than in the Windows directory.
3) Someone needs to throw together a program that can batch convert image files into BRN files...there is NO way I'm manually generating over 1000 BRN files!
If someone can figure out how to do 1, 2 and 3 with M2D then I can look into outputting my animations into BRN frames.
Edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=346910
That is an awesome program, converts brn to bmp and bmp to brn...all drag and drop...and I just confirmed it allows you to drop multiple files onto it
My other suggestion is this. Convert the animations to BRN and package them all into a zip with seperate folders for each 'weather type'. Users could then choose which animations they want on their phone...like I had mentioned in my pm...I probably only see about 3-5 different weather types in my area "most" of the time. I can't imagine it's that different for everyone else.
So I was going to try and make a single animation...just to see if I could do it.
Before I ask I am running the ROM in my sig which is using Manilla 2D built in. It does include one animated weather set for "Rain" and it does work.
Here is my question. How does Manilla/Weather tab know which files to access for various weather conditions. I didn't see it in the registry so it must be a file somewhere? I'll do some looking around.
The animation for the weather icons is named HH_rainbrush_00 through 22. The non animated weather is just HH_weather_01 through 44
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So I was going to try and make a single animation...just to see if I could do it.
Before I ask I am running the ROM in my sig which is using Manilla 2D built in. It does include one animated weather set for "Rain" and it does work.
Here is my question. How does Manilla/Weather tab know which files to access for various weather conditions. I didn't see it in the registry so it must be a file somewhere? I'll do some looking around.
The animation for the weather icons is named HH_rainbrush_00 through 22. The non animated weather is just HH_weather_01 through 44
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Maybe it's the exe file which controls the weather icons. I've searched for in the htchomesettings.xml and ther is nothing to find.
w04g005 said:
Maybe it's the exe file which controls the weather icons. I've searched for in the htchomesettings.xml and ther is nothing to find.
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You're probably right, I'm just curious if there is any way to find out what those names may be if I were to creat an animation for partly cloudy or something.
EDIT: I guess I didn't read Rumball's first condition above correctly :-D
So I threw Manila2d.exe into IDA disassembler (which I am NO expert at using). But, from what I can gather, the rain animation and other file names are hard coded into the exe themselves.
I see some specific references to LoadRainBrushIcon and the rainbrush brn animation as well as the static HH_WEATHER_%02d.png numbered files.
Looks like to get all the weather animated some one would have to rewrite Manila2d.exe :-/
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EDIT: I guess I didn't read Rumball's first condition above correctly :-D
So I threw Manila2d.exe into IDA disassembler (which I am NO expert at using). But, from what I can gather, the rain animation and other file names are hard coded into the exe themselves.
I see some specific references to LoadRainBrushIcon and the rainbrush brn animation as well as the static HH_WEATHER_%02d.png numbered files.
Looks like to get all the weather animated some one would have to rewrite Manila2d.exe :-/
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Ya...I was kind of suspecting that. :/ Sorry guys!
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Ya...I was kind of suspecting that. :/ Sorry guys!
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I wish throttlelauncher was just as fast as Manilla as an interface...I'd then really consider buying the marsware weather program and donating for your weather icons :-/
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I wish throttlelauncher was just as fast as Manilla as an interface...I'd then really consider buying the marsware weather program and donating for your weather icons :-/
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WeatherPanel is a free application. Visit here for more information: http://pixel.citadel.org/weatherpanel/index.php?sid=e9ef0641461818584d9584d6e600173b
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I wish throttlelauncher was just as fast as Manilla as an interface...I'd then really consider buying the marsware weather program and donating for your weather icons :-/
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if were wishing why not just wish manilla supported plugins for the weather
Does anybody knows if exists a program that can actually make my diamond wallpaper or the s2u2 wallpaper to be in flash extension? There are thousands of beautiful clocks and animations I would like to have on my diamond screen.
i would suggest searching for Animated GIF's to use with S2u2. You will find a bunch of VGA animated gifs that work perfectly with s2u2. as far as your today screen, i personally think it would be way too much going on. i might reference you to the Panoramic TF3D2.1 options that are available. Good Luck
Flash
No. is not the same at all. In flash, you can have clocks, dates, even meteo. In gif... Thanks for you answer anyway.
Also wondering
I also would like something animated on my today screen with tf3d, is there a way to use animated gif's . I can use a gif now but the animations are missing. I been looking for a solution for this for years now. I own the alltel touch pro but previously had the ppc 6700. Never could get it to work. I did however install s2u2 , which is nice kinda like a screen saver which does show animated gif's (http://www.1800pocketpc.com/2008/04/02/s2u2-v100-screen-lock-application-for-pocketpc.html) ( wallpaper pack http://www.1800pocketpc.com/2008/04/29/s2u2-animated-wallpaper-pack-2.html) but so much would love to have a animated gif on today/home sccreen
animated gifs have BIG filesizes, and these will need to be stored in ram
not a good idea imho
for flash you would also need the flash player in ram
also big
also not good idea
your phone will run SOOOOOO slowly
I would like to swap out the carrier wallpaper in manila 2.1 with somthing else so I can have three wallpapers manila home , winmo/lockscreen and then the tab's in manila
If I can change the boot animation there has got to be a way to change the default manila background
hdwall locks up my device and conflicts with comic reader mobi
background on all tab's leave's a gap at the top and limits my wallpaper to modified extra skinny images to force it to strech it to the top
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Me too!