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True pixel count on Athena???

In playing around with the Today screen background/wallpaper images, I have noticed that the Athena screen pixel count is actually larger than a true VGA screen.
The photos below show the screen on QVGA resolution with a background image sized on my pc to 640x480 pixels:
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Now here is the same image running under RealVGA mode:
Note that since Real VGA is running, the Start and Calendar/Contacts bars on the top and bottom of the screen are thinner, and as a result, the background image tiles (starts over) on the bottom.
So the question is, what is the true pixel count of the Athena screen???
The image does not seem to tile horizontally, so I believe the width to be 640 pixels or less(?), but the height is definitely greater than 480 pixels.
Keith Walker

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Another way to re-phrase the question, is there a way to find out how tall the Start bar at the top of the screen is in the registry?
Same goes for bottom of screen bar (Calendar/Contacts)
Thanks
Keith

theoreticly you could try to take a screenshot and measure the pixels?

It's not the pixels
rather, it's the image. WM cuts off and/or shrinks background images before using them as the theme.

In Standard QVGA orientation, the top Start Bar may be 26 Pixels. I have the Batti-2.1 bar in the top of my screen that lets you set the number of pixels height for the battery bar. The square Start button is set to 26x26. If I set the battery bar height to 26, it covers the start bar completely. I haven't loaded Real VGA with this ROM yet but could do so for a test if you are interested.

Thanks for the information.
I also got some answers on the newest Real VGA thread. FWIW, Tobias has the newest version and it is quite mature and it is worth a download:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=327830
To sum up menu bar heights:
QVGA/192dpi : 52 pixels ht.
128 dpi: 34 pixels ht.
VGA/96dpi : 26 pixels ht.
(I don't know if those registry values are total height of both bars, or only one bar)
In registry:
You can find it in: HKLM\ControlPanel\SIP\MenuBarHeight WM5(?)
WM6: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\SIP\MenuBarHeight
And finally fwiw, I checked, the screenshots that I have in Corel Draw, and Merlin is correct, the image is actually compressed vertically assuming that you have 52 pixel ht. menu bars.
So if you have VGA 640x480 background and run Real VGA on the 96dpi setting, it squeezes the background to make space for the 52 pixel menu bars, but since your menu bars are only 26 pixels, it then tiles the image to make up for lost real estate!
Now if I could only find that shrinking feature in the registry and tame it!!!
raskell said:
I haven't loaded Real VGA with this ROM yet but could do so for a test if you are interested.
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making HTC home plugin smaller

Does anybody know how to make the HTC Home plugin (for WM6) less high. For instance I would like te remove the email/mms, sms and missed calls buttons because all of them are displayed in the top (start) bar at the top of your screen. This way there will be more space left for e.g. todayagenda or spb diary.

Less high
+1 for making plugin less high!

dont think the options are present at least not in today settings
if they are in the registry then it's easy enough
if not it would require reverse engineering or other very time consuming tasks
personaly i can live with a scrollbar for now ...
maybe somebody know more about it's registrys

Is there A reg tweak that can just remove the today scroll bar? would be great for us with a touch rom, or all scroll bars?
How about "vj scrollbar toggle"?

I could live with a smaller clock... there really is no need for it to take up that much space or maybe ditch the carrier and date line

I think the Home Plugin is useful, but frankly it is also a bit flabby. It uses up a lot of screen real estate, by design. You can registry edit some of the buttons to be hidden, but nothing to really reduce the height of the plugin. It might be best to remove the plugin and try some better replacements if you can't stand it.
I'm still wondering whether I can live with it - it has useful features but takes up over 50% of the today screen.
Which scroll bar are we talking about removing? Can someone snap a screen shot?
IMHO a useful mini hack which is easy to do is to put the scrollbar back, forcing the today screen scrollbar over the Home Plugin which allows you to have a normal today screen, but requiring you to scroll up and down to see those plugins that go off the edge.
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Hi V, in the "after" shot does the entire home plug now scroll up? If so, is it possible to remove that scroll bar? Can the width just be set to 0. I was thinking if a button could be made to toggle scrollbar width to 0 and back to default then any time my scrollbars annoy me I can just zap them away. Thanks

can someone help to fit it to VGA?

lol, love your second appointment, get superglue

The superglue is to keep me high while looking for jobs in banking or "non lrgal". Damn my big inaccurate fingers.
Hi V, in the "after" shot does the entire home plug now scroll up? If so, is it possible to remove that scroll bar? Can the width just be set to 0. I was thinking if a button could be made to toggle scrollbar width to 0 and back to default then any time my scrollbars annoy me I can just zap them away. Thanks
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The scrollbars in the after pic will move the whole today screen up and down in the usual way, so the home plugin will move up and down. It does leave minor graphic artifacts (ie, there is a a blank rectangle where the scrollbar is, when the scrollbar disappears. The homeplugin doesn't redraw itself properly because it doesn't expect the scrollbar to be there... )
You can use a simple mortscript or registry edit to toggle the size of the scrollbars to a low size (I recommend 1 or 2), and back to a normal size.
From the wiki
Code:
Change the thickness of scrollbars
[INDENT]To change the thickness of the scrollbars at the right/bottom of documents larger than the screen, adjust...[/INDENT]
[INDENT]For the horizontal (bottom) scrollbar:[/INDENT]
[INDENT][INDENT]HKLM\System\GWE\cyHScr = 9 (DWORD decimal)[/INDENT]
For the vertical (right) scrollbar:
[INDENT]HKLM\System\GWE\cxVScr = 9 (DWORD decimal)[/INDENT]
The default thickness is 13. You can set the value to pretty much anything you like
V
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Thanks I will try it, but to be honest I don't know what to do with mortscripts, but I have it on my device with one of the home tweakers. I will search, but advice welcome. Thanks.

uniqueboy said:
Hi V, in the "after" shot does the entire home plug now scroll up? If so, is it possible to remove that scroll bar? Can the width just be set to 0. I was thinking if a button could be made to toggle scrollbar width to 0 and back to default then any time my scrollbars annoy me I can just zap them away. Thanks
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It is possible to remove the today scrollbars. see pic below.
Registry settings of htc home in today is standard: HKLM\software\Microsoft\Today\Items\HTC Home\Type = dword 5. because of this key no scrollbar is on the side of htc home. replacing type = dword 5 for dword 4 will display a scrollbar to the right after reset. This can also be done to any other today item. By my home the today scrollbar is also removed for todayagenda1 --> changing type = dword 4 to dword 5.
The only scrollbar displayed is the scrollbar of todayagenda, because no 7 days can be displayed....

Classicblack Lovers

might not fit in this section of the forum.. but...
whoever's a cultmember of Black... you're invited to download the following.
1. If you want to remove the taskbar and softkeys (idea taken from bluemetalaxe)..
put vjtoggle.. in the startup folder under \Windows
2. If you're up for the transparent or blue HTC Home backgrounds you need to use HHC..(HTC Home Customizer).. (www.pocketemu.com).. put the Transparent and WM7 folders in the bg folder in the HHC installation folder.
3. to put the WM7 icons just put WM7ico in icons folder in HHC inst folder.
4. Of course, classicblack.tsk is the classic black skin for the today screen.
5. Use Smartskey (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=256525) to map your Start Menu and OK/Close Hotkeys if you're up for using VJtoggle to lose your taskbar and softkeys..
6. Use BatteryMeter to see the batterylevel on top always if using VJToggle (http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-vistahide-battery-gauge-v1-1-1.html)
if you decide to lose the taskbar you can use another phonealarm skin which contrains both signal and battary status...
FYI. background pictures take up ram and slow the device. also, the blacker a screen is the longer the screen will live (less power is spent on lighting the screen) (just finished a Modern Physics course in the Uni.. )
so whoever has a slow device and/or wants to keep his screen alive longer (such as myself.. having a 195MHz wizard).. enjoy..
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the right scr (and current one), also has a transparent Phonealarm skin which doesn't take too much space but controls bluetooth and wifi from the today screen.
the iconset is a bit blueish thanks to a WM7 iconset and the systray has been removed completely. also, the Handyswitcher icon on the upperleft corner can be changed from within handyswitcher to anything else.
If you want to change your device's colors (fonts, menus, windows,... EVERYTHING)... to black.. you can use UI Tweaker:
http://rapidshare.com/files/117831146/UI_TWEAK.ZIP.html
ClassicBlack RAR Download Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/117831115/ClassicBlack_.rar.html

Thx, it looks nice
And for those who would like to have it with startmenu bar but without the softkeys: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=320349&highlight=hide+softkeys
See there step 3 for the registry values.

nir36,
Thanks for this. The black background is very black; Best rendition of black I have yet seen on a ppc. Most blacks tend to be grey.
Well done.
WB

if anyone knows how to change the color of the font to make it a bit darker.. (save more energy ).... and ditch that scrollbar... please let me know

also...
make sure when using VJToggle.. if you change StartSize to see the Taskbar change it to 26 DECIMAL.

Looks nice....
Great job.....

i heard there is a special char blackclock for HTC home which is lighted on the edges.. if anyone finds it, i'd apperciate if you post it here so i can add it to the RAR.. and use it myself

nice work
thank you

SoloBlack Theme
Here is my contribution for the Black Theme fans out there....
I have been trying to get a nice, clean and professional Black environment to go along with the beautiful black X500+ and get rid of the boring grey layout inside the applications.
So far I've managed to get my device to look like the pictures below (nice black interface with a cool dark grey/orange effect for selections):
The tools I used:
Soloblack Theme (tsk attached) - just copy to the /windows/ folder on your device and select from the Theme selection screen. Nice thing about this tsk is the size. 15Kb ONLY!
UI Tweaker (scheme provided) - http://mobile-sg.com/ - it's freware and you can inport the color scheme provided.
Optional:
SKTools - http//www.s-k-tools.com - I'm pretty sure the tsk and the scheme files attached will fix all colours. If not you might need this application to do some additional tweaking. Most of the colors can be customized using UI Tweaker but a few need additional tweaking sofwares like SKtools. I can provide my SKTools configuration screens if you guys need it.
Note that SKtools is a commercial app but there are freeware with similar UI tweaking possibilities.
It's very hard to get a pure black environment. Even in this case a pure black and white is very difficult since each developer picks it's own settings for colors. I've been trying back and forth for almost a week now to get this far so if any one
Problems so far:
1. TCPMP - lower buttons are all white. You need to select them to read
2. Messaging - Message head needs to be selected to be read
If anyone finds a fix please post here.
This colour scheme was made for a X500+ running WM6.1 custom ROM but should work on all WM5/WM6 devices.
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! If you don't like selecting the default themes should get your device original colours back.

beautiful

Nice SoloBlack...
Nice soloblack theme. Thanks for sharing.

Please share phonealarm skin
Nir36,
please share this skin...very nice...i really like it.
thanks

which one?

Phonealarm skin
Sorry, I meant the phonealarm skin.
Thanks...

here you go.. and a few others as well:
http://rapidshare.com/files/118408802/phonealarm_skins.rar.html

that is mine with classicblack.tsk and bstheme made by me...
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all with exchanging the default topbar....and UL with todayagenda and some other tabs

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nice skin

nir36 said:
here you go.. and a few others as well:
http://rapidshare.com/files/118408802/phonealarm_skins.rar.html
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Thank you.

My basic black theme is less than 2KB in size (TSK file with today background and color scheme only).
Link
I have also compiled links of black-based themes/skins over here.

[THE] TF3D Menu Icons (Giannis' custom tf3d twist - includes calender & call history)

[THE] TF3D Menu Icons (Giannis' custom tf3d twist - includes calender & call history)
Here is my latest creation..
hope you like it
Instructions:
1. Unpack
2. Copy the Manila files to your phone
3. Disable TF3D (Settings-->Today-->Items)
4. Open Total Commander & Move/Copy the manila files to the Windows directory on your phone (overwrite if prompted)
5. Enable TF3D
Custom TF3D Twist by Giannis86.zip
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UPON REQUEST - Custom TF3D Twist - Black & Color Theme (Custom TF3D Twist - Black & Color.zip)
Black and white tf3D icons when tab is not selected and colored when selected
Note that this looks best WITHOUT the 3icon menu from NisseDILLIGAF and a transparent slider. (if you have the 3icon menu the icons on the slider will not be coloured when selected!)

Any screenshot pls??

huh? screenshot is included above....
edit: added screenshot as an attachment in case you cant see the one from photobucket

Yep I see it now....sorry got sometimes little problems with display style
Very nice coloured icons will try in few moments...thx for sharing mate

Nice one Giannis! Could you make the icons black and white when inactive and colored when selected?

RooFgr said:
Nice one Giannis! Could you make the icons black and white when inactive and colored when selected?
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I dont have a screenshot for it as i have NisseDILLIGAF's 3icon menu. This disables the active tab icon on the slider to avoid the overlapping of icons when using a transparent slider.
Anyway this should do the job (check attachment)

good job man

Giannis86 said:
Black and white tf3D icons when tab is not selected and colored when selected
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This question is a corollary to my question here on 18-12-2008. I see that this set of tab icons allows for a different tab icon to be displayed when it's the active tab. It seems as though this explains my issue where the icon of the active tab is always my default icon (see attached image). How do I change it so that the icons don't revert to default when active?
And yes, I get that the snowflake icon doesn't really jive with the Tampa weather of 68 degrees in the background, but what can I say...I love the tab icons.

sweet you stole the icons... original

@Brett8187
what are you talking about?no1 made a tf3d icon theme with these icons...i just used png icons from various icon sites. If you dont like that dont download the theme. Search for my own custom glossy icons instead
@moldhamXDA
so wait, this theme displays properly and the blue and white not?
it should work properly as they are the same manila files except with different icons.
i suggest that you try installing the theme again and see if it works afterwards (try after a Diamod TF3D config default theme restore).
If it still doesnt work i can only think of 1 solution.
install the 3icon menu from nisse..This removes the active tray icon which essentially means that the normal tray icon will be displayed instead of the active tray icon.

I bite my thumb at Alltel's default theme
Giannis86 said:
@moldhamXDA
so wait, this theme displays properly and the blue and white not?
If it still doesnt work i can only think of 1 solution.
install the 3icon menu from nisse
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Sorry for the confusion. None of the following--blue & white icons, the fire icons, and the icons on this post--display the active tab icon properly on the slider; the active icon is always my default icon. You'll see in the first attached image that when I installed the icons on this thread, the active icon is still my default image on the slider, although, as with all three sets of icons mentioned above, the hero is displayed appropriately at the center of the screen when sliding. When I installed the 3 icon set by nisse, I got no icon (2nd attached pic). And I tred multiple soft resets and re-installations after restoring to my default theme using diamond tf3d config multiple times.
As a test, I installed the HTC_Black theme and then your icon sets, and the icons displayed appropriately--that is, the active icon was correct (aka, not my default icon but the icon from your set). It seems, then, to be specific to my default theme from Alltel. Given that my phone has unbearable lag when running the HTC_Black theme (and very little lag when running the default theme), I couldn't keep it that way... Unfortunately, I have no clue which of my original manila files is preventing the active tab icon on the slider from being replaced. I'm open to suggestions. I really appreciate your time!

[wta] create button, add event, and adding some animation

I'm trying to create something similiar to the image below:
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when I click button 1:
the square 2 show font "h" and blue background,
the square 3 show font "e" and blue background,
the square 4 show font "l" and blue background,
the square 5 show font "l" and blue background,
the square 6 show font "o" and blue background,
the font and background in square no 2,3,4,5,6 appears sequentially.
and when I click square 2, then:
the square 3 show font "E" and red background,
the square 4 show font "L" and red background,
the square 5 show font "L" and red background,
the square 6 show font "O" and red background,
the font and background in square no 3,4,5,6 appears sequentially.
and same thing happened when I click another square.example when i click square 3, then:
the square 2 show font "H" and red background,
the square 4 show font "l" and blue background,
the square 5 show font "l" and blue background,
the square 6 show font "o" and blue background,
the font and background in square no 2,4,5,6 appears sequentially.
Is there a way that I can do this within an Android app without using opengl?
edit:
by sequentially I mean in order and adding some delay (like 1sec) per square
the font "h,e,l,l,o" and "H,E,L,L,O" are stored in Array.

did you try setText();?

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did you try setText();?
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yes, I already try to use setText() but I can only change the text. how to change the background and how to display sequentially?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12615720/setbackgroundcolor-in-android
buttons.
what do you mean sequentially, just in order, or with like a delay one after the other?

out of ideas said:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12615720/setbackgroundcolor-in-android
buttons.
what do you mean sequentially, just in order, or with like a delay one after the other?
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thank's for the link..
yes sequentially I mean in order and adding some delay like 1sec per square.