I would like to know how to make my Status/toolbar transparent (which I kinda found how to do), but didn't really understand it for the Evo. As well I'm running ics-deck-pa8.
However here is curveball. I would like to extend my background from top to bottom, so essentially my toolbar would have the natural Live Wallpaper background behind it.
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try the kitchen...
UOT Kitchen
wow... pretty neat tool. I will play around with it and see what I can do.
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Hello.
I've been browsing through the forums for a while now and even been going through some themes to figure out how the diamond handles the backgrounds in other then the Today (or maybe its called home?) Anyhow what i fear is that it isnt possible to set your own backgrounds in the other windows such as whole background pictures other then small meshes which is then handled by the diamond to paint the background..?
Is this the way it works or are there a way to set your own costum, whole backgrounds not just some meshes which it handles itself, into themes or some other way?
//Zorgin
Its not possible yet but who knows what the future holds
im hoping this will be enabled in tf3d 2.
yeah i was hoping to find an answer as well, the only thing i could come up with was the manilla editor and using that to manually change the backgrounds, but its very cumbersome to do...
hopefully some people can figure out an easier way to do this! it would be awesome.
like seriously, this display friggen rocks, you could have the ****tiest picture as ur wallpaper, but the screen clarity makes it look so nice lol
i love just waking up my phone and looking at the homescreen!
We have a Diamond Background Changer which changes wallpaper according to time of the day. Would it be great also if we also have a wallpaper changer that can changes background according to battery life remaining?
Probably we can also 'remove' the battery indicator at the top taskbar (freeing up space for a cleaner look) if such an app is possible.
* Just a suggestion. I do not have any programming knowledge hence i don't know if this is even possible.
Thank you
Would you really install it and use it?
sure its, even quite "easy" to do, just adapt the mortscript from the daylight background changer, to take the batterystatus as input instead of the time...
i remember i saw some commands in the mortscript manual whic make it possible to read out battery status...
but on the other hand, why would you want it? you already have a battery indicator right on top of all things....
having a changing background to indicate status doesnt seem logical to me...
Well Ithink it would be very handy if the background would slowly change from green to red using backgrounds in according colours...
i think it's a great idea.
of course i would use it, haha. I have to admit that i'm an app / rom junkie.
Anyway i was thinking if it would be great to remove the whole top and bottom taskbars for a totally 'windowmobileless' look. BUt to do that we need something to replace the battery/ network/ connection/ sound indicators.
The Quickstart menu shouldn't be a problem as i have high hopes for 'touchlaunch'
I actually think this is not a bad idea at all. If you look at some of the colour battery icons, this kind of makes sense. The moment your phone is activated for whatever reason, you can immediately see that status of the battery, without having to look at the (rather small) icon on the taskbar
Hence.. Hello to developers.. any takers?
Great idea, I would use it too! We could add a corresponding battery symbol on each wallpaper, like in S2U2 but smaller
Cool idea, I think also if the wallpaper could change based on the weather that would be really cool.
I have been messing with some icons, most of the images are grabbed from google images and cropped with paintshop pro.
The set includes comm manager, call history and callender icons, if you use them. Included is a custom slider. I am just trying to get Nisse's 3 icon menu to work with the extra icons, so I'll update the post when and if I do.
Invisible tray icons on post 11.
Use at your own risk!!
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I have been messing with some icons, most of the images are grabbed from google images and cropped with paintshop pro.
The set includes comm manager, call history and callender icons, if you use them. Included is a custom slider. I am just trying to get Nisse's 3 icon menu to work with the extra icons, so I'll update the post when and if I do.
Use at your own risk!!
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thats a cool icon set you made... keep up the good work
whiskeybro said:
thats a cool icon set you made... keep up the good work
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Cheers, just sent you a pm.
hey thanx man i've been keeping an eye out for these. great job-
Clear Ring Slider & Invisible Program Back
What it says in the title, the slider should work with all tabs.
I have tweaked the ring slider, moved it up and over a few pixels, it looks better so I have replaced the .cab with a new one.
Sliders
Done a few more sliders
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Some coloured oval sliders:
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More sliders here:
Very cool thanks, your icon set is insane!
Sergio PC said:
Very cool thanks, your icon set is insane!
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Thanks Sergio, I am a bit insane myself, well out of the box and running about with a manila axe anyway!
InvisibleTrayIcons
Following an idea suggested to me by Dynomite232 I have made a .cab with 13 invisible tray icons. This means that if you use this .cab you will only see the hero, the big icon which pops up in the middle and the one selected inside the slider, nice if you like your wallpaper!
Edits, I think it should work with any theme.
Invisible slider, good with these icons.
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Following an idea suggested to me by Dynomite232 I have made a .cab with 13 invisible tray icons. This means that if you use this .cab you will only see the hero, the big icon which pops up in the middle and the one selected inside the slider, nice if you like your wallpaper!
Edit, I think it should work with any theme.
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You make my day.
great this theme matches with all my wallpapers
whiskeybro said:
You make my day.
great this theme matches with all my wallpapers
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Glad you like it, it should make theme building easier if people use it with, only the hero to build.
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Glad you like it, it should make theme building easier if people use it with, only the hero to build.
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thats right i realy like the look its so clean now
Unique, thanks for the "no background in programs tab"...it works great. However when i use any of your sliders they are offset to the left of the screen by about 25%. I am on a stock sprint rom with some mods to TF3d (flip clock, taskbar icons, no curtains and icons). Do you know of any reason that this would be occurring?
nice work... I was thinking on doing this too...just a couple
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Unique, thanks for the "no background in programs tab"...it works great. However when i use any of your sliders they are offset to the left of the screen by about 25%. I am on a stock sprint rom with some mods to TF3d (flip clock, taskbar icons, no curtains and icons). Do you know of any reason that this would be occurring?
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I don't know the reason but It is no trouble for me to do sliders which would be offset to begin with and would therefore show in the correct place. Which sliders would you like to use? and I'll move them over a bit for you. Maybe you could post a screenshot so that I can see exactly how much it needs to be moved.
Predator Sliders
These are done at the request of mbord, see if you like them, I think the transparency is too high in er...the transparent one.
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Getting a bit obsessed here!
More sliders
I would like to know if anyone knows how to make the taskbar and slider on sense 2.1 transparent, so the background can look like the example on the HDWall thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=503511&highlight=hdwall
Transparent task bar
D_monie3 said:
I would like to know if anyone knows how to make the taskbar and slider on sense 2.1 transparent, so the background can look like the example on the HDWall thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=503511&highlight=hdwall
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Follow link and use remove both curtains cab.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=611441&highlight=remove+curtains
I think this what your looking for, good luck.
i think hes referring to the taskbar rather than the curtains, i too am looking for some way to make them transparent or even a simple black, the sprint.tsk is more of a grey than black
D_monie3 said:
I would like to know if anyone knows how to make the taskbar and slider on sense 2.1 transparent, so the background can look like the example on the HDWall thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=503511&highlight=hdwall
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i think hes referring to the taskbar rather than the curtains, i too am looking for some way to make them transparent or even a simple black, the sprint.tsk is more of a grey than black
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HDWalls will do that. It doesn't actually make the taskbar and the softkey bar transparent, but it replaces them with a matching piece of the background image. There's a checkbox in the configuration settings that says "WM 6.5 Taskbar & SoftKeybar Skinning"...just check that and the app will include in the cab the extra pieces to make it look like you see in the example there.
Now I know what the guy in the other treahd meant, when he said, he doesn't want to create a cab with HDWall every time he wants to have a new background. This really sux but it seems to be the only way to get rid of the softkeybar etc....
still looking
i have a stock att rom with manila 2.1 and wm 6.5 and i am still looking for a transparent taskbar too. so far i havent found anything to make it transparent but i did find UI Tweaker to allow me to change the color to whatever i wanted. after installing some taskbar icons mine went from black to grey and this changed them back without affecting my icons. it lets you change a whole bunch of your color settings throughout your system and so far no problems with my phone.
i tend to find the themes just change the top and bottom bars.is there a way to change the white background when you access the windows mobile part of the device?
I guess this is not possible then? Everyone must be content with the plain dull White windows mobile b/g?..MODS can you transfer this article over to the themes and apps please might get some hope over there
I doubt most of us delve into WinMo enough to care.
Not only that, would you be able to read the text with a darker colour or pattern?
Thanks, Possibly most users aint interested but it's really bugging me. If only i could change it because it looks so bland!
short version: try "ui tweaker" (lets you adjust windows theme related colors, look, and feel)
long version: there are some TSK files available that give the effect you desire. however most of these work well with WM6.1 and earlier. same goes for "ui tweaker", but these same approaches don't work well with WM6.5 and later. this is largely because WM6.5 has newer, different, bigger GUI control elements.
if you choose the ui tweaker approach, rp-x1 is correct because you would indeed have to play with a whole bunch of colors on a whole bunch of GUI elements before you'll be able to get the contrast right.
hey thanks man, it sounds difficult but il give it a go..have you tried it yourself?
i have used ui tweaker many times to change the selection highlight colors and what not when i was using WM6.1 ROMs on my kaiser. i even once tried exactly what you are looking for
i found the WM6.5 themes to be a much more improved bunch, so never felt the need to customize them further, though i wouldn't mind a white-on-black theme some time, like a "negative" of the GTX themes, that would be stellar!
i tried uitweaker but it doesnt give the option to change the white background!! i tried another app called settings+ that didnt also -but they are quite handy to tweak windows side of things
forgot to add..the white background remains but i managed to add some colour to tabs at the bottom and every box is highlighted i've also changed the font it makes a massive difference to me thanks
!! the white background is no more!!! haha i've managed to change it with uitweaker...thanks again
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!! the white background is no more!!! haha i've managed to change it with uitweaker...thanks again
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how did you do it?