Facade question

[rudeboy]

so i'm "playing" with Facade to maximize space on the home screen, i have a hard time editing things (especially colors 'cuz i don't see how that works) "inside" Facade so i edit it on my laptop but it does mess up settings done in Facade on the Q correct ? i'm pretty sure..

besides from the Facade doc & the .xml help on MoDaCo are there any other reference/help guides ? the whole COLOR_ settings in the top of the .xml doesn't make a whole of sense to me (still) i have been trying to change some colors in the Black Mesh screens and still colors on the screen do not change.

plus i need a refresh screen button.. half of my time goes to applying screen in order to see a change (or not :}

[scottjb]

Have you posted this on the SBSH forum? If so I might have missed it.
When you edit settings using the Facade Settings program, it changes the Facade Defaults section near the top of the xml file. You can also make the changes yourself in the xml--you just need to know what to change.
Many of the settings can be repeated in the Facade view sections, so changes made to the defaults section might get overridden by the views.

What colors, specifically, are you trying to change? Depending on which color, and how the Facade view was coded by the homs screen author, you might need to do the change manually. Post the xml and tell me which colors you are trying to change.

[rudeboy]

yea, i posted it over there. i am using the black mesh home screen and there are a few things i want to change.

http://www.sbsh.net/forums/index.php...dpost&p=116153

- clock needs to be bigger.
- highlight color of the non facade plugins (messages, profile & bluetooth)

and since i also have the orange plugin i want to put the bluetooth and profile on the same line so the screen won't scroll if i make the clock bigger.

thanks..

[scottjb]

For the size of the clock, try adding font-size to the carrier plug-in.
Here the way it is:

<plugin clsid="{E09043DF-510E-4841-B652-388316977A7A}" name="carrier" height="16">
<label font-weight="bold" fgcolor="#FFFFFF" halign="center">
<text><carrier/></text>
</label>
<clock>
<time font-weight="bold" halign="left" padding-left="6"/>
<date font-weight="bold" halign="right" padding-right="6"/>
</clock>
</plugin>

Try adding font-size here:
<time font-weight="bold" font-size="18" halign="left" padding-left="6"/>

If it starts to get cut off, then you will have to increase the height.

The highlight color of the non-facade plug-ins is controlled by COLOR_HOMEHIGHLIGHT="E3E3E3". That appears to be some shade of gray.

I don't use the Orange plug-in--can't help with that.

[rudeboy]

thanks... weird thing though, now i have a separator at the bottom of the screen.. gonna have to mess with it. so far your advise helped me greatly.

so since you said you missed my post at SBSH forum.. does that mean you are an Facade expert ?..

[rudeboy]

some things i am trying to figure out before i start working on the 2 plugins per line (which i had working before on a non Facade HS.)

the line under the BT plugin (tried setting the background b-border-width="0" but no luck so far)
secondly, all 3 non Facade plugins read different to being selected: non yet figured that one out.

ps here is the .xml how it is this moment, probably will update during the day as i got something figured out :}

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thx..

[scottjb]

The real expert is Todd (tsaylor on the forum) as he is the developer of Facade. I help moderate the Smartphone application forums along with a few others.

Not all plug-ins will take the b-border-width parameter. Some will take the width, but not the color. Unfortunately, consistency is not the rule. You really just have to experiment and see what you get (it sounds like that's what you're doing).

[rudeboy]

ok, here is how far i got:

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right after i load the home screen (watch the BT half underneath the line, also i can't get rid of the line)

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after i "leave" the screen once, like going to the Start menu and back to the home screen.

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when i select the Profile plugin, see how the selection bar is way higher then the text.

is Todd on this forum you say ?

thanks.

[scottjb]

I saw your post on the SBSH forums. You can get plenty of help for Facade there. However, it seem slike this issue is specific to the Orange/Bluetooth plug-in combination. It certainly can't hurt to post on SBSH, but you might actually be better off here or at Qusers for the Orange plug-in.

[rudeboy]

thanks.. yea it appears to be related to the Orange plugin, not a 100% sure it is and i gave it a shot on the SBSH forums and like you advised, i might also put it on Qusers.com.

again, thanks.

ps. i seem to find weird problems/issues quite often :}