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LuvrGirl · 12-07-2007, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by xnight

Well tell us what you want and i assure you a few of the guys will come up with something......just be specific.

Yeah, I'm hoping someone can come up with something for me. I'm at work right now so hopefully when I get home later tonight I can post in detail what I'm looking for.

Thanks in advance guys!

MaRiA

tecmotimes · 12-07-2007, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by LuvrGirl

Yeah, I'm hoping someone can come up with something for me. I'm at work right now so hopefully when I get home later tonight I can post in detail what I'm looking for.

Thanks in advance guys!

MaRiA

You should check out MadBeetle's HomeScreen creator. Of course it won't do everything possible within an xml homescreen but it's a good way to bang out a basic layout that you can manually tweak later. It's very easy to use, even if it does randomly exit sometimes (save your work often).

I did like 5 screens last night just to learn how, and even though I have a pretty good understanding of the backend xml from looking at code and reading a few tutorials, why go through all that crap just to get the basic layout down?

xnight · 12-07-2007, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by tecmotimes

You should check out MadBeetle's HomeScreen creator. Of course it won't do everything possible within an xml homescreen but it's a good way to bang out a basic layout that you can manually tweak later. It's very easy to use, even if it does randomly exit sometimes (save your work often).

I did like 5 screens last night just to learn how, and even though I have a pretty good understanding of the backend xml from looking at code and reading a few tutorials, why go through all that crap just to get the basic layout down?

I couldnt agree with you more

LuvrGirl · 12-08-2007, 12:11 AM

Oh cool, thanks guys! I just downloaded MadBeetle right now. Hopefully I can play with it a little tonight, if not tomorrow.

MaRiA

LuvrGirl · 12-10-2007, 04:15 PM

Ok guys, need a little bit of help (since I haven't really looked over any XML tutorials yet). I thought someone with a little more "how to" could help me out.

Ok, screenshot1, shows you how my homescreen looks right now. But I wanna move the time/date over to the left (closer to AT&T) because it's covering up Angelina's face. How do I do that? I know I would have to edit the XML, but what am I editing? (screen shot/code sample would help me out here) Also, I want to change the text color to white because it seems to fade in to the picture a bit.

Next, screenshot3, shows you how it "changes" when I hit the down arrow on my Q pad to select the Text Messages (it changes the text color to white). That's fine, but it also does like a dark grey background highlight... and that's ok too but is there any way to make that dark grey background highlight not run all the way across horizontally? I would like it to just go up to the end of the Text Messages (0)...

Here's the thing though.. on my Q9h Global I have a section to change my homescreen and to change the color scheme (which I have a couple default color schemes). I have one that's called Silvery color scheme that gave me the colors you see in the picture. So, would these changes be made in the xml file used for the color scheme? Or in the homescreen xml file?

I attached a copy of the xml file for Silvery color scheme and of my homescreen.

If anyone can help me out with this.... I would most definately appreciate it!

Thanks!
MaRiA

tecmotimes · 12-10-2007, 11:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LuvrGirl

Ok guys, need a little bit of help (since I haven't really looked over any XML tutorials yet). I thought someone with a little more "how to" could help me out.

Ok, screenshot1, shows you how my homescreen looks right now. But I wanna move the time/date over to the left (closer to AT&T) because it's covering up Angelina's face. How do I do that? I know I would have to edit the XML, but what am I editing? (screen shot/code sample would help me out here) Also, I want to change the text color to white because it seems to fade in to the picture a bit.

Next, screenshot3, shows you how it "changes" when I hit the down arrow on my Q pad to select the Text Messages (it changes the text color to white). That's fine, but it also does like a dark grey background highlight... and that's ok too but is there any way to make that dark grey background highlight not run all the way across horizontally? I would like it to just go up to the end of the Text Messages (0)...

Here's the thing though.. on my Q9h Global I have a section to change my homescreen and to change the color scheme (which I have a couple default color schemes). I have one that's called Silvery color scheme that gave me the colors you see in the picture. So, would these changes be made in the xml file used for the color scheme? Or in the homescreen xml file?

I attached a copy of the xml file for Silvery color scheme and of my homescreen.

If anyone can help me out with this.... I would most definately appreciate it!

Thanks!
MaRiA

Without getting *too* in depth I'll explain a couple of things:

The homescreen colors (text, background, etc) are defined in the homescreen xml. In fact, under the 'settings/home screen' in WinMobile, you want to leave the colors at default, and actually define those within the xml itself.

For moving the time/date plugins over, keep in mind that each plugin defined in the xml will have its own attributes you can change manually, such as x/y location of the plugin itself, or maybe width and text color for others. Each plugin will have its own set of these attributes that depends on the plugin itself. The MadBeetle editor takes care of all that tedious crap for you by letting you just drag stuff around and it sets the code on the backend.

LuvrGirl · 12-11-2007, 12:37 AM

I tried using Madbeet's program to open my existing homescreen file and for some reason it didn't load it correctly... can this program open existing xml files so that I can just make those small little changes?

MaRiA

n99hockey · 12-11-2007, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by LuvrGirl

I tried using Madbeet's program to open my existing homescreen file and for some reason it didn't load it correctly... can this program open existing xml files so that I can just make those small little changes?

MaRiA

it can but it messes them all up as you found out
if you dont start it with the program its wise not to open up one you didnt use the program with
you will spend more time trying to fix it

PacoJr67 · 03-29-2008, 06:45 AM

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Illidan23 · 07-04-2008, 09:12 AM

Hey what program are you guys using to resize images to 320X213?

I am trying to resize with some Microsoft program and every time i change the height to 213 it changes the width to 284 automatically. I even tried Photoshop Element 5.0 and same thing. Am i missing something or doing something wrong?

Any help is appreciated.