Multi page homescreen creation..?

[Guest mobile-distortion]

Is there a tutorial anywhere on hoe to make a multipage homescreen?

[Guest Pigo]

Something much easier is to take someone else's homescreen and see how it ticks. unzip it and check out the source codes. by copying and pasting you ca use your own layout and color-scheme. Replace the backdrop and other screens by your own creation and try to make it work properly.

Pigo

[Guest scott2eyes]

Here's the basic layout for how I've done this in the past;

Put any pop-up plugins you want at the top (eg. Missed Calls) with a height of 200. When they appear, they will take up the whole screen.

Each page should then have 1 plugin at the top, which can be selected, and a section at the bottom that stays the same, but isn't selectable.

For example, the first page could have a message counter plugin taking up the top half of the page, and then a Carrier plugin at the bottom showing the time and date.

Then have a "spacer" plugin that's 200 pixels high.

Then have the next page, with the selectable plugin at the top the same height, and the unselectable section at the bottom identical to the first page.

Then another spacer plugin, then repeat to fade!

This way, the pages will correctly scroll when you're moving up and down, but the bottom section will appear to stay fixed. (If you have more than one selectable plugin in the top section ofa page it will scroll downwards fine, but when you scroll back up it won't go straight up to the top of the page. The exception is that you can have more than one selectable plugin in the final page, because you never scroll up to it.)

For example;

-Missed Call plugin (200px)

-Message counter plugin (120px)

-Carrier plugin (80px)

-Spacer plugin (200px)

-Calendar plugin (120px)

-Carrier plugin (80px)

-Spacer plugin (200px)

-Shortcut plugin (60px)

-2nd Shortcut plugini (60px)

-Carrier plugin (80px)

Hope this helps!

[Guest drblow]

Isn't the spacer plugin specific to Orange phones tho?

[Guest scott2eyes]

Sorry- not very clear of me there. The Orange spacer plugin has a variable size, so you can set the plugin to fill up to a particular point of the screen. What I was talking about was just an empty, non-selectable plugin 200 pixels high.

Here's the code I've used (I don't actually remember what the plugin is!);

[Guest destes]

:idea:Ohh ohh, brainfart here. How hard would it be for one of the programmers out there to make a "spacer plug-in" for us non-orange users. Something that did nothing but allow us to space out the other plugins so our multiple screens show up in the right spacing. If I wasn't trying to learn three other things right now, I'd give it a whack myself.

What do ya think?

Dale.

[Guest scottb]

Here's a static text plugin from the Microsoft Web site:

Hello

Bonjour

I've used this to space items--something like this:

Take a look here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default....2homescreen.asp