which program can i use to make a customscreen

[Guest Easterbunny]

Can anybody tell me which program I should use use to make a custom home screen, so i can make my own lay-out of showen items on the screen? :?:

[Guest Disco Stu]

Welcome to the forum :D

Have a look at Ruttensoft's Homescreen Designer

http://www.ruttensoft.com/smartphone/homescreendesigner.htm

[Guest mavisdavis]

Hello and welcome to the site.

The best one out is called Ruttensofts Homescreen deigner. A link can be found in the homescreen downloads sections.

Its ace and if your quite handy with a decent art package the sky is your limit

http://www.smartphone.net/software_detail....teid=279&id=870 Here to buy, Or if your a MoDaCo Plus Member you can get it for free along with loads of other discounts and free stuff :D

[Guest Disco Stu]

Damn !

More haste, less speed next time :D

[Guest mavisdavis]

Its the old fable of the two Bulls stood on a hill.lol

[Guest sunoke]

Don't forget your favorite text editor, image editor and some documentation.

[Guest sracer]

Ruttensoft's Homescreen Designer is okay, but I think that it is geared more toward the C500 than the SMT-5600 or other smartphones. I can't get it to configure the standard plug-ins so that they appear the same as they do in the default screens.

I prefer to use a good text or HTML or XML editor and manually created my homescreens. I use Microsoft's Theme Generator Smartphone freeware to design color schemes. I then cut-n-paste the resulting XML into my homegrown homescreen XML.

[Guest UncleBuck]

Sracer M8, is there any way you can give a demo or explain in more detail how you create your themes, as I'd like to have a go at that it sounds very interesting that way rather than using ruttersoft...many thanks M8...I too have designed a good theme with the Ms software but I'm running win2003 and it wont let me up load to my phone, I'd like to convert the code or tweak the code if I can using your method....

Ruttensoft's Homescreen Designer is okay, but I think that it is geared more toward the C500 than the SMT-5600 or other smartphones.  I can't get it to configure the standard plug-ins so that they appear the same as they do in the default screens.

I prefer to use a good text or HTML or XML editor and manually created my homescreens.  I use Microsoft's Theme Generator Smartphone freeware to design color schemes.  I then cut-n-paste the resulting XML into my homegrown homescreen XML.

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[Guest extravagant]

Can anybody tell me which program I should use use to make a custom home screen, so i can make my own lay-out of showen items on the screen? :?:

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you can write it in XML!

[Guest sracer]

Sracer M8, is there any way you can give a demo or explain in more detail how you create your themes, as I'd like to have a go at that it sounds very interesting that way rather than using ruttersoft...many thanks M8...I too have designed a good theme with the Ms software but I'm running win2003 and it wont let me up load to my phone, I'd like to convert the code or tweak the code if I can using your method....

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MS Software works great. The only thing that DOESN'T work for WM2003 devices is the ability to send the theme to the phone. But you can manually transfer the .hme to your phone. But I only use the MS Theme Generator to quickly get the colors in the general tones.

As for demos or tutorials, there are far better qualified people to do that. The screens that I design are boring and utilitarian... it would be better if any of the others who create attractive and interesting homescreens provided such a tutorial.

[Guest drblow]

By far the best way to learn about homesreens is to download some of the themes from here, and then extract the images & xml and have a look at them. You'll quickly begin to understand the vertical layout of the plugins, and the way the background images fit together. & then make a few changes to the xml file - change some x & y values, change the plugin height, change the text size ... whatever. & then put it on your phone & see what happens. Experimentation will very quickly show you how to edit the xml.

For anyone wanting to learn about homescreens, please feel free to use & reproduce any of the xml in any of my themes. I learned about it by doing the same thing. ;)

The graphics side of it comes down to having a good image editing program. Photoshop or similar would be required for effects like transparency, but if you just wat to resize images there are lots available I'm sure. But looking at other themes will show you the way plugin background images (both selected & unselected) fit in with the main background image, and it'll all start to make sense.

Apart from that, don't forget that most homescreen issues have been discussed at length on the froums in the past, so the search button is your friend! :D

[Guest extravagant]

By far the best way to learn about homesreens is to download some of the themes from here, and then extract the images & xml and have a look at them.  You'll quickly begin to understand the vertical layout of the plugins, and the way the background images fit together. & then make a few changes to the xml file - change some x & y values, change the plugin height, change the text size ... whatever.  & then put it on your phone & see what happens.  Experimentation will very quickly show you how to edit the xml.

For anyone wanting to learn about homescreens, please feel free to use & reproduce any of the xml in any of my themes.  I learned about it by doing the same thing. :)

The graphics side of it comes down to having a good image editing program.  Photoshop or similar would be required for effects like transparency, but if you just wat to resize images there are lots available I'm sure.  But looking at other themes will show you the way plugin background images (both selected & unselected) fit in with the main background image, and it'll all start to make sense.

Apart from that, don't forget that most homescreen issues have been discussed at length on the froums in the past, so the search button is your friend!  :D

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yeah that way u can also learn about new plugins that u never heard before that you think would be useful!

[Guest drblow]

yeah that way u can also learn about new plugins that u never heard before that you think would be useful!

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What do you mean?

[Guest tendo]

very nice thread.

i use text editor and photoshop to make my own themes. it would be really nice if someone would make a guide that lists what all the xml home variables control for easier editing (i.e. COLOR_HIGHLIGHTTEXT is bla bla and the rest of them)

I've figured out what a few of them but I'm far from a complete list.

Buying an editor seems silly because you can control it all yourself

[Guest BrAGoL]

very nice thread.

i use text editor and photoshop to make my own themes.  it would be really nice if someone would make a guide that lists what all the xml home variables control for easier editing (i.e. COLOR_HIGHLIGHTTEXT is bla bla and the rest of them)

I've figured out what a few of them but I'm far from a complete list.

Buying an editor seems silly because you can control it all yourself

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please refer to table 9 of this page...

[Guest tendo]

THANK YOU SO MUCH !! :o

[Guest BrAGoL]

THANK YOU SO MUCH !! :o

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no problem! :(

my pleasure to help...

[Guest prayer4eev]

Homescreen Designer creates beatyfull themes but they are messed up on my SDA.

there is something wrong with x and y coordinates and height values. and if fonts are in xx.y format - they are really huge, my sda undestand it like xxy.

i still dont understand how it works. and i checked msdn..

and some themes. and still dont understand

those x and y are 0-176 on 0-220? (screen of my SDA) or not?

can be someone so kind and explain me this?

like example

i have such code in one xml

<!-- Carrier Plugin -->

but it's position is about 1/4 of display from top. so the "y" coordinate should be about 220/4, =55, but in code there is y=3. and for some other parts if i set plugin height like example 20 (for date) and then i try to move "date" to the bottom - it dissapears, so i have to increse "height".. that's something i dont understand.

tnx in advance

i apologize if i posted this into wrong topic.

and i searched the forums.

Edited September 28, 2005 by prayer4eev

[Guest prayer4eev]

ok, i got the idea by myself.