Homescreen help

[Guest xusso]

Hi all. I addapted this homescreen i ddl from somewhere, the problem is that no matter the size of the background I use, it gets "chopped" at the bottom. Can anyone scan my xml and com up with some answers for me please?

Background and XML file in attatchments.

Thanks in advance!

Forgot to mention:

I own a MPX200 with WM5.

Plugins used: arcsoft mms plugin, newsbreak plugin and gprs plugin.

fullMMS2.home.xml

Edited June 9, 2006 by xusso

[Guest pavankp]

Hi all. I addapted this homescreen i ddl from somewhere, the problem is that no matter the size of the background I use, it gets "chopped" at the bottom. Can anyone scan my xml and com up with some answers for me please?

Background and XML file in attatchments.

Thanks in advance!

Forgot to mention:

I own a MPX200 with WM5.

Plugins used: arcsoft mms plugin, newsbreak plugin and gprs plugin.

In the tag try valign="bottom". That might fix it.

Pavan

[Guest xusso]

In the tag try valign="bottom". That might fix it.

Pavan

Thanks Pavan... already tried it...still no good. here's the example...

Edited June 9, 2006 by xusso

[Guest pavankp]

Thanks Pavan... already tried it...still no good. here's the example...

Now I am confused. The left attachment is fine, isn't that what you want to see? Whatever XML gives you that is the correct XML :). Or did you just "mock up" that screen somehow? Or are you trying to get your background image displayed throughout your home screen, including under the iconbar?

[Guest xusso]

@pavanpk

"Or are you trying to get your background image displayed throughout your home screen, including under the iconbar?"

Yessss! That's what I'm trying to do...!!!!!! How is it done, my head is melting!

...and it's no mock up, these are real images from my smartphone. There's another strange thing...did you notice how the letters in MMS look? weird.

Please, pavanpk can you tell me how can I change it to display the image fullscreen, even under the iconbar?

Thanks again

[Guest pavankp]

Please, pavanpk can you tell me how can I change it to display the image fullscreen, even under the iconbar?

OK after a little experimentation I've figured out how to do what you want. Here is how it looks on my phone.

The key is to use valign="bottom" for the overall background image. If you use valign="top", no matter what the image size is, it will get cropped at the bottom. I don't know why that is! I even created a 240x320 image, it doesn't work with valign="top".

So, the obvious solution is to display a background image under the iconbar separately. To do this properly, first breakup your background image into two pieces: the top 240xN pixels as the iconbar background (where N is the height of your iconbar), and the remaining as the actual background.

Here is your original background, split into two. The iconbar background:

and the remaining piece:

Now comes the part I don't fully understand. I tried playing with your XML file, but it would always cut off stuff at the bottom. So I resarted with the Windows Default XML and added in your plugins (SmartMonitor and MMS) to it. Here is the XML that works on my phone.

full_test.home.xml

Put these three on your phone and see if it works. If it does, you can go back to playing with the XML to make it just right for you.

There's another strange thing...did you notice how the letters in MMS look? weird.

I don't use MMS so I can't test this on my phone. The only thing I noticed was you have a different font-size and weight set up only for the MMS plugin. Is that why it looks strange? If that is not the answer, then it has something to do with the MMS plugin you are using. That plugin may not be using your font settings from the tag on top. To get it to show stuff right, you might need to set a font-size explicitly even in the "unselected" format state.

Pavan

[Guest xusso]

Thanks again!

I'll try thid one out over the weekend!

Have a great world cup!