How do you design a new Home Screen for the SPV?

[Guest almark]

I believe it is in XML format, but is there a guide to follow? Can anyone offer some advice, or where I can go to get some help?

[Guest paulend]

no dissrespect mate, cos i dont know much. but, do a search before posting, there hs been many a post on this subject ;)

[Guest almark]

I did many searches for 'SPV friendly design', XML design', and 'XML Skins' all returned hundreds of pages. I did look through many of these but couldn't what I wanted.

There was one page where someone had designed a new home page for the SPV and I posted a question there, about XML.

All advice welcome ;)

[Guest paulend]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/li....asp?frame=true

http://www.modaco.com/viewtopic...2&highlight=xml

hope these help

[Guest silverback]

All that I have done to teach my self, is download some of the skins that are available and play around with the text until I sort of understood it.

It gave me something to do on these cold winter evenings. ;)

If you look HERE You will see my first try which was very basic but it was a start.

[Guest almark]

Paulend, you were right, they were there I just couldn't find them. Thank you for your help.

I'll look these up and have a go.

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

is the best link.

[Guest Lojt]

Try the Customisation forum

[Guest almark]

Good grief!

Acccording to

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

I need to download the SDK, 46MB. Then the sys Requirements for the SDk are to have embedded Visual Tools 3, which is 319MB !!!

If this is right I think I'll forget it :shock:

[Guest Bazz]

No you don't. You need notepad and... well that's it really!

Check out this for some info on XML and where to go from there:

http://www.modaco.com/viewtopic...ighlight=#13659

Ignore the other posts in that thread as they are talking about actual programming rather than customisation

[Guest almark]

Thank you, that just what I am lookig for. ;)