Guest neilfenstein Posted April 9, 2003 Report Posted April 9, 2003 Does any of you clever lot think that it is possible to create a .cab file, like the ones that Midnight has recently produced. That contain all the images for a full theme ie. caller display etc. and install them and change the registry setting to point to them? I think this would be great for advanced skin makers and newbies alike. :lol: There are some great skins ie Longhorn which have not downloaded as i would have to change all my reg. settings back to original as i have full xbox theme, just a thought!
Guest midnight Posted April 9, 2003 Report Posted April 9, 2003 yeh, its easy enough to do, its just up to the skinners to do it :wink: you can have a single cab that installs all sounds (including keypad (except the darn Dtmf* key cos of the * in the name, bah, i'll figure that out sometime hehe)), all images (home screen, + extra screens) and includes other tweaks, like the speedup tweaks, corrects the ringtone loop, anything really.
Guest muude Posted April 9, 2003 Report Posted April 9, 2003 Then why haven't you done that midnight??
Guest midnight Posted April 9, 2003 Report Posted April 9, 2003 cos i'm busy making games and things :wink:
Guest madu Posted April 9, 2003 Report Posted April 9, 2003 (except the darn Dtmf* key cos of the * in the name, bah, i'll figure that out sometime hehe) midnight, this might be a clue. For example Excel VBA does not accept some symbols in the code because they are "system" symbols (Ie: "). But for them there is a special code ie: 'Chr(13)' or whatever the symbol number is... Anything symilar on SP platform??
Guest midnight Posted April 9, 2003 Report Posted April 9, 2003 oh, errr, strange, i just got it going, durrrr, must have done something else wrong somewhere then hehe
Guest Richie M Posted April 9, 2003 Report Posted April 9, 2003 Also it takes a lot of time to do all those things in a cab :lol: (I mean to create the INF, i was gonna include all the sounds in my Longhorn Theme but just ran outta time (and motivation :oops:))
Guest neilfenstein Posted April 10, 2003 Report Posted April 10, 2003 Thanks guys, im unsure how to make a .cab! are there any tutorials out there? :lol:
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted April 10, 2003 Report Posted April 10, 2003 Same principles apply in .hme's i believe. See this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dn...mescreen_topic6
Guest Richie M Posted April 10, 2003 Report Posted April 10, 2003 Or look at the Help file included with the SDK :lol:
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted April 10, 2003 Report Posted April 10, 2003 1 webpage != 350+45meg The webpage displays the info perfectly well and can be displayed in a few seconds, as apposed to undergoing a huge download for one page of info ;p
Guest Richie M Posted April 10, 2003 Report Posted April 10, 2003 Ok point taken (keep forgetting not everyone has 1Mb Broadband :oops:). Here's a good/more indepth page for creating INF's http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default....tingInfFile.asp And at the bottom are links for CabWizSP commands :lol:
Guest drblow Posted April 11, 2003 Report Posted April 11, 2003 Being a complete novice with programming, I have been customising my phone by just copying the .gif files from the windows folder that relate to calldisplay, info etc. (all file names are found on midnight's excellent site!). I edit the pics in fireworks / photoshop- thenb just copy&paste them back into the windows folder, replacing the old gifs. This is just a loophole around actually editing the registry - but it's easy for beginners to make some changes to the look of the phone other than just skinning!
Guest midnight Posted April 11, 2003 Report Posted April 11, 2003 until you reboot and they disappear again unfortunately :wink:
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