Iconbar howto needed

[Guest umbra]

Hi I just got my SPV Phone and I allmost done making my first skin, but I got at few problems:

1. I would like to hide the menu at the bottum if thats even possible. I gees that have to be done in reg someplace..

2. I have the design made and evrything works fine, but I only seem to be able to make the iconbar on the first page () and when I scrool down it just got replaced with the page 2 on the skin and the iconbar goes away. Here's: http://omerta.info/spv/beta/gaia/ a beta of my skin so u can see what I meen :

Give it a shot anyone ;))

I is just me ore dosnt gif apears more clear and closer to the real colors insted of jpg for backdrops!?? It allso make the the skin faster I think..

Allso do anyone knows a good xml editor with preview ?

gaia_set1_beta14.gif

[Guest Richie M]

Hi, nice looking homescreen ;) In answer to your questions;

1) nope you can not hide it

2) that is the way multi-screens work :lol: to keep the icon bar displayed on evry page you have to have it at the bottom - check out my themes to so this in action :D

[Guest umbra]

Thanks for u'r fast reply ;)

I used u'r themes, they are realy realy nice and seems realy professonel. I used some of u'r colors for some of my .schemes :D

hummm I was thinking, how is the menus made ? is it a finished part of the OS and compiled in that ? even so ther must be some way to make ajustments in reg !? fx. transparence ore smaller menus..

How is it that multiscreen works like that ? I figgured it out why if the iconbar is at the buttom. There must be a way, it seems pretty stupid to make the multiscreen like that.. I cant find any info about it anywhere, do u have any links with info about it ?

Can the iconbar be edited in size and placing and maby content ?

Where can I find a list of plugins for use in themes ?

I dont meen to look stupid, cus im not, it just seems like its the same info on all sites.. im looking in http://msdn.microsoft.com/library but I cant find anythind

:shock:

My goal is to make some clean simple fast skins like fx openbox lookalike that im working on now

:idea:

[Guest Richie M]

er if you meane the menu when you press the soft keys - like Programs they are actually part of programs running and cannot be changed - having said that certain extra screens can be (have a look at Midnight AI2 homescreen for examples of these).

As for how multiscreens work, is a bit complicated to explain (i have somewhere else on the forum but cant find it atm) but suffice to say 1) Microsoft never envisaged us making multi-screen homescreen :D so they are basically a fluke ;) 2) to get multi-screens to scroll up and down correctly you can only have 1 selectable plug-in and display only plug-ins underneath (apart form on the first screen). TBH i cant remember the exact rules and why this is as its a while since I done one :?

The icon bar plugins icon cannot be changed in anyway.

For the available plugins there is a good write up in our Articles section http://smartphone.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=714

Or the MS Whitepaper http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default....2homescreen.asp