[HOT]Create fullscreen skin - For all skin maker

[Pedram]

FocalDesign and I recently worked on a skin to remove topbar and replace it with our customized topbar. Rather than commercial softwares such as wisbar, we wanted to made it by using free softwares.

we used:
1. vjtoggletodayiialpha to remove topbar and bottom bar.
2. vjokbutt / mortscript to have X/OK icon we you lanuch application.
3. Mortscript to have Signal, battery, Wifi, Bluetooth, Volume on our new customized topbar.

I think with the help of guys here we can develop this scripts much better to have more robust and beutiful customized topbar.

Sample fullscreen  skin created:

Download: http://rotlaus-software.de/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4070#p4070
Installation help: http://rotlaus-software.de/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4071#p4071
Optimized version: http://rotlaus-software.de/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4134#p4134

[pf]

I didn't knew the first tool (vjtoggle...). Sounds very interesting!
Great skin all together with a lot of possibilities. The developement of skins here is really not to believe !

[Axman]

I was actually working on something similar. My problem came about when I wanted to show phone status' - like if my data is connected and at what speed (EDGE, 3G, etc.)

Do you have any way around this?

[ultravox]

I was actually working on something similar. My problem came about when I wanted to show phone status' - like if my data is connected and at what speed (EDGE, 3G, etc.)

Do you have any way around this?

To get data connection status you can add the following code to topbar.mscr:

SUB SetGPRS
   GPRS = RegRead("HKLM", "\System\State\Connections\Cellular\", "Count")
   IF(PreGPRS <> GPRS)
   PreGPRS = GPRS
   IF(GPRS =1)
      RegWriteString("HKCU", "\Software\Pi3cH\Topbar\", "GPRS", "¾")
   Else
      RegWriteString("HKCU", "\Software\Pi3cH\Topbar\", "GPRS", "")
   EndIf
   EndIF
ENDSUB


and to skin.xml:




 
 


 
 


 
 


you can check the result on my skin thread.
there's just infotmation about the on/off status, not the current data connection type. Maybe that  could be made if akey in regitry is changed by the connection band.

Cheers.

[Stefaan Ellebaut]

Cool to make a topic out of this Pi3cH! I'm still having probs with that remobing topbar (had to hard reset 2 times already because the topbar was gone but none of the hardware buttons were doing what I wanted either).

So for the moment I have made the standard WM6 topbar black (and hidden the 'start' text by also making it black).

Also made some adjustments to the local timezone here and made some stuff Dutch instead of English.

Some screenshots: http://www.focaldesign.be/test/klanten.php?toon=fotoalbum&reeks=HTC_Touch_Focaldesign_Pi3cH
(also contains soms screnshots of my adjusted touchFLO cube and other stuff).

And to be correct and not take credits for everything. The skin and stuff was totally made by Pi3cH, I just did the photoshop work for the design and the Dutch translation.
Pi3cH, remember I buy you a beer if you ever visit our small country :-)

[Pedram]

thnx ultravox for you sub routine.

FocalDesign this is kind of you. I believe that Programming part is to complete without help of a Designer.

And I found a way to remove those circules. I wish I find free time for working on it.

I saw in another forum that some one suggest/design great themes for pointui, I think we can have them in rlToday too:
http://forums.pointui.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=574

Any idea?

[Stefaan Ellebaut]

Aha, you mean you found a way to delete those circles when the number is 0? Let me know when that is operational!
Any luck on getting something for the highlights of those 3 main buttons when touched (without having to fool around with S2R because that made me hard reset also, I'm a fool with this stuff...) ?

That PointUI stuff is probably possible in rlToday with the help of Mortscript and vjtoggletodayiialpha.

[ultravox]

...
I saw in another forum that some one suggest/design great themes for pointui, I think we can have them in rlToday too:
http://forums.pointui.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=574

Any idea?

I think that would be possible but rlToday would have to allow to use png instead of font characters.

[Pedram]

Yes it is possible with font layering and using mortscripts.
Why do you perform hard reset? a simple soft reset many times solves problems. isn't it?
Also what is your main problem durring removing topbar? which step force you to hard reset?

ultravox, do you think we can create them with fonts characters? Those I icons on top of themes can be palced in a font.

[ultravox]

Hi.
I've just looked to the images again.

something obivous:
1st get the icons
2nd add them to the font.

I didn' check the way the skin was made so  donlt know if we can get the icons.

add it to the font could be more easy, if we get the right software. i'll try to look for it.

after this, yes, I think it could be made.

the biggest drawback with rltoday is that for every item/condition you want to change, you must define a variable on a script: i.e. a
character with a circle arround signed to data connection status: to change the character and the circle color, there must be to variables defined, even the source( data connection) being the same. Am I worng? I sthere a way to avoid this?

About the new skin, I've a VGA screen, but I'll gladly help where possible( no photoshop,pls...lol)

Cheers

[Stefaan Ellebaut]

Why do you perform hard reset? a simple soft reset many times solves problems. isn't it?

Tried that every time, problem just kept on showing.

Also what is your main problem durring removing topbar? which step force you to hard reset?

Can't find the lnk-file to get the config started. I click on vjtoggletodayiialpha and my top and bottom bar go away, but no config and no bar of the skin. So that way I loose start/close and a HTC Touch doesn't have standard hardware buttons for that.
Installed S2R also, got a whole line of setup questions (for charachters and stuff) and when I got it all done, I got al sorts of characters inside my skin, not where the topbar should be... very strange.

[ultravox]

Hi.

On my case, the lnk was in : \Program Files\rlToday\FocalPi3cH\mscr\

Check the file attached.

[Stefaan Ellebaut]

I know it should be there, but can't see it anywhere. Like my explorer doesn't show .lnk files...

Now I don't have the font anymore for the icons either, so won't use it for now...
I got rid of the bottom bar using PMC TodaySchrink. You can download the cab here: http://members.home.nl/testwebsite/P...odayShrink.cab
I used UITweaker to make the topbar totaly black and make the word 'start' also black so it doens't show until tapped. Only that ugly windows logo should be changed now, but can't find out how. Wisbar is to compicated to change all that stuff... I like to keep it simple.

[ultravox]

try this alternative explorer: http://www.ghisler.com/ce.htm  it's free, and great, even registry edit!!!!

[Pedram]

FocalDesign can you design icons as in these pictures?
http://forums.pointui.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=574
Or do you have another idea for icons positions? these icons should be palaced on our new topbar.

As you know for showing font character on rltoday we should create mortscipts with one unlimit loop, although in my topbar script I tried to optimized this script as mush as possible but sometimes especially we I want to touch my SIP (keyboard) to compose new email/sms I feel a few interruptions even with S2R script.

Do you have the same experiences?
if so, How to decrease these interruptions?