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[20080229 rlToday Themes] Weather today theme and more more more

Hi all These are my new themes
you can download rlToday themes from:
http://www.xiaprojects.com/?section=All&project=WinCE tools&action=PPC rlToday Themes
Slide2Unlock2 Animated Gifs:
http://www.xiaprojects.com/?section=All&project=WinCE tools&action=PPC Slide2Unlock2 Themes
Smartphone Themes (Windows Mobile Standard):
http://www.xiaprojects.com/?section=All&project=WinCE tools&action=Smartphones Themes
Added rl_weather2_xia_0.0.2:
- Weather from Yahoo now work 100% times!
- Fetch last News from Ansa.it (you may setup with your favorite news feed)
- You can change background theme from today!!
- PSD sources included
- You can change blends too!
- direct access to the landscape-portrait mode
- added iPhone like backgrounds

RLToday theme for weather only?
Ive been trying for a while but I just dont know how to create rltoday themes, isnt it possible to create a theme only for getting weather info from yahoo? Im trying to make a theme like this one which I already have all icons for small, normal and huge. Thanks

Im trying to "touch up" on my own theme, however i find it taxing to edit it in word on my laptop then transfer it on to my phone then refresh the program.
Is there some way i can edit it on my phone, or edit it on my pc and see the results before i transfer it to my phone?

stefanux
Wow! Thanks

It it possible using MortScript and RLToday to pull the current, hi and low temps for today using this link I found?
http://www.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KFFZ.xml
If so, can someone get me started in the right direction. Show me one, and I can finished the rest. Just don't know where to begin.
Shaggy

chulo_allen said:
Im trying to "touch up" on my own theme, however i find it taxing to edit it in word on my laptop then transfer it on to my phone then refresh the program.
Is there some way i can edit it on my phone, or edit it on my pc and see the results before i transfer it to my phone?
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Yes! Use Total Commander to drill down to the rlToday folder, rename the file from skin.xml to skin.txt then dbl click it to open. Word will edit the file like a normal text file. When done, close it. Word will warn you to save in .doc format, which you DON'T want to do. Click no, and it will save as a txt file. Close Word, then rename the file back to skin.xml . Now go back to your Today screen and have rlToday reload the skin. Voila! Changes visible.

[QVGA Only] TheChampJT's iContact v0.76 Vistas Skin

Here is my first skin for iContact, currently in v0.76 by supbro. As you see below, it has the icons, and different font color to match. I used an all black background for the main list and the grid.
To use the theme, simply unzip the three files, which are the skin graphics, settings file, and the skin settings file. Move them to "\Program Files\iContact", or wherever yours is installed. The only file this will change is your settings file. I have it set to this theme (so the original will not be overwritten), exit on action, exit on tap (instead of minimize), and the "speed" option is on.
Enjoy!

thank you very much, cute skin , great work

Thanks! For some reason I decided to give my Touch the Vista overhaul, even though Vista is the worst thing I've ever used! I've created a matching skin set to match this, it's mainly based off of the WAD2 theme. But not sure if it should be posted, since M$ had the WAD2 theme removed.

TheChampJT said:
Here is my first skin for iContact, currently in v0.75. As you see below, it has the icons, and different font color to match. I used an all black background for the main list and the grid.
To use the theme, simply unzip the three files, which are the skin graphics, settings file, and the skin settings file. Move them to "\Program Files\iContact", or wherever yours is installed. The only file this will change is your settings file. I have it set to this theme (so the original will not be overwritten), exit on action, exit on tap (instead of minimize), and the "speed" option is on.
Enjoy!
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any good chance to have a vga version?

I dig. Downloading now.

really nice skins....

spupuz said:
any good chance to have a vga version?
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I'll give it a try, I've honestly never looked at VGA graphics. Give me a day or so.

TheChampJT said:
I'll give it a try, I've honestly never looked at VGA graphics. Give me a day or so.
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wonderful

Isn't the lower left icon the one for WGA? I've seen THAT one before ¬_¬

TGHI said:
Isn't the lower left icon the one for WGA? I've seen THAT one before ¬_¬
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Nope just a Vista icon, I believe it's the "Genuine Advantage" icon.

All QVGA skins are compatible with VGA too.

[Q] Transperent lockscreen

I have a tranperent image which I would like to keep as my background for my lockscreen. By default colour of the lockscreen is black. Is there a way to make it transperent or at least change the background colour of the lockscreen?

Ask in the correct section! We have a Topaz Q&A Forum for a reason!
Moved your thread to Topaz Q & A.

pchandrama said:
I have a tranperent image which I would like to keep as my background for my lockscreen. By default colour of the lockscreen is black. Is there a way to make it transperent or at least change the background colour of the lockscreen?
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It depends on what ROM you're on. Newer ROMs have Lockscreen Wallpaper selection under Settings Tab\Personalize.

Bruce Inman said:
It depends on what ROM you're on. Newer ROMs have Lockscreen Wallpaper selection under Settings Tab\Personalize.
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I do have that option but it only allow's me to set the image as a wallpaper. But the image that i have is transperent and if i set this image as my wallpaper in the lockscreen, it takes the background colour of the lockscreen which is black. I want to change this colour or rather make it transperent so that my background becomes my today screen.

Anybody with a solution?

I think you would have to develop your own lockscreen.
You could take an existing one and decompile it and see if you can tweak the files.

Bruce Inman said:
I think you would have to develop your own lockscreen.
You could take an existing one and decompile it and see if you can tweak the files.
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Thanks for the reply. But where can i get the existing files (path) and how do i decompile it?

pchandrama said:
Thanks for the reply. But where can i get the existing files (path) and how do i decompile it?
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Basically, you take a lockscreen cab file (search for "Dusk" or "Hashuan" Lockscreen or just lockscreen for your WM version), open the cab using cab programs such as WinCE Cab manager and extract the files. Once you have extracted the files you can browse for the png, bmp or jpgs that tweak them to whatever you want. One issue you may find is that (AFAIK) only jpgs will support transparency so if you find that the background image is in another format, it won't work.
Its a good idea to install the lockscreen first so you know what's what in the image files and also retain the original file names and structure to ensure continuity.
....or, you can just ask a developer (prob w/ a small donation) to make one for you if it's even possible...

Question about applying custom wallpapers.

everytime i choose a picture for a wall paper i cant get it to proper proportion for the screen seems resize is very limited and help would be appreciated.

tat2messiah said:
everytime i choose a picture for a wall paper i cant get it to proper proportion for the screen seems resize is very limited and help would be appreciated.
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2 things:
Make sure all of your wallpapers are 960x800.
I'd recommend using either Flikie HD, or Zedge. Personally I use Flikie, and when I find a new wallpaper, I put it in the Flikie/wallpaper folder, and load it like normal; selecting Flikie, navigate to your flikie wallpaper folder and it'll set the wallpaper proportional to the screen
Both Flikie and Zedge have a great selection of wallpapers too

Flikie is not bad! I'm crazy about it recently!

I'm not sure if this is what you are talking about but..
1. First make sure the resolution is correct
2. If you tap on the orange border arrows should come up and then you can use them to resize. I couldn't figure it out for the longest time.

Orange square is for resizing when choosing wallpapers. Drag the corner of it to make it as big as possible

[Lockscreen] Touhou - Utsuho Reiuji

Well I made a lockscreen with my favorite Touhou character <3
The artwork is made by walfas himself~
That's how it looks.
I hope you like it~
PS: It's a transparent PNG so you have to send it via Mail to your phone or use the Windows Phone Device Manager.
Edit: Made a new one. I will update this thread with new lockscreens
I like the fact, that the transparent stuff is black at first. So I made this cute one with little Okuu and Orin~
Edit2: I just noticed, that my PNGs get converted into JPG when I upload them here D: I added links to them. You can treat the attachments as thumbnails
Fly-Satori-Fly~
Komeji-family
Okuu-Lockscreen
OkNuclearLockscreen
EDIT:
Since transparent PNGs aren't working in Mango anymore I'll post my current Utsuho Lockscreen ;P

xshunin said:
Well I made a lockscreen with my favorite Touhou character <3
The artwork is made by walfas himself~
That's how it looks.
I hope you like it~
PS: It's a transparent PNG so you have to send it via Mail to your phone or use the Windows Phone Device Manager.
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Now thats Cool.... Any More?

where is the file

m_mansour2 said:
where is the file
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it's a transparent png.... attached in the first post save the file, send it to phone and use it wallpaper in lockscreen....

m_mansour2 said:
where is the file
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here is another full transparent png....
save the image to phone and use it as lockscreen wallpaper....

Musashi Lock Screen
So i am a bit of a Japanese culture fan and love my Samurai so i made this one based on an illistration of him. I cannot attach it though, how did you get the jpg uploaded and avoid the file type check?
(for now i have zipped it up, just save, unzip and email it to your phone)
The attached png is for preview only, hope you like

For some reason I can't get the lockscreens to work, I did everything as it said, did I miss anything or am I supposed to do something else to the phone before I set the lockscreens? If I could get some help I would really appreciated. Thanks in advance.

PrometheusUnbound said:
For some reason I can't get the lockscreens to work, I did everything as it said, did I miss anything or am I supposed to do something else to the phone before I set the lockscreens? If I could get some help I would really appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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you have to either email the png( image) or copy to device through windows device manager.... and set it as lockscreen... and it is black but when you touch the screen you can see through it....

THANKS!!!
Thanks. I'll go back step by step, see if I did anything wrong if not, I'll have to do it through WDM. Also can regular pics be turn into see through lockscreens? I got a couple that I would like to see as transparent in my lockscreen. Thanks again

In PhotoShop anything is possible lol if you post them to a pm I'll have a go at tweaking it.
Sent from my HD7 T9292 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App

Bingo!!
I just figured out why the screens didn't want to work. Apparently taking my pasword lock off was the solution. If I put the password lock back on it doesn go transparent. I guess that's the price you pay for having a great looking screen

Excuse my ignorance, but how do you go around saving this thing anyway? It only allows me to save in .jpg format when i open in my browser i.e. chrome, IE mailing the jpg to my phone doesn't seems to have the transparent effect

/b/-TarD said:
Excuse my ignorance, but how do you go around saving this thing anyway? It only allows me to save in .jpg format when i open in my browser i.e. chrome, IE mailing the jpg to my phone doesn't seems to have the transparent effect
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Save the jpeg on your desktop. Now right click on it, and open with paint (The windows paint program.) Once its open, click the file/save as, and change from jpeg to png. Now email it to your self. Open the attachment on your phone, and save as wallpaper.
Job done.
FPM

FlowerPotmen said:
Save the jpeg on your desktop. Now right click on it, and open with paint (The windows paint program.) Once its open, click the file/save as, and change from jpeg to png. Now email it to your self. Open the attachment on your phone, and save as wallpaper.
Job done.
FPM
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Done that, but still it doesn't gives the transparency effect =S, it just came up with white b/g. I use win 7 default paint program to convert

Windows Paint doesn't support the 6bit transparency of a 32bit png. You have to use either Photoshop, GIMP, paint.NET, etc. When you save it it has to be a 32bit PNG. Also you have to send it via mail or use the WP Device Manager. ZUNE doesn't support PNGs. The transparent stuff is black unless you touch the lockscreen.

RE: Help
Hello Everyone,
I am using paint.net software and I can't seem to get it right. Please teach me on how to do this!!!

Don't bother with it when you plan to update to Mango since it doesn't support translarent PNGs anymore. I'll post my current Lockscreen in my first post instead

RE: Transparent Lock Wallpapers
Hello Everyone...I can confirm that transparent Lock Wallpapers still work for Mango...I used paint.net to edit the wallpaper and emailed it to myself and the transparent wallpaper works...Oh and I can also confirm that using a password works with transparent wallpaper as well...