I was wondering if anyone here could help me? I would like to make a 1x2 photo frame widget. MIUI already has 3 sizes...2x2, 2x4, and 4x4. I've found the zip for the 2x2 in system, and figured I could make a copy of it and go from there. However, I don't have a clue on how to do this. I have WINRar, and know how to extract the files. I'm very new to theming, but have managed to make my hotseat transparent. So I can follow directions capably. I would like to keep the color and style of the frame that I'm currently using. Is there anyone out there willing to help me? Please? Thank you. (See screenie)
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lncoln said:
I was wondering if anyone here could help me? I would like to make a 1x2 photo frame widget. MIUI already has 3 sizes...2x2, 2x4, and 4x4. I've found the zip for the 2x2 in system, and figured I could make a copy of it and go from there. However, I don't have a clue on how to do this. I have WINRar, and know how to extract the files. I'm very new to theming, but have managed to make my hotseat transparent. So I can follow directions capably. I would like to keep the color and style of the frame that I'm currently using. Is there anyone out there willing to help me? Please? Thank you. (See screenie)
Why'd you poor ketchup on my head?
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i love this photo frame widget too.. did you manage to create this kind of widget now?
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I dont have photoshop, but i need to have a see through or opaque picture to use as my lockscreen background. can anyone help me, or even make a quick one? with a grey background if its opaque.
BUMP! come on people someone must have photoshop, this would only take 5 minutes.
doesn't the one from the other thread work?....
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=idhtmtuqyrm
..... Then have a play with DroidExplorer?... apparently it can do the ADB stuff for you......
EDIT..... Droid Explorer - 0.8.6.0 [06/19/2010] - Conan O'Brian Edition
Why someone with photoshop. It's just as doable with Gimp, a totally free image editor.
i dont have an image editor, slash i didnt know that. And its not the actual lock screen or anything i need.
i downloaded lockbot and you can use your own image as the background, so if i got a transparent one then i would have a transparent lockscreen..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=707599
i modified the file from Cronos 1.7.1 so i'm not sure it will work for villainrom...
if you do want to try it ... do a nandroid or bart backup before you PUSH the file onto /system/framework folder
i think i tried that one before, but i'm not sure, i'll give it a shot.
it says verification failed?
If your looking to set an image as a lockscreen background its not as easy as having a transparent image. Android does not treat it as if it is transparent.
Hoping someone can work out a fix soon though.
oh i see. well thats helpful thanks. Also when trying to flash all these zips that people are putting together for me, when i try to flash them i get an error "verification failed"!!
archie winnington-ingram said:
I dont have photoshop, but i need to have a see through or opaque picture to use as my lockscreen background. can anyone help me, or even make a quick one? with a grey background if its opaque.
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use GIMP instead.
Lennyuk said:
If your looking to set an image as a lockscreen background its not as easy as having a transparent image. Android does not treat it as if it is transparent.
Hoping someone can work out a fix soon though.
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There was a Vanilla ROM with transparent locksscreen. I think it even was SuperHero and I remember it coz people did not like transparent lockscreens. It made screen look messy. Also some other vanilla ROMs have semi transparent lockscreens - it shows only wallppaper, not all icons and widgets - which I found very cool, especially if you like live wallpapers. I want to make it work on sense ROMs, don't know how so
for future reference:
fotoflexer.com
free online image editing.
Have you got a rooted phone?
I have a 9.png image uploaded I just need someone to help change it to be transparent, then make sure the 9.png works.
Ive tried about 100 times to get it to work in Draw9 and it always ends up force closing when i use the widget on my phone. Also im unable to post links for some reason but I can pm it to you if your willing to help me.
Any help would be appreciated
Which image is it? The 1x4 and 2x4 widgets can have transparent backgrounds
its the 1x4 without cover art i want to be transparent
EDIT: I'm a moron I never even saw that option haha thank you so much.
So it was quite easy to chance the LauncherPro widgets, just drop a few files into a folder and re-sign. Can this be done with other apps?
Generally everything's looking good, but the BeyondPod widget is so old looking, can I make the background look like that of the YouTube or Google Search widgets?
If I could make the Fancy Widget Weather background lighter, that would be cool too...
(I've used a lighter wallpaper than usual, so you can see what I mean )
Thanks.
**EDIT** Okay, so I simply dropped in the appwidget_bg.9.png and it's kinda worked -
How can I now control the size of the background of the widget?
The best way to theme the widgets (if there is no source for app, like for many/most market apps) is to use apktool to decompile the .apk, this will give you the .9.png files with the guide lines on them, then you can open the .png from the .apk you just decompiled (the best way to keep the widget the same boundaries as the original is just to recreate the image on a layer above the existing layer, with the guide lines and widget background, to be the same width and length as the stock widget background). You can either use apktool to recompile the .apk which will or create the .9.pngs for you, or you can compile them in eclipse.
Use this png instead of the other one on my thread. I need to update it. This will size nicely on your Music widget and also Fancy Widget.
How would I go about making the launcher pro widgets transparent?
sonnysekhon said:
Use this png instead of the other one on my thread. I need to update it. This will size nicely on your Music widget and also Fancy Widget.
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Not quite what I was after, lol
Going to edit that one myself, see how I get on
**EDIT** Okay, so I've made the background a little smaller (and without the white background) but the buttons still stick to the very edges.
AndyCr15 said:
Not quite what I was after, lol
Going to edit that one myself, see how I get on
**EDIT** Okay, so I've made the background a little smaller (and without the white background) but the buttons still stick to the very edges.
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Click on the attached image first and then save it. Right clicking and saving results in a loss of transparency, hence a broken .9 patch.
dinan said:
How would I go about making the launcher pro widgets transparent?
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In my signature go to the Nexus S link, bottom of the 2nd post.
Thanks. I followed the guide and I have the header and footers transparent (I edited your pngs so that it was 0% opaque so perfectly transparent since that's what I want) but the background for the calendar widget still has a grey shade... dunno which png to change to get it perfectly clear. Any suggestions?
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In my signature go to the Nexus S link, bottom of the 2nd post.
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dinan said:
Thanks. I followed the guide and I have the header and footers transparent (I edited your pngs so that it was 0% opaque so perfectly transparent since that's what I want) but the background for the calendar widget still has a grey shade... dunno which png to change to get it perfectly clear. Any suggestions?
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You can get it from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=783427
How would one go about editing a Beautiful Widget theme?
In the picture below you can see that the "pm" and weather are white and I want to make them both cyan to match everything else. (Also, I realized upon seeing the shot blown up that the color of the weather/date text didn't match so I fixed that).
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How would one go about editing a Beautiful Widget theme?
In the picture below you can see that the "pm" and weather are white and I want to make them both cyan to match everything else. (Also, I realized upon seeing the shot blown up that the color of the weather/date text didn't match so I fixed that).
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Get the clock skin and the weather skin from your sdcard from data/beautifulwidgets. Edit them in Photoshop or GIMP and put them back.
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Get the clock skin and the weather skin from your sdcard from data/beautifulwidgets. Edit them in Photoshop or GIMP and put them back.
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Thanks Sonny! I am going to try (emphasis on try) to make a complete skin for BW to go with your SubCyan theme with just a simple clock and weather both cyan but if I fail (which seems to be what I'm doing) I'll probably do just that.
I'm not too familiar with gimp but all I'm trying to do is put the icons I want on my wallpaper but I can't seem to get them centered and they always seem too big. I'm trying to get them like this: http://mmtnns.deviantart.com/#/d3jdad2
any help at all would be appreciated, thank you!
you may have to use a 480x800 wallpaper and turn off scrolling to get it to work. if you want post what you have and I'll take a stab at it.
bilbobrian said:
you may have to use a 480x800 wallpaper and turn off scrolling to get it to work. if you want post what you have and I'll take a stab at it.
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What size do the icons need to be when I put them on the wallpaper using gimp? And how do I center them
If I were to do it I would take that screenshot that you linked to, and use the measuring tool in gimp to find what size was used. Just make sure the screenshot is actually the right size. Pm me if you'd like.
Hey all. I've been trying to upsample these 64x64 zoom buttons from a 2.2 ROM I used way back when and I lose transparency when I try to upsample them. 64x64 is just too small for the Nexus 4, and when I upsample through Irfanview, I either get buttons that are too transparent or not transparent enough.
Can anyone upsample them to 128x128? I posted this in the Nexus 4 subforum and no one has replied
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Hey guys. I've used Irfanview to resize the attached PNGs (they are zoom buttons, to be placed in framework-res.apk) but I haven't been able to resize them without messing up the transparency. Technically, I'm upsampling them, which seems to be ok. My only problem is that I don't know how to change the settings such that I can keep the transparency base, but have the "-" and "+" opaque. It ends up being completely transparent and impossible to see on a bright background.
Could anyone upsample them for me? They are 64x64 and it'd be nice to have 128x128. Also, could you provide me some details on what settings you used to save them?
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The png images are attached to the above post. Just go to that thread and you'll see them on the OP.
Well, Irfanview is a bit foreign to me, but I used pixlr and it was a very simple conversion. I attached the pngs if anyone wants to use them in their own ROMs.