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htctoucher
9th May 2008, 09:03 AM
Updated to support contact pictures, and landscape should look OK for the Touch skin

Here are three skins I made for Mortbuttons (which you can find here: http://www.sto-helit.de/index.php?module=download&action=view&entry=127)
Just to briefly explain why you might want to use Mortbuttons:
.....it allows you to have unlimited number of pages that are fully customizable, which means you can organize all of your programs by category etc. to pop up at the press of a button. This is useful for pointui especially since you can only have seven favorites in that app, this allows you to have as many as you want.

The first is HTC Touch, second is Pointui for v1.51a, and the third is in the second post and goes along with my Pidgin Manila theme that will be featured here in a few days.

The first is for the HTC Touch, which supports only portrait as of now. It looks like this:

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/8410/htctouchms3.jpg

INSTRUCTIONS
The HTC Touch skin requires that you place the "htctoucher.mbz" file and the "back.png" image in your Mortbuttons-->skins folder.
....Then you must do the following:

Select "htctoucher" in Mortbuttons Setup-->Display-->Skin dropdown menu
-->Entry Size-->Big
-->Display Style-->User Background-->...-->Portrait ... --> go into your mortbuttons skin folder and select "back.png"
No need to do this for landscape as it is not supported :/

Go back to the main display page

Check both "Hide Title Bar" and "Hide Menu Bar"
Check "Don't insert paging buttons" but uncheck "Don't insert back button to generated submenus"

Go into "Transitions"

For "To left" and "To right" select Cube transition or slide over (whichever you prefer) from drop down.
For "Upwards" and "Downwards" select Slide Over transition.
Zoom in/out select Stretch and Duration 300ms

Go back to the Mortbuttons Setup main page

Go into "Handling" and then Configure Gestures and configure those to your liking



The second is for the new version of Pointui (v1.51a), which can be found here (http://www.clickapps.com/moreinfo.htm?pid=15631)
This is what it looks like (this skin fully supports landscape):
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7034/pointui151acj0.jpg

!!INSTRUCTIONS!!
The Pointui skin requires that you place the "pointui.mbz" file and the "bg.png" and "bgl.png" images in your Mortbuttons-->skins folder.
....Then you must do the following:

Select "Pointui" in Mortbuttons Setup-->Display-->Skin dropdown menu
-->Entry Size-->Big
-->Display Style-->User Background-->...-->Portrait ... --> go into your mortbuttons skin folder and select "bg.png"
Select "bgl.png" for Landscape


Go back to the main display page

Check "Hide Menu Bar" but Uncheck "Hide Title Bar" (to make it look exactly like the screenshot above, in Pointui make sure "Use Home's task bar" is selected in options)
Check "Don't insert paging buttons" but uncheck "Don't insert back button to generated submenus"

Go into "Transitions"

For "To left" and "To right" select Cube transition from drop down.
For "Upwards" and "Downwards" select Slide Over transition.
Zoom in/out select Stretch and Duration 300ms

Go back to the Mortbuttons Setup main page

Go into "Handling" and then Configure Gestures and configure those to your liking

Hope you like these skins!
Enjoy!
htctoucher

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!

htctoucher
9th May 2008, 09:07 AM
Here is the mortbuttons skin to go along with my rltoday, s2u2 and PocketCM theme found on this page (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2325150#post2325150) (I updated this theme to allow top bar on that thread)
looks like this:
....big icon setting: http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/5268/previewpidginmanillamoreg7.jpg ....................small icon setting: http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/8433/smallck6.jpg

supports both landscape and portrait AND small icon setting in options of mortbuttons

you can use the same set up as in the above post for selecting the background, transitions, the skin etc.

Enjoy!
htctoucher

WildSioux
30th May 2008, 12:50 AM
htctoucher, good job on the pointui skin for mortbuttons! I think I may have found a bug with it though. I tried making a contact page with some of my contacts who have pictures. The picture shows up on your skin, but the text does not show up. In the options it shows the contact "last, first" name and "(Call)." That part does not show on your skin. I tried the skins that came with pointui and the text does show up on them. Any idea what is going on?

I am using pointui 1.02b version because the 1.51a version is buggy. Any way you could make a 1.02b black theme for mortbuttons?

Thanks!

htctoucher
1st June 2008, 12:20 PM
htctoucher, good job on the pointui skin for mortbuttons! I think I may have found a bug with it though. I tried making a contact page with some of my contacts who have pictures. The picture shows up on your skin, but the text does not show up. In the options it shows the contact "last, first" name and "(Call)." That part does not show on your skin. I tried the skins that came with pointui and the text does show up on them. Any idea what is going on?

I am using pointui 1.02b version because the 1.51a version is buggy. Any way you could make a 1.02b black theme for mortbuttons?

Thanks!

I actualy had no idea you could use mortbuttons for contacts, so I dont really know how to help you with that one (sorry!)
What do you mean by "I tried the skins that came with pointui and the text does show up on them"? what skins that came with pointui are you referring to?


And yeah sure I will whip that 1.02 black skin up for you some time this week.

thanks for your interest!
htctoucher

WildSioux
4th June 2008, 04:40 PM
I actualy had no idea you could use mortbuttons for contacts, so I dont really know how to help you with that one (sorry!)
What do you mean by "I tried the skins that came with pointui and the text does show up on them"? what skins that came with pointui are you referring to?


And yeah sure I will whip that 1.02 black skin up for you some time this week.

thanks for your interest!
htctoucher

Sorry, I accidentally wrote "pointui." What I meant was, I tried the skins that came with mortbuttons and the text shows up on the button along with the contact picture. Huh, I have no idea why the contact text "last, first name" doesn't show up on your pointui skin and does on the mort skins.

htctoucher
5th June 2008, 03:02 AM
Sorry, I accidentally wrote "pointui." What I meant was, I tried the skins that came with mortbuttons and the text shows up on the button along with the contact picture. Huh, I have no idea why the contact text "last, first name" doesn't show up on your pointui skin and does on the mort skins.

I think I figured it out. The picture is so large that it overlays and hides the text "last, first name."

I should be able to fix that pretty easily.. in fact.. check first post for update because it is fixed now!

within the week I will try to have the black skin done for you.. no later than sunday! (if you still want it?)

thanks
htctoucher