[request]more ANIMATED Weather Icons in manilla2d ??

[w04g005]

Hey guys,
is it possible to create some animated weather icons for our manilla 2d? maybe like rumball did for weatherpanel!
I looked into the files and i found out that the one and only animated weather is the rain!
There are about 30 *.brn files. It is possible to convert these files into bmp-files.
I found a tool in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=325424

Who knows how to edit the manilla 2d?


greetings

[w04g005]

anybody who wants the same or can help me?

[wyzepro]

i put a request in directly to Rumball...let's see if he answers

[TheChampJT]

Rumball already made a complete animated set, how many more do you need?

The set he already made takes up a good bit of memory as is, and you can only have so many icons.

[Rumball]

As I indicated at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2720685&postcount=22, I'm willing to support this by generating BRN files of my animations...but there are a couple of things that need to happen first:

1) M2D uses BRN files to render its animations. My understanding is one BRN file per frame of the animation. Someone would have to figure out how to modify Manilla-2D so as to get it to look for BRN-image frames (and therefore display animations) for all the weather conditions (currently it only does this for rain).

2) my WeatherPanel animations are about 40Megs in size and consist of about 1000frames of animation. So that would translate into 1000 BRN files that you'd need to have in order to replacate my weatherpanel animations in M2D. As TheChampJT above suggests, these BRN files will take up a LOT of space and therefore would obviously need to go on a storage card. Therefore M2D would also have to be modified to look for its BRN files on the storage card rather than in the Windows directory.

3) Someone needs to throw together a program that can batch convert image files into BRN files...there is NO way I'm manually generating over 1000 BRN files! ;)

If someone can figure out how to do 1, 2 and 3 with M2D then I can look into outputting my animations into BRN frames.

[laakness]

Edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=346910

That is an awesome program, converts brn to bmp and bmp to brn...all drag and drop...and I just confirmed it allows you to drop multiple files onto it :)

My other suggestion is this. Convert the animations to BRN and package them all into a zip with seperate folders for each 'weather type'. Users could then choose which animations they want on their phone...like I had mentioned in my pm...I probably only see about 3-5 different weather types in my area "most" of the time. I can't imagine it's that different for everyone else.

[laakness]

So I was going to try and make a single animation...just to see if I could do it.

Before I ask I am running the ROM in my sig which is using Manilla 2D built in. It does include one animated weather set for "Rain" and it does work.

Here is my question. How does Manilla/Weather tab know which files to access for various weather conditions. I didn't see it in the registry so it must be a file somewhere? I'll do some looking around.

The animation for the weather icons is named HH_rainbrush_00 through 22. The non animated weather is just HH_weather_01 through 44

[w04g005]

So I was going to try and make a single animation...just to see if I could do it.

Before I ask I am running the ROM in my sig which is using Manilla 2D built in. It does include one animated weather set for "Rain" and it does work.

Here is my question. How does Manilla/Weather tab know which files to access for various weather conditions. I didn't see it in the registry so it must be a file somewhere? I'll do some looking around.

The animation for the weather icons is named HH_rainbrush_00 through 22. The non animated weather is just HH_weather_01 through 44
Maybe it's the exe file which controls the weather icons. I've searched for in the htchomesettings.xml and ther is nothing to find.

[laakness]

Maybe it's the exe file which controls the weather icons. I've searched for in the htchomesettings.xml and ther is nothing to find.

You're probably right, I'm just curious if there is any way to find out what those names may be if I were to creat an animation for partly cloudy or something.

[laakness]

EDIT: I guess I didn't read Rumball's first condition above correctly :-D

So I threw Manila2d.exe into IDA disassembler (which I am NO expert at using). But, from what I can gather, the rain animation and other file names are hard coded into the exe themselves.

I see some specific references to LoadRainBrushIcon and the rainbrush brn animation as well as the static HH_WEATHER_%02d.png numbered files.

Looks like to get all the weather animated some one would have to rewrite Manila2d.exe :-/

[Rumball]

EDIT: I guess I didn't read Rumball's first condition above correctly :-D

So I threw Manila2d.exe into IDA disassembler (which I am NO expert at using). But, from what I can gather, the rain animation and other file names are hard coded into the exe themselves.

I see some specific references to LoadRainBrushIcon and the rainbrush brn animation as well as the static HH_WEATHER_%02d.png numbered files.

Looks like to get all the weather animated some one would have to rewrite Manila2d.exe :-/


Ya...I was kind of suspecting that. :/ Sorry guys!

[laakness]

Ya...I was kind of suspecting that. :/ Sorry guys!

I wish throttlelauncher was just as fast as Manilla as an interface...I'd then really consider buying the marsware weather program and donating for your weather icons :-/

[jerkules]

I wish throttlelauncher was just as fast as Manilla as an interface...I'd then really consider buying the marsware weather program and donating for your weather icons :-/

WeatherPanel is a free application. Visit here for more information: http://pixel.citadel.org/weatherpanel/index.php?sid=e9ef0641461818584d9584d6e600173b

[breakz]

I wish throttlelauncher was just as fast as Manilla as an interface...I'd then really consider buying the marsware weather program and donating for your weather icons :-/

if were wishing why not just wish manilla supported plugins for the weather :D