[TUT] Transparent Wallpapers for 3VO ROMS

ookba

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You guys have been asking for it, here it is. Kinda a rough dirty way of doing it but here goes...

This will not be easy to do for newbies or people with no image editing experience. You need some Photoshop or other photo editing understanding and experience to accomplish the desired result. Eventually WM 6.5 Stanard will hopefully start supporting full screen wallpapers and transparent softkeybars or I will write an app the will automatically convert a wallpaper for you but for now...


You will need:

• Your wallpaper that you want to convert (320x240)
• black_softkeybar.png from \Windows on phone running a 3VO ROM (320x26)
• Photoshop or similar photo editing app

The goal here is to cut out the bottom 26 pixels of your wallpaper and paste it to the black_softkeybar.png file. Then crop the wallpaper image to 320x214 top justifying. Your result will be 2 images, wallpaper.png (or .jpg) and black_softkeybar.png (must be .png, same as original filename).

Then, copy black_softkeybar.png back to \Windows on the phone and wallpaper.png to \Application Data\Home. To select it, go to Settings, Home, select wallpaper.png as your wallpaper. In order for the softkeybar image to show up, you have to reboot.

Might take some practice but give it a shot...

Here is another pack I threw together for those who want some more ready made ones.

 

Last edited: Aug 3, 2009

ookba

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Saved for more examples later.

 

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luisfebar

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Thanks ookba

 

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johnnylavah

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cool! i have been using army background - attached if anyone is interested....

 

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rrgongora

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Thanks ookba

Works like a dream....Here's my test wallpaper. Thanks again!

 

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ookba

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rrgongora said:

Works like a dream....Here's my test wallpaper. Thanks again!

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Awesome!!! Keep them up! I'll make a CAB out of all of them when we get a good collection.

 

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• Aug 4, 2009

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Something nice

 

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dermann

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here's mine. i'm an ocean lover.

 

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efeeze

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thx ookba

This is one I did a few days before you had the tutorial ,I just made mine from what was already there in the rom

 

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lovebabyjing

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• Aug 4, 2009

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in my opinion,this will be better

 

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sphinx780

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• Aug 5, 2009

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Awesome Ookba! Thanks for the Tutorial on this one.

Attached a few here for anyone interested depending on your tastes ladies and gentleman.

 

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cire6

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sir, how about the bar on smart toolkit, how can i change it?

 

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cire6

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here is mine!!!

 

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Cyclonezephyrxz7

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cire6 said:

sir, how about the bar on smart toolkit, how can i change it?

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Not too different....

Use your explorer to go into the SmartToolKit folder (Program Files/SmartToolKit) and then into the Skins folder (/Skins). In there you will see either one or many folders (or none if you don't have a separate skin installed). If you dont have a skin installed, google it. they are not hard to find... Once you install a skin, you will notice a file called 320x240.skin or something similar...open it with notepad (on your phone or computer) and look where it says "start bar" (commented out) ... there will either be one or more image files listed there...in either case, delete them and drop the blackbar.png file you made into this folder and in place of those other file(s) name(s) put in that one. Restart STK and you should be fine.

EDIT: If you want a cleaner way of doing this, also notice in that same 320x240 file there one for the start icon (1 for activated, 1 for non-activated)...you should remake those files to match the skin you are using on your homescreen if not, you will have your tranparent skin, and on the Start button area you'll have something totally different...

 

ookba

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Here are a few:

 

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ookba

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Calling all programmers!

Also, I'm not a programmer but if anyone wants to take a shot a writing an app that can take a 320x240 wallpaper and cut it up into the two files to automatically create these themes, by all means!!! Go for it!

The mscr file I wrote in the Transparent Wallpaper pack CAB on the first post of this thread contains the registry settings and file locations for it to work right....

Anyone up for the challenge??

 

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cire6

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i think i made a mistake!?!?
can i have the original black_softkeybar.png file,
i think you know what i did.

 

frauhottelmann

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• Aug 6, 2009

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I think you'll like this one, WM 7 style, though it's not transparent^^

BTW I also have the correct bronzeres.dll if you want the panels to look like WM7!

 

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Ghostwarrior73

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Sports Themes

Would be cool if we started sports theme ones. Like football, basketball, hockey and baseball.

 

ookba

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cire6 said:

i think i made a mistake!?!?
can i have the original black_softkeybar.png file,
i think you know what i did.

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Should be a copy of it in \Program Files\3VO\Transparent Wallpaper. Or just run the Transparent Wallpaper app I wrote in Start Menu\Tools and select Revert to Original.