A lot of possibility !!!
We have to follow these things :
This is the "DIALER" screen
This is the "PROGRESS" screen
blue buttons are "dialbutton"
yellow buttons are "VerbButton"
violet buttons are "erasebutton"
green button is "talkendbutton"
Every button have 3 states :
- normal
- pressed
- disabled
You can see the transparency of buttons ....
the transparent color is : RGB=FF,00,FF (255,0,255)
You have to create buttons and background in bmp 8 bits 256 colors
for example , create a dialpad skin to portrait mode:
1. for dial buttons
* normal state : dial_up_port.bmp
* pressed state : dial_dn_port.bmp
* disabled state : dial_ds_port.bmp
2. for verb buttons
* normal state : verb_up_port.bmp
* pressed state : verb_dn_port.bmp
* disabled state : verb_ds_port.bmp
3. for erase button
* normal state : era_up_port.bmp
* pressed state : era_dn_port.bmp
* disabled state : era_ds_port.bmp
4. for talk/end button
* talk normal state : talk_up_port.bmp
* talk pressed state : talk_dn_port.bmp
* talk disabled state : talk_ds_port.bmp
* end normal state : end_up_port.bmp
* end pressed state : end_dn_port.bmp
* end disabled state : end_ds_port.bmp
5. for background : back_port.bmp
You can choose to make diferent buttonns and background to progress and dialer screen , just name your image according to this . (eg. verb_up_dialerport.bmp , verb_up_progressport.bmp)
you can place these images everywhere you want , just don' forget the path ... (eg. "\Storage Card\PhoneSkin\")
now , we have to hack the registry to make this skin available ....
go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Security/Phone
create a key named "Skin"
in this key , create 2 keys named :
- "DIALER"
- "PROGRESS"
and a dword named "enabled" with value 1
in the DIALER key ; create 2 keys named
- "portrait"
- "landscape"
we have now the registry path :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Security/Phone/Skin/DIALER/portrait/
in this key , create 5 others keys :
- "dialbutton"
- "erasebutton"
- "other"
- "talkendbutton"
- "VerbButton"
i've noticed that a key named "text" can be created but , i've not found the value that we can put in to skin the font or other text ...
ok , good
this is in these 5 keys we can set the skin images
in "other" key :
create a string value "bmpNormal" with the path of the background image
in "dialbutton" key :
create 3 string value :
"bmpNormal" with the path of the dial normal state button image
"bmpPressed" with the path of the dial pressed state button image
"bmpDisabled" with the path of the dial disabled state button image
create a dword "bmpFlags" with value 0
create a dword "bmpTransparency" with value 0x01000000 (hex)
Do the same with "erasebutton" and "VerbButton"
With "talkendbutton" key , do this :
create 6 string value :
"bmpNormalTalk" with the path of the talk normal state button image
"bmpPressedTalk" with the path of the talk pressed state button image
"bmpDisabledTalk" with the path of the talk disabled state button image
"bmpNormalend" with the path of the end normal state button image
"bmpPressedend" with the path of the end pressed state button image
"bmpDisabledend" with the path of the end disabled state button image
create 2 dword "bmpFlagsEnd" and "bmpFlagsTalk" with value 0
create 2 dword "bmpTransparencyEnd" and "bmpTransparencyTalk" with value 0x01000000 (hex)
Now you can do the same things with a "landscape" key and after , you can do the same with the "PROGRESS" key ....
very long !!!!!
To help you and illustrate this skin method , i've make a cab file that create all the registry keys and create a folder named "PhoneSkin" in your storage card with the images to skin the dialpad in portrait mode ....
Download it here
Use at your own risk ....
Tested only on himalaya 1.60c
To install :
put the cab on your device .
make sure you have a sd card inserted
on "choose install location" screen , choose Storage Card
wait the end of installation ....
soft-reset
try to make your own and find the "text" key tricks please !!!
enjoy
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