For those looking to skin your dialer (TDial 1.1.0, 12-09-07)

[Wizzard]

Thanks Tiermann,

I'll try it again tonight.

[Wizzard]

Tiermann,

Great Program!!

What is the size of the carrierlogo.gif, height-length? My old one seems to be just a touch too big.

Never mind, I found that 100 by 18 pixels works pretty well.

Thanks

[chopcbr1332]

Originally Posted by tiermann

Yeah, that'll work. I just used a 5x5 transparent gif as a replacement so it would hide the text or other logo. But to replace with your own you can either replace it in your skin when you move it over to the phone or replace it by putting it in the Patches folder of your kitchen. All the skin images can even go in Patches too if you want to build it into the ROM.

Resco and Total Commander should let you overwrite ROM files with a warning. The stock file explorer or activesync usually won't. You can overwrite the files, you just can't delete or move them. Another problem that'll be fixed once I have it save to cab because i'll be able to add reg entries so that it uses a different location for the files making it easily install/uninstallable or the OEM will just overwrite them during the build.

Hey Tier, I saved the skin. but Id rather have a Cab install. I tried doing the copy and replace image files in my /windows and it just all went white.
I had to reinstall another dialer skin for my phone to have buttons again.
Can you help me out with this?

[tiermann]

Cabs usually don't properly replace the ROM files. In order for a cab to work you'll have to have it install them to someplace like \Program Files\My Skin and then also add the registry entries to point the dialer to the new images.

You can get a list of what needs to be changed by exporting [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Phone\Skin]. Any image paths are what you're looking for.

Eventaully, I'll have it make the correct cab for you, but for now that's the long way.

[chopcbr1332]

Originally Posted by tiermann

Cabs usually don't properly replace the ROM files. In order for a cab to work you'll have to have it install them to someplace like \Program Files\My Skin and then also add the registry entries to point the dialer to the new images.

You can get a list of what needs to be changed by exporting [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Phone\Skin]. Any image paths are what you're looking for.

Eventaully, I'll have it make the correct cab for you, but for now that's the long way.

Hm.. I kind of confused me.
Mega, Made me a Dialer cab.
But I just wanted to have another.
If you can paste the link to a .."idiot proof" instructional that would be great. and I used the program you have to make the skin.

[ajgalbraith98]

I love this program so much. I have a hot picture of my wife (QUIET all you youngin's drooling over models you will never touch...hehehe) Unfortunately the picture I am enjoying has a lot of white in the upper right where the digits appear as you dial. Is there a registry setting to change the color of those digits (for my background a dark color would be preferable, but currently they are white)
--ajgalbraith98

[tiermann]

If it's blueFrog or the Touch dialer from the WM6 kitchen, you could try...

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Phone\Skin\DIALER\PORTRAIT\Text]
"TextColor"=dword:00ffffff

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Phone\Skin\DIALER\LANDSCAPE\Text]
"TextColor"=dword:00ffffff

That's the default white, and all 0's should get you black. Should only affect the dialer screen and not the progress screen. Let me know if it works.

[ajgalbraith98]

That is the right area, and they obey basic HTML coloring (RRBBGG in Hex) for kicks i set it to a purple. It worked fine. Thanks for the location.
as a side note the color does affect the Dynamic text from the dialer..ie. the Last Call.

Also I verified that if you wanted to you can create the registry keys for the Progress and it will obey the TextColor also, but you must create the "Text" key, and the TextColor Value

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Phone\Skin\PROGRESS\PORTRAIT\Text]
"TextColor"=dword:00ffffff
 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Phone\Skin\PROGRESS\LANDSCAPE\Text]
"TextColor"=dword:00ffffff

--ajgalbraith98

[OMJ]

Hey Tiermann,

tried your program again...very nice. gotta few questions though.

1. Which dialer would you recommend? Touch or BlueFrog?
2. I just cooked a ROM w/ Vogue but it appears to still have those issues u mentioned above.....no resolution yet? ....I don't care for this Vogue (the issues)
3. The skin I made for my wife is not working correctly, the digits & their background are grey/black, I verified that Dialer_BkgdP.png & Dialer_BkgdL.png are correct. I attached them straight from the /windows dir. Everything else appears to be ok.

Thx

[tiermann]

It looks like you have the wrong dialer chosen in Options->Dialer.
The first picture looks like you have the Vogue dialer on the phone and you're using a new Touch/BlueFrog skin.

The recommended dialer for skinning is the latest version of Touch in the WM6 Kitchen since it's basicly BlueFrog with the blue digits already hidden. In TDial Designer you would choose "BlueFrog (or new Touch)" from Options->Dialer. It's the smallest and simplest skin-wise and seems to have the least problems, if any.


A quick explaination of the differences:
BlueFrog has all of the buttons drawn on the background.

New Touch is the BlueFrog dialer with a different skin and a couple of registry tweaks to hide the blue digits. The change was made because the old Touch version had issues like not being able to dial 911 in certain cases. The appearance was kept almost identical, but the skinning method changed.

Vogue was pulled from the sprint touch (codename vogue). And it skins almost identically to the old (pre wm6 kitchen) Touch version which was pulled from the GSM version of the HTC Touch. All buttons are seperate images.


It's a little confusing since they all look the same, but each skins slightly different to get that appearance.