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

[tiermann]

tvith: Check out the stock zip in the first post. It has all files included in the original Touch dialer. You wont be able to edit the text on the call progress buttons yet because its not an image. Those buttons have the text actually drawn on in a system font by the program.

Eventually the designer Im working on will let you change the font colors for those elements drawn on my the program, but in the first release it will only do the button border, digit color, background, and set up the background with a little block (with alpha blending) for your call info box, as well as another box (also alpha selectable) for smartdial version of the call info box.


Oh.. also on your previous post about the pink edges. It looks like a problem with anti-aliasing of the fonts you used. Most paint programs use alpha-blending to fade the edges which makes the last row before the transparent ( 248,0,248 ) color just slightly off. Zooming in and painting over with color 248,0,248 should fix that.

[tvith]

ooo ok, thanks. I'll wait for it. hmm interesting i'll have to go bak to photoshop & c if i can mess with it some more. Usually it works fine as i've tried it on other dialers before but well c

[360discgolf]

Two questions. Do I have to rename my images to match the names I am replacing? Second, is there are certain spot in windows on the Apache I have to copy the file?

I tried to copy the whole file under windows and nothing changed after the soft reset. I tried to copy the file under skins that also did not work.

Please advice.

Thanks!

[tiermann]

No file names have to be changed at all. If you have the Touch dialer installed the files will be overwritten directly in \Windows. After a soft-reset they should show up. If you don't have the Touch dialer then this will not work.

[tiermann]

Ok people. Here is the first beta of TDial Designer.



You get to pick your background images, button bordercolors, digit colors, brightness of the status box and smartdial box for now. More options will come eventually. When you save it will create a subdirectory in the folder you choose named after the "Skin Name" and fill it with all the images you want to put in \Windows on your PPC.

ALSO!... You will notice a folder called "styles". This is for adding new button sets . I will be coming out with more and hopefully others will share as well. I added the option to change styles in the menu for when they come out.

To create a new style you can copy the "BasicDigits" folder as an example. It contains all images needed as well as a "style.txt". style.txt has 3 lines....

Border = "178,178,178"
Digit = "248,252,248"
ProgBorder = "225,225,225"

Those are the colors in the pallete of your button images that will be changed when the user selects a color in TDial Designer. That gives you some options when making your button set.

Ok.. let me know how this works for you

Just unzip to a new folder to install.

PS: Latest version can be found in my sig.

[unitypunk]

Neato App

looks nice, ill probably give it it a shot

[OMJ]

Hey thanks tiermann for the skins, but I'm having a small issue. I copied the files from your 1st post to /windows, and now the font in the comm mgr is messed up. I reverted back to the stock skin, but the font is still screwy.

I'm guessing this is an easy fix, just not sure how to.

thx

[tiermann]

Look in your Windows\Fonts folder. Chances are you added a font somehow and it's now found by the Comm manager. I had the same problem after adding fonts to use for the rlToday plugin.

[CHUFLY29]

Originally Posted by Old_Man_Jenkins

Hey thanks tiermann for the skins, but I'm having a small issue. I copied the files from your 1st post to /windows, and now the font in the comm mgr is messed up. I reverted back to the stock skin, but the font is still screwy.

I'm guessing this is an easy fix, just not sure how to.

thx

This happened to me after I installed Weather Panel. I just did few soft resets and it worked out fine (I also made sure my system font wasn't set to anything funky). I know... sledge hammer, but it worked for me.

[OMJ]

My \windows\fonts folder is empty. I do have WP installed.....where would I change the system font?

thx