This is gettin easier now...

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Soon (sometime tomorrow) you'll be able to add gloss to any of the button styles. As you can see in that picture I'm using it with the default BasicDigits style and all colors are still selectable and noticeable.

Updates: (b1.1.0)
-You can now add a glossy overlay to your skin with any button style. Under "Options->Gloss" choose "Basic Gloss". It's set to "None" by default and doesn't save with the rest of your options yet.
-Sped up the initial loading time. Should start up quicker now.
-Fixed a bug where it would try to save your skin again even though a skin with that name already existed.

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As you can see, it even makes the default look nice ;).

You can add your own glosses to the list simply by placing a transparent/lucent PNG in the styles folder. It will show up after a restart of TDialDesigner. It doesn't have to be any particular size because it should scale it. I'm not gauranteeing pretty results, but it'll atleast give it a try for you, hehe.

The "down" command buttons on the progress screens (besides talk and end) will have a solid backcolor when using a gloss, just like they do when setting alpha higher than 0 for them. It's for the same reason too, because the command buttons all share the same image. Not much I can do about that until I figure out some keys in the registry or something to change the dialer to use 5 seperate images.

Nice. I noticed you have v1.1 out with the gloss option.
A small request. Once a background image is selected, there doesn't seem to be a way to get rid of it other than selecting another image. Could you add a "default" or undo option if we don't like the results of the image but don't want to lose the other changes we've made?

I copied all the files over to the windows directory on my pda with the active sync explorer, but it isn't loading after the soft-reset. I looked on my device and the files seem to be correct. After upgrading to WM6, I loaded up the "Sprint" dialer that uses blue fonts for the buttons. Do I need to revert back to Helmi's stock ROM dialer for this to work? Otherwise, it's the same style dialer... thx!!!

Tiermann,

Dude you do some good work.. Loving it simple to use and looking better all the time! Thanks !!

Playing with it now. Maybe a bug or maybe designed that way but you can't open an existing skin I've created and saved? Also if you click gloss first you can't use any other styles. But if you select the style like "hot" and then chose gloss it allows the font to be gloss.

I figured it out... removed the other dialer and my new skin is working after the soft reset! Very cool!!!
btw - copying the files over with active sync worked fine too. no need for resco...

Just an option that will go back to the default background images you mean?
I could do that for next version.

Yes, that's a bug right now, sorry. For some reason it's not refreshing after a style change. Doing anything like changing a color or even checking/unchecking the "hide carrier" will update the preview with the new style though. I'll have to fix that.
Found it and fixed it. Will be in next version.

Screen Needs to refresh when selecting new dialpad fonts. You took a simple idea and made it awesome. Bravo!

Update: (b1.1.1)
-Fixed bug where changing style wouldn't update the preview images.
-Added option under "Options->Background" to revert to the default background for the current style.