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

[maattan]

Just tried to run your latest version and get and app error.
The application failed to initialize properly (0x0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application. Is there a runtime or dll that I need?

[Ruinit]

Originally Posted by maattan

Just tried to run your latest version and get and app error.
The application failed to initialize properly (0x0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application. Is there a runtime or dll that I need?

You did unzip all the files to a folder and then run the the app from folder right?

[tiermann]

It requires .Net Framework 2.0 or higher. Other than that, there's no external API calls so it shouldn't require dlls.
The only thing I can think of is a corrupt download. You could try re-downloading.

I just double-checked to make sure it wasn't a bad upload (downloaded the zip from my site, unzipped it, and ran the exe) and ran fine.

[rp3319]

tiermann - very cool. I'll post my end result when I'm done playing with it. I haven't tried moving anything over to the phone yet. thanks!

[maattan]

Reinstalled 2.0 and that fixed it. Great work!

[tiermann]

I'm glad you guys like it and got it working ok.

Things to come...




For right now, you can set your button background color and digit color to the same color and alpha and cut/paste these over the buttons in a paint program, but in the next version I'll have TDial Designer support some fancier button sets like these.

[tiermann]

Gettin closer...



I'll have this ready later tonight or tomorrow. Thats a screenshot of the designer using a "HotDigits" style that will be included.
I've made some changes to the style format, but the old format will still work. The new format will allow you to add comments to your style as well as your name and email. The new format will have less pictures to edit too, so should make things easier for button style developers.

[glitchbit]

I am surprised I am not seeing any glossy buttons...

I guess unless you can assign two different wallpapers it would not work out.

But the program looks to be very useful!

[tiermann]

You "can" assign 2 different wallpapers, but just not with the today settings or "set as wallpaper" commands. They have to be included in a theme (.tsk) file. I'll post my tsk file with this as an example of setting up one a tsk with 2 different wallpapers for portrait/landscape.

Unzip the tsk file from the zip. Rename the tsk to cab and check out the setup.xml. The 2 other files are just renamed gif files.

Result looks like...


You can also set multiple wallpapers with WisbarAdv Desktop.

Glossy/Glass buttons will be the next thing I add once I get the fancy digits taken care of

[tiermann]

Updates: (b1.09)
-Added a help menu. Not much there yet, but lets you see a few things.
-Changed the button style format. Only needs 28 images now. You can also add digits with more than 3 colors :P. You can not change the digit color and digit alpha of styles in the new format (YET) but they do look a lot nicer.
-Added a few variables so people can add comments and info to their button style. Info shows up in the status bar when the style is loaded and is also availabe from Help->About Style. (Check out the styles\HotDigits\style.txt for an example.)
-Added HotDigits style :P
-Fixed a bug where landscape alpha settings weren't loading on next run.


Things to do:
-Add the ability to change the alpha and hue of digits in the new style format.
-Add an optional glossy/glass overlay to buttons, depending on the style and user preferences.

As always. The latest version is availabe at http://www.tiermann.zendurl.com/pc.php .
The link is also in my signature.


PS: An extra note for those looking to make a button style. All the images in the new format are RGB (not indexed) except for the indialer_ps and _ls files. That hasn't changed from the old format.