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Efbiaye's VGA Diamond Theme 1.0.2 (February, 2nd) - SPB MS 2.1 (not upscaled!)

Hello ev1,
Since I was not satisfied with any existing VGA themes (most of which were upscaled from QVGA) I decided to do my own Diamond theme.
I tried to be pretty accurate while doing this theme, all icons, backgrounds etc. were prepared from the scratch by me, basing on numerous screenshots from Diamond TF3D.
I tested it over a week before releasing it to the public now. However, since I'm pretty busy with my day-to-day life, I don't plan to make any major changes to this theme, unless you discover some bugs.
Over 5000 downloads later, finally long awaited update! Comments for 1.0.2 version begin here.
Changelog:
v1.0.2 (February, 2nd 2009):
- additional (optional) layout configuration:
Layout C1 (based on Greatball's Diamond 1.2 layout C) - one contact page (for three contact pages use Layout C3)
- additional Porgrams buttons - GAMES and ACTIVE TASKS (necessery reg files included, all layouts are updated for this feature)
v1.0.1 (July, 31st 2008):
- additional (optional) layout configuration:
Layout B (based on Greatball's Diamond 1.2 layout B) - includes: Most Recent Used (MRU) tab - gesture switchable with Programmes tab; 3 contact pages;
Layout C3 (based on Greatball's Diamond 1.2 layout C3 Contact Pages) - similar to above but has no MRU page.
v1.0.0 (July, 28th 2008):
- full portrait and landscape support,
- every graphic (except for big weather icons) prepared from scratch for native VGA resolution.
Additional credits:
- layout based on Greatball's Diamond 1.2 Layout B and C3 (3 contacts pages) theme,
- QVGA to VGA theme conversion method by Mtkates,
- big weather icons were fractally upscaled from Greatball's new weather icon set used in 1.1 version of his theme,
- HTC for creating TF3D GUI.
Installation notes:
- backup your device/SPB MS dir,
- select desired layout,
- replace all files in your SPB MS dir with the files from my theme archive,
- if you wish to have GAMES and ACTIVE TASKS buttons in Programs tab, edit, according to the included instructions, and import necessery reg files on your mobile device (reg files are included in the package),
- restart your device,
- enjoy the theme.
Additional notes:
- the "Bigger photos in contact page by markfdr" mod will probably not work with C1 layout, as I used my original files,
- please note, that I have not tested the theme with latest SPB MS 2.1.4 build, so it may not work 100% correctly with it,
- I have noticed one or two people in some other boards crediting them selves for my theme... I MEAN COME ON, YOU DON'T NEED TO PAY A FRACKING CENT FOR IT AND YET YOU CLAIM IT'S YOURS!?
- If anyone wants to post it somewhere else, please include original link to this post, the same goes for other elements from this theme,
- as soon as clean my source .PSD files, I will release a pack of those, for people who would like to use the elements for other themes.
Todo:
- different background alternatives,
- weather icons prepared from original diamond weather graphic elements (VGA)
If someone can help me with the two above, it would be nice
Screenshots:
(please note the screenshot is not 16bit, so it looks worse than actual graphics)
1.0.2
Download links:
Theme v1.0.2
efbiayes_spb_ms_vga_diamond_theme_v1.0.2.zip
Enjoy!

Mods:
Bigger photos in contact page by markfdr
markfdr was so kind and prepared a mod of the contact page which enlarges the thumbnails of your favourite contacts. Perfect for people with smaller VGA screens.
Screenshot:
Installation notes:
1. download the qa_layouts.dat from :
http://rapidshare.com/files/134020648/qa_layouts.dat
2. copy the file to Spb Mobile Shell directory
3. softreset

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I´m download now for test.
Thanx!

Wow, excellent job, works great.
Thanks very much for all your hard work
Rory

Very nice Great work.

Very nice, and I did not find any fault.
I have just changed this: va_weather_big and va_weather_lock.
I leave here files, if you want to test.
screenshot:
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fbifbi, Congrats with this TRUE VGA (?yes?)
You might make a link on the Diamond general thread as some people would certainlu like to switch (back) to SPB with a nice GUI as you made.
Looking forward for more releases. sorry - barely no time - so can't help..

Greaaaaaaaaaaat..this is what I want a real graphic..thanks for your work

wow , good work , keep them coming ..
HATS OFF

Wow Great work! Thank you!
Just one tought folks: I thing it is better to change the weather shortcut to Marsware Weather Pannel and not use the SPB one. What is your opinion?

fbifbi said:
Hello ev1
Since I was not satisfied with any existing VGA themes (most of which were upscaled from QVGA) I decided to do my own Diamond theme.
I tried to be pretty accurate while doing this theme, all icons, backgrounds etc. were prepared from the scratch by me, basing on numerous screenshots from Diamond TF3D.
I tested it over a week before releasing it to the public now. However, since I'm pretty busy with my day-to-day life, I don't plan to make any major changes to this theme, unless you discover some bugs.
Features v1.00:
- full portrait and landscape support,
- every graphic (except for big weather icons) prepared from scratch for native VGA resolution.
Additional credits:
- layout based on Greatball's Diamond 1.2 Layout C theme,
- QVGA to VGA theme conversion method by Mtkates,
- big weather icons were fractally upscaled from Greatball's new weather icon set used in 1.1 version of his theme.
Installation notes:
- backup your device/SPB MS dir,
- replace all files in your SPB MS dir with the files from my theme archive.
Todo:
- different background alternatives,
- weather icons prepared from original diamond weather graphic elements (VGA)
If someone can help me with the two above, it would be nice
Screenshots:
(please note the screenshot is not 16bit, so it looks worse than actual graphics)
Download links:
Theme v1.0
http://rapidshare.com/files/132919138/efbiaye_diamond_theme_v1.00.zip.html
Enjoy!
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Very nice
Very nice
But Can you convert win7 theme for vga ? Please

Thank you!

YES! Finally some more VGA goodness! Thanks

KALI2000 said:
Very nice, and I did not find any fault.
I have just changed this: va_weather_big and va_weather_lock.
I leave here files, if you want to test.
screenshot:
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KALI2000, you would need to edit your weather.xml file in order to center the big weather image, as you see currently it's more to the right, since my layout file is suited for the images 300px wide. I will find the exact place and will let you know where to edit.
EDIT:
Check the qa_layouts.dat file for MainWeather.xml, you need to find and edit two lines 115 and 172 (portrait mode / horizontal mode):
<LeftTop X="45" Y="80"/>
X marks the spot ;} err I mean is the space ammount in pixels measured from left margin
OK, short explanation where does the 45 come from.
My weather picture is 300px wide. Screen is 480px wide.
480px - 300px = 180px
180 / 2 (left and right margin) = 90px
However since this is a QVGA conversion of a theme, SPB doubles all the dimensions automatically, hence in order to achieve 90px margin in VGA you need to put half of the value - in my case 45px. Hope it's clear
At one moment I tried to convert BeyondInvisible's Diamond Enchanced icon set.
The icons are 240px wide (full screen), I have resized it to 480px, packed it in the theme, however, the bitmap was huuuge (if I remember correctly about 8MB), unfortunaltey SBP MS crashed when I tried to display weather page. So be careful guys while trying to convert other weather icon sets. Beside that, the memory consumtion grows rapidly if the images are large.
I checked yesterday, SPB MS uses ca. 11-12MB RAM with my theme - which already may be too much for some older VGA devices... But that's the price one has to pay for a good looking theme

@shoorangiz
Very nice
Very nice
But Can you convert win7 theme for vga ? Please
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Not very likely shoorangiz, it's really long hours of work to prepare a pixel perfect theme...

very good news
Very nice theme ! I love it, thanks for your time.

Finally, a good VGA skin for spb mobile shell. Thank you. It's very very well done. I love it.
Let's hope more layout will follow later.

hei man
u'r so great
thanx for themes
do you have any links?
coz RS so long to download

[3/16/09] [ADD mortbtns/menu enhancement skin].. htctoucher's gloss (so many apps!..)

donate to support me and/or show your appreciation
by clicking this image in my signature, or right here!:
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glad to say..
here is my latest work! (QVGA (primarily)..anyone care to donate a VGA device? )
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NEW as of 3/16/09!
[ADDED] fingerbox and rhodium menu enhancement skins
(attached second post)
(now the default skin for the program!)
[added] support for redial and smartdial
see: (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3291002&postcount=1)
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screens from the skinned apps:
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Some things you may need to know...
.....s2u2 has support for thumbnail and fullscreen dialer.. rename nopic2.png to nopic.png if you use thumbnail)
.....s2p (looks best if you disable fullscreen album art in the registry (HKCU\software\a_c\s2p\fullscreenalbum=0 and set albumlayout to 1)
.....PocketCM Keyboard (v.14 for now)
.....CommManager (choose the cab you want to install - based on the style you like)
.....m2d (*second post*)
.....thumbcal (*second post*)
.....FingerMenu (*attached second post*).. get app here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=459125
.....TaskFacade (*attached second post*).. get app here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=420220&highlight=taskfacade
**For Opera**
....the splash image goes in \windows
....if the splash doesnt override anything.. you may have the wrong name.. simply change the registry key:
HKLM\Software\Opera\Info\Splashscreenportrait...just name it whatever the name of the splash is!
....if ud like to know some more tweaks.. look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=465618&highlight=opera&page=4post#33
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UPDATES..
Added TaskFacade skin
this is now the default skin for taskfacade!
Added FingerMenu skin (see second post for cab!).......install Finger Menu FIRST!
Stop FingerMenu
then install the cab to your device
then run fingermenu and enjoy!
Added CommManager skins.. thanks to adderz91 for pointing me in the right direction!
there are TWO CABS included in the zip (see previews above)
install the comm manager style you want to device!.. soft reset.. and enjoy!
also, if you want to customize what shows up in commmanager, search for schaps advanced config tool!
Thumbcal skin added (requested by souljah777.. golden list member!)
added the fixes provided by golden list member tatnai for the free version
attached on second post
move the zip to your thumbcal folder and select the skin in settings
PocketCM Contacts v4:
Fixed all bugs! - selected items, landscape/portrait character counter.. etc
Fixed back animation (thanks tene!)
htctoucher gloss v4.zip is for pocketcm.. put this in your pocketcm folder and select in options!
Added PocketCM Keyboard skin
Drag all contents of the zip into pcmkeyboard folder, then select the skin/layout in options (hold down return on the keyboard)
There are two files (gloss.skin and gloss smaller.skin... one is 140 pixels tall and one is 123 pixels tall)
Added TouchPal skin
Unzip the "Resources" folder into your touchpal folder on your device, then soft reset
see readmes in zips for (further) instructions!
hope it helps.. let me know if you like or if you have problems
Enjoy!
htctoucher
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my glossy m2d, thumbcal, fingermenu and taskfacade skins are posted here!
donate to support me and/or show your appreciation
by clicking this image in my signature, or right here!:
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this took me a LOT of effort to figure out..
I would really appreciate feedback and/or donation if you like it, use it or enjoy it!
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Screen Shots
**screens from IOLITE v2 shown!**
(home screen features the background and the clock/plugin item backgrounds included in the "glossier home tab bgs.zip" attached):
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things to know... READ! (for v2)
..changes:
.....added support for multiple calendar items (moved clock up, moved date to where the operator text is (when you enable custom name, disable operator name -by m2dc or registry)
.....changed map search graphic (added a little google icon)
.....skinned settings page
.....moved the email values/changed email graphic slightly
.....moved unread icons so they arent covering SMS and MAIL text
.....skinned commmanager (see first post - not included in m2d zip)
(iolite version should work with older m2d versions too.. but i havent tested.. so if you have problems, just use v1 for older versions)
..IF YOU ARE USING GLOSSY BACKGROUND, ALSO USE THE GLOSSY FOCUS.png included in the glossier home tabs zip (copy it to your \windows) this is the background that shows up (or disables the bg from changing) when you hold down too long on sms view etc)
couldnt upload here.. so get IOLITE VERSION 2 here!:
http://www.4shared.com/file/84532593/8534b623/htctoucher_gloss_m2d_v2_iolite.html
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things to know... READ! (v1)
..you do NOT have to have a different background for the home tab.. if you DO want it, it is included in the "glossier home tab bgs.zip" as "hh_fw_backgroundhome.png" (you can move it wherever, or delete the "home" portion and copy it to your windows directory to use it throughout m2d!)
..the page icons (big icons when running your finger across the bottom) are glossy, just like the earth icon and opera icon you see.. all custom by me!
..this can be and should be used with m2dc
..i recommend changing the font sizes of calendar and missed call buttons to about 20 for missed call and 14/16 for calendar in m2dc
..the weather icons are stardock icons (GREAT! icons), I manually switched out HTC's for stardock's (that took a while..)
couldnt upload here.. so get v1 here!:
http://www.4shared.com/file/82514029/bca57d9b/htctoucher_gloss_m2d.html
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.....if you would prefer glossier home tab clock background and plugin background.. copy the files attached in "glossier home tab bgs.zip" to your windows or into the "htctoucher gloss m2d.zip" windows folder if you are using it with m2dc!.. **the clock and plugin background are included by default in v2 iolite version!**
(i suggest you all do so! -its shown in the preview-)
ALSO
.....if you would prefer to have little icons instead of the text in the slider on the bottom, download the .zip attached "tabicons.zip" and copy all icons to your windows folder on device (overwrite) or to the windows folder in the gloss m2d skin zip if you are using my skin with m2dc (thank fwaits for requesting this as part of his 1 request for being a member of my Golden List!)
.....in my opinion i think it looks good to have text as the inactive tabs, and icons as the active tabs.. if you would like this.. only use the icons in the tabicons.zip that have the words "tabicon" in them!
attached also is the tsk you see in the previews (should be anyway)
......just unzip the tsk file into your storage card or wherever, and load it in the home settings on your device!
......i also suggest installing uitweaker and then going into systweak and import the "final color.sys" file also included blends well with this theme
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due to lack of space on the first post, thumbcal, taskfacade and fingermenu skins are also attached!
(my taskfacade skin is included as default in the new version of taskfacade! (see here)) - so i guess you wont have to download the theme here anymore
Thumbcal: (skin.htctoucher gloss v2.zip) - place it in your thumbcal folder and select it in settings
FingerMenu: (htctoucher fingermenu gloss skin.cab) - install to device.. you can delete the _vga files if you are using qvga device, or vice versa... just reinstall my cab if you want them back (dont know why you would but just in case)
TaskFacade:
**removed** (my skins are now included default in taskfacade as "Gloss")!
uploaded three more skins for taskfacade, will remove if they also become default
get them here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=470096&page=2&post#19
Enjoy!
htctoucher

Black pro theme,nice looking.
Congratulations!

This is really nice! Thank you.
If you have some time left it would be nice if you could do iContact, S2P and the Opal Phone Canvas (Opal Dialer).

That is one slick looking theme.

WOW htctoucher this skin pack is awesome, and looks the best for me! Is there any chance you make skin also for S2P?
Thank you!
Greetings

wow! your works are great, will get s2u2 & pocketcm. thanks

Very nice job. Do you plan (or someone) to make a WVGA version of your skins ? It would be great on Touch HD.

Cool
thanx

Wolfman017 said:
Very nice job. Do you plan (or someone) to make a WVGA version of your skins ? It would be great on Touch HD.
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bump for this! A WVGA Skin will be great!

Would you also release those great skins for WVGA version, It looks great but not for HD.

thanks for all the great feedback guys!
this is why I love to post themes
as for wvga .. it's hard since I don't have a device with that resolution (anyone willing to donate one )
I may try pocketcm wvga but I don't think I'll be able to do the dialer
I may also do s2u2 and galarm.. maybe throttle.. but no guarantees at this point!
I'll be making a s2p and maybe imageviewer(pcm)
glad you all like the theme!
keep me posted on what you like/don't like or bugs
htctoucher

nhatt said:
Black pro theme,nice looking.
Congratulations!
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hmm .. I like this name.. mind if I use it?

Great app mate!
Waiting VGA version!

very hot looking theme...nice work!

what about pcm keyboard?

kidnamedAlbert said:
what about pcm keyboard?
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right now i just use my wm7 small skin.. fits pretty well
i might make a black keyboard to fit with the dialer
and as soon as i see a good base layout that works well for v21 ill make one for that
thanks for the feedback
htctoucher

htctoucher said:
right now i just use my wm7 small skin.. fits pretty well
i might make a black keyboard to fit with the dialer
and as soon as i see a good base layout that works well for v21 ill make one for that
thanks for the feedback
htctoucher
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yeah i love your pocketcm skin but need a nice keyboard to fit it. i hope you can make it a little smaller because i find it easier to use believe it or not.

kidnamedAlbert said:
yeah i love your pocketcm skin but need a nice keyboard to fit it. i hope you can make it a little smaller because i find it easier to use believe it or not.
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make what smaller? the wm7 small keyboard is about as small as it can be
not sure which one you are referring to
I should have a skin out this weekend
I am thinking of skinning TouchPal as well

some comments:
- you left a PSD file in the pocketcm theme (which takes 400Kb)
- you should remove the line that aren't setting or precede them with # (I suspect the line with ======= may have some nasty effect).
- the "strange animation" is probably because you set: panel.contactdetail.box
- Also I strongly advice you to use "development mode" and look at log.txt log file, you'll find some errors in your theme: Can't load image: buttoncallx.png, Can't replace setting for: textcontrol.phonecalleditpanel.numberedit.unfocused.background=fill($high9148$), etc...
Lastly, there is a bug in current version of PocketCM (not the next daily build in theory) that make PCM crashed when editing anything, workaround: set textcontrol.*.background=fill(#FFFFFF) (no image, no gradient, no alpha, etc...). Next version will fix this of course.
Nice theme!

[Skins] PCM Keyboard 0.23 Wm7 inspired skin rework!/newest daily fixes freeze bug

Hey
I just finished my rework of the WM7 inspired Skin originally created by HTCToucher!
Edit:
Vga version available but needs to be testet, as i have no vga device here for testing!
edit0.2: Download the newest Daily, the space bar freeze bug seems to be fixed
edit0.3: minor feedback fixes(smiles fit now), optionpane feedback is not correctly shown yet but will be fixed
In landscape mode, press long on the .(was , on the picture but updated) button to show up a pannel with , ; :!
Be shure to use at least the newest daily (0.24.82) from 7.2.08 to not get the keyboard freezed when pressing the space bar!
Alternatives (ä,ö,ü) are added to o,a,u buttons for suggestion of e..g. grün when typing grun

very cool!
thanks for this.. it will probably akso make it easier to start making v2+ skins
looks great!
thanks for working on this!
htctoucher

very nice!
But is it qvga or vga?
Deixi

sorry i forgot to write, i designed it on my omnia, which is qvga but the way skinning is done with the new version, it should work on vga also without problems. only thing is I have to ad another vga feedback picture, ill will do that asap!
but would be nice if someone with a vga phone could try it!

So i tried it on my touch HD (WVGA). That is what it looks like in portrait and landscape.
looks very nice, but its not perfect yet...
deixi

Thx now i see the exact problems , i'll try to make a working layout for vga and post it asap

problems with vga should be fixed! pls download the vga version if you have a wvga device!

jup it works now. alltough its extremly slow in landscape, but i thinks thats a problem with pocketcm keyboard.
one question:
how can i make it to suggest "grün" when i write "grun" in german with a german dictionary?
edit: i just found out there is a bug with the spacebar freezing the whole phone

I have the lost the period "." on my landscape. Only have a comma.

the . missing in landscape is by design as else i wouldn't be possible to have same width buttons
to get grün suggested when typing grun is possible, but only by adding the line "key.u.alternatives=ü" to the settings.ini inside the zip file!
the same for key.o.alternatives=ö for o and key.ä.alternatives=ä
I'll add this in the zip file an reupload it later!
To the bug with the freezing and the space bar, i happend to me as well just i today, i think i happens when pressing long on the space bar but i'm not shure yet if this is because of the theme or the Sip.
to the slowness this could maybe come from the vga version of the graphics cause they are much bigger then the original ones (dream2 ~34kb, vga wm7 ~200kb) maybe the graphics can be optimized a bit...

About the freezing bug when pressing space: a workaround is to just tip on it very shortly so the "pressed" graphics won't show at the space bar, then the keyboard won't freeze, i don't know why it freezes on loading the "pressed" graphics, but i allready submited a bug report to the author of PCM Keyboard!
i updated the skin a little, now . and , are pressent in the landscape layout, and äöü will be available to suggestion!

update of the first post

thank you very much!
good work...

yeah your welcome !
but be shure to use the latest daily from www.pocketcm.com cause 0.23 will cause trouble!
i do not link i directly cause of the credit to the author

Probably a dumb question, but where on the phone do you drop the file?
I assume you just place the .zip file on the phone somewhere (just want to verify where)?
edit:
To be more clear, the PocketCM site states (for installing keyboard themes):
* Close PocketCM
* Copy the file to your PocketCM installation directory
* Make sure its extension is .cmt
* In PocketCM press the phone button for 250ms (stay pressed), slide left to the option button (second from the left)
* Release, then select "choose theme", and select the theme you just copied
However, there is no .cmt in your zip file. Sorry to be such an idiot. Just want to make sure I'm doing it right.
Thanks.

Hi
you just have to place the zip file inside the \Program Files\PocketCM Keyboard\ folder, than press the enter key long, go to options an select the theme!

endursa said:
Hi
you just have to place the zip file inside the \Program Files\PocketCM Keyboard\ folder, than press the enter key long, go to options an select the theme!
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Ok I did this and its not working. PCM will not see the zip file as a skin. I think version .23 does this but I have the stable version .14 or whatever like you suggested. What am i missing?

ah ok that's the problem, my skin is only for v0.23!
If you wanna use 0.14 you can take the original skin which was done for 0.14
here in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2453480#post2453480 the second post!

Oh... Well that makes since then. I was going off of this post and thought .23 was not compatible.
endursa said:
yeah your welcome !
but be shure to use the latest daily from www.pocketcm.com cause 0.23 will cause trouble!
i do not link i directly cause of the credit to the author
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I dont know why they said that?

YEAH this skin is really neat to look aT and use IF IT WOULD STAY UP ...

PocketCM Keyboard (W)QVGA & (W)VGA skin "Black n Green"

Hi, this is my first post - so I hope I've not made any mistakes/bads...
I thought I'd share my first PocketCM Keybaord v0.14 skin called "Black n Green" with you all.
I created it because I've gone for a black theme on my kaiser with green as the highlight colour for selected text/buttons/menu item etc..
To use it you will need to install PocketCM Keyboard v0.14 (available freely from the author's own website, go google it).
To install the skin:
1. Unzip and copy the two files to the directory PCMKeyboard is installed in on your PPC (\Program Files\PCMKeyboard by default).
2. Select PCM Keyboard as your keyboard (use arrow next to keyboard symbol)
3. Go to the options for PCMKeyboard (On keyboard: press & hold enter then slide finger to Opt. button)
4. Select Eng black_n_green for the layout
5. Select black_n_green for the skin
6. OK
It's QVGA, should work with any 240px wide screen (I think). I haven't got a VGA device (using a Tytn II) so haven't done a VGA version. It works in landscape too, although I use the Tytn's keyboard then
I'm thinking about making the shift key bigger (by making the delete key smaller)...
> > U P D A T E < <
Many thanks go to RR33 who has very kindly done the VGA conversion with the hres images I supplied. I've added the (W)VGA version to the ZIP in this post. Last screenshots are VGA
Hope you like it,
Karl.

Yeah PCMKeyboard is one of my favorite SIP and v0.14 is better than v0.2x to me
Very nice, keep up the good work
it would be nice to do a (W)VGA version : I can do it to complete your work if you want and if you have PNG in higher resolution than QVGA (it's not good to upsize pics from QVGA to WVGA as you know)
Official Link to PocketCM Keyboard v0.14 : HERE

Resources for (W)VGA conversion
Thanks RR33 for your kind words.
I've created the key.png and key1p.png for VGA resolution (assuming that the dimensions are doubled). For the QVGA skin I then used these to create the B/M/E parts... The rest are supplied as masks for alpha channel in the hi-res image (enter, shift, backspace).
I also put in some mod'd buttons with brighter reflections, but haven't tried them out. Also attached all as a ZIP.
I'm not going to create a VGA version as I have no way of testing it... but feel free to have a go.

ok, I'll make the (W)VGA port

Change of layout
I've just noticed that the layout doesn't include a '?'. I've updated the layout in the posted ZIP with a new layout and included a few other improvements so more symbols are accessible on a long press:
long SHIFT:
\|[]<>{}_~​long comma:
!"£$%^&*()​long full stop:
'/#@;:=?-+​and a EURO SYMBOL from long £

hi
So here is the VGA-WVGA skin
I've modified 2 things
- shift symbol : I added a 2nd shift to show the difference when key is down
- internet symbol : earth instead of IE logo

Thanks RR33! I've updated the first post accordingly.
I like the idea of the second shift symbol, might put that into the QVGA version.
I now realise that I didn't give you a .?123 graphic or the feedback graphic in VGA... Anyone desperately need those? or is the RR33 conversion OK? (I can't check with the Tytn2 what it looks like).
I might also get rid of the .? and just have 123 for the symbol key...

huh...very strange, nothing happens if I tap the arrow beside the default keyboard, so I can't change it.
I know it is sounds like a noob question, but the last time I checked, it was possible to change keyboards this way...
Cheers,
Arnold

KarlChick said:
Thanks RR33! I've updated the first post accordingly.
I like the idea of the second shift symbol, might put that into the QVGA version.
I now realise that I didn't give you a .?123 graphic or the feedback graphic in VGA... Anyone desperately need those? or is the RR33 conversion OK? (I can't check with the Tytn2 what it looks like).
I might also get rid of the .? and just have 123 for the symbol key...
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Well I've just rewrote .?123 with the same font and it looks good to me. You can downsize the 2 shift png for QVGA if you want (there is also a line to add into settings file in order to activate 2nd shift)
PollPixx said:
huh...very strange, nothing happens if I tap the arrow beside the default keyboard, so I can't change it.
I know it is sounds like a noob question, but the last time I checked, it was possible to change keyboards this way...
Cheers,
Arnold
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You can take a look at my PocketCM Keyboard Install Guide (click on my signature)

RR33 said:
You can take a look at my PocketCM Keyboard Install Guide (click on my signature)
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I know how to do it, but for some reason, nothing happens when I am tapping on the arrows next to the keyboard icon in the bottom of my screen. Very strange, as I used it often. Even after soft reset it is not working.
Cheers,
Arnold

ok, so try to activate PCMK14 with Ervius Sip Selector (keyboard selector) available HERE then reboot/soft reset your ppc

thanks so much for your help, that did the trick (what a great little program by the way). It looks great, I made a very dark phone style with sktools and was searching for this kind of skin, so....thanks a lot ;-)
Cheers,
Arnold

Custom Keyboard Mods - ONLINE KITCHEN!!

Found this by accident last night while browsing.....it's an online Kitchen for making you own Custom Keyboard.
It's one of the most easy to do things i've come across...and totaly AWESOME!!
You can choose from a LOAD of pre-made themes made by other XDA members & web users, or, make you own.
Nothing technical to download, just pick what colour you what, pick what transparency you want, colour and type of keys, colour and style of lettering/numbers etc etc.
Even add your own custom image on the space-bar etc.
Option to"Choose a preset skin to begin with"
or
"Create a custom keyboard skin from scratch"
Trust me, if i can do it..ANYBODY can....when you're finished choosing your colours and pics and other customizations, just click "Generate Keyboard"
Then it will give you the option to download via a clickable link, or scan it direct to your phone via a barcode.
Try it out - it's very good.
all you have to do is register (free) takes about 20 seconds.
Then install the finished keyboard APK.
DONE.
I'm using [21 Feb] [Sense 3.5] Energy™RCMix 4.0 Energized BLUE Edition Rom, and it works perfect, but should work with zero problem on 99.9% of other Rom keyboards.
Just obviously, make a backup first, just in case.
Here are some examples i've made in literally seconds.
Go here to check it out http://www.gimpsta.com/themer/main.php
PS: All credit goes to 'gIMpSTa' who made this possible...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=654179

my curent keyboard for the Energy Rom I'm using:

Is it possible to switch between QWERTY and QWERTZ keyboard or it is just design ? Because if i choose my language there will be QWERTY keyboard and we use QWERTZ

Is it possible to generate one with arrows????
That would be great!!!
Pce