Padgoi 95XX Theme Creation Tutorial & Tips (Now Includes Sliding Dock Tutorial)

**ba_hamilton** · 02-27-2010, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by qwiksilver

are there any free programs to use in place of photoshop. I'm just tinkering around with this theme stuff and can't justify spending the $ on photoshop right now. Awesome tutorial btw!

Check out Gimp.

**PiranH** · 03-14-2010, 03:12 AM

Master Padgoi...

is there any tutorial for making "landscape home screen"??
thanx for helping...

**Padgoi** · 03-14-2010, 09:15 PM

Piran, there's an option in Theme Builder to allow a landscape homescreen. Click the box and add your svg, same as the portrait homescreen.

Be advised, adding a landscape homescreen causes a VERY bad lag on themes. It's a known issue with the theme builder.

**PiranH** · 03-15-2010, 07:19 AM

Originally Posted by Padgoi

Piran, there's an option in Theme Builder to allow a landscape homescreen. Click the box and add your svg, same as the portrait homescreen.

Be advised, adding a landscape homescreen causes a VERY bad lag on themes. It's a known issue with the theme builder.

thanx... so to make a dockhide visual on the landscape homescreen.. i must create another .svg too??

**Padgoi** · 03-15-2010, 08:21 PM

To create a landscape homescreen, you need another svg file that is compatible with the parameters of the landscape, i.e. 480x360 rather than the portrait 360x480.

**PiranH** · 03-17-2010, 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by Padgoi

To create a landscape homescreen, you need another svg file that is compatible with the parameters of the landscape, i.e. 480x360 rather than the portrait 360x480.

I want to ask 1 question more...
How to resize the button “Use Device App Order”? Thanx...
Hope U can give the tutorial with image again... ^^

Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com

**Padgoi** · 03-18-2010, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by PiranH

I want to ask 1 question more...
How to resize the button “Use Device App Order”? Thanx...
Hope U can give the tutorial with image again... ^^

Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com

Very simple:

1. Go into this directory on your computer:
C:\Program Files\Research In Motion\Blackberry Theme Studio 5.0\samples\Themes\Images\Precision360x480\icons

2. Copy the two following files onto your desktop (DON'T CUT, just copy and paste):

default_application
default_application_focus

3. Open both of them in Microsoft Office Picture Manager or another image editor. When it opens, click Picture on the top toolbar, then Resize. When the Resize editor comes up on the right, click Custom width x height and change the width and height to whatever size you want to make it. Make it the same number for each. Then save.

4. In Composer, right click on the Use Device Application Order icon that you put on your homescreen. Click edit.

5. In the Objects tab, click normalImage. In the Inspector Tab, click Change Bitmap. When the windows explorer box opens up, double click the default_application icon that you resized. Then right click on the icon and choose End Editing.

6. In the Objects tab, choose focusImage. Follow the same instructions as step 5 except choose the default_application_focus icon that you resized.

That's it, your Device Application order icon should now be the size you resized it to in the picture editor.

**PiranH** · 03-20-2010, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by Padgoi

Very simple:

1. Go into this directory on your computer:
C:\Program Files\Research In Motion\Blackberry Theme Studio 5.0\samples\Themes\Images\Precision360x480\icons

2. Copy the two following files onto your desktop (DON'T CUT, just copy and paste):

default_application
default_application_focus

3. Open both of them in Microsoft Office Picture Manager or another image editor. When it opens, click Picture on the top toolbar, then Resize. When the Resize editor comes up on the right, click Custom width x height and change the width and height to whatever size you want to make it. Make it the same number for each. Then save.

4. In Composer, right click on the Use Device Application Order icon that you put on your homescreen. Click edit.

5. In the Objects tab, click normalImage. In the Inspector Tab, click Change Bitmap. When the windows explorer box opens up, double click the default_application icon that you resized. Then right click on the icon and choose End Editing.

6. In the Objects tab, choose focusImage. Follow the same instructions as step 5 except choose the default_application_focus icon that you resized.

That's it, your Device Application order icon should now be the size you resized it to in the picture editor.

Thanx.. I must try it... cause i found a way to resize but not very much option... in edit>preferences... in miscellaneous i use other series Blackberry button themes.... so i choose the smallest.. LOL...

oh yes.. i made my own icon in application menu... but i found that the "folder" icons (ext. media, application, setup) get smaller than another normal application icons... can them be changed? in this case i use default size of 9500 icons 73 x 73 for all my icon...
thanx alot for u helping again... ^^

Btw... I already made it...
hope u can comment about it... ^^
http://forums.crackberry.com/f131/fr...piranh-440510/

**LocalTwoFour** · 03-26-2010, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by zrome

Great! Now do I need to know programming to make themes or do I just download the 5.0 dev tool and make themes just like that? Also, where do I find this 5.0 dev tool for making themes?
Thanks again for posting such great instructions!

U can find all of these tools @ bb site under developers area but i think that u will have to sign up as one. To be able to download

**mobi900** · 05-23-2010, 07:05 AM

But now I do not know that how to design an icon about climate forecasting.

Would you like to take some time in order to instruct me some?

Thanks in advance

**Lezbo Lexi** · 08-26-2010, 02:15 PM

okay on explorer 2.0 How Do You Make The dock That Looks Like The Computer Start Up ?? If You Could Give Me A Good Simple Territorial Send Me A Email At Zacky1155 @ yahoo . com Thanks Everyone.