Hidden or scrolling docks

**Jaded04** · 08-12-2011, 08:03 PM

Im just learning about hidden and scrolling docks and have a few questions.

1) If I were say making a hidden or scrolling dock, does it have to be in custom or custom6 layout?

2) In the tutorials I watched/read, they would add however many buttons they want, say 6, but what if you have many more (20) buttons for various things you use, is there no way to have an indefinite amount like in a blackberry 6 layout where you "show all"?

3) The hidden dock I made just hides it if you scroll up to the time or whatever, and shows it when you scroll down to the buttons. How could I make a dock that has a little tab that sticks up a bit and would require clicking on it to unhide the dock, and then just hit esc to hide it.

4) For a torch you can hide the dock and its just a bar with an up pointing arrow (bb6 layout), can that be edited? I havent fount any images for it so im assuming the bar is a tiled image with the up arrow image superimposed on it. But which svg would that be coded in?

5) When I applied my hidden dock to a custom 6 layout, theres no today/message notification bar under the clock, is there a way to get it back, is it hidden somewhere im not seeing, where would your notifications pop up otherwise?

thx!

**wu-wei** · 08-13-2011, 12:08 AM

Originally Posted by Jaded04

1) If I were say making a hidden or scrolling dock, does it have to be in custom or custom6 layout?

Yes. The BlackBerry6 homescreen cannot be edited.

Originally Posted by Jaded04

2) In the tutorials I watched/read, they would add however many buttons they want, say 6, but what if you have many more (20) buttons for various things you use, is there no way to have an indefinite amount like in a blackberry 6 layout where you "show all"?

That would require making the dock itself larger, or scrollable.

Originally Posted by Jaded04

3) The hidden dock I made just hides it if you scroll up to the time or whatever, and shows it when you scroll down to the buttons. How could I make a dock that has a little tab that sticks up a bit and would require clicking on it to unhide the dock, and then just hit esc to hide it.

Create a graphic (the tab you want to use) import into Composer and make it a button, then assign it the show/hide functions you want.

Originally Posted by Jaded04

4) For a torch you can hide the dock and its just a bar with an up pointing arrow (bb6 layout), can that be edited? I havent fount any images for it so im assuming the bar is a tiled image with the up arrow image superimposed on it. But which svg would that be coded in?

Again, the BB6 layout is presently inaccessible to developers.

Originally Posted by Jaded04

5) When I applied my hidden dock to a custom 6 layout, theres no today/message notification bar under the clock, is there a way to get it back, is it hidden somewhere im not seeing, where would your notifications pop up otherwise?

This sounds like you're looking for the BB6 layout of the notification bar (and corresponding dropdown Today area) in a custom6 theme. That is my personal holy grail for an OS6 theme, and I have been unable to find any way to make it happen.

**Jaded04** · 08-14-2011, 01:44 PM

As far as the scrolling or hidden dock, if you set it to be 10 icons and only have 7 apps icons in use, what would the other 3 display as? And vice versa, what if you had 20 icons/apps that you use but the theme is set to only have 10 icon position in the dock, how would those others be accessible? Is there a way to make the # of icons fluctuate with the # of apps currently in use? Because it seems like if you set it to 10 slots/buttons, then thats all you get.

**Justam** · 08-15-2011, 01:50 AM

you can make the notification bar drop down in a custom theme, you need to code it from scratch. I assure you its possible as I have done it. PM me for details.

**Jaded04** · 08-15-2011, 07:55 PM

Are you refering to a hidden today or the actual notifications screen (calendar, tests, missed calls, bbm, facebook, etc.)?

**Jaded04** · 08-17-2011, 08:59 AM

Originally Posted by Jaded04

As far as the scrolling or hidden dock, if you set it to be 10 icons and only have 7 apps icons in use, what would the other 3 display as? And vice versa, what if you had 20 icons/apps that you use but the theme is set to only have 10 icon position in the dock, how would those others be accessible? Is there a way to make the # of icons fluctuate with the # of apps currently in use? Because it seems like if you set it to 10 slots/buttons, then thats all you get.

Anyone have an answer to this?

**wu-wei** · 08-17-2011, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by Jaded04

Anyone have an answer to this?

You can't have a variable sized dock.

If you have more slots than apps assigned, then I presume the empty slots will just appear empty.

You can't have more apps assigned than slots available. Not possible. They're available via the App Screen.

**Jaded04** · 08-17-2011, 11:39 PM

Thx man.

Another question...in regards to the following code for a hidden dock:

Code:

<animateTransform xlink:href="#Buttons" id="_anim_l1" attributeName="transform" type="translate"
to="0,0" dur="0.5s"  
fill="freeze"
begin="Theme_Button_1.focusin"	/>
						
<animateTransform xlink:href="#Buttons" id="_anim_d1" attributeName="transform" type="translate"
to="0,100" dur="0.5s"  
fill="freeze"
begin="Theme_Button_1.focusout"	/>

Using this to animate the hidden dock tends to make the whole dock 'bounce' when you scroll across the icons. Is the any way to stop that from happening?