Changing the hard to find icons??

[weldmonkey]

Does anyone know how to change the folder icons?? Games, Apps, Ect...

The Wi Fi connected icon? they include it in the samples but heck if I can find where to change it... Same with Bluetooth connected...

[DoctorNeutron]

Umm...I'm not sure this will help, but somehow I did change a very important folder icon called "The CON", as in "You got the Con." I am pretty sure I just used only TB 4_7. In the Inspector/Theme the Applications Icons there is an item 'Default Folder'. I put my homegrown Black icon in for Normal. For Focus, I dragged 'highlight_button' from the Catalog.

My resulting Homescreen is attached. My objective is to stamp out all dorky looking icons and get my Storm to look like a BLACKBerry! You can see this folder icon as in focus. This folder contains my Browser and all my Jonathan Fisher Storm Launchers to my Yahoo mailbox, Reuters, NASA, and Accuweather active radar.

As you can see, I'm not an artist. Check out Zain Malik's Black Glass for a more serious artistic effort. Anyhow, with a better looking pair of Normal and Focus icons, you may get what you need for your folder icon.


Doctor Neutron

[weldmonkey]

New and custom folders are easy thats just a defalt Icon but I want to know if anyone has figured out how to change the Default Blackberry folders (ie. Games, Applications, Downloads, Setup)...

[elementalgear]

This is something I'm also interested in. I have a few themes that have REALLY killer icons that go to waste because I don't use them, but WOULD if I could use them on the very same folders that weldmonkey is referring to.

[weldmonkey]

Well after a lot of searching I have found that you can only do what is described above for the folders...you cant customize the four originals you can just make a default folder, but then you have 4 folders that look the same...its kind of LAME!! It must have been just one of many oversites when they made TB 4.7...

There is also no way to change the Icons for wi fi and the other banner icons that TB doesnt allow you change...I have tried everything...it must be done in the codeing of the program itself...I even tried editing the ones they have in samples folder hopeing that the program just pulled them from there each time but now luck...

Somethings you just cant edit on the current version and some things you wish you hadnt, LOL...Hopefully BB will get these issues resolved in future versions..

[DoctorNeutron]

If we could ONLY get rid of the App names BELOW each icon in the app screen, then my previous method would work. Anybody know how to get rid of these names ? Please, pretty please !

Doctor Neutron

[weldmonkey]

Originally Posted by DoctorNeutron

If we could ONLY get rid of the App names BELOW each icon in the app screen, then my previous method would work. Anybody know how to get rid of these names ? Please, pretty please !

Doctor Neutron

Thats easy just make them 1pt...you wont see them...youll get an error when you export theme just ignore it...



Thats what I did here if thats what you mean...

[DoctorNeutron]

OMG, u da man ! Dis is big, I'm thinking, it helps me with another problem, but it may NOT address your
problem as I just lied to you above. We shall see.

Doctor Neutron

[weldmonkey]

Nah just a man...I guess an unofficial Theme Developer thread moderator...lol...I should work for Blackberry...Im ready tired of this version of plazmics shortfalls and have a list a mile long, of bugs, glitches, oversites and just issues...even found a few work arounds that shouldnt work but hey sometimes exploiting glitches are the only way to do what you want to...

[DoctorNeutron]

Hey, weldmonkey, I seriously appreciate your tip on how to get rid of app screen icon names. This has really helped this app screen's appearance in my Zen Telsa theme. You are right about the folders. You can play games with one or two to get nice icons on them, but you just can't get them all. I guess you could set up icons on a custom home screen and use Device Application Order to get to your folders, but this is way too much trouble.

Doctor Neutron

[weldmonkey]

Originally Posted by DoctorNeutron

Hey, weldmonkey, I seriously appreciate your tip on how to get rid of app screen icon names. This has really helped this app screen's appearance in my Zen Telsa theme. You are right about the folders. You can play games with one or two to get nice icons on them, but you just can't get them all. I guess you could set up icons on a custom home screen and use Device Application Order to get to your folders, but this is way too much trouble.

Doctor Neutron

Yeah the only way to change the four defualt folders, is to make custom ones that are on your homescreen but this will not change them in App Views...I dont know why they left the folders out...I hope they add this in to the next version..

[DoctorNeutron]

Knowing VZN, I'm thinking it was done deliberately with malice and forethought. You can justify almost anything under the guise of security. Hopefully they will come up with a new mechanism to allow us to develop clean themes that are uniform and homogeneous throughout.

Additionally,your tip also cleaned up my active tasks bar a bunch.

Doctor Neutron

[weldmonkey]

Originally Posted by DoctorNeutron

Knowing VZN, I'm thinking it was done deliberately with malice and forethought. You can justify almost anything under the guise of security. Hopefully they will come up with a new mechanism to allow us to develop clean themes that are uniform and homogeneous throughout.

Additionally,your tip also cleaned up my active tasks bar a bunch.

Doctor Neutron

No problem glad I could help..just mention me on your next theme or something....that would be mighty nice of you...make me feel better about not hording my knowledge....LMAO....

Check out my theme...Ive tried to push the limits of the Theme Builder, Composer and SVG...whats the point if you cant dare to be different from the crowd...