Help hiding WIFI and other icons

[ChaseJ]

Hello everyone!

I was looking around trying to find out how I can hide and/or change the Wifi, Bluetooth, and GPS symbol on the home and app screen. The Bluetooth one isn’t so bad because I never have it on. But I would like to be able to see it not being there when I am in Theme Developer. I have visited THIS thread, but it is a little confusing and didn’t help too much. I am probably at a Beginner level when it comes to code, but I am more than willing to try it, since I figure that’s the only way to do it. I know this is all possible, since other themes have these icons hidden or changed.

Thanks in advance to anyone that can help!!


Chase

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[ChaseJ]

Bump for editing the hyperlink?

[Heavy Fluid]

I don't think that those can be changed. I used to just try to imagine that they were not there when I was making 9630 themes, since that device doesn't even have wifi.

[ChaseJ]

Lol I wish it was a factory choice to display them or not. Ill keep diggin around to see what I can find. Thanks heavy

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[xRuhRohx]

I have been digging deep into animating banner items, The only problem is, there is no image id associated with those images, so as of this moment, no one knows how to hide them or change them. I have a few ideas that I want to try out when I get home, and if I can figure out how to animate or change their image source, I will let you know.

[ChaseJ]

Man I hope you can figure something out. I have trying to use composer to hide them or something or do anything but nothing yet. keep me informed. thanks ruhroh

[xRuhRohx]

For the time being, you could add your wallpaper to an svg from composer, then add your battery and date and what not into your svg, then when you import into TB, check the box that says render home screen over banner. Done, wifi, bluetooth, and GPS icons are covered.

I know thats not reallly what you are going for, but it works as long as you dont want to change your wallpaper. LOL

But I will let you know when I figure out something.

[sabisgeek]

maybe he can use a transparent background around the same size as the default to 'hide' them.
Just my 2 cents

[eiger06]

You'll need to create an svg file in composer. Whether or not you want to add your icons, banners, etc through composer or Themebuilder is up to your. Once you create an svg file in composer, open it using Notepad or some other text editing software. At the end of the svg file, you'll see " </svg> ". Drop these lines of code just before that. You'll need to import this svg code into your theme via Themebuilder using the svg selection option on the homescreen editing page.

<set xlink:href="#gpsmode-display-home" attributeName="display" to="none" begin="0"/>

<set xlink:href="#bluetooth-display-home" attributeName="display" to="none" begin="0"/>

<set xlink:href="#wifi_indicator_portrait" attributeName="display" to="none" begin="0"/>

All three will be hidden on your homescreen.

[ChaseJ]

I will try the background things tonight. I tried the code above and I get errors when loading the svg and when i try to export the theme i get this error message:

Warning: The following resources could not be included in the theme for reasons explained below:
	homescreen.svg

Warnings: 
homescreen.svg: Failed to compile SVG file.

Errors in homescreen.svg: 
Error: The element <set> named "$unnamed$" has a reference to "gpsmode-display-home" which is not found.
Error: The element <set> named "$unnamed$" has a reference to "bluetooth-display-home" which is not found.
Error: The element <set> named "$unnamed$" has a reference to "wifi_indicator_portrait" which is not found.
3 error(s) were encountered.

then it wont load the theme on my berry.

[eiger06]

My guess is that you are probably running the newer Themebuilder (5.0.0.63); they messed with a few things in that build and it screwed up some of the svg code allowances. I had the same issue. You'll need to find an older version; I'm using 5.0.0.34. Not sure where to find it though.

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