How 2 manipulate svg-files

[michaelk1]

Hi,

I saw the thread " Undocumented SVG Objects (hand coded SVG)" and I wondered about how to do the things shown in the thread.
At present, all of the themes I made, I only had to use Themebuilder, Composer and a Picture-Editor.
But there was no need of using SVG objects.

How can I generate them and how can I maipulate them?

Where can I get the context I need?

Thanks in advance

[mas3222]

There are plenty of threads and tutorials for manipulating the SVG around and the easiest way to learn in my opinion is to go to Blackberry Theme Lab and look for the sliding dock tutorial. To actually bring up your SVG is in composer, look under file> export SVG and save it. Open the saved file with notepad and there is your SVG.

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[michaelk1]

Well,

thanks for your answer.

But I hope I understand, what you telling me.

I think svg is a file format which is used by composer, but it contains picture information. What I don't understand is, how can a svg manipulation be done manually to change options in svg?

And, if you don't have any svg-files if you normally use themebuilder?

Thanks in advance.

michael

[mas3222]

In the undocumented SVG thread all those codes are manipulative items that you place in the SVG. To manually change the SVG, follow what I told you above and when you open it with Notepad you will be able to edit it there. Now the hard part, all those codes would be difficult to place for someone new and took me a couple weeks to even figure out how to make them function properly to how I wanted them to work. www.blackberrythemelab.com has several tutorials, try the hidden dock with buttons tutorial as the code is very small and easy to place as it goes into the code at the very bottom. Remember that when you need to save the SVG you save it as "all files" and not a text document.

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[michaelk1]

Ok,

I understand how to change a svg-file, within a editor like ultra-edit or something else.

But I have a basic problem in understanding.

You now about the question: what was first? the egg or the female chicken?
That's my problem within manipulating svg-files manually.

I know I can generate a svg file with composer and put the options of the thread above in it. But how is themebuilder or the blackberry machine communicate with it?

I don't want, that you give me a complete solution of my problem. I just need a basic information to put me in the right direction.

Thank you very much

cu
michael

[mas3222]

When you open Theme Builder and you are on the home screen section you will see a field for SVG that's above where you set up Navigation, etc., simply browse for the SVG you made and Theme Builder will import it and that's how TB uses it. I don't have it in front of me to fully describe but you should be able to find it easily. When you're done there you can test through simulator, device or you can export for desktop. That's how the machine will use it. If you need anymore help and are tired of posting replies through this thread feel free to PM me or BBM me and I will guide you through it.

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[michaelk1]

Hi Mas3222,

thank you for the information and for the offer to contact you directly via pm.

This night I spent some time with Matt's tutorials, i.e. the sliding bar.
I think I understand a little bit more on how the svg files can be manipulated.
I've done so like Matt showed in his tutorial and it ran fine.

My question is: is there an overview about the options, which can be manipulated within changing the svg?
It looks like the trialanderror eras in the 70s and the early 80s where ATs came out, or AMIGAs were present.

I would like to stay in contact with you and hope that I don't waste so many time of yours.


Thanks again.

cu
michael

p.s. have a nice weekend

[mas3222]

You're not wasting my time at all so feel free to ask away. Basically it is nothing but trial and error. You can just read through that thread and the people who have been playing around with the codes will give you answers on the basic stuff. That's all I did and just from that started learning about how to even rewrite some of it. Its pretty cool stuff but when using the codes and getting it right when its on simulator is as you figured... Trial and error.

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[2Tx1503]

could you explain this a little more detailed? or point to a tutorial? i used the jscroll sample and when i scroll from left to right the icons wont scroll back to right to left... they slide off the screen...

[ajc3designs]

Composer and SVG tutorials

Themebuilder tutorials