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Thanks for the info. It would seem that one of the other samples folders within Plazmic would contain images of the proper size to work in the above circumstances. Have you found this to be the case? I'm willing to go through the effort to go for it but without knowing what size to use for every single image it seems a little daunting.
09-08-09 04:41 PM - Thanks for the info. It would seem that one of the other samples folders within Plazmic would contain images of the proper size to work in the above circumstances. Have you found this to be the case? I'm willing to go through the effort to go for it but without knowing what size to use for every single image it seems a little daunting.
You have a pretty good grasp of what's happening, I can tell from the questions
For dialogs, buttons, and meters on the "Phone" section of theme builder - the Dimension sample stuff will work fine. If you leave it as is, it shows the precision style stuff in theme builder, but when you export it's a "weird" looking version of the dimension samples that get built in. In a nutshell, you have to substitute the correctly sized dimension items for what is in by default. Make your custom items the same size/scale of dimension samples and you're good to go.
App icons - It's hard to describe what it does to them when exported. It seems to shrink the content by about 40%, then resizes the canvas to make things 48x48 again. You'll see exactly what I mean if you use the standard precision icons and overlay samples, then export and jump to app screen. I usually make a 46x46 icon that fills the entire canvas, then resize canvas to 48x48 to give a little border. Best advice i can give here is trial and error. Good news is that when you find a set that works well, you can compare content vs. canvas size and overall size and have a good handle where to start next time. A good way to check it out is make a 48x48 transparent png, with a bright colored spot about 10 px from the top and 10 px from the right of the canvas, save it as a png and use it for the overlay. Compare where the dot shows on the icon, and adjust your borders as needed. I know this sounds like a non-answer
Best thing to do here is play with one icon and an overlay and see what effect any adjustments have. Maybe someone smarter than I can pin this one down
Having said all that, I have found the standard dimension icon set with the verticle canvas adjusted to 48px while keeping the original content centered seems a decent starting point. The included precision samples just resize "funny".09-08-09 09:50 PM - This is what I'm seeing using this program tweak: The plazmic screen of the Applications page is different than what is shown using the simulator.
also, if you notice the focus icon, it cuts of the bottom. this happens regardless of the icon size i'm using - it's always cut off the same place.
In the second image, I'm actually using a 60x60 focus icon, as suggested. The icons themselves are I think 52x52. The standard 83xx icon size of 48x36 gets all distorted..
09-20-09 10:52 PM - Yeah I tried every icon size under the sun and some not seen since the building of the ancient pyramids and nothing worked. What you see is not at all what you get either upon export. I could get fairly close but never perfect. I cut ties with it in order to maintain my sanity.
It's a cool thread by a cool guy but if it's doable, the trick to it all has eluded me.09-21-09 06:15 PM - For the home screen, that works fine with the icon size of 52x52.
Yeah, this is where it gets all out of whack! The Plazmic shows as six icons across, with three rows, but once you look at it in the simulator and export if, it shows six icons across and five down and the icons seem be get shrunk..App icons - It's hard to describe what it does to them when exported. It seems to shrink the content by about 40%, then resizes the canvas to make things 48x48 again. You'll see exactly what I mean if you use the standard precision icons and overlay samples, then export and jump to app screen. I usually make a 46x46 icon that fills the entire canvas, then resize canvas to 48x48 to give a little border. Best advice i can give here is trial and error. Good news is that when you find a set that works well, you can compare content vs. canvas size and overall size and have a good handle where to start next time. A good way to check it out is make a 48x48 transparent png, with a bright colored spot about 10 px from the top and 10 px from the right of the canvas, save it as a png and use it for the overlay. Compare where the dot shows on the icon, and adjust your borders as needed. I know this sounds like a non-answer Best thing to do here is play with one icon and an overlay and see what effect any adjustments have. Maybe someone smarter than I can pin this one down
Having said all that, I have found the standard dimension icon set with the verticle canvas adjusted to 48px while keeping the original content centered seems a decent starting point. The included precision samples just resize "funny".
I can live with this aspect of it, but what I'm about to give up on is the focus icon underlay.. no matter what dimensions i assign to the focus icon, it gets distorted and seems to revert back to 48x36, while the icons seem to stay at 52x52 (size I used).09-21-09 10:19 PM - I've tried and tested this tricky Plazmic about weeks. And i was so disappointed.. Everything work fine, except the Application Icons. I assumed that they Plazmic have some text coded in their *.THM files, or somewhere else
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Hoping s.o talented enough and generous for sharing text code.. like this..09-24-09 01:03 PM
