Both the Smarthone machines know that the SP mobile phone desktop has changed, unlimited, this credit is due to the SP desktop theme.
Everyone is the player of the sp phone, what is the SP desktop topic, everyone knows.
There are several special production tools for the SP desktop topic, suitable for newly started sphers. The production of the SP desktop themes here is not made through specialized tools, is a full desktop theme DIY, suitable for players interested in desktop theme DIY. Dear, there is ugly.
First, the theme brief introduction
Simply talk about the SP desktop topic first.
From the composition, desktop topics include layout schemes, color schemes, and topic pictures. From the file composition, the desktop topic is composed of desktop topic file (* .bmp, *. Jpg, *. GIF] and desktop topic layout files (* .Home.xml file). Mobile phone desktop or the subject picture or in the subject layout, but you can ink these two files. The following two topic screenshots illustrate, the former presents its characteristics in theme picture, the latter shows its characteristics with the topic layout, and the focus is different.
N1958 brother's theme, using the Dopod 515 1.45 topic plug-in: This topic related pictures are as follows:
The theme of the monks use Orange E200 plug-ins: this topic related pictures are as follows:
In our SP system, the desktop theme file has two categories: *. Home.xml file and * .scheme.xml file. The former is the desktop theme layout file, which generally includes color schemes and layout schemes. The layout scheme refers to the layout of the plug-in, which can be said that the plugin and its layout are the core of the desktop theme; the latter is the desktop theme color file, only the color scheme, That is to say, * .home.xml file contains all information about the * .scheme.xml file. Here, you will talk about * .home.xml files.
Second, specialized production tools
Desktop theme specializes in making tools, with two most representative: Theme Generator v1.0 for Smartphone 2002 and Homescreen Designer For Smartphone 2003 Version 1.1.4.
1. Theme Generator v1.0 for smartphone 2002 is Microsoft's official topic manufacturing program, running on the PC, simple. This software is perfect for the support of the color scheme, you can modify the color of the menu, information, navigation bar, can customize the topic, but only support the SP system standard plugin, and only one fixed .home.xml template file, plugin Location, dimension is fixed. The related pictures of this topic are as follows:
2. Homescreen Designer for Smartphone 2003 Version 1.1.4 is an emerging desktop topic specializing in making tools, and it is also running on the PC, more functions, and use slightly more complicated. This software also supports the adjustment of the color scheme, supports custom topic pictures, and supports the modification of background images such as switching, start menus, etc. In addition to using SP system standard plug-ins, it also provides support for several third-party plug-ins. The custom plugin is extremely position, size, etc. The related pictures of this topic are as follows:
These two tools provide a space for the newly starting SP mobile phone with a space for desktop themes, which is more tools for making desktop topics. But they are not universal. Now there are many excellent plugins in the third party. If you want to use these plugins in your desktop theme, light * These tools are not enough. This requires us to know how to desktop theme DIY.
Please see the two topics screenshots, these two desktop topics are DIY, and they can't do it with the two tools.
Third, desktop theme DIY
Next, the desktop topic DIY is said.
A) Tools: 1. Topic Picture Production Tools: ACDSEE, Photoshop 2. Topic Layout File Editing Tools: XP
2) Production steps:
(1) Making theme picture: The phone screen is 220 * 176, the picture we make is usually 200 * 176 or 180 * 176, you can be a picture can be * .bmp, *. Jpg, *. Gif and other formats, but We don't choose * .bmp format, because this file is too big.
(2) Production color scheme: For new hands, this has a certain difficulty, it is best to learn from other topics.
First look at an example of a color scheme, here "Building" with 515 color scheme, its file is Architecture.Scheme.xml, please refer to the "instance.doc" file in the compressed package below. Click to browse this file
The two pictures provided below are annotations of each unit in the color scheme. The related pictures of this topic are as follows: This topic is related to the following:
(3) Editing layout scheme:
<1> Desktop Theme Plugin Introduction
All information about the desktop topic is mainly implemented by plugins in the * .home.xml file. What is the plugin? The plugin is actually a variety of information displayed on the desktop.
First look at a 565 mobile phone screen screenshot: This topic related pictures are as follows: We come to the plugins displayed on the count screen:
1. Navigation bar: Navigation strip plugin, 1. 2. Recent Usage Programs: Recently Using Program Plugins, 1. 3. Operators and time: operator plugins, 1. 4. Dating: Schedule Dating Plugin, 1. 5. Short message: short message, MMS, mail plugin, 1. 6. Global pass, mobile dream network: dopod plugin, 1. 7. Dopod club, common setting: Dopod plugin, 1. 8. Scenario: Scenario plugin, 1. 9. Softkey: Not a plugin, height 20.
A total of 8 plugins displayed on the screen. The entire screen height 220, removes the soft key display portion, one screen can display the area of the portion of the plugin is 200 * 176. Of course, there may be hidden plugins in a desktop theme. If you have a phone plugin, when you have a call, the plugin will be displayed on the phone screen, without no call, it will not be displayed, this missed The phone plugin is a hidden plugin.
<2> Desktop Theme Plugin
So how many plugins in the SP phone? It can be said that there is endless, in addition to the standard plug-ins of your mobile phone, we can also download other third-party plugins to increase the capabilities of the desktop topic.
Let me list the plugins of the desktop topic.
1) System standard plug-in: The following 13 system standard plug-ins of the code format, please see the "instance.doc" file in the compressed package. Click to browse this file
1. Icon Bar Plug-in: Navigation strip plugin. 2. MRU PLUG-IN: Recently used program plugins, support icon format 16 * 16 or 32 * 32, up to 9 16 * 16 icons. The specific size calculation is shown below: This topic related pictures are as follows: This topic related pictures are as follows: 3. Carrier Plug-in: Operator plug-in, can display the date and time.
4. Clock Plug-in: Date and time plugin.
5. Calendar Plug-in: Schedule Dating Plugin.
6. All-day event plug-in: All day event plugins, hidden plugins.
7. Messaging Counts Plug-in: Short message, MMS, mail plugin. 8. Text Label Plug-in: Text Plugin.
9. Owner Info Plug-in: The master information plugin.
10. SIM Toolkit Plug-in: STK plugin.
11. Call Progress Plug-in: Call process plugin, hidden plugin.
12. MISSED CALLS PLUG-IN: Unpredictable phone plugin, hidden plugins.
13. Profile Plug-in: Scenario Plugin.
2) Third party plugin
There are many types of third-party plugins, which add more enriched features for SP systems. The application of the third-party plug-in on the desktop theme can bring huge greath of greattime and functional improvements to the SP mobile phone. Below I list some of the more typical third-party plugins. Here is only to introduce the plug-in function, characteristics, the specific details are not listed, and leave it to everyone.
1. Orange E200 Plugin: Orange E200 plug-in, open up the plugin call plugin, can call other plugins in Orange E200 plugins, you can define the height and width of the plugin, you can increase the horizontal paging, from this topic can be more than The page is displayed, and multiple pictures are different from the single page topic. Download: Orange E200 and C500 mobile phone come with it, the plugin is included in the ROM, no download, the official is not available.
2. DOPOD Gotone Plugin: DOPOD 515 1.45 version plug-in, you can customize open programs and specify a corresponding background image and text description for each program, is one of the few plugins that can implement a multi-picture topic. Download: DOPOD 515 1.45 version of the second Kari.
3. Orange Shortcut Plugin: Orange Shortcut Plugin, Function Basic and Dopod 515 1.45 plugin is the same, is one of the plugins that can be implemented in a few plugins using a desktop topic, and call multiple images in plugins using a single page topic. Download: Orange SPV phone comes with the phone, the plugin is included in the ROM, no download, the official is not available.
4. RJShortcut Plugin: RJ Shortcut Plugin, you can use it from defining programs and its shortcut static icons. Download: http://smartphone.peakin.com/
5. RJTIME PLUGIN: RJ Clock Plugin, you can display an analog clock and you can customize the clock background. Download: http://smartphone.peakin.com/
6. RJTasks Plugin: RJ Task Plugin. Download: http://smartphone.peakin.com/
7. RJHTML PLUGIN: RJ HTML web plug-in can make the topic HTML web page features, which can be used to display lunar calendar, GIF animation, animation screen size, and cannot implement the up and down scroll of the HTML page. Download: http://www.modaco.com/
8. Oxios Tasks Plugin: OXIOS Task Plugin, can scroll through multiple tasks. Download: http://www.oxios.com/plugins.html
9. Richiem Alarm Plugin: Alarm Plugin, old version. Download: http://smartphone.modaco.com/viewtopic.php? P = 287264 # 287264
10. Smartphone 2003 Alarm Plug-in: Alarm plugin, new version. Download: http://smartphone.modaco.com/viewtopic.php? T = 11715311. LCD PLUGIN: LCD plugin, you can implement cool LCD effects. Download: http://twyxspv.3utilities.com/
12. Madbeetle Analouge Clock Plugin: Analog clock plugin, you can display an analog clock and display the date, digital time, and world time. Download: http://www.madbeetle.com
13. CityTime Plugin: Time zone plugin, you can display the date and time of multiple cities. Download: http://www.codecity.net
14. SmartBatt Plugin: Battery plugin, can display battery power and temperature. Download: http://www.frieger.com/smartbatt/index.html
15. BATPLUG 2002/2003: Battery plugin. Download: http://www.lemondeduskin.com/
16. Thermo Plugin: Temperature plugin. Download: http://xetranet.free.fr/SPV/
17. SmartMonitor Plugin: Smart Monitoring Plugin, can display parameters such as electricity, temperature, storage, and memory. Download: http://www.smartphinger.co.uk/smartmonitor/
18. Media Player Plugin: Media Player Plugin, add media playback to the desktop topic, direct playback, pause, etc. on the desktop. Download: http://smartphone.modaco.com/viewtopic.php? T = 95747
19. BiORHTYMS PLUGIN: Physiological function plug-in can be used to show human physiological function rhythm, including physical fitness, emotions, intelligence and intuition. Download: http://www.smartphinger.co.uk/smartbiorhythms/
20. Mobilok Homescreen Plugin: Weather forecast plugin, you can display five days of weather forecast. Download: http://www.mobilok.com
21. START and Stop Sound Plugin: The shutdown sound plug-in can achieve a shutdown sound. Download: http://www.modaco.com/viewtopic.php? T = 117287
22. RSSHome Plugin: RSS plugin, you can implement RSS network services. Download: http://www.rsshome.com
If you have other plugins, please add it together.
<3> Desktop Topics Example
The following is an example of a * .home.xml file below, here is the 515 desktop topic "Windows simple", the file is simple.home.xml, please see the compressed package for details. " Example.doc "file. Click to browse this file
<4> Desktop topic editing points
1. Open the * .home.xml file with XP, edit the content, after modification, select "Save As", select "UTF-8" in "Encod", "save". If the modified file contains Chinese, you must select "UTF-8" in "encoding", otherwise the subject layout file cannot be used. 98 Notepad does not have an "encoding" option, so it is best to edit the subject layout file with XP notepad.
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4. Color: See example explanatory.
5. Location: You can use the definition location, see example description; can also be defined by the coordinate, such as one plug-in height 40, the plugin unit area is 40 * 176, this area of the upper left corner coordinate is x = "0" y = "0" , The lower right corner is x = "176" y = "40", you choose the coordinate must be in this plugin unit area.
6. Program path: You can point to program .exe file, you can also point to program shortcuts .lnk file. When the program path points to the Windows directory, there are two ways: windows * .exe (*. LNK) or * .exe (*. Lnk); point to other non-Windows directories, must write the full path, path format: Storage STORAGE CARD ... *. EXE (*. lnk)
7. Different mobile phones, such as mobile phones, SMARTPHONE 2002 and Smartphone 2003 systems, sometimes the topic cannot be inter-use, in fact, the default background picture of the desktop topic is in the strange. As the above example, the
8. How to make the navigation strip transparent, display the picture of 200 * 176? As described above, change
In short, desktop theme DIY, not immediately get started, need to study instances in a large number of * .home.xml files, can gradually master, need to have certain patience and research spirit. But I believe that a true SP player who is really keen on the desktop theme DIY will also be happy.
Due to more knowledge involved, this article may organize a bit messy, and it is more shallow, please don't see you. If there is something wrong, you are welcome to put forward, correct.
Finally, thank you for your patience to read this article! I also wish you all DIY desktop topics!
Note: Part of this article and a picture refer to online information.
