New skin "Shadows" for Palmrevolt and skin UI

[OLD_HATCH]

I've been working on a new skin inspired by the HTC Touch HD. So far I have only finished the Palmrevolt version but will start working on the skinUI version soon. I will add animations to the alert popups in skinUI.


I dont know if I am keeping the alert icons as of yet so they might change. The beam icon was sorta just a joke for me since I have a blue 755p. That will change though when I finish the skins up.


If there are drawing issues please post along with screenshots if you can. Some of the highlighted items the Treo does not use compared to PDA;s so please post if there is an issue.


Here is a couple of screenshots.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/sinnedone/PrevoltHTC.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/sinnedone/PrevoltHTCHigh-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/sinnedone/PrevoltHTCmenu.jpg






OK changed the icons to these.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/sinnedone/20081020-162234.jpg

[JerryG]

That is looking Really Nice! Thank you! I'll be/am waiting for the SkinUI version... :)

Feature request - can you put coffee on the menu? :D

Regards,

-JerryG

[bh77a]

Hi Old_Hatch,

This looks really sharp! Looking forward to trying the SkinUI version as well... may fire up PalmRevolt to see how it looks later this evening.

Regards...

[cyberdude]

Hi Old_Hatch,

This looks really sharp! Looking forward to trying the SkinUI version as well... may fire up PalmRevolt to see how it looks later this evening.

Regards...
I still have my version of PR, but it's in an old backup set. I'll wait for the skinui version. Looks great!

[scottl]

Lookin' good, but it doesn't work out so well for me because I disable "Color" in SkinUI effects globally because it doesn't mix well with the fonts I use in FontSmoother. Without the forced black background, this skin loses a bit of its appeal. I've practically eliminated SkinUI because it and FontSmoother muck up a lot of screen draws. The "pretty" interface is nice, but given the choice, small fonts take precedence.

But as I said, in a test import to SkinUI and FontSmother disabled, this looks nice! Good job.

[OLD_HATCH]

Thanks for the compliments. I started with Palmrevolt cause it s easier to use HPskinstudio to fit images together than the skinui skinmaker.

Without the black fill it wouldn't look nice at all so I feel you on that one. I myself don't like dark themes much cause in bright daylight they're difficult to see.

Right now I'm working on the colors in the skinUI version. Its a little difficult since some of the colors labeled as not used in the rcp file actually are and I have to find out what they are.


hopefully in a week or two I'll finish the skinui version. :D


SO far I have 2 issues with the Palmrevolt version that I need to fix.

1 no frame color on Treo call buttons and some old applications that use the same color for button outlines.

2 calc is using a light grey text instead of black.

[JerryG]

OLD_HATCH - I'll be awaitin'!!! :D

Thanks again!

L8r,

-JerryG

[OLD_HATCH]

Ok the skinUI version is done. It can be found here.

http://www.1src.com/freeware/fileinfo.php?id=1895



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/sinnedone/20081020-161729.jpg



Let me know what you guys think.

[palmuse]

Looks great! One of the best black themes I have tried. Nice work. I might switch from white to black soon. :D Thanks

[gtbaum]

Excellent work! Thank you.

[broncot]

I like the SkinUI version, but I lose the signal bars on my 700p, they remain black so they're lost in the background.
I too am getting the blue select box, not sure if that was something you were just working on for PalmRevolt.
Thanks

[OLD_HATCH]

Unfortunately that along with the title bar and speed dial buttons text in the Phone app are not editable in either skinUI or Palm revolt. I think a couple of apps suffer from this as well including Pics n Videos

For whatever reason they do not use the same method of choosing color and always remain the black color.(white for selected speed dial button)


As far as the blue box? Do you mean the original palm highlighting?

If so, some programs will still use that regardless. This is true for both skinUI and Palmrevolt. Palmrevolt gives you the option of changing the colors in menu>color theme.

[bh77a]

@ Old_Hatch,

I REALLY like this skin on my black Centro. All that is missing is an accompanying ZLauncher theme. Do you mind if the bitmaps are extracted from your skins to create one (or better yet, do you have a copy of the bitmaps you are willing to share)?

If so, please let me know at bahoughton @ mac . com (minus the spaces). Thanks for considering!

[JerryG]

Old_Hatch - Thanks Much! Bee-You-Tee-Full work!

Regards,

-JerryG

[OLD_HATCH]

@ bh77a

email was sent this past week. did you receive?


Thanks for the compliments.

[JavaJiveJump]

There is no doubt about how cool dark colors are on the screen. But I love light colors too (esp. the blue family). Will you make variations on this theme!!

Great work!! :)

[OLD_HATCH]

I've been thinking about doing an inverted theme withe a white or very light grey background actually.

I want to make a different skin in dark/light blues to match my 755 though. Maybe this year. It ws very time consuming to get this skin done. Especially the animations.

[JavaJiveJump]

Well if you get a little free time, I will love to test dark/light blues skins. Again, great job! Thanks!

[Mickets]

very nice, great job!
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[OLD_HATCH]

Thank you


I will upload when I get to it and post if either I do an inverted shadows skin or a blue on light blue skin. Probably won tbe for a little while though.


Thanks again for the compliments

[ejtbatchelor]

Great skin, I think the dark colors help with any privacy concerns as well. ie someone looking over your shoulder, also I think a light blue on black would be sweet.

[Sjweise]

It looks very good! I have had to given up on skins though since i have found that my Treo 680 runs so much faster (which is NOT saying a lot) without those kind of apps running.

[rossarnie]

Could you do a version for PalmRevolt please?

[OLD_HATCH]

I know what you mean about slowing things down but its not really noticeacble on my 755. I think skinUI's pretty skins are one of the reasons I'm still happy with my Treo. :D



Could you do a version for PalmRevolt please?


This didnt work for you?

http://www.1src.com/freeware/fileinfo.php?id=1894

[rossarnie]

This didnt work for you?

http://www.1src.com/freeware/fileinfo.php?id=1894
Oops - didn't see it - sorry!

[dmitrygr]

a beautiful skin, and ultimately what might convince me to take up the "remove white screen border on treo 680" challenge

[scottl]

a beautiful skin, and ultimately what might convince me to take up the "remove white screen border on treo 680" challengeThat would certainly be awesome. Sure hope that would work for other Treo's - 755p in particular. ;)

[OLD_HATCH]

a beautiful skin, and ultimately what might convince me to take up the "remove white screen border on treo 680" challenge


Thank you.

That would definately help with all the black themes. ;)


(or course with my luck it might be different between GSM and CDMA :mad: )

[mcentreville2]

a beautiful skin, and ultimately what might convince me to take up the "remove white screen border on treo 680" challenge
That would be great! I've also created several dark skins for TAKEphONE, etc., and the white border really detracts. Thanks for considering it!
http://mcentreville.deviantart.com/art/bStorming-Skin-101332833
http://mcentreville.deviantart.com/gallery/

[scottl]

Being able to pick a color from a palette screen would be sick! Second to that would be a few different compilations. BLackBorder, BlueBorder, RedBorder, etc.

But if neither of those, black is a LOT better than white! Thanks again for even thinking about this Dmitry.

[OLD_HATCH]

Well.....for anyone interested I started working on an inverted version. Basicly white backgrounds with whitish buttons. Same concept as the shadows skin. Since transparancy isnt supported trying to keep the buttons almost the same color as background to kinda simulate transparency.

Im about 1/3 of the way done and will probably make a new thread when it gets done. As of now if I have enough time I might be done by Christmas.

[broncot]

As far as the blue box? Do you mean the original palm highlighting?

If so, some programs will still use that regardless. This is true for both skinUI and Palmrevolt. Palmrevolt gives you the option of changing the colors in menu>color theme.

I found a free pref panel that let's you customize the focus ring, it's found here:
centro.laursifer.com/Freeware/FocusColor/index.html
Any update on the whiteish on white theme?
Thanks

[OLD_HATCH]

no updates :(

Its halfway done i just havent had time to finish. hopefully soon I'll be able to sit down n try, attached is whats done so far though.

[brum]

I love your your black PalmRevolt skin, you seem to have something many people don't - logic. Your skin is clean, consistent, sharp and easy on the eyes my only gripe is the icons which is the only element that isn't as fluid.

Is there a chance you could substitute the icons with a more consistent/2D style ala StealOS-Grey which the only part of that theme that I like.

http://www.3gxsoft.com/skins/skins.php?np=2&sort=1&sop=25

Love your work!

[brum]

First off, this skin is tha bomb! Love it through and through but...

Hatch, I don't know if it's the skin or SkinUI functionality, I posted this before but I understand you may not have known what I was talking about.

Below are my problems with colour conflicts, is it just that SkinUI doesn't have access to the colour of that area? It seems that the built in Palm colour changer doesn't mod it either.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k279/brum234/ScreenShots%20Centro/Snap-C65D9934.jpg Every first message is unreadable and every second is hard to read.
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k279/brum234/ScreenShots%20Centro/Snap-C65D9945.jpg A way to change the background of the week dialogue to black/grey?
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k279/brum234/ScreenShots%20Centro/Snap-C65D994D.jpg Numbers are unreadable..
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k279/brum234/ScreenShots%20Centro/Snap-C65D9BE3.jpg Titles are unreadable..

I noticed that PalmRevolt has a more indepth but less intuitive user colour mod dialogue. I can't find anywhere which explains the meaning of the list items though, any ideas?

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k279/brum234/ScreenShots%20Centro/Snap-C65D9985.jpg

[bradb]

First off, this skin is tha bomb! Love it through and through but...
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k279/brum234/ScreenShots%20Centro/Snap-C65D9934.jpg Every first message is unreadable and every second is hard to read.

Second... I absolutely love this skin (and it's made me a dark-skin convert.. very Touch/pre/iPhone-looking to me..) and with FontSmoother, some use of Colorize (added the "big button" border of a light grey), and now the FocusColor hack thanks to this thread, my Centro is looking amazing..\

My only problem is these apps that seem to have white/light grey hardcoded into them! Messaging (SMS) is the biggest problem, but also Calendar does it and so does Sprint Mobile Email app which I use... is there a way to hack this? TIA!