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11-19-2007, 04:09 PM

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BrentDC

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Originally Posted by PinCushionQueen

Yeah... I don't use ZLauncher but I do use IconsPlus - so I am hoping to be able to use your icons with my launcher of choice (iSpin) and my own backgrounds. So I personally would prefer the regular transparent backgrounds to the icons.

Just my $.02

iSpin doesn't support backgrounds in the usual fashion, does it? They have to be built in to a theme, and iSpin is not that popular, so....

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11-19-2007, 05:47 PM

#47

FerdFerd

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Originally Posted by BrentDC

I hope that wasn't to confusing, lol. [about shadows and screen resolutions]

No, not too confusing, although I'm not sure I understand in detail. But I do get the point about shadows needing to different, depending on the background. I hadn't thought about hat.

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11-19-2007, 05:57 PM	#48
BrentDC Expect Spelling Errors Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,616	That is how it looks good on 32/24-bit, because they are transparent (background can be seen through the shadow that is more or less transparent depending on the desired effect). Now don't take what I said as 100% accurate, it is mostly just inspection and playing around with 24-bit graphics on the my confuser....um...computer __________________ -Brent Mobile Device lineage: Palm Z22 -> Palm TX -> Nokia N800 My review of the Nokia N800 Get my OpenMoko Theme Package for Palm OS here!

11-19-2007, 07:34 PM	#49
FerdFerd Recovering Palm Fiddler Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,334	Isn't 16-bit graphics the limit for Palms? __________________ Palm V --> (Palm Vx+Palm IIIc) --> Palm m515 --> Palm TX --> iPhone --> iPhone 3G

11-19-2007, 07:51 PM	#50
BrentDC Expect Spelling Errors Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,616	Yes, that's why there's the problem __________________ -Brent Mobile Device lineage: Palm Z22 -> Palm TX -> Nokia N800 My review of the Nokia N800 Get my OpenMoko Theme Package for Palm OS here!

11-19-2007, 09:55 PM	#51
PinCushionQueen Oxidants happen. Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Seattle Posts: 1,437	for the record... The registered version of iSpin completely supports custom backgrounds. I never use the built in ones. However as you said, it's not popular. So do what you want __________________ Palm TX + 2 Gb UltraII SD When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteorite hurtling to the earth which will destroy all life.

11-20-2007, 01:54 AM	#52
Church Punk Custom User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Germany Posts: 1,209	icon transparency problem on PalmOS is not because of bitrate (16bit), as seen on dmitry's skinUI, and LaunchAnywhere, you can have the alpha channel to a certain degree. Every icon has this alpha channel and it is used mostly for the shadows with a degradation in opacity. Now everybody is using this to make windows transparent ... fancyness. In PalmOS you work with bitmaps, the transparency is set by masking the silouette of the figure using grayscale depending on the desired opacity rate, or defining one color on the image that will be transparent. This then makes it difficult to make this shadow effet on the icons because the transparent channel is reduced to one color. There is still option tho, but only if the developers code this and with lots of hard work for skinners. By masking the bitmap, you can have differnt levels of transparency masked to a bitmap using the gray scale. This will mean that the skinner will need to define two bmp files. One with the image, the other with the grayscale for the transparency. Then delare both images and the level of opacity for each gray in the mask bmp. Who will like such a work, now icons arent created like that and dont need all this... This effect can be used perfeclty for the shadow in icons giving them a better look on any give background. __________________ yeah sorry jjf:) Last edited by Church Punk : 11-20-2007 at 02:32 AM.

11-20-2007, 10:17 AM	#53
BrentDC Expect Spelling Errors Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,616	Thanks for the explanation CP __________________ -Brent Mobile Device lineage: Palm Z22 -> Palm TX -> Nokia N800 My review of the Nokia N800 Get my OpenMoko Theme Package for Palm OS here!

11-20-2007, 12:20 PM	#54
BrentDC Expect Spelling Errors Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,616	Just a quick hit, DIA landscape is done, and so is the Graffiti skin, tell me what you think Oh, and the landscape icons look off center, but on a real device they actually aren't because of the Blackbordor, and black strip. __________________ -Brent Mobile Device lineage: Palm Z22 -> Palm TX -> Nokia N800 My review of the Nokia N800 Get my OpenMoko Theme Package for Palm OS here! Last edited by BrentDC : 11-20-2007 at 12:22 PM.

11-21-2007, 09:41 PM	#55
bdball Keepin' The Green! Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: K.C. Posts: 59	Hey BrentDC, can you clue me in to where I might find the openmoko icons in .png form so I can make an icon pack for MegaLauncher? Thanks in advance! __________________ The Last Known Non-Phone PDA User.

11-21-2007, 09:42 PM	#56
cms Tech Support Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Florida Everglades Posts: 1,452	Nice one Brent __________________ I have bought an Asus EEE 1000he. My palm TX is no longer needed. See my Replacer You can now find me on the EEEuser.com forums :)

11-21-2007, 10:31 PM	#57
BrentDC Expect Spelling Errors Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,616	@bdball They are on OpenMoko Wikipedia page. You can get 32x32 48x48 or 128x128. I tried to find again, and seriously I couldn't But if you want, PM me your email address and I'll email you them (tell me what size you want!). __________________ -Brent Mobile Device lineage: Palm Z22 -> Palm TX -> Nokia N800 My review of the Nokia N800 Get my OpenMoko Theme Package for Palm OS here!

11-22-2007, 07:01 PM	#58
bdball Keepin' The Green! Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: K.C. Posts: 59	BrentDC, Thanks again for the icons. I'll let you know how it turns out. __________________ The Last Known Non-Phone PDA User.

11-22-2007, 07:15 PM	#59
BrentDC Expect Spelling Errors Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,616	Ok, have fun __________________ -Brent Mobile Device lineage: Palm Z22 -> Palm TX -> Nokia N800 My review of the Nokia N800 Get my OpenMoko Theme Package for Palm OS here!