1src Forums - ThumbArt pTunes skin

08-24-2009, 07:24 AM	#1
brum Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 63	ThumbArt pTunes skin Would anyone be interested in helping me make this skin for pockettunes? I've been looking everywhere for true thumb-friendliness and album art. Anyone like this design or got any ideas for improvement?

08-24-2009, 08:24 AM	#2
Bla8 Bernhard Strobl Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Immenstadt, Germany Posts: 149	Well I have sold my Palm TX and in that way discontinued development of Garnet related things, but I can help since I am used to it and also have a winmo device with Pocket Tunes (uses pretty much the same skin engine). However, if I help you I will also port this skin to windows mobile and send it to normsoft, would you be fine with that (or you can send the port to them personally)?

08-25-2009, 07:35 AM	#3
rossarnie Alleged User Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: South Africa Posts: 90	I think it looks great!

08-25-2009, 08:38 AM	#4
Glen Lee Palm Skinner Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 43	@brum Did you design that? or where did you grab that skin? It looks good.. I can probably port that to ptunes __________________ http://www.palmpro.net

09-14-2009, 07:16 AM	#5
brum Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 63	Sorry for the delay. It could suck that I designed it in Publisher! I don't mind if you make money from it, just put my name in there. I've got some other ideas that I'm keen on and hope to work on over the next while. I think the cover art and title/artist need to be more prominent. I love the way the pTunes iTunes 7 skin's coverflow works though I I hate the rest of the skin. I wish pTunes coding was easier so I could have a crack. What can I do to help someone make it? Do I need to save the files as certain sizes?

10-24-2009, 10:52 PM	#6
brum Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 63	Decided to re-think a little, I think this puppy is a near goer. Thoughts? Also what would I need to do to help someone pull it together? at the moment it's all image(s)... I really want this on my device. [EDIT] I hope you guys are keen because I just put the image on my centro and it looks sooo gud. Ahhh... please someone? Last edited by brum : 10-24-2009 at 10:55 PM.

10-24-2009, 11:11 PM	#7
brum Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 63	I straight up wanted it to be simple, practical (Palm Zen) and beautiful (think V). Looking back it will still require some tweaking. So you know I'm thinking: - Tap title for full-size album art - details via list button - could use this to toggle to a secondary (/primary?) simple screen sans volume, repeat, random, plus/minus (maybe cover flow version?) - Tap the album art to play/pause behind the title/artist is the indicator for whether it's playing or paused (display square if nothing loaded) - The cover art above is what would display with no art - I've come to really like AyIu's iPhone volume slider, it works great with your nail. I would strongly consider doing a 320x480 version - I will be returning to my TX after the Pre isn't coming to Oz and I'm getting over the Centro.

10-25-2009, 03:55 AM	#8
brum Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 63	Okay I'm not holding my breath and am aware of different time zones, here's another revision:

10-26-2009, 01:03 AM	#9
rossarnie Alleged User Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: South Africa Posts: 90	I think it looks brilliant! It's clean and classy.

10-27-2009, 07:35 AM	#10
brum Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 63	thank you kindly rossarnie... now just hoping Glen can lend a hand.

11-02-2009, 03:25 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Bla8

Well I have sold my Palm TX and in that way discontinued development of Garnet related things...

Say it isn't so!!!

Well, nice work on this new skin guys. I'd love to try it out. Is it for 480 screens (portrait/landscape) as well?

11-03-2009, 01:49 AM	#12
brum Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 63	It doesn't exist yet... at this stage, there isn't many programmers out there for Palm OS. I'm going back to a T\|X from my Centro so I would be naturally doing the graphics for that(640x480) in time. Crossing my finger on this.

11-10-2009, 03:23 AM	#13
Macc Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 1	I really like all of your designs and I think they would look fantastic instead of the ordinary pTunes skin. Someone please help make this into an actual skin!

11-16-2009, 12:19 AM	#14
brum Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 63	I'm beginning to lose hope... A pity too because I'm planning on having my Centro for at least another year...

11-16-2009, 07:31 AM

#15

Bla8

Bernhard Strobl

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Quote:

Originally Posted by brum

I'm beginning to lose hope...

A pity too because I'm planning on having my Centro for at least another year...

If you can get me a (legal) license of classic for my Pre, then I can code the skin. Otherwise I am just tapping in the dark and you may have to go through several hotsync rounds if you want me to help.