Can Someone tell me how to make themes myself for the Q! - Motorola Q

srrezaie · #1 10-28-2006, 01:32 PM

Hey I got a lot of sweet pics in my library, and was wondering if someone could help me with making themes for the Q! I would most assuredly share any new themes I make with the group. Thanks and sweet site guys and gals!

srrezaie

RaiderX · #2 12-03-2006, 05:48 PM

The best way to get started with making anything, is to open up existing ones and check them out and see how they work. Try it

e3pin0 · #3 12-26-2006, 02:45 PM

I was looking for some info on this also and found this link...

Tutorial: Creating XML homescreens - MoDaCo

baer3328 · #4 05-14-2007, 03:36 AM

I have also checked into this. Even spent the last 2 hours creating an XML document from scratch and making my background image. Unfortunately, something wasn't converted to Q terms and I can't get the XML to show up in the Home Screen view. I altered everything (as far as I know) to Q resolution and still haven't come up with anything. Do I have to alter the registry to allow more themes or something? In the interest of making sure it's not just a stupid coding problem, I'll include the code and background image in the event someone has the time and knowledge to actually read it.

FYI - The filename stands for HomeScreenBeta1

Syndil · #5 05-14-2007, 04:19 PM

There are some unclosed tags in your XML. I recommend XML Marker for editing home screens.

XML Marker - Free XML Editor- Easily browse and edit XML files.

baer3328 · #6 05-14-2007, 04:45 PM

Holy crap, a genuinely helpful person? Thank you for the tip, I appreciate it. I've never studied XML and my HTML is extremely rusty. I typed up a cheat sheet for the XML theme COLOR_... codes but there are some things I'm interested in that I wonder if you might be able to help me understand a bit further.

One is the infamous Tasks. I would LOVE for those to be displayed on my Today screen but have yet to figure it out. I hope WM6 has some improvements on the Tasks section. It should be more like the PC Outlook visual.

Is there a way to manipulate plug-ins such as the Carrier plug-in that says "Home Service" all the time. I like some aspects of this because at one click I can go in and turn the phone and bluetooth off but I don't think it's just a "general" plug-in. There has to be some manipulation there. Maybe I should just try and figure out which code it is in the respective theme and just copy it over to one that I hope I can eventually get working. Let me know if anyone has any thoughts please.

Syndil · #7 05-14-2007, 05:27 PM

Yes I try to be helpful, but I am the same person that you went off on for railing against software piracy. ;D

The XML Marker software is indeed very helpful for finding errors in XML. And it's free so I know you'll like that.

There is also a free tasks plugin that you can install and then insert into your XML home screens. See this thread: http://www.hellomotoq.com/forums/mot...ighlight=tasks

And the Carrier plug-in is rather easy to manipulate. Just replace <carrier/> with whatever text you want. Mine says "Syndil's Q."

Aurashismail · #8 05-14-2007, 05:32 PM

moto q may not even get wm6... that is depressing

RaiderX · #9 05-14-2007, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Aurashismail

moto q may not even get wm6... that is depressing

NOOOOOOO!!!!!! Don't make me think about that horrible thought. Hopefully if moto or verizon/sprint or whoever decides to be stupid and not release wm6 for the Q, someone will be able to hack it to run on the Q. hopefully...