New Skin, Few Questions

[triton]

yeah, im at it again, this time its gonna be a supprise till im almost done, but i need to know if you can move the icons position or change their shape (length and width) ? is it possible?

 

[mittens]

I believe there are couple of skins with diff. location of icons. (ex. setting menu of katamari skin)

But have no idea of shape, sorry,

 

[triton]

any idea how to make em in a different location?

 

[Mr Doctor]

You can change the shape with no probs... positioning is something I want to know how to do to Hate having it so.... cluttered.

 

[tengen]

i have no clue. maybe just mess around with it?

 

[green1152]

If you could change the position of the icons, that would be the ultimate skin.. I have so many ideas for that.

 

[AireTamStorm]

any idea how to make em in a different location?

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I do believe that to be impossible at the current time, I've been working on a Nayuki Minase skin for a while, and basically you have to change the size of the images to get em to move around, although they will not be able to be positioned above or to the left of where they are originally placed.

As I was playing around with simply letting the images run off the screen in a controlled environment, I found that you can get around half of this issue (position the icon left of its original position) by making the image too wide. It will shift the image left as far as necessary until it fits in the screen. Do not make the image wider than 320 pixels. The image simply wont show then.

Disappointingly enough, you cannot make the image too tall and move it "up" in the process. It will just run off the bottom of the screen.

If I find a way around this, I'll post it here.

 

[triton]

pretty interesting, i might have to mess with making a skin later on again. kinda quit because the style i was doping it in was a bit over my head at this point in time lol

 

[Mr. Anderson]

The problem is you can't adjust the buttons freely you are allways a bit limited cause the button for the image viewer will allways be on the right side you can't have it on the left, it's impossible without manipulating the firmware and I don't have a clue how to wether do I like to.

I show you something I experimented with, that's how far you can go with changing icon destination:

As you can see I lowered the icons a bit and fitted them a bit more to the right(I also made them smaller) so that the main image wouldn't be screwed by the icons. However it is really a pain to adjust the icons, it took me about an hour to get them all where they are right now...

 

[stonerdrifter]

I found that you can do things like this (with careful planing and lots of time)


btw the skin is not done yet, ill post it some where when its done.

(if some1 could help me with the music player i would greatly apreciated it)

EDIT: heres a pic of the place ment of the icons

 

[Mr. Anderson]

I don't have a clue how you've done this, cause the icons seem to stick on the fixed positions and by the looks of it, you've done 320*240 "icons" that are all covering the full screen...

If this would be possible(never tried it cause I thought the icons stick to their fixed positions) then icon placement would be pretty easy.

 

[Paradox]

very nice use of icon placement, but i dont like the images heh

 

[triton]

neon genesis envangelon, nice. never seen the show tho. i should make an anime inspired skin, seems to be the current trend lol

 

[stonerdrifter]

Not bad dont you think Mr.Anderson. its actully pretty simple. First of all i made the all the icons completely black so I could see where the icon boxes when, then i print screened that, and used as a template for the where the icons go on the skin.this picture should help explain things. you can put and icon in any box with a darker shade of red than its own. all you have to do is make the icon the size of it's usable area and place the icon within it, like so:


(if u save the picture and use it in a skin you'll see what i mean)

A problem is when placing icon 8 (settings), as u can see there is no area darker than icon 8's box. this restricts you to a small region of the screen. I also put the two icon placements that i think are usable in the pic as well.

very nice use of icon placement, but i dont like the images heh

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The backgrounds can be changed pretty easily. i should probably put the .PSD up too so people can make their own. What do you think?

(btw if anyone wants me to make a skin for them id be more than happy too, its currently my school holiday so i have loads of free time, except when im playing my gp2x )

 

[Paradox]

Not bad dont you think Mr.Anderson. its actully pretty simple. First of all i made the all the icons completely black so I could see where the icon boxes when, then i print screened that, and used as a template for the where the icons go on the skin.this picture should help explain things. you can put and icon in any box with a darker shade of red than its own. all you have to do is make the icon the size of it's usable area and place the icon within it, like so:


(if u save the picture and use it in a skin you'll see what i mean)

A problem is when placing icon 8 (settings), as u can see there is no area darker than icon 8's box. this restricts you to a small region of the screen. I also put the two icon placements that i think are usable in the pic as well.

very nice use of icon placement, but i dont like the images heh

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The backgrounds can be changed pretty easily. i should probably put the .PSD up too so people can make their own. What do you think?

(btw if anyone wants me to make a skin for them id be more than happy too, its currently my school holiday so i have loads of free time, except when im playing my gp2x )

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I'll take you up on that offer, only i dont want a new skin id like you to edit mine!

http://archive.gp2x.de/cfiles/screenshots/SkinPreview.gif
http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?act=P...833&qpid=320554

it would be cool to have the original default icons on my skin in the bottom right corner, like some skin ive seen somewhere on these forums..just had a flick through the archive but i cant seem to find it :/

it had the icons laid out like this:
http://deep.phpwebhosting.com/~paradox/upload/layout.JPG
(squares are off ignore my ms.paint skills )

if you can do it thanks

 

[Rayek]

yeah, im at it again, this time its gonna be a supprise till im almost done, but i need to know if you can move the icons position or change their shape (length and width) ? is it possible?

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Didn't we already cover this? I made you a nice diagram, about three topics ago on this same subject :

Hello, I'm the other topic.

 

[stonerdrifter]

Man, I wish I had seen that. It would have saved me heaps of time. Oh well.

 

[triton]

that post is from about hmm lets see, 17 days ago. lol. hey stonedrifter you wanna fix up my skin too? its in the archive! here feel free to make better icons and do whatever the hell you want, i like my backgrounds tho, change icon placement or whatever

 

[stonerdrifter]

Hey paradox i got those icons for you. just how am i supposed to get them to you?lol
(yeah sure triton, do u have a particular theme u want?)

 

[gremrod]

Not bad dont you think Mr.Anderson. its actully pretty simple. First of all i made the all the icons completely black so I could see where the icon boxes when, then i print screened that, and used as a template for the where the icons go on the skin.this picture should help explain things. you can put and icon in any box with a darker shade of red than its own. all you have to do is make the icon the size of it's usable area and place the icon within it, like so:


(if u save the picture and use it in a skin you'll see what i mean)

A problem is when placing icon 8 (settings), as u can see there is no area darker than icon 8's box. this restricts you to a small region of the screen. I also put the two icon placements that i think are usable in the pic as well.

very nice use of icon placement, but i dont like the images heh

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The backgrounds can be changed pretty easily. i should probably put the .PSD up too so people can make their own. What do you think?

(btw if anyone wants me to make a skin for them id be more than happy too, its currently my school holiday so i have loads of free time, except when im playing my gp2x )

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Good job. I was starting to think about how we can really mess with the layout. Now I know. Great Job!