[rpjohs]

Originally Posted by Deadmau5

You can add as many icons as you like, and navigate them whichever way you like without having to import an .svg file, as long as it's a "custom" theme and not a "today/zen/icon" style theme. This, of course, is if you're using CDK 4.6.

There's a great thread on the Plazmic forums explaining how to do just that:
plazmic.com/PlazmicForum/thread.jspa?threadID=787&tstart=0

*sorry I can't post a normal link yet, still under 10 posts..

Not talking about that, we are talking about creating an .svg file in composer like the "crossbar" theme.

[Deadmau5]

Originally Posted by rpjohs

Not talking about that, we are talking about creating an .svg file in composer like the "crossbar" theme.

Ahh gotcha. Makes sense, I'd like to know that myself..

[SaneinOne]

Here's a Today/Zen theme with 4 calendar entries and 10 scrolling icons. Feel free to download and let me know what you think.

[rpjohs]

Originally Posted by SaneinOne

Here's a Today/Zen theme with 4 calendar entries and 10 scrolling icons. Feel free to download and let me know what you think.

Downloading now...

[SaneinOne]

Here's a screenshot

[Magnum]

I got it, well I need to work out a few minor kinks to make it perfect, but I have installed one of my test themes with the scrolling dock and it is scrolling.

Wooo-hoooo, oh and thanks "MrKyoo" for popping in telling me I'm going at it the hard way and then abandoning ship....

[Deadmau5]

Originally Posted by Magnum

I got it, well I need to work out a few minor kinks to make it perfect, but I have installed one of my test themes with the scrolling dock and it is scrolling.

Wooo-hoooo, oh and thanks "MrKyoo" for popping in telling me I'm going at it the hard way and then abandoning ship....

Care to share the details?

I've tried modifying the existing JScroll theme (in the Plazmic sample folder) like SaneinOne did above, and it works the way it's supposed to if I leave the JScroll.svg file untouched. However I tried modifying the composer file (JScroll.cp) in the Composer (just added some background, nothing major), and when I export it to SVG the bar doesn't scroll anymore when I import the .svg file into a theme. Is there something that needs to be set in the exporting options in the Composer to make it work?

[Iare Tosevite]

I wonder if it can be hand-modified... sometimes editors has odd bugs.

[ethereallover]

Excellent info! I think I may try my hand at this later.

[wu-wei]

Originally Posted by Deadmau5

Care to share the details?

I've tried modifying the existing JScroll theme (in the Plazmic sample folder) like SaneinOne did above, and it works the way it's supposed to if I leave the JScroll.svg file untouched. However I tried modifying the composer file (JScroll.cp) in the Composer (just added some background, nothing major), and when I export it to SVG the bar doesn't scroll anymore when I import the .svg file into a theme. Is there something that needs to be set in the exporting options in the Composer to make it work?

I'm in the same boat. I'm trying to re-size the sample to 320 x 240, and the icons to the standard size for smaller screens, but I'm getting nowhere.

[garys11]

Editing the JCScroll (resizing the screen size and icons) will not work. You will have to redo the 'X' and 'Y' positions also. If you did that by hand, it take you weeks. but I know how to ...

[wu-wei]

I'm a pretty patient guy, I'll figure it out sooner or later.

[wu-wei]

And patience has paid off...

[Iare Tosevite]

Gonna love those non-answer ego answers.

[Magnum]

Wirelessly posted (9000)

Originally Posted by Iare Tosevite

Gonna love those non-answer ego answers.

What was that song by Billy Squire (sp)??? Stroke me, stroke me, stroke, stroke.....



Lol.

[ethereallover]

Well did anyone figure out the settings to set when exporting to SVG to get the icons to scroll?

[wu-wei]

Originally Posted by ethereallover

Well did anyone figure out the settings to set when exporting to SVG to get the icons to scroll?

Not in any way that's really satisfying. Things just don't line up most of the time - and export to SVG is not the place to adjust.

I'm starting from scratch.

[nqwan]

Originally Posted by ethereallover

Well did anyone figure out the settings to set when exporting to SVG to get the icons to scroll?

To the best of my knowledge, Composer doesn't currently support the specific transform animations required to make the scrolling and bottom dock themes. This is why they are added to the .svg using a text editor.

Use Composer to make your layout and theme button bar/dock and then export to SVG. Then open the SVG file in a text editor and type in the coding for the transform animations at the end to get the theme buttons to move around. Check out the jscroll and todayplus svg files to see how this is done. You'll need to have an understanding of how the commands actually accomplish the scrolling/moving of theme buttons during the focus in animations in order to correctly set the x and y values if you are resizing.

I've been able to get the scroll, dock, and even scrolling dock to work for the Pearl and Curve but they do not navigate properly because OS 4.5 does not support setting the navigation order in Theme Builder. Composer allows the adjusting of the button focus order but I still can't get it to interface properly with the rest of the theme. To be more specific, navigation is backwards (ie left is right, up is down), including having to scroll up to get to the scroll bar or bottom dock.

[bbtrapped]

Just like nqwan said: You have to add the transform animation tags to your svg after you completed the layout in composer. Composer can't add these tags at this time. So its up to you to place them in the svg while opening with notepad.

If any pearl users want a copy of a working jscroll svg, just pm me.


As for the navigation, scrolling right makes the icons scroll right, and scrolling left scrolls all the icons to the left. I would suggest having a profile icon in your banner, and set the navigation in themebuilder to horizontal scroll and scroll up to profile icon.

[nqwan]

Originally Posted by bbtrapped

Just like nqwan said: You have to add the transform animation tags to your svg after you completed the layout in composer. Composer can't add these tags at this time. So its up to you to place them in the svg while opening with notepad.

If any pearl users want a copy of a working jscroll svg, just pm me.


As for the navigation, scrolling right makes the icons scroll right, and scrolling left scrolls all the icons to the left. I would suggest having a profile icon in your banner, and set the navigation in themebuilder to horizontal scroll and scroll up to profile icon.

Yep, I want the opposite of that. If I move the trackball to the right, the buttons scroll to the right, meaning I just highlighted the button to the left. I want it so it highlights the button in the same direction as I'm moving the trackball. I can reverse the button order and have the button bar/layer move right instead of left in the svg file but that would start the scrolling on the right hand side of the screen.

I do have a profile icon in the banner. The issue occurs when I add today or zen icons to the homescreen in addition to the scroll bar or dock. With a vertical scroll layout, I have to scroll up from the today/zen icons to get to the bottom dock/scroll bar. It's as if the svg takes focus priority over the Theme Builder content regardless of where the svg buttons are on the screen.

If there was a way to adjust the navigation order in Theme Builder like with the OS 4.6 phones, there wouldn't be a problem.