Custom Right Menu Textures

Open the Control Panel (in Extras), then select the icon "Display parameters". Here there are 2 pages, one for contrast and brightnes, and one for color. In "color" you can select the background picture (the one you show is "leaves"😉.

Bye,
Guillaume

THANX
But I know that..of course.

So maybe I did not specify my question correctly.
I was thinking of custom .jpg pic�s .
Kinda like the wallpapers..
But those 5 pic�s for the Right menu Nokia has supplyed us with just isen�t enough.
Imagine only having 5 Nokia wallpapers to chose from...
Now that would be a downer.
There must be a way to sneak in a custom pic somewhere, but where ?

So the Question is still wide open

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Goto filemanager and Shift+Ctrl+k -> Yes.

Then goto C\system\data\display.mbm and open it.

Those pictures are in frames.. (Ctrl+N next frame).

Hope it helps..
Now you just replace those pic's somehow..

Regards.
Janne

<B>Very nice indeed</B>

I got them.....Now that part was easy..
I haven�t been there, thanks Jep

BUT..Now that we know where they are located, how do you add a custom frame.
Is it to overwrite one of the old ones or is there a way to add new frames in the display.mbm file ?
Any creative ideas outthere ???

It would be possible to create a new file that inlcuded new frames. You would probably have to do this using BMPCONV tool from the SDK (used to created .mbm from .bmp). You may also be abel to create single frame files to swap in and out with the built in.

I may look at investigating this sometime in the future, but I've got more than enough to do atm!

If anyone does produce any files I'll gladly place them on the site though.

Rafe

When you find something out, there is also "system\apps\home\extraicons.mbm"
includin icons used in desk..

I mean, Somebody who have time to deal with .mbm files , just take your time Rafe.

<B>OH JOY</B>
Imagine...Custom Icons on the Desk...

Hey..A new program idea appeared...

Would it be possible to make a "Theme changer" Application..First update the .mbm files manually..."The Themes"...Then have a program to change the Colours, Wallpaper, Right pane, and maybe even the icons(If one packed himself a LARGE icons.mbm file)..That would be real slick..

Heck..Im not at C++ kind of guy so i�ll toss the ball up

Custom backgrounds for right CBA panel are available from My-Communicator.com (http//My-Communicator.com. "Theme Changer" application is on the way.

I've been investigating this in the emulator - however I've discovered the emulator does not appear to have the second screen of the display dialog...

so could some send me a screenshot of what it looks like (I'm writing an article about customisation) [you'll get credit]

and also could someone send display.mbm and the extraicons.mbm that JeP talked about. If I get a chance I'll have a play and let you know what happens!

e-mail = [email protected][email protected]</a> please

Thanks
Rafe

Wow!, now that was fast or what loonyworld?

Thx to Michael Jerz if it was you, who make it....But why commercial?

I think there's also startup picture, "hands", somewhere in there...

Rafe, you know any other software to edit .mbm pic's?

As far as I am aware there is nos oftware for editing COLOUR mbm files on the PC, you have to convert back and forth between bmp's. You can create them more easily on an EPOC machine than anywhere else.

However the conversion isn't too difficult and I'll hopefully have something (a tutorial) for you all soon that will allow creation of your own custom startup pictures / textures etc.

Rafe

<B>Wohoo......</B>
Yep...That was kinda of fast...
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Yes..Really cool indeed..But why commercial? I can�t figure that out..Sure Sites need support.But in this way ??...Anyways ... I want my own images...SO
On to the great news.
The SDK kit arrived in the mail from Nokia this morning.So now it�s all about gettin to know that BMPconverter and image resulutions and the likes.so maybe soon there will be a Loonyzip file with Loonytextures and Loonystartup screen and maybe even small Loony Icons for the Desk...Boy..That�s gonna be awsome.
I only wonder if there is a limit the the amount of BMP frames you can pack in a MBM file..(like the 4 there is now)..
And the SIS installer...Hmmm..Better learn that too.
Oh boy...Imagine a complete LoonyTheme.sis...Fully Free of charge..Made with a big smile for me and all you nice guys.....
Well....Better stop typing and start with the project...

See you all......
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GOOD luck with you're project

Regards
Janne

and hosted here he he

If you need an help let me know and I might be able to give you some pointers. I do know a fair amount about bmpconv and sis files, I'm just useless at graphics in general (if you hadn't guessed from the lack them on the site; althought that partly to keep things fast loading...)

Rafe

<B>HELP</B>

Holy moses...This is trickyer than I figured i�d be !

Rafe...Man..I need all the pointers I can get.
I only had the SDK up and running for a few days, and that BMCONV.EXE baffels my mind.
But I slowly getting somewhere....I think.
They should have made the tools with a GUI like the Menubuilder and AIF Builder in Developer tools.

Well ....Back to the Documentation

Michal Jerz did it..So it�s possible.
Long live Poland..

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<B>Until next time.....Stay within network coverage</B>
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it isn�t a problem to make personal themes for the CBA panel

you only need the program BMCONV.exe (delivered with the SDK) and 1-4 BMP�s 130*200 pixels and a Text editor.

first you copie bmconv.exe and the bmp�s
into the same folder, then you open the Text editor and write a file like these

anyname.mbm
/c24yourpic.bmp
/c24yourpic2.bmp
/c24yourpic3.bmp

etc. ...

save it as anyname.txt

c24 stays for the resolution, c16 stands for 16bit, c24 for 24bit (looks best, i think)

there are other resolutions too, but i don�t know them yet.

then go into dosprompt to the folder where the are prog and the pictures and type

bmconv anyname.txt

if all is correct the screen looks like these

BMCONV version 103.
Compiling...
Multiple Bitmap store type File store
Epoc file anyname.mbm

Bitmap file 1 yourpic1.BMP
Bitmap file 2 yourpic2.BMP
Bitmap file 3 yourpic3.BMP
success.

now rename the mbm to display.mbm
and copy it on your 9210 into the folder /system/data/

The new CBA Theme is only one restart away

hope it helps....

Best Regards LFO

and ..... sorry for my bad english

here are some pics from my Barney Gumble Theme

<B>MAN..........I LOVE YOU</B>

Thats all...

Now it works...

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Woah!

Nice one. This will make it a lot easier for me to put a tutorial together. I'm very busy at the moment - just about to go back to Uni , but soon (after a site move maybe) I'll have a full customisation tutorial...

Would you like to send me your customised display.mbm so I can put it on the site?

Rafe

Sure Rafe....I�ll send them over tomorrow..

Man This is some Great stuff....
When you see those crispy colour bitmaps in action on the screen.You start to wonder why Nokia did not make that feature avalible in the control panel to start out with..It makes the phone look so much better.
All depending on taste that is of course.
But .... Man ..... This Rocks....

Hell im ganna make a ER6 Theme.. LOL

He He....Im back..

Yes...How could I go to bed when I had all this new knowledge to make use of.(Thanks to you guys)..
So I did it ... A loony.mbm...
Nice ......
Here�s how the .bmp�s look like

Ok so you wanna have them on your 92xx
Well sure...Here you go.

Heres how..
<UL>
<LI>Right click and save target as. <A HREF="http//loonyworld.homepage.dk/loony.mbm" TARGET="_blank"><B>loony.mbm</B></A>

<LI>On your 92xx make a backup of C\system\data\display.mbm

<LI>Rename you happyly new downloaded loony.mbm to display.mbm

<LI>Place the thingie in C\system\data on the 92xx and overwrite the old one

<LI>Tear off the battery and reboot the 92xx

<LI>Well....There it is.
</UL>

I made them in 16bit to minimize the workload on memory, and the CPU in load processes.

Now I gotta make som more and experiment with the limets of the colours.

Im truly Grateful for the help from all you nice people

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Now this is what we want.
please make some more, more themes
(Rafe, you obiviously put every themes to download directory?)

Thanks to Loonyworld, Lfo, Rafe..

There's plenty more to do with Linda and this was just one step.

Thanks

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I wonder why only 1-4? i have 5 pics (water,leaves,plain,wheels,sand)?

Hehe, this is all nice. But is there anybody who knows how the change the names of those graphics (wheels, sand...)? I already found it, who else?

greetz,
Jan

Its my guess that the Nokia 9210 is only expecting an mbm file with a certainnumber of frames in it, hence it will only be able to use the first four. It may also be the case that the four name are hardcoded in (you can't encode information like that into mbm's), and might not be possible to change them.

Thanks to everyone for their contribution on this. I'll put any display.mbm files in the downloads directory (I'll get to it ASAP, but there's other thing on the list right now...

Rafe

Lol, i thought the webmaster would know
Well the names of the graphics can be changed in display.rsc BUT don't make the names longer as they are now, or it won't work. And indeed you can't use more than 4 graphics per mbm, as display.app is designed to deal with only 4 graphics

greetz,
Jan

Thank you to share your info.

Regards
JeP

np. i'm new here but that will change I use psions for about 10 years and i think this will be helpfull sometimes

regards

http//www.xnview.com/

I believe XNview can edit and save directly to multiframe MBMs.

Mick.