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Does anyone have a theme making guide?

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Old 11-07-2009, 11:30 AM   #1
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Does anyone have a theme making guide?

Decided I'm going to spend the weekend making themes/icons and the like
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Old 11-07-2009, 2:56 PM   #2
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Re: Does anyone have a theme making guide?

What sort of guide?

Not sure if this is what you meant but when im making one you have the main folder called name.theme. In there the folder I use are:

"Bundles" which contains "com.apple.springboard" and "com.apple.TelephonyUI".

springboard contains the battery images e.g. "BatteryBG_1.png" - "BatteryBG_17.png" as well as the status alert "SBBadgeBG.png".

telephonyUI contains the slide to unlock button/answer/switch off buttons "bottombarknobgray.png" etc.


The next folder is Icons, obvious what goes in here. They have to be named the exact same as the application and must be .png.


The final folder I use is "UIImages" and in here is things like "UIPopupAlertSheetBackground.png" for the new message alerts etc and the page indicators "UIPageIndicator.png" and "UIPageIndicatorCurrent.png".


As well as the folders "Dock.png" is the dock obviously.

"Wallpaper.png" is the wallpaper behind your icons and "LockBackground.png" is the wallpaper on the lock screen.

Info.plist also goes in the xxx.theme folder and in the plist you change strings such as text colour, slide to unlock text, text size etc.

Not sure if this is the sort of "guide" you meant but its the one I follow.


EDIT: Not sure if you bothered about spending hours and hours changing the dialler, notes etc but in Bundles...

com.apple.chatkit is the text application e.g. "Balloon_1.png" and "Balloon_2.png".

com.apple.mobilephone is the dialer e.g. "dialerkeypad.png" and "dialerkeypad_pressed.png"

com.apple.weather is the weather app e.g. "weather_day_bkgd.png" and "weather_night_bkgd.png"

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Old 12-07-2009, 11:56 AM   #3
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