MetaMorph themes for swype

[DF Smod]

sarreq, does it work before you make the changes to it ?

 

[sneaky_zekey]

I'm trying to make a theme and when I try to extract or apply it, it's telling me "the theme control file is either missing or incorrectly written". the only things I'm actually changing are the images, I'm not touching any of the XML. is there some trick I'm missing?

update: OK, weird, it's working now

anyway

Here's a red version of sneaky's Swype_DE. all I did was color shift the yellow to red, there's nothing else different. goes very nicely with the theme that comes with UD eXtreme 8.

make sure your not renameing the .zip file, you might be compressing it wronge, instead of extracting it just open it up with 7zip and make the image changes then back out of the archive, or drag and drop the modified images into there respective places in the .zip file

 

[sarreq]

sarreq, does it work before you make the changes to it ?

make sure your not renameing the .zip file, you might be compressing it wronge, instead of extracting it just open it up with 7zip and make the image changes then back out of the archive, or drag and drop the modified images into there respective places in the .zip file

like I said, it's working now. how are the zips supposed to be compressed?

update: I think I see what's going on. MetaMorph is expecting the XML to be "HostOS=Unix" within the .zip no matter what, isn't it? if it's doing that to make sure the .zip is compatible with the .apk, that's kinda silly, since MM extracts the files BEFORE applying them to the .apk, which would (or could/should) default the file's HostOS to UNIX anyway (or to that of the .apk's compression).

anyway, I think the problem I was having with it not even working from an already extracted theme was that I had forgotten to re-scan the SD card (after extracting the zip in windows) before trying to apply.

 

[sarreq]

i need a moderator to come by and move all my post next to each other and i need more space on page 1.lol

unless they're edit-locked, you could consolidate them them into the first post yourself by hand. not really the best of methods.:icon_eek:

 

[sneaky_zekey]

i need a moderator to come by and move all my post next to each other and i need more space on page 1.lol

unless they're edit-locked, you could consolidate them them into the first post yourself by hand. not really the best of methods.:icon_eek:

theres a limit on how many attachments you can put in a post,i was thinking more of the line of a mod moving all my post with attachments on the first page and moving all the user post down....i could throw them all up on my server and host them my self but i kinda moved on to doing a system theme found here http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-themes/84275-wip-theme-need-tsters.html

 

[Kack]

Hey BD take all the time you need. We know you are a person! Check out miui it is a nice change of pace and fun to play with while we all wait for UDEX9!

 

[lowboy]

Thanks. I loaded both blue's. Like the Blue the best.

 

[mikecolorama]

i tried the black with white keys from post 12 and couldn't get it to work with MM. i followed the directions exactly. any advice?

 

[sneaky_zekey]

i tried the black with white keys from post 12 and couldn't get it to work with MM. i followed the directions exactly. any advice?

extract it before placing it on sdcard. then in MM choose allready unzipp file and find the extracted file.

 

[mikecolorama]

i tried the black with white keys from post 12 and couldn't get it to work with MM. i followed the directions exactly. any advice?

extract it before placing it on sdcard. then in MM choose allready unzipp file and find the extracted file.

after extracting, do i put the folder that is just labeled "swype"?

 

[sneaky_zekey]

should be a folder named swypeblack

 

[mikecolorama]

should be a folder named swypeblack

i did that and followed the OP instruction exactly. i still get a message that goes by fast but says that something is missing and that something will be skipped.

 

[mikecolorama]

GOT IT AND LOVE IT!!! thanks for the help

 

[sarreq]

ok, I'm trying to match the word correction window (wcw) now, does anyone happen to know how to change the text color for it?

 

[sneaky_zekey]

ok, I'm trying to match the word correction window (wcw) now, does anyone happen to know how to change the text color for it?

i would say its in the res/values/color.xml, in that file i see this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<resources>
    <color name="borizontal_wcw_normal">#ffffffff</color>
</resources>