CodeProject Theme for T610, T616 and T618

• Download theme 1 - 20 Kb
• Download screen saver 1 - 3 kb
• Download theme 2 - 15 Kb
• Download screen saver 2 - 4 kb

Theme 1

Theme 2

Introduction

If you want to know how I programmed this theme in MFC, C#, and VB.NET, sorry, I didn't! I had a slow Friday afternoon waiting for some results to come thorough, so I clicked away for a few minutes and came up with this theme for my Sony Ericsson T610 [^] cell phone.

Nish and Chris though it would be good if I wrote an article on how I created this theme, so...

How Did I Do It?

I used Theme Creator Pro 3G [^] by Slavko Solar. Theme Creator is a fully WISYWYG theme editor, that amongst other things, allows you to choose a colour for just about any item on the phone you are likely to see. I simply added three custom colours to the standard CColorDialog within Theme Creator, namely Orange (0xFF9900), Peach (0xFFCC99), and Cream (0xFBEDBB), and then stormed ahead setting the colours accordingly.

What is good about some Sony Ericsson phones is that you can place JPG or GIF images on the tile bar, menu highlight bar, and background of most windows.

Using Adobe PhotoShop[^] 7 I created the images I wanted...

• For the background I simply grabbed the picture of Bob from the homepage, and shrank him down a bit.
• For the menu highlight bar, I created a blank image with the relevant background colour, drew a single pixel border around the edge, and pasted a shrunk down Bob on the end.
• For the title bars, I created a blank image with the relevant background colour, created a new layer, and set the layer's Blending Options to Bevel and Emboss.
• The 'Soft Keys' at the bottom of each screen were created in a similar way to the title bars. I created a blank image with a white background, and using the circular selection tool unselected the middle portion of the image. From this selection, I then created a new layer, filled it orange, and set the layer's Blending Options to Bevel and Emboss.

Once created, it was simply a matter of using Theme Creator to assign the images to their relevant windows.

Screen Saver

When a key hasn't been pressed for 25 seconds, an animated GIF or JPG 'screen saver' can be displayed on these phones. To complete the CodeProject look for my T610, I nicked the largest CodeProject wallpaper[^] and cropped it. Screen savers for some reason, do not form part of themes, so the screen saver images needs downloading to your phone, and then selecting as your screen saver.

Public Apology

I would like to publicly apologize to Bob for repeatedly shrinking him down whilst creating this theme. I assure everyone that no aliens were harmed to make this theme.

Future

With a little work, this theme can be converted over to the Sony Ericsson T630, T628, T600, and T608. If someone asks nicely, I may possibly do the conversion.

Updates

After Chris' trusty Ericsson T39 finally died he too upgraded to the T610 and immediately installed Jeremy's theme. Too many late nights and not enough sleep called for a slightly darker theme. Thus was born the second variant of the theme. Jeremy then tweaked it a little, Chris tweaked it a little, and after way too much time wasted we came up with Theme #2.