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*****************APPLYING ICONS WITHOUT FAR/XS++****************


SE have a nice little developer feature that allows you to create shortcuts
within the FS to files outside the FS. So for example when the phone looks
for icon1_unselected.png, it looks in tps/preset/system/menu then sees a
shortcut like this icon1_unselected.png.@ pointing to usb/other/menu, and
shows the file at that location instead.

Using this principle, we can create shortcuts to menu sets within the
phone's user accessible memory, and therefore we can change menu sets
without using far or xs++ (once we have installed the shortcuts - that
part needs far or xs++). All that is required is a phone restart to read
the new icon set.


Here is a pack including instructions and the menu shortcuts you will need.

Download the pack, and follow these instructions:

1. Using FAR or XS++, copy the shortcuts to tpa/preset/system/menu

2. create a folder in usb/other called 'menu'. Create a folder
in usb/other/menu for each of your custom menus. Menu icons must be
named in the format icon1_selected.png, icon1_unselected.png etc.

3. The menu set that will be displayed, will be the one at this
path: usb/other/menu/live, so before disconnecting far, name one
of your custom menu folders to "live"

4. Exit FAR, then start your phone.

5. In future to to change menus, simply rename one of the menu sets
in the menu folder to "live", then restart the phone. To add new menus
simply copy them using the usb cable or bluetooth to "phone memory/other/menu"

You only need to do this step if you want to create your own shortcuts
for different named menu icons or to make the shortcuts point to another
location for example card/others/menu/live (if you want to use your mem card
instead of phone memory).
Included is the menu shortcut creation program. To use it,
run a command prompt and type se_shortcut /path/file (where path
is the path you want the shortcut to point to, and file is the
name of the file you want the shortcut to point to.) You will end
up with a file called file.@ (or whatever the name of the file you
are pointing to example icon1_unselected.png.@)


this is what shortcut icon file is supposed to have within the
file (actually it is only txt file named .png.@):

for menu.ml
/usb/other/menu/live/menu.ml

for selected icon:
/usb/other/menu/live/icon1_selected.png

for unselected icon:
/usb/other/menu/live/icon1_unselected.png


*****Credit for this tutorial goes to MAX_WEDGE from Esato.com*****

On 2008-09-03 16:02:52, strizlow800 wrote:
Isn't the best way to change icons, using FAR or XS++.. It will place them in the phone's fs directly. No need for shortcuts and etc...