[joydestroy]

Originally Posted by Runt

The problem with a rotating script is the size of the PNG. This would cause the phone to lock up while trying to load data and load that size of a file to "scroll".
I'm not saying it's impossible, but the phone really doesn't have enough usable RAM to allow this to happen without lockups.
I've tried something very similar to this in the past and my phone would reboot in the process due to not being able to handle the "load".

If the file could be compressed significantly, it would be able to handle the process, but until then, it's not really an option.

hopefully with the next iPhone they will up the RAM since Apple is targeting the gaming industry with the device now.

great idea though.

Originally Posted by AngryLemming

The dialer alphabeticals are placed around the idea the nexus in the background has a certain degree of gravity, thus the "from center" locations. I do owe Runt for convincing me to change the dialer, but I'm not too convinced that the new one is all that great -giventhe "gravity" effect didn't come out clearly. Overall, the functional bits of the theme (like the dialer) gave me some trouble, obviously, and I'm open to suggestions as to ways to integrate them better.

JOYDESTROY- I haven't done any other themes as yet. My wife suggested a theme based on the beautiful minimalist Japanese paintings of the Edo period, but I'm not sure how I would do the icons. And you can rate things on MMi by voting, just look up your apps and themes under the "Cydia Apps" tab and give them stars.

RUNT- I'm assuming you need the icons for something like Categories? My brother-in-law uses Categories and I opted not to include it, due to having crashed my iPhone playing around with it. I'll post some pngs you can SSH into your device as icons here, once I get through a paper for my Masters' course. I'll port the folders from the DT theme, like the ones for Photos. and Movies. Sound good? There are some Game company icons (Atari, Nintendo and Sega) tucked away in the icons folder too, in case you need them.

a Japanese theme would be wicked! i'll be looking for stuff by you in the future.

that's cool that you can rate on here. i'm hoping the app will get upgraded though so it's more like the app store in iTunes so you can just rate straight from your phone. i left a comment too though!

oh and i've got the new version. sweeeeeet!
and i understand what you were saying now about the alpha characters being like that on the numbers. makes sense. i like i like.

[AngryLemming]

Glad you like it guys
I must admit, I forgot about the Stocks app. I thought I had turned all the built-in apps back on (using BossPrefs hide icons option) when I was checking the theme. Very much my bad, I'll put up an icon here, as soon as I get some more free time. My apologies, JoyDestroy.

Originally Posted by Runt

The problem with a rotating script is the size of the PNG. This would cause the phone to lock up while trying to load data and load that size of a file to "scroll".
I'm not saying it's impossible, but the phone really doesn't have enough usable RAM to allow this to happen without lockups.
I've tried something very similar to this in the past and my phone would reboot in the process due to not being able to handle the "load".

If the file could be compressed significantly, it would be able to handle the process, but until then, it's not really an option.

That's kind of what I expected. I'll keep it in mind and try to work out a way to do it (maybe using HTML?) Thanks for the info.

[joydestroy]

Originally Posted by AngryLemming

Glad you like it guys
I must admit, I forgot about the Stocks app. I thought I had turned all the built-in apps back on (using BossPrefs hide icons option) when I was checking the theme. Very much my bad, I'll put up an icon here, as soon as I get some more free time. My apologies, JoyDestroy.

no apologies necessary! i ssh'ed the new icons, then re-sprung the springboard and it was updated. so iunno what happened but it's there haha. thanks bro!

[Runt]

Playing with some icons.

Cannon
Checkbook
Zombieville

[AngryLemming]

I love your Checkbook and Zombieville icons, Cannon could use some work, I think. But, you do seem to be getting the hang of it. Try adding the original image, inverted, to the alpha of the App layer - then colorize using the primary value of the App layer. (Just a hint.)

[Runt]

Yeah, it was getting late and I was too tired to really play with it. I will get to play with it more tonight after work. I will definately try your idea and see what I come up with.
Thanks for the tip!

[AngryLemming]

Played around some more with the loading idea Runt had, but to no avail. Everytime it looks like it'll work something goes wrong (thank God for AptBackup!) Nevertheless, I've updated and both changed some things and added new theme elements.
The third version will probably sit for a while. I'll be concentrating on the MacOSX.5 theme and both my MBA and a friend's wedding for a while. When I update again, I'll have more requested icons (and may release an early icon pack on my theming blog as I go along,) but I'm also thinking of doing an iNav-based theme for the second edition of ANM. Let me know if you'd be interested, I have little intention to release it elsewhere (even on MediaFire) if I do it'll only be on MMi (keeping true to iNav's author.)
I am sorry I didn't get around to adding more icons in the latest version, but things came up and my internet went down in the meanwhile. Also, I concentrated my efforts on Safari, SMS, and trying [read: "failing"] to theme MobileFinder, Facebook and Google. If anyone can help in this respect please do. I have all the pngs for Finder, but no idea what to name the folder. Facebook and Google, well, after much frustration, let's just say I need to start over. SMS looks much better, and I hope people will like what I've done in Safari. Cheers!

[Torosyan]

hey, big fan of your theme

problem is i recently installed the recent update that says its now compatible for 3.0 but now it wont even show up in my winterboard, i was wondering if this is a glitch or an error with the update. i have an ipod touch 2g with the 3.0 mmp tweak. can you offer help? or another update to make it work on ipod touch?

thanks =]

[AngryLemming]

I haven't confirmed 3.0 compatibility yet, but the file is definitely not working. I've had the same problem downloading it from Cydia. Something seems to have gone wrong in the upload process. The MediaFire link appears okay for the latest update. I've submitted a new update and it should be up soon, hopefully that will fix the file.

[Torosyan]

sorry about the mix up, i thought the update was compatiability to 3.0 (ignor what i said previous)

i LOVE this theme. thanks for making it =] (i pressed thanks)

[Torosyan]

anything yet?

[AngryLemming]

Nothing yet.
The version on Cydia still appears to be 920K, which is the bad upload. There is a MediaFire link on anewmetaphor.blogspot, which can be downloaded and installed in the meantime. I can't directly link you guys there and you'll need to SSH it into the Themes folder, but it'll work until the busy guys of MMi can get the 1.4 upload on Cydia.
The OS3.0 version is taking a while due to other obligations getting in the way, but the blogspot also has a preview of it. I'll be posting a beta there soon, for anyone who would like to test it out. It should be ready by the end of the month.