[saurik]

Originally Posted by stelmax

Hi guys,

Yes, the update fixes the dock. But did anyone succeed in changing the statusbar? I put my Summerboard StatusBar.png file in there, no go..

StatusBar theming doesn't work yet. As of the last release, though, WinterBoard's support for old SummerBoard stuff is now pretty much complete.

One thing to note, though, is that WinterBoard is insanely more powerful than SummerBoard was ;P. You can theme almost anything. You can do this by using either resource or artwork overlays. Example:

Get http://test.saurik.com/cydia/UISearchFieldIcon.png
Put it in /Library/Themes/<your theme>/UIImages/
Reload the theme and enter Phone

you should now have a themed magnifying glass in the search!

If you want to do battery themes, which involve files in CoreServices/SpringBoard.app, you can add:

/Library/Themes/<your theme>/Bundles/com.apple.springboard/<my battery file>.png

With these tools you can theme almost anything on the entire system from the safety of your theme folder: no overwriting of files, easy to remove... its just great ;P.

I'm going to be writing some documentation to put up here: http://www.saurik.com/id/9 :tomorrow (it isn't up yet).

The idea here is that WinterBoard is going to totally replace all the other theme manager backends that have so far existed. (Obviously, a lot more work needs to go into the frontend interface ;P. There are some people working on that now, but we'll see how well it goes.)

[bklynjava]

Originally Posted by saurik

StatusBar theming doesn't work yet. As of the last release, though, WinterBoard's support for old SummerBoard stuff is now pretty much complete.

One thing to note, though, is that WinterBoard is insanely more powerful than SummerBoard was ;P. You can theme almost anything. You can do this by using either resource or artwork overlays. Example:

Get http://test.saurik.com/cydia/UISearchFieldIcon.png
Put it in /Library/Themes/<your theme>/UIImages/
Reload the theme and enter Phone

you should now have a themed magnifying glass in the search!

If you want to do battery themes, which involve files in CoreServices/SpringBoard.app, you can add:

/Library/Themes/<your theme>/Bundles/com.apple.springboard/<my battery file>.png

With these tools you can theme almost anything on the entire system from the safety of your theme folder: no overwriting of files, easy to remove... its just great ;P.

I'm going to be writing some documentation to put up here: http://www.saurik.com/id/9 :tomorrow (it isn't up yet).

The idea here is that WinterBoard is going to totally replace all the other theme manager backends that have so far existed. (Obviously, a lot more work needs to go into the frontend interface ;P. There are some people working on that now, but we'll see how well it goes.)

Very Convenient, I'll work on adding those image areas to iThemeit.

[WiFone]

You can also use /Bundles/com.apple.springboard/FSO_BG.png in your themes; but Status Bar modding does work now, since Saurik has uploaded a new version with support for it.

[stelmax]

Hey Saurik,

I noticed that your last update now supports Statusbar.png's, great!

Maybe I understood your previous post wrong, but I added my battery images to
/Library/Themes/<mytheme>/Bundles/com.apple.springboard/
but that doesn't seem to work for me (yet).

Also I wanted to ask you if there's any way to turn of the docklabels already?

Thanks and keep up the good work!

[zoblue]

Originally Posted by mepage

Check /private/var/stash/Themes.XXXXXX

M

Thanks for this! I uploaded my custom theme and had no problem with overwriting icons. I have a question tho, why do some icons have a rounded edge? See screenshot, namely icons of apple store applications (Pandora, Last.fm and Remote). They should have a transparent background like the other icons in the screenshot. What did I do wrong?

Also, what do I name the status bar file so I can overwrite it? Thanks!

[stelmax]

Saurik,

Never mind, I was being stupid before copying the wrong battery images, it works perfect now using your solution Bundle/com. etc..
And you're right, it's a very clean and clear method, thumbs up for you guys!

You wrote that you're all working on the backend now, that figures, just would like to know if there's a workaround to set the labels on/off.

Good luck and respect!

zoblue,

I don't think you did anything wrong, I noticed the same thing with the icons of AppStore apps. These are the same icons that show an x-mark when moving icons around. It doesn't effect every themeset though, I think that it depends on the graphical format of the icons, but we should ask a developer about that.

You can put your statusbar in Library/Themes/<your theme>/Bundles/com.apple.springboard/FSO_BG.png. Or use your Summerboard file called StatusBar.png and put it in Library/Themes/<your theme>/StatusBar.png
Respring and you're ready to go.

[808mp5]

I used the old version of iphoneBrowser

Winterboard themes are in
Private/var/stash/themes.ltulx2
Or
Private/var/mobile/library/summerboard/themes

I created my own icons and dock put it in the first directory with iphonebrowser and my theme showed up in winterboard

[zoblue]

stelmax, thanks! I'm curious too about those icons.

[DaveiPhone]

saurik-

Thanks so much for this absolute genius design that's going to completely revolutionize iPhone theming!

Question: Is .artwork theming currently supposed to work? I've tried putting my dialer in this path:

/Library/Themes/Daves/Bundles/com.apple.mobilephone/MobilePhonePackedImages.artwork

and it doesn't take. The unpacked art works fine in that same folder. (/Library/Themes/Daves/Bundles/com.apple.mobilephone/callbkgnd_pressed.png for example)

The file's OK, as I can manually replace it in the Mobile Phone.app and have it work.

Using version: 0.9.2501-3

[saurik]

The way .artwork files are found and loaded entirely bypasses the Objective-C loading mechanisms that I hook. What's awesome about WinterBoard, though, is it makes modifying .artwork files a thing of the past: you use UIImages/ now to theme the individual files from the .artwork file you want to theme /by name/ (yes, I figured out those files have names). Read the documentation on WinterBoard I just put up for all the details on how to use this: iPhone Themes Beyond SummerBoard - Jay Freeman (saurik).

Originally Posted by DaveiPhone

saurik-

Thanks so much for this absolute genius design that's going to completely revolutionize iPhone theming!

Question: Is .artwork theming currently supposed to work? I've tried putting my dialer in this path:

/Library/Themes/Daves/Bundles/com.apple.mobilephone/MobilePhonePackedImages.artwork

and it doesn't take. The unpacked art works fine in that same folder. (/Library/Themes/Daves/Bundles/com.apple.mobilephone/callbkgnd_pressed.png for example)

The file's OK, as I can manually replace it in the Mobile Phone.app and have it work.

Using version: 0.9.2501-3

[armadillo]

This is really very, very exciting. I have only one concern relating to where app skins go. In the present scenario, the theme determines what bundles get modified. So if I have many themes and I would like say my battery to look constant, I would have to install the battery into each and every theme. I'd like to suggest to have a Bundles theme that is globally applied. Icon themes should be handled as they are now and still may contain bundles mods (they would override the global Bundles entries).

[DoubleD]

Do any of the Summerboard themes in Cydia work on Winterboard?

EDIT: Answer: yes they do

[DaveiPhone]

Sorry to be so dense, but I'm not understanding the specifics of how that works with the scenario I presented: (/Applications/MobilePhone.app/MobilePhonePackedImages.artwork).

How do I get the list of names for that package? And once I have it, do I create a new folder for just that .artwork, or do I put it in the /Library/Themes/Daves/Bundles/com.apple.mobilephone directory?

Thanks.

Originally Posted by saurik

The way .artwork files are found and loaded entirely bypasses the Objective-C loading mechanisms that I hook. What's awesome about WinterBoard, though, is it makes modifying .artwork files a thing of the past: you use UIImages/ now to theme the individual files from the .artwork file you want to theme /by name/ (yes, I figured out those files have names). Read the documentation on WinterBoard I just put up for all the details on how to use this: iPhone Themes Beyond SummerBoard - Jay Freeman (saurik).

[saurik]

Originally Posted by armadillo

This is really very, very exciting. I have only one concern relating to where app skins go. In the present scenario, the theme determines what bundles get modified. So if I have many themes and I would like say my battery to look constant, I would have to install the battery into each and every theme. I'd like to suggest to have a Bundles theme that is globally applied. Icon themes should be handled as they are now and still may contain bundles mods (they would override the global Bundles entries).

Well, then you couldn't have multiple battery themes easily installed. The WinterBoard solution for this is going to be to give you checkboxes next to themes that are installed and let you select which ones are or are not active. That way you might have "ModMyI's WinterBoard Icon Theme" checked, as well as "Buuf2" (which doesn't theme WinterBoard"), as well as "NOS Batteries" (to theme your icons), as well as "Chromium Sliders". I think its going to be quite awesome of a way to conceptualize the problem.

Originally Posted by DaveiPhone

Sorry to be so dense, but I'm not understanding the specifics of how that works with the scenario I presented: (/Applications/MobilePhone.app/MobilePhonePackedImages.artwork).

How do I get the list of names for that package? And once I have it, do I create a new folder for just that .artwork, or do I put it in the /Library/Themes/Daves/Bundles/com.apple.mobilephone directory?

Thanks.

My website has A) a list of names of the filenames, B) instructions on how to extract all those files so you can look at them, and C) tells you exactly where to put them (UIImages/<imagename>.png). Did you not read it?

[Chefanim]

@Saurik

With Winterboard installed, I can no longer change my dock image with customize. I have tried uninstalling winterboard, but the dock image is stuck. Only way to change it is with another winterboard theme. Sometimes I like to see how different docks work with whatever wallpaper im using. Do you know how to fix this?