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can i take the .@ files form one theme and use it for another?
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Posted: 2007-09-16 15:38:20
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yep, as long as you use the same naming convention for the icons, and they are in the other/menu/live folder in your phone memory.
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Posted: 2007-09-16 15:42:57
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do i have to copy the folder shortucts or the files in it?
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Posted: 2007-09-16 15:51:29
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This is a guide i typed up elswhere a while back, works a similar way.

I have a menu.ml.@ shorcut pointing to an upload folder in others on my memory card, i also have an icons follder in others. Choose 2 menus to start with, you can't have 2 that both have icons named icon1_selected.png etc, if you have you should rename the icons icon1_selectedipod.png or whatever the menu is named, and you'll need to fix each menus menu.ml to look for the new names.

Put all the icons in others/upload/icons and create shortcuts for all the icons. Put a menu.ml in others/upload and create a shortcut for this. Place all the shortcuts into a menu folder on your PC, delete(back it up first) your phones menu folder from tpa/preset/system with FAR and upload the new menu folder containing all shortcuts into tpa/preset/system with FAR.

Now when you restart your phone it'll use whatevr menu is in others/upload
The menu not in use should be named menuipod.ml(or whatever), when you want to use the other menu just use the phone to rename the first menu.ml to menuequalizer.ml and rename menuipod.ml to menu.ml restart phone and it'll use the ipod menu.

You can do this with as many menus as you like, as long as the icons are in others/icons and the shortcuts are in the menu folder with FAR.

I have 7 menus on my phone to choose from. I hope that helps, but it sounds confusing lol.
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Posted: 2007-09-16 16:01:00
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the files with @ on the end ARE the shortcuts. Don't copy the "shortcut" folder, just the shortcuts themselves. So instead of having menu.ml in the tpa/preset/system/menu folder, you have menu.ml.@ instead. And the same for the icon shortcuts.
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Posted: 2007-09-16 16:06:16
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@max

should i leave the original files inside tpa/preset/system/menu

and just copy the ".@" files altogether?!
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Posted: 2007-09-17 04:14:42
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This is fantastic thx alot Max
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Posted: 2007-09-17 04:39:53
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no, you must remove the original files, else the phone will only use the original files and not look at the shortcuts!
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Posted: 2007-09-17 04:52:11
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ok thanx max!

» more clarifications... does this mean that if we want to store more menus, we should place this in the phones memory and not the memory card.

» and if i only want to change the icons.. and leave the menu untouched.. then i wont copy menu.ml.@ right?!

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Posted: 2007-09-17 05:12:20
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yes and yes

If you want to store icon sets on memory card, you can but you have to copy them to the phone memory if you want to use them.

You can also make your own shortcuts by specifying card/other instead of usb/other, but personally I prefer not to use the memory card, because then I can't use the phone if I swap memory cards (it would probably be okay as long as the memory card was in the phone when you started, but just say you had removed the memory card, and didn't have it available and needed to restart the phone. You'd have no menu after restart. So I prefer to use the phone memory.


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Posted: 2007-09-17 05:21:27
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