*****************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*****

TESTED AND WORKING 100%

******************END OF APPLYING ICONS TUTORIAL*****************


if you follow it carefully along with comparing it to downloaded attachment then tutorial is complete.

note that creating shortcut to layout.xml with this principle will not work.
shotcut to fonts by the same principle i haven't tried.

On 2008-08-31 10:11:56, strizlow800 wrote:
Will say again, you cannot use XS++ for CID53 phones... Such thing is possible with jdflasher and far manager atm only.

On 2008-09-02 20:05:10, strizlow800 wrote:
Go to: tpa/preset/system/menu and copy all icons there INLUDING the MENU.ml file you got with the icons.