User guide
Table Of Contents
- BlackBerry Theme Builder overview
- Configuring the BlackBerry Theme Builder
- Creating and changing theme projects
- Working with images
- Work with images
- Change all images
- Best practice: Creating effective designs
- Creating background images for dynamically sized screen elements
- Creating images with multiple states
- Best practice: Creating images
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Style 9670 smartphone
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Bold 9780 smartphone
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone and BlackBerry Bold 9650 smartphones
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Storm 9500 smartphone
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Curve 9300 and BlackBerry Curve 9330 smartphones
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Pearl 9100 Series smartphones
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Tour Series, BlackBerry Curve 8900, and BlackBerry Curve 8910 smartphones
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Bold 9000 smartphone
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Curve 8300, and BlackBerry 8800 Series smartphones
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Curve 8350i smartphone
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Pearl 8220 smartphone
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Pearl 8100 Series smartphone
- Using catalogs to manage theme images and colors
- Changing fonts for themes
- Using colors
- Customizing the Home screen
- Change the Home screen wallpaper
- Add an animation to the Home screen
- Create a slide show for your wallpaper
- Create a wallpaper that changes on specific dates or time
- Change the font settings for the Home screen
- Customizing a Today theme Home screen
- Customizing a Zen theme Home screen
- Customizing a Home screen with a BlackBerry 6 theme layout
- Customizing a Home screen with a Custom or Custom 6 theme layout
- Specify the applications that appear on the Home screen with a Custom layout
- Move the application icons on the Home screen with a Custom layout
- Layer the Home screen over the banner
- Customize the cursor navigation path on a Home screen with a Custom layout
- Retain navigation history
- Specify the default navigation links
- Designing banners
- Customizing external flip screens
- Customizing BlackBerry devices with touch screens
- Customizing the Application List screen
- Customizing UI controls and application lists
- Customizing the message list
- Customizing the Phone screens
- Change the background image for the Phone screens
- Change the text color for the phone screens
- Change images for the phone screens
- Add a ring tone
- Phone hotlist settings for touch screen devices
- Active Call screen settings for BlackBerry devices with a touch screen
- Incoming Call screen settings for BlackBerry devices with a touch screen
- Customizing the Lock screen
- Customizing global UI elements
- Testing your theme
- Managing themes on the BlackBerry device
- Making themes available to BlackBerry device users
- Considerations for exporting themes
- Add a theme to a .zip file to upload to BlackBerry App World
- Install a theme directly on the BlackBerry device
- Export a theme for distribution over the wireless network
- Export a theme for distribution using the application loader tool of the BlackBerry Desktop Manager
- Provide feedback about the BlackBerry Theme Studio
- Provide feedback
- Legal notice

Inspector The Inspector includes the buttons that you can use to select a screen and
the elements for each screen that you can change. You can expand the
Inspector to show all the elements and make the changes to them on the
Inspector. If you prefer, you can hide the elements in the Inspector and
use the Quick Edit bar to make changes to the elements.
Catalog panel The Catalog panel stores images and colors for use in your themes. You
can drag images and colors from the Catalog to the Quick Edit bar or to
the Inspector.
Alignment panel The Alignment panel allows you to select multiple objects on specific
screens and change the alignment of the objects.
Inspector
To customize screen elements in a theme, you must first select the screen that you want to change. You can click a
button in the Inspector to select the screen. After you select a screen, you can use the Quick Edit bar or the Inspector
to customize the screen elements for the BlackBerry® device.
Inspector Button Description
Banner You can click the Banner button in the Inspector to access the Banner
options where you can change the icons, fonts, and images in the
banners that appear across the top of the screens.
Home Screen You can click the Home screen button in the Inspector to access the
Home screen options. Home screen options vary depending on the
theme layout that you choose.
Today Home
Screen
For BlackBerry 6 theme layouts, you can click the Today Home screen
button in the Inspector to change the appearance of the unread email
and phone messages.
Application List You can click the Application List screen button in the Inspector to access
the Application list options. In the Application list, you can specify icons
to use for each application.
Controls You can click the Controls button in the Inspector to access the Controls
options where you can change the appearance of application controls
on the BlackBerry device, such as dialog boxes, buttons, menus, title
bars, lists, and search fields.
Message List You can click the Message List button in the Inspector to access the
options to change the appearance of the messages application.
Phone Hotlist You can click the Phone Hotlist screen button in the Inspector to access
options to change phone icons, active and focus button images, and the
color of the text for the calling number and the device phone number.
Incoming Call You can click the Incoming Call screen button in the Inspector to access
options to change the background image, the ring tone, and font settings
for the Incoming Call screen.
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