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
3. Click Slideshow.
4. In the Slides section, click Add.
5. In the Open dialog box, click the images that you want to include in the wallpaper.
6. Click Open.
7. In Time Between Slides, click the up and down arrows to choose how long you want to display an image and
click the drop-down list to select the unit of time.
8. To change the order of the images in your slide show, in the Slides area, drag an image to a new location.
9. To delete an image from the slide show, click the image and click Remove.
10. Click Finish.
Create a wallpaper that changes on specific dates or time
You can create a wallpaper that changes on specific dates or time only for themes with a BlackBerry® 6 layout.
1. In the Inspector, click the Home Screen button.
2. On the Quick Edit bar, in the Home Screen section, click the Background Wizard button.
3. Click Event-Based.
4. In the Slides section, click Add.
5. In the Open dialog, click the images that you want to include in the wallpaper.
6. Click Open.
7. In the Slides section, click an image.
8. Do one of the following:
• To show the image every day on the BlackBerry device, select the Every Day option, and click the up and
down arrows to specify the time.
• To show the image weekly on a specific day on the device, select the Every Week On option, and select the
day of the week and time that you want to show the image.
• To show the image on the device for a specific period, select the On date option, and select the start and end
dates of the period, and the time of day that you want to show the image.
9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 for each image that you added.
10. To change the order of the images in the wallpaper, in the Slides area, drag an image to a new location.
11. To delete an image from the wallpaper, click the image and click Remove.
12. Click Finish.
Change the font settings for the Home screen
1. In the Inspector, click the Home Screen button.
2. In the preview area of the canvas, click on one or more text elements.
3. On the Quick Edit bar, select the font, font size, and font style.
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