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
• To change the image that is displayed in front or behind the application icon that the user selects, on the
Quick Edit bar, click the Tab Focus drop-down list.
3. Click Change Image.
4. Navigate to an image.
5. Click Open.
6. To display the Tab image or Tab Focus image in front of an application icon, in the Inspector, select the Overlay
option.
7. To display the Tab image or Tab Focus image behind an application icon, in the Inspector, select the Underlay
option.
Specify the applications that appear on the Home screen with a Zen layout
1. In the Inspector, click the Home Screen button.
2. From the Application List, drag a BlackBerry® device application to the Zen Applications list.
3. To replace an application in the list, drag an application directly over the application that you want to replace
4. To add an application to the list, drag the application onto the line that separates any two applications. The first
or last application in the list is removed, depending on which side of the separator you drag the application to.
Customizing a Home screen with a BlackBerry 6 theme
layout
You can customize the Home screen of a theme with a BlackBerry® 6 layout by using the same elements that you
use for other BlackBerry devices. You can change the UI elements that are specific to devices that are running
BlackBerry® 6, such as changing the appearance of the Search field and the Today items.
Change the image of the Search icon
You can change the image for the Search icon in a theme with a BlackBerry® 6 layout. BlackBerry device users can
use the search field on the Home screen to search for items in any application on the device, including third-party
applications.
1. In the Inspector, click the Home Screen button.
2. In the preview area of the canvas, click the Search icon.
3. On the Quick Edit bar, in the Search Icon drop-down list, click Change Image.
4. Navigate to an image.
5. Click Open.
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