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

2. In the preview area of the canvas, in the Notification bar, click the number that represents the number of unread
items.
3. On the Quick Edit bar, in Unread Font, click a font.
4. To change the size of the text, in the Size field, type a number.
5. To apply bold, click the Bold button.
6. To apply italic, click the Italics button.
7. To apply anti-aliasing, click the Anti-alias button.
8. To change the text alignment, click the Alignment button.
Change the appearance of a Today item for a BlackBerry 6 theme layout
You can change the appearance of Today items for a theme with a BlackBerry® 6 layout. When a BlackBerry device
user taps the Notification bar on a device running BlackBerry® Device Software 6.0, the Today items are displayed
below the Notification bar.
1. In the Inspector, click the Today Home screen button.
2. Do any of the following:
Task Steps
Change the appearance of the
highlight.
a. In the preview area of the canvas, click the highlight area.
b. On the Quick Edit bar, in the Caret drop-down list, click Change Image.
c. Click Color, Gradient, or Image.
d. Select the color, gradient, or image you want to change the highlight to.
e. Click OK.
Change the color of the
background of the Today Home
screen.
a. In the preview area of the canvas, click the background of the Today
Home screen.
b. On the Quick Edit bar, click the Background Mask color swatch.
c. Specify a color.
d. Click OK.
Change the font settings for the
title.
a. In the preview area of the canvas, click a title of an application, for
example Message.
b. On the Quick Edit bar, in the Font drop-down list, click a font.
c. To change the size of the text, in the Size field, type a number.
d. To apply bold, click the Bold button.
e. To apply italic, click the Italics button.
f. To apply anti-alias, click the Anti-alias button.
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Customizing a Home screen with a BlackBerry 6 theme layout
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