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Follow these three steps to install the Bliss skin:

2. Use the File manager in your phone to locate the files you just transfered and copy/paste the file 'skinpath.txt' to C:\System\Data\SkinConfig. Then copy/paste the folder '0x101F8EDC' to C:\System\skins\ (if you don't have a 'skins' folder, just create one).

3. Reboot your phone.

The backgrounds for the skin can be found In the 'Blissbackgrounds' folder. The 'blissback' picture is to be used as your Desk wallpaper, and the two other pictures are to be used as backgrounds in the PowerDesk application. And the last one ('blissfront') can be used as a background on the front/phone side.

To remove the skin, or change to one of the default skins, you must delete or move the file 'skinpath.txt' from C:\System\Data\SkinConfig and reboot your phone.

NB: The 'Display' option under 'Control panel' will be unavailable when you use the skin.

Finally, the article you’ve all been asking for. Hayden ‘Switchblade’ Smith takes a look at the plain and drab colours of the Nokia 9500 and 9300 and shows you how to skin your own themes. This article comes with a repetition of some common sense. Make sure you back up your phone before attempting this, and if you get into trouble and loose data, then that’s why you backed up. Although I’m sure we’ll be around on the Forums to help you out, all this is at your own risk.

Introduction


In this article we’re going to look at what’s called "skinning," a term used to describe changing the desktop to another look. What you should realise is, of course, that the basic view of the Series 80 desktop is, in fact, a skin. There are just no notes on how to change this yourself included with the phone.


Where Everything Goes

All the skin data is stored on the Z: drive (which we can't look at on the device), but fortunately it is reproduced in full in the Series 80 Software Development Kit (SDK) as this includes an Emulator. The standard Nokia skins consist of 11 graphical files (MBM files), with these MBM file containing almost 250 separate images. There are 2 SKE files containing information on images for the messaging application, and a single SKN file containing information on the location of the MBM files, which fonts are used, and which colours are displayed.

The zip file download for this tutorial contains all the files you will need to install a new skin. The actual process of installing the skin is copying a skinpath.txt file to c:\system\data\skinconfig. Very important, do not edit this file in Notepad or Documents on the smartphone as you will corrupt it and the skin will not work, causing your phone to revert to the default skin. Once you’ve copied the skinpath.txt file, place the contents of the Skins folder (from the tutorial zip file) into c:\System\Skins\ while preserving the rest of the directory structure The files in C:\system\skins\0x101F8EDB\ contain all the data about our new skin that Series 80 needs.

But how do we make the contents of the Skins folder? Unzip the "editable" folder onto your PC. In the "editable" folder are 11 more folders, one for each MBM file (the folder names match the MBM file names that exists in the "0x101F8EDB" folder). These folders contain all the bitmapped images from the MBM files in numerical order. When you come to recompile the MBM files with your own images, make sure you get the order correct or the skin will not work, display incorrectly, or possibly soft reset your device. These BMP files are what you need to edit in your image editor to make your own skin, you can change as much or little as you want. When making your own MBMs I'd recommend using Dazler's MBMWhizzard application available, which you can download from his site, along with a tutorial on how to use it.

So far I've be using Symbian’s command line tool, bmconv.exe, application, but typing out the command line to merge 103 bitmaps into one file is murder.

Editing A Skin

You’ll want to read this in conjunction with the reference lists at the end of this article.

First get the background image you want to work with, I thought I'd start with some thing simple as this Matrix Wallpaper. When choosing your wallpaper remember that the clock on the Desktop always has a solid colour background, so you will need to select a design where this will not effect the aesthetics. Resize or crop your image until you have an 800x200 pixel image. This image is going to be sliced and diced a million ways to make all the elements. It’s rather like making a digital jigsaw.

Now open bitmaps 1-4 of Skinappview, create a new layer on each and overlay your image. Your skin should only occupy the non-white areas, so get your graphics package to copy the image (overlay) only if the area underneath is not white. Similarly with bitmap 9, this is the top left corner of the screen. Once done you are now ready these nine images into one MBM image.

Next we need to make your desk wallpaper (which will fill the white area that we avoided in Skinnappview). Crop the first 92 pixels from your 800x200 image. Now copy the next 463x200 pixel section into a new file. Crop 6 pixels from the top and then save the resulting 463x194 image as a jpg image. When you install your skin, set this image as your wallpaper to complete the effect.

For the CBA panel (that’s the column on the right which shows the options for the four soft buttons), copy a 200x200 pixel section following on from the section used for the wallpaper and save it as all 3 images in the skincommandbar folder. This is the second completed MBM Image, so go ahead and compile this as well.

For skinapptitle, overlay the image in bitmap 5 with a 640x480 selection of your chosen wallpaper starting at point (92,0) on the image. This removes the thin coloured bar at the top of the desk screen, so needs to be this exact section to fit in on the desktop. Bear in mind that certain views will cause this image not to fit in if you are using a strong pattern or picture.

Now all that remains is to edit the relevant items in skinwidget, skinscrollbar and skindialogframe to fit in with your colour scheme, then compile those images into MBM files. There is the mildly mammoth task of editing the orange.skn file to correct the colours to be as you desire (this skin is based on the Orange skin file, hence the filename orange.skn). I'd recommend taking a few screenshots then adjusting the colours in an art package such as Paint Shop Pro, and then using the colour values (which will be displayed by your graphics application) from your mockup in your .skn file. The second appendix to this article lists all the colour values that have been worked out so far. We’ll edit this and keep it up to date as we discover more.

Now we can take these MBM files, and the SKN file, and drop them into the C: of our 9500, and there we go.

Appendix 1: List of MBM files and what they contain:

1. MMSFORM.MBM - Images relating to the media applications regarding what opens the MMS file you have received.
2. MSGEDITORVIEW.MBM - Borders and lines used by the messaging application.
3. SKINAPPTITLE.MBM - The Application title bar background, note only 2 images contain data, the rest are blank, I don't know why.
4. SKINAPPVIEW.MBM - Images on the left hand side panel and title bar as used in various guises, images 1-4 and 9 are the ones you should edit, remembering to keep your design out of the white-space.
5. SKINBORDERS.MBM - Borders for various panes.
6. SKINCOMMANDBAR.MBM - The right hand side Control Button Area background (remember display.mbm all 9210 skinners), contains 3 identical images (no idea why 3) sized 200x200 pixels.
7. SKINDIALOGFRAME.MBM - Image files for all the dialogue box frames and tabs.
8. SKINGENERAL.MBM - General images used in various places on the device.
9. SKINMENU.MBM - All the images used for borders and graphical extras on the menus.
10. SKINSCROLLBAR.MBM - Frighteningly enough all the images used to make the scrollbars.
11. SKINWIDGETS.MBM - Icons and small images used around the device.

Appendix 2: List of SKE Files and contents.

1. MmsUiFormDefaultSkin.ske - Details of the images in MMSFORM.MBM and colours to use with it for use with MMS messages.
2. MsgEditorView.ske - Details of the images in MSGEDITORVIEW.MBM for the messaging application.

Appendix 3: SKN file values

The SKN file is just a plain text file editable on your PC or device. It contains colour data for all the applications on the 9500 (apart from applications that assign their own colours for themselves), information on the SKIN*.MBM files, and information on fonts used on the device. Below is a list of colour numbers and the relevant application that is effected by that change.

You do not need to include every colour in your SKN file, any that are not included will use the default colour from the default skin. The values should be in decimal format 0-255 and are RGB. Hence to set the main background colour to a bright red I would use a very small SNK file of three lines…

[code]
2 255 0 0
[/code]

You can add in as many lines to your SKN file as you need, just remmber to stick to the syntax of…

[code] [red component] [blue component] [green component]

…on each line.

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