Hack the iPhone - Make and use WinterBoard themes

Make and use themes with WinterBoard

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Section 12: Changing the SpringBoard page indicators

Note: If you replace any graphic with your own custom graphic, make sure you are saving the file as a png, and that it retains the same dimensions as the original. You can try experimenting with dimensions, but your restults may be mixed.

I got the idea for this section when I ran across a theme on Cydia called No Page Dots. These "dots" appear on the SpringBoard when you have more than one full screen of program icons, they are normally white and gray in color. They are technically called page indicators. All this No Page Dots theme does is make these page indicators trasnaparent. You could make these indicators any shape or color you want. The original images are only 6 pixels in width by 6 pixels in height, so you don't have a lot to work with here. You could make them into triangles or Xs or dashes. I'm going to turn mine into colored squares.

Here is what the page indicators look like normally, and after installing the No Page Dots theme.




Here are the two stock images that need to be modified: UIPageIndicator.png and UIPageIndicatorCurrent.png. These are the original files (converted to display). Note: They are being dispalyed in a black table so that you can see them clearly, they are perfectly fine to download.

Step 1.

Once you have your images created, make a folder for them in your Themes.xxxxxx folder. I'm calling mine Colored page indicators.




Now go into this folder




Create a folder called UIImages.




Now go into this folder.




Now copy your images into this folder.

Step 2.

Launch WinterBoard, and check out your new theme.




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