Make and use themes with WinterBoard
Section 26: Multi bar lock screen

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Section B - Weather set up

If you live in New York, then you don't have to worry about changing your weather location. For everyone else, here is how you find and enter the code for your city. Go to weather.yahoo.com. Then enter your city or zip code and click Go.





Check out the URL above. It has the code you need in it. I've highlighted it. It's just before .html.




Go back to the Settings.js file and scroll down to the weather settings section. Enter your code in var WeatherLocale. I then changed my interval for updating the weather to 30 minutes where it says var WeatherUpdateInterval.

If you look around in this section you'll see other variables you can change. You can turn off the weather bar. You can use Apple as your weather service if you don't want Yahoo. Two icon sets for weather graphics are included, klear and tick. You can select between Celsius and Faranheit. You can use real feel for weather, which includes the effects of wind chill and humidity. You can customize your city name, and decide the order that information appears in. You can even specify the distance of the weather icon from the left of the screen in pixels.

Section C - Seeing more of your battery

I've synced iCal through iTunes, I then sent myself a e-mail and called my phone. This list of information is getting kind of lengthy now and is covering the battery. I'd like to be able to not only better read this information, but see my battery.




I've modified a couple batteries and lowered them on the screen, and also made them half their normal height. The themes are called Duracell battery (low), Duracell battery (low, half-size), Stock battery (low), and Stock battery (low, half-size). I am also including a transparent battery just in case you don't want to see it at all when charging. You can download them here. Here's what they look like. Note: There appears to be something hard coded in the OS, or perhaps a graphic I don't know about that prevents me from lowering the battery any farther. I already include a transparent BatteryReflectionMask.png with the four battery themes.

Section D - Alternate tap to answer graphic

This is what it looks like when you receive a call. I don't like the green button just floating there with no text. I'd rather have another graphic there. My solution was to add a custom bottombarknobgreen.png to my /Library/Themes/MultiBar Lockscreen/Bundles/com.apple.TelephonyUI/ folder and respring.




Andreim made this graphic, and you can download it right here.

Section E - Sliding instead of tapping

If you would rather have the stock sliders for unlocking, calls, and powering down and the text that goes with them, then download this theme that I put together. Make sure to place it above MultiBarLockScreen on the WinterBoard list. Keep in mind you can substitute other graphics for these if you just want to change the graphic look of the sliders.




You must also edit the Settings.js file to turn off the tapping buttons. Set var UseLockBar to false. Save the file, and reupload it to the iPhone and respring.

Section F - Eliminating pop up messages

If you don't like the look of pop up messages with this theme, you can block them. Launch Cydia and install Popup Blocker.




This program also installs a control panel in the Settings application. Note my settings.




Don't forget to read this thread over at Mac Themes for more ideas.

Things I want to learn how to do with this theme:

Make the sections not be expanded by default. I realize you can close them, but I'd rather see just the section header with a count of how many of a particular thing is inside that section, like the Gruppled theme does.



Would you like to learn how to install an even more advanced theme that is similar to this one??