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sambartle
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Feb 15, 2004

Aug 2, 2006 2:46 AM

Theme V4.1 SWF Menu Support (W810 Series)
Hi,

Can anyone tell me is it possible to create .swf menu's on the W810 series (and probably other themes 4.1 phones).. I'm talking about the ones seen in themes such as the Equalizer one that is supplied as standard; where the main menu itself is completely customisable through the use of the:

  <Desktop_style Type="File" Source="equalizer.swf"/>


line in the XML file for the theme.

The thing is that this .SWF file is not present in the theme (even when extracting the whole .tar) and doesn't seem to be present on the handset. This makes it impossible to study what's going on there and to attempt to write my own.

Is there source for that .SWF animation available in flash format? Guidelines for using it? Or just a copy of the equaliser.swf would be a good start.

Thanks,
Sam
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sambartle
3 posts since
Feb 15, 2004
1. Aug 2, 2006 2:57 AM in response to: sambartle
Re: Theme V4.1 SWF Menu Support (W810 Series)
I think I just found the answer to this one. I had been searching for equaliser.swf thinking that this was gonna be the best way to find it ohere. I tried by .SWF and found information that it didn't used to be supported.

Has anything changed or is the status of this still not supported?

It's a shame the user cannot make flash-lite menu's as that would definitly put SE in a better position for theme designers.. Theres so many themes now that no one can sell them due to them being available freely everywhere.. Flash-lite will give us the advantage again for a while until they get copied everywhere.

As an aside then.. to try and get the flash-lite file from the protected storage, does anyone know if it is possible to refer to the internal storage of the phone from the browser?

(i.e. so i can trigger the browser to try to navigate to the equalizer.swf and then save it - would also be useful to know how to refer to html documents in the phone memory (or card memory) so that I can create shortcut bookmarks to html stored on the phone)

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thomasbailey
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Apr 7, 2005
2. Aug 4, 2006 4:56 AM in response to: sambartle
Re: Theme V4.1 SWF Menu Support (W810 Series)
Hi,

Only embedded swf can be referenced in the theme xml - still not supported. I dont believe you can access this from user land.

/Tom
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glorfingal
12 posts since
Apr 25, 2006
3. Aug 5, 2006 8:07 AM in response to: thomasbailey
Re: Theme V4.1 SWF Menu Support (W810 Series)
As themes creator doesn't support flash menus currently, but there is a way to
include them in "home grown" themes is there a list of what swf files are
embedded ?
I only know of orbit, emerge and equaliser on the 810i - does it have others ??
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JasonMing
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Jun 13, 2006
4. Aug 25, 2006 5:49 AM in response to: sambartle
Re: Theme V4.1 SWF Menu Support (W810 Series)
the swf files is in the firmware,it can not custom and add in now, if lose these files it will be none effects.the Chinese version is lose all the flash files so it can not show anything
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space2
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Nov 9, 2003
5. Aug 27, 2006 2:00 AM in response to: sambartle
Re: Theme V4.1 SWF Menu Support (W810 Series)
It seems SE made SWF file's sue very limited. For example I heard there were support for flash lite files even in the early versions of k750, but they dropped it.
In early versions of W900 it was possible to set an SWF file as screensaver and as wallpaper as well, but it's removed as well. I think the main reason is using SWF files it's possible to completely change the main menu look. With a badly written menu flash file the phone's functionality can be reduced, and also it would be impossible to switch back (a simple example: the flash menu wont include the link to the setup menu). So I guess until they find a solution for it, they will restrict the usage. (btw, if SE is reading this message: if this is really the case, what about adding an option to the powerbutton's menu, like "revert theme", or to add a *# code like the one for resetting the language to english)
(I'm not 100% sure in the above info, I just collected it from several forums)
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grilix
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Feb 25, 2006
6. Oct 23, 2006 1:55 PM in response to: space2
Re: Theme V4.1 SWF Menu Support (W810 Series)
hmmm.. it's a very (VERY) good view point, of course it's a risk to set-up a swf theme, thnx SE !! ;)..
Another option.. a time-out to revert, like windows(r) does when you change some display settings.
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anup756
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Oct 18, 2007
7. Jan 26, 2008 1:16 PM in response to: sambartle
Re: Theme V4.1 SWF Menu Support (W810 Series)
I think there's a solution to this....

Any theme file(.thm) that you download doesn't come with .swf flash file. That's absolutely true.You need to put the .swf menu file into the phone memory through flashing (a process where u can alter the phone system files and add new files to it). I did the same using SETool lite edition as it supports almost all the latest phones and my flash menu works great.

Here's how i did it.
I used SETool2 lite version 1.10 instead of Phone XS. It supports most of the new phones available. Esp. SE W810i with EROM: RED CID 50.

link: http://forums.se-nse.net/index.php?showtopic=6565&st=640

You can find flash menus and themes in the same forum.

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