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• Plazmic Theme Builder overview
  • Configuring the Plazmic Theme Builder
    • Specify startup preferences
    • Specify summary information for a theme
    • Specify application preferences
    • Specify transparency preferences
    • Change the faceplate
    • Hide the faceplate
    • Show or hide the inspector
    • Show or hide the catalog
    • Show or hide the alignment tools
  • Using the workspace
    • The project window
  • The Plazmic Theme Builder Inspector
• Creating and changing theme projects
  • Theme types
  • Create a theme project
  • Open a theme project
  • Update a theme project created with an earlier version of the Plazmic Theme Builder
  • Save a theme project
    • Best practice: Naming a theme project
  • Changing theme types and screen sizes
    • Change the theme type
    • Adapt a theme to a different screen size
• Using fonts
  • Font settings
  • Set the base font for BlackBerry device screens
  • Change text settings for an element
  • Best practice: Using fonts effectively in themes
• Creating and using images
  • Working with images
    • Add an image
    • Edit an image
    • View the name and dimensions for an image
  • Creating background images for dynamically sized screen elements
  • Creating images with multiple states
    • Images with multiple states
• Using colors
  • Specify a color
  • Apply a color to a theme element
• Designing banners
  • Change the background image for a banner
  • Add or remove banner icons
  • Change the size of a banner
  • Reposition the banner elements
  • Change the underlay image for the Profiles application
  • Change the text settings for banner elements
  • Change the image for the battery power indicator
  • Change the image for the wireless coverage indicator
  • Change the image for the alarm indicator
  • Change the image for the Wi-Fi coverage indicator
  • Change the image for the new item indicator
  • Change the image for banner icons
• Customizing the Home screen
  • Customizing a Zen theme Home screen
    • Specify the applications that appear on the Zen Home screen
    • Specify fonts for Zen Home screen text
    • Specify images for a Zen Home screen
  • Customizing a Today theme Home screen
    • Specify the applications that appear on the Today Home screen
    • Specify fonts for Today Home screen text
    • Specify images for a Today Home screen
  • Designing a custom Home screen
    • Specify the Home screen background
    • Customize the Home screen with an SVG file
    • Layer the Home screen over the banner
    • Specify the icon used for the Application Menu
    • Reposition the Home screen application icons
    • Specify Status text for a custom Home screen
    • Customize the cursor navigation path on a custom Home screen
    • Specify Today items to appear on the Home screen
    • Specify Zen items to appear on the Home screen
  • Customizing the Application Icons screen
    • Specify fonts for Application Icon text
    • Specify the background image for the Application Icons screen
    • Specify the overlay image for the new item indicator
    • Specify the image for the move icon
    • Specify the underlay image for icons on the application grid
    • Specify the image to use for highlighting the selected application icon
    • Specify new icons for the BlackBerry device applications
    • Change multiple BlackBerry Application icons at once
    • Organize applications in the application grid
    • Add a web link as an application
  • Change the inbox configuration
  • Customizing touch screens
    • Customizing the Shortcut bar
      • Specify backgrounds for the Shortcut bar
      • Specify navigation images for the Shortcut bar
    • Change device orientation
  • Customizing external flip screens
    • Customize the external Home screen
    • Customize the external phone screen
    • Customize indicators on the external screen
• Customizing BlackBerry Application screens
  • Customizing the messages application screen
    • Specify the font for the date text
    • Specify a tiled image as the background for the message list date bar
    • Change the message list icons
    • Specify the color for alternating rows in lists
    • Specify a color for priority items in lists
  • Customizing the phone application screens
    • Specify the text color for the dialed number or the BlackBerry device number
    • Customizing the Active Call screen
      • Specify the color of the Active Call screen text
      • Specify a composite image for the volume slide bar
      • Specify an image as the background pattern in the Active Call screen
      • Customize the Phone Call icons
      • Additional Active Call settings for touch screen devices
    • Customizing the Incoming Call screen
      • Specify the color of the Incoming Call screen text
      • Specify an image as the background pattern in the Incoming Call screen
      • Additional Incoming Call settings for touch screen devices
  • Customizing the Lock screen
    • Set fonts for Lock screen text
    • Set an image as the Lock screen background
    • Set the Lock screen icon
    • Customize the Lock screen with an SVG file
    • Arrange the Lock screen elements
    • Layer the Lock screen over the banner
• Customizing UI elements
  • Customizing dialog boxes and dialog box buttons
    • Show or hide the dialog box preview
    • Specify dialog box fonts
    • Specify a tiled image for a dialog box background
    • Specify a solid color for a dialog box background
    • Specify the icons used on dialog boxes
    • Specify fonts for dialog box buttons
  • Customizing menus
    • Show or hide the menu preview
    • Specify fonts for menu items
    • Specify a tiled image as the background for menus
    • Specify a solid color as the background for menus
    • Specify the color of the cursor to underlay a selected menu item
  • Customizing title bars
    • Show or hide the title bar preview
    • Specify the title bar font
    • Specify a tiled image as the background for title bars
    • Specify a solid color as the background for title bars
    • Specify the color for the cursor in the title bar
  • Customizing application lists
    • Specify fonts for application lists
    • Specify the text color for a selected list item
    • Specify the color that displays underneath the selected list item
    • Specify the color that displays underneath multiple selected list items
  • Customizing global UI elements and icons
    • Specify images for the radio activity indicators
    • Specify images for key modifiers
    • Specify images for the up and down navigation icons
    • Specify an hourglass image
    • Specify progress bar colors
    • Specify the default color for application backgrounds
• Managing theme images and colors
  • Create a catalog
  • Add items to a catalog
  • Reuse resources from a catalog
  • Delete items from a catalog
  • Open a catalog
  • Edit a catalog
  • Delete a catalog
  • Best practice: Controlling resource size
  • Best practice: Creating effective resources
• Using the BlackBerry Smartphone Simulator to test your theme
  • Download and install the BlackBerry Smartphone Simulator
  • Configure the BlackBerry Smartphone Simulator
  • View the theme in the BlackBerry Smartphone Simulator
• Making themes available to BlackBerry device users
  • Export considerations
  • Exporting a theme
    • Export types
    • Export a theme
  • Making a theme available to BlackBerry device users
    • Distribute a theme using the application loader
    • Distribute a theme over the wireless network
• Legal notice