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SweeterHome2 Beta

question.

is there a way, in edit mode, to make room for new stuff? on my main screen i have 4 springboards that open up 4 app trays and the 4 app trays take up the whole middle of the screen so theres no room left...i wanna add a battery widget to one of them but if i can clear some space somehow i'd love to do that before i try adding the widget.
 
MYandroidUSERNAME said:
question.

is there a way, in edit mode, to make room for new stuff? on my main screen i have 4 springboards that open up 4 app trays and the 4 app trays take up the whole middle of the screen so theres no room left...i wanna add a battery widget to one of them but if i can clear some space somehow i'd love to do that before i try adding the widget.
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No need to clear up any space. In edit mode, hit menu -> new.
 
Puny-Lemon-Weakling, has there been some add of a quick key for the notification panel in this next build? I know it is a silly thing, but that has been one of my hangups. I get notifications from too many things and that is the easiest place to manage them.
 
tfleming23 said:
Puny-Lemon-Weakling, has there been some add of a quick key for the notification panel in this next build? I know it is a silly thing, but that has been one of my hangups. I get notifications from too many things and that is the easiest place to manage them.
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Yeah that's a feature request to expand the action block - might be a little way off though.
 
Alright, been busy playing with a new ROM, time to get back to Sweeter Home. I have my three screens done, now I want to turn the first screen over to landscape mode. How do I go about doing this? If I just turn it over and start editing, am I going to be screwing up what's in portrait mode?


UPDATE: Got it! Piece of cake. :)
 
yep it is a learning curve. I'm one of the people that is having a hard time with it.

It need to be more friendly to use with choices but simpler choices to work with
 
i got so sick of my widgets not updating (beautiful home, facebook, myspace, news) that i finally deleted everyone of them. then i added them back one by one yesterday morning and suddenly they all work!! i haven't had to refresh one time! yay! is this new version they're going to release gonna let us use our current themes or do we have to start all over? i might not even install it until i watch everyone else's reaction. my sweeterhome preview 2 is now PERFECT!!! yeeeee hawww lol
 
Is anyone else having this problem? I am working with the Sensinspired theme. I am putting Advanced Task Killer onto it and after I close apps, the screen changes to a phone screen (the one where you can end a call). I have to hit home a few times and it switches back. Is this a bug between sweeter home and atk or is it just me?
 
Corinacakes said:
i got so sick of my widgets not updating (beautiful home, facebook, myspace, news) that i finally deleted everyone of them. then i added them back one by one yesterday morning and suddenly they all work!! i haven't had to refresh one time! yay! is this new version they're going to release gonna let us use our current themes or do we have to start all over? i might not even install it until i watch everyone else's reaction. my sweeterhome preview 2 is now PERFECT!!! yeeeee hawww lol
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Every time I get it perfect it stops updating and FC's sporadically within a few hours.
 
I really like the concept behind SH2 but I am having a problem with images that seems to be just my issue - at least I haven't seen others mention it on the few SH topics I have read through.

I am using a G1 - non-rooted with 1.6

I am playing around with a my own theme and I can add widgets, springboards, etc. However, whenever I try to add an picture it FCs.

In Edit Theme, I hit Menu>New>Picture
This defaults to the wallpaper, so I press on Choose Image, change Image Source from System Wallpaper to Internal Device Picure and select Local Picture

I then press Choose Image and select the one I want to use - I have tried PNG and JPG.I usually have to do this 3-4 times before it actually seems to take the selection and display it in the sample image. Then I hit the back button and see if it kept the setting which is hit or miss. Back Button again to the main image Positioning/Layer screen - once again this will often default back to the System Wallpaper forcing me to go and choose the image once again.

When I finally get back to this screen and hit back to return to the main editing screen, it force closes every single time.

I cannot for whatever reason ever get it to load a picture without it force closing. Once it FCs it still marks that it is editing mode and I have to go into edit mode and exit before it clears that from the status bar.
 
athenssmile said:
Is anyone else having this problem? I am working with the Sensinspired theme. I am putting Advanced Task Killer onto it and after I close apps, the screen changes to a phone screen (the one where you can end a call). I have to hit home a few times and it switches back. Is this a bug between sweeter home and atk or is it just me?
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Weird. After it happens please log a bug report through the app (MEnu > report bug). Make sure you take time to describe exactly what has happened in what order and what apps are involved.
 
Ninthwonder said:
any tutorials out there to help newbies like myself with this program?
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Best place to start is sweeterhome.com - check the forums and there's documentation being worked on (scroll down home page).

Also download a simple theme from the theme list and start editing it to see how everything breaks down.

You can follow me on Twitter @sweeeterskins. I try and post tips and shit, and I blog at sweeterskins.net.

And read through the sweeter home topics on here as well!
 
rjoudrey said:
Every time I get it perfect it stops updating and FC's sporadically within a few hours.
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mines still going strong. i haven't done any editing at all on the one i luv. i saved two versions to my sd card...one named Practice and one named Perfect lol. everytime i work on my practice one...if i dont add the widgets last and one by one to each spring board....(yes my beautiful widgets is on all my springboards) i lose the time again. it's ok tho becuz lemon says this new update is getting closer :D yeehaw
 
athenssmile said:
Is anyone else having this problem? I am working with the Sensinspired theme. I am putting Advanced Task Killer onto it and after I close apps, the screen changes to a phone screen (the one where you can end a call). I have to hit home a few times and it switches back. Is this a bug between sweeter home and atk or is it just me?
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Sorry to say, but it's just you. :o Everything is working the way they are supposed to work. What you're doing wrong is you have to put Sweeter Home in ATK's ignore list. Or at least uncheck it before killing all the other apps. When you kill Sweeter Home, your DROID has to go to the last app that you used since you just killed it's home. Just tapping the Home softbutton one time should bring you back to Sweeter Home. But be patient, the app has to load up again.

Make sense?
 
I finally found the flaw of sh2. I'm not talking about bugs in a beta version... this is a terrible, horrible design flaw, and it is this:

The inability to either customize the notification bar, or to eliminate it altogether (like some other home replacement apps out there... I have a tranparent bar in the regular launcher, but it has been replaced by a black bar in sh2.

I sincerely believe that sh2 is the best, most revolutionary home designer the world has ever known, but this flaw is a tragedy.

And here my sad rant dies, of utter misery and heartbreak.
 
LOL, oh you mean a flaw that might effect approx 1% of total users? A+ for your hyperbole though :D

Can you confirm, does the transparency NOT show the actual wallpaper, but rather it defaults to a black background under the notification bar regardless of wallpaper.

(also... read the line in bold... lol)
 
messenger13 said:
Sorry to say, but it's just you. :o Everything is working the way they are supposed to work. What you're doing wrong is you have to put Sweeter Home in ATK's ignore list. Or at least uncheck it before killing all the other apps. When you kill Sweeter Home, your DROID has to go to the last app that you used since you just killed it's home. Just tapping the Home softbutton one time should bring you back to Sweeter Home. But be patient, the app has to load up again.

Make sense?
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Ah, that took care of it! Thank you. Believe me, I have no trouble admitting I am not always the brightest bulb, so I often expect it to be just me having a problem. But I am feeling pretty smart about having joined this forum and installing sweeter home. It is taking me hours, but I think I just about have it the way I want it.

I am having another problem, which is mentioned in an earlier post related to adding an image to the screen. I go to edit mode> new> picture> edit> choose image> image source> internal device picture> local picture> choose image> pick my picture> and exit out of all of this. I then have force close issues when on this screen. I think it is related to the picture. I get a message about "Bad problem during draw. Please restart. Got exception: Canvas: trying to use a recycled bitmap android.graphics.Bitmap@447e8bb8. Please report this bug." I have reported it.
 
athenssmile said:
I am having another problem, which is mentioned in an earlier post related to adding an image to the screen. I go to edit mode> new> picture> edit> choose image> image source> internal device picture> local picture> choose image> pick my picture> and exit out of all of this. I then have force close issues when on this screen. I think it is related to the picture. I get a message about "Bad problem during draw. Please restart. Got exception: Canvas: trying to use a recycled bitmap android.graphics.Bitmap@447e8bb8. Please report this bug." I have reported it.
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Sometimes I get a chat form the dev minutes after I log a bug report. I'm sure he's on to this one...
 
I LOVE Preview 2. The customization is top notch, the stability is getting there. BUT I was really getting annoyed with the transition speeds from application to application to home screen to application, and switched back to Home++ because of the speed and fluidity. I hope they fix this in the market version, because as small of a deal as it is, it's a make or break thing and my biggest pet peeve. I also can't use the Handcent icon in a Custom Tray, which is annoying, too.
 
DGalt said:
I posted this over on the sweeter home forums, but it may get a quicker response here.

Does anyone know if it is possible to have a sprinboard open one thing and close another with one click? What I'm trying to do is open a custom tray while hiding the widgets in the background, all in one click. Can't seem to figure out how to do that
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I actually did this exact thing in the latest version of my SmallCaps theme, but it's not very straightforward. I'll describe what I had to do.

I had a SystemWidget: Digital Clock and a TextBlock that I wanted displayed by default, and a TagTray: Social, a DateBlock, and a TagTray: Finance that I wanted to toggle between, and I wanted the TextBlock to be the springboard that switches from set 1 to set 2, and the DateBlock to be the springboard that switches from set 2 to set 1.

1) Place everything where it needs to be on the screen in edit mode. Make sure everything has labels so you know what everything is.

2) Put a Springboard over the TextBlock (I labeled mine "Show Apps"), minimizable no, default off, put it in a grouping (mine was "main") and have it control the following:
- TagTray: Social
- TagTray: Finance
- DateBlock

3) Copy/paste the Springboard and move it over the DateBlock (don't overlap the two Springboards, you'll get bad results!). Now, relabel this new one "Show Text", default on, and control the following:
- SystemWidget: Digital Clock
- TextBlock
- Springboard: Show Apps

4) Go back and edit Springboard: Show Apps. Add to it's control list Springboard: Show Text.

5) You're done! Now when you touch the TextBlock, you activate the Show Apps springboard which will toggle on the TagTrays, DateBlock and the Show Text springboard. But because its in the same grouping as the Show Text springboard, it will also minimize the SystemWidget, TextBlock and Show Apps springboard. Then when you touch the DateBlock, the Show Text springboard triggers and you're back to where you started from.

* Note: when you leave edit mode, you'll have to toggle back and forth between the two sets a couple times to get it working correctly. For some reason the default grouping decides its not going to hide until the other springblock is activated.
 
punyweakling said:
LOL, oh you mean a flaw that might effect approx 1% of total users? A+ for your hyperbole though :D

Can you confirm, does the transparency NOT show the actual wallpaper, but rather it defaults to a black background under the notification bar regardless of wallpaper.

(also... read the line in bold... lol)
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Yes, I can confirm that the bar turns BLACK regardless of the wallpaper I am using. I'm running a rooted Droid, and on regular "launcher", it's crystal-clear transparent, but on SH2, it's black.
 
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