Hello David,

first I want to tell you that I love your designs. I wonder why you don’t win the contest. I tried both designs and so I gave you the highest voting. At the moment I design my own layout for the Pronto Pro NG TSU7000. Can you tell me which programs do you use for creating your buttons and backrounds ? I want to use your Cursor-Buttons (up, down, left, right and ok) for my own design. Do you create them yourself or is there a program which contain this buttons ? At the moment I try different buttons and I don’t know if I want to use them with a transparent design. For my own layout I prefer to use your Cursor-Buttons in other colours. Can you tell me what I have to do to change the colours of your Cursor-Buttons ?

I’m a German Guy so my english isn’t perfect. I hope you understand what I want.

With greetings from Germany

Matthias Gerlach

Sorry about the delay in responding, been out of town.

I originally used Paint Shop Pro 8 to design the Forever Blue PCF. Then when I started the Black Lightning PCF I switched to a program named XaraX. I really like XaraX as it is a vector program which allows for easy resizing, streching and shrinking of the graphic without distortion. It also does great with imported bitmaps. If gives me much easier control on shaping and coloring a graphic than PSP8 did. Also the text function is much easier to use. For a few things I still use PSP8, such as erasing backgrounds, cropping and tinting a graphic. After I finished Black Lightning I went back to the Forever Blue PCF and redid most of the graphics in XaraX. I have all the graphics used in both PCFs in the XaraX format so the text is easliy removed or changed and the transparencies changed. Also the colors can be modified easlily on most of them except for the orange buttons (the orange part is actually a bitmap picture merged with the buttons. Anyone that wants the XaraX files can email me.

The cursor buttons can be changed in size and color with XaraX or you could take the PNG version in the PCF and use PSP8 and "tint" them to another color.

Dave

hey i just downloaded the forever blue theme and it is great! but i do have one question - on the home screen the firs hard button on the left links to the pronto tools screen (the one where you can learn) but when i run it in the prontoedit sim or on my tsu7000, when i predd this button, nothing happens, it does not launch the tools menu. any idea whats up with that?

Did you press for several seconds?

Hold the button down for 2-3 seconds.

Hi David,

I just purchased my first Pronto, I got the TSU-7500 and it is sweet!

I looked thru all of the PCF designs here and I like your Black Lightning the best. Unfortunatly I am very artistically inept. I am a computer geek so using programs like PhotoShop, PSP, & Xarax to edit are not a problem.
Would it be possible to get your buttons without text or graphics so that I can tweak them to my setup?

I would appreciate it very much,

Thank you,
Fubie

David has not posted a message since May last year. You may not get a response.

Thanks for the heads up Peter.

I emailed him so hopefully I will get a response.

If not I can always choose another great design here!

Ummm, Archer posted in this thread, on March 16th, so it seems like he is around.

Dave

That was 2 years ago. His profile says last post was May last year.

I emailed him and he very quickley sent me the files for both of his PCF's.

It was very nice of him to do.

I was placing my devices into the Black Thunder PCF last night. I'm having a good time playing with the Pronto and learning how everything works.

Does Remotecentral have a design contest every year or will it be the last?

Doh on my part, Peter!

Dave

The design contests are sponsored by the manufacturers. RemoteCentral merely administrates them. I don't think you will see any new contests unless and until a manufacturer comes out with a new product