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Topic: | Questions to David Shaw This thread has 12 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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Post 1 made on Friday March 12, 2004 at 03:03 |
Matthias Gerlach Founding Member |
Joined: Posts: | August 2001 10 |
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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
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Post 2 made on Tuesday March 16, 2004 at 18:40 |
Archer Founding Member |
Joined: Posts: | August 2001 877 |
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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
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Jack of all trades.. Master of None |
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Post 3 made on Thursday April 14, 2005 at 23:26 |
bdee1 Long Time Member |
Joined: Posts: | January 2004 48 |
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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?
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Post 4 made on Friday April 15, 2005 at 00:39 |
Peter Dewildt Loyal Member |
Joined: Posts: | July 2001 6,307 |
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Did you press for several seconds?
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Peter Pronto 1000 (retired), Pronto TSU7000, RFX6000 (retired) Pronto 2xTSU9600, RFX9400 |
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Post 5 made on Friday April 15, 2005 at 00:40 |
Lyndel McGee RC Moderator |
Joined: Posts: | August 2001 12,999 |
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Hold the button down for 2-3 seconds.
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Lyndel McGee Philips Pronto Addict/Beta Tester
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Post 6 made on Wednesday February 15, 2006 at 12:06 |
Fubie Long Time Member |
Joined: Posts: | February 2006 21 |
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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
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Post 7 made on Wednesday February 15, 2006 at 15:21 |
Peter Dewildt Loyal Member |
Joined: Posts: | July 2001 6,307 |
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David has not posted a message since May last year. You may not get a response.
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Peter Pronto 1000 (retired), Pronto TSU7000, RFX6000 (retired) Pronto 2xTSU9600, RFX9400 |
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Post 8 made on Wednesday February 15, 2006 at 16:33 |
Fubie Long Time Member |
Joined: Posts: | February 2006 21 |
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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!
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Post 9 made on Wednesday February 15, 2006 at 22:18 |
ddarche Mr. RemoteQuest |
Joined: Posts: | February 2002 2,309 |
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Ummm, Archer posted in this thread, on March 16th, so it seems like he is around.
Dave
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Dave D'Arche http://RemoteQuest.comFine Home Theater Remote Controls & Solutions - Programming services for most remotes |
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Post 10 made on Wednesday February 15, 2006 at 23:47 |
Peter Dewildt Loyal Member |
Joined: Posts: | July 2001 6,307 |
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That was 2 years ago. His profile says last post was May last year.
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Peter Pronto 1000 (retired), Pronto TSU7000, RFX6000 (retired) Pronto 2xTSU9600, RFX9400 |
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Post 11 made on Thursday February 16, 2006 at 09:34 |
Fubie Long Time Member |
Joined: Posts: | February 2006 21 |
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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?
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Post 12 made on Thursday February 16, 2006 at 11:16 |
ddarche Mr. RemoteQuest |
Joined: Posts: | February 2002 2,309 |
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Doh on my part, Peter!
Dave
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Dave D'Arche http://RemoteQuest.comFine Home Theater Remote Controls & Solutions - Programming services for most remotes |
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Post 13 made on Thursday February 16, 2006 at 19:10 |
mburwen Founding Member |
Joined: Posts: | August 2001 1,185 |
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Does Remotecentral have a design contest every year or will it be the last? 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
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