Customize the icons of the main menu

What you need:

Far Manager

Download it here:
http://plugring.farmanager.com/history/files/far170b5.exe
and the newest update here:
http://farmanager.com/files/Far171a1b2104.rar

Darkmen’s Flash Plugin

Get it here:
http://forums.se-nse.net/index.php?showtopic=3666

DCU-60 Cable

Getting started:

Copy the Flash Plugin into the ...\Far\Plugins directory

Start Far Manager

Press F11 and select SEFP



Choose your cable (or com port) and your phone

And “enter the matrix”

Follow the instructions on the screen

(for DCU-60: turn off your phone – hold the “c” button – and connect the phone)

Switch to the FS\TPA\PRESET\SYSTEM\MENU directory

Copy the file menu.ml to your Hard Drive by pressing F5

And shutdown the flash loader by switching back to the root directory
(by pressing .. until it asks you if you want to shut it down)

Now you have the file we are about to edit

Editing:

Make sure to save a copy of the original file somewhere

Open the menu.ml with the editor

Change the lines that look like:



PREPLAY_DESKTOP_ICN
PREPLAY_DESKTOP_SELECTED_ICN


Into something like:

"file">icon1_unselected.png</icon>
"file">icon1_selected.png</icon>


And do this with to
(icon1_unselected.png, icon2_unselected.png, …)


Creating custom icons:

Now we can create our own icons

You can use the formats .png and .gif – both support transparency

The icon size for the “unselected” icons should be about 59*38 because the “icon area” in the main menu has the total size of about 176*150 and we have 3*4 icons



The icon size for the “selected” icons does not matter but should not be bigger than the display size



icon1 -> Play now! / Bookmark
icon2 -> Internet services
icon3 -> Entertainment
icon4 -> Camera
icon5 -> Messages
icon6 -> Media Player
icon7 -> File manager
icon8 -> Contacts
icon9 -> Radio
icon10 -> Calls
icon11 -> Organizer
icon12 -> Settings

Enable your custom menu on your phone:

After creating overall 24 new icons (12 “selected” & 12 “unselected”)



Copy all the icon files including the edited menu.ml back into the FS\TPA\PRESET\SYSTEM\MENU directory on your phone

Wait some seconds and restart your phone

That’s it!


You can also change the complete look and feel of the menu – just take look at this thread http://forums.se-nse.net/index.php?showtopic=3716
and http://forums.se-nse.net/index.php?showtopic=3385

and again thank you Hendrix for the R2E patch and the DCU-60 support
and of course Darkmen for the great Far plugin