nathan_christopher
28th Oct '07 Sun, 11:52
heto na po yung CANDIDATE RELEASE ng carbide 3.2.. Kaunti na lang ang bugs nito and YOU SAW IT FIRST SA SYMBIANIZE!!!
features:
Music Edition Support
S40 Theme Editor as well..
LINKS:
link1:
http://tools.ext.nokia.com/beta2/
username = c1domingo@yahoo.com
password = betterthemes
LINK2:
Carbide 3.2 part 1:
http://www.mediafire.com/?5dxt9hcexj4
Carbice 3.3 part 2:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ahbbzmd2jqp
Full documentation:
================================================== ========================
RELEASE NOTE for Carbide.ui Theme Edition 3.2 10.10.2007
================================================== ========================
Product Description:
====================
Carbide.ui has been designed with the creative professional in mind. It allows
the S60 and Series 40 UI to be customized with full WYSIWYG layout, without
the need for layout definition, coding or specialized mobile design experience.
In addition, Carbide.ui can be integrated with a wide range of creative graphic
and audio packages, allowing designers to work with their favourite tools.
Carbide.ui Theme Edition 3.2 enables creation of S60 Audio themes. Audio themes
are supported on some of the s60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 and later phones;
e.g. Nokia 5700.
Carbide.ui Theme Edition creates S60 themes that alter the appearance of the S60
UI. Themes can be created, edited, and viewed easily. Once a theme has been
created, the tool will package it into a Symbian OS installation file and
prepare it for OMA DRM protection, if required, after which it will be ready
for deployment to devices.
Main features:
==============
- Create a graphical and audio theme package from scratch
- Create a theme by mixing ready-made components and/or self-created ones
- Edit a previously created theme (ready-made SIS packages cannot be edited);
the source file is required)
- Import an existing theme.
What's new in 3.2?
====================
- Series 40 theme support
- Support for s60 Audio Theme creation
- New Resource View (new look and feel)
- Improved performance
- Copy file system folders to skin all elements at once. Element IDs are
resolved based on filename. Menu Edit | Paste element(s) into theme ...
- Referencing colors and changing multiple colors in one step.
- Referenced Colors view with drag n drop to colorize theme and SVG elements.
- Browse for file dialog with SVG thumbnails support
- Switch displayed phone in editor (platform combo)
- Plugin management: install phone specific layout and skinnable items set.
- New skinnable elements added to s60:
- Nine Piece Call Handling
- Calculator buttons
- Idle volume control
More information on these features is available in help.
System Requirements:
====================
Minimum:
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 or Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2
- 512 MB RAM minimum
- 430 MB disk space
- 1.5 GHz or faster processor
- Display supporting 16-bit color at 1280x1024
Recommended:
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 or Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2
- 1 GB RAM
- 430 MB disk space
- 2.8 GHz or faster processor
- Display supporting 24-bit color at 1280x1024
- Sound card
Note:
By default, configuration is optimized for 1GB (or more) of RAM machines.
Depending on the hardware, tweaking parameter -Xmx (maximum memory used)
could bring reasonable improvements.
For users with 512MB or RAM proper value should be in range from -Xmx256m to
-Xmx374m.
Instruction: edit $INSTALL_FOLDER\Eclipse\eclipse.ini file, and change
-Xmx768m to -Xmx256m, save the file and restart the tool.
Compatibility Issues:
=====================
- Theme packages created with the tool are compatible with phones
based on S60 Platform 2nd Edition; Feature Packs 1, 2 and 3, S60 Platform 3rd
Edition, Feature Packs 1 and 2 . The compatible platform release is decided
in the sis packaging phase of theme creation. Note that different platform
versions may support different theme features.
Known Problems and Limitations:
===============================
- In rare cases, SVG being created in Adobe Illustrator CS3 and saved
in default mode, meaning Save for Web & Devices save option was not used,
appears like out of viewbox when applied to Carbide.ui. Graphics could
look like if their top left corner was translated towards center. During the
SVG to SVG-t conversion, and this happens on save action when SVG is edited
in Adobe Illustrator CS3 or when such SVG file is pasted to Carbide.ui,
Illustrator CS3 specific and not SVG-t compliant content is filtered out.
Some of the filtered content is Adobe specific transformation of inverse
viewBox matrix (e.g. viewBox="-0.75 0.748 20 8").
Workaround: Use Illustrator CS3 Save For Web & Devices option when saving SVG
file.
- Switch displayed phone (platform) in editor is not supported for s40 projects.
Only for s60 graphical themes.
- Animated layers & effects: Preview of animation and behaviour on the phone may
differ. Some of the elements on the first (background) layer do not support
all of the effects.
- Problems when opening workspace edited with former versions of Eclipse.
Known Eclipse defect.
Workaround: Metadata folder of existing workspace should be cleared, no need
to delete existing projects from the workspace. All folders inside Eclipse\
Configuration folder should be cleared, except config.ini file which must not
be edited or removed.
- Eclipse workspace path should not contain non-ASCII characters.
- Tool may not work properly for projects containing non-ASCII characters running
on non-unicode platforms.
- Linking project path is case sensitive
- Embedded bitmaps (png, jpeg, bmp) inside svg are not supported.
Minor issues:
=============
- When Optimize or Colorize is set to true, during processing, alpha-channel is lost.
Image might get black borders. It is highly recommended to use svg colorizing,
bitmap colorizing is deprecated.
- Usage of JPG files is not recommended; defects reported when using JPG files.
- Some of the preview screens might have stretched and inaccurate graphics
- Effects: The following effect settings might be shown differently on the phone than
showed in tool preview.
a) Animation might not work if defined on the first layer
b) Solarize effect with threshold value around 255
c) Noise
d) Contrast effect with intensity value set to -255
- Undo might not work after changing resolutions.
Work around - Manually perform the operation.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright © 2007 Nokia Corporation. All rights reserved.
Nokia and Nokia Connecting People are registered trademarks of Nokia Corporation.
Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks or trade names
of their respective owners.
features:
Music Edition Support
S40 Theme Editor as well..
LINKS:
link1:
http://tools.ext.nokia.com/beta2/
username = c1domingo@yahoo.com
password = betterthemes
LINK2:
Carbide 3.2 part 1:
http://www.mediafire.com/?5dxt9hcexj4
Carbice 3.3 part 2:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ahbbzmd2jqp
Full documentation:
================================================== ========================
RELEASE NOTE for Carbide.ui Theme Edition 3.2 10.10.2007
================================================== ========================
Product Description:
====================
Carbide.ui has been designed with the creative professional in mind. It allows
the S60 and Series 40 UI to be customized with full WYSIWYG layout, without
the need for layout definition, coding or specialized mobile design experience.
In addition, Carbide.ui can be integrated with a wide range of creative graphic
and audio packages, allowing designers to work with their favourite tools.
Carbide.ui Theme Edition 3.2 enables creation of S60 Audio themes. Audio themes
are supported on some of the s60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 and later phones;
e.g. Nokia 5700.
Carbide.ui Theme Edition creates S60 themes that alter the appearance of the S60
UI. Themes can be created, edited, and viewed easily. Once a theme has been
created, the tool will package it into a Symbian OS installation file and
prepare it for OMA DRM protection, if required, after which it will be ready
for deployment to devices.
Main features:
==============
- Create a graphical and audio theme package from scratch
- Create a theme by mixing ready-made components and/or self-created ones
- Edit a previously created theme (ready-made SIS packages cannot be edited);
the source file is required)
- Import an existing theme.
What's new in 3.2?
====================
- Series 40 theme support
- Support for s60 Audio Theme creation
- New Resource View (new look and feel)
- Improved performance
- Copy file system folders to skin all elements at once. Element IDs are
resolved based on filename. Menu Edit | Paste element(s) into theme ...
- Referencing colors and changing multiple colors in one step.
- Referenced Colors view with drag n drop to colorize theme and SVG elements.
- Browse for file dialog with SVG thumbnails support
- Switch displayed phone in editor (platform combo)
- Plugin management: install phone specific layout and skinnable items set.
- New skinnable elements added to s60:
- Nine Piece Call Handling
- Calculator buttons
- Idle volume control
More information on these features is available in help.
System Requirements:
====================
Minimum:
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 or Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2
- 512 MB RAM minimum
- 430 MB disk space
- 1.5 GHz or faster processor
- Display supporting 16-bit color at 1280x1024
Recommended:
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 or Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2
- 1 GB RAM
- 430 MB disk space
- 2.8 GHz or faster processor
- Display supporting 24-bit color at 1280x1024
- Sound card
Note:
By default, configuration is optimized for 1GB (or more) of RAM machines.
Depending on the hardware, tweaking parameter -Xmx (maximum memory used)
could bring reasonable improvements.
For users with 512MB or RAM proper value should be in range from -Xmx256m to
-Xmx374m.
Instruction: edit $INSTALL_FOLDER\Eclipse\eclipse.ini file, and change
-Xmx768m to -Xmx256m, save the file and restart the tool.
Compatibility Issues:
=====================
- Theme packages created with the tool are compatible with phones
based on S60 Platform 2nd Edition; Feature Packs 1, 2 and 3, S60 Platform 3rd
Edition, Feature Packs 1 and 2 . The compatible platform release is decided
in the sis packaging phase of theme creation. Note that different platform
versions may support different theme features.
Known Problems and Limitations:
===============================
- In rare cases, SVG being created in Adobe Illustrator CS3 and saved
in default mode, meaning Save for Web & Devices save option was not used,
appears like out of viewbox when applied to Carbide.ui. Graphics could
look like if their top left corner was translated towards center. During the
SVG to SVG-t conversion, and this happens on save action when SVG is edited
in Adobe Illustrator CS3 or when such SVG file is pasted to Carbide.ui,
Illustrator CS3 specific and not SVG-t compliant content is filtered out.
Some of the filtered content is Adobe specific transformation of inverse
viewBox matrix (e.g. viewBox="-0.75 0.748 20 8").
Workaround: Use Illustrator CS3 Save For Web & Devices option when saving SVG
file.
- Switch displayed phone (platform) in editor is not supported for s40 projects.
Only for s60 graphical themes.
- Animated layers & effects: Preview of animation and behaviour on the phone may
differ. Some of the elements on the first (background) layer do not support
all of the effects.
- Problems when opening workspace edited with former versions of Eclipse.
Known Eclipse defect.
Workaround: Metadata folder of existing workspace should be cleared, no need
to delete existing projects from the workspace. All folders inside Eclipse\
Configuration folder should be cleared, except config.ini file which must not
be edited or removed.
- Eclipse workspace path should not contain non-ASCII characters.
- Tool may not work properly for projects containing non-ASCII characters running
on non-unicode platforms.
- Linking project path is case sensitive
- Embedded bitmaps (png, jpeg, bmp) inside svg are not supported.
Minor issues:
=============
- When Optimize or Colorize is set to true, during processing, alpha-channel is lost.
Image might get black borders. It is highly recommended to use svg colorizing,
bitmap colorizing is deprecated.
- Usage of JPG files is not recommended; defects reported when using JPG files.
- Some of the preview screens might have stretched and inaccurate graphics
- Effects: The following effect settings might be shown differently on the phone than
showed in tool preview.
a) Animation might not work if defined on the first layer
b) Solarize effect with threshold value around 255
c) Noise
d) Contrast effect with intensity value set to -255
- Undo might not work after changing resolutions.
Work around - Manually perform the operation.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright © 2007 Nokia Corporation. All rights reserved.
Nokia and Nokia Connecting People are registered trademarks of Nokia Corporation.
Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks or trade names
of their respective owners.