U10 Dots Background

Posted on March 6, 2006 by Justin

In my previous post I talked about how to make the background of your U10 a Flash movie, so I thought I would post the source for my first background, a random generating background. It looks fairly plain on the desktop, but when you add in all of the menu items from the device, it looks a little more interesting.

In addition to adding the circle elements, I am altering the alpha level of the non-highlighted elements of the menu. To make the menu work with any background color, the text elements are set at about 30% opacity. The Flash background I’ve been working on is a bit bold color-wise and the menu items are getting lost. By bumping the _alpha of /all/currentMenu up to 300%, you can make the text opaque.

Prior to doing a little more introspection I had previously been changing the alpha of the root, but that affects other UI elements like the translucent black overlay for system notifications like volume adjustments and connectivity. By more narrowly targeting the alpha setting, I can boost just menu text and arrows.

Another interesting thing that you can see when you start doing dynamic backgrounds is that the SWF is reloaded several times. If the backlight turns off, the background will redraw when the light comes back on. The same holds for when you change from portrait to landscape or launch and exit a game. The strange thing is that right before it redraws, you still see the old state. It isn’t that the background was ever unloaded; it was just reloaded.

58 thoughts on “U10 Dots Background”

RconR on March 6, 2006 at 11:48 am said:

The source is missing…

Not Found

The requested URL /source/dotBackground.zip was not found on this server.

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Justin on March 6, 2006 at 11:51 am said:

woops, sorry about that. typo. It is fixed now!

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Craig Babcock on March 6, 2006 at 3:13 pm said:

Nice work!

Now, if you can just figure out how the ‘on(keyPress)’ repeat feature works

BTW, I mentioned this and the previous post on the U10DO blog.

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Justin on March 6, 2006 at 3:22 pm said:

Starting to write a rant about it, but decided to make a post about it.

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Jonathan Duran on March 31, 2006 at 12:10 pm said:

the _alpha fix for the menus only seems to work on some of the menus and not on others.

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Justin on March 31, 2006 at 12:48 pm said:

what menu are you seeing it reset the _alpha? I haven’t run into the issue myself.

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michael on April 17, 2006 at 8:57 am said:

is the background supposed to move or change because it isnt on my u10??

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michael on April 18, 2006 at 11:46 am said:

dont worry its sorted but now when i put another background on when i turn it on again it goes back to the original background and not the one i wanted?? please could you help me

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The source is missing…

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