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Hidden Dock with No Repeat Animation

Written by StaticFX on November 13th, 2010
Written within: Composer Tutorials

A lot of people are struggling with this… to have a hidden dock slide down, but then the animation repeats when you click the same button again. It just makes your theme look “unfinished”. Well, the fix is not very hard (for the most part). It all depends on how you have set up your dock.. im going to cover that a little as well.

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make a faster theme

Quickly Lower a Themes File Size

Written by MattG on November 10th, 2010
Written within: Composer Tutorials

This tutorial comes to us from BBThemes which was posted over at crackberry.com. I asked if I can showcase his quick tutorial on the Lab’s website and with no pause he said, “go for it.” So, I bring you a quick way to downsize your themes overall file size.

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Long anticipated

“King” Style Scrolling Dock Tutorial (video)!

Written by Big Papa on September 22nd, 2010
Written within: Composer Tutorials

What is a “King” style dock? It’s a dock that, once it gets to the last icon, cycles the first icon back on the screen; creating a never ending circle of icons. It is a very nice style for a dock but is very complicated to dock. I will go over it for you in hopes you will better under what is evolved.

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brrr - its cold out there!

Add a Weather Slot in Theme Builder and Composer. (video)

Written by MattG on September 14th, 2010
Written within: Composer Tutorials, Theme Builder Tutorials

I have been asked so many times how to add a weather slot onto themes. This task is actually extremely easy to do. I will show you how to accomplish this is Theme Builder and Composer.

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