New Wallpaper Tool Options

[skilltronix]

Hi,

Could someone please explain how the new wallpaper tool works? I've tried renaming the images in different ways but I can't get it to recognize it as a "wallpaper pack".

Thanks for the instructions.

[rocky5]

Here you go and thanks team blackbolt for this.

Doc

For wallpaper packs do this
Note: They can be png or Jpg or gif
NOTE: GIF will slow the xbox down.

Halo\
Halo\wallpaper-guidepanel.png
Halo\wallpaper-Games.png
Halo\wallpaper-kai.png #notes this is for both kai or the extra window
Halo\wallpaper-Media.png
Halo\wallpaper-System.png

OR

Halo2\
Halo2\wallpaper-guidepanel.png
Halo2\wallpaper-all.png

[RLLMoFP]

So where would one go to download this wallpaper tool? I read previously that it was in the works but haven't seen any mention of it being available for download.

[Jezz_X]

Its in the skin on the guide blade under
Personal Settings\Appearance Managment\Custom Backgrounds\Choose wallpaper pack

[FreshMeatPuppet]

Now we've just gotta get the BAT file which does the batch renaming of files to the new format to work... Stayed up to the wee hours last night trying to get it to work with no success.

[nanakifirelight]

i am having issue with this aswell can someone please upload a pak they have got working to rapidshare or something so i can see what i am doing wrong, i am sure i got the naming convention correct :/

[FreshMeatPuppet]

In case it is of any help, I found that once you put the 'wallpaper pak' in a discrete folder with the correct naming structure, and then navigate to the folder using the 'select wallpaper pack' in the guide blade, it WON'T show you any images in there. This however is not a problem, just press right on your remote/control and it will highlight 'cancel'. the press 'up' to get to 'ok/select', it will then apply the wallpapers.

Oh, and the naming convention IS NOT CASE SENSETIVE for those that are interested, I just discovered that and found it helpfull with my part manual/part automatic file renaming.

[rocky5]

Copy this and put it in a text doc and save as renamer.bat
The text in red you can change to your file names.

thanks to the creator of this bat file i have just edited it a bit.

@echo off
TITLE mass image renamer -- by SPENGLER
color 02
cls

:getInDir
echo ........................................................................
echo Where are the original PNG files?
echo [type / drag]
echo *** note, leave blank and hit enter to exit ***
echo ........................................................................
set /p inDir=
if "%inDir%"=="" goto end
goto renameFiles



:renameFiles
echo ........................................................................
echo RENAMING FILES NOW
echo ........................................................................
echo live blade.jpg -- wallpaper-kai.png
echo games blade.jpg -- wallpaper-Games.png
echo media blade.jpg -- wallpaper-Media.png
echo system blade.jpg -- wallpaper-System.png
echo Guide.jpg -- wallpaper-guidepanel.png
echo ........................................................................
move "%inDir%\live blade.png" "%inDir%\wallpaper-kai.png"
move "%inDir%\games blade.png" "%inDir%\wallpaper-Games.png"
move "%inDir%\media blade.png" "%inDir%\wallpaper-Media.png"
move "%inDir%\system blade.png" "%inDir%\wallpaper-System.png"
move "%inDir%\Guide.png" "%inDir%\wallpaper-guidepanel.png"
move "%inDir%\live background.png" "%inDir%\wallpaper-kai.png"
move "%inDir%\Games background.png" "%inDir%\wallpaper-Games.png"
move "%inDir%\media background.png" "%inDir%\wallpaper-Media.png"
move "%inDir%\system background.png" "%inDir%\wallpaper-System.png"
move "%inDir%\Guide background.png" "%inDir%\wallpaper-guidepanel.png"
move "%inDir%\Kai.png" "%inDir%\wallpaper-kai.png"
move "%inDir%\games.png" "%inDir%\wallpaper-Games.png"
move "%inDir%\media.png" "%inDir%\wallpaper-Media.png"
move "%inDir%\system.png" "%inDir%\wallpaper-System.png"
move "%inDir%\Guide.png" "%inDir%\wallpaper-guidepanel.png"
move "%inDir%\live blade.jpg" "%inDir%\wallpaper-kai.png"
move "%inDir%\games blade.jpg" "%inDir%\wallpaper-Games.png"
move "%inDir%\media blade.jpg" "%inDir%\wallpaper-Media.png"
move "%inDir%\system blade.jpg" "%inDir%\wallpaper-System.png"
move "%inDir%\Guide.jpg" "%inDir%\wallpaper-guidepanel.png"
goto complete

:complete
echo ........................................................................
echo FINISHED
echo ........................................................................
set inDir=
goto getInDir


:end

[nanakifirelight]

In case it is of any help, I found that once you put the 'wallpaper pak' in a discrete folder with the correct naming structure, and then navigate to the folder using the 'select wallpaper pack' in the guide blade, it WON'T show you any images in there. This however is not a problem, just press right on your remote/control and it will highlight 'cancel'. the press 'up' to get to 'ok/select', it will then apply the wallpapers.

Oh, and the naming convention IS NOT CASE SENSETIVE for those that are interested, I just discovered that and found it helpfull with my part manual/part automatic file renaming.

Thanks so much :D

i didnt realise you need to press right to allow you to select ok
whew

however i know this is still a beta and most likley the functionality of some of the components will improve as time goes on

=^.^=

why not just use * and wrap whatever veriants there are for each blade in em ??

CODE

@echo off
TITLE mass image renamer -- by SPENGLER - edit by NanakiFirelight
color 02
cls

:getInDir
echo ........................................................................
echo Where are the original PNG files?
echo [type / drag]
echo *** note, leave blank and hit enter to exit ***
echo ........................................................................
set /p inDir=
if "%inDir%"=="" goto end
goto renameFiles



:renameFiles
echo ........................................................................
echo RENAMING FILES NOW
echo ........................................................................
echo live blade.jpg -- wallpaper-kai.png
echo games blade.jpg -- wallpaper-Games.png
echo media blade.jpg -- wallpaper-Media.png
echo system blade.jpg -- wallpaper-System.png
echo Guide.jpg -- wallpaper-guidepanel.png
echo ........................................................................

move "%inDir%\*orange*" "%inDir%\wallpaper-kai.png"
move "%inDir%\*green*" "%inDir%\wallpaper-Games.png"
move "%inDir%\*blue*" "%inDir%\wallpaper-Media.png"
move "%inDir%\*purple*" "%inDir%\wallpaper-System.png"
move "%inDir%\*extra*" "%inDir%\wallpaper-kai.png"
move "%inDir%\*kai*" "%inDir%\wallpaper-kai.png"
move "%inDir%\*live*" "%inDir%\wallpaper-kai.png"
move "%inDir%\*games*" "%inDir%\wallpaper-Games.png"
move "%inDir%\*media*" "%inDir%\wallpaper-Media.png"
move "%inDir%\*system*" "%inDir%\wallpaper-System.png"
move "%inDir%\*Guide*" "%inDir%\wallpaper-guidepanel.png"
goto complete

:complete
echo ........................................................................
echo FINISHED
echo ........................................................................
set inDir=
goto getInDir


:end

This post has been edited by nanakifirelight: Jun 22 2006, 03:53 AM

[FreshMeatPuppet]

Heheh, I just finished renaming the hard way. Ah well, I had all ready tried Spenglers batch renaming tool (V2), and it was coming up with errors I could not explain... I will copy this to a BAT and try it with future packs though, to see where I went wrong.

[nanakifirelight]

this bat does come up with errors where it cant find a specific file e.g. if there is not a file with *kai* in it but there is one with *live* in it

-edit-

also make sure there is no spaces in the path of the folder your renaming in

C:\Wallpapers\Offical MS - wont work
C:\Wallpapers\OfficalMS - will work



however it works

This post has been edited by nanakifirelight: Jun 22 2006, 03:59 AM

[FreshMeatPuppet]

Yeah, I found out about the space thing last night too, it didn't help when I fixed that either.... will do some tests now to see what the 'faults' (that it comes up with are... might point me in the right direction of a fix.

It could be the first thing you listed... now that I think about it, I think spenglers renamer is specifically for files names '1'-'5', but I couldn't even get his demo/test ones working so....

I guess we shall see.

[nanakifirelight]

cool if you can fix the bat so that it works with spaces in the path to file that would be cool using wildcards (*) works verry well however thinking about it i may see if there is an easy way of stopping noobs messing there PC up by dragging a system folder into the bat file

[FreshMeatPuppet]

Sorry to dissapoint, but by 'fix' I meant change what I'm doing wrong. Wouldn't have a clue about the creating of working BAT files.... or anything else for that matter!

"the filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect"

is the error I'm getting.

I had the batch file put in a path with no space, but it just occured to me that it may want that to be the case with the files to be changed too. I fixed that and am still getting the same response.

C:\RENAMING\renamer.bat

C:\RENAMING\refresh\file_explorer_xlink_kai_blade.jpg
C:\RENAMING\refresh\games_blade.jpg
C:\RENAMING\refresh\guide_blade.jpg
C:\RENAMING\refresh\media_blade.jpg
C:\RENAMING\refresh\system_blade.jpg

that's the currecnt file structure. I'm wondering if the first BAT rocky5 listed was SPECIFICALLY for .PNG files?



EDIT: I'm starting to think that the first renamer I got of spenglers (v2) handles different file types (jpg, jpeg, gif, png) but expects files to be numbered '1'-'5', and that the one rocky5 posted at the top of this thread handles other naming stuctures (like in this post) but only expects .png files.

I can't win either way.

This post has been edited by FreshMeatPuppet: Jun 22 2006, 04:47 AM

[nanakifirelight]

if you use my edited version it does not care what the extention is.

it will litrally take a file where for example "games" is somewhere in the filename and rename it to wallpaper-Games.png

because i am using wildcards it does not care what the imput filetype is.

however this is *only* a renamer and wont properly convert jpg files into true png's it will just give them the PNG extention and MC360 doent give a crap if the file has the wrong extention.

i wont add a wildcard for numbered themes i.e. 1.jpg 2.jpg that could get a little too messy


FreshMeatPuppet

give my bat a blast

and i pritty much "get" whats going on with this file so if you tell me what the error is i can look into fixing it

This post has been edited by nanakifirelight: Jun 22 2006, 04:53 AM