Leslie Franke

I have created a new 16-bit Palm T3 DIA and a revamped Crystal ZLauncher theme for download. The Crystal ZLauncher theme has been changed to make it more colorful and to match the 16-Bit DIA. The Palm T3 DIA skin requires the use of SkinT3! and the Crystal ZLauncher theme will work on any Palm OS handheld with at least a 320×320 screen resolution.

You can find out more about SkinT3! by looking at the previous post.

I have made several changes to the T3 Crystal DIA skin that have been requested by others including changing a few icons to make them stand out more. In addition, I split out the big graffitti buttons and left handed writing areas and put them into their own files. If you want to use these files just merge them into the Crystal DIA.

Warning: Many of the icons in the ZLauncher theme have changed. Installing this new skin will apply different buttons to each function.

Download Links:
Crystal ZLauncher Theme —- T3 Crystal DIA

I have been playing with a great new program to skin the Palm T3′s DIA area. SkinT3! is a DIA skin loader and manager that, among other things, allows for 16-bit skins. Among its highlights:

* Skins are loaded instantly. If you have used T3AgendaBG or changed your StatusBarResources.prc file you know that additional actions are needed to load a new skin. Not so with SkinT3!.

* SkinT3! has 16-bit support. Even T3AgendaBG skins were only 8-bit. This resulted in many skins being of lower quality and also making it hard to match a DIA skin with a launcher skin, such as a ZLauncher theme. Not so with SkinT3!.

* DIA skins can be combined. If you like the way a keyboard is layed out on one skin and a status bar on another skin you can combine these two skins together to achieve the desired match.

* The Graffiti application buttons, those buttons that are always white in the DIA area, can now be set to use full color icons. Through the use of a program such as AppIcon, you can basically make these four buttons look like anything you want.

The DIA may look still look strange in some applications. In addition to SkinT3! you may want to use Force16 which comes in the SkinT3! download. This OS5 hack for YAHM forces any selected apps to run in 16-bits mode. This may cause some applications to not function correctly or to look strange but I have found that it works with many applications including AeroPlayer, Iambic Mail, SmartListToGo, TiBr, and Today. One program I would not use this with is Filez. While the application still functions correctly the color scheme gets distorted.