Carbide.ui S60 Theme Edition 3.1 for Symbian OS Known Issues and Workarounds

If You experience problem during packaging with this info message:

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An exception occured (when parsing line 237):
Parse error
Non-SVG icon can not have an unnamed mask
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Aborted, ERRORS ENCOUNTERED!


It is related to using transparent (GIF, JPG or PNG) graphics on background (in my case it was Music Player background)
Workaround:
Save the file as .bmp ( no transparency), copy/paste to the tool => no mask will be created => packaging problem solved.

Many thanks for that workaround. I too was having the same problem with the music player.

I was using bitmaps, as though the SVG images I created using Inkscape show correctly in the Theme Studio, when downloaded to the phone they do not work correctly. For example, gradient fills just show up as the start colour on the phone, with no change. My workaround is to create the SVG images, then save a copy of the theme and, for everything I have changed the SVG file for, I use the convert and edit bitmap option -- remembering to save the image in the bitmap editor (set to Microsoft paint application for speed). This automatically creates the bitmap mask required for transparency. Thus cut-outs, and graduated fills to transparent should work correctly. It all looked ok in the theme studio, but I hit the same error you did.

Does anyone know why the SVGs show correctly in 3.1 Theme studio, but don't work on my N80?

I had a lot of problems with the music player background. I was finally given a clue by a discussion on another board [url]http://forum.mobilethemes.com/showthread.phtml?p=5352[/url] (thanks supertonic) who also mentioned “paste” – This is the key to it, to get round the problem:

You have to copy a bmp to the clipboard (eg in paint ctrl-a ctrl-c) and then with the music player background selected, right click the SVG entry in the “Application Background Skin Layers” window and choose paste. This is the only way that will work.

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Does anyone know why the SVGs show correctly in 3.1 Theme studio, but don't work on my N80?
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I've seen it on other forums alsothe problem with Inkscape and N80 svg engine. There is a workaround (quite ugly workaround though as You'll have to manually edit SVG XML file format). From release notes You could get more details:

- SVG elements that contain arcto constructs (A) in the path data are not
supported. When such SVG image is deployed to phone, user may experience
that it is partly or completely blank.

Workaround: Convert arcto to curveto(C) or other path constructs, such as
lineto (L), moveto (M), etc. that are supported. Some SVG authoring tools offer
command to "simplify" path(s) which could be used for this task.

- SVG elements that contain multiple referenced attributes under style attribute
(e.g. *url(#ref_id)) are not supported.

Workaround: Remove references from style attribute. Referenced attributes are
caused by multiple attributes under style. To avoid the problem and achieve
the maximum quality of image, style attributes should removed from style and
used as xml attributes. e.g. Convert from style="fill=xxx;fill-path=xxx;stroke
=xxx;stroke-width=xxx;" to fill="xxx" fill-path="xxx" etc. For more details:
[url]http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/styling.html#UsingPresentationAttributes[/url]


Hope this helps.
Regards,

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can someone tell me why when im packaging my themes i only end up with an installer file ranging from 3 to 500 kb that is useless.the first theme i made worked fine but everything after presents the same problem.WHAT AM I DOING WRONG!!!!!!!!!