Blackberry Tutorials: Hide/Show Hidden Dock

Blackberry Tutorials: Hide/Show Hidden Dock – with buttons! (video)

[Posted 05/05/2010 at 12:01 AM | 11 Comments]

In an old tutorial I showed you how to do a hidden dock a different way than this one. The other tutorial you would scroll up to hide your dock, however, in this tutorial, I will explain how to make it so you can press the back key (escape) to hide the dock, and the space bar to show it without loosing the animation! You can also change these to anything you want ($, *, #, etc). Feel free to download the file’s below to help you understand the video as you watch.

Why do it

Some people dislike having to scroll up to hide their docks and some prefer to press a button to hide it. There is another way to accomplish this, however, you loose the scrolling effect. Please sit back and enjoy the tutorial!

Download Files

I have enclosed a few downloads that you can use. The first two include every file I used to create the Droid like dock in my video. The last link is to download the CODE only.

Download ZIP
Download RAR
Download Code Only (.txt)

Please Note

You have to download the Blackberry Theme Builder tools onto your computer.
This tutorial will be using Composer and Theme Builder.

Video

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Tina said:

Hello Matt,

thanks for this great tutorial. I would try to use it in my next theme.

Do you have an idea or a tutorial for a background behind the hidden today display? So that one can use a colorful wallpaper and the hidden today function.

Many greatings from Germany … Tina(quote this comment)

# 6 May 2010 at 2:43 AM

Adam said:

awesome tut man. thanks.. this’ll come in handy for sure Adam(quote this comment)

# 6 May 2010 at 8:59 AM

Frank said:

Once again a great tutorial! You are the chit. Thank you for helping all of us theme builders out! Frank(quote this comment)

# 6 May 2010 at 9:19 AM

Blackberry Tutorial: Hidden Dock (no animation) said:

# 12 May 2010 at 2:24 PM

Mo14k said:

You’re AWESOME dude!!!

Thanks alot!! Mo14k(quote this comment)

# 14 May 2010 at 10:02 PM

Hans Hendrady said:

Hi Matt, thanks for you handy tutorial, I’ve tried and it works. but I’m wondering, when the dock was hidden, then I press the Escape key, the dock will show up again and then hidden again. any ideas when the dock was hidden we disabled the escape key?

it is same with the space key.

thank you matt, I’m looking forward for your reply.

many thanks,

hans Hans Hendrady(quote this comment)

# 21 May 2010 at 11:20 PM

Matt Ginsberg (author) said:

No, unfortunately, there is nothing we can do about that… Matt Ginsberg(quote this comment)

# 22 May 2010 at 5:44 PM

Cindy said:

man, you got the best and clearly explained tutorial! well im going to try it, wish be the best of luck! Cindy(quote this comment)

# 16 June 2010 at 11:29 PM

Matt Ginsberg (author) said:

Good luck! Matt Ginsberg(quote this comment)

# 17 June 2010 at 12:13 PM

Agung Nugroho ( famous84 ) said:

now I got 3 teachers… God, Google and Ginsberg, Matt….
3G.. lol Agung Nugroho ( famous84 )(quote this comment)

# 9 August 2010 at 8:12 AM

benox said:

Hey! Nice tutorial but is there a way to disable scrolling through the icons even when the dock is hidden OR is there a way to hide the status text with the hidden dock? benox(quote this comment)

# 14 August 2010 at 12:53 PM



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