Blackberry Tutorials: Sliding Dock (video)

[Posted 05/07/2010 at 12:01 AM | 14 Comments]

A sliding dock is a great thing to have on your Blackberry. It will give you the ability to have a lot of icons on your phone without taking up a lot of space. You can have as any icons as you would like on the scrolling dock. Therefore, in this video tutorial I will explain how to make one. Feel free to ask as many questions as you need.

Why do it?

As stated above, this is great if you like to display your wallpaper but want to have a lot of icons on your home screen. Please take a look at my DroidSlide theme to get an example of this.

Download Files

I have enclosed a few downloads that you can use. The first two include every file I used to create the Sliding Dock . 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.

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Johni said:

hi there….it’s me again….i hope you don’t mind…..thanks for the tutorials.if u don’t mind,i would like a tutorial for left & right vertical sliding dock.thanks….keep posting…. Johni(quote this comment)

# 8 May 2010 at 11:53 AM

Matt Ginsberg (author) said:

hi there….it’s me again….i hope you don’t mind…..thanks for the tutorials.if u don’t mind,i would like a tutorial for left & right vertical sliding dock.thanks….keep posting….

I will keep it in mind. Matt Ginsberg(quote this comment)

# 12 May 2010 at 2:38 PM

Mike said:

Hi Matt!

Thank you so much for these tutorials. I’ve learned a lot from them and it’s actually pretty fun creating themes. I was wondering if you ever used the default focus icon along with the sliding dock? When I did that, the dock seems to lag a bit when it slides. I’m not sure if the image needs to be compressed or not, but the slight lag bothers me a bit. Any ideas? Do you think changing the dur=”0.5s” would make it smoother?

Thanks again and keep up the excellent work! Mike(quote this comment)

# 10 June 2010 at 12:03 AM

Matt Ginsberg (author) said:

be sure to check out bbthemelab.com Matt Ginsberg(quote this comment)

# 11 June 2010 at 12:58 AM

Jason said:

hey Matt,

Thanks for the information. Just so you know a 17 year old understood your video and succesfully made a scrolling dock for a 8530 device.

Thanks,
Jason Jason(quote this comment)

# 23 June 2010 at 5:09 PM

Ariel said:

hey matt !
thank you so much for these tutorials ! i’ve learned many things from them and i just cant stop creating a new theme everyday !
it’s cool !
keep up the good work man. Ariel(quote this comment)

# 30 June 2010 at 7:45 AM

Pablo said:

ok.. you are THE MAN…
great tutorial.. excelent job you did.
I was looking for something like this and you explained it so simple that its a pleasure watching your tutorials.
Congrats!!!
cheers from Argentina

Pablo Pablo(quote this comment)

# 23 July 2010 at 8:13 PM

Billy said:

Can You Help Me get the simulator to work on windows 7 64bit. i installed them and if i go into programs and under rim it shows it and allows me to open it however it doesn’t recognize it in theme builder. is it a simple fix or does it have to be moved to a certain folder? Billy(quote this comment)

# 26 July 2010 at 12:47 AM

Daniel said:

Hey man, first of all; excellent skills, tutorial and website. Truly… no suck-up intented

One question; it wasn’t so hard to find out how you did the scrolling, keep things in the middle thing, but it offers me with one problem. I have implemented it into a “standard” Zen theme, but when I go from my profile button down to my buttons it triggers the in focus event and the thing starts scrolling. Any way to prevent this? I really hate to use the L model to prevent it, especially when you have 16 buttons

Thanks man! Daniel(quote this comment)

# 30 July 2010 at 4:25 PM

Matt Ginsberg (author) said:

http://www.bbthemelab.com Matt Ginsberg(quote this comment)

# 3 August 2010 at 5:29 PM

Brian said:

Thanks for your tutorials, I’ve learned alot and hope to make some cool themes with my new found knowledge! Brian(quote this comment)

# 12 August 2010 at 12:43 AM

rio said:

can i combine this sliding dock with hidden buttons dock? if i can, how about the code? rio(quote this comment)

# 17 August 2010 at 3:38 PM

Matt Ginsberg (author) said:

Yes. I am not going to write the code fo you..just learn how to do the sliding dock. Then learn how to do the Hidden Dock. After that, combine them and change their IDs Matt Ginsberg(quote this comment)

# 17 August 2010 at 11:23 PM

rio said:

Yes. I am not going to write the code fo you..just learn how to do the sliding dock. Then learn how to do the Hidden Dock. After that, combine them and change their IDs

yeah i got it, tqvm matt. but i still have a question, when i hide the button on next slide, then i start again, cursor didnt show on first slide, i must scroll it to the left. why a cursor didnt start on the first buttons when i pop up it?

nb: sorry if my english is realy poor, i’m indonesian rio(quote this comment)

# 18 August 2010 at 12:02 PM



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