Customizing the look of MobyToday

Setting a background picture
You can customize the background that MobyToday is showing by using your own picture as the background for MobyToday.

MobyToday accepts both jpg, gif and png images as background images. The images should be stored in your phone or on the memory card, and should preferrably be in the same size as the phone screen. If you use an image which is larger than the screen you will not see the whole picture in the background (and if the picture is very big, you might run out of phone memory when loading it).

You set the background image by going to the menu Settings->Display Settings. Scroll down to the "Background image" option, and choose "User defined" (here you can also choose the default background or choose to use no background at all). After this go to the "Path to background image" option further down and type the path to the image file that you want to put in the background (here you can also see what size your picture should have).

The format of the path to the image file will differ depending on the phone model and where the file is stored. The file path will always start with a file:/// and then the actual path to the file on the phone's file system. MobyToday will try to make a guess where it is stored, but you can change this to where ever the file is stored.

Making MobyToday conform to the skin/theme of your phone
You can make MobyToday conform to the theme/skin which is running on the phone, by using the same picture as background picture in MobyToday, as the picture that is being used in the current theme (or the picture that you are using as wallpaper). Also, MobyToday will always try to follow the color theme of the current theme/skin when it comes to the color of text, backgrounds and highlights.

As mentioned above the background picture needs to be of the same size as the screen size of the phone. You can find out what screen size you have by going to the menu option Settings->Display Settings and scroll down to the "Path to background image" option. This will say what size your picture should have.

Some considerations for stand-by applications on Sony Ericsson phones:
When running MobyToday as a stand-by application, you should re-apply the phone theme or phone wallpaper picture after starting MobyToday on the stand-by screen. Due to a bug in the these phones, if you don't re-apply the theme or wallpaper after starting MobyToday, you will not see any picture in the status bar and the menu bar.

Here is an example of a Win-XP style theme for S-E phones which support stand-by applications, to show how MobyToday can be seamlessly integrated to the current theme. These themes use the same picture as the default background image in MobyToday, so you should set the "Background image" in MobyToday to "Default", and then apply the theme.
Theme for S-E phones with display size 240x320: W850, W830, K800, K790
Theme for S-E phones with display size 176x220: K610, Z610, Z710, W710

Choosing the position of MobyToday in the stand-by screen
If you find that the appointments and tasks in MobyToday are obstructed by, for example, the name of the network operator, you can change the position on the screen where MobyToday should start displaying information.

This is done by going to Settings->Display Settings and scroll down to the "Offset from top of screen when in stand-by mode" option. Here you can experiment with the number of pixels from the top of the display, that MobyToday should start displaying information.