Manual:
Step 1 - When you run you Wisbar Desktop copy for the first time, you see nice pre-installed theme. However, you can (and it's expected that you do) change, delete or add everything, scale starts with background and ends with custom sliders, grids and meters.
Step 2 - There are two ways changing the theme, either create you own or just download already developed (and usually heavily tested by community) skin from official
forum. You can change theme by tap&hold on WADesktop, selecting
Settings and pressing
Change theme button. Assuming you've already installed the downloaded skin, just select it from list and set it as
Portrait or
Landscape, or both. If you can't see your theme, click on
Scan For Themes. If neither this helps, you have to reinstall the theme, sometimes different location fixes issues.
Step 3 - Second way to customize you WAD is creating you very own theme. Just once again go to the
Change theme menu, but now press the
New Theme. Name it and don't forget to select it as Portrait/Landscape again.
Step 4 - Now you have just black&blank screen. We'll start with adding button to demonstrate how WAD works. Tap&hold on empty space (now everywhere since it's clear) and select
Author Mode. Unless that you can't add elements nor move with them. Again t&h and see that tons of new options are available. For now click on the
New. List of stuff that can be added is also vast, now we are going to create button as a simplest demonstration of usage.
Step 5 - You must define a
Normal Image Path, that's shown normally, and optionally
Pressed Image Path, that will be shown instead when pressed. To set what button do, click
Edit Script, but don't worry, you don't have to write any code (unfortunately, it's not even possible).
Step 6 - This part is called
Script Editor. You can add commands and order them. Higher runs before the ones at bottom, following command runs only when previous is completed.
Step 7 - Now just select action you want to assign to your button, for example
Launch Application or
Phone - Missed Call List, and click
Done first time to return to
Script Editor, second time close it and finally for the last time to close
Button options Step 8 - You can click your button and it will run the script you've entered. T&h on your Button element shows new menu.
Move allows to precisely set item to position using d-pad,
Bring to Front and
Sent to Back are moving order of layers (the higher the more visible).
Pinned is used for pinning element to all pages (will be described in Step 13).
Step 9 - We will overlook the
Dock element, so add one to your current theme. You have to define the
Name of dock, its used for hiding/showing it.
Align is obvious, sets if dock should be docked on left, right, bottom, top or floating. As nearly every item, also
Dock has the
Script button (see Step 6 and Step 7).
Hide the dock by default means whether the dock should be hidden when WAD starts or not.
Hide after executing shortcut automatically hides dock after item is clicked. Image or Color needs no explanation.
Step 10 - Dock can hold other items which are moved, hidden or showed altogether. You for example may set your button's script to
Dock - Toggle and then whenever you click it, selected dock either disappears or appears.
Step 11 - All the addable elements have similar options, image, pressed image and script, but some vary, for example
Grid, but who knows English can easily understand what is each option for.
Step 12 - In the end, we can't not mention
Pages. Try adding one by t&h on blank part of your theme and click
Page and select
New. New page with parameters as the one created from is here. Change it's name by getting the
Page menu but now select Properties.
Step 13 -
Page Name sets name of the page which is used it
Text - WAD Page Name element, but also as a pointer for
Script - WAD Switch to Page.
D-Pad Support disables or set function for arrows/dpad on your device.
Pinned Items, as already said, are visible on all pages, however you may 'unpin' them from certain page by unchecking them in this dialog.
Gestures can work as iPhone page sliding or custom scripts for sliding stylus to top, right etc. And the very last tip: if you want to hide the top most windows bar, t&h on blank piece of WAD and select
Page - Taskbar.
