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Lock screen fun

16 years ago, at the start of October | 2 Comments

Yet more jailbroken iPhone fun based on Status Notifier. The original version simply placed icons on the lock screen if you had SMS’s, email, voice mail or missed calls. I wanted to have the actual counts visible, just like you get on the standard icons. The CSS for the badge is simple:

.shield {
        position: relative;
        float: left;
        padding: 7px;
}
 
.badge {
        font-family: helvetica;
        font-weight: bold;
        position: absolute;
        text-align: center;
        top: -2px;
        left: 52px;
        width: 30px;
        height: 24px;
        padding: 3px 0;
        background: url(imgs/badge.png) no-repeat 0 0;
        color :  white;
}

the badge.png image is just a copy of the original from the iPhone. Then we just wrap the icon and badge in the ‘shield’ div

 
<div style="height: 220px; width: 320px;">
 
<div class="shield">
    <img id="CallIcon" style="display:block" 
         src="imgs/call.png" alt="" />
    <div id="CallIconB" class="badge" 
        style="display:none">0</div>
</div>
<div class="shield">
    <img id="MailIcon" style="display:block" 
         src="imgs/mail.png" alt="" />
    <div id="MailIconB" class="badge" 
        style="display:none">0</div>
</div>
<div class="shield">
    <img id="SMSIcon" style="display:block" 
         src="imgs/sms.png" alt="" />
     <div id="SMSIconB" class="badge" 
          style="display:none">0</div>
</div>
<div class="shield">
    <img id="VoiceMailIcon" style="display:block" 
         src="imgs/voicemail.png" alt="" />
    <div id="VoiceMailIconB" class="badge" 
        style="display:none">0</div>
</div>
</div>

Now it’s just a case of tweaking the javascript to update the values of the badges. The showElement function gets a new parameter, the count for this icon’s badge. We set the value and make the badge visible.

function showElement(name,count) {
 
   elCn = document.getElementById(name+'B');
 
   if (elCn) {
       elCn.innerHTML = count;
       elCn.style.display = 'block';
   }
    document.getElementById(name).style.display = "";
}

The hideElement function gets a little change to hide the badge completely if the count is 0. I’m a little undecided as to if the icons should always be on display, I think I prefer that they are – hence the commenting out of the style change.

function hideElement(name) {
 
   elCn = document.getElementById(name+'B');
 
   if (elCn) {
      elCn.innerHTML = 0;
      elCn.style.display = "none";
   }
      //document.getElementById(name).style.display = "none";
}

All that remains is a small change to the call to showElement to pass the value.

function updateIcon(name) {
 
   var value;
   var elVa;
 
   try { 
      elVa =  xmlReq.responseXML.getElementsByTagName(name);
      value = elVa[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
 
      if (value != "0") {
          showElement(name + "Icon",value);
      } else {
          hideElement(name + "Icon");
      }
} 
 
   catch(error) {
   }
}

Updating badges



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  1. Shawn Blair on April 4, 2009 19:18

    Hi I was wondering if you could tell me how to go about setting this up. I’m not that great with coding. Thanks for the help

  2. ScaredyCat / Andy Powell on April 8, 2009 07:36

    Shawn,

    You may be better off using one of the prebuilt solutions in Cydia – If you want to try for yourself with the code above do a search in Cydia for StatusNotifier and install that first. That should get to started. Then all you’ll need to do is change the LockBackground.html to add my modifications.

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