Since the release of PointUI 2.0.28b I've read that a few people had some problems with the Search button. This is caused by the fact that PointUI now has a fallback mechanism when loading images.
For applets it first looks in the current applet folder, then the active theme folder, and then the default theme folder.
Maybe it also checks for a common image folder in the AppletRibbon folder, but I don't know that, my feeling tells me that it doesn't, but maybe somebody else can shed some light on this.
For themes offcourse just the active theme folder, followed by the default theme folder.
This results in the following change of behavior. In previous PointUI versions if you removed a file from the theme folder, the icon just would not show. If you now remove it, it searches the default theme folder, which in 99% of the cases does contain the removed image(s) and does display the image.
To 'fix' this behavior you just need to add a transparent gif to the theme, rename it to the file you don't want the fallback mechanism to work for and voila you're set. Following this, I added a zip file containing the transparent jif files to remove the search button from your active theme. Just copy the contents of the zip file to your active theme folder, perhaps even overwrite existing files when that is needed.
Please note, the developers added this behavior so that applets can share image resources via a theme, which is an excellent addition! This A) results in less memory usage by applets (common images aren't redundantly stored on your device anymore), B) results in 100% matching look and feel for different applets and C) results in applets that can auto-adapt to the look and feel of the current theme!
In case of SonnarUI, have 1 SonnarUI theme that contains the "Background.jif" that is shared amongst several applets, and have all applets use that. If for instance Mnml.UI or Amane.UI also create theme's with "Background.jif" in it, when switching to this theme the applet's automaticly use the 'new' "Background.jif" and have a dynamic but consistent look amongst applets! Can you see the massive potential in this feature? ;-) I do!
Anyway, I've added the 'hidden' search button as a zipfile, and a 1x1 transparent file in the second zip file for theme creators to use.
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Transparant.zip (0.1 KB, 337 downloads) 11 months old - Remove_Search_Button.zip (0.7 KB, 500 downloads) 11 months old
