#lockbuilder

How to straighten #LockBuilder text with iFile.

If you answer yes to the following 3 questions then this LockBulder tutorial is for you.

-Did you purchase LockBuilder?

-Do you love it and play with it so much that your penis/vajayjay is having iPhone envy?

-Do you find yourself going crazy because you can’t get one or multiple text lines to stay in a god damned straight line?

Now that all of you are paying attention here is a very quick tutorial on how to use iFile to adjust the text lines to your liking.

There are 10 pictures posted above and they are all in order. I am going to walk you through them and help you sleep better knowing that your lockscreen doesn’t look like you have one leg shorter than the other.

Quick note: You must save your beautiful, but mangled lockscreen to a plist before proceeding.

Photo #1 - See how the Twitter text is making your OCD scream? Good, now let’s fix it.

Photo #2 - Open iFile and go to var/mobile/Library/LBThemes

Photo #3 - Select your plist and then select Text Viewer.

Photo #4 & #5 - These photos just show you that there is a shitload of background text that you need to scroll down past.

Photo #6 - Now that you have gotten carpal tunnel syndrome from scrolling, you need to find the line for the text object that you are wanting to fix. In this example we are looking for TwitterTextRotated (note: this works on icons as well). As you can see TwitterTextRotated has along list of numbers that include the GPS coordinates of the Bermuda Triangle. Or maybe it’s Nicki Minaj’s body measurements.

Anyway, after you have found the line that you want to correct, select Edit in the upper left-hand corner.

Photo #7 - Select and highlight the matrix #’s and remove them (cut or backspace). IMPORTANT!!!!!! - Make sure that your fat fingers don’t “accidentally” delete any part of the brackets surrounding the plethora of numbers that you are removing. (You have been warned!)

Photo #8 - Type “null” (don’t type the quotation marks around it, you asshats) in between the opening and closing string brackets. Next you can either go fix another text object’s crookedness or it’s size OR you can f’n following along with me and click Save in the upper right corner, and exit out of iFile.

Photo #9 - Go to your lockscreen and select the plist that you just edited.

Photo #10 - Send me all of your money because I have saved you from having to turn the bathroom light switch on and off 3 more times… Or you can go find something else to bitch about. We all know which one you're going to choose.

Hope this helped, now go and enjoy your LockBuilder buildering!

Chuck em’!

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If you haven't purchased LockBuilder by @junesiphone yet, you do not know what you are missing. I spent most of last year creating HTML lockscreens for everybody and had over 300k downloaded. But that was last year and that was also with iOS 6.1. With iOS 7 we are limited with HTML lockscreens in some aspects (not able to run HTML through Winterboard), but those same limitations have also caused many of the way more talented designers to go a different rout with their designs.

LockBuilder takes the attitude of the date, time, weather widget, etc. on your HTML lockscreen is where the designer put it so deal with it, and throws it in the garbage. With Lockbuilder you are able to control where all of the information that you want goes and you can change everything (in real-time) from the comfort of your own lockscreen.

Here are a few videos that I did with my old GIF lockscreens using LockBuilder.

Here are the links if you can't vew the videos: http://www.youtube.com/v/aFvRlAaikKk http://www.youtube.com/v/o5KYhvUFsqU

Now in these videos I just did the bare minimum of what you can do with LockBuilder. With LockBuilder you have the ability to add widgets, app icons (that actually work) and many more options to your lockscreens. Your lockscreen options are seemingly endless when using this lockscreen editor.

If your one who loves to customize your phone, then LockBuilder is for you! This Cydget will be available via Cydia Soon.

Very similar to miLock (Same base code) LockBuilder allows you to set things wherever you want on your lockscreen. I have included quite a few "things"

Weather Items

Temp

Icon

City

Humidity

Description

Date

Low

High

Time

Widgets

Clock

Forecast

Animated Weather uniAW by Ian

Close widgets

Icons

Tweetbot

Music

Mail

Facebook

Maps

Messages

Instagram

Line

Thats the biggest bit, also included is 8 different fonts, and 8 different colors!

Setup is simple. You enter your woeid or zipcode, then choose if you want c or f and also wether you entered zipcode or woeid. I went with woeid because everyone has one. I even left a link in the settings. Watch this video to see how. One major difference than miLock is the introduction of Icons. These icons can be placed anywhere on the lockscreen. Whenever the icon is pressed, that app will open (unless you have a passcode set). I will add more icons soon. Let me know what apps you would like to see. Icons can be changed by replacing the original icons in System/Library/LockCydgets/LockBuilder

If you have not used Cydgets I did a write up here, explaining them. Cydgets

I have made a blog to tell you more. LockBuilder

Get it from cydia here!

Further instructions: As soon as you download from cydia. Go to settings.app. You will see Cydgets toward the bottom. Click this. In the Cydgets menu select LockBuilder and setBackground.

You will respring and should have some popups on the screen. Enter you zipcode, or woeid number. then it will ask you if you want Celsius or fahrenheit. Once you entered your info nothing will happen. You need to either select the menu (top button) or press your home button.

Pressing the home button will switch you to the setBackground widget. Here you can select a wallpaper to use. Once one is selected press the home button again. You will go back to lockbuilder and have a new wallpaper. iOS6 supports wallpaper, if you are having issues with another firmware please let me know.