What are ppl using for today plugin Launchers?
I have PHM traylaunch but i want something i can easily hit with my thumb.
Just trying to see what ppl recommend.
Could you also indicate whether its freeware or buy.
Thank you.
claunch. Free and customisable.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=144657#144657
I also use other plugins that I haven't released yet.
V
Wow you're screen's nice!!
What did you use to get all the essential indicators on your Top most Start bar? i.e. Missed Phone Call, SmS indicator and voicemail, those are really handy.
Also what app gives you the giant Time and date and temperature?
I'd be happy to get a screen even half as functional as yours.
rxr - the screenshot above is an older version of my Today screen, but it's stable.
When I'm feeling adventurous, I use a plugin that's in ongoing development (slowly) called VJEphemeris, combining various old and new features of my various plugins:
The bar at the top is using my app/trick called VJToggleToday to hide the start bar (actualy minimise it to the top 2 pixels), and then replace the start bar with PhoneAlarm. I'm not sure if PhoneAlarm is fully WM5 yet, this screenshot is from WM2003, my main phone.
The plugin giving the large date and temp on the earlier screenshot is something called VJAudioNotes, which has also been upgraded slightly, but is being replaced by VJEphemeris. It's mainly designed because I use a dual SIM, and I need to know which operator I'm running on easily. Unforunately I don't think it's fully WM5 compatible yet, but since I don't use a WM5 day to day, I've not investigated it yet.
Also hidden away there is NotesToday with a custom skin, not shown (the small dot under the QOTD plugin, and beneath that an unreleased spacer plugin called VJTodaySpacer.
I tested many many plugins before I settled on my combinations. I like them, they're stable and functional for me. People will have personal preferences... but I like a usable but informative Today screen. Pretty pictures of naked women aren't helpful when glancing at the Today screen during a meeting :wink:
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Using a customized HTCTODAY
(its posted here , use search)
Just does what I want and its small!
The plugin giving the large date and temp on the earlier screenshot is something called VJAudioNotes, which has also been upgraded slightly, but is being replaced by VJEphemeris. It's mainly designed because I use a dual SIM, and I need to know which operator I'm running on easily. Unforunately I don't think it's fully WM5 compatible yet, but since I don't use a WM5 day to day, I've not investigated it yet.
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With your permission i'd be more than willing to test it out on my WM5 device
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Hi,
I recently picked up an MDA Pro and am pretty happy with it, but there are a couple of things on the Today screen that I'd like to get rid of and can't find out how.
The bottom of the screen has a bar for the softkeys (currently says 'Messages' and 'Calendar') that's a waste of space, and likewise just above that there is a toolbar with battery status/wireless manager/screen rotate that I'd like to ditch. Any ideas how to do this?
Separately, are there any today plugins that give you the ability to crush down the # of messages and tasks to a single line rather than the current individual items?
Cheers,
Jim.
I don't use WM2005, however, have a look for my program, TodayToggle (which is not entirely WM2005 compatible: it doesn't hide the softbutton menu bar; I've purposely NOT tried to hide it because it's there for a reason. Would it be useful to hide it? When I get WM2005 I'll think about it).
For better control of task and alarms etc, look into alarmtoday by pocketmax. 3rd plugin down here:
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vijay, u have some AWESOME looking features going on there. Please can you tell us what you're using for:
- What is giving you all the icons in the top bar?
- Which app are you using for the calendar summary?
- What is the second-last plugin and what does it do?
craigiecraigie4 - have a look at the second post here for some shots of my setup http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=26468
The bar at the top is just PhoneAlarm using a skin I made, and using a hack I made called ToggleToday. Both are described in detail here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=27331
Toggletoday will minimise the Startbar to a tiny 2 pixel high bar, and then allow your today screen to show through. So you get phonealarm on every page. It should work in QVGA on the Universal, although I'll be sorting out VGA and full WM2005 support when I get a WM2005 device (shortly I hope).
The second to last plugin is claunch set up with shortcuts to dial or sms my better half - they use tools I wrote called VJSMS and VJDialer, both available in the development forum; http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=26972.
I use a dual sim, so claunch is also set to allow me to switch sims (not visible on screen) - the plugin after phonealarm is a plugin i wrote to show my current operator, o2 UK and Orange UK.
The calendar summary is using AlarmToday by Pocketmax (phonealarm guy) but hacked a little to suit my theme better.
V
PS - this is my old screen! I've improved one or two things since, will try to post some new pics soonish.
Hmm... not quite what I was after. Here's a screenshot of my today page with the things that I don't like about it:
Items that I'd like to fix:
1 - combine these into a single line item
2 - get rid of the softbar (using a softkey for messages is a waste as there's already a hardkey for this and the calendar is already on the today screen)
3 - get rid of this line of icons (again duplicated information/functionality)
I tried your software but it doesn't seem to work with the MDA Pro: the screen ends up somewhat distored with the messages part of the today screen showing through to other apps and the right-hand 20% or so of the screen no longer updating - suspect a WM2005 prob somewhere.
Any other ideas?
Okay so not a perfect fix but I've found out how to change the softkeys on the Today screen and posted the details at http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=140027
Is it possible to remove the Calendar and Contacts bar at the bottom of the Today Screen?
Regards
I don't think there are any registry hacks etc that seem to do the job yet.
I've written a program that will do it, but it's not quite ready for release.
No soft keys:
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Minimised soft keys and start bar (and hidden tray)
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Vijay, this looks great!!! Any estimates on when you might be able to release it? Thanks a lot!!!
k_kirk: It cleans up the WM5 Today screen quite a lot. They really made a mess with the Tray and the soft buttons taking up space. 33% of the screen is taken up by non Today stuff on the Today screen.
But there are a lot of options I have to think about:
-No start bar
-Minimised start bar
-Tray/No tray/Moved tray
-No soft keys
-Minimised softkeys
-In QVGA/VGA/Portrait/Landscape
-WM2003 and WM5
And I have to make this interact well with another plugin I wrote for it. It bends my brain and I have to stop thinking about it from time to time.
I had expected it to be finished by around now, but I got caught up learning TAPI for VJOkButt, and now I'm busy again on VJElectrify and a couple of other things. But hopefully, if I can concentrate a bit, I'll try to finish it. I want to get the basic WM5/WM2003 version out in the next week or so. But no promises I'm afraid
V
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I've written a program that will do it, but it's not quite ready for release.
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lol @ battery level (255%) and temperature (-5 degs).
Not quite ready for release, you say? Are you developing in the deep freeze?
j/k
SiliconS I already got told off for that... To test VJToggleToday for WM5, I needed to over fill the screen to measure the placement of the scrollbar. I couldn't find enough fat plugins so I used my old VJAudioNotes. Obviously the emulator's a cool dude!
Frankly I'm quite surprised VJAudioNotes works at all on WM5, but it works well on my universal It doesn't use any dodgy API so it should work fine I guess.
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Update?
Vijay,
Any update on this? I would love to get rid of the soft keys displaying on my XDA Exec, they seem such a waste of valuable screen space.
Gaz
gazza99: I'll be posting some info in the next couple of days. Unforunately not directly related, but an interesting development.
It came out of ToggleToday research, so I'm kind of working on ToggleToday. But when you see what the "thing" is, you'll understand why I stopped for a little while... VJSihaya, coming soon.
V
can some one please tell me how i can put contacts pic on today screen,i seen it done with the treo 700 with windows 5.0.maybe some one can tell me of some software to do this,thanks
i use vjays phone tools and set shortcut with custom icon to my today screen launcher.
I also use VJPhoneTools on my Today launcher:
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But there is a commercial app called MyPhoneShortcuts which does something similiar ($9.49).
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Hi vjay,
when you gonna let us know how get out today screens looking this cool?
Bit busy
Holy sh*t VJ! That's some busy Today screen.
Davebo: Yeah, I'm still not happy about the spare bit of space in the middle (it's actually a plugin called VJTodaySpacer). Will have to put something ridiculous in there too! This plugin, VJEphemeris, is likely to substantially change shape as soon as I get a minute to re-address some of it. With my R&D on VJVolubilis etc, I want to build in one touch wifi/ir/bluetooth control etc, and some other stuff.
The screen looks busy but I find it quite easy on the eye (although I dislike analog clocks. I only did it to see how to do it..I think I'll remove it later)
I only have one screen, no virtual pages etc (yet!). The Quote of the day thing is funny, it auto sizes according to the size of the quote. So you get some long ones that autosize to like 3pixels high. Looks absurd
Has anyone gotten around to ripping the treo 700w rom yet? I'd like to have a look at their contacts dialer.
V
Wisbar Advanced Desktop will also let you put a shortcut to a phone number. Then I use vijay's tool for email and SMS.
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I also use VJPhoneTools on my Today launcher:
But there is a commercial app called MyPhoneShortcuts which does something similiar ($9.49).
V
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Hi, can i ask what soft is adding icons to your taskbar on top. Thx a lot.
Alknaion - phone alarm, skin available here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=27331&highlight=toggletoday
The fullscreen technique is not entirely compatible with WM5 yet. I've not had enough time to get it out yet. Chakra will tell you all about it.
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Hi,
is there some software that does the same with the Startmenu as Wisbar Advance? WA just bogs the device down too much, and I just loved that menu...
I like SmallMenu:
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Looks nice, I'll try that, thanks...
Vijay, thx for the Small Menu tip! I too loved the functionality of WisBar Advance, but it was bringing my Cingular 8125 to a crawl, now I have cascading menus at least.
I noticed your screenshot and the Calendar|Contacts softkeys menu bar missing and the larger start bar w/ notifications, and wondered if that was the results of your uber programming skills. So I did a little investigation on the forums, and fournd out that of course it is. I'm guessing that VJToggleToday is still in alpha stage for WM5 judging by your latest post. I will try this out as soon as I get home (forgot my USB sync cable today) but I was wondering if the WM5 version of ToggleToday takes the place of both ToggleNew and ToggleStart for earlier version, and does it work in landscape?
And by the way, thank you for the great utilities you've already developed for the PocketPC, you're very a proficient and talented developer.
zoetrope - hey, thanks for that!
I'm currently on hiatus, Mrs Vijay555 recently popped out the little subversion, and so I'm getting used to his own copious releases.
However, yes, the screenshot is showing a very early screenshot of my PhoneAlarm skin (and custom SideX skin, right hand side, 4 little dots), and the old WM2003 ToggleStart etc.
However, I've just moved the skin over to WM5 yesterday, and VJToggleTodayII alpha is working well on my Mio A701 and other WM5 devices. Yes, it replaces both the old apps.
The functionality of the alpha is pretty much fine, I need to implement tray hiding, but I'm still deciding whether to go for a route to make a bigger, more bells and whistles app, or keep it simple and cleave it into two different apps.
Don't forget, VJToggleToday II can be configured by launching with the "-config" command line.
If you want more one handed usage, I also use VJOkButt to replace the Close Button etc.
V
There are a couple of programs which modify the way the today screen appears:
1. No Plugins Today: toggles on/off items/plugin on today screen for a fresh looking today screen (http://www.ictinus.com/NoPluginsToday/)
2. Vijay555's Toggletoday which enables a 16% larger screen
Is there way to combine the functionality of both programs into one. The purpose of this program is to:
1. Lower memory usage and mabe even save a little battery power
2. Allows for clear view of the today image
It might be possible to combine No Plugins Today with VJToggleToday, but is it necessary? It seems to me that although their usage is complimentary, building it into one program doesn't really help. Just run No Plugins Today when you need it, or my app when you need it.
If there's demand though, I'll consider building it in perhaps.
V
No today --> multiple today
Hi Guys,
I don't know if this is an idea. The no today screen plugin seems like a good idea. But how about switching between 2 different today screens. So it's possible to have for instance an today screen with the calender and tasks and other usefull plugin that have to do with dates etc. and a second today screen where you get all the information about ur pda e.g. battery, birthdays, overclocking, etc. or even communication today screen versus datebook today screen. I think you will understand what i mean.
I'm currently using the Orange homescreen plugin, but would love to have a hardware button assigned to switch between the trad. today screen and the orange one.
Maybe it is possible with no today screen haven't tested it yet. if it is disregard this message.
Cheers,
Shah
JGUI does an app that does this.
V
vijay555 said:
JGUI does an app that does this.
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thanks Vjiay,
I'll try that out.
By the way do you also do request programs? because I had an idea to expand the Orange Homescreen application with certain extra items. Or do you know any programmers who would be interested.
Link to the concept design I made in Photoshop:
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Cheers,
Shah
it's looked like Dashboard.
some screenshot
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=1420
What I would LOVE LOVE LOVE is to have a "few" Today Screens. I have WM5 and JGUI app and MTUX don't work (XV6700)
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What I would LOVE LOVE LOVE is to have a "few" Today Screens. I have WM5 and JGUI app and MTUX don't work (XV6700)
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You can try SK Today Commander (beta)
This can do 2-9 today screen profiles
We plan release it in nearest time.
http://s-k-tools.com/tc/tc.zip