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Can I remove Calendar & Contacts bottom bar on today scr

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

vijay555 said:
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

contacts pic on today screen

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.

vijay555 said:
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.
V

Menu software like WA

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

Alternative for HTC Homescreen + Cube

Hey everybody,
I have a little question for you. I hope this is the right forum for my question
I’m searching for an alternative for my HTC Home screen and Cube. I have personalized the Home screen so far. But now I’m searching for a good alternative.
So I want you to give me an advice for a good application. What I want to use is the plug-in for the Home zone from o2 and Battery status. I want to look for the expend minutes, SMS, and the traffic.
Thank you for your help.
Edge
Excuse my English

http://www.pointui.com/ <-- try this!

Noxmarco said:
http://www.pointui.com/ <-- try this!
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******Danger Zone****** Search PointUI before instaling if you are new.

UltimateLaunch, make your today screen a cube.

Use Spb Mobile Shell
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/mobileshell/?de

And thus, the three battlefronts were broght up, all in a row.
Use PointUI if customization doesn't really matter to you, and good looks with sparse information is tolerable
Use UL if you like to customize the heck out of your device, and spending time doing that is ok
As for mobile shell, I've heard great things, but can't say I've used it before. Anyone want to chime in?

UL and Pointui is free but SPB Mobile Shell is not... I like SPB Mobile Shell better...

throttlelauncher
After I've started to use ThrottleLauncher in my roms I have removed the htc Home, cube, action screen and the quick list.... and soon I will not be needing the comm manager because I can do everything from throttle. So I have removed more then 10 MB from my roms and replaced it with less then 1MB with my setup of Throttle .
The next version of Throttle will be so amazing that when you tried it you can't live without it again.
just a little screen form my setup
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every page is scrollable and it can have todayplug inside the pages.

+1 for Throttle Launcher

+1 for Spb Mobile Shell

As I'm not impartial I'll not post my opinion but just in case you're interested, here you have a video preview of Throttle's next release (currently available for beta testers):
http://www.throttlelauncher.com/portal/index.php/screenshots/36-09-shots/62-09-beta-video
Gullum, Ather, thanks for the nice words .

You all forgot about FreeStyl!!!!!!

I think i will try ThrottleLauncher this app. looks great
@gullum
Where can I get the theme you use? Maybe you can share your doing with me

here are some of mine and others setups for trottle launcher. the all work on the last release 0.8
http://www.throttlelauncher.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=6
The one in the screen is a preview of the one I will use with my next roms and are compadable only with next version of Throttle

[10.24.08][DEV] OpenMenu - an LGMenu Clone

Hi all!
REQUEST
I've been working on this using Basic4PPC, and it's coming along quickly and nicely. But, I'm using the unregistered version!
I initially wanted to charge a tiny fee for the app, but I have a better idea. If I could get donations to get a proper license for Basic4PPC, then I'll release it and any subsequent versions and updates as freeware instead. Hell, I'll open source the buggers.
In addition to this, it means I finally have a development platform I can use to make the apps that I've always wanted to. I have the skills, just need the tools: so you can get more apps in the future!
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The LGMenu as it currently stands.
My application will have 4 tabs, as per my 10b ROM.
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Another day, another application I'm working on.
I have an LG KS20, and one of the coolest parts of this phone is the LGMenu. It's great! But the issue is: there is no customisation whatsoever! So I decided I was going to create something instead.
Currently working on the application itself, using holder graphics.
What would you nice people like to see in this application?
Customisation is a must, as well as skinability.
But what else?

Hi!
I like the LGMenu as well but didn't use it because it's not customizable. Therefore your effort is highly appreciated
Some ideas (see attachments):
- an integrated appointments view would be nice
- scrollable icon view

yy what replace skin for programms menu?

Being able to add wallpapers to the background, man, that'd be the best.

dude, if you like B4P buy the app, Erel put a lot of time in it
I did and i didn't even ask other people for money

+1 for scrollable icons
I think this would be most useful.
greets doena

I'm being paid on Tuesday, and I *will* be purchasing B4PPC. So shush.

Girvo said:
I'm being paid on Tuesday, and I *will* be purchasing B4PPC. So shush.
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That's decent.