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Add Application Shortcut to Today screen

Hello:
Anyone know hoe to put application shortcuts straight onto the today screeen??
I already have claunch for myself, buy am setting up a simple system for mum on an older unit. I was hopinh to get a shortcut to the simpler apps like contacts straight on the today screen.
I know if you install tomtom you get an option in the today list to show tomtom on the list - This is similar to what I want (but not tomtom)
any ideas?

I use Pocket Plus from SPB. It's a great little app that also includes repeating alerts and an option to make the 'close' button really quit the app and not just hide it in background. All highly configureable. Check out Handango for a trial and purchase.

I use cLaunch. It works great and is VERY configurable! AND it's freeware!
I use the following group-settings to get four full sized icon on each "page":
Icon size =32
Icon name enabled
Icon width = 48
Icon name at bottom
Icon name height = 14
Icon margins = 1 hor. and vert.
Window margin = 0
I have enabled "Tap empty space to advance to next group" so that I can page through the icon groups easily.
(edit: didn't catch that you already tried this app! Anyway try my settings. I can't imagine a simpler way to launch from the today-screen. BTW I have turned of the menu bar also because I just use a few icon (four in each group) just like you seem to want too.)

Another option is PHM Pocket Power Tools (or is it Toys?). It has a TrayLaunch application, which allows shortcuts to be placed in it and it displays at the bottom of the Today screen - where the NEW menu item is located. It's freeware as well.

yep: your setting worked great, thanks for the help - I never though of configuring cLaunch like that.

Getting rid of the bottom of the today screen

Hi,
I've looked, clicked and sworn at it, but I just don't know how to get rid of the small bar at the very bottom of the today screen, just above the softkey indicators. At the moment it just has the (standard t-mobile) mini battery icon and the mini connection icon.
I've got no idea where the controller for this part of the today screen is. I'd really love to get rid of it altogether and have a few extra pixels for pocketplus. It just seems to be totally wasted screen real estate for me. I see other people have got useful stuff in this area, if there's a personalisation programme out there for it, please hit me up.
Cheers,
Chris

If you just want to remove those icons - which removes the tray as well - see this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=40133
If you want to remove it altogether, try:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=27331
And if you want to customize the tray with icons to specific apps, try "PHM TrayLaunch" - it's part of the PHM PowerToys - can probably be ripped out somehow and made stand-alone.

Sorry guys, ToggleToday is still WM2003 only right now. I'll update as soon as I get a few minutes. It's complicated to write, since the tray gets refreshed on screen rotations etc. And I'm just too busy to deal with it properly right now Soon...
V

Hey, thanks very much guys

PHM TrayLaunch looks like a very useful app, but I'm struggling to successfully add programs/icons. For example, if I want to have ActiveSync as one of the icons in the tray, does anyone know what should be entered as the "target"?

I'm afraid I don't have my phone in front of me, but trying navigating through your \windows\start menu and checking the properties for existing shortcuts.
Eg Find activesync, display properties, and it will display the target for the shortcut. That's your baby.
V

vijay555 said:
Sorry guys, ToggleToday is still WM2003 only right now.
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oops

Unfortunately I can't find a way to display properties for a shortcut - Explorer's "tap & hold" menu only allows you to cut/copy/paste etc - there's no "properties" window like there is on normal PC-Windows.

Fork, try gsfinder or another explorer replacement.
Also try having a read through this:
http://vijay555support.host4phpbb.com/viewtopic.php?t=30
V

Thanks Vijay, I've downloaded Resco Explorer 2005 but cannot find the ActiveSync shortcut anywhere on my device! Does anyone know what the shortcut is to start ActiveSync?

It's not obvious!
\windows\replog.exe
V

Thanks for the reply Vijay, but replog.exe doesn't exist anywhere on my device.

Sorry, missed one letter
"\windows\repllog.exe" on my Universal.
V

Thanks Vijay, bizarely repllog.exe doesn't show up in my Windows folder using Resco Explorer, but setting this as the path gives me an ActiveSync icon in the tray - so it's obviously finding it.
Unfortunately, clicking the icon doesn't launch ActiveSync. It briefly displays "Connect to" in the top title bar before disappearing, and the Today page remains onscreen all the time.
Any other suggestions you can think of?
Thanks,

Fork, it depends on what state the activesync app is in at the time. It doesn't always like to show itself in my experience as well. Not entirely sure why. Sometimes when you're disconnected it will show, sometimes when you're connected it'll show?
In resco, ensure you're displaying hidden files, system files and rom files.
V

Thanks Vijay, I hadn't spotted that option in Resco Explorer - it shows up now.

Removing Taskbar/Bottom section of Today - Possible?

At the bottom of the Today screen, you got your SOFT button functions written, and some icons for applications like Comm Manager & Battery.
Personally, I don't care for that section of the today screen.
I wish to use that space taken on my screen to have more TODAY plugins.
Is there such a mod/hack/registry tweak/whatever to do so?

you can remove the battery and comm manager icon by editing the registry like so:
Remove the Battery Icon:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\Power]
"ShowIcon"=dword:00000000
Remove the Wireless Manager Icon:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\WirelessMgr]
"Keep"=dword:00000000
As for the soft key buttons, I do not believe there is a way to remove that bottom bar.

there is a possibility to remove the soft keys from the today screen:
use VJToggleToday2alpha

i dont think that'll work on wm6

Use Wisbar Advance 3 to remove that.

VJToggle works on WM6.

VJToggleToday2alpha works very well on WM6

alkizmo said:
At the bottom of the Today screen, you got your SOFT button functions written, and some icons for applications like Comm Manager & Battery.
Personally, I don't care for that section of the today screen.
I wish to use that space taken on my screen to have more TODAY plugins.
Is there such a mod/hack/registry tweak/whatever to do so?
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I've seen the registry tweaks for comm mgr and battery.. but have not seen anything for the icon I get when I put the phone ni vibrate mode, and the other various app-specific icons (ie. I think Pocket Informant stuck an icon there). Seems more like there needs to be a setting to say "tray icons are disabled" vs. disabling each specific tray icon...
Mike

zim2dive said:
I've seen the registry tweaks for comm mgr and battery.. but have not seen anything for the icon I get when I put the phone ni vibrate mode, and the other various app-specific icons (ie. I think Pocket Informant stuck an icon there). Seems more like there needs to be a setting to say "tray icons are disabled" vs. disabling each specific tray icon...
Mike
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Bump.. still looking to get rid of the vibrate icon in the tray
Thanks,
Mike

PMC TodayShrink and the systray

Can someone tell me how to display (not to hide!) the System Tray when I use PCM TodayShrink ? In my case it completely disappears !

Remove the link or file from the startup dir and then restart

I don't understand: if I remove the file from startup, then I won't have TodayShrink running? I would like to run both TodayShrink and the SysTray

scratches head
So you want to show the system tray while using a program thats programmed to hide the system tray?

I believed that TodayShrink will hide only the taskbar, not the systray.
I want to have more space on my TodayScreen but I want to keep my systray!

I think this app will hide the topbar and the bottom bar(where your softkeys sit). As far as the systray goes you may need to change some registry settings to do that, there is also an app somewhere for doing it. If you start the todayshrink app with -config as a parameter I believe it will give you the options for setting the size of both the top and bottom bars.

try vijay tools...It does exactly what you want. It's what I use...No softkeys but still have my programs in the systems tray.
I don't have the link to his site but a quick google should find it. Vijay is a mod here also.
Hope This Helps,
Jim

Thank you but what is the name of the soft?

vjtoggletodayiialpha
start it with -config where you can set the top and bottom bar size

unfortunately I already tried this soft but I have the same problem

so you want to replace the "softkey" screenspace with the "systray".....
i guess that will not be possible.... the softkeys are only hidden not disabled...
and systray is 10px above....

Yes you have found what I want!
But it is impossible ... too bad

lol.. i deleted the registry TrayVisible in HKLM\Software\vijay555\ works a dream.

[SOLVED] How To remove annoying bar on today screen?

Hello everybody!
This is the first thread I open myself, and i'm kind of excited!
Okay, as you can see on the attached image,
on my today-screen, there is some kind of bar that indicates some kind of statuses.
How can I remove this?
It's my TyTN with the original HTC WM6 (due to the lack of a german 6.1..).
Any ideas?
// Sorry for the *.gif's quality, but I'm not used to match the filesize!

I believe you must remove the icons one by one and then the bar will disappear when they are all gone.
From the left:
1) Looks like MyMobiler. Tap that icon and there should be a way to turn off that icon
2) The Activesync connected icon. Go into Settings>Connections>USB to PC and check use advanced functionality and it should go away.
3 and 4) Battery and CommManager icons. Use Schap's advanced config to get rid of those.

this is called "Tray" search for remove Tray or something.

here is an app that will hide those Icons, a simple search of xda took me here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=248968
If this one won't work for you, there are more to choose from, just search "Hide Tray" or "Remove Tray"

Okay,
thanks!
Battery and CommManager have gone away!
But as I'm using WinXP, the advanced netwok features do not work for me!
Try searching now..

I'm sorry, but i thought the upper bar was called the tray; so i didn't try searching for tray.!