Over in the Elf forum we love the htc cube. this is an application that has sides and a face. one side has general apps, one has multimedia apps, and one contacts and phone.
it is very useful but cannot be fully modified.
We all love the cube and want to reconfigure it but cannot quite get it right...transformation issues, and some icons that cannot change, etc.
I wonder if someone could do a similar app that was more configurable? if the animation was too hard what about movement like Tene's Contact Manager or a dissolve transformation ???
Sadly I am no longer a coder but would be happy to donate for such an app...
just thinking out load,
Sam.
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This is a small test of a work-in-progress.:
http://rapidshare.com/files/43755638/FlashBox.zip.html
the "oficial" site is actually a portuguese forum:
http://www.pocketpt.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=16424
i am really contemplating on the same ideas as well.. but having ideas without any knowledge in programming really sucks for me..
i stumbled this very nice transition animation thingies which are said written in dotNET framework 2..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOMrPz56OVo
link to the developer can be found here
the project is made only for smartphones but i think the transitions switches and its idea can be used in a revolutionary PPC launcher of some sort..
i quite don't like having a launcher that eats the whole screen (just like the touchflo cube), hiding the top and bottom bars, giving the user an illusion of having a "new" and "exciting" interface - but then after you select something, you'll be pulled back to the same windows mobile interface..
maybe it's better to just stick to what Windows mobile looks like, but yet, giving it something flashy and worth seeing instead.. just like cool transitions..
maybe the swipe gesture can be used to flip the contents of the screen instead (including the top and bottom bars) rather than rotating a full screen cube.. i think it'll definitely load and feel faster than summoning a full screen application and redrawing the default interface and the launched program afterwards..
just a thought though..
That is pretty cool...hopefully it can be applied to touch screens as well.
Some excellent additional thoughts and ideas. For me a fullscreen app works best as it allows the touch interface to look much better than wm6 and gives me more 'elbow' room when using my fingers to control the application.
The flash solution looks good but I would prefer to minimise memory demands by loading as little additional software as possible.
Mind you I am no longer a coder and if it works and avoids devouring all my memory I will be VERY happy indeed.
All the best,
Sam.
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Hello
I thought of a new interface idea that would be finger friendly and everything. Read about it on my XDA post here:
I think it would be a great interface, but I need some programers to make it happen. Get the word out about this project, and maybe something will happen.
Thanks,
Andrew
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Anyone know if there is a small app to allow you to toggle from a display with menu and task bars to full screen in any app?
TIA
Ed
You might want to take a look at this... VJ's contribution of the toggle tool for today.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=42038
I'm working on a new interface and possibly combined version of Fullscreen anything and VJToggleToday II. Hopefully this will allow fullscreen anything...
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I'm working on a new interface and possibly combined version of Fullscreen anything and VJToggleToday II. Hopefully this will allow fullscreen anything...
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thanks mate!
but what is "fullscreen anything" - i couldnt find it!!!
ed
"Fullscreen anything" isn't a program I've released (for now).
I was asked in another thread if I can make an app like VJToggleToday II but for all apps. I said that I made such an app once, but didn't release it because the OS sometimes doesn't know how to deal with "enlarged" apps.
However, since the code for VJToggleToday is nearly finished, but I now need to put an interface around it, I had the idea to combine it with that old unreleased app, to make a combined version.
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I spent a bit of time this weekend working on a new idea for this.
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Lovely job!
I can't wait!
it'll be very good if it helps me have more screen space for apps like flexmail and pocketinformant! I tried the VGA method but it hurts my eyes to much!!!
Hopefully, and this is theoretical right now because I don't use Pocket Informant, it should work on just about any app. Good thing I wasted so many gazillions of hours writing VJSmallIcons II! Some apps need some "jiggery pokery" (that's a technical expression) to make them fullscreen. However, some apps just don't like to go fullscreen, although the worst that'll happen is you may get some graphical glitches (which is why I didn't release before). I like NewsReader in fullscreen mode, which it doesn't natively offer.
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cheers vijay.
I looked at buttonmax but there is no wm5 version yet. Im sure your job will be smaller, slicker & better anyway. (schlurp schlurp, sucking up!!!)
Ed
Hey guys,
over the last few days I've gotten so annoyed that I can't use my phone (Vario II) with only one hand so I decided to do something about it. Therefore I started to go nuts in Photoshop and Visual Studio and have so far managed to get this far:
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The buttons work and the time is correct but I haven't done the appointments bit yet (any hints on how to do this in VB.net?). If anyone is interested I might release this when I get everything to work, for example the paths to the apps are currently hardcoded, I want OneHand to load them from a xml-file so they can easily be changed later on.
The icons are Crystal Clear btw, included in most Linux distros and released under the LGPL license so they are free to distribute.
Any ideas/suggestions?
EDIT: Oh, and the idea is to add submenus with large icons etc to some buttons such as messaging, settings, web, games, music. Eg so you tap Messaging, then you can chose to write a new text/mms/email and check the inbox of each. Sort of like Spb Mobile Shell but hopefully a bit more configurable..
It is very nice. Something to different to look at that is not aye-Fone-ish.
Although I like the appointment part very much, probably you might not want to go on the appointment section first, as it seems for most people it is not a priority (for me, I use Pocket Breeze, for Task+App up to 7 days ahead). From what it seems, others are looking for things like .. battery, signal strength, number of missed call/sms/voice-mail. You may want to check the ayeFone launcher for users comments as well as methods they used to get into some of the inforamtion.
For other ideas, try looking at the 'Prada' phone interface. Do a search at YouTube to see how the Prada phone interface behave.
For much interesting interface, try YouTubing for 'Neonode' as well.
The Prada phone interface looks very inteesting. Might try to emulate some of those functions. Currently I find the Windows Mobile interface to be pretty much unusable for a phone. Everything is way too small and cluttered. Ill fire up Photoshop and see what I can come up with
BTW, almost forgot about this. Take a look at this program "rlToday". Go to its official website, look at all the possible 'skin' people are using. From what it seems, it can produce the interface you've shown above (big buttons to launch apps) and clock (without the appointment part) BUT, it also ables to show how many missed call, SMS, etc.
Thought you might want to know this to avoid making duplicated efforts. Happy coding.
I lack the prgramming skill to make this happen, but this idea is way to revolutionary to WM imo.
If someone could look into making this happen i would be more then grateful. It goes like this - A multiple homescreen switcher,
scrollable by flicking horizontally on the screen. Like touch cube or something totally different?,
customizable anims, etc. etc. Different plugins allowed on each homescreen.
Programmers join!
Could we live without his ??!
Any ideas welcome !!
something sismilar can be achieved with wisbar desktop, also a software likt that one you suggesting will eat a lot of resources in switching the today screens and to support a lot of today plugins...
it is not impossible, but it is hard to achieve
As you mentioned "homescreen", I would presume that you are using a smartphone rather than PDA-phone (i.e. with touch screen). There is a software out there that supports multiple Today screen (not freeware though). However, I heard from many that the software isn't that well written or just the fact that WM5/6+HTC stuff aren't powerful enough to run too many Today plugins.
rlToday and MortScripts
Actually you can do what you are asking using rlToday and MortScripts, By Creating MortScripts that Change Which Today PlugIns are enabled per "Page" and even which rlToday Skin is used. One Example of how to do this can be found here.
You can always look Here
V2R Multidesk is very neat piece of software, but it is a lil heavy
idea is as old as WAD is.
and it is BEST idea - since author made WAD standalone - without WA2, which is just ridiculous hog.
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WAD "todays" are not prefetched, so memory requirements are LOW(i said LOW).
of course, there's always POCKETAGE, which is best freeware thing i ever seen(and i've seen MANY things).
it takes more mem(preloading of today plugs and icons), but on other hand it uses png's with transparency for icons, WAD uses tga's which are 4x bigger.
if you are able to beat these, you are god.
any good links to Pocketage in english?
I was thinking of the cube always set to active, to act as your today screen. With your wallpaper on it,
with different icons/anims and ability to change size of icons and placement on the today screen .
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any good links to Pocketage in english?
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erm.. soft is in english, but sites are not .. i will post links to soft tomorrow....
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erm.. soft is in english, but sites are not .. i will post links to soft tomorrow....
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Thanks that would be perfect.
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!
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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
So i've had the touch hd for a few months now im starting to venture out into the tricks mods and apps that are available. I installed manilla, Ifonz, and a theme or mod or something for manilla. Found that none of them were for me, so i un-installed them. But now, my little thing at the top right has been resized, and when i go to use touchFLO2d its like, the wrong size and i cannot figure out how to get it to the right size.
See the attatched picture.
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That is was my htc looks like, and the red circle shows the thing that has gone small too.
Also, does anyone think the htc touch works in a complicated way to acheive nothing?. I dont want to compare it to an iphone, but with an iphone, you have your pages of apps n stuff, and you open on?. You close one?. with the HTC you seem to have to go such a long way to acheive the same. and also the htc seems rather slow?
So my questions:
- See the picture and can anyone tell me how to make it fullsize.
- Speed up the HTC, or make it smoother?.
-Install something that (Not immitates iphone), but works, like one, and doesnt just overlay windows mobile 6. Which from what i see is what everything does?.
you cant make the phone better by disguising it as something and pretending it makes it run better?. If anything, its slower as its another app open?. basicly, and app to open apps. Correct me?
Thankyou
~Stephen
So you buy a winmo phone but don't want winmo?
There have been people running Android on their Touch HD so I guess thats what you're looking for but I don't know anything on the subject, I just know it CAN be done.
It works in a overly complicated way?
Hmmmmm.....
Well. Only if you class an operating system as overly complicated.. Its the same as changing your theme in windows. Infact. Its exactly the same. If you want an iphone, and are desperate to have your phone look like an iphone, and think the iphone user interface is all that, then buy an iphone?
This runs windows mobile. It can be Skinned with another UI to make it look and feel different. The same as Windows can be. The same as linux can be. Never used macs so dont know.
Anyway. Can't solve your problem. BUT. Nope. Not overly complicated...
The same UI can be applied to this. All apple is doing is making it so that the UI is all you see. That way it limits what you can do, and makes it so its very uncustomisable.
Honestly, i think the apple iphone is amazing. I get my HTC touch HD delivered tommorow. If i dont like it within the first 6 hours it's goin on ebay and i'm buying an iphone.
Will just have to see what happens though!
Argh, i didnt want this thread to turn out like this. I wasn't comparing the HD to the iphone in that was, and its not the iphone i want. Its the HD, i just wanted to know if anyone thought changing themes and stuff was abit over complicated. Anyway can anybody help me reguarding the resize of touchflo2d?
~Stephen
Go to Settings->Today.
Goto Items Tab. Untick all except Touch Flo 3D. Click OK.
See if it helps.
Some non wvga plugin must be messing around