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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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"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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.
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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).
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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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Flashing addict to skinning addict.

Well haven't had anything to flash since flashing wm6 black 1.2. So started skinning my today screen. Here it is.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
All thats left is to find some good meter replacements for ilauncher(any one know were to find some send me a msg) and I'm good to go.
Edit: The weather panel icons are animated. Gives it a little spice my son like to watch the lightning.

How do you do it?
Hi Chrisryn
How did you manage to make ur phone skin to look so cool? Could you tell me what program you are using? If you have some time, maybe you give a simple 123 tutorial for a NOOB like me.
Thanks in Advance. Cool Skin

There are 5 programs that you see in that ss.
1. Wisbar advance with Vistabetatwo skin
2. Weatherpanel with Finis2 skin
3. Ilauncher with icons by lokutos
4. Phone alarm with [email protected] skin
5. I also have wisbar advance desktop thats were 2-4 are shown.
If anyone knows an easy way to skin the dial pad or a good place to get dial pads that will work with wm6 drop me a line also a good skinable calc would be nice.

chrisryn said:
....Edit: The weather panel icons are animated. Gives it a little spice my son like to watch the lightning.
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And, coming from Oklahoma City, I bet those animated tornado icons look pretty cool too eh?
Here in WI, all I can animate is cows....

pretty nice, maybe we can do a gallery with today screens from people, and share skills in tunning today...

yeah luckly haven't had to spend much time in the tornado shelters in the last couple of years but they said that will change this year. Looking foward to the icons.
sinmae: I was thinking a site dedicated to skinning the today screen with skins for different apps. Kinda like wincustomize. But I am only a cnc programer not a web desinger. So I don't have the skill.

[UPDATE] Realize skin for Winterface! v1.2

Save as Windows Bitmap, 24bit colour depth, RGB colour profile and in the format R5,G6,B5 (available in Photoshop Advanced Options when you save as Bitmap).
Saving Alpha channel makes no difference that I can see.
You'll need to keep the original contact image as it matches the one in the "black.bmp" file and ensures the contact pictures show correctly once you've selected a single contact to dial.
Icons need to fit 42px x 42px squares on the grid
Hope that helps.
Thanks to bluemetalaxe for his excellent Realize icons:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=424678
[Update} skin move to this thread so I can keep track of it all!:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=455254

Very nice skin. Thank you very much.

Wooooooow.
I like it so much for my Winterface.
Black was good, but make me sad after a while.
Thanks

Great looking, but how did you get around the issue of the Contact pictures getting screwed up? Or did you?

nice skin, thanks
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

I did
oscarbum said:
Great looking, but how did you get around the issue of the Contact pictures getting screwed up? Or did you?
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The key is to keep the existing contact image because Winterface seems to use it as a mask, so the image in black.bmp and icons.bmp have to be indentical

Wow! Works flawlessly. I guess the next step is figuring out how to change the background and how to choose icons for when you add files.
Superb job.

well done and good work dave. I still hope wintershell will be some times skinnable in a easier way (or in any way at all)
This is the working link for my icon set:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=424678
By the way, i´ve done a quite nice s2u2-skin for wintershell too: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2466622&postcount=70
Greetings.

Updated for WInterface 1.2
New skin includes some extra small icons such as unlock, calendar, ticks etc.
See first post

Its Cool Cuz You Can Mix And Match Default And Icon Sets From Diff Skins And They Work Well:d

please.
i really like the winterface. however, the 40dollars price tag is too much for a little app like this.
is there anyone who is taking matter into his own hand and build a free winterface?
i am pretty sure winterface developer borrowed larna's source code and made the winterface.
larna's source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=383109

Are you looking for latest Winterface 1.2 registered version?

[Plug] NumBattery remaining battery capacity figures (accurate to 1%)

NumBattery allows the default Windows Mobile cell battery 4 show icon (left) retirement, which can show a percentage figure (right) with an accuracy of up to 1% of the battery at all times concerned about the consumption of friends should be useful.
【Installation】: the installation of cell phone to NumBattery.cab memory, restart the phone to see results; if there is no change, uninstall, install a QVGA.cab install, restart your phone.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Download:
http://www.ziddu.com/download/2995775/NumBattery.zip.html

very cool.
thanks

very nice! I've been looking for this for a while. I'd rather have an independent icon on my taskbar than one replacing the start icon, so this is a great replacement for ArielBattery. Thanks!

Great idea, unfortunately does not work on my HTC Elfin.

Can someone host this somewhere other than ziddu? I can't connect from work (not sure if the site is down or blocked).

algorhythm said:
Can someone host this somewhere other than ziddu? I can't connect from work (not sure if the site is down or blocked).
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Here you are

algorhythm said:
Can someone host this somewhere other than ziddu? I can't connect from work (not sure if the site is down or blocked).
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second that.cant connect from home either.

Looks nice! But does not run on my Diamond! I installed the Cab, nothing happenend. Reset, not really a change! Where are the files copied to? I haven´t found them!

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Thank you, good sir

awesome! love it.

It doesn't show the number in my P535. The icon is actually changed.

Not working on Samsung i760. Tried both cabs, the numbattery didn't do anything, the QVGA one changed the icon to a solid white one, but no numbers at all. Is there a configuration file to change or something?
Also, it wiped out my background picture of my today screen. Had to set it back up...

does not seem to work on my verizon touch pro

Did not work on my Treo 750 with WM6.0
after installing cab and restarting, I had a second battery icon (that looked like your original from the picture above, vertical lines), but no numbers.
Thanks anyway...

lol... working on polaris... thankfully

Does not work on Samsung Epix (i907).

Why does the thread opener has been banned?

If i´m right, i think he had "stolen" the battery-icon-gauge from another forum-member, and posted it her as his creation.
Look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=424926

Great it worked in my TyTn II. Thanks for your effort bro. I am loving it.

[Q]Change icon size in TF3D program tab

simple to ask, hard to solve...
Is it possible to change the icon size in the TF3D program tab? If we suceed in this, it will be possible to have such an menu:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

No one can help me? I handled it to save some "realize" icons into a DLL file... but windows mobile resizes the 80px icons as 32px...

Koffein Schluck said:
No one can help me? I handled it to save some "realize" icons into a DLL file... but windows mobile resizes the 80px icons as 32px...
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So you never got a reply to this?! How disappointing. I especially like your thong bikini icon ! hah hah, never seen one that made such great use of space!

Lol...proof of what a nerd I am....the math icon caught my attention before I scrolled down and saw the previous post.

telegraph0000 said:
Lol...proof of what a nerd I am....the math icon caught my attention before I scrolled down and saw the previous post.
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hah! that IS funny! ... so what's up with no one ever replying to the guy... I happened upon several posts of his because he explained how to make folders with icons within Start Menu on windows mobile. I'd never seen that anywhere else... so I followed a link and saw this. (kidding) what the hell's wrong with your forum that he never got a reply??(/k)
At least in my clunky old T-Mobile Wing forum, we'd'a been all over this kind of visual enhancement (the folders and icons)... AH well, XDA is so vast and wide, it's like crossing a great mountain pass the descending into whole new valleys and landscapes... when going from device to new device.
So... since XDA Destiny (not the name of a phone, though it wouild be a good name!) is such that I will likely never come across you again, adios, amigo!