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Traylaunch

One of my all time favourate programs is traylaunch, a utility that puts shortcuts to programs in the bottom bar. It works well with the Athena, but the icons are taken from the programs themselves, not VGA, and therefor look, let's say, less than desirable.
Does anybody have an alternative for this very useful (free) utility?

Doodle said:
One of my all time favourate programs is traylaunch, a utility that puts shortcuts to programs in the bottom bar. It works well with the Athena, but the icons are taken from the programs themselves, not VGA, and therefor look, let's say, less than desirable.
Does anybody have an alternative for this very useful (free) utility?
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You might look at BatteryStatus (full version), which includes a tray launch feature.
http://www.chi-tai.info/cs_BatteryStatus_XDA_Neo_WM5_iM_cs.htm

you might try Ilauncher , or if the program you have just needs bigger icon files... try some of the end user's icons contributed at SBSH's Forums

I agree that iLauncher is a far better way to go because you can fill not just the whole screen with nice looking right sized icons but can have multiple pages of them too. However, I'm having some problem dealing with custom made icons in real vga mode at the moment that I still hope to resolve soon. See my posts under posting your today screen and real vga threads.

Post your today screen

I thought I'd start a new thread on Today Screenshot and see who's got the slickest, funkiest, outrageous or just plain simple like mine below, and who know's may be we can start to share themes etc....
Attached Butterfly gif animation and clock for S2U2

what soft do you have on your pda??
thanks

I'm using Phonealarm 1.64 and LG today plugin have a look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=352109&highlight=lg+today+plugin

here's mine. i've added only spb phone suite to my today scr.

PP18 I'm a big peanuts fan anyway I could get you to post your today screen..........HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS

and Herewith is mine looks very much like my previous Touch(es)
Happy holidays all.

thescum said:
and Herewith is mine looks very much like my previous Touch(es)
Happy holidays all.
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Cool! How you achieve that? btw, i am from SG too I think i saw yr nick in PPCSG too

tcs80 said:
Cool! How you achieve that? btw, i am from SG too I think i saw yr nick in PPCSG too
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Thanks.
The apps that make it look like that are:
Phonealarm with a mod of Macguffin's DoNotTouch skin
found here http://www.pocketmax.net/smf/index.php?topic=4662.0
PS. There have been some changes in donottouch skin that are not published too.
The 2nd plugin is Pocketbreeze 5.3.0.6
have quite a few 3rd party plugins incorporated to pocketbreeze (weather panel, info reader, spb backup plus).
Unfortunately the mods that i did to get the feel is not published. So if you're interested i'll pass you the files, all i need is your email.
The 3rd is Batterystatus.
Of which have modified the xml to get this look and feel.
The top bar consists of:
mytools 1.5.1 - use this for battery uptime and connection uptime (when available). Have got some custom icons for the ok/close soft buttons.
indibar 2.7.0 - for the RAM and Battery meters, as well as the cascading start menu.
The bottom bar consists of Saman's WM5NewMenu.
i think that about covers it.

sneakyp86 said:
PP18 I'm a big peanuts fan anyway I could get you to post your today screen..........HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS
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glad to meet another peanuts fan here.
i'm using the built-in htc theme, and just changed the htc home background to semi-transparent and use my own wallpaper. here's the wallpaper.

thescum said:
Thanks.
The apps that make it look like that are:
Phonealarm with a mod of Macguffin's DoNotTouch skin
found here http://www.pocketmax.net/smf/index.php?topic=4662.0
PS. There have been some changes in donottouch skin that are not published too.
The 2nd plugin is Pocketbreeze 5.3.0.6
have quite a few 3rd party plugins incorporated to pocketbreeze (weather panel, info reader, spb backup plus).
Unfortunately the mods that i did to get the feel is not published. So if you're interested i'll pass you the files, all i need is your email.
The 3rd is Batterystatus.
Of which have modified the xml to get this look and feel.
The top bar consists of:
mytools 1.5.1 - use this for battery uptime and connection uptime (when available). Have got some custom icons for the ok/close soft buttons.
indibar 2.7.0 - for the RAM and Battery meters, as well as the cascading start menu.
The bottom bar consists of Saman's WM5NewMenu.
i think that about covers it.
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Hello, the second screen posted showed the lockbar for the screen (like iphone)
how can i have it??
Please send me to [email protected]
tanx en advance
dax

ariandax said:
Hello, the second screen posted showed the lockbar for the screen (like iphone)
how can i have it??
Please send me to [email protected]
tanx en advance
dax
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That's s2u2, and can be found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=353008&highlight=s2u2
and here's my new screen courtesy of some tinkering of batterystatus mr_deimos's skin and macguffin's phonealarm skin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1787963#post1787963

gfreek said:
I thought I'd start a new thread on Today Screenshot and see who's got the slickest, funkiest, outrageous or just plain simple like mine below, and who know's may be we can start to share themes etc....
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how can i only use the slide to unlock functionality..
is this possible??

themasterfk said:
how can i only use the slide to unlock functionality..
is this possible??
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sure. simply install S2U2
(remember to turn off the Direct Draw option from S2U2 Settings when running on Touch Dual)

thescum said:
Thanks.
The apps that make it look like that are:
Phonealarm with a mod of Macguffin's DoNotTouch skin
found here http://www.pocketmax.net/smf/index.php?topic=4662.0
PS. There have been some changes in donottouch skin that are not published too.
The 2nd plugin is Pocketbreeze 5.3.0.6
have quite a few 3rd party plugins incorporated to pocketbreeze (weather panel, info reader, spb backup plus).
Unfortunately the mods that i did to get the feel is not published. So if you're interested i'll pass you the files, all i need is your email.
The 3rd is Batterystatus.
Of which have modified the xml to get this look and feel.
The top bar consists of:
mytools 1.5.1 - use this for battery uptime and connection uptime (when available). Have got some custom icons for the ok/close soft buttons.
indibar 2.7.0 - for the RAM and Battery meters, as well as the cascading start menu.
The bottom bar consists of Saman's WM5NewMenu.
i think that about covers it.
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Hi Techscum,
I am really impressed to see your today screen but I am using Samsung I780. I read all your posts but can't make out which applications will be suitable for I780. Will it be possible for you to suggest some thing on that?

gfreek said:
I thought I'd start a new thread on Today Screenshot and see who's got the slickest, funkiest, outrageous or just plain simple like mine below, and who know's may be we can start to share themes etc....
Attached Butterfly gif animation and clock for S2U2
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how can i do that do S2U2? (change the slide bar and put the windows logo?)

hi new at this where do you put files to work on the touch
gfreek said:
I thought I'd start a new thread on Today Screenshot and see who's got the slickest, funkiest, outrageous or just plain simple like mine below, and who know's may be we can start to share themes etc....
Attached Butterfly gif animation and clock for S2U2
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where do you put files to work on the touch

Here are mine

Here is mine, running Blue evles rom, Diamond HTC Home Them, and homemade wallpaper

juat want to share this link http://iwindowsmobile.com/
they have a couple of apps for making you love windows mobile
i prefer this today screen than PointUI's

Here is my today
wanted it to be clean and nice.

Anyone with programing skills willing to help?

Hey all,
I recently bought my first PPC ever, the HTC Touch. Not very much later I discovered rlToday and designed a skin in Photoshop. Pi3cH coded it and I tweaked it some more. Besides rlToday I use S2U2, TodayShrink and PCM Keyboard.
The result can be viewed here...
For those who don't understand Dutch. Underneath the appointment is the task section (Total, Important, Today, Overdue)
Now I have some problems I can't resolve in rlToday. I saw Grump on this forum for example that made an app for the iPhone skin and I was wondering if some guys are willing to get this done for me as apps can do more than rlToday.
What am I missing and can't I get done with rlToday:
1) topbar should be something like iPhone or S2US style
No start logo but still its functionality when tapping the icon on the left, smaller than WM6 topbar and nicer icons for Wifi, BlueTooth and stuff.
2) Now I'm using Mortscript to get the appointment coming inside the screen, but I only get the first upcoming one. And if that appointment is now, the next one coming is shown underneath it.
I would rather always see the next y (2, maybe 3, or for the today and tomorrow for example) upcoming appointments along with the location (if available), rather than the 1st upcoming or current and next.
3) Get rid of the circle on the bottom 3 icons when the number of missed calls/new sms/new email is 0.
4) get a highlight effect when tapping one of the 3 bottom icons, just like TouchFlo Cube for example (see pic 6 at my rlToday skin of the Cube 6 app side I changed, it turns blue when tapped).
Just wondering if this is in any way possible, without having a slow and without battery/memory consuming.

No one that can help me out?

You might be able to accomplish this solely with Wisbar Advanced, Wisbar Advanced Desktop (WAD) and a today plug-in.
1) Wisbar Advanced can definately make the top bar look like an iphone. As an alternative you can just run WAD in full screen mode to get the same effect. You won't have the iphone top bar running all the time but just in this screen. But as a trade off it'll be one less program running in the background. Along with the visual customization, Wisbar does have a decent start menu.
2) Doesn't the built-in calendar show the next couple appointments? If not, then there might be some pre-existing today plug-ins that can fulfill this. You gotta do some searching in Google or on this board for that. Worst case scenario, asking someone to program you a today plug-in is a lot easier and quicker than doing a full GUI.
3) WAD already does this and you can see some of their iphone themes already have that. What they do is draw a background circle without any text. And then the top text is drawn using a command like %Unread:SMS%. There is commands to do this for missed phone calls and any other e-mail account you have setup in the device.
4) WAD allows you to have two button states. Normal and pressed. You just need to create two different images for each. I've also came across a thread here in XDA where Speechman created a couple WAD screens where the button would move a little bit. And then use Mortscript to tie it together where it'll make it look like the button (or perhaps the phone) vibrates when you press a button. Here is that post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1809601&postcount=9
5) To address your speed and memory concerns...I don't think WAD is that bad. It uses about 700-800KB of RAM. No noticeable speed down. If you or someone else builds a custom GUI it will most likely take up even more resources. But atleast this way you can get what you want with $20 worth of software and you have the option of customizing it any way you like in the future.

SeanFromSoCal said:
You might be able to accomplish this solely with Wisbar Advanced, Wisbar Advanced Desktop (WAD) and a today plug-in.
1) Wisbar Advanced can definately make the top bar look like an iphone. As an alternative you can just run WAD in full screen mode to get the same effect. You won't have the iphone top bar running all the time but just in this screen. But as a trade off it'll be one less program running in the background. Along with the visual customization, Wisbar does have a decent start menu.
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Thx, I've tried WA2 once, but I cannot change it the way I want it, way too much stuff you need to adjust to get it how you want it. I just want to get rid of the start logo and icon, and some nicer icons for signal, battery, wifi and stuff... the iPhone skin I downloaded was grey instead of the black I want and it changed some more icons and stuff I didn't like.
I've posted a request on WA2 forum for a WA2 skin with my wishes but no one ever replied.
SeanFromSoCal said:
2) Doesn't the built-in calendar show the next couple appointments? If not, then there might be some pre-existing today plug-ins that can fulfill this. You gotta do some searching in Google or on this board for that. Worst case scenario, asking someone to program you a today plug-in is a lot easier and quicker than doing a full GUI.
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Calendar+ is a plugin that works perfect for me, unfortunately I want to use it in the middle of my screen. That becomes a problem because both top and bottom part are rlToday skinned and you cannot run 2 rlToday plugins at one screen.
SeanFromSoCal said:
3) WAD already does this and you can see some of their iphone themes already have that. What they do is draw a background circle without any text. And then the top text is drawn using a command like %Unread:SMS%. There is commands to do this for missed phone calls and any other e-mail account you have setup in the device.
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My rlToday skin places a circle, together with Mortscripts it gets the missed calls and stuff on my screen, only problem is when it's zero I cannot make the skin hide the circle image...
SeanFromSoCal said:
4) WAD allows you to have two button states. Normal and pressed. You just need to create two different images for each. I've also came across a thread here in XDA where Speechman created a couple WAD screens where the button would move a little bit. And then use Mortscript to tie it together where it'll make it look like the button (or perhaps the phone) vibrates when you press a button. Here is that post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1809601&postcount=9
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Will take a look at that.

Well with WA3 (it lets you have more control over the top bar icons) you just have to find a theme that's similar and tweak it. At that point it'll be just replacing graphics and modifying text files for placement. WAD is much easier to work with and you are just starting with a black background, add the bottom gradient, and setting the placement of 3 today plug-ins.
Focaldesign said:
Thx, I've tried WA2 once, but I cannot change it the way I want it, way too much stuff you need to adjust to get it how you want it. I just want to get rid of the start logo and icon, and some nicer icons for signal, battery, wifi and stuff... the iPhone skin I downloaded was grey instead of the black I want and it changed some more icons and stuff I didn't like. I've posted a request on WA2 forum for a WA2 skin with my wishes but no one ever replied.
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Look at Phone Alarm. This is probably what you will need to replace the bottom rlToday. Phone Alarm has a lot of skins available and you might find a minimalistic one that can get you close. This might also solve the no bubble when zero problem.
So in WAD you'd do...
Top = rlToday
Middle = Calendar+
Bottom = Phone Alarm
Focaldesign said:
Calendar+ is a plugin that works perfect for me, unfortunately I want to use it in the middle of my screen. That becomes a problem because both top and bottom part are rlToday skinned and you cannot run 2 rlToday plugins at one screen.
My rlToday skin places a circle, together with Mortscripts it gets the missed calls and stuff on my screen, only problem is when it's zero I cannot make the skin hide the circle image...
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Hope that helps. I'm all out of ideas otherwise

SeanFromSoCal said:
Well with WA3 (it lets you have more control over the top bar icons) you just have to find a theme that's similar and tweak it. At that point it'll be just replacing graphics and modifying text files for placement. WAD is much easier to work with and you are just starting with a black background, add the bottom gradient, and setting the placement of 3 today plug-ins.
Look at Phone Alarm. This is probably what you will need to replace the bottom rlToday. Phone Alarm has a lot of skins available and you might find a minimalistic one that can get you close. This might also solve the no bubble when zero problem.
So in WAD you'd do...
Top = rlToday
Middle = Calendar+
Bottom = Phone Alarm
Hope that helps. I'm all out of ideas otherwise
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I don't have WA3 so I can't try that...
PhoneAlarm won't do it for me I think. To many stuff that I don't want in that plugin (I see a load of icons, clock etc...).
Don't have WAD either, so can't try the bottom part in WAD neither.

another Manila Theme-UPDATE (with Music Tag) 28May08

the music tag work with album cover display
i search for a long time, and finally have a trick to make it work
but maybe it isn't a good method
now what u need?
rlToday
UltimateLaunch
XIAMultiTheme--down form HERE
(Thanks to stefanux make this very great app )
MortScript
(actually i'm not very understand how to write the script, so i copy some script from other people, just want to say thanks, another script i write by myself, so with u check my script have somthing wrong or......, just tell me)
MortPlayer
yes! i became a Manila Fans
i try to skin it with rltoday and ultimateLaunch,
but still have too many thing to learn and to do
you need some plugins for the main features
WeatherPanel (Shareware)-- Here
the theme is stolen from Litterrain and make a change(hope he dun mind , this is his theme),
Face Contact
Calendar+
WeatherPanel Theme ---> download
hope u like it

Looks good, I especially like the weather panel page!
EDIT: Just found that the square frame part which shows the weather icons in weatherpanel gets cut off from the top by the start bar. Its not the actual image because I checked it and its not cut off in the image file. I think you have to move it down in the layout...I would do it myself but I dont know how. So can you please correct this? I think you cant see it in the image you posted because you have a white background, and the part which gets cut off is the white part of the frame.

It's awesommmme !
Thanks for sharing this, u really did a great, great job !

THANKs
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__ __ __ __ __

chriscsh said:
yes! i became a Manila Fans
i try to skin it with rltoday and ultimateLaunch,
but still have too many thing to learn and to do
you need some plugins for the main features
WeatherPanel (Shareware)-- Here
the theme is stolen from Litterrain and make a change(hope he dun mind , this is his theme),
Face Contact (Shareware)--Here
Calendar+(Freeware) -- Here
WeatherPanel Theme ---> download
hope u like it
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It's very TKSSSS~

I delete SPB MS2.1 since I see ur theme. I use it with UItweaker, to get black bars.
I just have little problems with ultimatelaunch gestures.

Yeah Great Job. I like it.
I have just one question. How to remove the systray bar?
Thanks

Very nicely done!
I like it! You did a very nice job, congrats!

fl4r3 said:
Looks good, I especially like the weather panel page!
EDIT: Just found that the square frame part which shows the weather icons in weatherpanel gets cut off from the top by the start bar. Its not the actual image because I checked it and its not cut off in the image file. I think you have to move it down in the layout...I would do it myself but I dont know how. So can you please correct this? I think you cant see it in the image you posted because you have a white background, and the part which gets cut off is the white part of the frame.
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Hi
try to replace the file in weatherpanel
i move down the frame a little bit (but not test yet)

chriscsh said:
Hi
try to replace the file in weatherpanel
i move down the frame a little bit (but not test yet)
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One problem :
Im Getting No path to DLL found in Communications and nothing in Music tabs am I missing a Plugin if yes which plugin????

Fady said:
One problem :
Im Getting No path to DLL found in Communications and nothing in Music tabs am I missing a Plugin if yes which plugin????
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sorry for missing
communications panel i use the spb phone suite, spb gprs monitor and connection state plugin.
Musics...... i still searching any plugins that play music at desktop and i can skinning it...

chriscsh said:
sorry for missing
communications panel i use the spb phone suite, spb gprs monitor and connection state plugin.
Musics...... i still searching any plugins that play music at desktop and i can skinning it...
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Its Ok i figured tht out from ur UltimateLaunch.ini and im using Htc Audio manager today plugin in ur music tab ill attach it so u can give it a try And gr8 work man............

Music Tag work now
Just update on the first post, but still have many bug need to fix

instructions werent very clear on this stuff. most of my tabs are missing dll files (especially comm tab). my missed call count shows "xxx" instead of "0"
the music tab works but isnt showing my album art eventhough its showing in mortplayer....anyway to change this to use with audio manager?? mortplayer takes up too much ram
id love this in a black version like the htc diamond

I'm very interested in the music tab... Is it htc audio manager today plugin? this plugin doesn't show album arts (covers)... any explanation please?
like your job!

Slim Sized Font
Hi,
I'd like to know how you get the slim sized font in the systembars. Like the ''start'', ''contact'' font. On your screenshot it shows slim, but originally it show ''bold'' font. How did you do that? Any registry keys?
Thanks in forward

trick to show ablum art
sorry, i forgot to tell you how to get the cover
1. well organize your song (one album one folder)
2. then a cover photo put into the folder and name it to cover.jpg (file size no larger than 145x145)
that's all, click the play button (at the right side) and mortplayer is run, then return to today screen, if the screen not update, click the screen center
(this is a simply mortscript trick)
This music tag is a theme for XIAMultiTheme and not a plugin
actually a want to make it work for S2P (i can make it show up the cover photo) but can't remote S2P, if someone know how to make it work, pls let me know.

garuda50 said:
Hi,
I'd like to know how you get the slim sized font in the systembars. Like the ''start'', ''contact'' font. On your screenshot it shows slim, but originally it show ''bold'' font. How did you do that? Any registry keys?
Thanks in forward
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this is WA3 and use "Segoe UI"

Hi How I install XIAMULTITheme? and do you can upload the weatherpanel theme in other server, I have many troubles with megaupload.
Thx

chriscsh said:
the music tag work with album cover display
i search for a long time, and finally have a trick to make it work
but maybe it isn't a good method
now what u need?
rlToday
UltimateLaunch
XIAMultiTheme--down form HERE
(Thanks to stefanux make this very great app )
MortScript
(actually i'm not very understand how to write the script, so i copy some script from other people, just want to say thanks, another script i write by myself, so with u check my script have somthing wrong or......, just tell me)
MortPlayer
yes! i became a Manila Fans
i try to skin it with rltoday and ultimateLaunch,
but still have too many thing to learn and to do
you need some plugins for the main features
WeatherPanel (Shareware)-- Here
the theme is stolen from Litterrain and make a change(hope he dun mind , this is his theme),
Face Contact
Calendar+
WeatherPanel Theme ---> download
hope u like it
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Hi there!
I like the theme. Iam using the rltoday files in my Magician. I've make a change in skin.xml to adjust to my screen and more few things that i like more.
Please, can you make the the bg.png file in a white color?
Thanks

GlassIcons VGA

OK, as most of you probably know, I'm not the big designer...
The background and the general idea is based on notilad's Clear Glass icons set.
Note the icons don't look well on bright backgrounds - they only consist of semi-transparent white...
The main icon image templates are mostly from the free Tango icon library, but some are also from Windows resp. the default app icons, and a few from other icon libraries I found out there...
The SPB PocketWeather theme is based on SPB's Black47 theme.
For SPB PocketPlus, there's also an iconset with black background, so you can memorize the position of the wanted icon there - because it's really hard to see white icons on white background...
The screenshots show some examples: The Today screen uses PocketPlus with SPB Weather as rightmost plugin, below is a custom phoneAlarm Skin using the TGA icons. The MortButtons main menu uses the PNG icons.

Thanks, I will be using these in my WAD2 setup.

Thanks!
Will also try to make a nice looking WAD2 Skin out of them!

this looks incredible! how do I even begin to get something like this on my x1 given that im clueless to installing and making all this unofficial stuff?!