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Touch HD Interface Enhancements - cabs?

Dear All,
Anyone know how you do the following (links to cabs) for the quick launch and battery replacement (see below screen shots) for the Touch HD UI? Also, does anyone have a version of the Com Manager replacement which does work or a fix for it?
Cheers
Hawk

I suggest looking in the Diamond forums. It's a hell of a job but just scan through the [SKIN] topics.
And forget about CABS, your choice will be much larger if you stick to manilla files and it's not that hard to install them. Just copy the files to windows folder with Total Commander or Resco Explorer.
If yo enable 'view hidden files and system files' or some setting like that in TC or RE, you can first make backups of your original files.
The result is much more control over what you install.

for the battery icon
check this topic

and this for Comm manger

Anyone for the Quicklaunch bar? - screenshot 1

It's WkTASK - http://soft.photoracer.net/docs/wktask_en.html

how to highlight the icons /change the font colors

am posting the screen shot of my today's screem
can someone provide me cabs to
1. highlight / markout the today , people, messages, internet etc etc tab scrolling bar
2. change the color of date /operater name , call history and calender
3. change colors of the 1x, signal , battery , speaker buttons on top
thanks in advance

3. You gotta open shellres.192.dll in \Windows and extract all the files inside it and edit them =

can u tell how ?
any cab file which can make my task easier

Well no, you have to copy the shellres.192.dll from \Windows with Total Commander to your Internal Storage, then get it over to your computer, open it with PE Explorer, extract all the images and edit them, then put them back into the .dll.

its surprising that no one has ever tried making a cab for this

thanks to maranell0 for this thread and I got
DeskToon Slider Icon Set - View attachment 208557 - working on my diamond.
any more such cabs available ?

my toay screen courtesy maranell0

Shortcuts to Start Menu Folders from Manila Program Launcher - Solution

Hi all
I always wanted to be able to shortcut to start menu folders from within the manila program launcher but unfortunately it was not very straight forward to do.
I found this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=416092
and I've developed the ideas a little and come up with a cab which will allow you to link to your Connectivity, Games, Multimedia, System Tools and Utilities folders within the Start Menu from the manila program launcher.
First go to Windows/Start Menu/Programs and make sure you have the above folders, if you haven't you can create them. (Although I don't think it will matter if you don't, the shortcuts will just not point you at anything). You can then organise your .lnk files to your liking. If you haven't tinkered with your Start Menu set up already you will find that Games are organised into their own folder and everything else will be pretty much jumbled up. If you just want to shortcut to the Games folder just leave everything else as it is.
Then install the attached cab. This will provide you with a set of shortcut files that can be selected from program launcher as normal. (Thanks to Andrew-in-Woking and this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1782122 for the icons which I used).
I've tested on my Kaiser and TP2 and seems to work fine. Let me know of any issues.
John

Couple of screen shots.....

or in registry point the manila start menu to this...
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Manila\ProgramLauncher\0]
"DispName"=""
"IconPath"=""
"IsReadOnly"=dword:0
"Path"="\windows\startmenu\programs\games"
"Command"=""
this will open games folder within manila startmenu.
But this will only work with the folders in startmenu, not settings.
if you want to map settings you will need to know the right path, i dont remember right now, but it can be done...

Somebody know the path for settings?

folderview.exe
ai6908 said:
Somebody know the path for settings?
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You need to search for folderview.exe and open it with parameters if you want to display folders like games in the screenshot..
I'm at work now, if needed i can upload the file and some examples later today.
Good Luck

John Charles (OP), is that WM 6.5 or 6.1 in your screen shots?

It's WM6.5 but the folderview.exe it utilises gives the folder a distinctly 6.1/6 look.
as for a path for settings i don't think there is one. i found control.exe which again gave a 6.1 view to settings but it messed up the icons and wouldn't show today settings. I've lookyed for a similar exe in the wm6.5 windows folder (presumably the one that is executed when the left softkey under the tf3d settings tab is pressed) but i couldn't find anything.
Anyone know what the equivalent exe would be?

John Charles said:
It's WM6.5 but the folderview.exe it utilises gives the folder a distinctly 6.1/6 look.
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Does that folderview.exe allow finger scrolling of the folders?

yep, just tried it.

How do I get the "Programs" (with 4 columns) tab on my Touch Flo 3D? Mine doesn't have that

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4174394&postcount=1
I tried the 'extend to 64 icons' addition but ended up removing it because it slowed down the program tab activating too much for me. (Hence finding out about the shortcuts above).

This works on my HD but can't stand the icons. I would prefer to just have a standard folder icon. Anyone know how to change these?

I tried smaberg's approach and I got it to work with some modifications. I have a Sprint TP2 with 6.5 and manila 2.5.2012. Stock ROM but MANY cabs...
I used PHM registry editor to navigate to:
[HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\Home\...]
this folder contains folders 0-8 corresponding to placement of the quicklink.
edit each folder for different shortcuts changing these values:
DWORD: "ContactFavorType" = 1566658532 -Decimal
String: "DispName" = (whatever you want the link named)
String: "ExePath" = \windows\start menu\programs\games.lnk (tell it where to find the link you want to use)
DWORD: "HomeServiceType" = 1 -Decimal
String: "IconPath" = (point at whatever icon you want to use.. it works with .ico and .png)
DWORD: "IsSet" = 1 -Decimal
These are the settings that worked for me. Thanks to smaberg for pointing me here.

Hi uhohh
Thanks for the information. Am running a TD2 with WinMo 6.5, Manila 2.5.20113030.0 Stock ROM, Max Manila Themes v3.0 (which allows me up to 20 Quick Links) AND a largish number of .CABS.
I managed to create a shortcut to to Windows\Start Menu\Programs and located it in the Programs folder itself. I used Total Commander to do this and create a 'Programs.lnk'. I then defined a new Quick Link and assigned the Programs shortcut that I found with all the other programs in the usual place.
I used then PHM registry editor to navigate to:
[HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\Home\...] and located the relevant folder (which in this case was 11 or 0 - 19, as I have 20 Quick Links defined) and checked the values below that you mentioned in your post:
DWORD: "ContactFavorType" = a unique decimal
String: "DispName" = Programs
String: "ExePath" = \windows\start menu\programs\programs.lnk (it had correctly registered what I told it to)
DWORD: "HomeServiceType" = 1 (Decimal)
String: "IconPath" = \windows\start menu\programs\programs.lnk (not pointing to a .ico or .png...but funnily enough neither are any of the other 19 Quick Links?)
DWORD: "IsSet" = 1 (Decimal)
When I try to use the shortcut I get the error noted in a number of other posts, ie, "Either not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of it's components cannot be found...".
I am therefore wondering if it has to do with the lack of pointing to a .ico or .png OR that I may be trying to call the Programs folder recursively.
Any thoughts? I would love to get this working as with all the .CABS I have 20 short custs is not enough and so a link to the programs to be able to run infrequently used ones would be the icing on the cake.
I hope that there is wisdom re. this out there!
Regards
Balders

ya, i'm seeing some other issues with this as well. I was cleaning house and deleting some unused cabs (i thought they were.) It looks like I had a cab that was doing some sort of voodoo. "shortcut to folders in manila.cab" If this cab is running, then it will work. It looks like this cab creates links (*.lnk) in your programs folder that redirects to another folder. ie.. games.lnk will redirect to games folder. You can still rename the link and change the icon with the reg tweaks. Apparently this was running when I set it up cuz it stopped working as soon as I deleted the cab. unfortunately, I'm not yet at a point where i know how to decipher a cab to figure how to do this myself.

Too many programs

Hi all,
I have lots of programs installed on my HD2 and i find myself scrolling forever down the list on "start"
Any advise on how i can get a better view of my programs?
Rgds!

porshee said:
Hi all,
I have lots of programs installed on my HD2 and i find myself scrolling forever down the list on "start"
Any advise on how i can get a better view of my programs?
Rgds!
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Using some sort of file explorer application (I use Total Command as you can't usually multi-select in file explorer), browse to \Windows\Start Menu\Programs. All your shortcuts are in there.
Simply create sub-folders (media, internet, utilities etc.) and then cut and paste the shortcuts into the new folders. You can categorise it how you like and the start menu will show your sub-folders.

Hi, You might also find it helpful to increase the number of quicklinks (see tip 77 on - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583638) and you can reorder your programs so that the ones you want most are at the top. You press on an icon until the "Move to Top" message appears then click on it and the programm will move to the top of the screen.
Regards.

I use cLaunch on my today-screen.
With cLaunch I can place icons for
programs, files and folders on my screen.
cLaunch is freeware and really perfect.
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If you install Co0kie's quicklinks cab, not only do you get extra quicklinks on your home tab page but you get your programmes organised into rows on the programmes page.
Neat!
WB

[Q] name of manila file ?

Was going around the manila files trying to do some simple customization...
can someone help me out what manila file is associated with the 'bottom arrow' thing for the slider...
and how to change the text for the right softkey and the text inside the start menu( the name under the icons ). i did search the registry but couldnt find it..may be i didnt search well.. anyways i would like some help from you guys -and in the mean time will get back to searching the forums.. ..

found it couple of days back..... its one of these two files... 2a865d86_manila or 51ab8b3e_manila.....

hi sumedh
to chang the task bar soft keys text use (KeySwop) I make a download link for you underneath