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Alternative for wisbar?

I've been a fan of wisbar dating back to PPC2002 times ... it was a useful launcher that takes up little space on screen footprint (hidden in the start menu bar, basically) as well as little in memory. It sure helps it was a freeware as well ...
However now that they've moved on to Wisbar advanced 2, the graphics and all the cosmetics have just turned it into a memory hog. It takes up ~ 3MB in space, which is bad considering even voice recognition programs like the MVC take up only 4MB. It takes way too long to load, and when it's running it's sluggish and constantly conflict with other programs (conflict with PhoneAlarm and AEButtonsPlus from my experience)
I wonder if you guys have any suggestion for a launcher alternative.
I know many here like cLauncher but I want to reserve my today screen for calender items ... so anything that take up a bulk of the today screen isn't gonna work for me....

PPX, pTask, SmallMenu Plus (my favourite).
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Thanks ... yes I think SmallMenuPlus is the best ... I've got that one.
Quick question though ... is there any way to display the most often used appz in the first pull down menu? Meaning, when you click the start icon, it pulls down a menu that you can setup to show "Today", Recent used programs, "Program" etc etc ... and from "Program" you can expand to the 2nd pull down menu, which I can setup to include my most often used programs plus more subfolders.
What I'd like to see is to have most often used program from the first pull-down menu, together with the "Programs" folder at the same level. Does anyone know if you can do that?
Thanks,

Number16 - you can configure the drop down menu to point to any folders and links you want. It'll parse them into the menu automatically:
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"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"
}
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Speaking of SmallMenu, I've run into some serious problems and need some help
Somehow in the SmallMenuPlus setup, the "Locate programs in the menu" option was greyed out. I can't select it. I figure that's why I can't programs under the first pull-down menu.
Also, in the "Use programs under this menu" tab, it'd only select program menu's from the "Storage" root directory. I can't select and go into subfolders. If I want to select subfolders I'd have to manually type the path in.
Worse, the start menu icon would stop working after a while. Clicking on it does NOT pull down a pull down menu.
I thought it was because it has software conflict with Magic Button, which I also use, so I disabled Magic button, and later on removed it altogether when it still had problems. It still didn't work.
So I thought it's because I had installed SmallMenu on the storage memory instead of main memory. I removed and re-installed SmallMen on Main memory, and it still has the same problem.
After yet another reinstall now it's even worse. If I start small menu it wouldn't work at all. Not only it won't pull down a menu by tapping on the start menu icon, it starts to screw up other programs as well. If other programs has some kind of pull-down selector it'll keep closing it after I've clicked the down-arrow. Also, if I type something in a field, the cursor will keep disappering as if I've clicked elsewhere on the screen or something.
I've all but given up on SmallMenu ... after unloading and removing smallMenu everything else works fine. I wonder if I go into the registry and clean up all the smallmenu related entries would work ... but then I worry if I would screw it up even more
Anybody has any suggestion or anybody experienced the same thing?

Any way to set background image for top/bottom bar w/o Wisbar or other apps?

Like the title says - is there any way or some small utility to apply background image for top and/or bottom bars? (I know You can't make them simply transparent).
I have tried Wisbar, rlToday etc, they are all either doing too much on the side, consuming way too much memory or just buggy. I've also searched this forum but as the bars have too many names (top bar, taskbar, menu bar, start bar etc.) I've come up with nothing really...
What I would like to achieve is something like this (image from ultimatelaunch.de):
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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"
}
Please help.

i asked that before
it is another tool by the ultimate launch author called skinmobile:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1916467&postcount=28

OK, thanks!!!
I'll look into it later (or tomorrow) as I don't have my device with me atm. But it sure seems what I am looking for considering what I have seen and that it's small

you can also use vijay555's todayToggle to remove either or both of them, and just show the background image.
who really needs the bottom bar anyway, if someone can't remember what the two (big number) launches are, what are they doing playing around with ppcs?
it's a tiny exe (9.5kb) that you can leave in your windows\startup folder.
Then edit the registry to choose the size, the exe basically shrinks the bars to 2pixels but you can choose any size you want

Okay, thanks for the tip!!!
By the way - I've seen screenshots of taskbars with icons representing running applications just like in normal desktop PC. Besides MagicButton and WKTask and maybe Wisbar (not sure), are there any other apps (small) or registry hacks that do this? It seems that all these applications address a multiple changes in the system, I am trying to locate utilities that do just that one little thing - show running application icons on taskbar (next to start button).

i use wktask and set it to do absolutely nothing except show the running tasks.
it does'nt seem to me that it slows down or causes any problems

OK, thanks for the tip! Gone try it that way.
By the way Skinmobile is buggy on my WM6, so that app kind of sucks...

yes its a bit buggy but you can edit the ini file and graphics and try a bit around. i had it running without any problems on wm6.1

Naah, I'll just leave it to that and wait for better apps. The "see-thru" effect isn't worth it, if its buggy. For me at least. The buggyness seems to appear when I click on any of the taskbar icons. Although I didn't do a soft reset after running the prog. Should have I done it? Would it change anything?

menu for big fingers

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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"
}
hi everyone does anyone know where i can get the large menu in this picture (right picture) or even just its name...i do no its from the touch hd though
btw this picture is from cmex's rom

that one up here should be part of the touch HD SIP (software keyboard)
however, u can get something similiar for other programs. its called "finger menu".

This is it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=459125
I'd be careful with it on the X1 though!

It is still under development
I tested it on X1 and there's a problem with the background transparency because it uses alphablend

alpha sometimes worx and sometimes it doesnt. in general ... high potential, but loads of minor anoying bugs.

Works perfect for me. be sure to install it on device memory, and soft reset.

perfect? i doubt it!
try to copy/paste Numbers in your Contacts.
try to select folders in files exlorer (upper left menu without installing plugins to fix it)
some programs simply dont work
perssing the OK button while finger menu is open screwes the Program and closes Finger menu ...
thats far from perfect but pretty good start
my advice, go to advanced config, open interface and increase the "popup menu fontsize" to 1000 or ore more.not nearly as nice but works like a charm so far.

achmed20 said:
my advice, go to advanced config, open interface and increase the "popup menu fontsize" to 1000 or ore more.not nearly as nice but works like a charm so far.
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If you use portrait more than landscape then try 1200 and the use the light font that gets installed with Yota contacts (don't think it's available seperately, but I'll extract it later on if you want)
That looks really nice, is even more finger friendly and the font looks very crisp..

thanks for the info, i dont think will try finger menu yet, maybe at a latter stage in its development!
changing the pop-up menu font size works perfectly, exactly what i wanted.
fards if you could extract the better font for me when you have spare time that would be brilliant,
Thanks everyone

flext said:
hi everyone does anyone know where i can get the large menu in this picture (right picture) or even just its name...i do no its from the touch hd though
btw this picture is from cmex's rom
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Please how you found this right icon in this phone???Thank you for ansver

[WM 6.5] Can we add custom Today Screen items?

Hi All,
I would be missing it completely, but can we add custom Today Screen items in WM 6.5? Something like what Titanium does? I dont want to use Titanium, but just add extra items to Today screen.
Is there a way to do it?
Thanks,
Chaks

chakkaradeep said:
Hi All,
I would be missing it completely, but can we add custom Today Screen items in WM 6.5? Something like what Titanium does? I dont want to use Titanium, but just add extra items to Today screen.
Is there a way to do it?
Thanks,
Chaks
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i think you are talking about something like HS++ or rltoday.... installing those things should work fine just make sure you tick the appropriate box in today item...

Hi,
I want to create a new Today Screen item in the Windows Default Today screen like the Favorite People Plugin, but I dont want to use Titanium Plugin.
Is that possible?

Hi man,
have you finally find a solution, because i want to do the same but there is no Hello world app for that...

depending upon what version of manila you have, you could use TFDetacher (works with 2.1 but not 2.5). I use it to create a second today screen for my plugins, and have it set to a softkey to toggle between manila and the other today screen. I also use Second Today to have a third today screen that I have Weatherpanel as the only plugin; I use a hard key to toggle to it. Hope that helps.

I too am looking for a similar solution. I tried Titanium mod and I don't like it I gave it two tries and both times resulted in a hard reset. The program itself is fine and feature rich it just isn't mature enough for liking and I kept hitting too many bugs which for me made it unusable.

It ok I found one a little basic but works for my needs. I found it in the MS App store called "Home Screen Customizer" One thing I found straight away was the weather panel works for me first time. The titanium one always used to come back with either .net 3.5 message errors or state issues finding a certain url.
Also its quick and easy to just add my own apps to my own panel and remove default existing panels this all works on the fly without having to reboot or disable and reenable home screens.
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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",
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Use Manila Today Page
I use Manila Today Page that added one more tab towards the end of the TF3D tabs.... Works wonders for me....

Quick Menu disappeared after ROM upgrade..

Hello everybody
Yesterday I tried to upgrade my HTC TD2 form WM 6.1 to 6.5
After reading the instructions from the official site, I've succesfully (as I thought) installed the 6.5 version on my htc
Unfortunately, after this, I realised that the Quick Menu icon and the Task Manager tab from the Settings menu have been vanished
I tried everything to bring them back (including many hard resets) but nothing worked - the quick menu icon is still missing
I dunno what else to do, should I downgrade my phone back to 6.1 or there's a solution to make this quick menu/task man. work again...

Do you mean the program Quick Menu? or are you referring to the task manager?

I mean this icon on the upper right of the screen
http img13.imageshack.us/img13/5287/iconhf.png
It's completely gone and I can't find any way to make it appear again..

WM6.5 has replaced the task manager with the drop down menu.
You can install another task manager but it will be difficult to access as you have to hit just the very edge of the taskbar and the "X" will not display.
An alternative would be to run the program QuickMenu which provides an alternate start menu and has built in task manager, but it resides on the left instead of the right.

Excuse me for not being so clear.. It's quite late in the evening here in Greece
youtube.com/watch?v=BlRpUaHzvK4&feature=related
In this vid you see that the Quick Menu (this is how it is referred in the manuals) is located on the upper right of the screen (most times next to the battery meter) , and when you click on that it'll open a drop down menu with the Programs name and and X next to it (so that you can close any program quickly)
After I upgraded my phone, this is completely gone, and next to the battery meter there's nothing (just a small empty space), and I can't find any way to make it appear again. Even after 5 hard resets, this problem still persists
Should I downgrade to get it back or there's a way to fix it?..

No, you were clear and I understand what your issue is.
I have enclosed a taskmanager that will work, but as I previously stated, it probably will not display as it used to and will be hard to access.
I have since switched to using a program called QuickMenu that will display all of your running programs and can be closed from the menu, same way as it does in a taskmanager. Its just sits on the left of the taskbar and not the right.
Sorry if my explanation wasn't clear.

I see..
It was a good feature, I can't really understand why it was removed.. Anyway
Where I can get this QuickMenu program you use?
Thanks for your answers, you've been very helpful

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=340352

Latest version attached.
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"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",
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Thank you all guys