Howdy all,
Just installed a few bits and pieces yesterday and (subsequently uninstalled a few of them) and have noticed the little drop down arrow in the top bar (on the far right) is missing.
I dont know what it's called, but it gives you a list of all running programs and allows you to switch to a program that has been backgrounded.
recently I installed:
Wisbar Advance 3(since removed)
Wisbar Advance Desktop 2 (since removed)
Resco Explorer
Resco Explorer Registry plugin
AEButtons (since removed)
Omniano
SSMaHo
iCOntact
iDailer
I must admit, I have been playing around with various settings and had to turn TouchFLO off in the "Today Screen" settings menu in order to get WAD to run in a semi acceptable fashion. Has that screwed me?
Settings - system- Task Manager - Button tab - Enable Quick Menu on Today Screen
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I need some inspiration.
Heres mine
nice looking today screen there. might be an idea to list the today plugins that your using for any users that might be unsure what they are! will post pics of mine once i have it looking how i want :wink:
Tom
This is my home screen.
I'm running:-
1. PhoneAlarm at the top
2. Plugin of my own showing date, battery life, temperature, notes and voice notes saved/outstanding and operator (with phone number popup)
3. Customised AlarmToday
4. NotesToday (the tiny blue dot, when shrunk, and then in drop down mode).
5. My modded version of QOTD.
6. cLaunch with some mods of my own.
7. SideX to run today plugins I don't need all the time, eg PocketWeather.
8. All running with SmallMenu Plus as my start menu.
Update (15 August 2005):
This is using a program I've written to provide a bigger Today Screen, removing the menu bar at the bottom. I use the bar at the top, so that stays put!)
Basic homescreen:
Showing NotesToday drop down:
Showing SideX today item (Floating keyboard):
Basic homepage showing my phone number popup - I use a dual sim so I can pop up my current telephone number (cus I'm too lazy to remember it!):
SmallMenu start menu button:
Showing my tool to relocate start button so I can have full screen applications:
Sorry for all the photos!
V
Phone Alarm + Pocket Plus 3 + Pocket Breeze
Here's mine..
Marsware WeatherPanel
SBSH PocketBreeze
SBSH iLauncher
RhinoStats
that's mine
Mine is just simple:
From top to bottom:
Spb Pocket Plus
PocketWeather
Phone Dashboard
XCPUScalar (The buttons at bottom and CPU load at top)
Pocket breeze / contact breeze
DK Today
SPB Pocket Plus
This is mine! Very simple, cause I don't want a crowded today screen. I have Pocket Plus 3 and Wisbar Advance 2.4 installed with a custom made Windows Mobile 5.0 theme. I can use it pretty much as a one handed device now, cause I have the cascading start menu onder the contacts hardware button and the REAL close button under the agenda hardware button. So I can navigate and close everything on my MDA by using the hardware buttons and the navigationkey. (Btw if you hold the action button the context menu will pop up, for more non-touchscreen action. ) Me iz happy. :twisted:
hamsup1o said:
Here's mine..
Marsware WeatherPanel
SBSH PocketBreeze
SBSH iLauncher
RhinoStats
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What theme do you use? It's very cool
jackleung said:
Phone Alarm + Pocket Plus 3 + Pocket Breeze
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Nice what theme are you using?
This is my one
Regards
cimber
vijay555 said:
This is my home screen.
I'm running:-
1. PhoneAlarm at the top
2. Plugin of my own showing date, battery life, temperature, notes and voice notes saved/outstanding and operator (with phone number popup)
3. Customised AlarmToday
4. NotesToday (the tiny blue dot, when shrunk, and then in drop down mode).
5. My modded version of QOTD.
6. cLaunch with some mods of my own.
7. SideX to run today plugins I don't need all the time, eg PocketWeather.
8. All running with SmallMenu Plus as my start menu.
Basic homescreen:
Showing NotesToday drop down:
Showing SideX today item (PocketWeather):
Basic homepage showing my phone number popup - I use a dual sim so I can pop up my current telephone number (cus I'm too lazy to remember it!):
SmallMenu start menu button:
Showing my tool to relocate start button so I can have full screen applications:
Sorry for all the photos!
V
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I really really want that Phonealarm skin you have there......
dmmh - I haven't quite finished it yet; phoneAlarm still needs work on the textwindow (see the up/down arrows on the left? they blank the icons and show a textwindow containing info about SMSs etc. But Bruce (author of phonealarm) hasn't finished implementing it yet.
It still works well right now tho, shows calls/sms/voice calls (you get a red highlight when a missed call etc) and one click access to bluetooth and headset.
On the right you've got a display of profiles (I only use loud, vibrate, flight mode and silent). Clicking on the very left (invisible) will bring up config.
The whole thing is coloured to match my today theme, a plain magneto blue, to complement my OS X start button!
If you'd still like the skin, send me a PM.
V
OK here:
Here is mine
Shortcuts are all working and the window has tabs as you can see where you can switch to different pages.
xcilion said:
Here is mine
Shortcuts are all working and the window has tabs as you can see where you can switch to different pages.
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I really like the "simple" today screens. Can you list what your using, from the top menu bar down.
Thanks
xcilion: it's beautiful, is it claunch, WDA, PPX or something else?! :lol:
Coming from the SPV Smartphone and p900 (WDA is like p900's Tracker software, which is a beautiful piece of software, highly recommended), I think the today screen should do that, show you what you're doing Today/let you use the phone at a glance on switching on the phone.
I think program menus/launchers should be programs away from the Today screen, because you've got to have Today plugins running in the background all the time, whereas launchers and apps you don't need often should be launched as needed to save resources (at least on HTC with smallish memory).
Did you remove the "NEW" taskbar yourself, or is that a 3rd party launcher? I've just made a tool to remove the NEW bar from normal today screen for an extra 26 pixels - yours looks great Size matters!
V
here's mine:
All: I've updated my screenshot to show this program I've written
See here!
V
Can anyone confirm Small menu (http://tillanosoft.com/ce/smenu.html) on wizard prevents NewsBreak's (http://www.iliumsoft.com/site/nw/newsbreak.htm) today plug-in running after soft reset?
i have tried with all versions of small menu, newsbreak today plug-in does not load on start-up if small menu active you must go to today settings and tap ok to load it, i have tried delay start-up setting on small menu with no luck
I briefly used SmallMenu and it did not stop NewsBreak from loading. I do run Newsbreak as a plugin in PocketBreeze, though.
There is a way to put all runnings programs icons at system tray (left comm manager and battery indicator)?
Some programs is there (like TomTom) but others is running but don't show!
I use SPB pocket plus to show and switch running programs (alt-tab function), but if I can show all at system tray think is usefull.
Thanks
There is a small software called "xbar" making it possible to gather all the programs chosen in a bubble accessible by a simple button from the phone.
Look at here
http://xetranet.free.fr/xbar2/?lang=eng&project=xBar 2&page=Presentation
there's a ton of apps that do that type of thing - I use MagicButton myself.
I don't think any of them put the icons in the 'tray', though. I'm not sure how useful that would be either, as the 'tray' is only visible on the Today screen.
I think is usefull because if you don't close apps don't know "in a flash" what is running! You will see today many times, don't?
I use SPB alt-tab funtion assign to a botton, but if don't enter on it I don't know how many apps are running... anm memory slow down (I use too close app button)!
vbar is a great application with low memory usage.
I noticed this the other day and it happened again today on my 2 day old 8125.
Everything is going great, and then after some time some of my shortcuts in my start menu just up and vanish. For example, my calculator is no longer in the start menu. It's still in my windows folder, and I can still use the calculator, but my shortcut to it is missing. Therefor, to start the program I need to use the file explorer to navigate to the windows folder and launch it from there (or, of course, copy the file and create a new shortcut to bring it back to the start menu).
Same goes for about 7 other applications (about 1/3) of what I have installed. They're on my device (and some on the SD card), but their shortcuts from the start menu have simply vanished. Any ideas?
This has happened to me as well. Cant find Pocket IE or Calculator! :?
Maybe we can figure out why this is happening. It's probably a third party app bug or something.
I don't remember about the first time it happened, but the 2nd time it happened I noticed some (not all) of the links in my "app" section of iLauncher were missing. Those missing from iLauncher were also missing in my start menu. The other programs in the different tabs in iLauncher were fine. I only had this problem with 1 section of iLauncher which makes me think iLauncher may have caused this issue. Do you have iLauncher installed?
total noob
Hi Guitarlp,
Sorr to be such a noob but how can i find out if i have ILauncher installed?
You don't then. It's a 3rd part app from SBSH.
Hi all,
i have a little Question and hope that this wasnt ask by someone else. (sorry for my bad english)
In the startmenu i can put up to 7 Programs at max. Does exist any Registry entry to stack up the Number of programs that i can put in the startmenu?
Start menu "Settings" Shortcut
Help, I lost the "settings" shortcut on the startmenu. Is there a way to get it back without having to hard reset the device?
SidEwigk said:
Hi all,
i have a little Question and hope that this wasnt ask by someone else. (sorry for my bad english)
In the startmenu i can put up to 7 Programs at max. Does exist any Registry entry to stack up the Number of programs that i can put in the startmenu?
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Maybe if you copy the shortcut files manualy to Windows\Start menu from Windows\Start menu\Programs\
thx but that not works. Also i have searched in the Registry a little bit but dont found any entry for this....can anyone help me?
Im Shure i can usw Wishbar3 but i dont want to install so many progs^^
You may want to take a look at this tool, one of the most valuable tools I've installed on my Polaris: 'QuickMenu' of Chinese origin. It replaces the startmenu on the windows logo, while the original windows startmenu is still available under 'Start'.
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-quickmenu-v2-7.html
Functions:
- Cascading StartMenu (fully configurable)
- Cascading Settings menu (windows mobile settings)
- TaskManager (easy switch and close functions from the startmenu)
- TaskSwitcher (create alt-tab shortcut to QM-active-next which you can map to a hardbutton)
- Hibernate/Suspend/Reboot from startmenu
- Execute ...
- SIP panel selector
- Bluetooth toggle (connectable, discoverable, off)
- Batterystatus (in percentage)
- Memorystatus (internal or memorycard)
There's no installer, unzip the archive to a 'quickmenu' folder in your program files and run the exe once. If you don't like it, delete the folder. The only issue I had with it on my previous device was that the 'Settings' menu which links to WM's personal, system and connection settings didn't work correctly, possibly because it was mapped to the 'Settings' function, in stead of the dutch 'Instellingen'. The rest of the functions worked fine.
My Polaris has an english system and QM works perfectly. Great little tool.
"You may want to take a look at this tool, one of the most valuable tools I've installed on my Polaris:"
Thanks for this. A top tool.
Indeed a great tool, but can you disable the battery status on the upper right corner ? It is messing with the task manager and i cant close or select which program i want.
I tried disabling it from the settings of the program itself, and the battery status gets removed, but i still cant see the task manager icon.
Go into Settings/Task Manager/Button tag and re-check the "Enable Quick Menu on Today Screen"
Sky740 said:
Go into Settings/Task Manager/Button tag and re-check the "Enable Quick Menu on Today Screen"
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thank you mister