I would like to disable the taskbar completely so that when I have a fullscreen WAD2 theme running I don't get the occasional bar showing through.
I would like the bar to be there in other applications though.
I know you can hide the taskbar in WAD2 but if I press the home key, the taskbar re-appears.
Any ideas?
Thanks
It's not a good solution, and doesn't satisfy your requirements, but for now, you can check out my VJToggleToday (on xda devs).
Better solution:
http://www.nuerom.com/BlogEngine/page/nueNoBar.aspx
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vijay555 said:
It's not a good solution, and doesn't satisfy your requirements, but for now, you can check out my VJToggleToday (on xda devs).
Better solution:
http://www.nuerom.com/BlogEngine/page/nueNoBar.aspx
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Thanks VJ, but what I want is the top taskbar to disappear in WM6.1 rather than the bottom task bar which nueNoBar seems to do.
Regards
Sorry for not being more helpful as I've been out of the scene for some months, but VJToggleToday could certainly do that on QVGA screens. I can't recall if it can do that for our > VGA screens, haven't tried, but I believe that if you search XDA Devs for nueNoBar you will probably find a similar app for the top bar only.
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hi vijay,
i have been successfully using your vjtoggletodayiialpha on my previous devices to hide top and bottom bar.
however, on htc's touch running wm6.5 it does not work anymore.
neither nuenobar, dcinobar nor your vjtoggle nor any other prog is capable of hiding bars anymore.
to be precise: the bar disappears but the space cannot be used thus size of today screen stays the same.
is there any chance for you to upgrade your vjtoggle? i know that there are a lot of users thankful for this.
to all,
there are many threads floating around that all the well known apps to hide bottom bar and task (top) bar are not working anymore under WM6.5. i am talking about dcinobar (v1, v2), nuenobar (v1.3, v2.0) and vjtoggletoday (inkl. todayiialpha).
i want to start this thread to gather all relevant information here to overcome this problem.
@mods: please do merge other similiar threads in here
to make a start: i found the author of dcinobar
there are two versions of dcinobar and the author is also providing source code on his website.
maybe someone is more capable than me to use this source code as a hint to create a new app for this problem?
good old dcinobar,
has nothing to do with 6.5 ****, tho.
it is like asking about remake of nuenobar..or vjtoggletoday.
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good old dcinobar,
has nothing to do with 6.5 ****, tho.
it is like asking about remake of nuenobar..or vjtoggletoday.
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you seem to be knowledgeable.
is it not possible at all to hide bottom bar in wm6.5?
i think it may be possible - for wm6.5 roms without titanium plugin at all - but NOT DONE, yet.
titanium changes handling of softkeybar(new, and maybe old manila is working same way), it may be not possible, surely it won't be easy...notice it is dynamic, not static as default 6.1 softkeybar..
sad to say - xdadev bacame strange place - you may find every possible software ripped from commercial products, ton of UGLY skins, but there is no developer to MAKE such thing, as just softkeybar remover...
just ms/htc software promo site...wow factor tragedy, imo.
btw, i am using hs++ too, i do not need titaniums, manillas, 15 mb+ mem loss, etc.
http://i26.tinypic.com/2hgwzs1.jpg
yeah. hs++ is great. it is the only ui which is easily highly customizable but does not consume much power and cpu.
i use it more iphone stylish like (see attached)
but back to the topic.
at least it is good news that it could be done, even with some limitations (like deactivated titanium or manila)
if only i could understand this. if you run dotfred's taskmanager and browse through the different windows one can see that the softbar window is cascaded, i.e. a window within a window within a window where the bottom bar is displayed.
it should be possible to hide or close this window (and keep it closed) and increase the size of the desktop screen
isn't anybody out here, who takes this as a challenge?
if only i could understand this. if you run dotfred's taskmanager and browse through the different windows one can see that the softbar window is cascaded, i.e. a window within a window within a window where the bottom bar is displayed.
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yup, messy thing, imo..add sip-handler to that(wad shows that problem clearly)...
btw, i can recommend task manager 3.1, 3.5 for such insight operations.
app is perfect to be used in roms to determine whole lots of useful info + regeditor/regimporter.
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to all,
there are many threads floating around that all the well known apps to hide bottom bar and task (top) bar are not working anymore under WM6.5. i am talking about dcinobar (v1, v2), nuenobar (v1.3, v2.0) and vjtoggletoday (inkl. todayiialpha).
i want to start this thread to gather all relevant information here to overcome this problem.
@mods: please do merge other similiar threads in here
to make a start: i found the author of dcinobar
there are two versions of dcinobar and the author is also providing source code on his website.
maybe someone is more capable than me to use this source code as a hint to create a new app for this problem?
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But I am using NueNoBar 2.0 on my Omnia with WM6.5 and it works fine..
Jeannette
jeanne8fr said:
But I am using NueNoBar 2.0 on my Omnia with WM6.5 and it works fine..
Jeannette
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lucky you
does it only hide the bottom bar for you or could you also use the space for your today screen?
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lucky you
does it only hide the bottom bar for you or could you also use the space for your today screen?
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It hides the bottom bar and makes the space usable.
Using wm6.5 build 21928
Jeannette
jeanne8fr said:
It hides the bottom bar and makes the space usable.
Using wm6.5 build 21928
Jeannette
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yeah. this is how it used to work on my diamond wm6.1 - but not on wm6.5.
guess i have to wait for another wm6.5 build
You can hide the bar on WM 6.5 fine as long as you disable the Titanium plugin. And since there is no reason to hide the bar if you are running Titanium, I fail to see the issue here.
Nagrom Nniuq said:
You can hide the bar on WM 6.5 fine as long as you disable the Titanium plugin. And since there is no reason to hide the bar if you are running Titanium, I fail to see the issue here.
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correct - you fail to see the issue here.
1. i am using hs++
2. many users have had recently problems in hiding bars with tools like dcinobar, nuenobar and vjtoggle (see my first post)
3. so do I (see my first post)
Nagrom Nniuq said:
You can hide the bar on WM 6.5 fine as long as you disable the Titanium plugin. And since there is no reason to hide the bar if you are running Titanium, I fail to see the issue here.
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but if there IS reason, wise guy?
I'm saying those bar hiding apps work fine under WM 6.5. I thought that was what you were trying to fix. If you let me know the reason I might be able to help. Saying you need help hiding the bottom bar in 6.5 when there is an app that works, well...
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I'm saying those bar hiding apps work fine under WM 6.5. I thought that was what you were trying to fix. If you let me know the reason I might be able to help. Saying you need help hiding the bottom bar in 6.5 when there is an app that works, well...
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that sounds more reasonable now.
could you specify which bars you are able to hide?
manila task and bottom bar
titanium task and bottom bar
today screen task and bottom bar
egoist6 said:
that sounds more reasonable now.
could you specify which bars you are able to hide?
manila task and bottom bar
titanium task and bottom bar
today screen task and bottom bar
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As has been said already. Under WM 6.5 you can hide the today bottom and top bars as long as you are not using titanium or manilla. Those apps (dcinobar and vjs app) were designed to hide the bars but not to work on today screen plugins. If you want to modify a today plugin, you will have to hex edit the plugin directly and/or create a new program that modifies today plugins.
[nvmd..sry for bothering you guys]
Nagrom Nniuq said:
As has been said already. Under WM 6.5 you can hide the today bottom and top bars as long as you are not using titanium or manilla. Those apps (dcinobar and vjs app) were designed to hide the bars but not to work on today screen plugins. If you want to modify a today plugin, you will have to hex edit the plugin directly and/or create a new program that modifies today plugins.
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not sure if we are talking about the same. why would i hexedit a plugin in order to hide the today screen bottom bar.
hiding bottom (and task) bar is independent of the plugin as it is controlled by shell32.exe.
but you seem to know what you are talking about. let's give it a try. i am using homescreen ++ (see signature). what do i have to hexedit?
thanks in advance
I use Nuenobar 2.0 and it work fine. no problem!
wm 6.5 build 23004.5.3.0
gfandrea said:
I use Nuenobar 2.0 and it work fine. no problem!
wm 6.5 build 23004.5.3.0
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are you able to use the space for your today plugins?
I'm looking for infos about how to customize the bottom start bar, so far i have only found how to disable the start et ok softkeys :
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shell\BubbleTiles]
"TextModeEnabled"=dword:00000001
"HardwareStartKeyEnabled"=dword:00000001
"HardwareDoneKeyEnabled"=dword:00000001
I'd like to know how to :
- skin the buttons (for example, change them from rounded to squared)
- relocate the start menu on top (classical 6.5 location)
- skin the menu, increase or decrease the bar thickness...
any infos & links are welcome !
thx.
+1 but also for 6.5 and below.
The persistent task and menu bar is one of the things I hate most about WinMo. In portrait orientation they can be tolerable but in landscape they take up a significant chunk of the vertical screen space. This almost nullifies the advantage of having a high resolution display.
It would be great if there was a way to make them smaller, or even hide them completely. There are not nearly enough full screen apps to make up for this deficiency.
go here and download the oem. it is a very good base for starters. It has everything you need to skin a 6.5.x theme
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=559695
I notice that if I apply an older WM 6.1 to my 6.5.3 device, I get the old style popup/context menus where all the options appear on one screen, rather than the newer, larger, more "finger friendly" menus which require scrolling up and down to see all options. I like the old-style ones better.
Unfortunately applying an older theme also seems to have the side effect of messing up some of the icons on the bottom menu bar so that they either don't display at all, or display incorrectly. Is there any way to cause ONLY this old-style menu change to occur, without messing anything else up? Either through a registry edit or some other way? Alternatively, is there a way to fix the bottom menu bar on 6.5.3 when a 6.1 theme is applied?
I haven't done any theme editing before so if anyone could provide any assistance it would be greatly appreciated, thanks...
I am looking of a set of bottom bar icons for os 29022. Idealy I would like a standard black bar at the bottom and a set of plain white icons.
I have searched arround and can see different sets of icons available for 6.5.3 but I am looking for plain black and white to supply in my kitchen builds.
Can anybody help me out?
just make the softkeybar buttons transparent and background black (png's)..
what's the problem??
I have bee trying that but the buttons arnt mapping correctly. The lock icon and the "windows" icon button both show up as the windows Icon. I am not sure how to fix that. Also the back button comes up as Windows as well.
Very odd, didn't happen in os 23569.
and all over again you're using gwes from com5?
Ur quite right. I am not going to use gwes any more!!! Thanks sorted the issue. Buttons displaying properly