I am trying out a few apps on my Today screen: Pocket Plus, rlCalendar, spb weather and phoneAlarm.
I know that I can simply change the order of these in the Today settings section, but I want a little more control. Is there a utility to arrange having one of these stuck on the bottom of the screen? Can I customize the width of any other items (rlCalendar has this option, but I don't think the others allow this).
I am not aware of a utility that would allow this. I do know that specific software programs (Ex. Pocket Breeze) will allow you to set up height in pixels.
Try using Wisbar Advance and Wisbar Advance Desktop, it allows you a lot of control on today plugins.
MadKer said:
Try using Wisbar Advance and Wisbar Advance Desktop, it allows you a lot of control on today plugins.
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Thank you. I'll take a look at Wisbar. It seemed a little complicated as I have already been tweaking this thing for a full month now, but I'll try it.
Hi,
I've been searching for a while now; i think htc home is fine, except for the clock.
I would like to replace the original htc clock (with the lousy alarm function) with spb time, is that possible?
If so, i'm gonna buy spb time, because it rocks!
JackBauerNL said:
Hi,
I've been searching for a while now; i think htc home is fine, except for the clock.
I would like to replace the original htc clock (with the lousy alarm function) with spb time, is that possible?
If so, i'm gonna buy spb time, because it rocks!
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SPB Time is a stand alone product, it will not interface with the bulit-in alaram app. And if you are looking to get SPB to light up the little alarm clock on HTC home, good luck. I've tried already via reg hacks, the only way to do it would be for SPB to somehow add the function in Time.
I installed SPB Time and Pocket Plus to completely get rid of HTC Home
Actually, the best way to integrate SPB Time with HTC Home wouldn't be to replace the clock, simply to change the linking such that tapping on the clock would open SPB time instead of the Windows Mobile Time settings.
If that's impossible (which it's looking like from the research I've been doing), another option would be to use either the HTC Home launcher to run SPB time, or to enable SPB time's Screen Saver mode.
yep, without re-engineering the Home plugin to do that, it would be impossible. Although that is a great suggestion and probably the only way it would work. It would be nice if that was a registry entry, just select the alarm app you want and it will open when clicking on the time displayed on HTC Home.
Hell, I would be happy if SPB could hack/hook into the alarm icon of the OS (it displays on the home htc and on the standard OS date plugin) and display the alarm icon when an alarm is set.
Any of you guys using SPB TIme also using S2U2? if so, let me know, got something for you to try....
I think the TouchFlo 3D is fantastic for "showing off" your Touch Diamond, but it's a bit gimmicky, and slightly cumbersome, so I'd like to be able to turn it on and off when it suits me.
Out of the box, to do this you need to go into the homescreen settings and select TouchFlo 3D, or, deselect it, and reselect all your usual homescreen plugins - a bit of a pain.
However, I've realised that browsing to the "Manilla exe" in the Windows directory turns on the TouchFlo without affecting your homescreen plugins. If you then kill the manilla process using a a Task Manager which shows processes, you're straight back to your normal homescreen. I've made a shortcut in the Start Menu so I can toggle between the two relatively quickly and easily.
But, I'm looking for some clever person out there to make a simple app which toggles between TouchFlo 3D and normal homescreens at the press of a button. I'm sure it can't be that difficult (for someone who knows what they're doing)??!! It just needs to launch the Manilla exe and then kill it when you want to turn it off.
Anyone fancy having a go?
Cheers
Simon.
It is possible to toggle between spb mobile 2 screens and touchflo 3d though.
Kill Manila.exe
Has anybody come up with an automated(one click) way of killing the Manila.exe process ?
Mortscript
Create a script with Mortscript to check for the presence of manila.exe.
If not present, start it.
If present, kill it.
Create a shortcut to the script in \Windows\Start Menu\Programs
Assign this shortcut to button 1.
Simon D said:
I think the TouchFlo 3D is fantastic for "showing off" your Touch Diamond, but it's a bit gimmicky, and slightly cumbersome, so I'd like to be able to turn it on and off when it suits me.
Out of the box, to do this you need to go into the homescreen settings and select TouchFlo 3D, or, deselect it, and reselect all your usual homescreen plugins - a bit of a pain.
However, I've realised that browsing to the "Manilla exe" in the Windows directory turns on the TouchFlo without affecting your homescreen plugins. If you then kill the manilla process using a a Task Manager which shows processes, you're straight back to your normal homescreen. I've made a shortcut in the Start Menu so I can toggle between the two relatively quickly and easily.
But, I'm looking for some clever person out there to make a simple app which toggles between TouchFlo 3D and normal homescreens at the press of a button. I'm sure it can't be that difficult (for someone who knows what they're doing)??!! It just needs to launch the Manilla exe and then kill it when you want to turn it off.
Anyone fancy having a go?
Cheers
Simon.
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thought thats called SecondToday?
ToggleManila.mscr
I have the same problem, that I want to turn on TouchFlo 3D, but still want to keep my "Classic" Today Screen intact.
Although I tried SecondToday, however it cannot display the internal plugins such as Tasks, Calendar and Date
Thanks to wensing's suggestion, I created this simple script. If you want to run the script, please follow the instructions below.
a) The first thing you need to do is to disable the TouchFLO 3D from Today Panel Plugins, then activate your favourite Today Plugins (except TF3D)
b) Install MortScript
c) Put the "ToggleManila.mscr" in any folder you prefer.
d) Create a shortcut to this script, name it (eg. ToggleToday.lnk) and put the shortcut inside the folder "\Windows\Start Menu\Programs".
e) Go to Settings->Buttons, and simply assign "Button 1(Hold)" to point to the ToggleToday shortcut.
Of course you are free to experiment with other settings or assign it any other buttons.
Another thing to note is, because TF3D will "take over" the Home hardware button, I have no choice but to kill it, so that the classic Today Screen can be activated after TF3D is killed. However this also means the next time you activate TF3D, it will take some time to load. So please be patient and wait for the TF3D while it is loading.
Anyway, this is my first attempt at using MortScript, just a simple piece of work, but hope that I can bring some joy to my fellow Diamond users.
Hope that it works for you guys
Thanks Wensing
The mortscript suggestion works perfectly.
I am running SwiftBL 3.0, and when I launch the script, TouchFLO3d restarts automatically. Does this script work only on roms that have uninstallable manila?
Or do I have to edit some registry settings so that manila doesn't restart automatically?
when I try and assign a button there are no buttons to select in my menu, any ideas why?
Uncheck TF3D
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I am running SwiftBL 3.0, and when I launch the script, TouchFLO3d restarts automatically. Does this script work only on roms that have uninstallable manila?
Or do I have to edit some registry settings so that manila doesn't restart automatically?
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Have u tried to uncheck TF3D from Settings->Today->Items before launching the mortscript?
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when I try and assign a button there are no buttons to select in my menu, any ideas why?
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So far, I am using Settings->Buttons and I assign "ToggleManila" to Button1(Hold). By default this may have been assigned to other programs such as Voice Commander etc. Just replace it with "ToggleManila".
I am not familiar with other more advance programs that allow u to assign it to the other hard buttons, so I am sorry I can't advice u on that.
By the way, u might have to create a shortcut that points to the actual file where u place the ToggleManila.mscr, and then u put this shortcut (I simply name it ToggleManila.lnk) inside Windows->Start Menu->Programs before u can select "ToggleManila".
See if it works.
This works great, thanks everyone involved!
I find it better than 2nd Today because the device is much quicker without manila running.
Davey101 said:
This works great, thanks everyone involved!
I find it better than 2nd Today because the device is much quicker without manila running.
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i second this statement. tried it and works great for me on the touch pro
Have you tried the latest ROMS??
Manila works pretty smooth and yu device will be blazing fast. I will be using it always..
charly_mx said:
Have you tried the latest ROMS??
Manila works pretty smooth and yu device will be blazing fast. I will be using it always..
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I'm using Dutty's Diamond v1.8 (full) and used to have speed problems when launching applications, particularly after using the audio player.
TF3D is alright but it doesn't actually do anything that special. The weather screen is pretty but most of the other screens are useless, especially the horribly limited 'favourite contacts'. Now that I've got used to the standard windows today screen I prefer it.
I'm looking forward to trying out Schap's TouchXperience though!
that's work very nice
now we must wait for TFL3D tasks and who knows how this thing will be
this works great with the manila2D with the touch. One question though. The script kills the manila2D very quickly, but it does take several seconds for it to run it; any way of speeding that up?
thanks for the script
work very well
thanks for the script. great work
As Leekg has mentioned you can use TF3D and SPB Shell together.
I have left TF3D as it is and installed the SPB Shell as well. On the home screen have reprogrammed one of the Soft keys to SPB Menu -- touching that takes me to the Shell. Closing it brings me back to TF3D!
I do have a question though -- is there any way of changing the default msic player to windows media?
At the moment it runs on top of the today screen, and the soft keys actually overlap SPB 3.5.1..
so is there a way to run SPB as a panel?
I believe you can use a program called panelizer with a wallpaper and link the shortcut. There was a thread for it try searching.
It turned out that the panelizer is quite difficult to use. But if you can make a working version, please share. Im interested too.
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At the moment it runs on top of the today screen, and the soft keys actually overlap SPB 3.5.1..
so is there a way to run SPB as a panel?
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is that even possible?
I'm running Mobile Shell 3.5.3 on my Kaiser with Shifu V20 ROM. On my last Abusalza ROM I had no problems with the backlight widget but for some reason this no longer works correctly. Sometimes the widget button itself becomes invisible on my SPM home screen and when I manually adjust the backlight in Settings the icon will magically reappear. When I tap it and select a different lighting level this has no effect on the device. Has anyone else experienced this?
Yeah I had the same problem, but didn't find any solution though
i'm using SPB MS 3.5.3 on stylez 4 rom and everything is ok with backlight button. btw SPB Mobile Shell RULEZ