yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
Friends,

I have been trying to extend the length using apps Theme Generator and ThemeGenCE which is not going smooth...:( I do not know what I am doing wrong, but was wondering if someone could give me a hand.

Here is the link to the apple logo that I would like to use:

http://www.invisiblelight.us/temp/Apple Logo.jpg

If I am correct, the dimensions would look something like this?

Portrait

Standard with Bars

320 (height) x 240 (width)

Without Bars

354 (height) x 240 (width)

Today Menu

287 (height) x 153 (width)

Landscape

Standard with Bars

240 (height) x 320 (width)

Without Bars

240 (height) x 354 (width)

Today Menu

287 (height) x 153 (width)

If someone can whip me up a quick .tsk file I would appreciate it!

Btw: this is for the AT&T tilt pocket pc.

Thank You,

Tvos
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] l3v5y:
Can you not just load the image in the default picture program and select menu->Use as today background. That'll set all the images to the correct one...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
tried that already and the photo is about 30% translucent.

tvos
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] l3v5y:
Can't you change the transparency in the dialogue box that selects the image?

None of the Theme Generator programs worked for me...

It might be possible to directly alter the background. I think it is in "\Windows" and called tdywater or similar.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
here is a idea...

if you already have a .tsk file that has the correct w + l for portrait and landscape, I should be able to bring it in using the theme generator and just change the pictures associated with it.

please advise and thank you,

tvos
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
YES!!!!!!!!!!

I figured it out.... finally!! after spending half the day poking around.....

Anyways, this is the data that I will share with you so others can learn from trial and error.

Legend:

\Windows\stwater.gif the start menu image

\Windows\tdywater.gif the Today image

1. When you use theme generator create your theme as you normally would. Save the theme .tsk and drop it in the \Window folder.

2. Select the theme from the today settings screen for your background.

3. Once your background is created, go back to your \Windows folder and look for the file called "tdywater.gif". Copy that file to your desktop, re-size the image with your your favorite software AKA: photoshop, to dimensions 320x240. Depending on your device screen you might have to mess with the length (320) to adjust to stretch.

4. After that, re-save the file as .gif, 256 colors, normal etc

5. Make sure the other pre-existing std and tdy files have been removed before copying.

5. Copy the file you just edited back to the \Windows folder and reboot

You should see the change for the today screen extending the theme on the today screen.

Here is a excellent article on this complex process:

http://www.pocketpcmag.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17680

Thank You,

Tvos
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
Figured out the rest,

If you set the following values to all "0" it will hide the top,bottom, and menu

HKLM\Software\Vijay555\VjTodayToggle\ and set the values under

“Startsize”, "Traylaunchsize", “Softkeysize” to “0“.

enjoy

tvos
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Qbix:
Hi I have some problem with soft key and tray (I want to save it I have there very useful shortcut to BT manager an WIFI) but after Soft reset i have something like that (look on screen)

but when i rotate screen or open some program its going back to normal (but not always)

I want to have something like that

any solutions?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nerys71:
Little confused. here. I want to get rid of the top and bottom bar but NOT its contents. IE I want to skin those parts?

From what I am reading THIS is the thread I should be in but VERY unclear on what precisely I have to do!!

I have attached an image of my desired objective. ALL I want to do is make the background of the top and bottom bars an extension of the background image instead of the green bar.

HOW do I do this? (I am running wm6.1 on a Sprint PPC 6700)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] andason:
use the vjtoggletodayalpha to hide the bars.

Then use something like rltoday or batterystatus to create your new bars.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dancer_69:
I use vjtoggletodayalpha to hide the tray and softkey bars and all goes well until I connect the device with pc. After that the area of traybar take her place again and doesn't show any icon, but the today screen srinks and appears a scollbar right.

Is there any way after connect with activesync the tray bar area stays free and clear?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Lox_Dev:
Hello. No WM6.1 support planned?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ancola66:
Work good on my device WM6.1 :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] the Dragon:
The Toggle Start works great on my stock-rom Tilt except for the fact that when I slide the phone open and close it, the top start bar is back on the today screen.

I then have to toggle it again in the short cut. Is there a way for it to remain hidden?

Thanks and AWESOME tool!

Christopher
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ilordvader:
Whats the Diff between - Toggle

& these below(Pocket PC):-

BlueTooth Audio - 1.0

BlueTooth Audio (CF1 Edition) - 1.0

BlueTooth Audio (Windows Mobile 6 Professional) - 1.0

on this site- http://www.trianglepowers.com

thxs
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] o2cando:
Has anyone successfully disabled the softkey bar on a HTC Diamond ? It doesn't seem to work on my HTC ...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Raulka:
I have an Eten x800 with the diamond's WM6.1 and for me not working too

I tried:

dcinobar.exe

VJToggleTodayIIAlpha.exe

Toggle.exe

etc... But this Rom is buggy...

I read on this link that, the problem is the shell32.exe:

http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?p=83812
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stefun:
PMC Today Shrink,

VJToggle Today

. . .

Work error outcome :

http://images.netbag.hu/20080805/21360670538.JPG

(WM6.1 / Diamond / Elite2)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Raulka:
Unfortunately the top/bottom bar hide applications not works properly with WM6.1 Diamond ROMs. The problem is the \Windows\Shell32.exe file and if I know right the last good WM6.1 version was the 19214. I read a forum (#79) where many users changed the shell32.exe to the right version and after that hide bars worked good, but I tried too and the result was a hardreset...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stefun:
Error work. Change Shell32, after softreset, no boot. The finis hardreset. :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] akeppc:
I tried that Shell32.exe and it works! Raulka....thank you for leading me to that thread. It was so annoying having the softkey presented at today screen. Now vjtoggletodayiialpha.exe works on my machine. Thanks to vijay555 too for his great apps! Anyway, mine is WM6.1 version 19965.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ecb5:
I have this problem...

When i activate the wm5 version this is what happens:

When use 26 (top) and 1 (bottom) then bottom softkeys still show but do not work, extra space is not usable...

When i use 2 and 1, bottom becomes available but top bar even if blank space is not usable...

when i return to 26 and 1, botton still available and usable, top bar working as should be BUT there is now an unusable space between top bar and today screen and its height is around 26

WM6.1

vga

TIA for ur help
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Raulka:
Hi Guys!

Is there any solution for the hide softkey bars on Diamond ROMs yet? I have WM6.1 20273.1.3.3 and not working properly VJToggleTodayIIALpha, DCINoBar, NueNobar etc... And shell32.exe change is freeze my device...

Nothing news?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] boomdiggy02:
Re: Nothing news?

Raulka I've got some news

You should try nueNoBar I went through the headache of trying to change shell32.exe too. It also froze my device!

Anyways, after the hard reset I decided to try and cook a new rom that had the hide softkeys option included but with the ppc kitchen I didn't have any luck.

I snooped around and found this

http://www.nuerom.com/BlogEngine/page/nueNoBar.aspx

It worked like magic and I'm sorry now that I tried all that other stuff before stumbling on this.

Oh well....you live and you learn

hopefully it works for you too!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
you know..problem is, that nothing works for new rom builds...

upd: newest nuenobar + nuenobarfix seems to be working!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cheeseus:
And what might that fix be, please? Tried installing latest v. 2. but it won't work (on WM5). In the list of services "nueNoBar(NNB1)" is "stopped" and when I try to start it I get "The system cannot find the file specified."

In HKLM#Software#Apps#Wei Enterprises nueNoBar I have:

InstallDir ¥

Instl 0x00000001(1)

InstlDir ¥

Can anyone confirm these have the right values?

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Otherwise, I continue playing around with "vjtoggletodayiialpha.exe" ...

It does hide start menu bar and bottom menu bar but any program I start never spans the whole screen - the top part (where the Start menu bar is supposed to be) remains empty (Today screen items show below), while the bottom nav bar is fully present.

In the Registry "StartSize" is 4, TrayVisible is 1, SoftKeySize is 4 (tried changing the values of each from 2 to 20 but nothing changes).

So... I guess my device, Sharp W-Zero3, WM5, goes on the "unsupported" list :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] GoingInside:
Use nueNoBar-103-v1.3-cab.cab

Face the same problems as others here. Tried vjtoggletodayiialpha.exe, dciNoBar, PMC TodayShrink and nueNoBar2-225-v2.0-cab1.cab but either the portion just below top menu or the portion just above bottom tray is blank and will show residual image of previous application.

Found a solution and tried it on my polaris (WM 6.1)

Soln: Use nueNoBar-103-v1.3-cab.cab and the problem is solved!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cheeseus:
Alright, tried version 1.3 - nothing happened, nothing changed (of course after soft reset).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] GoingInside:
Actually I installed first vjtoggletodayiialpha.exe and then ueNoBar-103-v1.3-cab.cab. After that I uninstalled vjtoggletodayiialpha. Probably you want to give it a try.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DorkyDev:
VJToggleToday II alpha

What settings do I need to change in VJToggleTodayIIalpha to make just the bottom softkeys disappear?

I've tried dciNoBar and nueNoBar but it's always like playing russian roulette, I've been through 3 hard resets and nothing has changed the bottom won't go away with nueNoBar or dciNoBar...

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] craigiecraigie4:
VJ, has anyone got phone alarm working on a Universal? I see the WM5 release is in Alpha with some problems, but this alpha does not support VGA - so we get a silly little icon bar with overlapping fonts.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
craigiecraigie4 - I'm afraid I don't have any idea about PhoneAlarm. I think Bruce has mentioned on his website that the beta is coming out in December, I think... wonder why it's so incompatible?

I don't have a wm5 device yet, I'm hoping to save up for one around Xmas time. I think PhoneAlarm's functions are near essential for Phone Edition, so I don't think I would make the jump to WM5 before it's available!

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Flipside:
I've tried and tried to "find" the close button ( and the OK ) in the top right corner where they usually are, but all I get is Phonealarm-issues like, signalstrenght and profile-shift...Not even once has the close-button worked for me. I tried to map close/ok to a hard-ware-button, but still I could see the top of running icons in my task-bar ( top-bar using WA2) but could not close these unless I went into memory and closed apps manually.

On top of this, it froze my device and forced me to a hard-reset yesterday...but still I love the idea :P

BTW 22 pxl's are more than enough for PA if you ask me... :wink:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bigneeker:
can someone tell me what plugin is being used on top of the weather plugin on vijay555's screen. (the one with the calendar info)

thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
bigneeker

It's a plugin I wrote, based on an open source plugin called Audionotes. It's what got me learning how to program.

It's a very old version. I'll try and post a screenshot of a new version shortly. It's what keeps me awake at night, damn it.

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
Flipside: are you using WA? I've never used it with WA and don't know how it'll react. There's no way in the world ToggleToday should cause any kind of crash, it's very very benign. If it does, it must be a reaction to other software, presumably WA etc. All it does is shrink the Start bar to 2 pixels...

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bigneeker:
vijay555: it looks like a cool plugin with calendar and launcher combined.

let me know if you make it available.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Flipside:
I guess that WA2 is the cause here, maybe the skinning-script won't allow the shrinking, must admit I have given up by now. Maybe if you and Chris over at Lakeridge got into a dialogue, that would give us total control :P

Sorry 'cause I really love your idea, as it is now I only have start and close visible in the top-bar, so the change in that sense equals none...but 16% more space for WAD-ism... :twisted: would be grrreat...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
Flipside - I suppose you've got to ask why you would be using WA and ToggleToday I guess.

I like WA and Desktop, but it's doing more and more than I could ever need right now.

Something you might (eventually) be interested in is this exercise I started:

http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=27722&highlight=

It's basically a tiny button (top left) that allows you to flick between ToggleToday (no start bar), normal start bar, and the New bar (the one at the bottom) so you've got easy access to all 3 types, but optionally all hidden away completely.

The program works (WM2003se) but isn't in any fit state, it has some major issues. However, eventually I'll get around to finishing it off... I like the idea, find it useful, and like a clean Today screen.

Relocating the new bar:

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
bigneeker: This is the current state of what used to be my AudioNotes plugin, now called VJEphemeris:

Still so much to add to it!

All: Hopefully I've got a new Visual Studio 2005 happening soon, so ToggleToday et al will be updated shortly.

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gpoint:
Hey VJ. Your program is really interresting, but I can t get the close button on my magician when i activate togglestart...so i can t close any application using this button.

Can I try to do anything in order to improve this?

thx in advance!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
gpoint, are you using this in landscape?

Currently it's Portrait only on Wm2003, but I've started working on a WM2005, VGA and landscape version.

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gpoint:
Wow what a fast answer ;)

Well, no i am using it in portrait mode on my magician under wm2003se

I am using your phonealarm skin, I also tried with some others but i never can close apps...

Hope you can do something because I really would like to use your program.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
That's interesting :(

If you can, can you change your phone theme so that it has a different colour to my phonealarm skin. Eg, make your start bar pink (i use cetuner for this stuff).

Don't use toggletoday, ensure your start bar is nice and pink full size, and you can use the ok/close button fine.

Then, use Toggletoday, and you should be able to see your pink start bar minimised to the top of the screen. Then, try clicking where ok/close should be; tell me if it still has the problem.

I never change anything to do with the ok/close button (in QVGA and Portrait mode), so there's no reason why it shouldn't work... Please post a screenshot (in pink mode, before and after toggletoday) or PM it to me and I'll look into it.

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gpoint:
Well no need to create a new theme. I can clearly tell you what I can see:

I can see the little bar for start, i can see the top of icons of apps which are running in background, i can see a little bar for phone activity and another for connections, then at least i can see the lil close bar at the right of the screen, but i cannot click it...and sometimes when i click on it, my pda owner informations appear on screen.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
gpoint, are you using Wisbar or anything similar?

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gpoint:
Sure, Wisbar advance.

This could be the best way to have always phonealarm on top of screen even when i change my virtual page in wisbar desktop.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
Yep, it's a wisbar compatibility issue: ToggleToday and wisbar weren't ever designed for each other - I'm staying away from wisbar for now, I use smallmenuplus.

However, I will try to look into it at some point. I think I know what it might be:

on the PocketPC, the Ok/Close buttons (and in fact all of the icons on the start bar, eg volume) extend the full 26 pixels high of the start bar, even if they don't look 26 pixels high. So clicking ABOVE the volume icon, still clicks the volume icon. Toggletoday relies on this fact because of course, when you shrink the start bar to 2 pixels, you can't see anything below those top 2 pixs.

Perhaps wisbar is only drawing it's ok/close button less then the normal 26 pixels Toggletoday requires. If you can, use a wisbar theme with a larger close button, or if that can't be changed, perhaps try asking Chris at lakeridgesoftware about the size of the button?

There might be partial solution I could write to get around it (eg showing the MIDDLE 2 pixels of the start bar), but that's going to upset quite a lot of other stuff I'm writing, and I don't think it's the best solution for anyone.

Sorry! I'll change the first post in the thread re Wisbar.

Couldn't you just force a PhoneAlarm plugin at the top of each virtual page? I haven't used WAD really, and can't remember if it lets you do that.

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gpoint:
Well I tried without loading wisbar advance too and it s the same thing. I can t even see any other button than the lil start button bar on the left. So i don t think the problem comes from wisbar ;(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] matko_d:
Links

Links do not work

Would it be possible to upload it somewhere else.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
matko_d - all of my old links were invalidated because I'm moving everything over to my new website, http://www.vijay555.com

Any old links do work, just replace www.celebrationproperties.com to www.vijay555.com.

I've updated the first post to reflect this.

Note that ToggleToday is all WM2003SE and portrait only.

It's only a beta version for now, but hopefully this weekend I'll try and get some work done on the VGA, landscape and WM2005 versions.

I'm a bit behind on my coding, been wasting time setting up my website and rss news site

http://www.vijay555.com/news

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] matko_d:
Toggle Today

Great app - Toggle Today.

Works with hx4700

If there was possible to toggle it like in normal windows - If I toggle the startbar - running app will be resized to the full screen.

There was some app with this functionality - BananaPC, but it do not work with VGA screens.

This will be the dream software for me and I do not understand why it is not included in windows mobile (and I am sure that it wont be included in WM2005)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
matko_d:

I made a program to do this quite some time back, eg here showing the calendar expanded to fill the whole screen without the start bar.

The problem is, MS requires software to account for the start bar at the top, so by design most programs are hard coded to shift their position and size of windows accordingly. (Similar issue with relocating the "new bar" on the today screen. eg:

from here:

http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=27722&highlight=hide

Clicking on the relocated newbar still shows the popup menus in their expected place, ie just above the bottom right corner)

So, although I can make programs full screen easily, on some programs it has a slightly unpredictable graphical effect; nothing will blow up, just look a bit odd.

But for eg, NewReader doesn't come with a fullscreen mode. But I can force it fullscreen and it's very nice; but it doesn't like it, and reverts back to normal every time you read a story. BTW, if you like RSS news, have you tried my news aggregator, http://www.vijay555.com/news. Works quite nicely on PDAs. There is a non image and a paged version available as well if you need it.

If it's something you're interested in, I might get round to releasing it.

ToggleToday will be updated hopefully this weekend. I've got some important stuff coming up this week, but after that, I'm pluggin myself into the net and finishing off some stuff. I wasn't supposed to touch a keyboard this weekend and still got VJSmallIcons and VJKeyPress out by accident!

Give HideStart a go btw.

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] starfish_001:
vijay555 your suite of programs is growing rather quickly - they are all very useful

Couple of questions

Your skin for Phone alarm - how can I activate the setting there is no button or is it a screen prob?

Did you skin SideX to make it th same size as the scroll bar?

How did you move the start button - can't help thinking that I've missed something here.

Thanks for some great little apps :)