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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] johanromijn:
Great App.

Today, I reinstalled my E-Ten M700 WM6 after a hard reset, and for the first time installed pBar. IT IS GREAT!

I really don't like the arrow on the topbar (it still doesn't look well on WM6), but you can simply disable it.

I like taskmanagers you don't see running.

I've used taskmanagers like Wisbar, SBSH iLauncher, SPB Pocket Plus and HandySwitcher.

This one has all I need. It's small, you don't even have to install, and shows just the information I need.

Just one thing I noticed (like other users):

You can't sort favorites. ("UP" and "DOWN" are greyed out)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ummagumma:
First, thanks for a great program. :)

I ran into just one liltle glitch: I can't make date format to show month first; whether I edit it in Options or directly in registry, it reverts back to dd/MM whenever pbar is restarted.

Has anybody checked its battery cousumption ? (should be very little, I imagine)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Black-Rose:
Another bug: pBar cannot be the first (after softreset) to put Wifi on/off, at fisrt I've to do that in Comm Manager. Every night I put the device off.

When comes an update?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nncuong:
Sometime, WiFi has a bug: after soft-reset, status not reset. Fix by reg

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\Parms]
"ResetOnResume"=dword:1
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Black-Rose:
Thanks, but it doesn't work... :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] franjorge:
pbar hiding volume and phone icons (SOLVED)

Well, I finally managed to solve the issue. The solution goes through eliminating the battery icon from the taskbar and replace it by the clock. In AKU2.2 ROMs and above you can do it following this procedure:

(Quote from http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/04/28/586453.aspx):

What you need is a DWORD value called ShowTitleBarClock that is set to 1. The value needs to be placed in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell. After adding the value and flushing the registry (usually the safest way to do that is to hit the power button to suspend the device, wait a few seconds, and then hit it again to wake it back up) reset the device. If it comes back with the clock showing, you've got an AKU2.2 device.

(End quote)

Then, you have to set the regional settings of the clock to HH:mm:ss tt or hh:mm:ss tt, as stated by nncuong in previous posts. If you do not find this option in the 'clock format' dropdown box, first set the AM and PM symbols (under the clock separator symbol) to anything different to blank and then it should appear in the former dropdown.

Hope this helps somebody.

Regards,

Fran
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Black-Rose:
Am I stupid? Maybe I am...!?

I've the solution of this problem:

- do NOT 'select the option 'Run on start up

- put the pBar.exe in the Windows folder

- make a shortcut and put this shortcut in the Windows\Startup folder.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] davehutch:
My little arrow disappeared

Answered my own question. Sorry, post removed
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kheops:
There is a way to change the coordiante of the program?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jmdrizen:
Fantastic application - THANK-YOU! :-D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bellfazar:
First off, excellent app. It's been very useful for me and has replaced X-Button and Task Manager as my task manager.

My question is, I have one of my softbuttons set to activate pBar and I'm able to navigate through the pbar menu thing one handed, but is there a way that I can close a program one handed?

There was a program I used a while ago with a previous ROM that worked the same way and to close an application in the task list, you would select the offending application and press the right directional button on the dpad.

Does this exist in pbar?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] laura_kim:
COPY THE .EXE IN THE FOLDER : My device\windows\start up
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] laura_kim:
copy the .exe in the following folder: windows\start up
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tecsbrain:
Beta 1.4 does not seem to remember the settings chosen for date display -- I enter MM/dd (US) but whenever I reset, it's back to dd/MM. Just an FYI - aside from that, excellent program...maybe a GPRS disconnect button to add to the "connection manager" would help some BA users too. If you do this, I would suggest another grouping of icons for the connection stuff instead of having them on the same line as everything else. $.02.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] babak:
same problem for me too but i have another serius problem ,this applicatione is native in my rom (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=328576) and i can't underestand how it's possible to give it new configuration and now Pbar seems dead and i don't want to do a hard reset :((
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Chiefcooker:
very nice app, fast and useful, but i have some probs with it.

first of all i have time in top bar in every app, and the small pbar arrow cuts off the last digit from the time.

next, i have added something to ex, and something to favorite, but that changes nothing for me.

when i exit pbar with the red x button, then this freezes the top bar, i had to do a sr.

otherwise thx for your great work, hope you can make it more stable.

regards chief
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Noonski:
Will there actually be an update??

I'm also cooking it in m y Roms now. Because of advice from others i have reverted back to the 1.2/3 version.

But one thing that might get it more apreciation would be if i would have a bigger pressing area.

Now, sometimes you have to be pretty precise to hit it and opening.

Think about one handed control and you have a winner.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gianna68:
I didn't want to have the clock show in my titlebar, as I am using the HTC plug-in with the nice clock, and I wanted to only have my battery status show on the bar.

So I changed ShowTitleBarClock to 0.

Problem now is that I cannot select the battery percentage WITHOUT selecting the clock :(

Can this be circumvented in any way?

I really only need the battery percentage in my top bar (and I mean the one from pBar, not the built in windows one)

Any suggestions?

Great program this pBar! Two thumbs up!

Waiting for your next release.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] madu:
Problem with OK button in apps

THANKS FOR GREAT APPLICATION!!

I used other app on Smartphone, changed to PDA and was saved by pBar. ..

BUT there is a small PROBLEM for me.

For Example in AgendaOne when I open items (appointments, tasks, etc) they appear with "OK" button i top right corner. When pBar is running and I click "OK" I get everything either CLOSED or MINIMIZED. :( And as such return to Today.

I tried assigning different options in settings, but no luck.

Can you make one of the options for the X button position on the screen to do the DEFAULT action of the window/app?

THANK YOU.

PS: If this is me being stupid - please excuse me.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nonpaq:
I have the same problem on my non-phone PDA. Clicking an 'OK' button minimizes the application instead of actually doing what it is supposed to do. In fact, if you use the pop-up menu to see the task list, the application with the OK is listed. The only way I can acknowledge the OK is by clicking it via the task list.

What I've noticed is that after a ROM update and starting pBar, if I leave the settings alone for Tap, tap and hold, and tap and move, it behaves properly. Once I alter the default settings, the minimizing starts and cant be changed back.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kalfa:
Hi, if i download the pBar_14_all.zip and open the zip. the pbar.exe is bad... it is no valid win32 aplication

sorry for my bad english...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] utak3r:
lol - yeah, 'cause it's NOT a win32 application ;) it's a wince app. Copy it to your pda and run it there...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tapalief:
Very good app !!

Do you know how to remove the little triangle, thanks a lot ???
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
options, , tab general, popup - none.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nncuong:
I'm working in Pbar v1.5 now..!

- Fixed bugs

- Update select icon, parameter shortcut

Will release as soon for us

Cheers..!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomal:
Please consider browsing option to add favorites. Implimentation is easy by using free gsgetfile.dll ...

and similar thing for exception list ...

cheers.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cicciocant:
It's full compatible with wm6?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mountain King:
Yes! Works like a charm on my Universal (ROM UNI 2.11.05 - Core 5.2.1908 Build 18508.0.7.0) ‎
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
YEAH! thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] daxliniere:
Re: upcoming v1.5

Thanks Nncuong!

You rock!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mikael:
Minimize problems and the color of the battery bar

Excellent program and good to hear about the next version.

Hope you can fit in a fix for the minimize problem described previously (after changing the settings, a tap of the 'X' always goes to Today screen). A customization option for the battery bar color would also be very nice - the light green goes poorly with my all-black theme.

Thanks!

+ Mikael
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iiiox:
still using pBar 1.3^^"

still using pBar 1.3^^" responsive, fast, simple!

recently tried WkTask, X-button 1.51, X-button 2 and some more... pBar is my choice!

can't wait to try 1.5...hopefully the 'ok' issue can be soloved then!

Many thanks for your great work!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iiiox:
Seems a little "quiet" here...

But as I know, there are still a lot of users preferring pBar to all other similar apps... please release pBar 1.5 sooner^^ it really makes me visit this page every other hours^^
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steveweb:
Please, release the 1.5 version as soon as possible :-))))))

pbar is amazing! donate... I have done it!

Stefano
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nncuong:
Oh, thank you. I'm busy now. I'm cooking Universal ROM :D. I'll release 1.5 in next week.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gianna68:
I'll be here waiting for it :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steveweb:
not at all! Good job nncuong ;-))
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Harun93:
pbar rules! nncuong rox!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
superb! waiting impatiently.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Noonski:
Cool, does that mean you increased the tap area?

A lot of users don't like pBar althought they don't mention why it's ussualy something like "it Sucks".

I like, but stil using 1.3 but 1.4 is till better on memory and strangely also on battery compared to HTC X Button And i think that just the graphics update of 2.0 still don't bring that which i like most about pBar, closing **** from anyplace i want to, instead of returning to homescreen first.

Wouldn't mind trying early Beta of 1.5 ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] unisev:
Problem

Sorry, I do not have so much time to read all the topic but I'm using Pbar since this small app is in a lot of custom ROM (for My Qtek S200).

2 small bugs or something that I do not know :

- When the button is an Ok button (not a cross) it reduce the app, is it possible to let it do Ok instead ?

- Lots of applications are not really closing but reduce... when I want to close an app, I must click on the X next to the app name in the Pbar menu, the big X is not closing the app.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tecsbrain:
Next release should fix those!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ppcding:
pBar works great on my devices.......I would like to have it an touch application - don't you think....:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Tridrac:
Thank you Nncuong, for your fantastic program! ;)

Chock Dee
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nonpaq:
Is it next week yet? Is it? Is it?

(Waiting impatiently for v1.5)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] anonimac:
Ummmm.....i refuse to eat until the next version comes out...so...for the sake of humanity, and my health, please release 1.5. :eek:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iiiox:
hahaha!!! i'll join your fast very fast!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] banky8358:
:) thank a lot
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Croak:
You're right on the money..."it sucks" because on a Touch, with the goal to use the stylus as little as possible, it pretty much requires you use a stylus to hit the triangle. We don't have a lot of buttons on a Touch to remap to pBar either.

Sadly, using Noonski's latest cooked ROM (which is excellent otherwise), I haven't found a way to get the stock HTC task manager to come back.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iiiox:
Hi, i never have the "stylus annoyance"...this is the simplest solution:

Try to link a shortcut of pbar on start menu. Press the shortcut whenever you need the menu of pbar showing up!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] anonimac:
Sooooooo.....where do we stand on 1.5? I'm still not eating here...still fasting...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iiiox:
hi, try another yummy dish "magic button 2.1" before pbar 1.5's release^^

http://www.trancreative.com/mb.aspx
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] anonimac:
Using that currently.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steveweb:
I know we are insistent, but we would like the new release :-DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDd

good work nncuong

stefano
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nncuong:
I'm sorry. I'm testing befor release.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] michd43:
hey nncuong, for your next release. Add a close option for the ok button. It's kind of hard to hit the x in the corner. Hitting the ok button to close the program would be cool.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomal:
Some application do not close in some cases (by tapping X), pls consider the possibility to force kill them.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iiiox:
gluing my eyes on the screen for several days, hehehe... finally...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nonpaq:
Is it next week yet? Is it? Is it?

(Waiting impatiently for v1.5):)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Noonski:
I have time to test package.

And i can make installer if you need, i'm waiting for a nice magic cabmaker anyway ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dianotea:
thanks for this great app! tried all the free task manager around, and come back to pbar as the best.

No other appz has so much useful function with the little memory footprint of pbar.

.....Microsoft should sell wm with pbar pre-loaded ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] CorruptedSanity:
worky on kaiser/tytn ii? no buggies?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chompy18:
I've tried 1.4 and love it!

It replaced HandySwitcher, HandyLauncher and a few more for my device (HTC Trinity).

Great and lite app.

A few things though:

1. On the trinity, after defining a few shortcuts I am unable to remove or change the order of shortcuts. Same for exceptions.

2. It is impossible to use the Dbutton to run apps from the shortcuts, only with the stylus.

3. Is it possible to add the option to select the X icon with the Dbutton? Currently it's only possible with the stylus.

4. After selecting the "run on start up" I get an error message after restart. I had to manually create a shortcut in the startup folder.

5. it would be nice to have the battery bar display different colors. for example green for < 100%, override with yellow for <= 50%, override with red for <=20%, something like that.

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nonpaq:
Is it next week yet? Is it? Is it?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tom_codon:
my brother working in it...!

Screen shot in QVGA screen :

Update :

Today Ram,memory,power

Today sms/mms check

Remove programs buttons

Change icon system

and..... :D :D :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Noonski:
Also nice Changes to the HTCHome Plugin there!

Now if he would point the Reset or Power Of button to PowerOfWarning.exe, which then can be replaced with psShutXP but renamed.... ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tom_codon:
HTC home settings in pbar ???

Hum...Will think it. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Noonski:
No what i meant was that in the background your HTCHome Plugin graphics look nice in Black and White with a touch of glass.

I have replaced my PowerOffWarning With psShutXP for weeks now without any problems. Boring PowerOfWarning has been there for years and it's Fugly as hell.

I though if M$ doesn't do anything with it i will.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nncuong:
Thank Tom.

My Computer has broken in last week . Tom help me to test it.

Some Infor:

- Changed new and beautiful Icon from Tom

- Fixed Excute Shortcut with press action button

- Added Unread SMS in Information bar.

- Added Running Programs Shortcut

- Added Remove Programs Shortcut

- Added Comm manager to task list and kill it

- Added Option shortcut with Parameter and Icon.

- Increased region pop-up for tap. In Today (Home screen), tap in top-right screen for pop-up menu.

- And more in Options ....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Noonski:
You probalpy don't need it.

But if you need an installer that also disables HTC X, i can make one with some prepopulated Reg's.

Soon as it's done of course.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iiiox:
Just wonder since memory indicator is shown, how come a shortcut to "release memory" is nowhere to be seen^^?

curious about whether it's a good idea to replace "sms" with "hibernate" or the sorts.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tom_codon:
Hibernate make by oxios software.We can include in pbar.If u want u can add hibernate in Favorites list. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MaH112:
Great program, thanks.

However, one thing: I cant seem to find a way to add SmartDialer to the exceptions list.

Adding it via the "Add to exception list" button doesnt work because once SmarDialer is on the screen the pBar icon is faded out entirely since SmarDialer is a fullscreen application.

Adding either SmarDialer.exe or the entire path of the exe or smardialer.lnk from the AutoStart menu does not work.

Any ideas on how to solve this? Am I doing anything wrong?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steveweb:
are you near to release the new version? ;DDD

Sorry, we are agog :D

thank you for you great job.

stefano
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Noonski:
Well with the Oxios request it might just take a bit longer ;)

I think that's what favourites is for. (oeps didn't read Tom's reply allready had that)

Myself i run Oxios from my Storage Card and some have it in a different location to.

It's better to keep everything it points to default Stock ROM programs.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] delkri:
Feedback & Suggestion

First off, this is a magnificent app. Thank you for you time and efforts. :)

Feedback:

I had an issue with my PPC (UT Starcom 6800) WM6 and had to hard reboot and load everything from scratch. In doing so gave me the opportunity to debug an issue I am having. I loaded all apps including pbar 1.4, all worked as designed. Then I loaded my last app Microsoft Voice Command 1.6.

Now the following issues that I have been having that contiue once I load VC1.6:

1. The battery indicator at the top is white instead of green (not a problem just curious).

2. When an app is open and you open the pbar drop down menu and select the x by the app you wish to close, it will cause the device to lock ( not lock up, just device lock). Then I have to press the soft key to unlock as you normally would to use the device. It appears to be a conflict with VC1.6 and pbar.

I can live with these issues I just thought I would give the feedback.

Suggestion:

I use the silence all, to silence the ringer and notifications during meetings and have to use the stylus to complete this action. I would like to see the Silence all / Vibrate / Normal toggle added to the top functions of pbar.

Thanks for listening

delkri
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steveweb:
Sorry... one little off topic... look in the picture attached... the plugin is Battery Status, isnt it?

Thanks!

stefano
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MaH112:
Dont ban me if Im totally off but isnt that Metrix?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steveweb:
Doh! Thank you very much! ;)

off-topic closed!

stefano
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] johanromijn:
Yes, it is.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steveweb:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steveweb:
look on the homepage of Battery Status... yes, it is... thank you.

Stefano
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nncuong:
You can download pBar 1.5 beta in here http://www.phudongsoft.vn/index.asp?pid=23

At bottom of page
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mikhe69:
Testing...

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cicciocant:
DO you release also the english version?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steveweb:
it is in english version
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steveweb:
I'm testing it... the first impression: the popup menu (tapping X) is faster than the 1.4 version...

Continuing the test....

stefano
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
about 1.5 - DO NOT use new icons, pleaseeeeeEEEE, it is SO unnecessary(file is 2.5x bigger)....:(

wifi on/off is not working on wizard, bt on/off is working...

simmanager is still not closeable.

more later..

very good job, in general. it is my must have tool.

btw, is it possible to change battery bar color in any way?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steveweb:
on Herald Official WM6, bluetooth e wifi are OK.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] maassk213:
HTC Touch

Using PDAVIET 12G - All functions working OK till now. Still testing and observing over time.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] indrastrid:
click ... download now ...

thanks alot
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dboris:
Super programm, pBar 1.5 . Thank you, nncuong !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chompy18:
Thank You!!! :)

Shortcut execution via the Dpad works like a charm! Great work ;)

Noticed a few things:

1. Still unable to select and close running apps with the Dpad. Only tapping with the stylus closes, pressing the Dpad opens the app. Maybe you could add a left click on Dpad to close selected app, or to be able to select the "X" for the app.

2. Nice work on adding remove option to added shortcuts, but the up/down buttons are still grayed out so ordering of shortcuts is not yet enabled.

Both are not bugs as they are more of "neat to have" requests...

Keep up the great work!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] indrastrid:
Nncuong, before i ask you answer my quetion with colour icons version 1.5 :D

in the last line bar (power, reset, etc ... ) can it modify?

I try to open registry, but is it not in there or i miss something? thank you so much.

(God bless you brain, your hand, your heart, and everythings)