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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zard:
One feedback which I forgot to add in my earlier post, when I have a program open, e.g. sktools, within sktools are individual utilities. If I press the "x" button, it not only closes the individual utility but closes sktools as well. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] KTamas:
pBar can not close a word document. I tap "ok" and nothing happens.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sylvanusquek:
Great app you have!

One suggestion is to allow the user to attach pBar to a hardware button, makes things easier!

Thx!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] GreggSymington:
newb question

i'm getting an error message during startup stating "the file 'pBar' cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of it's components cannot be found". I have the .exe file in /windows and have the launch on startup box checked. Any Ideas?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] GreggSymington:
Sorry guys I believe i figured i out, started using from storage card then moved the .exe it's ok now.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zard:
Been soft resetting and using for many days already, no such problem until last night, I did a soft reset and left the O2 IIs aside and went to sleep. When I woke up this morning and on the O2, it had the above error message. A soft reset again did not have the problem again. Strange!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LordDeath:
this app is nice, but very buggy :(

1. on my WM6 prophet it is not compatible with the WM6 themes. the background of the clock looks like WM5.

2. somehow it changes my time-format from 24h to the 12h format. annoying :(

3. i don't like an automatic closing while taping on the X button. so i have set it up to "minimize". but it will minimize even if i press on a "OK" button and so i return to the today screen. also really stupid. it should just close/minimize the current window, not switch back to the today screen.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
just throw your machine thru window... joke..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] famewolf:
Funny how it works fine for everyone else except you. Most of your issues can be corrected by changes in the config. I suggest you run something else since so much about this app is "stupid".
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LordDeath:
i just told, that this behaviour is stupid, not the app - so don't feel offended.

and can you tell me, which configs i should change? i don't see anything which would help :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] famewolf:
I misread your post as more hostile than you intended obviously.

Under Settings, System, Regional Settings, Time you can adjust the time format. Change the time style to HH:mm:ss instead of h:mm:ss. The capital H's make it 24 hour time. You may have to hit UP arrow to see the capital H's. Pbar has no control over this.

When I close an app using 1.4 with either the X to the right of the app or using the X in upper left of display box it takes me to the app underneath that one..not the desktop so not sure why yours is doing that. I also tested this with X being set to minimize and on an "OK" button. Are you sure you are using version 1.4?

Under Settings, System, Clock & Alarms, More - I have it set to always show time in title bar. My time is not a different color than the wm6 theme. I am however using a black title bar..what color are you using?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] medkid:
you can tap and hold your stylus (or your finger) for a while at the right-up corner or at the ok/x symbol to call out the pop-up menu

:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LordDeath:
my time format had just changed after trying pBar 1.4. i can change it back, but i don't know where this came from. maybe pBar, maybe a bug in the pdaviet rom or both at once...

hello, i did some screenshots, maybe they help :confused:

here is my normal screen:

http://mitglied.lycos.de/ld86/Pics/Screen013.png

here with pBar:

http://mitglied.lycos.de/ld86/Pics/Screen014.png

here with the popup menu enabled and activated:

http://mitglied.lycos.de/ld86/Pics/Screen015.png

as you can see it is v1.4 :)

and here the settings:

http://mitglied.lycos.de/ld86/Pics/Screen016.png

http://mitglied.lycos.de/ld86/Pics/Screen017.png

there is nothing i did in the exceptions and favorites settings.

and about minimizing: i go to activesync and there is the X button on the upper right. then i go into menu --> status, and there is an OK button now.

when i click on it, i am back on the today screen, instead of on the normal active sync window :(

this is the same with for example word mobile: in the file list, i have a X button. within a document there is the OK button. when i press on it, i am back on the today screen, instead of the file list again.

but normal X buttons work well: i start activesync and then i open resco explorer without minimizing activesync. now if i press on the X button, i am back at activesync: the usual behavior i am used to.

for these screenshots i redownloaded pBar 1.4 from this thread (maybe there was a silent update..) and i copied the file back on my ppc (deleted earlier this day). this time yesterday's settings were recovered. so they have to be somewhere in the registry. i will try it without any previous settings if i manage to delete the old ones.

edit: i hope that my english doesn't make any throuble ^^ our school english here is not really the best one...

edit2: a clean config (deleted registry entries) does not change anything :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] famewolf:
Trying getting rid of "free memory" as a sub item so it only shows localtime like normal. Perhaps it doesn't have room for all of it. You can display memory and cpu in the "system information" portion of 1.4 now anyway....

I did the exact scenario you described with activesync and it takes me back to activesync NOT to the desktop...what happens instead of clicking "OK" if you click "DONE" which is on the left button of activesync when you are in Menu, Status? Mine takes me back to activesync..same as the ok button.

*and just so there is no confusion..I'm just a user who really likes the program....the author is not very fluent in english so has a hard time with some of these threads*

I uploaded a screenshot of my display modelled after yours after I went into "Regional Settings" under settings and set it to 24 hour as previously mentioned.....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LordDeath:
i tried that, but it is the same. the background has just a flat color. maybe it did not recognize wm6 on my device??

with the OK button on the upper right: back to desktop

with the "Done" softkey: back to activesync

with the "OK/Close" hardware button: back to activesync

:confused:

jup, that is just bad luck.

but luckily i can use the htc x-button app for this. it has lesser features thant pBar, and in the app-list it doesn't show every application's icon BUT it works :rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] famewolf:
See the screenshot I attached to previous message.. 24 hour works for me once I set it in regional settings....so I can't duplicate your errors..maybe someone else can.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LordDeath:
no problem. but thank you a lot for trying to help and giving suggestions. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
xbuttn died.ouch..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sydney1101:
Thank you for this nice piece of software.

With a German WM2003, I have the following problems:

Search ("Suchen") shows the wrong button in the upper right corner (displayed "X", but must be "OK") and could not closed. In the overview-window of your programm, the OK was shown correct and if I press the "OK" the programm was closed as expected.

My change of the date format will not be stored. That means: I modify the date formate and press "OK", then everything is right. Next time, when I open the settings, the date format was with english separators ("/"). I need "." for german date.

Greetings

Sydney :cool:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ixonix:
Hi nncuong,

Thanks for the effort for this piece of nice app. ;) I'm using it on my D810, WM6. So far quite stable, but encountered some problems. See if you have time to look into this. :)

Tap on [X] (selected close), It doesn't close the current app but minimize. If I Tap and move [X] (selected close), the current will then be closed.

After I added app to my Favorites list, it doesn't appear on the popup menu.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nncuong:
Correct time format

If you want to show Date / time or Popup-buton. The correct time format is one of:

- HH:mm:ss tt

- H:mm:ss tt

- hh:mm:ss tt

- h:mm:ss tt

- h:mm tM__ (__ is 2 spaces) 9:00 PM__

Because time format need one or more space at last.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nonpaq:
nncuong, another suggestion...

you included 4 possible ways to activate pBar (Tap button, Tap and Hold, Tap and Move, and the Popup button), but only three actions (Minimize, Close, and Menu). Why dont you add more actions? The best one I can think of would be "Go to Desktop" (i.e. Minimize All). That would be great action to set for the Tap and Move gesture.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mdes:
Favorites management

Hello from France ;)

Just my 2 pence:

In the Favorites options panel, it will be very usefull to have the following possibilities:

* Selecting manualy (thru all folders) a program, shortcut, text file,... so: any file.

* Changing an existing favorite.

* Giving a name to the favorite.

* Adding parameters to the favorites.

The "Add to Favorites" icon is not enough because:

* The title bar is not always the program name.

* It is not possible to add the "Remove programs" accessory.

* It is not possible to call OmapClock with a parameter to speed up the Omap processor.

In any case, I love pBar: small and easy :) pBar is replacing ResInfo, Launch and MagicButton.

Great program! Thanks a lot!

Michel.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mdes:
Icons displayed as folders

The favorites icons are most of the time not refreshed (same also after a soft reset), the icon is shown as the folder icon.

Any idea?

So, I proposed this enhancement: When click and hold on an icon, the name of the favorite could be displayed (e.g. replacing any line) while keeping the stylet/finger pressed.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rizkilz:
hi there...

can you create this pbar v1.4 with a black color background instead of white color background for me???

would appreciate if it can be done...

thanks...

email: rizkilz@singnet.com.sg
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Flintz:
This is basically a great app. But I have two little problems:

1.) the background of the clock is plain black, that doesn't look good at my WM6 when it has a gradient on the top from grey to black. I don't know though if this is due to SPB Mobile Shell I have installed and set up on black theme.

2.) Sometimes pBar doesn't recognize when I tab on the little triangle. Then I have to tab somewhere else on the screen and then mostly pBar works again.

Anyone also recognized this?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] J_Hutt:
I am still seeing this problem...anyone else?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 3dot:
nncuong,

Can you add a option to disable the tag[X] to close/minimize/popup menu function?

Because i use handyswither bar & pbar at the same time.Their tag [X] setting has conflict.If any one of them set minimize.The another one close function can't work.Always is minimize.

But if both set close.Then it would close two program at the same time although i only tag X button once.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 3dot:
One more thing

When pbar popup menu come out , the screen always switch to today screen.It would slow down ppc performance.And not fast switch at all especially when user have a lot of today plugin installed.

Can it be always stay in current screen when popup menu come out?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nielsassa:
Thanks for the program, i've been using the version 1.3 for few weeks and now 1.4 and it seems there's no problem so far with the version 1.4.

Program working very good on my XV6700 AKU 3.5.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ArcticCat:
is it possible to make it more finger friendly ?

very hard to make it popup with if finger if no display is set!

thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] franjorge:
Hi,

On my ASUS P535 I have the same problem with the BT icon and with pbar hiding volume and phone icons in taskbar. It also partly covers the taskbar clock.

Could anybody help?

Thanks,

Fran
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] story:
If you can make the BLUETOOTH and WIFI similar to Battery Status, then it's good. In Battery Status, when you click the BLUETOOTH or WIFI button, it will 2 options to select 1) turn on bluetooth/wifi 2) settings. This allow us to go into settings when necessary without going into COMM MANAGER.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Stevo.Mksr:
activate phone

hi bro. nice s/w you got... i've got a little problem, when i off the phone i can't got it back on...:confused: i had to reset my BA then i can activate it back using flightmode software

btw i'm using Helmi BA AKU 3.5 ROM Vanilla version.

cheers

steve
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] raymonds:
same here, i need to do a soft reset. but i don't need the flightmode software, the phone program automatically is on after the reset.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] xxza:
pBar seems better than HTC Button
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rob4711:
Yeah...and we should donate a bit money to the developer to support him. Is there an active paypal-account?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sady:
To nncuong:

Nice and useful program, thanks for it.

But two ideas:

- it would be intelligent to hide popup menu by the tap on popup button (only when it is just shown)

- I would like to have option to show/hide icons (buttons) in the first and last row of popup menu (e.g. I don't want to see my phone, wifi and bluetooth status)

have a nice day

S.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
seems? xbutton is just poor app, been and will be..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Black-Rose:
I've installed pBar 1.4 and I've to say for the couple minutes I worked with; EXCELLENT! When my girlfriend is at home, I'll install it on her device (HP Ipaq hx2490) too!

I agree!

I agree, here are some example's. As you can see; the Calendar doesn't work.:confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] xxza:
installed pbar, it runs smoothly, much better than xbutton:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JustGeorgeBoy:
I must say it's a fantastic ap and easy to use. Good Job!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] raymonds:
try to install as a favorite manually:

filename: calendar.lnk

path: /windows/appbuttons/calendar.lnk
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steveweb:
yeah... pbar is the greater task manager than I know.. I would like contribute with paypal, too... please, keep on the development :-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] forme:
Can some 1 confirm is it a bug on the P Bar ver 1.4 when i press the power off it just turn off the screen instead shut down the unit. Install on HTC 9100
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stratuus:
How do you uninstall the program?

The battery icon quadruples in size vertically when you open a window, any ideas?

Thanks in advance!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Santo_3:
How do i do?!

Hi guys! I am a newbie!I downloaded the 3 files in zip format and unzipped them onto my desktop...

now what? I mean where do put those files???

HELP!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] famewolf:
You do know you can turn off the battery level indicator if you don't want it?

Delete the shortcut for pbar in \Windows\Startup

Delete the .exe file for pbar in \Windows

Install another task manager.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] famewolf:
I'm pretty sure it comes with a readme that tells you all this but to install...copy the .exe to \windows and double click it to execute it...select "run at startup when you see that so it will create a shortcut in \windows\startup...configure it the way you want and exit. You should have turned off any previous task managers such as HTC button you were using before running Pbar so they won't conflict.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Santo_3:
Thx!One last thing...

Thx!Everything went well...it does not seem to make any error...or bugs so far as posted by other users.I have to say the files I downloaded did not come with any instructions..!But your help has solved that out!Thank you very much.

btw I did not do anything about the task manager that came with wm6...should i do something...if so..how do i turn i off?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] famewolf:
You will not have an issue with the wm6 "default" task manager..only if you had installed another one such as tman, htc x button etc......if one of those is installed you would go into it and uncheck the box to use it or uninstall it.

Glad it's working for you.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Santo_3:
thx Everything crystal clear and perfecly working!Thx a lot :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jamesolo:
"ok" button in Word Mobile does not work

Hi all, I saw this issue has been brought up twice in this thread, as early as 2006, but have never been addressed. To reproduce, just set "tap" to minimize. Then open a document in Word Mobile. Nothing will happen if the tap on the "ok" button, actually even long tap does not work. Can anybody help with this issue? Thanks a lot!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
sim manager has same issue..no workaround so far(for me).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iiiox:
FYI: pBar 1.3 works well^^
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] eaglesteve:
Mine works slightly differently.

While you're editing a document, tap and hold does close word application. Tap alone does not do anything

However, when word is displaying the directory of documents in the device, tap does minimise; and tap and hold does close it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] eaglesteve:
If you do not activate pBar, then in TinyStocks, pressing the close button of the subapplication returns you to the main application.

With pBar activate, then in TinyStocks, pressing the close button of the subapplication does not return you to the main application. It returns to the today screen.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] F12004:
Hello!

i tryed this program, very nice!

now i have only one problem, how can i associate the visualization of pBar task manager to a button of my Tytn?

If i go in setup button there are a lot of programs but no pBar (probably because it's not installed normally but only a exe copied)

So, any trick? i'd like to use it without tap and hold on the top right corner, use my PPC with no stilo.

Thanks to everyone and this great community!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mccune:
You can only assign programs to a button that are in your Start Menu. So the only thing you have to do is create a shortcut to pBar in your Start Menu. Now you can assign the program to a button ;)

It doesn't matter in what sub directory you put the shortcut. \Start \Windows\Start Menu\System\Utils\ is allowed for example :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] F12004:
Wonderful!

many thanks!

i just installed for the first time a non official rom (schap) and i'm trying to make a new Tynt :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] F12004:
Ah only a suggestion/request for the developer of pBar.

would be useful if possible to close the application when you scroll on it by direction pad: you open pbar by a button, scroll on the application (up/down), select the X on the right (right pad), push select and the application close, the program refresh the list with only the remain opened apps.

byebye
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mark_vip:
i want close programs as in HandySwitcher.. without stylus. how i can make it, using pBar?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] story:
when will you be releasing pBar 1.5?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Noonski:
For the lazy people, i went out and learned how to easily create an installer.

ftp://xda:xda@ftp.xda-developers.com/Uploads/Software/PhudongSoft_pBar_1.4_TZN_Installer.CAB

Installs Shortcut into programs and startup item.

Just let me know if ther's something wrong.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Black-Rose:
In that version I like to see a monitor of the thelepfone usage!

Like in Battery Status does. BS is made for OMAP processor (it's possible to use with others), your app isn't! But please keep it simple, not too complex!

For example: your battery monitor at this moment is simple but effective!

When you make a phone/gsm monitor, it isn't really nessesary to make it an plugin at the homescreen.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dopplet:
Option for "nothing"

Very nice program, been using magic button for a while now, and it's not quite integrating as nicely with WM5 and WM6 as I would like. pbar does, but I am having one really annoying problem. When using applications that replace the X with an OK or what have you, I end up activating the menu or minimizing or closing, when all I want is the OK to be pushed.

It'd be nice if the tap, tap and hold and tap and move could have an option for "Do nothing". I'd probably just configure the pop-up on the tap and hold and the rest to nothing.

Unless I'm missing another work around?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Black-Rose:
When I startup my device and I've selected the option 'Run on start up' in pBar I get the this pop-up in screen.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wgary:
First, congratulations on a very nice piece of work! This has knocked a few other programs off my Advantage!

Second, I didn't read all 56 pages of this, but I did find one small glitch. I am using a hardware button to pop up the window, and I can then use the joystick to select the item I want... which works fine except for favorites. I seem to need to actually tap a favorite for it to launch. Otherwise the window closes but nothing happens.

It would also be nice if in the list of active tasks, I could select the X button. Maybe that's overkill.

Sorry if this has already been reported...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sogarth:
There doesn't seem to be a working way to reorganize Favorites. Even though there are Up and Down buttons in the Favorites tab, they always seem to be grayed out. Is there something I'm missing...? I've found the registry entries in HKCU\Software\PhudongSoft\pBar (particular the entries in the Shortcut sub-key), I don't see anything there that would indicate any sort of an ordering. I suppose that since it doesn't look like the names aren't actually used for anything, I could just prefix them with numbers (so that I have 1 before the first item, 9 before the last). :p

Edit: Or rather, it seems to order by last-modified, so touch them all in reverse. A little bit more of a hassle.