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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mort:
In b8 some bugs in the Today plugin should be fixed
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mort:
Yet another update, now also allows to remove title and menu bars (display settings).

Still struggling with the Today plugin, though. It works perfect on my device and in the emulator (WM5 and WM6), but on some devices it just doesn't appear after a soft reset - but it works fine after entering the today items configuration... If anybody has a clue how this is possible, please tell me...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Vukile:
I stopped having the problem when I stored the icons on my device in My Documents.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jtgbdr:
Hello Vukile,

How did you change the buttons on the HTC Home? I installed the new version of Mortbuttons and I am able to change the buttons on the Today Plugin, but still I don't understand how I can change them on the HTC Home.

Thanks and regards,

JTGBDR
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Vukile:
:)

I suppose if youve got the today plugin you dont need to put it on HTC Home:). That kind of change (program icon) happens at a programming level. Id like to see different transitions like they use in the Cube (barrell,fade in/out)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jtgbdr:
Vukile, that's right. I am using now the today plugin and I am very happy with this software.

Mort, that's really a great application! Thank you!

JTGBDR
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jtgbdr:
Hi Vukile,

I had the same problem after trying different settings with Schaps Advanced Config tool or Kaiser Tweaks. The solution was, to disable the VOIP-today plugin. Maybe this helps you, too.

Regards,

JTGBDR
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Vukile:
Store you images on My Documents and the problem stops.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] closet410:
having major problems setting this up. no idea what i am doing. i am using the htc plugin but i cant get the buttons to show beneath it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mr_deimos:
After spending some time to configure it, this app is really great, Mort. Thanks a lot for it :)

I'd just have two feature requests:

First - is there any chance of adding a semi-transparent menu background besides the fully transparent one? Having a png image with alpha chanel would be the best, but i'd be satisfied with a single fill color + transparency as well, something like:

BackCol = 111111
BackAlpha = A0

Or a color in RGBA format:

BackCol = 111111A0

And the second one - it would be nice to have some kind of button press confirmation. Now when i click a button linked to some large or simply slow-loading menu (like connections settings) i don't know if i pressed the button and the menu is loading, or maybe the button press didn't get registered and i have to press one more time. The problem with this is that when i acttually pressed the button and try pressing it again, the second press will be passed to loaded menu, resulting in unintentional program run.

I see two ways of solving this: make a new button graphics besides SelImg and DefImg - maybe DownImg of PressImg or something like that, and when the button is pressed change its graphics to this image, or a second way, compatibile with current skins - don't highlight any button with SelImg at menu open, and when the button is pressed, change its graphics to SelImg. And for d-pad navigation, show the selection when one of d-pad directional buttons is pressed (like the desktop windows explorer does).

And a little bug i noticed - setting horizontal gestures to next/previous menu doesn't seem to work - instead of taking me to the next menu, i'm taken to an empty one (with "set entries", "general settings" and "exit" buttons).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Vukile:
Maybe the long press feature from the task manager,with the flashing button thing, would solve that if it were optional in the normal menus. Some confirmation sounds arent a bad idea either. I have my MBRunner configured to the FTouchflo down-up gesture, my menus configured to big buttons (it actually makes for quicker scrolling).:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mr_deimos:
Yeah, i use it with ftouchflo too - down/up gesture launches the first main menu, and there i have my most often used apps plus three buttons linked to submenus :)

Now when you mentioned confirmation sounds, i got another idea - using a short vibration as press confirmation - i used to have a mortscript that would execute an action depending on active app bound to ftouchflo left/right gestrues, and i used a short vibration to confirm that the mortscript has executed the action and . Values from Vibrate(35) to Vibrate(50) worked really great.

Seeing such a feature in mortButtons as well would be awesome :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] miljbee:
Mort,

I use MortButtons everyday, I Think it's the most used app on my X51V.

Recently, I installed SPB MobileShell 2 to see what it looks like. I didn't keep it because I find mortButtons more usefull (even if it has less features).

But in SPB MS, there is something i found really useful, it's the taskbar gesture : you slide your finger down from the taskbar, and it displays the 3 screens of the app which you can choose from. I am sure you have tested it.

I think that your knowledge and skills are so great that you could easely devellop solmething like this for mortbuttons.

I Think it could be really great if we could select a menu by slidding our finger down from the taskbar, and this way, we could free a hardware button.

Thanks again for all your amazing appz.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] utak3r:
Yeah, I second that :) it'd be really nice - a full transparent background is eye-candy, but not so practical.

That one would be the best (besides PNG alpha channel, of course ;) ).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Vukile:
Could you pass on the MortScript please,I have some nice system sounds I got off some Wisbar themes a while back. A sound to activate the menu,vibrate to confirm selection. Perfect.:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Vukile:
Btw, Friends of Mort (FOM):)dont forget to nominate the program(s) for the awards.Forgive the double spacing, this Opera 9.4 beta is buggy.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mr_deimos:
I already posted a nomination request for MortButtons a while ago (other Mort's apps are already nominated) :)

It was a simple script with some conditions - one condition to check if each of supported programs is active. An example can be found here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2101806&postcount=2
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] geezer78:
Site offline?

Hi there Mort,

after reading through this thread i'm very interested in giving this app a spin... but i can't connect to your site, i keep getting network connection errors!

everything OK there?

Gijs
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mr_deimos:
That's odd - works for me:

http://www.sto-helit.de/index.php?module=download&entry=mortbuttons&action=list

By the way, you can always use this tool to check if a site is down of if it's just you having connection problems:

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tmz:
Thanks this app. works great.... :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mort:
Well, the ISP has some troubles every now and again... Might be you got a bad moment...

Regarding the program:

I don't plan any "Touch" like invokation. It's not as easy as it might seem. MS2 replaces the task bar, though not as obvious as e.g. WisBar. This allows to capture the finger gestures starting there. But it's also a bit troublesome if other similar tools are used, because all other taps must be "forwarded" to the correct other window. So I think it's better to use FTouchFlo or configure WisBar to launch a MortButtons menu instead of the start menu. I also wanted to try to allow assigning a MortButtons menu to the Windows key (if it exists on the device) in an upcoming beta, but I'm not sure whether it works as indented...

Being at the beta: I found a small bug, and I want to add better support for new screen formats and multiline labels in the today plugin. After that, I think it's time for a new release... (For that, I target somewhen end of may / start of june...)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] miljbee:
Mort,

There is something else that would be really usefull for MortButtons. It's a complete Backup/Restore function like the one of MortPlayer. EveryTime i Hard Reset, I need to reconfigure manually MortButtons. I Have already Tried to Backup Various things without success on restore !
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mort:
Hm, will have to think about where to implement that feature in the UI...

So far I didn't want to move MortButtons' settings to MortSetup like in MortPlayer.

The menus can be backed up quite easy, just copy the *.mbi files.

The other settings are in the registry in HKCU\Software\Mort\MortButtons.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mikgangal:
delete menu

hi, i couldn't find answer for my q anywhere on the forum..so here it goes..

when i try deleting one of the menus/buttons from the setup menu..well it always comes back. if i leave one of the menus blank..it gets stuck and doesn't wanna switch back to the other menus unless i add some apps.

i only need 2 menus so i was wondering if there's a method of getting rid of the other 3 that come preinstalled.

tnx
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tito12:
Hi mikgangal

Press Setup menu>>Edit menu>> highlight in the list "MortButton (1 or 2 or 3....)" press Menu settings and uncheck " Show in today plugin "
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] utak3r:
Blutaker

Some simple skin :) It has transparent buttons, quite dark, so looking good on various wallpapers :)

Thanks to mr_deimos for his comments on this and to mobi for the themes name ;)

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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ruebyi:
Nice! Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eyecrispy:
Can someone tell me how to remove the icon titles from the buttons on the today plugin? I don't like that it says Button 1,2,3,4,5 under each icon. I also dont' want it to have any other caption.

I just loaded this on my device and it's awesome! I'm going to ditch MobileShell2. This is way better! Thanks, Mort!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tito12:
@ eyecrispy

In Today, long press on the icons will show a menu, select or deselect " Show labels"

If you want to change labels enter setup>>> edit menu >>>highlight Mortbutton 1>>> press Menu settings and in Window title box type a new name . Continue same procedure for Mortbutton 2 etc...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ruebyi:
One more Question for skinning:

Is there a way to have bigger images AND lables? or only Icons/Images in 32X32

Ever I set a Image entry in Skin.ini I loose my lables:(

ruebyi
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mort:
The label is only removed if the image overlaps the label area.

Hm, come to think about it, maybe it would be better to show the label on top of the image... I guess there was I reason I didn't do it that way, but I just don't remember it. Maybe because e.g. a white label on top on a white/very bright image is a bit hard to read.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Arto:
mortbuttons

Hello mort,

I use mortbutton for months ago and I have a question. think you make a futur release? I would like new features like list scrollable with finger and more buttons (mortbuttons:p) with customizable skins...for example

Thx and long life at mortbuttons!!;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ruebyi:
Nice feature request!

Perhaps it's possible to make all Menus full customizeable, but only a few selected are loaded on startup, so the user can decide wich menu is important and wich not!

Scrollable Menus would be also nice, but the most important thing is to keep it fast, or to make it even faster with using less ram :p

ruebyi
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mort:
Which lists? For the few real lists uses in MB (e.g. apps to hide, list of menus), it's not worth the efford and additional memory usage.

In MortButton menus, there's the trouble with the multiple columns. While it's still quite easy for row-wise skins (like almost all tiled skins), where scrolling would move by e.g. 3 entries, it's really hard for column-wise skins (e.g. the Wide... skins in landscape mode, or SmallMenu), where either all entries would be "re-shuffled" (1 4 / 2 5 / 3 6 would scroll down to 3 6 / 4 7 / 5 8) or there'd be a logical break in the middle (1 4 / 2 5 / 3 6 would scroll down to 2 5 / 3 6 / 7 10).

Additionally, it'd use up quite some CPU to enable a soft scrolling of the menu items with a fixed background.

That's why there's only page-wise scrolling.

Huh? You can add as many own menus as you want to (and the memory allows...).

Skin settings for submenus are already available in a development test version.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Arto:
I understand it's not possible to make a scrollable menu.

But for the skins I don't understand very well...me for example, when I create a new mortbutton menu, the menu settings is not available and I would like to customize this new menu...

And maybe another request I would do ; to have a launch animation when the item is selected and when the mortbutton menu launch too. :rolleyes: It would be fantastic!

(Sorry for my horrible english...I'm french)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Arto:
Blacklisttr

Here is a new skin "Big icon list style" with transparency.

Enjoy!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] utak3r:
Mort, here's a polish language for MB :D Tested with a current beta.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] abjeroen:
privacy issue, sorry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mort:
Try the new beta...

That's not possible. MortButtons doesn't have influence to any other applications.

That's possible for own links, when coordinates are appended to the parameter. (It's done that way for MortButton's today plugin, for example)

For the "default links", I don't do an animation because I wouldn't know where to start it. It would look weird if you launch a MortButtons menu with WBA and it zooms out from the middle of the screen. And sometimes a start animation is received as a waste of time, too...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] salahnajm:
Whenever I start the mortbotton menu the first box is already selected and in red (or whatever other color), anyway to disable this and have all the icons look the same when the menu is activated?

BTW excellent software!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] utak3r:
Well, it's good for DPad navigation :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mort:
That's why it is that way.

However, I think about letting the first entry unselected if the "disable timeout for first entry" option is checked, i.e. making it to an "select first entry" option.

When a button is pressed, the first (left, down, app button) or last (right, up) entry will be selected.

This would also bring the advantage that the first entry isn't so troublesome for app button handling. Currently, either it might start accidentally (when the timeout on startup isn't disabled) or you've got to iterate over all entries until it's finally selected again. When the first entry isn't preselected, it would become selected with the app button press, which also starts the timeout.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mort:
- Menu icons from the menu settings will be used as default in own menus, too

- Menu icons for sub menus

- Pressing an application button almost always activates the timeout. Exceptions: context menu and settings

- Empty directories don't cause the entry dialog to show up

- Adding the gererated "back" entry is unified. I.e., it's also done for e.g. main menus which are invoked as sub menu

- The first entry isn't selected by default. When pressing a DPad or application button, the first resp. last entry is selected, whereby paging entries are skipped. The option "No timeout for first entry" is replaced with "Don't preselect first entry".

- some smaller bugfixes
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] brunoisa10:
Hi Mort

beautiful application

can you make a dll to be able to have Mort button in our Today's Plugin ?

If so I'll use Mort Button as a launcher on my Today
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mort:
Not as a menu. MortButton's layout and button handling wouldn't work fine as plugin.

But there's a small plugin that allows you to launch the MortButton main menus. You just need to activate it in the Today Items settings... If and how a menu is shown is set in the menu settings, some other options (like whether labels should be shown) are available in the context menu (tap&hold in the plugin).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Svein10:
Today plug in

Hi. I am just trying this app, and it looks very good, but I cannot find the today plug in.... anyone who knows how to fix it, please?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mort:
The Today plugin is included in the current betas, V2.5 doesn't have one. By default, it's disabled, so you have to check it in the settings (Start - Settings - Today - Items).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Svein10:
Thank you Mort for your quick reply. Then I will install the 2.51b11 version, and try that!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pisca:
Great application, I've just started with V 2.5, made all my configurations, and now You came with another version, thanks

One question, if I install the new Beta, that should be on top of the previous one, keeping all my configurations, or should I remove the previous one ? And reconfigure again ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tmz:
mort , will this app. make shortcuts to contacts ? Thanks T M Z
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ruebyi:
I'm not Mort, but YES it is possible to mak a link to a contact!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Arto:
Thanx Mort for the new beta ! I'm very happy to try it:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mort:
It should update fine if you choose to keep the settings when the old version is removed (since WM5, this is done automatically by the system, so it doesn't matter if you do it manually or if it's done during update). However, it's always a good idea to save all the *.mbi files (in MortButtons directory and its Submenus subdirectory) to avoid having to configure all menus again, if something goes wrong. The other settings are usually restored quite fast...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mort:
Only with the current beta, V2.5 doesn't have this feature (iirc).

MortButtons offers a lot of variations. You can select single contacts and choose whether they're called, a new SMS/eMail message is opened, or shown in WM's contact view (the latter requires at least WM5). You can include a submenu with all categories, or single categories, and if you e.g. choose to use them for calling, MB will even suppress the contacts without phone numbers. Just check it out...

And the caller images are used, too, of course.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mr_deimos:
Thanks for the new version.

Just a quich question though: Is there a way of hiding labels on buttons? If there isn't, could you consider adding such an option in button settings (where you assign an icon and action to it)?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mort:
Not generally.

One could create a skin where the label is outside of the visible area or too small to be visible (e.g. 1x1 dimensions).

For own menus (that is, not generated ones like contacts, tasks, or directory contents) you can simply set an empty label for each entry. Just remove the label text (right of the icon).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tmz:
I have it now ,This is so sweeeeeeeet. Thanks so much T M Z
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] arovaris:
Excelent app. Using with ftouchflo!!!! Much better than cubes...only ~650kb memory!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] utak3r:
You should put MB to TF scrolling exceptions, as it has its own gestures and slidings...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mort:
Depends... ;)

Of course, starting MB with (F)TouchFlo(SL) is a nice way. While MB's running, it might be useful to keep some gestures, too, esp. the corners or FTouchFloSL's extended gestures. And if you use one one or two menus, it might even be handy to let the other gestures be handled by it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] atomic2mod:
Today Icon Button Size

Hi,

My Today Icons for the MBs are really tiny. (For some reason, I also don't get the labels to show.)

Is there a way to make them bigger?

Inside the Mort Pages, the same icons show up nice and big. Just not on my today screen.

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mort:
Sorry, the today plugin only supports the default icon sizes (32x32/16x16 resp. 64x64/32x32 on VGA) - like most skins do, too, btw. Otherwise there'd be problems with the available space.

The labels can be activated in the popup menu (tap&hold on the plugin).

The Today plugin is just meant as a lightwight helper, for advanced needs there are so many other Today launchers like rlToday, UltimateLaunch, SPB PP, ...

And now to something completely different:

A hint to all skin makers: I plan to support the DefBackCol and SelBackCol even if there is an image given, to allow a plain background for (semi-) transparent images. If your skin contains those lines even though it uses images that should be transparent to the background, please remove the lines or set the color to "transparent".
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mort:
- Timeout settings for added menus

- More options for button handling

- Different behaviour when leaving the screen border with direction keys

- Improved "inheritance" of menu settings - everything that is set to "(Default)" resp. greyed checkbox will keep the value of the previous menu, even for main menus invoked as submenus

- Own colors/fonts for each menu (only when a skin is given in menu settings; can be reached with the "..." right of the skin selection)

- Backgound colors of menu entries in the skin will also be used if images are given (remove DefBackCol/SelBackCol or set them to "transparent" if this effect is not desired)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mort:
A little interim test update, the ZIP contains only the PPC exe to be copied over a current installation (latest beta recommendet).

It contains some minor bugfixes (application button handling, missing window titles for preloaded main menus, ...) and the animations should be smoother.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Noonski:
Really don't understand how this thread is so short.

Mort Buttons is great.

Even Greater when cooked, you can extend so much functionality.

Even emulate Schapps new Rom interface.

Haven't made an OEM package of this yet. but have been playing around and it feels veru fast and lightweigt. Even if it is to just change the Camera Shortcut button (Do you want to start Camera or VideoCamera)

Like your Mort buttons seems you were ahead of your time ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eyecrispy:
agreed! this app is fantastic. thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ruebyi:
For me it's the best cube ever!

I made me a "new-Menu" ah Taskmanager and a Cube! It's fantastic!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tmz:
Me to , no need for a cude with this, I replaced alot of thing with this APP.

Thanks T M Z
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Noonski:
The HTCHome itself already allows for you to set a graphic to a button anyway.