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[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] dustinmcd:
Is this the right place?

It seems that anything is possible with HS++, so I'm hoping that someone can help me out. I'm whatever the opposite of a programmer is, so I have ideas and no means to implement them.

I've been looking for a while for a simple alarm clock GUI. I know some nice apps exist (such as GAlarm) but I prefer to run as few apps as possible. Also, I happen to have a 240x240 screen, making most of these apps less than ideal. I've attached a very skillful mock-up of what I have in mind.

What I'm picturing is an add-on to an existing HS++ theme that normally does not have the buttons visible. However, when the alarm goes off, these pop up and are linked to the appropriate command. It seems like a much simpler operation than carousing through the snooze menu at 6:15 AM, and this would take zero extra resources and zero today screen real estate during normal operation.

If this is something that would need be programmed as a today plug in and not doable in HS++ let me know. As I said, I'm not a programmer, but I'm about ready to bite the bullet and learn some code if I can't find something that suits my needs. Thanks in advance.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] ultravox:
Thx for sharing.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] :
podoba mi się Twój aktualny styl, druhu... mozesz zapodać tego tsk ?
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] dave.:
Hi all

i want to integrate throttletoday but it don't work. i tryed title=""ThrottleToday"" please help.

dave.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] salahnajm:
I think you got it right, but you must execute ThrottleTodayPlugin.exe manually!! (its in the throttlelauncher folder) then throttle should appear in homescreen ++.

were u (or anyone else) able to figure out how to put the sms/email text in homescreen ++ other than by using throttle launcher ??
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] dave.:
Yes i wrote a Throttleskin message2Reg_remote skin (only the button. Text can be read by reg tracker)

but i was not able to show it in the mail view.

It works by checking in start\settings\...\Today\Item.

What is wrong??

Maybe it is a problem cause thottle is using flash??

so i try like you wrote.

EDIT: Don´t work. i even can´t create a row by using the content menue
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] ikarus:
Version 1.06 - build 0345 - 09/28/2008:

- fixed: relative path for StartApp

important: there is a theme reloading issue/crahs with some themes. Unfortunatelly i'm abroad and away the next weeks, so even if this is a high prio issue.. i can't do anything the next weeks.

It would be a great help, if someone can find e.g. a class or a constellation which causes the crash.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] wanwarlock:
hi, dunno if this was asked before or what, i couldn't find a way to show my appointments on the today screen. i tried editing ancola's hs++ diamond theme but it didn't work...

thanks
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] utak3r:
The current appointment you can get with that:

<Item class="registry_tracker">
<label text="%s" left="-120" top="200" width="220" height="80" valign="top" fontfamily="calibri" format="wordbreak" align="center" bold="0" fontsize="18" color="C0C0C0"/>
<registry key_value="HKCU\System\State\Appointments\HomeScreen\Subject" />
</Item>
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] dave.:
Or you can use a todayplug.

e.g. TodayAgenda.

<Item class="tPlug" title=""TodayAgenda"" >
<label left="-210" height="55" top="134" />
</Item>

To use some else replace TodayAgenda with he name of the Plugin wich is displayed in Settings/Today/Items

Have fun

Dave.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] cybertech:
I got this Day/Date/Month/Year line as shown above. Couldn't remember taken from which

theme, however I wanted to get this whole line auto align center. As seen "September"

casue "2008" to push to near the end on the right. I can't give more space on the right as

when "Wednesday" fall, left side will be left with little space.

/Item>

<Item class="date" onhold="StartApp" path1="\Windows\BatteryStatus\work\shortcuts\Calendar.lnk">

<label text="dddd" bold="0" fontsize="+3" top="28" left="-255" align="right" />

</Item>

<Item class="date" onhold="StartApp" path1="\Windows\BatteryStatus\work\shortcuts\Calendar.lnk">

<label text="d MMMM yyyy" bold="0" fontsize="+3" top="28" left="10" align="left" />

</Item>

</View>

</Row>

Anyone can advise me how can I get this date line auto align Center regardless of

long or short Day/Date/Month?

Thanks
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] dave.:
I got this problem with build 346 too. but build 339 is ok!! i think it is a bug. Try build 339.

add

height="nn" width="nn"
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] daryelv:
Try putting it all on one Item instead of two and then use align="center"...

This will keep everything together. You may need to adjust the left="1" for your theme though.

Also, upgrades are good too, looks like you're still using BatteryStatus, check the newer version called HomeScreen PlusPlus.

Daryel
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] charlie71:
animated, flipping screens

Are there examples of some of the neat themes that have the flipping gaphics to download that we could then customize for our own use?
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] dave.:
add to the viewtag animate="9" and the view is fliping. you can use every theme to make your own. e.g. Kjell (my theme) search this forum. on chi-tai.info you can find a howto. have fun.

dave.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] arindom:
Many thanks for your suggestion. I also thought so but being a new user, I was not sure about it. When I installed an earlier version, it started working again.

I need another help here. I want to show a RSS scroller in the HomeScreen main window. I have InfoFeed installed with the RSS feeds. So I just want to show an one-liner at the top or the bottom of the screen. It will scroll through and will show the feeds one after another. Upon clicking on any item the relevant item will be shown in full details.

Considering that HomeScreen Plus Plus is such a wonderful program, I have high hope that this can be done.

Can someone help me in suggesting how this can be done and if possible with an example of the Code?

Thanks for the help.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] darota:
Clock ?

Is there any way to make a clock like this in bs or any TodayPlugin (first view)?
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] daryelv:
Check out twolf's Analog clock. It's a flash clock that's animated (you'll need to install a Flash Player and a Today Plugin to display it.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] daryelv:
Update to my theme

Update to my theme... I removed the analog clock on the front (it was just an experiment anyways) and replaced it with something more common. I've also changed a few things around...

Bottom menu bar no longer a slider, consolidated screens into other screens...

Screen 1: Clock, next appt, Message notification

Screen 2: Contacts, with 2 views, Personal and Business (click on icons to switch back and forth)

Screen 3: TodayAgenda

Screen 4: Applications, with 5 views, Internet, Games, GPS, Utilities, MSOffice

Screen 5: Weather, with 2 views (2 cities setup in BSWeather.xml)

Screen 6: Comm Manager (ToggleFlight, TogglePhone, ToggleBT, ToggleA2DP, Sound, ToggleWifi)

Requirements:

BAF's GPS Toggle installed on the "GPS" view inside of Applications.

TodayAgenda

MortScript (place TodayToggleUpdate.mscr in /Windows/Startup to update Next Appointments on first screen)

also... I had problems with version 0346 of HomeScreen PlusPlus, I'm currently using 0343 with no problems.

Cheers!
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] pantrax:
Just recently started customizing my diamond, and was just out of myself when i found secondtoday combined with these themes. I ran into some problems when it came to trying Clock Theme by nostramo. I ran the included .cab file and figured it would install itself to the default location and you'd only have to chose the theme from the dropdown menu under advanced. Still, the only one showing is default - and after a search for .xml files i could not identify any new ones.

My question is, what am i missing?
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] utak3r:
Try 347 - it's operational, again :)
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] jraggio:
Compatability Questions

Please forgive the double post. I originally started a new thread at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=2721858&posted=1#post2721858 , but was asked to move my question here.

Mods can please close the thread above ^^^^

I've been searching for days, and have read tons of stuff here over the past few days. Thanks to all the previous posters and those that can answer my questions below. I'm looking to replace HTC home on my XV6800 and have tried quite a few things. I won't bore you with the list or my thoughts on each, but I've basically settled on Homescreen ++ on top (clock, indicators, BT toggle) with UL on the bottom with tabs to hold spb diary, weather panel, app shortcuts, and fcontacts.

I am using Homescreen ++ UI 1.06.345 RC 2. Should all the the themes on this board work with this version? I realize they all refer to Battery Status, but should they work with this newer version, no? Is HS++ backward compatible with older themes? I find that most of the themes that I've tried do not work. Most buttons don't do what they should and the screens don't transition to other panels as shown in the screen shots. I often find that when I tap a clock that the clock slides out and comes back in instead of going to the time setting page etc. The same happens with some other rows.

I understand that some of the app shortcuts won't work as I don't have all of the apps installed, but some of the ones I do have also don't work. I find it hard to believe that people have uploaded faulty themes as it's clear that a lot of work and pride goes into these things. I have to feel there is something I'm doing wrong.

What's the best way to debug these skins?

Would most of you recommend using UL to rotate and do tabs instead of trying to do all of that in HS++ itself? To me it looks like setting up the app shortcuts is easier in the UL.

For the record I am using the official Verizon ROM update, but I hope that does not make a difference.

Thanks,

John
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] ikarus:
you should update to the latest build 0347 (or use AppToDate to do that). Your build has some bugs for selecting of Items.

HS++UI is at most (almost 99%) backward-compatible to older themes. They work, but sometimes they could work better with the newer enhancements/advancements. It's just some performance things or corrections after a feature has been introduced, but the main concepts has not changed.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] arindom:
Many thanks. 347 is working for me now. Now clicking on launcher icon is invoking the relevant program.

For the other one "I need another help here. I want to show a RSS scroller in the HomeScreen main window. I have InfoFeed installed with the RSS feeds. So I just want to show an one-liner at the top or the bottom of the screen. It will scroll through and will show the feeds one after another. Upon clicking on any item the relevant item will be shown in full details. " - I will wait for someone to respond.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] egoist6:
SOLVED: want to replace ultimatelaunch with BS (sorry HomeScreen ++)

i have seen that homescreen has been heavily developed further.

yes, i have read the manual and this thread, but i am not certain, as to whether the following can be achieved:

basically it is a replacement of ultimatelaunch where i currently use the cube-functionality combined with a new taskbar.

details:

the new taskbar should be "fixed", i.e. when sliding the cube, the taskbar is not moving. for overwriting the task bar i still have to use vjtoggletoday i guess.

below the taskbar, there is one area which uses the rest of the available screen space to launch applications from.

i will need three of such areas which i want to access by left/right gestures (ideally with cube-animation, but this is not really important)

i have read that it is possible somehow, but there was a limitation i think, as it is working only with applicationlauncher. basically those area contain apps to launch but combined with registry key information and corresponding changes of icons.

my 2 questions are:

is this possible to achieve (especially with regards to applauncher / regkey combination within a cube or slide view

could somebody please provide my with a rough structure (just the 4 most important xml-tags?

e.g. for creating the fix taskbar the corresponding xml-tag is ...

to define the 3 different cube-areas it has to be enclosed by xml-tag ...

that would be great.

i am currently working on an iphone theme. right now i am using a UL + rltoday combination, but i want to port it to homescreen ++

when finished, i will post it here.

thanks for your assistance!

EDIT:

problem solved. for those of you who are interested in:

<Row animate="9">

<View >
[some content here]
</View>

<View >
[some other content here]
</View>
</Row>

if you make a slide-gesture on the first view, it slides to the 2nd view like we already know from cubes.

that's great! no need for ultimatelaunch anymore!

thanks Chi-Tai! very good improvement for hh++ to keep pace with state-of-the-art
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] egoist6:
another quick question regarding battery_ac_icon :

is it possible to replace the icons by text (e.g. charging...)
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] utak3r:
What taskbar, what cube-areas?.... what are you talking about? :cool:

Are you sure you're talking about HS++?....
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] egoist6:
definitely!

or could you explain what else the window/row/view attribute "animate" stands for?:cool:

this is from homescreen ++ manual:

ANIMATE
Add 100 to the animation-value for dynamically adapting left / right animation, e.g. animate=”101″ means that if the next View is left from the current one, then animation 1 will be used. If the next View is right from the current one, then animation 2 will be used.
The 100-option can be used for any of the animation with the option for left or right.

0 = no animation for switching Views.
1 = (default) left slide in animation.
2 = right slide in animation.
3 = top down slide in animation.
4 = bottom up slide in animation.
5 = left page flip animation
6 = right page flip animation
9 = left in cube
10 = right in cube
14 = zoom in
15 = zoom in with left leave
16 = zoom in with right leave
20 = alpha blend in
21 = alpha blend in with left leave
22 = alpha blend in with right leave

or check directly here:

http://www.chi-tai.info/cs_batterystatus_xda_neo_wm5_ext_cust_im_cs.htm#animate

NEARLY SOLVED. please see my previous post.

BUT, anybody knows why the app devicelock (see code) appears in the middle of the screen (vertical) and 40px left instead of at position 0,0?

<!-- TASKBAR -->
<Row name="Taskbar" seperator="0" rowtoggle="0" >
<View height="20" multi="0" absolute="3" adaptwidth="0" >

<Item class="registry_tracker" ontap="TogglePhone">
<image src="s-%d.png" left="0" top="0" resize="200" />
<registry key_value="HKLM\System\State\Phone\Signal Strength" />
</Item>

<Item type="value" class="mobile_operator" absolute="0" ontap="TogglePhone" >
<label align="left" left="0" top="0" color="555555" bold="0" valign="bottom" width="150"/>
</Item>

<Item class="clock">
<label align="center" left="180" text="HH':'mm" bold="0" color="555555" valign="bottom" />
</Item>

<Item type="value" class="battery_meter" >
<label align="right" left="420" top="0" bold="0" color="555555" width="60" valign="bottom" />
</Item>

</View>
</Row>

<!-- CUBE -->
<Row name="Cube" seperator="0" rowtoggle="0" animate="109" absolute="3" itemselect="1" >

<!-- MAIN -->
<View height="570" multi="0" slide="0" adaptwidth="0" >

<Item class="space" ontap="DeviceLock">
<image src="off.png" left="0" top="0" />
</Item>

<Item class="space" ontap="StartApp" path="folderview.exe">
<image src="progs.png" left="19" />
</Item>

</View>
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] jraggio:
Thanks Ikarus for the very prompt reply. I didn't realize that you were updating this app so often. That is more obvious to me now that I've read a lot more of the threads here. I updated and now the skins are working, with the exception of my not having some apps they refer to. I am very impressed with this app and will donate very soon once I get my home screen working.

Would you all generally agree that I don't actually need UltimateLaunch to create just about any setup? It seems like I'd save some hassle and memory if I use HPP alone. I guess UL might make config easier as I could use a GUI to edit shortcuts, but a little XML never killed anyone.

Thansk to Ikarus for HPP and the others for the various skins. Now I just need to pick one and maybe tweak it a little.

I have a few more questions:

- is there a way to debug skins? Can I easily find out what actions failed? For example clicking a button sometimes does nothing, but it's not clear what it was trying to do.

- Are there any known memory issues or leaks with HPP? Or tools it uses? One of the reasons I wanted to get rid of HTC home was the memory problems.

- Can skins be placed entirely on SD card? are the dependent files loaded using relative path?

- Can a different background image be used for different pages in a skin?

- Able to timeout and return to main screen if the skin has multiple pages automatically after a delay?

Thanks,

John
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] wanwarlock:
hi guys,

i was playing with the options of HS++ and i think i clicked on minimize rows or something & now HS++ is not on my today screen anymore so can't get access to the options page. how do i get it back? i even uninstalled/reinstalled but the same happens.

thanks
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] dave.:
if you want an absolute positioning, you must add the attribute absolute=”3″ to the view-tag.

Hope this solves.

start/settings/today/items

you can mark it and click options so you get to the options Page.

Have fun

dave.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] gerald20000:
I am using Daryel theme.

1. At my front screen, i cannot get it to show my "Next Appointment". What is wrong?

2. For my weather, i have updated it to my country but i only can get the latest of the time i update it. I cant get it to show for the next few days. What is wrong?
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] wanwarlock:
dave. somehow i can't get the options page as you mentioned. tried it before as well. but other today stuff options can be accessed like resco today. strange....
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] daryelv:
The Next Appointment requires a MortScript to set the date/time in the Registry to put on the appointment. There should be a TodayToggleUpdate.mscr which will do this.

The Weather I have included in the theme is BSWeather, I don't know why it wouldn't work for your country. Perhaps you could past the contents of your BSWeather.xml file here.

Thanks,

Daryel
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] egoist6:
dave. thanks. forgotten that. but that solved the problem just a little bit as the icon still appeared in the middle (vertical) but now on position 0 (horizontal).

found out that absolute positioning by left="0" top="0" is not working properly

left="1" top="1" works however.

strange.

ANOTHER QUESTION regarding PHONE SIGNAL

on my diamond the class phone_signal is not working at all. that's why i am using the registry_tracker class for parsing HKLM\System\State\Phone\Signal Strength.

however, when i switch off the phone, it still shows the last reception status.

this is because wm does not set the value to 0. there is a different registry key for the phone being on or off. but that key does not contain the signal strength.

anybody has a workaround how to display either the signal strength when phone is on or a different icon when phone is off?

what is the registry key to see if the phone is on or off

i have found HKLM\System\State\Phone\radio ready state, but i am not sure.

thanks
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] gerald20000:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<BSWeather>
<City>
<Name>Kuching</Name>
<Code>MYXX0011</Code>
<Unit>english</Unit>
</City>
<City>
<Name>Kuala Lumpur</Name>
<Code>MYXX0008</Code>
<Unit>english</Unit>
</City>

<Error>Show</Error>
<Proxy>0</Proxy>
<Images>\Program Files\HomeScreen PlusPlus\TodayToggle\weather</Images>
</BSWeather>

These are my codes. I want to manual update it so i've deleted the update. Anything wrong?
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] dave.:
Wich build do you use?

There are some issues 343 til 346. 347 work fine.

ore rename your theme to default and soft reset your device.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] wanwarlock:
it's ok, i've used a new rom & everything is all ok!! currently using most recent build. thanks. will remember this for next time
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] jraggio:
Possible to show counts for individual mail accounts??

I'd like to be able to show counts for my yahoo and work e-mail individually. Can this be done? Right now I have one indicator for total e-mail, but I'd like to break them down. There was a theme by DAG that seemed to do this, but it relied on flexmail registry values.

As an aside, I don't use flexmail. I actually tried it, but it didn't offer much above the regular mail client. I was hunting a while back for a client that would allow me to read mail by grouping threads, but flex didn't do it. Does anyone know of one that does?
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] egoist6:
yes, it is possible.

check these two registry settings:

HKCU\System\State\Messages\sync\Unread\Count
HKCU\System\State\Messages\OtherEmail\Unread\Count
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] jraggio:
Thanks ego. I was actually going to post this morning to answer my own question. I figured this out last night after poking around the registry. I have it opening the corresponding mailbox and has the ability to dial my voicemail including entering password for voicemail. I changed the number below to hide my real number and passcode:

1234567890pp#11111#

<!-- outlook E-mail -->
<Item absolute="1" class="registry_tracker" ontap="InboxMail">
<image src="messages\email%d.png" left="13" top="165" />
<label text="%d" suppress0="1" fontfamily="Arial narrow" fontsize="11" bold="1" left="-17" top="59" width="15" align="center">
<registry key_value="HKCU\System\State\Messages\sync\Unread\Count" />
</label>
</Item>
<!-- SMS -->
<Item class="registry_tracker" ontap="InboxSms">
<image src="messages\SMS%d.png" left="15" top="165" />
<label text="%d" suppress0="1" fontfamily="Arial narrow" fontsize="11" bold="1" left="-17" top="59" width="15" align="center">
<registry key_value="HKCU\System\State\Messages\sms\Unread\Count" />
</label>
</Item>
<!-- vOICEMAIL -->
<Item class="registry_tracker" ontap="StartApp" path="BSTools\BSCall.exe :: 1234567890pp#11111#">
<image src="messages\Voice%d.png" left="13" top="165" />
<label text="%d" suppress0="1" fontfamily="Arial narrow" fontsize="11" bold="1" left="-17" top="59" width="15" align="center">
<registry key_value="HKCU\System\State\Messages\vmail\Total\Unread\Count" />
</label>
</Item>
<!-- Missed Calls -->
<Item class="registry_tracker" ontap="PhoneMissedCalls">
<image src="messages\missed%d.png" left="13" top="165" />
<label text="%d" suppress0="1" fontfamily="Arial narrow" fontsize="11" bold="1" left="-17" top="59" width="15" align="center">
<registry key_value="HKCU\System\State\Phone\Missed Call Count" />
</label>
</Item>
<!-- yahoo E-mail -->
<Item class="registry_tracker" ontap="StartApp" path="\Windows\tmail.exe ::-service "Yahoo!" -open "inbox"">
<image src="messages\email%d.png" left="13" top="165" />
<label text="%d" suppress0="1" fontfamily="Arial narrow" fontsize="11" bold="1" left="-24" top="59" width="15" align="center">
<registry key_value="HKCU\System\State\Messages\OtherEmail\Unread\Count" />
</label>
</Item>

Thanks,

John