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[Touch GSM General] netzcoyote:
@bereda

Saw your skin on the rlToday forum. Nice job!

- It sets the topbar's height to o, so it's literally gone, which does cause some problems.

Mainly it's the missing ok/close button. I have mapped the green hardware key to that function now, and it seems to work for most apps. Some don't want to close, they just get minimized, even though I set the OS to close apps. So pushing the clock, which is always there in my skin, brings up a task manager now, and I use that to close apps occasionally.

In one side of UL, I have a button that starts quickmenu, so that I can access the start menu with out the stat button, but eventually i want to have my buttons set up to control the device without the topbar.

It boils down to finding out what parts of the app you need and how often.

- I had an idea for an app recently that could be matched to a button: It should just be a comman line app that takes one or more application paths as arguments, and on execution shows a popup for , say, 3 seconds with buttons to push in order to launch either app. If you push either one, it launches that app and closes that app, if you chose neither, it just closes itself.

Then I could set up links to launch that app with arguments to logically grouped apps and set some UL buttons to that app.

Say have a button that launches a Taskmanager and a CloseAll application, or one that launches guitar tuner and metronome.

That would save some serious "real estate" and be easily customizable.

I looked into WM6 programming, but it's quite a hassle. In order to do such a popup app, you probably have to write native code, but I only have experience in java. My natural choice was managed code in C#, therefore, but even looking at the class library reference makes you throw up.

Guess I have to look into some c++ or c.

- I think you messed up the order of the layers in one of your photodialer buttons, the lady on the top left has a top highlight :)

- Also, your bottom panel is cut off, probably due your showing the topbar, if you set UltimateLauncher to a smaller fixed plugin height, everything should be fine. I'd say it's about 25px to big.

- I' shying away from Wisbar because of size and memory usage, but I may be in the wrong here. I'll check it out.

Cheers,

nc
[Touch GSM General] pelleman:
Upsidedown Font

Thanks for you beautiful rltoday skin, but it looks better with the font you are using.

Where can I get the Upsidedown font that you are using in that NC3-skin?

Later

Pelleman
[Touch GSM General] Focaldesign:
Here's my new one.

Made from my original Focaldesign skin.

Now top is rlToday, middle and bottom are Ultimate Launcher (anyone who has an activation code? The 'not activated' message appears very fast and is annoying...)

First screen is empty (when you tab the active dock icon again, it hides the middle part).

First is contacts tab with link to dialpad/PocketCM/Mailbox (blue icon is when touched)

second shows today plugin CalendarPlus,

third shows TaskPlus plugin,

fourth shows most used apps (explorer, Opera, CommManager, Camera, HTC Album, S2US)
[Touch GSM General] netzcoyote:
There you go:

View attachment fonts.zip

@focaldesign:

Uh... a twist of red in the tasks section, that's nice :) I was thinking of contrasting the black and blue with a very pale yellow :)

Have you tried playing with that UL feature where you can launch apps with up-down / down-up swipes?

cheers,

nc
[Touch GSM General] Focaldesign:
Yeah, the red ones are overdue and the darker red ones are very important, so I really need them to stand out...

No, not tried that yet but thinking about checking that...
[Touch GSM General] Bingoig11:
Hey guyz!

Is it possible to share your icons?

I'm looking for black/blue icons to customize my own skin but it is very difficult to find it. And my photoshop knowledge is so poor :(

Thanks!!!!!

PS: I take all icons you can share :D
[Touch GSM General] freeloader99:
FocalDesign,

I'm using your old skin and it's great, but I love your new skin even more. Would you mine sharing the files like you did with the old one?

Many thanks.
[Touch GSM General] Focaldesign:
will do but I'm still thinking abiut some changes on the top part and app icons... once I'm happy I'll post everything ;-)
[Touch GSM General] freeloader99:
Thank you. Eagerly awaiting your finished product! Will PM you on a different subject.
[Touch GSM General] netzcoyote:
There you go:

View attachment icos.zip

They are pretty specific, though. I suggest you install the free graphics app gimp, and google for a step by step glass button tutorial. Shouldn't take you longer than 30 minutes to crank out your own buttons.

Cheers,

nc
[Touch GSM General] Bingoig11:
Thanks!

I found several tutorials, but I had problems to keep transparency and save as ico files ;)

I'll try again :p
[Touch GSM General] mfrost67:
Focaldesign,

I got the skin to work just fine. I did made a few changes to my liking. I also downloaded the 6 sided cube from your site and have no luck finding HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/HTC/Biotuoch/APLauncher. I do not have Biotouch under HTC. Is there some other software I am missing?

I would really like to give this cube a try.

Thanks in advance
[Touch GSM General] Focaldesign:
Double post...
[Touch GSM General] Focaldesign:
No idea, maybe because I have the GSM version, maybe the CMDA has something else? I see you have a tilt, I only checked on my Touch, maybe that's also different?
[Touch GSM General] :
First of all thank you for the work you have put into the skin, it looks very nice and professional. I am just having one problem, I can't seem to figure out how the time offsets work. I am in GMT -6, what setting should I be using for the offset?
[Touch GSM General] Focaldesign:
On line 8 of Appoinment-Home.mscr and line 13 of Appointment-Next.mscr you need to change Offset=-60*60 to Offset=-60*60*6
[Touch GSM General] Focaldesign:
Updated the new rlToday/UL skin...

I'm gone till Saturday on seminar, so won't be able to read/post anything untill next Monday.
[Touch GSM General] netzcoyote:
Nice, Focaldesing, i see you went more greyish... I have to look into the "Alarm aan" part. I'm using Spb Time for alarms though, and they store everything in Hex values. I think there's a Mortskript to convert those easily, though.

Just out of curiosity, that's not an actual photograph of your device, is it? What software do you use to tilt the screenshot?

... and a new version of mine.

Now using Wisbar Advance, which has a surprisingly low memory footprint, to get rid of the topbar and softkey bar. They're both fully there, but blended into the background, and the topbar only shows the network icon (if connected) on the left and the ok/close button on the right. Great program. Solved a lot of problems.

Included is a PocketCM 0.19 theme in the same colours, w´th a twist of lime, err... yellow. It's a modified skin, and all the icon files are smaller than the original ones, and it uses no gradients, etc. Somewhat simplistic, but it makes PocketCM really run.

If anyone has problems with animation speed of PocketCM, it really might be your skin's fault. For starters, get rid of that semi-transparent search index.

Here are all necessary files:

View attachment 71214

Sans a the executables, that's Wisbar, rlToday and Ultimatelauncher.

Next on the agenda is a matching s2u2 skin and maybe askin for BatteryStatus.

Cheers,

nc
[Touch GSM General] jwilliam85:
I'm new to installing skins. Is there a thread that explains how to install a little more clearer. Because I don't know how to find my Windows directory.
[Touch GSM General] netzcoyote:
Hello, jwilliam85,

Here's the roundup:

Instead of a desktop, windows mobile has a "today screen", that can show any number of "today plugins" in rows of various sizes. You can edit which plugins to show, their order, etc, when you go to settings - personal - today - items.

Now, the basic look of the operating sysstem can be modified through skin files with a .tsk extension. They may include a backup picture and colours for various operating system elements.

The users in this thread have gone farther an farther to modify their phone to their liking, and it includes using skin files, using special today plugins and certain other apps. If you browse through this and numerous other threads, you'll find tons of information on how to do this, bt you have to invest a lot of time and read threads completely. There's hardly ever a on click installer for this sort of modification. Also, I suggest putting your phone model into your signature so that everyone instantly knows what phone you have.

In order t browse throug your file system, you need a file system explorer. There should be one in your program folder, but it's somewhat limted. Do a search for Touch Commander.

Cheers,

nc
[Touch GSM General] jwilliam85:
Hey thanks, I got the skin up and running. My only problem is the clock is too big and it does not look digital. I am going to try to add your buttons later this evening. I did a search and could not find a thread telling me how to use the wisbar program. Could you link me to one. Thanks for all your help.
[Touch GSM General] netzcoyote:
WisBar looks like a task manager, when you start it, then click "settings" and you'll get a screen that shows all the different items that wisbar can modify. Just browse through there and change things to how you like it.

If you upload a screenshot, we can see what we can do about your clock.

Cheers,

nc
[Touch GSM General] erklix:
Gran trabajo, con tu permiso yo lo he traducido a Español.

Great job. With your permision a have translated to spanish.

Utilize esta pagina web para ello, por si alguien le interesa http://www.woxikon.es/dut/morgen.php

I used this web page so if someone is interested in http://www.woxikon.es/dut/morgen.php

Traduccion en http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=qm7vrhjq8wf

http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=qm7vrhjq8wf
[Touch GSM General] Dr J:
when trying to download the cube icons zip, i get :

HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error
[Touch GSM General] jwilliam85:
I fixed my clock, now I'm trying to download your skin. I got the rltoday part, and I downloaded Ultimatelauncher but I cant figure out how to config the ul file with the icons. Your help would be greatly apreciated.
[Touch GSM General] netzcoyote:
No problem. Best is, you forget about the UL config file and configure to your liking yourself. With UL, you can have "multiple today screens". In each side of your Ultimte-Launcher cube, you can combine one or more today plugins, or show icons that link to your applications.

If you want to set it up like I did, you have to set the height of the header (that's where UL's tab icons are) to 0. They are only needed for navigation, and you don't need the tab icons, if you navigate witt the gestures.

Now, of you want to use my icons, you have to set one side to show icon shortcuts. Select XP-style icons (with or without text) and group the icon you want with the app you want.

UL has a ton of settings and you'll have to spend some time to figure out what they all do, bt trust me, it's fun.

If you can't get something right, post a screenshot, we'll take a look.

I suggest you use a fixed plugin height for UL and set it up so that Ultimat launcher's and rltoday's height add up to your maximum today screen size. That way you use all of your real estate and avoid the ugly scroll bar. showing up.

If you used my rltoday xml, then that's already set for the minimum required size for the icons and text, so you just need to adjust UL's height.

Don't give up. Once you've figured out how those apps work, you really own your today screen.

Cheers,

nc
[Touch GSM General] jwilliam85:
Thanks I figured everything out except when I try to set the xp style icons it says icon is invalid. Any suggestions? Thanks some more. And when I push the messaging icon next to the phone icon I get a error message sayin PocketCM cannot be opened. Again thanks for walking it through with a noob.
[Touch GSM General] Martijn80:
I love your new design.

Can't wait until you post it.

I already have UltimateLaunch.

Keep up the good work
[Touch GSM General] netzcoyote:
No sweat.

You have to tell UL th icon's dimensions. On that screen where you select the icon, put a tick mark in "individual iconsize" and put the iconsize in both the fields below that. For my newer icon's, enter 50, for the older ones, select 40.

You may have a wrong path to pocketcm.exe. Edit that icon in UL, and make sure you have the correct path.

Everyone'e a noob, because there's always someone with more knowledge. Makes no sense in calling each other noob.

Cheers,

nc
[Touch GSM General] jwilliam85:
Thanks for the encouragement, this is how far I got for now. But my only problem is I dont know how to make my background solid black like yours. And I cant figure out what I'm doing wrong when I enter the information for the icons for the Aplauncher. Your input would be greatly appreciated.
[Touch GSM General] anheuer:
dont hate me if this question already is answered here.

But is it posible to assign the button for the sms to a specific app?

like pocketcm (because i use this for my sms messages)

Thank you!

p.s. looks realy realy nice..

going to install it tonight
[Touch GSM General] netzcoyote:
Yupp, as a matter of fact, mine is set up to launch PocketCM.

Those large buttons at the bottom are part of a versatile today screen plugin called "rltoday", that lets you configure it's links, even allows command line arguments, PocketCM doesn't parse those, though, afaik.

Go here to learn more about rltoday.

Cheers,

nc
[Touch GSM General] netzcoyote:
Go back a few posts, where I posted my windows mobile skin file (.tsk) That should turn your screen into all black. Also, do NOT use a background picture, that will always be displayed somewhat transparent and look milky-white.

As for the icons, here's what I do:

- In any UL-tab, create a new item, and click on "XP-Icon(32 bit)". Do not click "with Text" (unless you want a button with a caption).

- Point the command field to the .exe or .lnk you want that icon to to launch

- Put command line arguments in the Parameter field, if necessary.

- On the "XP-icon" tab, browse to your icon file where it says "XP-Icon(normal). The XP-Icon (pushed) field is not necessary.

- At the bottom of that tab, put a tick mark in "individual iconsize" and enter the size of the icons in pixels. If you have a copy of the icon on your computer, you can find out it's dimensions by rightclicking it.

- If you went for the "with text" option, you have to enter something in the text field.

If you make your own icons, make sure there are no empty layers in it, and save it as a 32 bit ico. I guess they will have to be squares, but I didn't try odd rectangles so far.

Hope that helped.

Cheers,

nc
[Touch GSM General] Focaldesign:
Thx, yes, I had it in some blueish but then it didn't look as good, don't know why... My frist one with thee carbon bottom is better with blue, but this one I like more in grey/black.

Should be possible...

Nope, the pic of the HTC is downloaded (can't remember from where anymore...). As an addicted photographer I'm going to make my own pics, but right now I'm still drowning in work so this stuff comes later.

The screenshots are done with PocketSnap (google will find it).

Thx. No problemo, go ahead!

Strange, maybe RapidShare was down? The link seems to work now...

Thx! Will do it when I find the time but it's really hectic and extremely busy at the moment...
[Touch GSM General] jwilliam85:
Thanks that .tsk file worked prefectly. I needed help installing focals cube icons not the UL icons. I tried following his directions but the cube icons never change. And I tried to turn my cube background black but I cant remove the Windows/Al_bkg (sp) file. As usual your help is greatly appreciated
[Touch GSM General] netzcoyote:
Probably just a matter of communication, those icons should work.

To clear things up: Are you trying to get those icons to work in UltimateLauncher or in rlToday at the bottom?

If you have a backgroud picture on your today screen, in order to remove it, you go to Start Menu - Settings - Personal - Today and then remove the tick mark where it says "Use this picture as the background"

But maybe I'm missing your point here. Again, maybe a screenshot would help?

Cheers,

nc
[Touch GSM General] udgn:
Pretty SIMPLE, CLEAN & ATRACTIVE, congratulations.

Pretty SIMPLE, CLEAN & ATRACTIVE, congratulations.

I will try to set it up exactly as you did.:D
[Touch GSM General] netzcoyote:
Thanks, glad you like it!
[Touch GSM General] jwilliam85:
Sorry about the confusion but I was talking about the 6 sided cube menu, like the one in the screenshot.
[Touch GSM General] netzcoyote:
Man, I'm slow sometimes :) Sorry.

I never tried that cube, so maybe Focaldesign might be able to help.

Can you blow up that screenshot of your registry you posted a few posts back? Hard to make out what you put in those fields.

Cheers,

nc
[Touch GSM General] Focaldesign:
I only tested with my HTC Touch GSM UK ROM standard cube, so if you are using anything else, it could be different registry keys making mine not working.

A clear screenshot of your registry would help indeed.
[Touch GSM General] 1stHTCphone:
Please help!

I am using Focaldersign skin that he post #1. I live in Canada, GMT -8, what is the value that i should change in order to get my appointment time to show up right? Based on what I read, i should change Offset=-60*60 value under appointment-home.mscr? Also, I cannot get my today screen to show appointment-next. It does not show my tomorrow's appointment. Any help is very appreciated since I love this skin! Many thank!
[Touch GSM General] 1stHTCphone:
Question 2

I try to change the Offset=-60*60 to Offset=-60*60*8 or Offset=-60*60

*4 and few other numbers in both Appointment-home and appointment-next.mscr. I still have no luck. I wonder if the reason why i can't get tomorrow's appointment to show is because i have the wrong offset value.

The next question i have is that i cannot figure out a way to make the "Start" on the taskbar front into black with UI Tweaker. I want to my my skin just like Focaldesign skin in post1. I see there is option for taskbar text under TdyScheme Changer\Standard colors. But that doesn't work for me with wm6 / touch. Thanks in advance!
[Touch GSM General] Focaldesign:
Offset is in seconds, so 60 seconds per minute, 60 minutes per hour, makes 60*60*8, plus or minus to get the correct offset. I'm thinking +

Mortscript can only read current and next appointment. So if no appointment happening right now, it only shows the first one coming.

Sure you have activated topbar.msrc? That won't do anything visible when you hit it but it will be running in the background, that file calls the appointment scripts. So you need MortScript installed and topbar activated and the appointment scripts in the same directory.

I used UITweaker for the black menu text, but can't remember which part, sorry...
[Touch GSM General] Focaldesign:
A teaser of my new skin with rlToday and UltimateLauncher, also showing PocketCM stuff (contacts, keyboard and Imageviewer).

Screenshot: http://www.focaldesign.be/xposed/Focaldesign2b.jpg

Very bad quality (filmed with webcam of my MacBook)... sorry!

Total lack of time to make a new page for it on my website. After March I will have more time, I will then upload pics, install instructions etc just like my first skin.

Greetz,

Faan
[Touch GSM General] netzcoyote:
I like what you're doing with the UL headers, focaldesign. Makes them look like the LG Buttons.

I was wondering if you've see that thread that asks for a possibility to run two or more instances of rlToday? No substancial answer yet, but it would be neat.

Cheers,

nc
[Touch GSM General] Martijn80:
Looks very nice.

I'll wait untill April then.
[Touch GSM General] rickyboy:
Great work

I would like the cab or link to that them you got going on there.Love the whole sliding home screen thing!Keep up the great work!!
[Touch GSM General] Focaldesign:
Yep, I was going for a LG Prada buttons style for the headers :)

I've seen the thread indeed. As for now I can't make two rlToday plugins work. If you wanted that because you want the appointment plugin in between like I wanted, be sure to check the rlToday forum at rotlaus-software.de. A guy there developed a .net script that can read up to next 20 appointments and write them to the registry, so then I can be used inside rlToday!

Thx, by then I hope to find the time (should be able to).

Would be nice indeed, unfortunately I have absolutely no clue how to make cabs, furthermore, you need additional software (rlToday, Mortscript, Ultimate Launcher) etc and don't know if it is allowed to use that in a cab by the developers...
[Touch GSM General] netzcoyote:
I saw, I saw. That's only one thing that would be possible, but it's the first thing I'd look into. I suppose TodayAgenda for example is customizable enough, but creating an agenda tab in rlToday with nice background graphics, that would be neat.
[Touch GSM General] Focaldesign:
Another teaser... anyone knows how to change the organizer and task icon both plugins use????
[Touch GSM General] nik_for_you:
exelent man.. will try in on sunday..

i like photo album part very much as HTC album sucks in case of zooming and all
[Touch GSM General] Focaldesign:
You will only be able to try my previous skin (as posted in the beginning of my thread). The new one on the video and screenshots 2 posts back will be finished somewhere begin April.
[Touch GSM General] nik_for_you:
no probs man.. i wil also try my hands in customizing it..
[Touch GSM General] Garetht:
Issue with screen size

Good morning everyone,

I have been extremly impressed with this forum since I found it, there is no end of help and information from everyone and the chefs on here really do some amazing work.

I have one question about the Focaldesign skin, not being experienced in this type of customization at all I have managed to install everything but when I goto the today screen the image is to wide for the screen on my touch!

Please can someone direct me on how to change the screen size ?

Oh, and I have a normal Touch.

Cheers

G
[Touch GSM General] Focaldesign:
Did you install the the cab PMC Shrink Today? That installs VJToggleTodayAlphaII. That little piece of software makes the bottom bar dissapear. Then your problem would be solved I think...
[Touch GSM General] flyhighusa:
I'm I understanding correctly that the NEW skin won't be available untill april. One of the post suggest the how-to will be on the website in April. I'm very excited about the video you put out and that is EXACTLY the skin and functionality I'm looking for.
[Touch GSM General] Focaldesign:
You are correct, the skin is 99.99% finished but I'm dealing with some upcoming deadlines which make it impossible to make a how-to and place evrything online. Most deadlines are gone by medio March so should be ok in the beginning of April.

As a bonus, I will release my skin in English, and not my native language (Dutch) like my first skin...

I do use a lot of additional apps so I don't know if it's possible or allowed. But it would be nice if someone could make a cab out of the whole thing :)

I found a tutorial on how to make cabs, but I use too many apps and stuff to make that cab on my own, not good at that kind of stuff :)
[Touch GSM General] Bingoig11:
Hey :D

Do you plan to make a full black cube?

Because if I'm right, you skinned only one face of the cube?

I'm currently trying to make all faces in a black glossy theme because I didn't find any full black glossy cube.

Here is my first try.
[Touch GSM General] Focaldesign:
Looks nice!

No I'm not going to skni the full cube. As said before I lost my Photoshop file with my buttons and I can't seem to redo the exact same thing... Therefor I made my second skin (wee post 108) and as of now I actually never use the cube anymore...
[Touch GSM General] Focaldesign:
Second skin online... Sorry there's no easy way to get it installed...
[Touch GSM General] pesante:
great job

thanks and happy BDay!

btw it's kinda weird... you should the one who receive presents :D