yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] frenchglen:
Spend time with it, look at its every detail in the settings. It takes a while and a good bit of customising to get it to what you want.

There's a million things you can do with it, which is why it's so good.

You have to figure out what today plugins you want, have them already installed, then add them as tabs in UltimateLaunch config. The tabs are accessible by gesturing, and if you want you can hide the tab headers completely, which ultimately makes the tabs "pages" that you just slide your way through.

Do you use launcher plugins? SPB Pocket Plus, iLauncher, pocketbreeze...do you use clock/weather plugins? PIM managers? Decide and then add them. Or, you can make use of UL's own launcher (shorcuts & systemstate). You can delete, move, and customise the tabs in many ways. You can combine tabs/plugins into single tabs too (fit on one page).

I can't write a walk-through but I suggest you just look at it carefully, it is a little confusing, but makes sense when you look at it closely.

I'm no expert, but I hope that helps.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lazyboy0172:
Alright, I've seen you ask around for this for a while, and the guy that posted it wasn't much help, so I did some searching and came up with everything he used, and now I'm using a similar theme:

wallpaper:

http://www.pda4x.com/read.php?tid=57462&page=e

BatteryStatus theme:

original: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=1861127&postcount=64

this one may be the exact same, but its the one i decided to use just because its the first I saw, but I wanted to give credit to the original above too:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=1886577&postcount=79

rlToday Theme:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=1601960

it's not the one used in the picture, but I find it better; used high-phone, but I changed the xml file to change date format and time format to 12 hour clock.

Finally, I don't like the LG plugin at the bottom, but I like the look of it, so I used photoshop to cut out each button into its own png, and then used this tool to make it into an icon for UltimateLaunch, so now I have the tabs at the bottom similar to that, only they are the tabs of UL for me.

http://converticon.com/

good luck, hope I helped.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Section9:
The 'clock' is actually part of PhoneAlarm skin. You will need Phone Alarm and a full screen tab or at least 220 pixels in height to use it.

Pm me your IM if you still want it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] superflysocal:
is there a windows program that can batch convert these png into ico's
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] papamopps:
Sorry to say - but you could have found a LGBottom on xda-dev. It is psoted here for several month now. ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ilordvader:
All the stuff to install to get my phone like ur Video

is Freeware or.........?

IF Freeware :) where can i find the software

cos so much on these fourms

Please Help :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MetaImi:
I have seen on several pictures, that the tray icons and the soft key's (like contacts, calendar as the default set) are invisible. I'm sure I'm dumb, but I can't do that. Can u help me?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Martinhdk:
I guess this is what you look for:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=368255

Read that page and the next.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lazyboy0172:
i know, i've tried it. point is i dont like the plugin, but i like the look. i want each thing to open a tab, not a program, especially that worthless apps program where half the applications actually launch
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] superflysocal:
It seems that the the most limiting part of this program is the use of .ico for icons. This means limited size( how do you make a ico bigger than 32 x 32) and limited in the conversion method used. I found a batch ico conversion program but the converted files didn't work. I remember reading somewhere that someone also mentioned it didn't like converted ico files. that website http://converticon.com does work but you have to do it one by one.

I hope future update allow use of png's or bmp's
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ff2005:
Try iconFX :D

http://icofx.xhost.ro/
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bluemetalaxe:
ICO and UL has not a size limit of 32 x 32 that ist absolutly ....... I have 60 x 60 running and much more, up to 256 x 256, is possible wit UL !!! . All other launchers i hab tried have a limit of 32 x 32. For example ilauncher can display 64x64 but just for the tabs not for the normal icons.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fga:
Skin PhoneAlarm

@ Section9

Can you post your phonealarm's skin, please.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jay2TheRescue:
Ultimate Launch isn't freeware, its nagware. You download it for free, you can try it out as long as you like, but occasionally until you register it the words "Not Registered" will appear in the corners of your tabs. A US site hasn't been found yet to register it yet. I registered it on the UK site, and it cost £7. I have no idea exactly how much that is, but once my credit card bill comes I'll know. I think after conversion it will probably be about $15.

-Jay
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orchids:
Trouble after soft resets?

Anyone else having issues with UL not showing up after a soft reset besides me?

For one reason or another, I would have to soft reset every 3days or so, but UL doesn't show. I'd have to go to my Today screen, uncheck UL plugin, soft reset again, check UL plugin, THEN it would show.

Just wondering if anyone's having the same issue.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] joshrys:
i have this problem with various plugins sometimes. i just to into today options, click on items, then click ok. When i go back to the today screen it takes a couple seconds then everything goes back to normal. Since i have enabled ONLY UL and put everything else inside, i haven't had this problem anymore...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PhiloPhunk:
Scrolling Issue Question for MaxMotus

hi MM,

I like your work!

And of course I'm trying to copy it onto my Prophet.

I've come up with an issue I'm hoping you (or sombody here) can put straight for me.

Currently, from my Home screen, I can either have a fully functioning version of

UL (UltimateLauncher) or of TC (TouchCommander) - and here's the crunch - BUT NOT BOTH.

The issue is the actual touch/sweep/gesture control itself i.e. me dragging my thumb across the screen.

To get the Down 2 Up working in TC I've edited my FTouchFloConfig file

from the original values of -

Delay: 200

GestureWaiting Delay: 500

to the new values of -

Delay: 100

GestureWaiting Delay: 200

...and now it works fine.

But to get UL working (it's always been really sticky, jumpy, non-responsive) I just got a tip from xda user Kasush here to add Desktop to the Exclusions in the FTouchFloConfig file.

I've done this - and now UL is really fantastic, responsive and sexy.

BUT now TC is 'dead' on the Home screen (naturally, as I've just disabled it, in effect).

OK, I could fire TC off a UL link, but I'd much rather open it from the Home screen by sweeping (with my thumb) in the Down 2 Up manner.

Can you help me sort out this annoying little quirk?

Thanks for reading :)

PS. For the record I don't think it's an issue with my hardware, touchscreen is sensitive and working fine 100% of the time - I've already been down the 'tweak the registry' route - and am happy - but the problem above still persists.

PPS. If I want to act like a turd and use my stylus all the time, the system works fine-ish, with both apps running together (although I'd say success rate is by 75%). It's just 'thumb control' that seems to be the issue here.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] superflysocal:
Thanks works like a charm.

This program is great if you are not sure how you want your today screen. You can just have multiple and flip through them! I have HTC Home with Pocket Plus on one screen and an ifone like application launcher on another. On a third screen, I will have a photo dialer.

Or you can think of it as a cube with HTC Home and Pocket Plus as one of the sides along with ifone type launher on another side.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] docnas:
thanks Lazyboy i was wondering how come there was no real batterystatus theme thread here i thought it would be in the battery status thread in this forum i didnt think to check the other forums

nyway thanks for the info n the links im working on a theme using UL n since ive never done it before i need a helping hand most of the way. Iwill post my results when im done though i know it wont be anything like the awesome ones posted here but IMHO they seem too crowded to me i like simpler kinda interface
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Section9:
Here it is :) It might not be up to your expectation as I only made the graphics that I needed. :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gaiden:
now that ur ini file is damaged because its no longer a unicode, just delete the previous ini file (in UL installation folder) and run the config as it will generate a new ini file. then if you want to edit ini file, open it in ur pc and edit it using notepad....

hope it heleped,
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ilordvader:
where do u install this ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Section9:
Extract to device\ phonealarm\

within this zip file is a iCube.skn , cut and paste this file into the phonealarm directory.

It should look somthing like that :

device\

Program files\

PhoneAlarm\

iCube(folder)

iCube.skn

The height of this plugin is set at 220 pixel. This is to facilitate any other plugins which you might wanna add to a single 'tab' in ULancher.

So even if you place this plugin skin with UL tabs header set at 36 pixel. this plugin still leaves allowances for you.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orchids:
I only have UL to show but when I soft resetstill UL doesn't show.

When it didn't show, I went to today, uncck UL, hit ok, got out, back to Today, click UL, ok, close and still UL doesn't show. It only shows if I don't click UL, soft reset THEN Today->UL

:(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] @dom@:
Hi Max

...so you made that Skin!!! :p

only to say you, thanks for that. I use and love PocketCM and your skin is fantastic, and above all in the last version (0.19b) it works like a charm and very well skinned, much better than default ones!! :D

Ciao
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jay2TheRescue:
Has anyone been able to put shortcuts to folders in UL yet? Today I tried making shortcuts to my programs and settings menus. They work from file explorer, but not from UL.

-Jay
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] loghash:
I am not sure if this is what you are looking for., but I hope this helps.

Try this :

On your computer/laptop open notepad and type the following (without the quotes):

"35#\Windows\fexplore.exe \Program Files\Games"

or "35#\Windows\fexplore.exe \" and whatever folder you want the shortcut pointing to.

After you've typed a single line, ending in the folder you're making the shortcut for - save the file with an ".lnk" (thats LNK) extention and put it in your Phone. The file is a shortcut that will work like other shortcuts, except it will directly open the folder you want (using the file explorer).

Now go to UL and open configuration and Add a new item and browse for the shortcut (.lnk file). That should work!

Cheers!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tuk:
How do u convert the HTC home to DAT? I want to have the spb pocket plus on top of the HTC home. Not sure how to do it
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jay2TheRescue:
I'll give that a shot, I'm setting up my device again after upgrading to the new HTC ROM.

-Jay
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kcguy:
Love this Ultimate launch!

Top: Ultimate Launch custom icons made from screenshots of the plugins I use.

Middle: plugins- HTC Home, UL, Weatherpanel, Metrix2

Bottom: Mortbuttons

I.ve never seen a plugin as easily customizable as this one. Hats off to Daniel Schumman
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mario23:
DAT format is for Pocket Plus tab icons and PNG for HTC Home.

I had someone on SPB Club convert them to DAT for me so I could match the PP tabs to the HTC tabs. You can find them listed there under Pocket Plus Icons...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] superflysocal:
anyone know the simplest or best way to have missed call and sms indicators that have skinnable icons? I want to use iPhone icons to replicate the flash based iPhone launchers. Right now I have a 4 x 4 grid of iphone icons to launch apps, but i want a fifth row with the iphone sms and phone icons that will show the number of unread sms and or missed calls.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mmcgowan:
MM,

Can you please be more specific on how you made the tiling affect? I have been changin setting left and right and have not been able to create that affect. You mention something about "icon gaps" but it would be more helpful if you gave specific instructions.

Great job by the way. This program and config make the phone much more user friendly.

mm
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Tigeraif:
Sorry to interfere in this thread but the battery bar at the top of the screenshots in this post where did you get that from? I had it on my 5450 and haven't been able to find it since.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fga:
Thanks, for this skin :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] joshrys:
Has anyone had any luck for creating icon files for .lnk files under each tab? I've tried just about every icon program i can find and cannot get 48x48 icons to work.

i have successfully created "XP icons" for the main tabs, but these same icons do not work for programs or links under each tab.

This program is really finicky on the icons it can use. The author really needs to change this in future versions
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] m600deano:
Max,

To my wife's disgust I have spent hours trying to get my UL to put in the grids around the icons in the way you above.

Please could you let me know how you achieved this. I have tried to use a separator, a margin, etc and failed each time.

Any guidance would be appreciated as you seem to be the master of this app.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DJ_Nitro:
The battery meter is lvmtopbat, you'll find it a the bottom of this post.

BTW I updated my dock. :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cafe1523:
Could you plz make them available to download
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Tigeraif:
Thank you very much
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DJ_Nitro:
No problem. ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kcguy:
Think I'll keep this one for awhile..

Been playing around a lot with different plugins, modifying icons, etc. This one I really like. It's rltoday with the awesome Focal Design skin by Steffan Ellebaut. It was designed for a cube, so it wasn't too hard to adapt to Ultimate Launcher.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ilordvader:
whats that Alien Face Icon, what does it do ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kcguy:
ilordvader

The aliens icon is actually a combination of a 48x48 blank icon I made for the theme and the alien icon resized and applied as a new layer on the blank. It launches S2U2. I made a blank with the S2U2 arrow, but it looked like s~~t. All of the other icons were created the same way, except the calculator icon, which was part of the Focal design icon package for the cube. I just resized it and used it as is.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] superflysocal:
on the first screenshot, there are three icons on the bottom for missed calls, sms, etc. Is that with rlToday? Can you extract that part and post the xml for that (or if you can't isolate that, can you post your whole xml)? I have been looking for a standalone plugin to to that.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] matthew232:
where did you get the start menu button? is that a wisbar advance thme? I wabnt to change my start button but would rather not redo my whole theme...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kcguy:
Matthew232, superflysocal

matthew232

The start button is wisbar advance 2. It is from a theme by scar45 called "VistaMobile" and is available on this site.

superflysocal,

The three buttons at the bottom are part of the Focal Design skin for rltoday. I also wanted a today page that used the whole screen. I found a link to it somewhere on this site. If you want the skin XML, i can attach it, let me know.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vamarris:
My latest background, I modified the today tabs and added some red on selected to match duttys new ROM also!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orchids:
I love UL, but am still having that soft reset problem.

UL isn't showing up whenever I soft reset.

My ppc keeps "thinking" if I leave UL checked on the Today Items list.

I have no other plugins checked. The only thing I can think of is my Quick Menu, but that can't be the culprit, can it?

Also, I notice that ever since UL, my phone shuts off at half battery life... wonder if it's just me.

I may have to uninstall UL if I can't find a solution to my problem. I hate having to soft reset (cuz phone is shut off), uncheck UL, soft reset, CHECK UL....to show it running. :(

Anyway, first time I took a ss of my today screen. It's UL with HTC home. ^^
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] superflysocal:
where can i get those HTC icons?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vamarris:
Icons are here...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iceaxe07:
the link is not working.

could you kindly check and post again??

thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vamarris:
sorry dont know whats up with that I just uploaded to this thread see above..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iceaxe07:
thanks alot
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] oyegaurav83:
icon problem

Hi, is anybody having difficulties making the icons..

i converted icons using icofx to 48x48 size, but they are recognized by UL only if i set normal and pushed icon size to 48. Otherwise it says invalid icon.

I downloaded few icons from net of size 72x72, and they are recognnized by UL even when the icon size is set to default, ie., normal=32 and pushed=48.

Is there problem with icofx or i am doing something wrong.

ps: as a workaround i made icons of size 32 and 48 and set them for normal and pushed icons. That worked. But i dont want to make copies of icons everytime.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kcguy:
strange...

I'm using IcoFx as well and have had no problems. I set normal and pushed both to 48 for the icons I made and the headers to 58 for the custom size I made for the launcher icons. As long as they are saved as XP quality, 32bit, alpha transparency, they should work. Have you set your fixed plugin height so that it covers your entire screen?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sabestian:
Yeah,I've got problems with it too. My Trinity sometimes just stops reacting to any input. It had been perfect until I installed UL.But I also have a lot of other programs installed (weatherpanel, phonealarm, quickmenu, rlCalendar, today agenda, etc) and it's hard to confirm what's the culprit...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ChiefmasterB:
Same to me... sometimes UL hangs up the full device... only softreset will help...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ~J~:
Which version (and from where) are people using for the HTC Home Plugin.

I'm loving this thread. Got my Polaris almost set up perfect now.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dnoyeb:
kcguy,

what skin (where can I find it) are you using for your home screen replacement? I'm really digging the way that looks. I'm assuming it's an rlToday skin, but just can't find it anywhere on their site.

thanks !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kcguy:
hdialchemy

This is the FocalDesign site, you can download it from here: http://www.focaldesign.be/HTC/
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] caballero600:
battery metter

Wow! i like your today screen!! which battery metter is that? Do you use UL? Can you post more screens??

thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dnoyeb:
kcguy

thanks for the link. Going to give it a shot right now.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bluemetalaxe:
Hi. made a glossy iphone icon big pack for UltimateLaunch based on an icon pack of Akuma and my older pack in 58 Pixel. Think you dont know this in this thread. This is a pack of 85 Icons ! just for ppcs. Each Icon (ico-format) can now be used with UL in 16,24,32 or 48 pixels. Here`s a preview of some of my icons:

and download here:

http://www.ppc-welt.info/community/showpost.php?p=1035359&postcount=578

greetings from Germany
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] caballero600:
in the zip are only icons in 16x16??

wowww!! each icon has subicons inside!! thanks a lot!! well... in fact, i use 58pixel icons but its ok...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bluemetalaxe:
I made a iconset before with 58 pixel but without subicons, think you use that ?

Now I deleted the big transparent corners of my older icons but the new ones have effetive the same size as the 58er and i added subicons. Think its much better now. The size is the same. use this.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] caballero600:
yes.... I think I use your old pack... so i should try the new ones!! wow! i have work to do to change all of them!:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ~J~:
How are people changing the font for the time in the HTC Today plugin?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bluemetalaxe:
You need a program called "HTC HomeCustomizer", google please.

@caballero: Now you can make a different size for pushed icons or whatever you want. I had a lot of work too with resizing85 Icons and creating new ones :) :) I`m glad you like it, i count more than 1 1/2 thousand uploads for my icon packs.

You also find my new htc wallpaper for the UL-Cube in the pack (see picture 3) and 4 HTC Icons in 16 Pixels for the tabs.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] caballero600:
thanks for your job! i downloaded your pack, and I use the welcomehead.b96.png wallpaper, it's the best of them i think!! (well i prefer not appearing "cruise".

About the 4 htc icons... i'm not sure which file are u talking about... they are not in the pack...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kwickone:
Totally awesome setup MaxMotus!!!!

I just made mine very similar...inspired by yours of course. That is very cool having the HTC Home part of the cube. Really looks slick rotating!

Thanks for the walkthrough!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spencepu3:
everybody check out my new theme made with ultimate launcher:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=371049
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kwickone:
Very nice setup spencepu3! Clean and professional looking! :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spencepu3:
thank you :cool: