yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] del4:
I prefer the extra space on the Now screen to allocate to the calendar (at least for now ;), so I played around with the Launcher.xml file in qa_layouts.dat and managed to put in a row of the shortcuts to launch apps.

Also incorporated the color-coded operator display provided earlier by RoboDad, though I switched the location of the battery and the operator display since I'm now so used to the way S2U2, S2P and S2V display them...

Also added the weather, status and profile elements to the bottom of the speed dial page just to put something there, but they'd probably look better at the top.... Thought about just adding another row of speed dial buttons, but it looks like there's an upper limit of 16???

Posting my files here in case they're helpful to anyone...

BTW, I seem to have broken my profile display, as the popup giving the three volume options) no longer appears, so if someone spots the source of this problem, please let me know. I was trying to add additional items to that popup so that we could adjust the volume up/down, similar to how the backlight control works, but couldn't get it to work... :o
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] netzcoyote:
Your Profiles.xml is not encrypted with the standard password! :)

Cool idea to fool around with those files, though.

I also like to have lots of space for the appointments, it seems that the appt doesn't look all that far into the future. I currently have an appointment in my calendar next Saturday and another one the Friday after that. MS only shows the one next Saturday :( With three rows in the calendar table, I'd have enough room for at least the two next appointments. Would be nice to get it to always read a fixed number of upcoming events, but this is not within the xml editing.

I'd trade that for having shortcuts to other apps on the nowscreen, though. For launching PocketCm, ThumbCal, S2u2 etc.

This SHOULD be possible.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] patcat007:
Your 9 Tab ICon

Hi i think your theme looks the best. I have downloaded the pack and changed the registry to include the Games icon. But I have one strange problem I cant link it to the Games Folder and the Game icons don't appear like the one in the program tab.

What do I have to do to get the games tab to get working. The registry entry just changes the option in the Menu. And the customization to include Link/File/Menu doesnt work. Please help
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
Look MP...;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] netzcoyote:
For Dredd67

Dredd67, digital clock:

View attachment qp_dclock_modern.zip

Cheers,

nc
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Dredd67:
Thanks !! :):)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
thanks you

hello amigo :D Dredd67 how are y.. et puis merde comment vas tu lol

Eng:

By the way, do you think that there is a way to put these icons instead of a basics we saw so far?

fr:

au passage, penses-tu qu'il y a moyen de mettre ces icônes a la place des basics qu'on a vu jusqu'à présent?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] netzcoyote:
Putting Shortcuts on the now screen...

...here's how to:

1. Make some room for them. For example remove the bottom tab bar, make the calendar plugin smaller, etc...

For demonstrations's sake, I have done both in the above screen.

All further changes are to files in qa_layouts.dat:

2. Main.xml:

In the Layout node with the name "default", copy the node

<String Name="Data" Value="Spb.Data.Launcher"/>

into the node of the class definition of the now screen tab, so it looks like this:

<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.Tab" Name="Tab1" ID="0">
<String Name="Form" Value="Subform"/>
<String Name="Dialog" Value="LockScreen"/>
<Int Name="IsDefault" Value="1"/>
<Int Name="Image" Value="0"/>
<String Name="Data" Value="Spb.Data.Launcher"/>
</Plugin>

This is what I was missing yesterday. Basically, my shortcut was there, but of course, MS didn't know what icon to show, what app to point to, etc. apparently, there is an internal data field (Spb.Data.Launcher) that stores that information for all shortcuts and with the abovementioned change, you make the name of data field known in the scope of the now screen with that additional String variable.

3. LockScreen.xml

In the Layout node named "detailed" (for professional style now screen) add the following class definition:

<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.Generic" Name="r0" ID="0"/>

This defines a shortcut button named "r0" with an internal id = 0 (that id becomes imprtant later!)

In your desired extended layout node (for me the one with the name "240x320-Detailed" for qvga, portait, professional style now screen) add the placement information for your shortcut button:

<Plugin Name="r0">
<BoundRect X="3" Y="170" Width="75" Height="50"/>
</Plugin>
</Plugins>

Where X and Y are the screen coordinates where it should appear.

4. Save Main.xml and LockScreen.xml back into qa_layouts.dat, put that into your MS folder and soft reset.

That's it.

The shortcut should now point to the same app as very first shortcut you have in your Launcher.xml does (The one that has the same id!) and it should use the same icon.

Tapping it will start the app it points to. Even tapping and holding will bring up the same MS style context menu, where you can go to that settings screen where you manage the pinned items, etc.

So right now, you have the same shortcut on the now screen and on the Launcher screen. Changes you make to that shortcut on either of that screen will affect the shortcut on the other screen, too.

I'm sure by using unique id's and names for the shortcuts, this can be avoided. The ItemCount attribute may have to be changed, too, for that. But that involves extensive testing and I wanted to get this information out to you guys quickly.

Please note that soee of these changes are wild guesses, and maybe not all of them are necessary. If you want to follow them, give it a go, but back up your Mobile Shell folder, so you can undo things.

Cheers,

nc
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] netzcoyote:
Sure. Just fire up your favourite graphics editor, and edit the bitmap that shows the clock digits and it's mask.

They are named digits.bmp and digits_m.bmp, if I'm not mistaken, and you find them in one of the dat files with "clock" in the name.

For professional style now screen, on qvga, portrait mode, that's qp_dclock_modern.dat

They have all digits in one bmp file, which makes editing tedious, though.

Cheers,

nc
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
thank you you are the best lol :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] netzcoyote:
Well, I don't know about that.

I definetely have too much spare time right now, lol :)

That's my now screen, with a row of shortcuts at the bottom.

Apart from the shortcuts of yourse using sucky icons, I'm quite happy now.

This could be a next step:

Make the bottom tab reappear, sans the "close" icon on the right, then position one of these shortcuts where the far right icon had been.

Then you could have a three pane layout, with navigational bar, and a icon to ...say... s2u2 on the far right.

Will work only if we can layer things on top of eacht other, though.

Cheers,

nc
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
I ask something? Could you me a background like carbon ... As colors offered are not beautiful

heu... je peux te demander quelque chose? pourrais-tu m'intéger un fond carbone comme celui la... car les couleurs proposés sont pas belles

thanks :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
+1 for this, I can live with my current screen set-up (I would like the fourth page of shortcuts, but I won't complain :) !!), but if I could have a simple image as a background, I would be very happy!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] netzcoyote:
*scratching head*

I haven't looked into backgrounds at all so far, but I'll give it a shot later tonight :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
Sounds good to me, I know you will get further than I have so far.....really....don't ask!!!!!! :o
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jac:
Here Is A Little Share

I can take no credit for this cab because RoboDad (Layouts) & NC Neuer Ordner (9 Item Launcher) deserve all the credit! Many Thanks!

If someone has all the original (.dat files) that should be collected to return Mobile Shell back to it's original state and sent them to me, I can make a cab to return Mobile shell back to it's original state.

Still a newbie and not sure what (.dat files should be preserved in it's original state)

PS: Still pretty new at making cab files.. Though I tested installing and removing without any problems. What I did find is: If you remove the cab you'll need to replace missing .dat files with your replacements before you reboot. (8 .dat files)

Thus the reason for original .dat files (.cab) to return Mobile Shell back to its original state.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
Looks like it is at least POSSIBLE to change the background image/design/color then, there's hope!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] !Kernel Panic!:
much appreciated but would simply making a backup of the entire Mobile shell dir on my sd card before installing this suffice?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] netzcoyote:
Ok, this is what I got:

I did this:

In qp_bkg_now.dat, I edited Background.bmp to show the carbon image, and made the mask (Background_m.bmp) all white.

View attachment qp_bkg_now.zip

Actually, the screenshot looks a little better to me than my actual screen.

In qa_layouts.dat I edited all tab xml files (Lockscreen, Launcher, Launcher2, Speedial). I won't upload theese, because if you use it you will have my layout which you probably don't want.

The changes are simple:

Go to your layout node, and look for this class definition:

<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.GradBackground" Name="Background">
<Int Name="NoBackgrd" Value="1"/>
</Plugin>

now change the "1" into a "0".

Repack and replace files, reboot.

Finally, in MS theme selection, select "none" as theme colour.

For some reason, the background doesn't go all the way down. This MAY be due to some other changes I made to my xml files. Maybe one of you guys could try if it works better with your files.

nc
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jac:
Yes your correct... But was looking at a quick way to return to it's original state with just .dat files because from what I've been reading so far is that we are using several .dat files on a regular basis. And just wanted to remove old cab and install new cab, reboot - ready to go!

Thank you for your thoughts!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
thank you wowwwwwww mdr great work
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
:D Please is the one that I have now, it is very beautiful, but I am a collection

:D merci c'est celui que j'ai actuellement , il est trés beau , mais je me fais une collection lol
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jac:
I think your asking if this cab is the same as the cab made several replies ago?

If so, the answer is no...

I just changed the 9-launcher....

First picture is the original launcher.

Second picture is what I changed it to
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rogboy:
Check out MaxMotus's new thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=378802

He appears to have the background changing sorted out.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] del4:
Thanks! :o That's what happens when you do this stuff at 3am...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kangmas:
Help. have ask at the other thread and gone through 60 over pages of this thread. Still no solution. My problem is, in 9 tab launcher, I have only 8 icon. Missing is the favourite/game tab. There is also no option to tick in the setting/customise menu, as it is not there. Is there any registry tweak that I can do to make it show in the customise menu setting? Thanks for your patience

** If someone can go to - HKLM\Software\Spbsofthouse2\Menu\Root\Favourite or Game and posted here what is inside the folder(string), maybe I can follow/edit in my registry.

At last, solve it. this is what I put inside favourite folder:

default (value not det)

Add 0x1 (1)

Image 0x5 (5)

Index 0x7 (7)

MRUImage 0xBF (191)

Text Favourite
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iii_see_tagpi_run_iii:
alien round

has anyone managed to make to the digital clock font on the screen use alien round fonts which is the same font used in the htc home? pls share?? i tried editing the bitmaps but now the clock doesnt even show. thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
hmmm +1 on that!! Alien Round.:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iii_see_tagpi_run_iii:
>>> well its because some has manged to use the digital font and i was woderin if they could make the alien round version? pretty please? :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] netzcoyote:
Clock with alien round font

This can be done, guys, but...

...As all digits are in one file, editing is very tedious. So please don't be mad if I won't do it for you, it's some 90 minutes I just don't have.

Here's some pointers on how to start:

For qvga, portrait mode, professional style now screen, you edit files in qp_dclock_modern.dat.

Take out the files digits.bmp and digits_m.bmp

Fire each of them up in you graphics edit, I recommend photoshop or the free gimp, and edit them to your liking.

Conserve their background colors.

Do NOT create new files, open the original ones and edit and save them to retain the original formatting (bit depth, etc.)

For the mask, I suggest creating a mask from your edited digits.bmp, then copy it into digits_m.bmp, flatten it and save.

It gets tedious, because you'll have to pay attention to the exact placement and size of the digits. Guidance lines are useful for that.

Also, I'm really not sure how the while opacity thing works in Spb, that's why I like to always retain the background colors of the original image and it's mask. I understand that the opacity is also influenced by several inherited settings in the xml files. It's trial and error.

That should get you on the way.

If I can be of more help, I'll keep following this thread, so drop a line :)

I'm sure there a folks reading here that know a lot more than I do about graphics editing, and they'll lend a hand, too.

Cheers,

nc
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cincij:
Does anyone know how to remove items from the Messaging menu? I don't have any use for the MMS functions using this menu.

If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iii_see_tagpi_run_iii:
>>> thanks for the reply.. for starters, i cant seem to open "digits.bmp" from some of the dat files within the file.. i use acdsee..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jac:
kangmas

Nice Icons!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] me20714:
Is it possible to hack Mobile Shell in a way to display the full-time events (like birthdays, anniversarys) on the today screen?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffhesser:
enter password... exits spb shell

this probably doesn't belong here but this seems to be where all the SPB shell guru's reside so i throw out my request for assistance.......

anyone know how to make it so that when you enter your password it takes you back to the SPB shell instead of the today screen? i hate having to enter the password and then re-launch the spb shell. also it would be cool if there were a way to address and view/dismiss notifications from within the shell rather then having to exit to see what the beep was about. any feedback/help will be much appreciated!

Update: someone solved it for me. here is a link to the cab file that did the trick

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=377353&page=2
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kangmas:
Done by Mr. Vi. You can get it from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2008601&postcount=191
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Hugo381:
I like this one can you modify this one with extra icons to make it 9 icons that might look the same. I like the concept of a picture inside a picture.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] del4:
I would similarly like to remove 'Outlook E-mail' from the E-mail menu in Messaging since I don't use ActiveSync to get my mail.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RoboDad:
I'm working on one right now. I actually have the font used for the clock, so I was able to "rebuild" it from scratch in Photoshop. I should have it ready to post tonight or tomorrow.

Here is a quick sample of the WIP. It still needs some work, but I'm getting there.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gfreek:
I know it's been mentioned in this thread but can't seem to find it! would appreciate if someone just point me in the right direction as how I get the now background to appear on all i.e. launcher,speeddial etc.. In qa_layouts.dat I edited all tab xml files (Lockscreen, Launcher, Speedial, Time, SPB Menu and weather) this is the class definition I edited:

<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.GradBackground" Name="Background">

<Int Name="NoBackgrd" Value="1"/>

</Plugin>

change the "1" into a "0"

but no joy:( what am I doing wrong??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] netzcoyote:
Hmmm, that worked for me, are you sure you dragged all edited files back into the .dat file?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] netzcoyote:
Did you unpack them with the password for the dat files?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ZeuBug:
Does anyone have integrated the bluetooth/wifi state in the now screen?

It's very missing...

When we use spbwatcher, we can't see this state!

THX!:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JF100:
How to get rid of brightness contrroll icon?

Hello ,

I'm quite impressed on the work done here. Maybe someone could help me out with answers to three questions.

1) I'm using a 6 + 3 layout (instead of the 6 + 12) where I want to define 3 direct program shortcuts. At least I'm only able to change 2 of the 3 program shortcuts. Can anybody tell me what to do to get rid of the brightness control? There is no menu to change this icon. The tribute for all the icons and the information of changing the layout goes to the guys down here working hard on this.

2) Is there a way to get these 3 program icons anyhow bigger so that the style fits to the other icons?

3) Is there a way to ad some text (program name) to the 3 program icons?

Maybe I've missed some information on this this big thread.

So thanks for any answer.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gfreek:
Background for all screen?

I just re-checked all xml files <Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.GradBackground" Name="Background">

<Int Name="NoBackgrd" Value="1"/>

</Plugin>

change the "1" into a "0" and made sure I dragged all edited files!

but still not working only get professional now screen showing background:( I'm sure I missing something? if you have time to spare please have a look at my attached edited qa_layouts.dat
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cincij:
Has anyone successfuly added additional small (32x32) icons? I can replace the existing files, but that gets dicey because many of the stock icons are needed. I really just want to add more MenuIcon files, but have not been able to get them to show up on the icon selection.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] netzcoyote:
Probably not possible, as long as no one figures out how to include third party stuff. There are none in MS, but I'm pretty sure that SPB will develop plugins eventually.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] netzcoyote:
1) Go to Spb MS Setting -> Today, Untick "Backlight indicator in the Home Tab", that might help

2) Probably not

3) Unsure
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] netzcoyote:
Maybe you could drop a PM to the fella that came up with how to include the backgrounds here in thois thread?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
Great stuff Robodad. Can't wait.:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] abumhmmd1:
colored icons

LNK

http://www.4shared.com/file/41573548/efe3eaab/SPBMSh2_color_icons.html

ref. >> http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=71934&st=390

ENJOY :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] str8spd2001:
Not sure if this is the right section but is there a way to change the font color on the contact call screen? In the picture it looks readable but the actual picture itself especially in daylight is very hard to read. was hoping for white if anyone can change. Thanx.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] asterix115:
I'm looking for 9 original buttons layout like vers. 1.5

Can you help me?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tsipistri:
change blue text color

open qa_layout.dat with winzip

and then Contact.xml with notepad password is b0fm18zq

and change

Color="FF0000 to FFFFFF and save
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] luiggi:
Yes, it can be done!

The file MenuIcons2_9.bmp and its corresponding mask file have originally 4 icons, you can enlarge the canvas size from 32x128 to 32x320 and add another 6 new icons.

Even better, I made a test using as base one of the files containing originally 10 icons, I enlarged the original canvas size to 32x352 to accomodate 11 (yes!! eleven) icons and it did work, I don´t know many more icons could be added, but is just a matter of trying....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gfreek:
Thanks netzcoyote! I've solved the issue:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mazz0310:
I'm having the same problem myself. Any help :confused:

I want the games icon to link to the games folder, just like it does when I browse to it through the programs icon.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] netzcoyote:
That's very good news, luigi!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
Try This:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2044286&postcount=21
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] miloszz:
SQUARE THEME finally :)

Having a Treo I suffer lack of square themes for MobileShell. So I made my own.

This theme is only for square 240x240 devices!

If you have non-square screen, you'll see black (or other color screen) - as I saw many times downloding themes from here. That's my little revenga.

It has:

- bigger calendar on Now Screen - now you can have alarm and two appointments (creenshot 1)

- 9 categories (import attached reg file to add Games category) (screenshot 2)

- 12 finger-friendy pinned items (screenshot 3)

- 12 photo speed dials (screenshot 4)

- beautiful icons found in this topic (screenshot 2)

After downloading rename files - delete ".zip" extension.

To install theme: copy qa_layouts.dat to \Program Files\Spb Mobile Shell

To install icons: copy qs_menu_btn.dat to \Program Files\Spb Mobile Shell

To add Games (9th category): import Games.reg file

Almost forgot to say: there's problem with classic now screen view! Don't know why, on on classic now gestures don't work. I'm using professional view, so I won't try to fix it. You have been warned!

One more thing: when switching between screens, lowest line (about 20 pixels or maybe 13) doesn't have effect, just transision. It's probably because I removed bottom bar. It's not a problem, everything works fine, but looks as it looks (not bad imho).

Screensots:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RoboDad:
Here are the files for the Alien Round clock. Please be aware that these files were made to work with my other "themed" files, so if you just want the clock digits, you'll need to extract them and then add them to your own .dat files.

Happy Easter!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
that happens cause all that is done is hide the bar... to bad noone has found the solution yet :(