yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DvTonder:
Exactly. I am looking to put the same multicolour graphic on both my Today Screen and MS2 backround. Today is no problem as I can always override it in WM6 itself. It is getting the MS2 tabs to show with the same background that is stumping me.

Probably in a bit over my head here, maybe I should start with something easier :-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
yes it may be a little over :)

you´ll probably have to use...

Plugin Class...Spb.LSP.Frame or Spb.LSP.Icon...to make it work...

i'm still in the process of viewing what they do...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chs_arg:
Thanks....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DvTonder:
I will watch your work in anticipation while tinkering away at it myself :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
Anybody has this? I am having difficulty downloading it from the 4pda.ru site.

Thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
I like the 3page notify layout! Thanks a lot. :)

EDIT: If you rotate screen to horizontal the layout is completely messed up. But in vertical mode also working on VGA device.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] IncubusUA:
greatbal

Do you ask about my set for nine labels?

You can get him on this link:

http://rapidshare.de/files/38794055/qp_menu_btn.dat.html
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ya Boi D:
So is this the English version ?:confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ya Boi D:
Is this in English ? Great theme by the way !:confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
Hello everyone...

Can someone be kind enough to share with us the (*.dat) file for this picture.....

Many thanks........
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
Thanks for that citats. Been out all day, but will now seriously look into your xml files. I think my answers are in your work. Cheers mate. Appreciate the help.:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
sorry man I translate russe>>> french :eek: it is crazy job mdrrrr
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] citats:
Not really the answers.. but we have similar ideas and I too can not get the line from the now screen on either of the other two... I'm going to give the the now screen xml a good read tonight... and hopefully come up with what we are missing.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] citats:
yeah I know... in order to support screen rotation you have to remove something...

I will be changing that soon.

I have been removing the layout parameters for anything other then qvga, so I'm surprised it works for you in vga.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greatbal:
Hey thanks! :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sofjeff:
hi i have a probleme with spb mobile shell 2 when i open the audio manager or a other program and i shut down the screen ,the program closes,thus i can't listen to music whit the screen down.Then too when i just go to the program and the audio manager was open the audio manager close lonely.I don't know why but the probleme is spb mobile shell i'm sure.Please help mee!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] citats:
Fixed landscape issues however this means that landscape will function as default MS does.

some of the plugins can not be reformated to fit nicely so I backed off of the landscape changes... I don't personally use landscape but those that do won't have a messed up MS now.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
well that one is mine just with original icons... where did u see that? i will share soon... please wait...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
all layout's should have both mods in account cause u never know when someone puts your work to the test... please test before posting... u can block a ppc if something is not ok... i have many times... if it worn't for the safe mode of spb pocket plus... only a hardreset would solve my problems, cause i have been able to disable my touchscreen alltogether... be carefull!!! be safe....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
i only have issues with wmplayer... seek suport on proper forum... here is only for editing layout/icons...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ddborello:
@lepsyfou

Wonderful! Congratulations!

You can change that have no grid.

THANKS
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
how change no grid?:confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
i have posted already how to remove grid...

always give credit 2 original authors...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
anyone know where animation is?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dborello:
You can be thus kind to repeat like removing the grid or link please...

(Excuse my bad English)

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=1993744&postcount=31
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
You're a gentleman.;) ....but also quite right, people should read through ALL the posts to see if their question has already been answered.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
yes it great job >> "dergachoff"
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
new (possible) progress report :D

this is just a proof of concept...

4 windows 5 buttons...

1.Now

2.Menu Sistem

3.Direct Shortcuts (only menu system was hidden, still no change here)

4.Contacts

5.Close

bottons don't work yet but through gestures its ok...

to bad noone knows how to remove bottom bar...

correction: bottons are working now ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
I can not remove the grid could you please do so pcarvalho

je n'arrive pas en enlever la grille pourrais-tu le faire please pcarvalho
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
wow it's beautifull interface..., you are the best designer XDA lol
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
here you are...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cincij:
Great job pcarvalho! I noticed there was an empty spot for another screen in there. Glad to see you taking advantage of it.

I am still working to help remove the bottom bar, but took a couple days off to upgrade the firmware on my Mogul. Got everything reinstalled now, so I should have some time to look at it this weekend.

In the meantime, I just have my buttons / contacts laid out so they do not extend into this open area. So the only time the transition is noticable is when you change to my Now screen and can see the background fade in.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] seatone:
missing icon

Grrr, :( I can't figure out how to make visible the 9th icon :(

I've downed this file, made the registry modification, the 9th part is fully functional and the title is showed as well, but no icon...

What am I doing wrong?

Thanx
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dborello:
Thanksssssssssssssss
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
great to now someone is going to look into making the bottom bar vanish! i've given up cause i dont know where animation engine is...

the layouts only, i think, cant make it vanish...but it should be possible...

update: new menu icon...

now all menus fully functional, will now work on menu for direct shortcut (layout)...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
does it contain the 9th button in resources?

in registry do you have this (under new menu key):

add : 1

image : 8

Index : 9

if not there is your mistake ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
Simple Question...

When you'll stop showing off and share files with us !!!???? :confused::confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
1st.. i'm not showing off...i'm working 2 make things better ;)

2nd.. as i said before, i almost was forced to hardreset my own machine multiple times cause of errors and bugs, i will only post as soon as i finish the 320x240 display mode witch anyone with a QVGA can switch to.. so will only share as soon as they are all done and bugs free.. give me 2 more days at least...

3rd.. would you like to have 2 hard reset your machine cause i made something that didn't work right and denied access to it? i don't think so...

patience is a virtue...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
If that is the case.... :rolleyes:

I'm sorry, Keep up the good work........ ;);)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
thank you very much amigo:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] citats:
Thanks for your insight... however if you read my original post you would know I posted my files to get some assistance... once I realized others were using it I moved quite quickly to finish it up... I still await anyone with the knowledge on how to get the line separator on any other screen other then the Now Screen.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
5 icons; the must lol it's perfect:D

When we have a chance to try that?

fr:

5 icones c'est le top ça c'est parfait:D

quand nous aurons la chance d'essayer ça?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
i'll tell you soon how to get separator on any screen, even how to add your own separators...

i'm just a little busy as u can imagine... check out the screen for direct shortcuts ;)

Edit: will try to make 18 shortcuts, 12 for now...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cincij:
pcarvalho,

Does the layout setup for the above screen link to the Program / Settings layout file? I wanted to make a no text icon screen, but if I removed the text from the 9 button grid it also removes it from my Program and Settings screens.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
Hey azzambm. Cool down. No one here owes anybody else here anything! We learn and share as we see fit. Your last statement/question does not inspire the spirit of sharing. If you're able to do it better yourself, you do it and share it a.s.a.p for the impatient like yourself.

I want what I want too, but don't expect it from anyone else. You english seems pretty good to me, so if you can't wait for the more capable ones to finish their work, may I suggest you do the same as everyone else here and continue trying to decipher the xml code yourself, or seek out an expert xml programmer that can give us all a hand, but don't indirectly demand. This is a developers website, NOT free software demand center.;)

Edit: I see you apologized whilst I typed this post. You obviously have manners then. Sorry to you too.:) Let's all just keep this friendly. Great progress is being made in this thread IMHO.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] citats:
You definitely have your mind wrapped around SPB's script... I like others wait in anticipation for a glance at your xml files.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
Great stuff.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
adding separators...

open LockScreen.xml

search for:

(...)

<General>

<DefaultFont Face="Tahoma" HeightPxl="11" Bold="y" Color="FFFFFF"/>

</General>

<Layout Name="Detailed">

<Plugins>

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

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

<Point Name="Separator3Y" X="0" Y=____

</Plugin>

(...)

hummm... what does that particular line tell me...

<Point Name="Separator3Y" X="0" Y=100

its a separator and its placed at X=0 and Y=100 (for exemple)

why 3Y? well cause if you open qp_bkg_now.dat u will find 3 separator bitmaps (separator, separator1 and separator2)...

so if x=y-1...

Separator3Y=Separator2.bmp

so to make more...

make a bitmap as separators before (bmp+msk) incremente a number and you´ll get Separator4Y!!! and so on....

and there you have it...

to place separators call them in background classes such as:

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

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

<Point Name="Separator3Y" X="0" Y=...........

(...)

</Plugin>

and place them at X,Y...

it you dont get it at 1st remember...its just trail and error...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
didn't quite get it... a screenshot would help :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
I'll give this a try right now. Thanks pcarvalho.:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
one more thing... there is this in MenuPopup.xml

(...)

<Layout Name="Default">

<Plugins>

<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.Frame" Name="Backgrd" Skin="qa_misc_now" DoubleSkin="va_misc_now"/>

<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.Generic" Name="m0" ID="0" Skin="qa_misc_now" DoubleSkin="va_misc_now"/>

<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.Generic" Name="m1" ID="1" Skin="qa_misc_now" DoubleSkin="va_misc_now"/>

(...)

<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.Separator" Name="h0" Skin="qa_misc_now" DoubleSkin="va_misc_now"/>

<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.Separator" Name="h1" Skin="qa_misc_now" DoubleSkin="va_misc_now"/>

(...)

</Plugins>

</Layout>

(...)

then placed here...

(...)

<Layout Name="240x320">

<Plugins Extends="Default">

<Plugin Name="Backgrd">

<BoundRect X="33" Y="29" Width="175" Height="233"/>

</Plugin>

<Plugin Name="m0">

<BoundRect X="50" Y="40" Width="141" Height="37"/>

</Plugin>

<Plugin Name="h0">

<BoundRect X="50" Y="80" Width="141" Height="2"/>

</Plugin>

(...)

it can also be used...

depends on what one wants to do...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
Correct me if I'm wrong. Is that reusable code in place of creating additional bitmaps+masks for the line separators?

I was kind of hoping that one could do exactly that...reuse the code and bitmap to map it to different places. I'm not too hot on any of this, but kind of get the gist.

Just looked at your highlighted code...sure looks like what I'm thinking.:) I'll have a go anyway as you might be tied up at the mo. Thanks again for your help.;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
the second one is reuse...but 1st is too...

in 1st you can choose which to use (separator1Y,separator2Y or separator3Y) or make one yourself, in second code there is only one to use...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
OK thanks mate...I'll try to get to grips with it. Cheers again.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
18 mru's shortcut lancher...done! :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] citats:
Thank you for your insight...

It is appreciated.

I have been using the correct tag and I believe the correct location for the tag... but the separator does not show up... could there be something else going on with the speeddial and launcher that is blocking the separator from being visable?

Please when you have a few moments have a look at the two files.

Much appreciated!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
my first try

i think you had 2x the definition of background and separator...plus it seems that one was over the other...nevermind...

try this one for size...

and let me know....

if it does not work show me screens of it...

Noone else try cause i did not test it!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] citats:
Excellent... I'll give it a go and see what you have changed.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] seatone:
Thanx man :)

The registry was alright. The problem was in the resource...the 9th button wasn't there. So I've downloaded a better resource and now it works.

Thanx again for your idea.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] j.a:
Excellent!!! Keep it up!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
hahaha you are crazy .. lol

it's very beautifull your job:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] citats:
OK, I see what you meant about it being there twice... I copied the notification section almost verbatim from the LockScreen xml file... I guess I should have removed the background info from there... and at one point I added the separator tag to see if it need to be placed there...

Unfortunately the changes made do not yet show the separator...

Do you think the bmp resource can be used multiple times?

see attached screen of current condition.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] senna1994:
Pcarvalho - can the close button in the now screen also be programmed as power-off button of the handheld...?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ioai:
What is the Password for the zip files?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] robosiris:
You and others here are simply amazing. I can't wait to see where this leads:D.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] j.a:
Read the thread...its in here multiple times.

Hint check the 1st 2 pages.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gfreek:
pcarvalho you are doing a commendable job on SPB Mobile Shell 2.0 customisation!! don't let those who are impatient rush you on your work, I'm no graphic expert but I do know when one puts their mind into something like this it's like being an artist or painter always striving for perfection!!

So I await patiently for your final masterpiece!:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
ok.. will take a better look at it tomorrow.. today is not possible any more... off the computer now :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
have no clue of its possible...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] citats:
Sounds good... thanks!

I'll be trying to find sometime tonight to go over the xml files again. Maybe I'll try other separators to see if the results are better.

Thanks Again
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ledridge:
can a tool be made to generate layouts?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] del4:
How to access backlight submenu

With the new 3x3 layout for the 2nd page of the display, we no longer have access to the 12 shortcuts that used to appear across the top. This is fine, since we can put a shortcut to any program (or document) on any of the menus.

However, what about the pinned shortcut in the first position that used to bring up the backlight control? This was handy because it was finger-friendly, like the rest of the interface, but now it's no longer available. I would like to have a similar control for the speaker volume (and phone ringer) since the profile selector doesn't give you full control over the possible settings.

Since this is adding functionality, I'm guessing this would have to wait on Spb, but we should be able to create a shortcut to the backlight submenu, since it's already there, right?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
with my 4 page you'll have it all..shortcut to the backlight submenu and the new 3x3 layout :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
Done! ;)

had to use my 2nd method... now all you have to do is correct the now separator to be same...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cincij:
pcarvalho,

A while back you fixed some icons for me that had the blue dithering effect. I am trying to make a 9 button set now, but seem to be having the same problem. Can you tell me how you fixed this?

Thank You
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
i have already said this many times...make icons then...copy and paste to original... press save...done!

this way u dont change the bitmap format/depth...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cincij:
That is what I was trying to do. I had someones working 9 button file I was trying to put my 8 into, then add an additional icon.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
it probably doesn't matter cause i assume all use photoshop...

what is your editing program and version...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cincij:
Photoshop CS.

Not at home anymore, so I can't give better version details. I will work some more tonight. Thanks for your help.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
finalized 240x320 layout (has miner gfx errors and i will correct them later)...

any sugestions or remarks are welcome...

Edit:working on 320x240 now... as soon as ready will publish it...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hager-spider:
pcarvalho, some time back in this thread, you mentioned something about the clock and fonts (I believe). Have you ever tried changing all the fonts to a different and contrasting color to the background. In HHC, the time can be changed to different colors, and fonts (I like the green flaming font----LOL). You have been amazing in accomplishing what you have done so far. Keep up the good work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wmdunn:
Very nice work...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Damaelyon:
Juste one question : where can we test it !!! :eek:

VERY beautiful job, you're great man. ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] citats:
Interesting discovery... it's not the code I thought.

I'm going to give it a spin and see what comes of it.

Thank You very much pcarvalho!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] oyegaurav83:
hey.. great work.. also when releasing can you also post some kind of tutorial about what changes you have done.. cause i like the idea of fourth page.. but dont want to change now screen.. other people will have their own preferences as well...

also does this fourth page is shown in the up-down gesture on today screen or do we see default three pages

Thanks.. and great work..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
I know this has been asked before, but I am not sure if it was answered yet. Would this (when it is completed of course) work on a 240x240 (Treo) device, or would there be a way of tweaking it to? I am very interested in this 4 page format, and would love to use it on my 700WX.

P.S. Just out of curiosity, when you swipt from the top to get the three page shadow images (can't remember the official name) that you can go to without hitting menu, with this four page tweak, do you get four shadow pages, or still the original three? (I can only hope you know what I am getting at, I know I probably slaughtered the terminology there LOL!!!)

Thanks, great work on this!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
tutorials are possible... if i have time... just wait and see...

the fourth page does not show in "up-down" geture cause that has to do with the program... i have searched that but have not found it yet...only 3 pages are shown...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] macguffin:
Looks very good. The only comment I have is that I found the spaces between the numbers to be a bit close when I tried the clock.

But that being picky :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
Well...that wouldn't stop me from using your format (if I can), I wasjust curious about that, thanks for the fast reply!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
this is for 240x320 and 320x240 only... to make a 240x240 i would need such a device to study the layout... tryied an emulator but that thing is to slow for me :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
thats what i mean by gfx errors :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dbobanon:
Download Link

Where is the download link?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
thanks

thanks you, it's functiionel :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Wajk:
hi, thanx for information, but whitch zip make new archive?

WinZip 9?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] al_3:
I´m wondering wich software to use, to open the *.dat file

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mugglesquop:
you could try Dat View

http://www.angelfire.com/ego2/idleloop/archives/dat_view.htm

Its the program i usually use... not sure if it will work in ur situation tho, as dat files vary alot depending on use.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mrcaze:
That's what I mean... Just don't know how they named it in English version.