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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] luiggi:
Simpler way

Why don't you use your power button instead? Honestly doesn't make any sense to me to spend the time and mess with coding when you have an alternative built in your device and at your finger tip, unless your Trinity lacks of this functionality......
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mikhe69:
Yes my trinity has this functionality.:)

I just think is more handy, when your "playing" with SPB MS and in the end just press that button and thats it!!:D

But you think is hard to find that function????

I just asked because i already seen that button customized with some other function instead of just closing the app, so I thought it will be easy to assign what I want.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] luiggi:
Here it is

Hope it matches your expectations too!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] luiggi:
It won't be easy

Unless I've miss it, but I don't recall have seen a tewak that makes the tab buttons launch an application other than the launchers, now screen and contacts with their multiple variants. Howver there's a way to add mru icons in each of the screens. On the other hand, you have to do some searching to find the correct command to trigger the display off.

Good luck!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wyzepro:
Thanks Luiggi.....I really appreciate it!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] martyotaku:
hey luiggi can u post that blue theme (u posted the analog clock a few pages ago) looks simple and nice ...please thanx
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mikhe69:
Ok Luiggi,

At least now I have some information about this:D

I'm dont' understand about programing, so I will wait to see if someone

like the idea and give it a try!!:D

Thank you so much for the answer.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mateotti:
Thanks Luigi, you did a great job? I'm now loocking for the theme to have exactly the same appearance that in the picture that you posted. Can you help me?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] davehutch:
No credit for me luiggi?

My Bell & Ross clock thread for S2U2 last month:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2072582&postcount=133
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fly2279:
more lines to the calendar

I've seen a few layouts that have 4 or 5 lines to the calendar on the "now" screen. What do I edit to do that? I've tried changing the settings in the registry to display 5 instead of the normal max of 3 but I'm sure I have to edit an xml file, just don't know which one or how.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] luiggi:
Thank you for the comment

Yes, is really simple and fits my personal needs and taste. I´ll be posting the theme in the Themes thread shortly
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] luiggi:
ooops!

Hi Davehutch! Believeme that I didn´t take any file from you, unless you own the copyrights of the images published in the Bell & Ross web site. On the oter hand in fact you may see differences between the 2 clocks: 1.- Yours is intended for S2U2, mine for Spb Mobile Shell 2 2.- Yours has the knob on the right side, mine doesn´t 3.- Yours has a wonderful job on the hands (it resembles the real thing), mine has narrower and longer look alike hands.

And last, if some one deserves credit for this job is the people partcipating particurlarly in this thread and the other 2 threads in the forum, and to be fair to the russian site 4pda too, thanks to them I´ve learned how to for Spb MS2 and use graphics software, xml editing, decrypt and encrypt dat and zip files, and so on. So I´m sorry but I can not give you the credit for that, but surely I commend you for the great job you did for the S2U2 and I appreciate it.

PS I don´t even use S2U2 custom clocks, but after seeing your referred post I thing I will to make it match with MS2

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Aarya:
Add custom color?

Sorry if this has been asked, but I've spent the last couple of days searching and could not find anything. I was wondering if there was a way to add or replace a color in the "use color based theme". I have a specific color That would go great with my new icons, but it's not in thier selection. Could there be a text file with RGB numbers?

Thx in advance
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kangmas:
Hai, mate. Have you completed this fantastic skin yet. Care to upload here. Keep up the good work, mate. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LivinOne:
any updates?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aragorn21:
Is anybody aware to make onewith the mac os lepoard wallpaper instead of having something just blue ??

thanks in advance
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] martyotaku:
hey luiggi im sorry for being a nag....but did u ever post that blue theme?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] luiggi:
Not yet

The reason is that I have ready the set up for portrait only and I wouldn´t call it a "theme" being an incomplete job without the landscape part. If you or somebody else want it this way I can post the files right away.

Cheers!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cincij:
Still working on Landscape mode. Hope to have it finished within the next few days.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
the program weather is weatherpanel... with skin is here
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mrcaze:
Mobile Shell, as I understand, uses programs own icons.

I suggest you to try SK Shortcut Manager. It allows you to change icon for any program system-wide. However it works only with *.dll (and possibly *.icl files).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] met3ora:
Hey guys, here's a quick tutorial on how to remove the top 12 pinned icons from your Launcher and center the 6 grid launcher.

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Copy qa_layouts.dat to your computer. Using a WinZip, extract Launcher.xml, using the password b0fm18zq.

Opening up Launcher.xml in Notepad, you can see how MS reads the file. There are a few layouts that are defined, and are based on screen size and orientation. For my Kasier, 240x320 and 320x240 are the portrait and landscape layouts, respectively.

Under <Layout Name="240x320"> and more specifically under <Plugins Extends="Default">, we find what we're looking for. The first 12 plugins (named rN) are the "pinned menu" buttons, and the next 6 (named mN) are the large buttons. Defined in each Plugin is the following line (with variation on the numbers, of course) <BoundRect X="0" Y="182" Width="39" Height="45"/>. So obviously X and Y are the X and Y positions in pixels, and Width and Height are, well, width and height also in pixels.

If you'd like to remove all the 12 pinned menu buttons, simply remove the following lines (for r0-rB):

<Plugin Name="r0">

<BoundRect X="0" Y="182" Width="39" Height="45"/>

</Plugin>

Just delete them, and then they're done. Now, this leaves the bigger launcher menu sitting on the bottom, looking pretty odd since there's a big void on the top. To even out the void, I moved each of those big buttons up 45 pixels. Why 45? Well, 45 was the height of one of the icons in the pinned menu, so moving it up that much would leave 45 pixels above and below the big grid.

So just simply subtract 45 from each Y coordinate of each plugin m0-m5, giving you (for m0-m2) 46 and (for the next 3) 137.

Now, the grid still doesn't line up. This is something I've yet to figure out. Fortunately, we can just hide the grid by finding this line at the top of the XML file, under <General>, which is <Int Name="LineOpacity" Value="64"/>. Simply change the Value to 0, and that will hide the grid lines until we can figure out a way to move them around.

There you go, now the 6 button launcher is in the middle of your Launcher screen, with none of those pesky 12 pinned items. Do the same thing under <Layout Name="320x240">, except of course change the numbers so that your 6 grid is in the middle of your screen.

Save the file.

Go back to WinZip and add Launcher.xml back into qa_layouts.dat, remembering to overwrite the old Launcher.xml and remembering to encrypt it again with the same password (which is b0fm18zq).

Now replace qa_layouts.dat in the \Program Files\Spb Mobile Shell\ folder and soft reset your phone.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lepsyfou:
thank you amigo it's good turorial :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] texarcana:
Little question:

The color themes in Mobile Shell are really nice (including the wallpaper).

If you choose a theme and then close down Mobile Shell, it still keeps applied to the windows mobile shell.

Is there anyway to extract that? I searched like every directory on the ppc but i cant find anything.

My intention is to transform those Mobile Shell themes into a standard .tsk file, but i dont have a clue where to look.

If anyone could help, its very appreciated.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Alkhal:
Take a look here.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cp_kirkley:
This is true, but when manually adding links to the menu, you can change the icon that appears next to the link, and SPB has a mini icon pack included.. its pretty much the default pack that ships with Pocket Plus. This pack has to be somewhere in there. if its possible to replace the other appearance related things in Mobile Shell, why not this? From my viewpoint, why wouldnt other icon packs created for PocketPlus be able to be either swapped in, or added to existing pack?

Thanks for answering, i was beginning to think "The Man" was ignoring me... *sniffle*
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
small battery icon now...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] blazingwolf:
I did that and it didn't work. Now, suddenly it is working. Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bedav:
Excuse me,

could you explain how to reconstruct the .dat after we have modified .bmp files.

thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mackaby007:
Thanks a bunch!!

Thanks for sharing pcarvalho...great changes IMHO.:)

I so much prefer the HTC Home icons for the lower taskbar....I've become accustomed to the symbols now.:P

1) Do you or anyone else for that matter know how we can make the 'Now' screen our default 'Today' screen like the HTC Home plug-in?

2) Any chance (as mentioned here somewhere before) that we can get to customise the small shortcut icons?

3) Last question. Anyway we can get rid of the option for Photo-contacts? and replace it with a shortcut to something more useful....like Resco File explorer or a contacts app of our choice?

If not, thanks for all your contributions so far anyway.;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] millercentral:
Exciting ativity in this thread. A couple of questions:

Can the HTC Home today-plugin be contained in a tab in the Mobile Shell today plug in (I can't seem to make it work)

Can the layout of the Mobile Shell Today Plug in tab content (specifically, the time tab) be modified?

Can the keypad buttons of the SPB Contacts app be modified to look like HTC Touch Dialer keys?

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pcarvalho:
well using winzip the basic steps are:

first rename from .dat 2 .zip

open

password is on 2nd page of this topic

extract

make changes and save

replace in zip

goto menu actions>encrypt...

put same password

save and close

rename 2 .dat

put in ppc

done ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lunarken:
is there anyway to change the wallpaer of Shell Today? sick of the color skin.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vandinhle:
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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] luiggi:
8 Menu buttons

For the sake of finger operation here´s a couple of modified qa_layouts.dat files only for 240x320 display devices, the titles for the 7th & 8th buttons didn´t come right (not visible) so I made a second version without titles for all buttons.

Credit for lower row icons to pcarvalho as per his post #99 in this thread.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tflardi:
wher is the password for this files
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
Thanks you are awesome...

Keep up the good work...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] luiggi:
No need of password

No need of password, just unzip and copy the .dat file to your MS2 folder
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] texarcana:
Ok thanks, now i have the wallpapers, but i still need something that has all the colors (for the windows layout)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] anilkaparthi:
Here you go my friend...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] abumhmmd1:
can we get it ??

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http://www.actualitemobile.com/forum/index.php?topic=1195.2085

Its a french site !!

& I LK it , bt , dnt know how 2 get it !!

:confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] davehutch:
Hi again luiggi

I wasn't referring to you using my files at all luiggi as they are most obviouly different. The first thing I noticed was the different hands and colour.

I was only surprised that after never having seen the B&R clock anywhere on these forums a second one appeared in the same colour (ish) as my post a few weeks before.

You did a very nice job and I would have merely appreciated a reference to my post as a clock for any S2U2 users who would like a similar clock if they didn't use MS2, or indeed wanted to match the two apps.

Of course, this only applies if you saw my clock and it inspired you to make your own version for MS2.

If that's not the case and it's purely a conincidence that you made yours shortly after mine appeared then I apologise for any misunderstanding.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
Finally I've figured out how to make new icon-set (Thanks to Luigi)

here is my first attempt ....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mfrost67:
ThiloS,

Any chance you can post your work? I like what you have done with the 2 pages of contacts.

Thanks!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wyzepro:
Nice icons!!....one question/request...instead of games can we get a file explorer icon?....I have my spb set up with file explorer as the 9th button and this would allow me to use the theme without the games icon renamed file explorer...thanks....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
glad u like it....

here u go...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wyzepro:
Thank you friend!!....these are quite nice!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] luiggi:
My pleasure

What a "first attempt", your icons look great! Than you for them
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aragorn21:
managing now screen

Can somebody help :

I'd like to put on now screen a shortcut to S2U2 and Wireless Manager...

How can I do ?

Then my second slide is a agenda view : how may we see tasks ???

Last request : can anybody make me a .dat with this background ??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wyzepro:
Using the "wyzepro" version now!!....man these are the nicest so far with my current theme.....consider doing tab buttons as well.....very nice
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aragorn21:
Another Idea is to put on first page the Weather

like this

but coming from here,

I can move all (status, profiles, and so on) but cannot put weather information

May someone help me doing a lockscreen.xml ???

EDIT -

Anyway this is no more needed I switch to digital clock, then I have a nice Clock on it...

EDIT -
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
What do u think of these !!!???
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
Extra Orange

This is another Icon-set...

Enjoy...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
Windows-ish

Yet another new icon-set...

Enjoy...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dirtred:
more wood

i am using the wood layout for mobile shell.found this skin for spb time and was wondering if the wood can be added to this as a background?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wyzepro:
exactly!!!....this is what's good about this forum....I'm using robodad's point ui with the five tab row will this support it?

hey you are really blasting them with these new icon sets...this thread should get SPB's attention
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azzambm:
i'm afraid to say NO, this support only the 4 "tab row"...

but don't worry the 5 "tab row" is COMING....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
Latest Vista flavour skin combination.

This is the skin i'm working on.

- Vista background

- 4 menu buttons (+ closure) with transfluent background

- Current time on all pages (except weather and other secondary pages)

- 12 smaller control panel buttons & 4 quicklaunch items.

- New(er) transparant button background for the 16 programs in launcher.

- Pretty good weather for me for this week ;)

​

(on my wishlist: I would like to have to have this wireless popup screen by pressing a button on the first screen):

and not the default WM Comm Manager screen. Anyone any ideas?

I saw a russian page that made a quicklaunch for the first page:

with only 1 item that you can customize to be this Comm Manager button but I want this to popup and not just to show the default WM Comm Manager screen, like this:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dirtred:
more wood done

not taking any credit for this but i think it goes well with the wood layout.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
A little off topic I know, but I gotta know...where did you find that clock? Is it a new one on the SPB site, or somewhere else?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] brianlau:
Hey, I am currently using your Theme and I LOVE IT. Looks great and the icon choices are great. My only problem at the moment is I cannot get games to show up. I read in another post that someone was tweeking their reg but not sure where to look. Could you please point in the right direction. Thanks.

Brian
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wyzepro:
+1!!!........
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dirtred:
http://www.spbclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11265

i jst changed the background
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] syrguy1969:
Duh....more skins in the forum....I should've guesses....my bad!!!!!

Thanks a lot!! :-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Aarya:
Custom Theme colors

Hi:

I was wondering if anyone has figured out how to add custome colors to the color theme?

Thanks

Aarya
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wyzepro:
I need those tab buttons and that background!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
Vista Mobile Shell (Updated)

For anyone interested... My latest updated Vista Mobile Shell (Portrait version), see also my previous post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2138758&postcount=1204 and http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2104750&postcount=1066

- Vista background

- 4 menu buttons (+ closure) with transfluent background

- Current time on all pages (except weather and other secondary pages)

- 12 smaller control panel buttons and 4 quicklaunch items.

- New(er) transparant button background for the 16 programs in launcher.

- Updated weather icons

Does anyone already know how to make the popup screen for the Comm Manager instead of getting the original WM one? :confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] luiggi:
This is probably how

I´m not sure, but looks like is the integration with the Phone Suite, check here

http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/phonesuite/tour2.html
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
UPD - This is probably how

If you from the SBP Mobile Shell to: "Tools" and "Phone Profiles", "SPB Phone Suit" (in case you have this program) or even the "taskmanager" they did the same but unfortunately you can't customize or add this in a menu. Maybe something in the registry.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mikhe69:
Is it possible without MRUpage?

And how to get 12 buttons in programs page? It's just like the 9th button...

Just add in the registry??

Great great theme
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
Is it possible without MRUpage?

Yup, you could add this in the registry if you don't know how you could use this cab file http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2097958&postcount=113 as base like I did (cz it has the needed registry files in the cab already.... and just copy my files over it.

Does anyone know how to add it to the registry (without needing a registry program) by just clicking a CAB file and reboot?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] M@ster:
Anyone tried to customize Now screen programs? Something like add "Task" at Now screen and change default alarm program?

I tried to edit registry options but no change on Now screen..

Any idea?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ehsas65:
Calander

currently when I am using spb shell organizer it open default htc calander.I want to change orginazier to be assigned to agena fusion for calandar and tasks.How to do that.Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jeffrey2000:
Changed the first screen...

I've been playing around with my previous vista layout a bit and also changed the battery/operator icons, what do you think?

Before and after:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mikhe69:
I like it!!!

Keep up with your work!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hofshi:
Please delete this. sorry.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Aarya:
Icon size

Hello:

Very impressive stuff here from very tallented people, nice work :)

I was wondering if it is possible to change icon sizes? I've made some bigger icons to fill out the pages a bit better but they don't seem to stay. When I first boot up my phone they seem to work fine (Image 1), but after the phone comes out of sleep mode, the images become cropped (Image 2). Then after awhile, some come back to the new size (Image 3). I was wondering if theres a file with the icon sizes that need to be edited?

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Thanx :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] insol:
Sorry about the noob question but can someone give me a simple set of instruction for changing one of the bottom buttons to pull up a new page (i.e. weather or another launcher). I have been trying to change RoboDad's X button (the one the far right of his skin).

What I have tried so far is editing his tab5 in main.xml

His original:

<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.Tab" Name="Tab5" ID="0">
<Int Name="Image" Value="3"/>
</Plugin>

my edits:

<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.Tab" Name="Tab5" ID="0">
<String Name="Form" Value="Subform"/>
<String Name="Dialog" Value="Weather"/>
<Int Name="Image" Value="3"/>
</Plugin>

When I make my changes the button is there, can be pressed but it doesn't go anywhere. I'm pretty sure I am making the dat right cause I can put it all back and it will work.

I have tried several things including using Launcher and the Data string spb.data.launcher. I have tried pointing to my own XML file instead of weather (I am assuming the dialog item references another xml file by its value name). Can someone give me some step by step instructions?

Thanks for all the effort you guys have already put in here.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bchandler78:
Any chance of getting a link to download your latest work.. Loved the icons, would be perfect if you would delete the MRU page....

Thanks,

B.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] formula84:
I would also like to try your latest vista package, but i think the mru page rocks keep these great themes coming.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Aarya:
I have gone through the Mru.xml in the layout dat and can't find anything that would cause the larger icons to crop to the smaller size. I've even tried moving them around with the x y coordinates, and they still crop to smaller size after the phone wakes up. Is there an xml I'm over looking?

Thx