yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Themes] AthenaLod:
This might sound stupid, but how can i access the old start menu after installing this app?
[Windows Mobile Themes] l3v5y:
You'll need to use the button! Or, you'll need to map the start menu to another button.
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
I`m sorry, i forgot that, because i dont use this: For the old startmenü just press your windows button on phone, maybe i cange this and then you can press battery-icon or i make a new button for startmenu.

But dont say i must do that because i wrote that just for my phone and for the things i need, so i can`t make it well for anybody. But you are right, people need that.

OKAY here it is: i reworked the taskbar: The taskbar is more transparent. the battery is more white and without text. your operator, Date and Buttons are more centered now.

And as a SPECIAL: A_C-MUTE with working finger !:D (was a hard work)

- AM/PM and Alarm will come till Monday. If you want i can make shortcuts when you press on Date (Calendar) and Time (Clocksetting, Alarm)

- All graphics including duck and A_C are part of the zip file in first Post.

If you allready have my theme, just replace the head0.png and the Battery-BG.png and the xml file.

- there is still a little bug with the shadow of the email and @ - Icons, i will make new ones. If its all done and you like it i will do another comlete different them (and dont forget to donate PAYBAL), Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Themes] black_shadow69:
Nice....It's really great...:D
[Windows Mobile Themes] Ixtana_ran:
Icons not working.

Firstly thanks for this and all your icons, its moving me over to Ultimate Launch side, away from PointUI. (I just miss fiddling with my phone).

I can't seem to get any of the icons to work, except for mute. Changed paths in .xml and still nothing, concentrating on getting bluetooth to work? If I press BluetoothOnOff.exe in total commander it works. Also WiFi icon always reads on.?

How do I find out the name of my e-mail account is it as simple as outlook E-mail?

Have attached my xml file if anyone wants to check it over for any glaring errors
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
okay here is a little update:

- am/pm should work now, please give me a screenshot because i cant test it

- if you tab on Date, calendar opens.

- new President-mute, a real political statement on your phone !!!!:D

If you know someone else who better should be quiet post me :)

- reworked the A_C Mute Button with grey background.

All files in post 1
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
okay i checked you xml file.

1. You made a correct path to the smartutilities bluetooth toogle. This should work, but BatteryStatus has already function for this, so replace your line with my original path:

<Item class="registry_tracker" ontap="ToggleBluetooth" >

2. if you open your windows messaging-inbox you see your emailaccounts and textmessages (see picture): Mine are namend with freenet.de, Outlook-E-Mail and SMS/MMS. So try it with "Outlook-E-Mail" or just again with "inbox".

3. When you say no button is working: is "program file" the correct name of your program folder ?

There must be a big mistake :confused:, because toggle bluetooth and toggle wifi and Taskmanager are functions of Batterystatus, they must work. Is your taskmanger activated ? (options of Batterystatus)

There could only be a problem with the correct showing of my icons.

Maybe someone else could take a look ? I try it again tomorrow its late now.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Ixtana_ran:
Thanks. for checking, fixed it after reading your reply checked and had a different version of BS installed, Wifi still on on but all icons work.

Will try and get wifi showing correctly later and if possible change sms to open pocketCM. Thank you again.
[Windows Mobile Themes] wyzepro:
no if I have to replace the entire task bar to get the big x button that's cool....
[Windows Mobile Themes] jym04:
This is just great. Finally got rid of the taskbar :D

Still its a bit not-practical when you're inside an application or menu and just want to leave. I have to press the ok button, or close the app through a task manager menu. The situation described is in the picture attached.

Maybe I just got something misconfigured.

Also, with Ultimate Launcher, is it possible to have only the first row (with X button, battery gauge etc) in every tab?

If not, when you launch a program through another tab, will the transparent top space (where taskbar was) show whatever is in the tab you launched it from?

EDIT: also attached a picture showing how my today screen is. That's BennTech's binary clock over there. Still trying to work out that grey space above the date (from head2 png I believe).
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
-its right, with UL you have the problem that you cant see the new taskbar on other taps, because UL does not allow to show a plugin like batterystatus theme twice. so on other tabs of UL make a new Shortcut on upper right side to windows-batterystatus-tasklist.exe (see rotating picture). i post you my icos for that tomorrow.

- if you open a application after 1 minute UL goes back to first tab (Settings of UL) and you will see the new taskbar in background again.

- i can make a .xml-datei file only with taskbar, i only have to delete row 2-4.

- most of my graphics are made with this s2u2 background , so they will look ugly with other BS themes.
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
okay i made a TASKBAR ONLY, just replace the xml.file with the new one and replace the old head0.png file with the new one you find in the zip ("Taskbar only"), Post 1.

Here you can find a x-button for ultimatelaunch, it works with 32,24 an 16 Pixels.
[Windows Mobile Themes] nir36:
i'm sorry... but what exactly do you do if all you want is to replace the taskbar.. without touching ANYTHING else...
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
deleted.......
[Windows Mobile Themes] nir36:
are you... ok?

i didn't complain about anything.. i was just asking what do i need to do if i want to keep everything else and just replace the taskbar with the taskbar you created.
[Windows Mobile Themes] jym04:
I guess you guys misunderstood each other.

I think nir36 just wanted to know what to do in order to change only the taskbar.

nir36: just follow the instructions at the first post and overwrite the bluephone.xml at \Windows\Batterystatus with the one bluemetalaxe just posted above you.
[Windows Mobile Themes] nir36:
Thank you jym... :)

i understand i need to install Batterystatus for this..

good day
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
SORRY NIR, i totally missunderstood you (im tired and my english is bad:().

Okay: First download the zip and follow all my instructions in Post one.

1. Now open the folder "only Taskbar" in the zip.

2. There you find a "bluephone.xml" (This .xml allways "says" Batterystatus how it has to look and work, i made now a new one just with the taskbar) Put it in your "Batterystatus"-folder.

3. In the "only Taskbar"-folder you will find a graphic called "head0.png" (darkgrey Background of the Taskbar). Put this picture in the Bluephone-Folder in the "Batterystatus"-folder.

4. Reload this new theme by holding with stylus on Batterystatus, choose "Theme reload" (or something like this)

NOW you will have your normal todayscreen without Softkeys at bottom and without normal Windows Taskbar. If you dont like it:delete vjtoggle.. from your startfolder of windows and just uninstall batterystatus. So you can´t do anything wrong.

Sorry again, think i will go to bed now.
[Windows Mobile Themes] nir36:
Thank you veru much :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Slayer23:
Thank for your efforts, really good job, but a bit unusable, since the battery status task manager X button does not work as OK button, or at least for me it doesen't (i maybe have different version of bat.status, cuz i have one installed for a long time) and i really miss old WM start menu
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
-This is right, it does not work as a real x-button, it just opens a small taskmanager like the one from HTC. But i found no other solution yet. You must tap on the button and then on the two xx or the program you want to close. I just use the buildin taskmanger of batterystatus for this. If this is not working tap on the "ok"-Button of your phone.

-I`m working on Startmenu-problem and will post solution. You can use the "windows"-button on your phone

If Eumel or anyone else knows a solution who ist better with xml-programing :) ?

i must say im not a big programer i like more doing graphics and jut brought all this together.
[Windows Mobile Themes] nir36:
oh... i can't put it above my HTC Home... :(

it's a wonderful taskbar... and i LOVE how much space you get by using vjtoggle... but i can't do without the taskbar being above HTC home.. it's ugly :(
[Windows Mobile Themes] BustedNuts1:
really curious about this app, really tired with HTC home

would it be too much to ask if anybody could make a youtube video of this in action?

.cab file coming soon?
[Windows Mobile Themes] nemeros111:
I can't remove taskbar in botton!!!!!!!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Themes] eumel79:
it's just a skin, not an app.
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
Eumel is right, this is just a skin/theme for the software Batterystatus, a today plugin. i made a skin that has something like a taskbar for it. i use the vjtoggle-tool to hide the normal taskbar so the batterystatus- plugin goes to the top of the screen, thats all.

1. if you have htc home, it is locked as the first plugin of your screen. there IS a registry tweak to "unlock Htc home" and to get my taskbarbar in first position, google please

2 @ nemeros :Whats do you mean? Taskbar, Tray or softkeys ?
[Windows Mobile Themes] l3v5y:
Advanced Config can unlock HTC Home.
[Windows Mobile Themes] nir36:
yeah... i found it afterwards and changed it...everything looks great besides the fact that i have the scroll bar on the right.. anybody has an idea how to disable it? hate the grey ****.
[Windows Mobile Themes] lastnikita:
hey that was my idea :D

I stopped developing it because of time and also vjtoggle wasn't reliable enough.

It won't work correctly on every device/os, won't work after rotation sometimes, etc.

Too bad VJ never did that next version he wanted to :)

Well, anyway nice work with the skin
[Windows Mobile Themes] Slayer23:
Well since it's just app_launch, why don't we use some app to simulate an OK key - like in wisbar, and do the same for start menu and implement another buton, that way we'd be able to use either WK Task for the new simulated OK button or just make new one just for the battery status task manager/launch it by tapping operator name, that'd be a solution?
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
I made somthing new, see Post 1. Now highlighted Icons, 2 different xml -files and most of the graphices are reworked. (The grey Icons are bigger than my iphonish one and one xml did not work anymore). See new pictures

@Lastnikita: BS and vjtoggle work really good together on my touchcruise/wm6.0 since 1 Week. But i havent tried screen-rotation or other OS or ppc till now. Couldn`find something about your Idea, and i searched a long time for a solution. But if your god in .xml maybe you can help me ?

@ The Problems are still there:

- No Menu button. The button ist not the Problem (:D) but i dont were to link the button ?

- No real x-button, maybe we can do a linkt to htc-x-button ?, i dont know, xml is not my native language :rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Themes] ultravox:
I'm new to BS, but i think the 2 problems could be solved using mortscipts already available to call start menu and to close apps.

Probably it would work like this:

<Item class="start_app" path="script path" title="menu" absolute="1">

both scripts are available i.e. here: http://rotlaus-software.de/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1171 ; it's a rltoday screen also hiding top and bottom bar.

VJ tool keeps 2 or 3 pixels from top bar visible to allow the simulated click action. I don't know if it works with top bar fully hide.

VJ ok button could be another solution, but i never tested it.

I'm planing to use BS with full screen (VGA). when I have the time i'll try to share the code ( i'm terrible with graphics...) .

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
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[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
Thanks for your help. there seems to be a solution in the newest BS. i ll try that and then your ideas.

The startmenu works well with vjtoggle (when pressing the windows buttom on Phone)
[Windows Mobile Themes] WildSioux:
I have a question...I am using PointUI which already has its own taskbar. There is an option to use either the PointUI one or the original WM Taskbar. So I could use this with that option selected.

My question...Is there a way to make the "X" a smaller "x" ???

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
Of course, but you`r the first one that wants a smaller x :rolleyes: Everyone hates the small "normal" button. so this is realy funny, but possible.

The size of the x-button is just a graphic/picture from me (see in the greyphone-folder)

But i had to do many changes in the xml-file so that everything would fit together and shrink the x-button graphic and must rework the taskbar-graphic and the following graphics. so that you dont have spaces between everything.

Sorry, this is too much, because i`m at the moment very bussy to get Windows StartMenu and a real/better x-button to work.
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
UPDATE SEE Post 1 Menu and x-Button
[Windows Mobile Themes] Slayer23:
Nice :)

Good job man, thanks for your effort
[Windows Mobile Themes] Fresh2Death:
can we have that head phone today theme also bluemetalaxe. it matches everything so perfect in ur screenshot. or does it already come in the zip file?
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
1. I FORGOT: in the zip is the Newest version of batterystatus plugin, you NEED that for working with all new functions !

2. The duck, mr. bush and ac -graphics are in the zip file, folder "othner graphics". just take the 2 icons and put them in the greyphone or bluephone folder to replace the "normal" icons

3. Can someone give me a screenshot or feedback so that i see if am/pm is working correct and at the right position ?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Fresh2Death:
i really like the headphone today theme in ur screenshots. share share share :)

i think i seen someone else ask for it also. it looks very cool man. :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
so when you like it so much why dont you read the last post and download your favorite ;) ???
[Windows Mobile Themes] Fresh2Death:
lol well i followed the instructions but in the end... my batterystatus jus ends up looking crazy and un-organized lol. so thats why i didnt kno that the headphone wallpaper was part of the zip file. cause it doesnt show up on my phone after i do everything.
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
ohh, you are talking about the wallpaper ? thought you mean the green duck with headphones, sorry. i ´ll post it tonight.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Fresh2Death:
yeap :) that was exactly what i was talking about. lemme kno when its up :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
okay here are the wallpapers.

Working on a Taskbar update. First of all I manged to show an active network connection when wifi ist on. It was hard but it works.... when you have no connection, see nothing.

But i think thats enought. Emails are shown in Icon, but anything else that you really miss in the Taskbar ?
[Windows Mobile Themes] ultravox:
Yep! :p

Data connection status and bluetooth status.

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Themes] Fresh2Death:
:confused: question here... do we need to create the folder called "Program Files" because on my phone, the only folder i see under windows is "\Windows\Programs"

just wondering why the theme doesnt show up correct on my phone.
[Windows Mobile Themes] wearefree:
I have HButton installed and I was able to assign the "OK/Close" function inside the HButton program to one of the HButton links. This function differs from the wm's original OK/Close function as HButton's OK/Close function simulates a click on the right-upper corner so it's like using a stylus to poke that corner.

Here is the idea: if you could link your big X button (which is the one I've been searching for ages) to that HBotton "OK/Close" function (assigned as a HButton#.lnk in programs folder) then the big X button can really close programs. I looked the .xml files attached in the first post and seems like this was linked to the tasklist.exe program. Would the .lnk file work?
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
@Fresh2Death: Im sorry, i dont know what the correct name of everyones windows Program folder is. maybe "programs" or "program files", something like this. In german its "Windows\Programme", you have to to put the "smart...." in that folder and correct the .xml file to that folder. But you

dont need

to create a new folder. Its only working if my xml "knows" where to find the files/apps.I know this is a little bit hard for new Users.

@ ultravox WIFI (with or without Networkconnection) and Bluetooth for the Taskbar are done !!! I must make some more checks, create some new smaller Icons for this things and fit all three xml and graphicfolders (dammend, why did i do 3 themes !!!) and then check again every skin. So that will last till tomorrow, because tonight is Poker :cool: But at the moment, its running stable on my phone.

I also made a change so that the wifi button reacts after 1 second, not after 3 seconds

- the Good news: no more apps are needed, you will just have to replace the .xml and the graphicfolder.

@wearefree: Nice Idea, and a link to that wont be any problem, but as you wrote HButton simulates a click on the upper right corner, but now there is no more longer the original x/okay button, so this link would just start Batterystatus close/Taskmanager.Just like it is now. I think ?
[Windows Mobile Themes] ultravox:
Could you please also create a VGA version of those icons?:cool:

Thx in advance.
[Windows Mobile Themes] lastnikita:
Héhé :)

Search for vjtoggle in battery status thread and you should find my post ;)

For Ok button I used VJOkButt, so that guy is definitely handy :D

I'm not a god with xml but have played with BS a lot (see as an example my solution to test themes faster, which I never developed further because no one showed real interest in it :( was planning to develop a complete visual theme creator at that time !!)
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
i know you from forum.

vjokbutt sounds great, think this is the one i NEED.

think the best way will be: ontap to vjokaybutt and onhold to taskmanager ? thank you !!!

seems that we ´ve got everything now together for a real topbar. wifi and bluetooth are also ready. update will come.

can make the new icons also in VGA.

the taskbar should also work in VGA, but you have to make the head0.png, the x buton and battery bigger and fit some things in the xml.
[Windows Mobile Themes] HuiBuh_1:
Font for Signal Strenght

Hi,

I know it's not really the right thread, but the topic is very similar....

I also tried to remove my topbar from the windows Today-Screen (with success) , but I would like to have the indicators (Signal Strenght, Sound On/Off Vibrate) as part of a font, not an icon. My intention is to write (with rl-today) just a special letter in the free space which will then be automatically displayed as the right symbol.

Is there a font which include the above mentioned "icons" (or similar icons) or do I really have to create a own font??

Best Regards

huibuh_1
[Windows Mobile Themes] flippy:
Has anyone been able to solve the problems with vjtoggletoday and switching to and from landscape and portriat? IE phones with hardware keyboards??
[Windows Mobile Themes] Fresh2Death:
oh its no problem bro. i figured it out by reading ur xml file and looking for the location it was pointing to and i put it in the right spot. thx alot tho. "reading is fundamental :rolleyes:" ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] ultravox:
it's already done: check tltoday forum :

http://rotlaus-software.de/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1171

cheers
[Windows Mobile Themes] HuiBuh_1:
Thanks for the link. It is a start, but i didn't find a font with all the "pictures" I would like: Speaker on (volume high) speaker on (volume normal) vibrate, silent, BT on, BT off WiFi on/off different pictures for Signal strenght, Battery meter and so on.

But I will look further...

huibuh_1
[Windows Mobile Themes] ultravox:
apart of the sound, all it's included in rltodayall font, you just have to play with rltoday
[Windows Mobile Themes] bluemetalaxe:
- vjtoogle is not working in landscape, its a alpha version that has never been made to beta. Sorry no way, but i use landscape never, browser opera mini or pictureviewer like s2v or musicplayer like s2p have their owne landscape.

- finished the taskbar. see first picture. This is what it looks normaly and on the second picture you see everything that is possible with the new mute icon, the Icon for Bluetooth and for wifi with Network connection.

Have to do some more tests because I had Problems with the Wifi-buttons because the registry shows sometimes different values when Wifi is on (therefore you see for testing a 5 over the Wifi Button). But i made more Icons for that case.

I made this things for people using the taskbar only.

- and im just testing vjokButt for closing Programs.
[Windows Mobile Themes] HuiBuh_1:
Thanks,

after playing yesterday evening with the font I relaized this.

I'm really interested in your testing of the vjokbutt, but my trials have shown: it only works as a HW-Button. If you assign it to the taskbar grafik and click on it, the first thing you do is activating the today-Screen. The close/ok command is then send to the Today-Screen and nothing happens.

Have you found a solution for this (I really like to have the x-button and send close/ok to the running apllication).

huibuh_1
[Windows Mobile Themes] lastnikita:
Yes I guess so.. minimize would be better than close in my opinion, but I have a 128mb device :)

Cool :)

I had something nice for a launcher and for big BT/wifi buttons that could easily be pushed by thumb. At that time BS had less options to play with though, and still was buggy with executing apps. Now I think everything's cleared so I guess I might give it a shot as well :)

Please make a VGA enabled skin too !

As soon as I'll have some spare time I'll check those files back and will share them with you.
[Windows Mobile Themes] wearefree:
You guys may need to consider the HButton + BS combo. I use the "OK/Close" function inside HButton and assigned that to my OK button to use it to close programs, and I have also assigned "BT toggle" and "WiFi toggle" to other HButtons and assigned those to the softkeys on today screen, and disabled the bottom bar using Dcinobar. (actually this is part of the iStyle theme I modified for myself).

If you use these HButton functions in the BS xml file then maybe the switch on/off for BT and WiFi could be easier so no messing with registry.

Just my 2 cents.
[Windows Mobile Themes] HuiBuh_1:
I found a solution myself.

Maybe you can use it for your project as well: When tapped on the new taskbar the active window changes to the Today-Screen. My "work-around" is : I kept the original windows taskbar (but set the height to 1px). I created a small MortScript which opens the taskmanager (click on the original taskbar, position 215,1)) chooses the entry at the top (the last window before the tap) with a click on 186,66 and then clicks in the original task bar (position 230,1) at the close/ok or whatever button is "displayed".

So I can use the original close/ok button, without seeing it.

Regards

huibuh_1