yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] APBilbo:
Looks awesome!!! :). Really nice work, I look forward testing it :). About your questions:

1) For people.... may be something like "PALS"? And for settings...."TUNE"... Anyway I think that CONF is just right :).

2) As I see you have done lot of working with the setup I suppose you already know the tutorial. It's true that it's a little bit unupdated.... So, here's how everything is organiced:

- 1rst layer: the background of the today screen back. Will be shown only if the transparency is set to true on the skins.

- 2nd layer: rowbackimage (this one is not documented...). Here you have an example:

<param name="rowbackimage" value="rowback.png"/>

What it will do is wrap the image to the row size behind it. This image can be a transparent png to show the 1rst layer.

Hope this helps!! If you still have doubts, let me know!!

- 3rd layer: icons :).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
Ok thanks al lot!

I managed to get a different BG in the programs tab, by editing the skin.xml in skins/programs. But what if I want to add a BG to e.g. the HOME tab? The settings for the home tab are all in the config.xml and when I add

<param name="rowbackimage" value="rowback.png"/>

to it, it wont load it up. Is this because the home tab is cut up into different rows?

If you could explain me how to add a ackground into the main config.xml file I would appreciate that alot.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] juju-35:
[solved] 0% Where???!

Read the instructions but NO COMPRENDO!

I hit the menu of the windows explorer on the background image but have NO option to set 0% or any percent.

The result is the image looks like semi-transparent and an ugly pinkish instead of bright orange-red.

Any idea where do I get the option to set the percentage (of trasnparency?).

Juju

[SOLVED]

Ok, I guess there is an extra step. NEed to click on image within the explroer and that brings an image viewer which has the menu option to set as background, and then does have the transparency option... I guess you may want to add the extra step in the explanation something like, 'clcik on the image in the explorer to open the image viewer...'
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jsanta11:
If you open the picture through the app Pictures & videos and hit menu set as background ...you will get the option of the transpericy..( sorry can't spell)

Just go to start, programs , and look for Pictures & Video
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] juju-35:
Thanks, yes just realized this myself...!!!!

Juju
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LeAdReW:
sorry for offtop but how to make the upper tskbar like on the picture?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kevin813:
help with weather

can someone help me i cant get my weather page to work when i go to the page there is no info on it i set my city in the config but nothing happens when i go to thee weather page just blank no info please help. i love the skin though awesome job
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Aegishua:
Okay if you cant get your background to the image you want and the transperency option isn't there, its probably because your opening the image with the wrong program. It should open it with the default 'Pictures and Video' and then from there you hit the right softkey or the menu at the bottom right and choose "Set as Today Background". If it isnt that program then you might need to uninstall it or workaround it somehow. Although If you have resco explorer like me and it doesnt open that program by default, follow these steps:

1. Open Resco Explorer

2. Locate your file

3. Do a Long press on the image until the menu comes up

4. Select Open With and select pimg

5. Press the right softkey or the bottom right menu

6. Choose Set as Today Background

7. Lower the transperency to 0% and adjust the image by moving the box on the image around.

8. Return to your home screen.

PS: Why do you want Minimal to look like Manilla?!.... If you honestly want that.. just use the default Touchflo 3D that comes with the new Throttlelauncher.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] freexdalogin:
can you maybe make an updated version for the new version of TL please?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Dr.Gemy:
does it work on tl 9.5 version???????????????

or only 9.1
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] goldenwing:
great and lite theme i have ever seen. but i cant work with this weather. so i use sbp weather plugin.

i use it in my o2 xda atom,wm6.1

.net framework3.5

do you can make it more customizable? I mean i want to add or remove its tab,but now i cant do this. is it possible?? plz........
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] APBilbo:
Hi again!

So... you don't want to use the bakground picture of the today screen? In other words, you want to force the background to be what you want... Sorry to day this can only be done by spliting the picture and setting diferent skins with different rowbackimages for each row...

But.... still I don't get why you don't want to use the 1rst layer...

edit: I think I know where the problem is... In the config xml, on the configuration section there is an skin attribute wich sets the general skin to aply to all tha pages. That skin is only overriden for each row if a skin atribute is specified for it... Have you seted up this skin on the configuration section?

edit2: this is the param:

<param name="skin" value="skins\red" />
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
Ah ok, now I get it.. Programming never was my best skill. :p

Anyway on second though, I don't think I would be a good idea to force people to use my backgrounds. So I think I will add two or three colors to the pack from wich people can choose.

The only thing that bothers me is that when you scroll a page, the transparency is gone. Is this due to the fact that true transparency would slow down most devices too much?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] APBilbo:
I was thinking also of making diferent color themes for my TF3D theme, but I don't have too much time :(... If you can do it with your's it will be awesome!!

Yep, true transparency will slow down it a lot... you can try it by setting true transparency to true ;). Though, when performing the scrolling you can "decorate" a little bit all by using this on the skin.xml:

- rowbackcolor: backcolor to be used on the rows (this will be used as the trasparent color if trasparency is specified).

- rowtexture: relative path to the texture image to be used as rowbackground.

You can change the color or add a texture to the back of the row while it's scrolling and true transparency is not enabled....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
Haha, yes I've tried it really slow! Maybe this will be solved with a device like the Diamond.

Uhm, one question then I'm as good as done with the theme.

When I click on an icon in the programs tab. A OSD comes up with the name of the app i clicked. This bar is in black with grey letters. I already changed all other bar colours including text but somehow I don't know where to change this one.

So in what xml file is the colour of the OSX when I click an app/contact/setting etc?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] APBilbo:
It's on the skin.xml file ;):

- osdtextcolor: color for OSD text. RGB

- osdbackcolor: color to be used as the OSD back color. RGB.

- osdfontstyle: font style for the text displayed in the OSD. Two formats can be used: "size, bold" or "size, bold, fonttype".
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
This is what I mean.

As you can see the top bar is black with gray letters.

I already changed the osdbackcolor in the footer skin.xml to 255,255,255 but that did not do anything. This also happens on the contacts, programs and settings tab when I click on an entry.

So in wich skin.xml file is the setting for that bar exactly?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] APBilbo:
You should set it on the general skin (the one imported on the config settings) and on the skin of the first row of the page those 3 attributes (it's due to a little bug using the rows skin instead of the general one ;) ).... Well, just set it in all the skins ;), it's a copy&paste and it won't hurt.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
sorry but that I don't understand ^^

could you explain a bit more precise please? :rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] APBilbo:
Hehehe, ok, don't worry.

Let's go step by step. You have two kind of skins:

1. The general skin wich is imported in the configuration section at the begining of the config.xml using something like this:

<param name="skin" value="Setups\Touchflo3d\skins\back" />

2. On every row you can optionally define another skin that will override the general one for that row. I.E:

<row name="header" skin="Setups\Touchflo3d\skins\header">

Theorically the OSD info comes from the skin used on the configuration section (in the sample Setups\Touchflo3d\skins\back) but due to a little bug actually only the OSD text color is taken from that skin, the other info text font and backcolor is taken from the first row of the page skin.

What I will do, as OSD info of the skin is only used to display OSD (obviously) and you wan't it to be the same everywhere, take all your skin.xml file and change or add the following lines (modifying it for your needs ;) )

<!-- OSD Text color -->
<param name="osdtextcolor" value="200,200,200"/>
<!-- OSD BackColor -->
<param name="osdbackcolor" value="0,0,0"/>
<!-- Font style (format: "size,bold")-->
<param name="osdfontstyle" value="10,true"/>

Is should do the trick ;).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
I've put all of them in there but it still wont work, oh wel this also goes well with the overal look but just wanted it to be so.

Maybe you can look into it after release.

Only making a cab right now then it will be done.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] APBilbo:
That's really strange... please check that you're targetting to the correct skin paths and not to the touchflo 3d ones or similar...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
Yeah you're right about that lol, just thought of it but it was reffering to your setup so my skin.xml didný do anything. Anyway, problem fixed bij changing all paths in the config.xml. Making a new cab for uploading.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bluemetalaxe:
MUSC :confused: = PLAY :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
MUSC is Music but that is just a plug-in page for your own music today plugins.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
The time has come! :cool:

V1.0 has been released, please post your feedback!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] newone757:
please make the clock configurable to 12 hour am pm
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
Done, check the first post.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] newone757:
thanks alot. one thing though, the upcomming appointment is still in 24 hour format and the date for upcommomg appointments is in dd/mm (please mm/dd)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
This is an regional issue wich I won't solve for you. Some parts of the world have this way of showing date.

It's easy to do yourself, open up config.xml with a text editor. (notepad++ for easy viewing)

Got to line 92 an 93 and edit the timeformats, then save and copy the file back to your phone. Reload the TL and done.

Good luck, if you cant do it (FIRST TRY!) send me an PM with your e-mail and I'll do it for you.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] APBilbo:
Hi!! I've been playing with it for about 15 minutes and I can't stop staring at it!!! Beautifull!! :).

For the mods people are requesting may be my moded version of TF3D setup can give you some ideas ;). If you still have doubts I'll be glad to answer them.

Keep up good work!! (BTW I also love your dialer ;) )
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] corzradio:
but why the red skin??

what happened to the black diamond?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
It was never my intention to make a black one because it SUMMER :D

If you want a black one, take the TouchFlo3D version.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] corzradio:
sorry to say

yours is much cleaner and sharper...plus it matches with your dialer i have
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] newone757:
ok thanks no problem. Im not afraid of editing xml's. this has inpired me to give your dialera try (as much as i love smartdial :( )
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
Haha, thanks!

I will see if I can make a 3g dialpad and a smartdial one but I have my final test week next week so I don't know how much I can do the next few days.

btw, there is a smartdial fix, dont know if it works but you can find it here.

(use SKtools to close cprog.exe)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wilderer:
nice skin thanks!!

the only thing i want to know is how to remove the start text?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] newone757:
o ok ill try that out thanks. Im glad im on summer break already :)

now after tweaking the xml im just having trouble getting it correct again, invalid character in line 14, character 94. Trying to figure out hat it is
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
Haha, unless you can use a photoshop layer on top of that it wont work.

In other words, you can't. There was an activesync tab and I edited it out for the preview. I also have start text though it's ugly. Matbe the developers from wktask can make it customizable one day xD.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
It means you've changed character 94 in line 14 to something wrong. xD
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] APBilbo:
Use something like this to validate XML's ;). It's really usefull!! :P

http://www.xmlcooktop.com/
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
Hey, still up this late?

Did you already try it out, I would realy like the opinion of the author ^.^
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] APBilbo:
Check post #40 ;). As I said there... it's an awesome work :). Keep the full throttle!! :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
Haha missed it completly.

But thanks a lot! I'm off to bed only 6 hours sleep left.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] APBilbo:
Thank you!!! 6,5 hours for me :D.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] newone757:
thanks alot. i was searching hi and low for something likje this
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] TacoLoco:
also works on vga devices, only need to resize the background image or take the one below..

btw great theme :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grandpareza:
Paul you have no idea how happy I am that your doing skins. I love your work on DA btw.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
Check the openingpost.

Haha, site was still up ey? xD

You are welcome and thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] newone757:
Loving the theme right about now. I wonder if there is a way to get signal info on the homescreen though??? I love the skin so much ive hidden everything from it and just using the colored battery bar at the top of my screen , only other info i need to see at a glance would be signal info, maybe on homescreen or comm manager screen, maybe ill ask APBilbo.

only reason i hid the top bar is becuase it looks so much cleaner and i couldnt find an all white theme or tsk (dont think its possible), couldnt even find a white wisbar theme
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] APBilbo:
You can use any of these on a SystemState sentence to show any info you want ;).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.windowsmobile.status.systemproperty.aspx

Check this one out:

P.S.: I think it's not Paul's skin what you like from that shot LOL!! :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jym04:
And that's one nice theme..!

I'm not really a user of ThrottleLauncher, because I never got it to run as smooth as I want in my Kaiser (don't know why, and haven't got the time to it right now), but I saw this theme and it made me really use it.

I have just one suggestion:

The text and mail buttons in the bar doesn't open another tab; instead they open the messaging program. I think of it as if it was mixing tabs and programs in the same bar. I think they would fit better as buttons in the main tab, with the missing calls. Just my opinion, but maybe that can be easily changed as the user see fit.

Sorry if this was already suggested or something, I admit that I didn't take the time to read the whole thread because I'm at work right now.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] newone757:
LOL and thanks APBilbo, unfortunately i dont exactly know how to incorporate that code into the xml just yet, Im looking at the config.xml at the Home tab settings and guessing it would go in there but dont knwo how to incorporate the code and format it or whatever lol
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twinpeaks:
Thank goodness for some COLOR. What is it with this high powered near-VGA devices and VGA devices and everything's gone black and white ?? :confused::confused:::mad:

Unfortunately, this theme has reintroduced a problem that I had with the original ThrottleLauncher - I cant really scroll the bottom bar without activating everything. It was suggested that I change the scrolling mode to Kinetic. I've verified that the XML file still has "Kinetic" but the scroll bar here is almost unusable :confused: Default ThrottleLauncher now works fine with the change of scroll mode to Kinetic.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] APBilbo:
You've to modify the setup.xml of the new theme to have the footer scrill like that. Also, if you wan't some color you can check the 0.9 default theme ;). It has kinetic footer by default.

http://www.throttlelauncher.com/portal/index.php/screenshots/36-09-shots/62-09-beta-video

Download it here (only download and install the DefaultSetup.cab the throttlelauncher.cab is an older version!!):

http://www.throttlelauncher.com/portal/index.php/downloads/34-public-releases/63-09-beta-release

Hehehe, the only thing you need is to include inside a text element on the text attribute something like #@SystemState,PhoneSignalStrength#. This will hopefully show a number indicating the signal strength.

<text text="#@SystemState,PhoneSignalStrength#"/>

You can also use this to change an icon path dinamically:

<icon path="setups/mysetup/signal_#@SystemState,PhoneSignalStrength#.png"/>

Will change from file signal_0.png to signal_n.png.

Also you can use registry to achieve this (if you want to integrate with mortscripts for example).

<icon path="setups/mysetup/#@Registry,HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mortscripts\MyDinamicPNGName#.png"/>

I need to do some researchs on mortscripts as I don't know how to use or develop scripts over it, but I'm 100% sure we can have a really nice weather page using it :).

Hope this helps!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] newone757:
^^thanks ALOT, ill try that out later.

btw the fading in and out feature is GREAT
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] APBilbo:
It's actually possible!!! Checkout what alladdin has done here!!! :D:D

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2247292&postcount=251
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RDD:
very nice, adjusted the config.xml and am using it now with the Minimal Flow-skin... Just one question about it, if I press update weather it doesn't connect with the internet unless I'm already connected, any solutions for this? Thx
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jym04:
What exactly did you do to adjust it?

I'm trying but no cigar. Can you help me?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] APBilbo:
I'll post a mod of my setup with the weather included ASAP. About the minimal flow I'm sure Paul will surprise us with some mod for it soon ;). Paul?

Sorry I've no idea of mortscripts... For me the gprs conection jumps automatically. May be it has todo with your OS settings... check that you allow autoconnecting ;).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Knumb:
outstanding job paul! Gonna give it a try...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RDD:
Take both config-files from Minimal and TouchWheater, compare and just copy all wheater related lines to the config file of Minimal...

And don't forget to adjust the plugin name into wheater(=page name)

If I'm correct that is :-)

(My memory let's me down sometimes, hehe)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
I will release weather incorporated in my next version.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kwill:
cant wait to check it out. ive got pretty much everything set up now and i have to say, DAMN good job!!! cant wait for the next release.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kwill:
oh, and how can i specify which email inbox i want to open? cant find it on the config file.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
just wait, I think I'm almost done.

Only weather needs fixing.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kwill:
hurry, hurry!!!:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] newone757:
o good thanks paul. If you dont feel like it ill edit the images with some more appropriate icons to match the style
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
Ok, done.

What would be a good name for the weather tab? FOUR letters?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kwill:
Temp for temperature is a close as i could come:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] newone757:
no idea, thats a hard one. WTHR, WETR, 4CAS, CAST (forcast)

but TEMP sounds best or WTHR
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jym04:
Another vote for temp.

Maybe something like ??ºC or 00ºF or --ºC
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] newone757:
i actually think WTHR is best now cuz when you look at that everyone will know what it is, but temp is already a abbreviation for something else (temporary), lol a temporary tab
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kwill:
man, i really like the 4CAS if the T would fit. But, WTHR may be good to keep consistency since music is abbreviated as MUSC already.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
WTHR it's gonna be.

Thanks for helping me out guys!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] newone757:
i know, 4CAST would be great. but i agree it would look odd next to MUSC and the other abbreviations that arent literal but get the point across

after thinking about it im gonna do some revaluationg on the icon names, ill change programs tab to APPS, and Setings tab o SETT
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
APPS would be a good idea!

Though SETT is not complete.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] roxorz:
is there anyway to make the music tab open slide2play? otherwise i love this program. I also wish i could figure out how to make sms-chat open up when i press text messaging but i just assigned it to my camera button for now.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kwill:
cant use s2p as it doesnt install as an actual today plugin. but if someone can figure it out please let me know. for the mean time i just used htc home. you have to just enable the music tab on htc home and select htc home in the config app under music. i left weather too, so theyll both show up.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pauldgroot:
Weather is working now only a strange bug that wont let me display the plugin tab anymore.