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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tyguy:
Backup / Restore

@mpenguin14

Hi Sir, great tool and a full supporter of it!

I've noticed that sometimes a swap of Themes does not work 100% and it's perhaps worth testing what happens.

Example:

- Default M2D theme

- Activate Girltripped

- Go back to default

or

- Default

- Corange

- Back to default

The ANALOG clock stays at the bottom of the screen and is not placed mid center at the right side. I looked into the XML before and after but I guess I'm not smart enough to figure out what's wrong or why the position is off.

I didn't try yet if a soft reset may help but will do as soon as I have some time to play.

What I also noticed why is a VERY cool feature BTW that you can swap parts of the theme. I got red and yellow clock hands as a ZIP file (just contains the hands NO XML) and I can load it as theme. Reload M2D and voila I have red hands. This worked with more than one theme. I'm aware that it bares the risk that the hands are OFF (depending on XML file settings) but it's really COOL!!!

That COULD be a solution for the skinners to supply weather icons ONLY as ZIP, we should be able to just "skin them in" into an existing skin.

Last but not least, mpenguin14 did you ever look into Homescreen++ and if it would be possible to retrieve some system information on the home screen (battery status, memory).

RAVEST if you read this ... perhaps and idea to develop.

Edit:

WOW that was my 555th post in honor of XDA thanks for ALL of your support, great ideas and tools.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
I will try to take a look at this sometime today, overall I am not sure what could be going on, do you have a link to the Corange theme? Or is is just in the skins thread?

Yeah, this is definitely a feature of M2DC that doesn't get much attention, but it is not fully ready yet. You can definitely take a zip file of any specific parts of a theme and apply it via the M2DC theme manager, (so just a zip of new digital clock, new tab icons, new weather icons...) but the problem is that M2DC currently reads the entire xml file settings, and it should be able to dynamically decide what settings to read from the xml... ie it should only modify the digital clock settings if there are only digital clock images

I have the code needed to detect and display memory status (a sample from the WM6 sdk) but I have no idea how to add custom content to M2D... they can do it with TF3D, but no one has figured out M2D to my knowledge
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] RicardoG:
People Widget 4 column vs set of 6

Regarding this item in the To Do list:

PeopleWidget

- Allow 4 columns just like the programs tab

Maybe the focus should be on adding another set of 6 buttons, instead of shrinking the pictures to fit eight per screen.

RicardoG
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
This is a very good point... I played around with the contacts page for abotu 3 or 4 hours one night... I was able to get a page of contacts with 4 columns and 3 rows, but it was a lot of hassle, basically I had to resize every image myself, and change a lot of different xml entries... in the end it was not worth the hassle to try and use this configuration.. adding rows is do-able, but I have one reservation, and I haven't confirmed it, but I think added rows might be slightly off because the image "hh_people_frame_bg_mask.png" seems to be the background mask, and at least on my installation there is a very specific setup for the background mask, so I have been meaning to try out adding more rows, but right now I know that is a lot of work, and just not very realistic at the moment

thanks for pointing that out, I will update the entry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
UPDATE Oct-19-2008 21:30 CDT

UPDATE Oct-19-2008 21:30 CDT

v0.13.154

- a few small bugfixes

- updated about page with usernames of contributors

If you like M2DC, or if you just want to get your name forever in a piece of software that alot of people use, (the M2DC version 0.11 cab had over 10,000 downloads from google code in the 10 days that it was teh latest version) please consider donating $1 or more to me

Everyone who donates to me will get there username included on the first post in this thread and on the about page of M2DC

this is a very small update, but I wanted to get it out there mostly to say thanks to all who have donated, I really appreciate it.

I know I said a new feature would be added by the end of the weekend, and well, I got sidetracked and developed the Manila2D-DevTools instead, so go check them out if you are into that sort of thing... I plan on finishing that project this week as it is a very small and simple project and I would like ot know that it is done :) Check it out here
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jokes On You:
Manila Bug

I am sorry if I am posting this on the wrong board but I searched boards and couldnt find the answer to my problem. After I installed Manila and it began to run I got a bug where I could select nothing on the screen and only the calender would open. on the left hand side there were the FPS and the available RAM. Anyone know how to fix this?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JstarLuvsTina:
thank u for this.. i FINALLY got it working on my device..

quick question tho..it was pointed out to me that u can infact rename ur set-ups once its saved..can u explain in detail on how to do this.. cause i sure as hell couldnt figure it out, lol

thanks

Jstar

p.s. gave u a 5'er for ur app!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ssamth2003:
people tab

sorry if this was already posted. (but i did search)

Since the M2DC able to add more icon in the program tab so, is it possible to add more contact icon in people tab?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
I don't think I have heard that problem before, I would check the M2D release thread (link in my sig), and ask there

@Jstar, that you very much for the donation, it is appreciated. I am glad to hear that you got M2DC working... I am not sure why it wasn't working before (maybe you have a WM5 rom?)

You are correct in saying that you can save your setup as a "theme", to do that you would have to go to the "Restore" tab and then click on the "Backup My M2D Theme" button. When you do this a new file name "DefaultThemeBACKUP.m2dct" in your M2DC\Themes folder. You can just rename this file, or copy it and rename it. The file is just a renamed zip file, but I have problems opening it on my desktop using 7zip, I think it is because of the zip library I am using, but finding and using a new free zip library will probably take a long time, so for now this solution works for me.

hmm, search doesn't always work, but since I have answered this question abotu a hlaf dozen times in this thread, and I just answered it 4 posts ago please see my latest answer here
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gregy1403:
Hi guys .. first of all, this is masterpiece!!!!

I have some questions;

Where is weather pulled from .. i can't find our city Celje, Slovenia only Ljubljana, SLovenia is available

I have read almost all pages (a lot of reading) but didn't find plain instructions on installing new theme. I must have overlooked something.

I can't find a button where to flip screen from vertical to horizontal as i could before on original i900

Restore back to original theme Omnia i900?

I tried to switch on analog clock, but doesn't show up .. only digital .. must i install any additional thing?

Sorry if any questions are noob .. i am noob here :rolleyes:

Thank you for the answers!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ssamth2003:
thks very much, waiting for a good news. cheers!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ssamth2003:
Oh! sorry, one more question:

for Today screen, since we can show up both Digital and analog clock, is it possible to link it to difference time zone? like digital clock to home time in setting, and analog clock to visitting time.

If tis able to do, it would be great that we can see multi time on today screen. ths in advance for your reply and a good news. CHEER!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
Thank you, but I think that the credit goes to udk, VetVito, Noonski, and herg for making Manilla2D available I just make a small program that tries to simplify the tweaks for M2D

maybe this link will help?

you can find skins here If they are in a zip file format or are in m2dct format then you can simply open M2dc, click onthe theme tab, click onthe "Add" button, select the zip file, click ok, then select the theme in the list, and click "Apply"

I am not very familiar with the i900, but afaik portrait/landscaoe switchign is not a feature of M2D

Maybe try using my newly updated Manilla2D-Devtools

Some Manilla2D installations only include images for the analog clock, or they completely comment out the analog clock xml entries... try a skin that is absed on an analog clock

This is a great feature request, but the right now there is no way that I know of to do this, in the future we will probablly figur eout how to customize the widget s with new content, but right now we can just "tweak" what we have

Shameless self promotion....

The Manilla2D-DevTools have been updated

I also just wanted to say thank you for all the donations, it is very much appreciated.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gregy1403:
thank you very much ... things are little more clearer :)

One more question though .. my Omnia is WQVGA, so theme is not stretched verticaly over display .. where can i set this?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
I bet you are having the same problem as described here[url]

Right now Manilla2D is set for Portrait Mode QVGA devices... so VGA and WQVGA devices will have ato have a specific HTCHomeSettings.xml in order to work at all...

You might want to chime in over on the skins thread so that maybe some skinner will decide to release a WQVGA skin for M2D

good luck
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jsoneng:
donation done. =)

thanks for the great software. love it very much. i'm just a student. hope my minimal donations helps. =)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
Thank you very much for the donation. No worries about the amount of the donation, everything is appreciated, I completely understand being a student with limited means, it was only 3 years ago that I finished my Computer Science degree.

Thanks again, your info will be added to the OP and app shortly
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] AllTheWay:
Might as well add my name to the list

Confirmation number: 7E248839X0162020K

Great work sir on everything you do ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
Thank you very much sir, The donation is definitely appreciated, your name has been added to the OP and to the about box of M2DC.

I am going to need to start getting some new stuff done on M2DC so I can release a new version that has the updated list of donators :)

Thank you again, I never thought I would go from being a casual lurker with less than 20 posts to being a developer that is actually getting donations for his work, thank you to everyone for your support
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gregy1403:
Do you have any TODO list, so we can see what can we expect in coming version(s)?

Thank you
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jsoneng:
=) cant wait for your new release.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jura_ZG:
Hi guys,

I have a problem, i've searched throug this thread but can't find any answers.

I'm using the latest ver. of M2DC but when I try to apply new theme i only get "unable to find HTCHomesttinigs.xml" when there is HTCHomesettings.xml file in theme directory. Tryied a couple of themes all with the same result. I even tryed themes in cab format and they mess up M2D in a way that i won't launch again. It just goes through "tap here to sttart/launching tflo" cycle.

Any ideas?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ioooou:
so great software! thanks a lot,but I'll learn how to use
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alvy:
Sorry, i translated this very usefull software into russian without asking... :rolleyes:

But i think it would be useful for russian users ;)

M2DC_v0.13.154_RUS

In any case, thanks for your work!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] andrew-in-woking:
Feature Request - Menu Customisation

Hi mpenguin14,

Here's a feature request for M2DC - Menu Customisation.

Here are the registry entries for editing the appearance of the M2D start Menu and Task Menu on the today screen:

Start Menu:

KEY = {HKLM\Software\HTC\EnlargeMenu}

Values:

ManilaCustomGrid - Changes color of grid on start menu

ManilaCustomHlDown - Changes the color the bottom selected item gradient

ManilaCustomHlUp - Changes the color of the top selected item gradient

ManilaCustomTexture - Changes the background texture that appears in the menu

Today Task Manager menu:

KEY = {HKCU\Software\HTC\TaskManager}

Values: As above.

For some reason I can't seem to change the grid color in the task manager menu. When I change it from the default value the grid disappears.

I've attached an example of how I've customised these menus to complement the fantastic Blackwood theme by kulet78 in post #3298 in the theme thread. In order to do this I edited the color values above deleted the background values. I've attached the registry values I edited in the .zip for you to examine.

Anyway, I think it still needs a bit of investigation but if it could be put on the list for the future development of M2DC it would be a welcome addition to the application when completed.

Many thanks,

andrew-in-woking
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Phantom1275:
I did a search over this thread and couldn't find an answer. In fact, I'm not very sure if my question should be post here or in other topics, but... I'll give it a try.

First, some information: I have a Touch Cruise running M-Amine 2.0 RTM SP3 ROM. In that ROM, when the red end-call button is pressed, it goes to Manilla Home tab, no matter in what tab I am.

I have a problem in changing .m2dct themes within M2DC. When I change the theme, I get a screwed-up stripe in maps search tab just above the bottom soft-button bar. If I restore the original theme (I made a backup in M2DC), everything is ok again.

M-Amine advised me to install a manilla_patch.cab to correct that issue. That patch does solve it, but once applied, pressing the red end-call button does not lead to Home tab anymore.

Does anyone know how to solve that?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
yup, right now the TODO list is on the second post of this thread I haven't updated it in about a week, so I will try to get around to cleaning it up today and setting a list of goals for a Friday release

I will try and put something out on friday :)

hmm, usually "cannot find HTCHomeSettings.xml" means that the theme isn't formatted properly... sometime syou download a zip file that contains a m2dct file... if you have one liek that you need to extract the m2dct file and hten try to apply that theme.

DO you have a link for a theme that you tried ot apply and it didn't work?

no problem about that, I am glad to hear that new translations are becoming available, (if you can read russian do you mind checking out my Manilla2D-DevTools thread, there is a comment that I think is in Russian over there that I cannot get a good translation for)

This sounds like a good feature request, I will add it to the todo list with a link to you post later today. Thanks for the suggestion and detailed info
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
hmmm, I don't know much about the manilla_path.cab file, but I do know a bit about m2dc

Most of the time skinners release about 90% of the files that Manilla2D uses, and this can cause problems. When you apply one of these 90% skins you see "leftover graphics" from previous skins... as of now the recommended way around this is to apply the original blue skin before trying to apply a new skin... the original blue skin can be found in the skin thread (link in my sig)

Good luck on the red end-call button, maybe the M2D-Release thread might be able to help you with that (link in my sig)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] borelttil:
hellp

i have the "xda-team_manilla2d" on my phone it works fine... but i want the Manilla 2D customizer so i can use other themes, more specifically this onehttp://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2705507&postcount=1421, can someone pls let me kno how to install the M2DC, i dled it from the google link and not sure how to get the program running on my phone... SOMEONE PLS HELPPPPP :confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tyguy:
@borelttil

Install M2DC from the first page of this thread (either on the device or storage card)

Download theme to SD card (I guess)

Run M2DC (which you'll find under programs).

Go to - Add Theme and change to the location where you stored the theme

Wait until copy is finished

Done
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alvy:
He said, that it's a good software, but there are settings for only Clock plugin on the main page. He want more settings for the main page :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
thank you very much, I was wondering what that meant... and i think i got the issue addresses in the 2nd release of that utility :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
Call for feedback

After a lot of thought on my part I have decided to overhaul the way that M2DC applies theme files...

in theory the changes should only give users of M2DC a better experience, but I want to make sure that I get any feedback or suggestions on this rather large change before I release anything based off of it, or get too heavily into coding it before I realize that my thinking is flawed

I tried to explain it in my M2D-DevTools thread in this post

(quoted here for convenience)

I am still putting all of the pieces together in my head as to how exactly I am going to get this to work, but I think that this is the best method.

I am going to sleep on it and actually implement this tomorrow as long as no one sees any major flaws in it... expect a release on Friday

Thanks in advance for any feedback
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zard:
Hi, hope someone can help me on this. I have a "preview.jpg" file in "\M2DC\Themes" folder for my theme. I do a backup of my theme but when I do a restore theme, I don't see the preview on bottom right hand corner.

Do I need to copy this "preview.jpg" to "\windows" when I do them backup?

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
hello zard, current M2DC does not copy a preview.jpeg file during the packup process. i fyou would liek ot add the preview.jpeg you will have to copy the DefaultThemeBACKUP.m2dct file to your desktop,k change the filename to <MyTheme>.zip, and then add the preview.jpeg to the <MyTheme>.zip file (where <MyTheme> is the name of your theme) Then yo ucan add the <MyTheme>.zip file to your M2DC installation and see your preview.

I can look into adding this feature, but right now M2DC is more about backing up and restoring themes rather than creating new themes... but I will see what I can do (maybe hide M2DC, bring the today screen to the front, programatically take a screenshot, and save that as preview.jpeg....)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] debarron:
I posted this on the M2D DevTools thread and thought I would post it here too.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] appelton:
Would there ever be a chance to add a new tab with POCKET BREEZE or change any of exisiting one to have PB ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] showaco:
Sounds like it would work, the only suggestion I have is the adding the possibility of installing only one widget at a time. Like on beyond's weather graphics. Maybe an option on install of which widgets to install, so that if you only wanted the home widget, the email widget or the weather widget, then you check those on a list and it ignores the other widgets when applying theme. Or user could choose for complete theme install which would be entire theme.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] emblemx:
When I go to apply a theme via M2DC it does the windows loading logo then nothing shows up on my main/home page. Help? :confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] DAE_JA_VOO:
Can someone please tell me how to REMOVE this? I installed it, but it was really buggy and i can't uninstall it now. I've tried to do it but it's still running, and no longer in the programs list.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
Are you trying to uninstall Manilla2D or the Manilla2D Customizer.

If you are trying to uninstall Manilla2D, most likely you are out of luck, but you might want to go over the the Manilla 2D Release thread for help.

If you are trying to uninstall the Manilla 2D Customizer then there is no reason why it should still be running, try a soft reset, and remove all files from where you installed M2DC ("\Program Files\M2DC")
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] DAE_JA_VOO:
My mistake. I'm trying to remove Manilla 2D, not the customizer.

You say i'm out of luck? why?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
Well the guys over in the actual M2D thread would be a better resource for this, so I will defer the answering to them, because I am not 100% sure about how well the uninstaller works... I say you are out of luck because I know that whenever a new release comes out they recommend a hard reset before installing, so I always assumed that the uninstaller didn't work... but I could be wrong in this assumption

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=398173

For now you can always turn off Manilla2D, by opening "Settings", opening "Today", click on the "Items" tab, and uncheck the "TouchFlo" item, click on the "OK" button in the upper right hand corner.

Manilla 2D should now be turned off... you can your old today screen plugins back on form that same "Items" screen

good luck
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
this is a very good point, and I know many people have made it before, but I think I now finally have an idea of how to implement it... basically there will be a popup dialog that appears when you "apply" the theme... for now I will get this new way of unpacking themes working first and then I will figure out the details of the "pick and choose" theme method, thank you for the feedback, it is appreciated
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
anyone feeling like being a beta tester for the new version of M2DC?

Nothing too noticeable has changed, just the way that M2DC deals with xml in theme files...

I have finished my coding changes, and my first couple of tests were extremely successful, but I need to test at least a dozen more themes in various installations of M2D before I feel comfortable releasing the new version.

Be warned that volunteering to be a beta tester could end up screwing up your Manilla2D installation beyond repair, but this is very unlikely.

If for some reason you are still interested in being a beta tester after reading all of this please send me a PM and I will send you a not so secret link to the new version.

As long as I don't see or hear of any major issues then I am going to release this new version tomorrow night (so 24 hours or so from this post)

Thanks to any volunteers
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
Regedits for those who are interested

I was playing around with some registry tools to learn more about Manila2D and found a few registry keys that I was not aware of, maybe someone has already posted these, and if they have been posted before credits go to that poster.

Regardless here are a few registry keys that I have discovered

HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\Home\HideNetworkName DWORD set to 1 to hide the network name form the upper right hand corner of your home screen

HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\Home\CustomerName STRING, I set this to "Mpenguin14", and now it says "Mpenguin14" in the upper left had corner of the home screen (doesn't show the date anymore)

HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\Home\CustomerIcon STRING, I set this to "\My Documents\RedSmiley.png", this is a 16x16 png file that i threw together in mspaint for testing purposes, it also looked like it would display any png file regards of the size, and it offsets the customer name appropriately (ie if your png was 40 pixels wide it would still put the CustomerName in the proper place)

Before These 3 RegEdits

After these 3 regedits