yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
I am glad to hear at least one person found that interesting.

At the moment I am going to hold off on adding it to the customizer, but in the future maybe I will add support for a "CustomerIcon.png" file that skinners could include like the "Preview.jpeg" file that can be included now

There are a few other registry values that I am trying to figure out, but can't, so I will go ahead and release them...

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I have no idea what type of keys these are (Dword, string, binary ???), and I have no idea what they are supposed to contain, I just know that when Manila2D.exe starts up it tries to read these values

HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\Home\SK1

HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\Home\SK2

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Once again I have no idea what type of values these are (Dword, string, binary ???), and I have no idea what they are supposd to contain, I just know that Manila2D.exe tries to read these when it starts up

Pretty much every key in the [\SOFTWARE\HTC\Manila2D\FONT] registry hive can have a value "Face"

example

HKLM\SOFTWARE\HTC\Manila2D\FONT\WIDGET\HOME\Date\0\Face

HKLM\SOFTWARE\HTC\Manila2D\FONT\WIDGET\HOME\BUTTON\0\Face

Feel free to repost this information in any threads that you think might benefit from it, I started on this research to try to figure out how to change the color of the text in M2D so that the skinners can have something other than white text... I will probably look at the registry monitor results again sometime later this weekend
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mchapman007:
Worked like a charm.. Did you also notice how it moved the date down next to the alarm....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
Looks nice, yeah I did notice that it moved the date down by the alarm... I am not really sure how it all works, I just happened to stumble upon a limited use regmon utility for windows mobile so I am able to start seeing how the registry is accessed

but yeah, that looks like a really nice setup, right now I am just hiding the network name and setting hte customer name to "Mpenguin14", never been good at images myself
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] andrew-in-woking:
Feature Suggestion - Release Notes

Hi mpenguin14,

Here's another feature suggestion: The ability for a *.m2dct file to contain release notes for a particular skin. This could be implemented by the skinner placing a *.txt file in their zip before renaming the extension to m2dct. The program could then display the first 1000 character's of the text file when the user selects "Apply Theme" in the theme tab.

Release notes could credit people for parts of the theme, e.g. "Icons by John Doe"

or who or what inspired the theme: "I made this theme because I like the Honda R-Type"

or dedicate the theme: "This theme is dedicated to my wife/girlfriend/pet chimpazee"!

More importantly it could have technical information, such as "To enable the second weather tab..."

or "This theme was designed for a flat black today theme."

Or if the skinner had their own website: "For more themes visit www.mythemes.com".

Anyway, it's just a thought.

Hope that's helpful.

Thanks,

andrew-in-woking
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Cal-El:
.14 Beta

It works great, but when I check the version in about is says .13. Is that right? Also is there any difference? This one seems the exact same as the last version! Anyway. Thank you! :-)

EDIT: Nevermind! Before it would not load the 2nd weather bmp's, but now it does! Good job, that was realy bugging me for awhile! Everything is working great! Another masterpiece! :-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MarcoPolo78:
i followed all the steps but im not seeing (hide network, customername , customer icon ) anywhere ... do i need a newer version of Manilla2d ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mchapman007:
You need to create the string and dword after HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\Home\
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MarcoPolo78:
ohhhhhhhhhh okay got cha !! Appreciate it :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] showaco:
The SK1 and SK2 are string values and are the text shown for the left soft key(SK1) and right soft key(SK2) on the home widget. Now if you can give us the key to changing their URL, we would be in heaven:D I tried adding SK1URL, but it wouldn't change the url for the left soft key, still opened the phone dialpad.:(

By the way, beta 2 is working great for me.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
Would it be possible to display instead of the Operator or Date the calendar information, example appointments, scrolling one after the other, like someone did it with the weather info (think it was Showaco)? And matbe in the other side the missed calls.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] S.V.I:
Has any one figured out how to hide manila from showing up in the list of running programs through windows, not an addon app like taskmanager or quickmenu?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tyguy:
OK it's a tool but ....

I use WKTask and hide it by default
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
A huge thank you goes out to showaco, if he didn't post this I would have given up, but since he posted this I was able to figure out the settings to change the Manilla 2D softkeys :)

So thank you again to showaco, I added the SK1 and SK2 strings and then got to work again, and figured out the softkey settings :)

HOW TO CHANGE THE SOFTKEY SETTINGS IN MANILLA2D

add the following registry keys

[HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\Home\SK1]

[HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\Home\SK1Cmd]

[HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\Home\SK1CmdParam]

[HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\Home\SK2]

[HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\Home\SK2Cmd]

[HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\Home\SK2CmdParam]

these are all "String" values

SK1 and SK2 are the strings that actually appear on the softkey

SK1Cmd and SK2Cmd are the commands that you want to run (path to exe file, I tried a "lnk" file [shortcut] and it didn't work)

SK1CmdParam and SK2CmdParam, I would assume these are any command line parameters that you want to pass to the command, but I have not tested them, I just know that Manila2D.exe tries to read them if SK1 or SK2 exists

EXAMPLE

[HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\Home\SK1] String - "S2U2"

[HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\Home\SK1Cmd] String - "\Program Files\S2U2\S2U2.exe"

I will be adding these softkey settings to M2DC when I get a chance, maybe this weekend

As always if you find my work helpful a donation is appreciated :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] showaco:
Donation sent(again!) great work:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alejandro88:
so where can i get the themes for the m2dc
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] showaco:
Here you go, plenty to choose from

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=425974
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
@andrew-in-woking, this is a very good suggestion, I like the idea of letting the user know more about the skin and who created that skin... it is going on the todo list (and I am also adding your start menu background suggestion, sorry about the delay on that one)

@dashmaster1000, I am glad ot hear that it is workign well for you, as you mentioned you won't find many differences between version14 beta and verison 13... there are some VERY significant changes "under the hood", but nothing really that the user can see (except maybe finally getting all of the weather settings workign correctly :))

Hmm, I am not sure about this. RIght now I am just doing what I can to monitor messages that the are being sent, not so much of actually changing the functionality of Manill2D, just discovering functionality that is in there adn is not being used. I iwll keep my eye open for this though

Thank you very much, You are too kind sir, I meant it when I said I was ready to give up on those registry settings, without your post I never would have bothered to put in the work that lead to me finding the other reg keys.

thanks again
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alejandro88:
so the only thing that i need to do is to intall the .cab
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
Bingo...great work.... many people were looking for this information, but one question, as M2D changes the softkeys almost on every tab, home, people, sms, email, weather etc. have different sofkey assignation... will it then not be so that by changing the tab your register tweaks will be overwritten again?

Oh i see...this settings will only be effective for the home tab, and by returning to home they will be effective again..right?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
As of now this only changes the softkeys for the "Home Tab", I think this is sufficient because the other tabs have softkeys that seem relevant to their specific tab.

To answer your question, yes, when you return to the home tab your softkey settings are still available
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
Cool..have to think what i put instead of phone as i have already a hardkey for phone.... you are great
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
New version released

I just released a new version, (link on OP)

here is the changelog

UPDATE Oct-25-2008 00:00 CDT

v0.14.166

- Changed the underlying way the theme manager deals with XLM changes, previously

the theme manager would only apply "RECT" and "POS" values, now the theme

manager will use the actual file from the new theme, and then just update

the themes xml file with the correct paths for the existing Manilla 2D images.

- updated theme readme with my thoghtss and recommendations on themes and more

detials about how the theme manager process works

- List of available themes is now auto sorted alphabetically

- Updated about page with usernames of contributors

- added an artificial 5 seconds wait after disabling M2D, this is to give

Manilla2D.exe time to unload itself and release any image files it might

still have a handle on

There is really no visible difference between verison 13 and 14, but 14 does thigns alot differently in regards to the xml... the latest theme readme file is copy and pasted below

I had a handful of beta testers, and none of the had any problems, but that doesn't mean it is 100% stable so please let me know if you have problems with this build
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] legalmantra:
Great work Buddy:p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rgonzruiz:
I'm guessing that the newly released version v0.14.166 doesn't include this new functionality? I'm downloading it right now... I just installed a new cooked ROM for the Omnia (@ modaco.com) that includes M2D and was just about to download a pocket xml editor to remove the tabs I didn't use when I fell upon this great software... Thanks for your great work!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
nope, I just figured out the softkey settings a few hours ago, but hopefully I will be able to add them to the program soon (since you are coming from modaco you may be interested to know that M2DC supports apptodate)

I hope it works out well for you, good luck with the new rom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
to anyone interested in my latest registry exploration...

I have been trying to change the font of Manilla 2D, mostly se that we can see a text color other than white... so far I have had zero success, but I have ofund out a few thigns

you know all of those entries in [HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\FONT]

they all can contain values

[HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\FONT\WIDGET\0\Face]

[HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\FONT\WIDGET\0\Size]

[HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\FONT\WIDGET\0\Fmt]

I haven't figured out what exactly these values are used for, so if you feel like spending some time throwing random values into a reg editor have fun with it

*edit*

I just found some more possible reg keys, putting here for my own reference

[HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\FONT\WIDGET\0\Rc]

[HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\FONT\WIDGET\0\Bold]

[HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\FONT\WIDGET\0\Italic]

[HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila2D\FONT\WIDGET\0\Clr]
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] legalmantra:
General Help

:eek: When I install M2D skin using M2DC it doesnt change colour of upper and lower bar [middle screen only]. What to do?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
Have downloaded it and i switched several themes.... seems to be everything ok on my device. Speedwise it is more or less the same as the previous version. I noticed that if i changes rows and columns in the launcher tab, after switching theme it changes and it does not stay as selected before. Also if i change the sequence of the widgets, after switching theme it goes back to default.

The themes which had shifted weather panels or clocks are still that way, so i guess it is inherent of the skin and not of M2DC.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
You have to apply a correspondent tsk file, there are available in several colors, and some theme builders supply one with their theme. M2DC does not apply tsk files yet. The tsk file is selected in settings/today/appearance.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] legalmantra:
THANXxx. buddY

ThanX 4 d Quick help:p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
Thank you for the feedback, you are correct in saying that the speed is more or less the same, the difference between 13 and 14 is that 14 uses the whole xml file from the theme, not just parts of it.

This is why your tab and launcher settings are lost when you flash a new skin. I am going to fix this problem in the version 15.

I am sorry to hear about this... at this point there is nothing that I can do other than hurry up and finish some things on my todo list like "be able to detect what a theme contains adn only apply those settings", it sounds like you are using themes that do not contain weather icons, so the settings for the weather tab do not appear to be correct. So you are correct in saying that it looks like the skin has a problem... You should see these same problems even if you were to use a cab install of this skin, or just unzip all of the files to the correct locations, and then just use the xml file that came with the skin

Thanks again for the feedback
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] showaco:
Coool, so Face is string for font name, Size would be font size so its prob dword, Clr has to be color so again probably dword, Bold and Italic could be dword and be on/off switch with 0 as off and 1 as on?

Fmt is prob format? and Rc is ?

Just guessing here and thinking out loud for anyone who's following and working on this.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ptdk:
any problem to slow when change theme
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sancho555:
Hi,

how can i get this new field touchable? when its possible to add pics it should be possible to add a link at this position, or not?

greets

sancho

p.s.: sry, its an bavarian-english ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kwill:
thanks for the update. testing now to see how the new implementation of reading the xml pans out.

by the way, glad you got it sorted alphabetically now:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
Normally it takes several minutes to change theme, as it has to read and then copy all the files.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jacobstim78:
Hey everybody first of al thanks for the great app.

I have one problem so far.

I want to change the largestartmenu to the original transparent one.

I don't like the black one. That comes with M2D.

I have tride in the registry but found nothing.

And the search button havn't giving me somthing eather.

So i hope sombody of the great developers can help me?

Let me thank u already for the effort and my terrible englisch.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
Strange, i have no home folder inside manila2d, maybe it is because i have version 18 of m2d instead of 19?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sancho555:
you have to create it. add a new one and its good
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
Thanks for the hint...that worked.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
Works like a charme, tried it out....thanks for it
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Piranha1:
Here are the reg entries for the softkeys and Usericon in a AdvancedConfig_0409 file.:rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] showaco:
thats awesome that you figured out the font color and size, and I assume that means the same for font face. I seen your post in skins thread, can't wait to see the format needed to make the reg keys work. I tried for a while the other day but never had any luck getting any changes to show.

Great work once again!:cool::D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
Thanks, it was rather tricky and took a lot of time and effort.

I am just trying to document everything that I know right now so that it will be of the most use for skinners like yourself
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] AllTheWay:
Wow thank you for sharing.

I have exported the .reg key that I use in case somebody wants to use it.

1.) Disable TouchFlo via Stat > Settings > Today > Items > TouchFLO

2.) Install .cab

3.) Enable TouchFLO

Here is what it looks like. Left Softkey is HTC ActionScreen. Right is iContact.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rflmnz:
It would be realy nice...

If we could change the plugins on each tab...

Please add this thing as sson as possible!!!

Thank you, and, by the way, nice work!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
This has been requested many times, and as of now there is no way to do this, the accurate thing to say is "No one knows hoe to do this... yet".

We might know in the future, but right now no one knows

You can try the vjbrisk method for replacing specific apps that M2D uses, but that is all that people know how to do right now
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ..::DAVE::..:
now works with the work around in post before!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] t4g:
Wow too fast!

Thats why I like this community!

Thank you for this software, I will test it!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] oltp:
This is great

Thanks mpenguin14

Works like a charm, when the new icon is in place it will be looking even better. At the moment I got only two options on my wish list.

1. add new favorites to the internet tab.

2. customize the amount of appointments on the home tab.

The first option shouldn't be to difficult to incorporate I hope since the registry keys etc are known. It would be very convenient to do it with your tool. The appointments are for the future I guess.

Keep it up,

M
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Moguledyouth:
Weather Question

Is there anyway to add custom cities to the weather widget?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Syd159:
Great software. Thanks a lot. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
Thanks for the feedback, I will be looking into adding options liek those in the very near future, as I said in the OP this is my first windows mobile application, I usually program for the desktop, so I am still learning a decent amount on how to do the specific things that I want to do.

The things that will get implemented the fastest are the well documented procedures... so I am keeping my eye on a few threads that are listing all of them out.

I didn't "discover" the functionality of this app, I just read a forum post and then made a program around it.

Well thanks again for the feedback, you can expect a bug fix release tonight.

I need to lay the groundwork for a tabbed GUI after this initial round of bug fixes so it may be a few days without updates after tonights release

And if anyone is impatient feel free to check out the code from my google code page and build it yourself :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wud_e:
Thanks For this!!

Small request.

The ability to make the Maps take bring up Sprint Nav or MSN Live Search. :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] notebook:
Is there any way to use the animated weather panel instead of the HTC weather?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] twolf:
Glad I could help, about the theme manager... Great ideas! :D

it should indeed be a renamed zipfile, but it would need some "rules".

My proposition would then be:

- The theme manager would have to check if the zip had a folder inside or not (sometimes we create a zip and it creates a folder inside it, sometimes not... that would have to be taken in consideration).

- The zip could have a jpg named PREVIEW so that ppl could see a thumbnail of it.

- The manager would copy those files to windows and restart the plugin.

- There would be always a zipfile with the original contents in a backup.

- Since these files would be heavy it would be nice if the default skins folder would be \storage card (or whatever, for diamond and omnia users)\my documents\m2d_skins\

- If the skin had some special features, like a diferent clock, the xml inside could have that code, and ONLY that code...

The other special changes would be only allowed thru your tool, like extra launcher icons or so (I'm using 24 at the moment) and enabled tabs.

So the zip tree would look something like:

SKIN_NAME.ZIP

- preview.jpg

- changes.xml (with skinner info)

- skin (folder) + files.png inside

What do you think?

:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] frenchglen:
Thanks for this, I will be watching this with great keenness. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
I think zip structure sounds pretty good, I was thinking about the screenshot too, it would be a really useful functionality.

Most everything else that you mentioned should not be a problem, I am still working out some issues with file paths, but hopefully I would be able to tell if a user installed the app to the device or to the storage card, that way I would know where to install the theme... Also I need to figure out how to enumerate a non English registry so that I can unload M2D before making changes to the xml and files and reload M2D after the changes take place, right now that functionality works for English roms but not for non english roms (I think)

It will probably be about a week or so until I can get a theme manager implemented, I am stuck right now learning some GUI elements using WinCE and MFC. I will definitely be in touch and let you know when I have a beta to test with

Thanks for the suggestions
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mattster_spv:
Hi mpenguin14.

Great application, thank you for sharing it.

I've put a link to this thread on the "Karmba_a Diamond For Trinity v11.0" ROM thread so more people get to see and test your great work.

Thanks again,

Mattster.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ljinsane:
Downloaded...tried ...did not work...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eyecrispy:
ditto that :(

it installs fine but none of the setting changes stick.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fredcatsmommy:
same for me too.:(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
I am sorry to hear that this program is not working for the three of you (and all the rest that have chimed in on this thread)

I suspect that the issue has to do with the file attributes being an original rom file.

I just release a new version, 0.3.17 In this version if an error occurs it will log that error to a text file, and when you exit hte program it will tell you about the text file.

Would you please install the new version, run it, and if you get an error, please upload what the error message says, and if there is a text file in your M2DC directory called "ErrorLog.txt" please PM that to me or attach it to your post.

Thank you for being beta testers :)

ALSO

- Installing to storage card should be supported

AND

- Installing on a non English rom should be supported

Please test and let me know how it goes.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fmg9800:
Great App

Good job with this. My music tab wasn't working(would just sit there Searching) Wan't to get rid of it. Your app did the trick.

When I first installed and ran it to not show music TouchFlo wouldn't boot up. I went back into your app and clicked Restore Defaults. Then went back in and unchecked Music and it worked. Weird but it works great now.

Thanks. I will be watch with interest your efforts.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Oxymoron:
Thanks for this! Manila 2D is MUCH better when you can customize it and make it your own :)

I've also noticed another little bonus in this app; the less tabs you have activated, the less ram it takes to run Manila! I've dropped from 40%-45% to about 37% of ram, which is the norm for any of my today plugins.

Again, thanks! Keep up the good work!