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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mcfarlan:
Just jumping in here. Did everything as suggested by Scotchua and others and still had different temps form what was showing on the accuweather forecasts via tyhe desktop. I then edited the registry location HKLM/Software/HTC/Manila2d/Weather replacing my 'custom' locations with the zipcodes. It all worked after that. Why if I put the zipcode in the WeatherCities XML I don't get the same results? I don't have a clue :confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
Thanks Noonski, and thanks for getting Manilla2D out in the first place

I am sorry that it is not working on your rom, as Noonski said and others have mentioned it is most likely due to some file attribute settings. If you are up for it can you use Total Commander to find out some of the file properties? The file is "\Windows\HTCHomeSettings.xml", on my device the properties are set to "Archive" and "Read-Only", are the properties on your device set otherwise?

Thanks for the feedback, it really helps the process.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ..::DAVE::..:
my file is checked as "read only"

but i think that the problem is that my rom is an italian rom....

[my english is so bad :D]
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
ah, if it is an Italian rom that might be the problem... I am downloading the Windows Mobile 6 Professional Italian emulator images now so that I can test and see for myself... I will get back to you on this bug.

Thanks for the feedback
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ..::DAVE::..:
FOR NON-ENGLISH ROMS

1)install the program

2)soft reset

3)cut "M2DC" folder from "program files" in your language (in italian for example "Programmi")

4)make a new folder called "Program Files" with a file manager in the main folder

5)Paste the "M2DC" folder into this

6)soft reset

7)disable "touch flo" from the config

8)open manilla2DConfig from your file manager (link in programs no more works)

9)customize!

9)bring "touch flo" back

EVERITHING WORKS WELL

plz give feedback if it works!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
A bug

Hi.

First I want to congrats you on this great program. Switching themes are now so easy.

I ran into a problem right after I switched over from another theme to my personal theme, . Please notice the digital clock.

Before

tried Olivetheme..after which.

Decided to go back to my personal theme. The problems are the digital clock and the weather setting is all wrong now. Also, the tab icons are not the same as the original.

After...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mario23:
I had the same problem.

What I found was that it was keeping the clock from the previous theme.

I had tried Olive's theme previously and found the graphic to be set like yours but I believe that to be because of the theme and not customizer. I could be wrong but I tried that theme from scratch with the same problem so I think your looking at two different issues there.

When I restored the default theme then switched back, the clock was right again.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stesul411:
Great application, any chance of adding more spaces to the people tab ???
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] twolf:
Great preview, thank you so much... ^_^
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Snake28:
I have one Question:

Where is the Backup-Setting stored and with wich name?

Because with new added ROM I want to restore saved Settings (I don't want to make all new @ Launcher).

Please HELP ..

Thank you

Snake
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jorking:
Very helpful job. Thanks a lot!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] imfloflo:
On some device like Polaris with FRA rom or WWE rom, when install theme it crash M2D.

Only solution is to reinstall M2D or overwrite the original files.

Some people make a cab to apply before installing a theme to make working it.

But this patch mafe disapear the taskbar icon.

So would like to know how we can by pass this, or make a new cab with new settings.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] P1Tater:
Nice work mpenguin14. Very nice work.

Theme preview is absolutely wonderful and memory usage is minimalized. The memory usage was really my only issue with this app and you have revamped it to use practically no memory at all leaving with no issue whatsoever.

Thank you once again for the time and effort you put forth and sharing your creation.:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
@PROBEX, very interesting ideas, I am working on implementing tsk support right now, so I will see what I ca do about these suggestions.

thanks for the feedback

@Taninpv, This happens alot... basically what usually happens in these situations is that a theme doesn't disable a specific clock in a way that M2DC can recognize. Currently M2DC will only copy xml values for RECT and POS xml elements... set them to -1,-1 or -1,-1,-1,-1 respectively if you want to disable something that you want M2DC to pick up

thanks for the feedback

@stesul411, short answer = no. I don't htink nayone knows how to do this... if someone tells me how I will add it

@twolf, thank you for giving it a shot and promoting M2DC in your skins thread

@Snake28, HTCHomeSettings.xml is backed up automatiically and saved in the M2DC install forlder as "HTCHomeSettings-BACKUP.xml", if you do a backup of your theme it is saved as "OriginalTheme-BACKUP.m2dct" in the M2DC\Themes folder

Which themes are crashing M2D? Maybe I need to try running on a French windows mobile emulator..

@P1Tater, Thank you very much for the feedback, I am glad that it is working for you

Thanks everyone for tryign M2DC, I am glad that it is helping people get more out of M2D without having to hand edit fiels and such.

This is my 100th post :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Snake28:
Are there my personal Settings as the Proggies in the Launcher included. I don't want to make them all new, if I change the ROM.

Thanks for Reply.

Snake
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] imfloflo:
TF2D digital clock by pcarvalho for example crash M2D on polaris under WWE udK or FRA M-amine rom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
that is a cab, and as such is not related to M2DC at all, m2dc has nothing to do with the crash

to answer your question, the problem is that cab themes have to overwrite your HTCHomeSettings.xml file in order to set to correct settings, in this case the cab was made with the original M2D, so the HTCHomeSettings.xml file that it includes looks for all of the image files in the "\Windows" directory... the latets verison of M2D update 18 puts some images in "\Windows\ManilaGfx", if you want ot install a cabbed theme you need to install one that is made for your specific version of M2D

Make a zip file from the cab and use the M2DC theme manager if you want to not have to deal with compatability issue between the different versions of Manila2D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schnitzelbrain:
@menguin14

Still in ur to do list. Ur so fast in updating u past urself. This is already implemented, correct ?:)

hope it is not to picky to ask for another feature, on your side or the theme developer side.

Is it possible to have an overview what is included in theme i.e. Buttons, backgnd, Clock, weather theme. because sometimes I install a theme and only the buttons are changed and the weather is the same. Or the backgnd remains. The preview is a step in the correct direction (great feature :D, thanks for implementing so fast)

the weather icon info gives u a hint how memory consuming the theme is.

Maybe the Theme developers could also give that hint on there theme description.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] imfloflo:
@mpenguin14 yes but i have try lot of m2DC files and always the same bug
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
hmmm, I will see what I can do to reproduce the errors and let you know

Thanks for letting me know about the out of date todo list, I updated it with my latest thoughts...

I have tsk themes working, so skinners can start including a tsk file in the zip or m2dct file like they can do with the preview.jpeg and the tsk will be applied. Before i release this functionality I need to add backup of tsk to the theme backup code. The other requested functionality as far as this goes is changing the welcomehead jpeg... I personal never change the welcomehead jpeg, but some people like it, so I am going to add that functionality too, and then add a couple of check boxes so that users can let M2DC know if they want the welcomehead of tsk files applied.

As far as allowing for specific clocks/weather icons/tabs, maybe I will put that in later, but right now it is not on my todo list.

I am getting kind of burnt out on this project... I am trying to push through to a 1.0 version, take a few days off and then take a step back and see where my interests lie with Manila 2D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
Tried to install the last version 0.11.133, but an error message comes up telling that the installation failed. I downloaded again, tried again and the same error.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
Have you tried a soft reset and then install again? Maybe M2DC is running in the background?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
Still the same error...installation of .... was unsuccessfull.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pdgpereira:
mpenguin14

Since I now have o couple of similar themes, it came to my atention that there is no way to know witch one is have applied at the moment. The preview might help with this (if present for every theme) but a highlight of the current theme would take any doubt (for a person as distracted as I am :)), yes?

Could you confirm that the program version that is installed via uptodate is the one wich does't work with uptodate? (can you imagin how I got this question?)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
hmmm, I am not sure what could be going on there, I don't do anything during the install portion of the setup.dll, so I am not sure what is happening.

Maybe you will need to completely uninstall M2DC? SOrry I can't be of more help.

Has anyone else ran into a problem like this?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
I can look into this.. maybe I can keep track of the last applied theme, but that is about as fancy as I can get for the moment.

The apptodate support is broken for all versions of the program including the latest (0.11). If you want to fix apptodate support, then downlaod the xml file that I posted about a dozen posts ago. Version 12 will have fixed apptodate support and support for applying tsk files that come with themes... I am getting closer and closer to freezing featrues so that i can stabilize the program and release a 1.0 version
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bsw11:
a problem

First off, great app!

However, I am having a problem making M2D work (won't start up again).

Here are the sequence of events:

Started with Hyperdragons 10062008 ROM

Updated M2D using KULET78 CAB file - all working ok so far

Added a Theme in M2DC - still ok.

I then saved backups of both theme and XML

Then tried to reinstall KULET78 (wanted to grab a few of the graphic elements) - WOULD NOT START at this point

Did a Restore of both Theme and XML - Still will not start!

Now I am stuck unless there is a way around this - does anyone know why M2d will not start or how to fix?

Another thing I noticed is that if I make changes on the General tab, and then try to load a theme, the changes do not take.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] PedroDaGr8:
Awesome program. Absolutely awesome. Works WONDERFULLY on my HTC TOUCH and Whosdamans rom.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] andrew-in-woking:
Here's a .m2dct theme file for the Modded Digital Clock that I made from the files from Dread67.

Cheers,

andrew-in-woking
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pdgpereira:
Just installed MobileMatt Solace TF2D Skin:

http://www.mobilematt.net/TF2D Skins/Downloads/MobileMatt_Solace_m2dct.zip

Aplied the theme and .stk. I noticed the weather was diferent from other themes, witch if fine. Only thing is, the weather description, that was ment to not show up, was overlaping the citie name.

Is this a theme bug or a theme manager bug reading the .xml? Should I put -1 -1 -1 -1 somewere?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
@bsw11, hmmm. I do all of my testing on update 18 of M2D and do not have access to a tilt, s I can't test that specific rom, when i get a few minutes of free time I will search for that theme (or a link form you would be even easier for me :)) Once i have the theme I can see what might be going wrong.

As far as changes on teh General tab, I am not sure hwta you mean by this... what does hte tab actually say? Doe sit say "Home", if so the changes don't stick between the different themes because right now I am being stubborn and only recognizing my own way of hiding clocks (setting values to -1,-1 or -1,-1,-1,-1 respectively, so skinners are changing the file name in the xml file, and others are simply leaving out that entry in the xml... right now M2DC does not pick up those cases.

@PedroDaGr8, I am glad to hear it is working out for you, please let me know if you run into any problems

@andrew-in-woking, Thanks for posting that, I will give it a shot once i get a few minutes to play with my phone

@pdgpereira, hmmm... I too have noticed this before... the city name being covered by some of the text from the weather widget... I am not sure how to fix it, I iwll take a look at it when I get a chance, thanks for the heads up
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mchapman007:
I'm not sure as well.. I'm using the same settings for the weather graphics by BeyondInvisible. MDC may not have copied the xml settings? Or You have the default xml?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jaytix9:
I don't understand how to use this...

i try to add a theme but it is unable to find HTCHomesttinigs.xml

can someone help me out?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bsw11:
jaytix9:

Does your phone/rom have Manila 2d running on it? If not, that is your problem.

mpenguin14:

Can you point me to info on how to create a theme file from the individual .png .xml etc files? Is there a PC utility?

As for my problems, I reloaded the ROM, and carefully got what I wanted, so I am ok, but it would be nice to build my own theme out of this.

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pdgpereira:
Not likelly to have the defailt xml as everithing else is the same as posted on the previews.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
@mchapman007, you are right, M2DC is not reading the xml correctly... basically the latest version of M2DC is stubborn and does not take into account if an xml node is commented out... so the following lines

are not read by M2DC as those items needing to be disabled... i will see if I can make the changes needed to M2DC to pick up this case.

Just so you know, and please do not think that I am asking you to change your themes, because a future release of M2DC should be able to detect these things, currently, if a skinenr wants to hide an item, and have that setting picked up by M2DC the HTCHomeSettings.xml should read -1,-1 for a POS xml element, and -1,-1,-1,-1 for a RECT xml element. I made those changes on the 2 weather properties listed above and M2D no longer showed the city overlapping the current condition...

If you would like a screenshot of what we are talking about just let me know and I can PM it to you or post it in this thread

@jaytix9, hmmm, most likely this is because you are not running the latest version, or the theme that you are trying to use is invalid... maybe you downloaded a zip file that you need to unzip to get the m2dct file?

@bsw11, there is no special way to make a theme, just put all of the png, bmp, xml, jpeg, tsk files together in a zip file, and you can use that, or rename the zip file to m2dct,
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jr5416:
how do u install ,

Clocks , thats in zip thanks also weather i cant seem to find my city how do i edit like ya say
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mchapman007:
I guess I haven't kept up... Send a screen shot and I'm going to work on fixing some of my skins.

Thanks again...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deonidis:
it is working like charm
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] twolf:
Re-updated all my skins with M2DC thumbnails.

:)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2728427&postcount=1917

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2754769&postcount=2597
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
@mchapman007, no worries, as I said your skins aren't broken, M2DC is just stubborn at the moment and M2D Cis the one that needs fixing.

I am putting together a screen shot and some notes for you in a PM, should be out in the next few minutes

@deonidis, I am glad to hear that it is working out, let me know if yo urun into any problems

@twolf, those skins look nice... I am going to have to give the black one a go when I get a chance

Thanks for all of the feedback, I will try to clean up my code and release the tsk support tonight or tomorrow
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kobi_eidelman:
calendar tab

is it possible to add a calendar tab?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lordsinasina:
is there a way to to change the default album buttun in manila 2d to another program..i mean instead of htc album..when press a photo or album butt the photo open for example with s2v
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bluemamba:
The Customizer does not work at all for me.

First of all I cannot load any othe theme (cant find the xml file even though its there)

Second, when i change settings of ros and columes the home clock becomes distorted

I tried everything. I gave up.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pdgpereira:
Clock theme swich tab

@mpenguin14's

I've downloaded Poorlyduck M2D Digital Clock wich came in a .zip. I replaced all containning .png files for the ones in windows. The digital clock backgraound and the digits were out of place, so i replaced the windows HTCHomeSettings.xml with the one on the clock .zip file. Result: M2d did't start ("press here to start..." message over and over again). To fix this i restored M2d through "Restore" tab in your program.

So now I just opened both .xml files on my desktop and compared values. I ended up replacing every value from <HomeWidget> to </HomeWidget> on the <WidgetProperty>. Put the file in windows dir and everything was where it should be.

Since the clock came in a .zip with the .xml, I think it's only a matter of having the program replace the .png files and copy paste those lines to the windows HTCHomeSettings.xml.

Sugest a M2DC file structure like:

...\program files\m2dc\Themes

...\program files\m2dc\Clocks

...\program files\m2dc\Weather

...\program files\m2dc\Icons

People could copy the .zip files to the corresponding folder and a similar tab system on the program would allow the individual theme management

Figuring out where to copy and past .xml fites to get the clock where it should be wasn't difficult. Maybe for weather is not so easy. As far as icons go, i'm not really sure. Is it all about replacing .png's?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tuuquy:
That's good idea. I hope the update coming soon.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
not to my knowledge

maybe using the vjbrisk.exe method? I am not sure as I don't use the camera or album, and I usually skip installing HTC_Album when given the choice of cabs when trying to get M2D installed on my Titan

I am sorry to hear that you are having problems, if you would like I can see if I can help you with your setup, but I would need to know the verison of M2D you are using, the version of M2DC you are using, and the specific theme you are trying to install (and if you are using a non english rom...)

hmm, interesting idea.

First a question. Did you try applying the zip theme using the theme manager in M2DC? I did and had no issues. Maybe it is because I had mbavarians TF3D theme installed beforehand, but the behavior that you described is for the most part implemented in M2DC... it is just not specialized...

Maybe I should make it so that the user can choose what aspects of the theme they want to use?... hmmm, we will see. Right now I am trying to make M2DC be very flexible and not require skinners to have to do anything besides release a zip file of their art and xml with an optional preview.

There should be an update this weekend, it doesn't look like tsk support will be included, I can't seem to figure out how to automate the process of applying a new tsk, I am open to any suggestions, but wceload.exe and cusTSK.exe, don't seem to be working for me

So it looks like the update this weekend will be to fix apptodate support, a few small bugs, and fix any compatibility issues that arise when M2D update 19 is released tonight
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pdgpereira:
It is really not a theme, per say. It's only the digital clock .pngs and the author's .xml. I don't think you can aplly this as a theme and have only the clock changed, can you? I would gess not since, as far as I understand your program, M2DC would read the .xml and change all the entries that the author had for everithing else e had on he's theme, witch only by extreme coincidence would be the same as on my theme.

Bottom line: no, i did not aplly this .zip as a theme, it was all manual work.

It's to painfull of a process to go through if you only want to change the clock. Hence the sugestion to integrate the steps I described on M2CT.

Since most of the skinners send a .xml with their own settings for clock/weather..., it would, I think, be simple to run your theme's sequence of events on a single tab's data on the home.xml, by restricting the lines the script would analyse if it was just the clock or just the weather... See what I mean.

If, for any chance, I'm not understanding the basic principles of your program and much of what I just sayd was just a pile of jibajaba, sorry, not really a programer :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jurasick:
Hi there :)

Is it possible to add tasks to today screen with this soft? :)

thx
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fredcatsmommy:
with the last couple of versions the launcher tab doesn't work. While I can select 3, 4, or 5 columns, the rows section is greyed out and I get an error message about the rows must be 3, 6, or 9. The columns then reverts back to 3.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] M.MALKI:
Will you update sourceforge page please ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
sourceforge page is updated, I will see what I can do to add this to my build script, its easy to forget something when it is not automated
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kwill:
hey mpenguin. i had a concern today. i loaded a theme and all was fine. then i needed to edit the xml for the clock position being a little off. so, i edited the xml that came in the zip and manually copied it back into windows. then manila 2d wouldnt load. kept getting the tap here to launch touchflo message. tried just switching to another theme and that was no good. still to this min its still the same. ive tried manually recopying all files with no luck still. lastly, tried uninstalling m2dc and nothing.

edit** installed a fix cab did a restore and it finally took this time. at least the theme came back. but positioning is still off and i dont want to manually overwrite the xml again:) lastly, think you could throw in one last option to turn am/pm off? thanks