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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
what themes are you trying to apply? Maybe those themes don't have new icons?

You could try turning Manila 2D off before applying the theme if you want to make sure that the images are completely unloaded from the system and then overwriting with new images... maybe M2DC needs to wait longer when applyign themes to make sure that all files are unloaded
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
@ mpenguin

Some comments regarding the M2D version 21 and customizing:

1. M2D Tools do not work, have to disable and enable manually M2D. When pressing disable M2D, the correct items do get selected in settings/today, but M2D does not exit. Also enable M2D does the same thing and M2D is not restarted.

2. The font tweaks for messaging, internet and settings don't do anything.

I am cosidering to downgrade to M2D version 20, what do you think? All this things should work there or not?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Whosdaman:
Penguin, I'm willing to beta test for ya if your still wanting people to help
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] secoseco:
what I meant, install M2DC new build not M2D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
Update: font tweaks worked after 3 soft reset. Now only M2D tool do not work.

Of the fonts all work, also temperature low which before did not work, only

forecast temperature stays default, when changing it

after applying it reverts back to default
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
interesting, I just got a hold of the OEM package for the buld of M2d that you are using so I am going to see if I can convert it to a cab somehow and install it, will let you know if I can reproduce (and hopefully solve) the problems, overall I am not sure hwy the M2D devtools wouldn't work, all they do is try to unload everything from the today screen adn then refresh the today screen, I will see what i can come up with

thanks for the offer, but I don't really have much going on as far as development right now... I have mostly been focusing on finding new things in M2D rather than working on M2DC, but we will see, maybe I will feel like doing some work on M2DC tomorrow night.

I will let you know next time I cna use some beta testers
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nikomck:
thanks

very good job. works perfect in my tytn ii :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] toniolol:
Hi mpenguin14, I've made a first shoot here of what we were talking about yesterday.

So with this little script you'll be able to put all your PIE favorites in the Internet tab of Manilla TF2D.

You have everything in the mscr file if you want to keep something to put it in your M2DC.

Regards
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
@toniolol, that looks like a nice script and I think people will be able to get alot of use out of it.

If you don't mind when I start adding more to my internet tab I might use your mortscript as a guide to add that feature to the internet tab of M2DC. Thanks for contributing
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] secoseco:
Hi

I noticed this problem and solved by this steps

1- unload M2D from today screen

2- install M2D devtools

3- adding date and M2D devtools to today screen

4- loading M2D from M2D devtools icon in today screen

now you can load and unload M2D from M2D devtools

thx
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
Thanks a lot my friend...that did it. Now every thing is working well with my new M2D.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ckain:
i been away for the time this whole manilla thing started. so i am using an rom with manilla 2D now and i am wondering how can i put today elements on there cause this app is filling the whole screen.

For example Phone DashBoard... I really love this app to see how my next bill will look like

thanks for your help
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
thank you very much for this information, I could never reproduce the problem so I was never able to diagnose and fix it. I am glad that there is a workaround for now

right now there is no way to load other today screen plugins, hopefullt in the future
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] toniolol:
Thanks mpenguin !

This script is open and I've just made it waiting you'll have time to put this in M2DC ;)

I don't know what software you use to dev your M2DC but if it's .Net or similar it will be easier and faster than my substring method to find the file name :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] secoseco:
You deserve the thanks

I get round this problem by using SecondToday V0.4.0

http://www.chi-tai.info/cs_wm_tools_im_cs.htm#SecondToday

it's great app to create another today screen and put in it what you want from today plugins and you can switch between two today screen so easy, it's very useful with today plugins which not working until it's loading in today screen like Phone Alarm

thx
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mamothstick:
Newbie Question - Internet Tab

This is a very nice ROM. For some reason I have not been able to alter the home page url for the internet tab. The default value is www.google.com., however when i touch the screen, nothing happens. Also, how do I add bookmarks, etc.? Currently, nothing happens when I touch the bookmark part of the screen.

Please help.

The Stick
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
M2DC is C++ code, using MFC for the GUI components, so not quite as simple as .NET, but that's not a problem with me, I am a desktop MFC programmer by day. But yeah, I plan on using your mortscript as a guide once I find some time.

Right now my contracting job is keeping me plenty busy (anyone know how to hide the "programs" entry of the classic vista start menu? Or how to hide the search box in the simple vista start menu?, send me a PM it would be greatly appreciated)

well M2DC is an app not a rom, so if this is a rom specific question I own;t really be able to help you out. But it sounds to me like you don't have opera installed. If you are running one of the latest builds of Manila 2D (1.0.1820.xxxx) then you can use M2DC to change the program that the internet tab uses, you can use pocket ie or skyfire pretty easily

Adding more entries to the favorites list is a lot of registry edits, but if you have favorites saved in ie you should run toniolol mortscript to add then to your M2D setup
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ys222:
Small help

I probably missing someting, but I can't solve it :-)

I'm trying to apply new theme

one verion before I got a message that it can't fined the xml file

this latest version I get no response as well as no action ..... the theme selecting tab is still empty :-(

I'm using latest ROM version as well as latest Customizer as well as the latest M2D version

any advice ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pp56825:
maybe stupid question but how to change color of the top/buttom bar to black one? even if i change skin its still blue?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
which theme are you trying to apply?

Maybe it is a zip file that has a m2dct file inside of it, if this is the case then you need to extract the m2dct file from the zip file and use the m2dct file rather than the zip file

to change the top and bottom bars you need to apply a different windows mobile theme, a *.tsk file. Some themes come with tsk files, others don't. MobileMatts themes usually come with a tsk, check out his site (mobilematt.net) for some good themes with tsk files
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pp56825:
is there a way to make or modify *.tsk file ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
i think most people use ThemeGenCE, but I am not sure. The site is french, but there are different language translations available for download
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stopthebus:
Font Changer Won't Saved

I am having a little problem with this new Customizer.

The font changer won't stick, it reverts back to default after I hit apply.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
what version of Manila 2D are you running, you can find this out by going to teh settings tab, and looking for the line that says "About TouchFLO 1.0.XXXX.XXXX" what is the number that is says there in the XXXX's
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stopthebus:
TouchFlo 1.01818.3719.

It cooked into the ROM (OMJ).

I wonder if I can install the newer version over this.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
some fonts are only supported in M2D update 20 (build 1.0.1820.xxxx), you can probably install update 20 over the version that is in your rom, just be sure to unload the TouchFLO today screen plugin before trying to install a new version
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] legalmantra:
install RC Mod to change that. search here on xda
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] carsten12345:
Okay, I have Pocket Informant running on my Polaris and Manilla2D and it works fine.

However I have a slight problem which maybe can be solved by the experts here as it might apply to other applications as well.

In order for Pocket Informant to know whether to start up displaying a calendar or displaying contacts etc it needs to be run using an argument like

PITab.exe 9

or PITab.exe 52.

Otherwise it will always start in the last mode you used it.

The Problem is that the assigning a Softkey with M2DC doesn't allow running it with an argument. Is there a workaround or something which could be incorporated into a future version?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
there is a way to specify a command line parameter to the softkeys, you have to manually edit the registry

here is an example for you

[HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\Home]

"SK1"="\Path\To\PITab.exe"

"SK1CmdParam"="9"

The other option is to make a shortcut "lnk" file that contains the command line parameters needed
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dr4g0n75:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=447481

try this... it might help
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] carsten12345:
Thanks and thanks! Will give it a try.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] snakeman65:
I can't seem to get this working. Every time I have tried it (on both FlyRom and YuE Roms (with and without manilla pre-installed) it hangs as soon as I hit apply after turning off any tabs. Is there something I am doing wrong?

EDIT: Actually it seems to hang (just has the spinning logo thing for ever) no matter what I have done when I hit apply or ok!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dizzydix:
Message text font

Ok, I still can`t get this F** font to change in another colour..

Yes I can change it in the tool, but It won`t change from white to blue (for example). If I have the white tmobile skin then messages arent readable bcuz the back is white and the message is in white characters....whats up with that? C`mon help please
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Phantom1275:
mpenguin14, remember my question about that screwed up stripe in maps search tab (see attached image)?

Finally I have found out the reason for that problem. It happens that theme makers are using smaller background images for that tab. The original images are 240x165 pixels, the modified images are 240x115. So that stripe correspond to that 50 pixels that are not fulfilled in the screen.

I don't know if all theme makes are aware of that. I'll post that in Manila2D skins thread to let them know.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
It takes several minutes to load a new theme. During this time you see the spinning cursor.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
Do you have M2D version 20 or newer installed? Otherwise you cannot change the sms message text color or font. If you mean the email message font color, you cannot change that yet.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] snakeman65:
I wish this were my problem! Unfortunately, i've just left it spinning for over 10 minutes with no change at all. Looks like i'll just have to manually edit the xml!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dancer_69:
So for us with non htc devices running m2d no chance to change the fonts in the most places. And there isn't any information on an update for non htc devices witch means we stuck with update 19.

I use this white theme too and the only solution for now is to make the background darker.

If someone want it, here it is:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dizzydix:
Hi

Hi there,

I have precise the one that is on page one of this thread.

So the newest, and you are right, it is the text message text I am tryiing to change colour but it just wont work not after soft reset / nothing man...what could it be? I am about to flash again I got the onyxultimate rom running, is that a problem?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
what version of Manila 2D are you running? You can find this out by going to the Manila 2D Settings tab, and looking for the area where it says "About TouchFLO 1.0.XXXX.XXXX" What number does it say? If it is 1.0.1818.xxxx or 1.0.1819.xxxx then text messaging and email fonts won't change, if it is 1.0.1820 then text messaging and email fonts should change. You can get the 1.0.1820.xxxx in the Manila 2D release thread (link in my sig). I personally use update 20, but update 21 should work too.

Let us know what you find out.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
thanks for the update, I am glad to see that the problem wasn't specifically with M2DC, I never see this as I don't use the navigation tab, I just open google maps from my launcher tba, but I bet this will help some people in the future, thanks again
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deroth:
Need help with home screen

Hi, after installing blue galaxy theme, my home screen lost calendar/alarm/missed calls tabs, and I can't restore them. Only thing that's left is the digital clock.

When I try to add these items back through home xml tab, nothing happens, manilla gets restarted but the items are still missing. They are also missing in the home xml screen.

Re-installing other themes, including original one, didn't solve the issue.

Any advice on how to fix this? Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
As you can see from my signature i have also ultimate 4.0 installed, which has M2D ver. 21 cooked in. I used M2D customizer to change the sms text color, first it did not work, but after 2 soft reset the color changed. Now i can do font type and color changes and it works ok. You don't need to flash again. You could try to disable M2D and then apply the changes, maybe it could work better. The only text color that is not changing is on weather tab, the forecast temperatures, and the email text.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JCKOTZE:
Dear mpenguin14 is`nt there any way that you could do something about changing the wallpaper in every screen of m2d via your program ,maybe an extra colom for wallpaper changer,with preview ,it could not be hard to make wallpaper with homesettings.xml and apply to new theme. Just a request

Thanks in advance
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dr4g0n75:
+1

i believe i have seen this more then once in this thread...

i have a suggestion... can you make the gui more like the today screen settings for items?

so where you have in your tabs screen and the move up or move down add an options button... might help you clean up your program... so many customizations... its getting a little tab happy...

one more request... small one really... in the fonts tab. can you make it when you pull down the menu, you can see more then 2 lines? the list is kinda long...

thanks! this program gets better with each release... cant wait to see whats next

p.s. i almost forgot... after changing the browser, i wanted it back to default... i hit the default button but when i went to the tab, nothing happens.. i browsed to windows and sellected the opera9.exe and operaL.exe and still nothing happened... i ended up using a diff program to fix it... not a big deal, just thought you should know...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dizzydix:
Claus..

Thanx man, I`ll try soft resetting a copple of times.

If not, I just let it rest its not like its a big thing.

For the rest its a awsome program really much respect to the maker

Peace
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
Thanks for the suggestions guys, I sometimes forget about smaller requests so these reminders are appreciated.

I will go ahead and add a new tab for changing the wallpaper, it will be similar to the internet browser tab, ie just an edit box that take the path the a new background file and a little button that you can press to launch the file tree dialog. Right now it will only take png files and I will try to add a preview too

changing the gui to be more like the items screen... thanks for the request, and I understand it, there are a lot of tabs and it can get confusing, but that would require changing alot of things around, and I am just not so sure it would be worth it to me, but I will keep it in mind, I just don't see it happening, sorry

displaying more than 2 items on the fonts tab... I agree with the request too, the problem seems to be a limitation of windows mobile, there is no simple way that I can find to show more items... so I am thinking of cahnging that to a listbox so that items are easier to find, I wil ltry and see if I can get that changed by this weekend.

internet tab default not working... not sure why this is happening, I will look into it

I am going to try to implement these 3 things today and/or tomorrow and get a release out this weekend. I have updated a few other things already (like if you try to use a zip file that has a m2dct file in it M2DC will tell you that you need to extract the m2dct file), so this shoudl be a decent release

I am still figuring out the best way to implement the pick and choose functionality of M2DC, ie being able to tell M2DC to not use weather icons/xml settings from a theme... hopefully I can make a small change with this new release that will make that process easier.

On a side note, it looks like development of M2DC will stop in 27 days because that is when my trial version of Visual Studio 2008 ends. Buying a full copy is just not an option for me right now ($600+), so I am going to see if I can get a student version or see if my contracting employer can hook me up with a Visual Studio license since I think they maintain an MSDN subscription for me... so until I announce otherwise it looks like my last day for M2DC development is Wednesday December 17
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] secoseco:
Hi mpenguin14

thanks for working hard to get M2DC full good tool

I want to add request for adding ability to backup and restore M2DC settings like rearrange tabs, color fonts, softkeys ... etc

thx
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Savok:
mpenguin14

I just want to point out to you that I use ver 20 of Manilla2D and version 19 of M2DC with no issues whatsoever. I use ver 19 of your program due to having different skins with either analog, digital or a mix and I prefer that M2DC pulls ALL the info from the xml file rather than just the REC etc. I use the \ManillaGFX folder option in my homesettings.xml file if that makes any difference? I'. happy to attatch several zipped themes if you want to test with them?

I wanted to ask, what was the issue with version 20+ with Manilla - and will you release a verion of 22 that works like 19?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deroth:
How do I restore home screen to its original state after being messed up by M2DC?

Still can't find the solution..

The calender tab from home screen disappeared. Home XML tab in M2DC has it unchecked. If i check it back and hit 'apply', nothing happens. Next time I restart M2DC, it's still unchecked.

At this point I would be happy with restoring original state of Manilla, to get the calendar back, but mine was a part of the ROM it was cooked in.

Restoring HCTHomeSettings.xml from backup didn't solve the issue.

Any productive advice would be appreciated, thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
I would like to remind you of a small request i did some time ago, that is to add a checkbox to apply the font color changes to all items. I normally change the font color according to the theme, and it takes some time to go through all items of the list.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
this is a good request, right now yo ucan backup, but you can't "export" your settings for later use... and you can't backup/restore font/softkey/or any other registry change because I haven't bothered to write that code yet, so I will see what I can do to get this functionality working in the next week or 2

Version 14-19 of M2DC dealt with the xml in a destructive way. M2DC would overwrite "\Windows\HTCHomeSettings.xml" with the xml file from the given theme. This ensured that the theme was applied exactly as the original theme creator intended... BUT the problem is that so far there have been 4 different builds of Manila 2D released, and each new build needs new things in the xml. Manila 2D 1.0.1818.xxxx, 1.0.1819.xxxx was the next release, and this added a new image and a new tab widget xml node "IDTABWG_WIDGET_FOCUS_BG_IMG". Version 1.0.1820 added a new voicemail image and some new voicemail xml nodes. My point in saying all of this is if you try to run a newer version of Manila 2D with the xml file from an old version than Manila 2D will refuse to start. So instead of completely overwriting the xml file I wnt back to just copying the POS and RECT values, I know that this method can still be improved upon, I am just not quite sure how. Version 21 of M2DC was released specifically so that you could flash pre-existing themes on to update 20 of Manila 2D (1.0.1820.3328)

I assume you are using this theme, if you look at the screen shots of the theme there is no calendar or missed calls. I downloaded the theme and looked at the xml file and the theme does not support showing missed calls or upcoming appointments ( all of the pos and rect values are set to -1)... flashing a dfferent theme should restore these items, but I see in your earlier post that it does not work. Have you tried flashing one of MobileMatt's themes (available at mobilematt.net) generally his images and xml are top notch, try flashing one of his themes to see if you get your home screen items back

on a side note, the title of your post "How do I restore home screen to its original state after being messed up by M2DC?" is kind of rude, I am more than willing to look into why flashing other themes won't work for you but I need to know what device you are using, what version of Manila 2D you are using, what version of M2DC you care using, and what other themes have you tried flashing (please give links to the themes so I can try them myself)

I hope this advice was "productive" enough for you

thanks for the reminder claus, I will see what I can come up with to get the font face and font color changed across all of the different font items

I wasn't able to get any coding done tonight, so it looks like I will be getting those features done this weekend, look for a release sunday night
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dr4g0n75:
thanks for taking the time to reply... i wasnt expecting miracles, but i figured it couldnt hurt to ask...

p.s. i hope you get things sorted out with visual studio... i have been using this program since its release and i have seen how far it has come in such a short while... i hope to see it go as far as it can go
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 911sniper:
Thx to ur useful tool!

What about the sms text font?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alhuang69:
I am using M2D 2.1 and Onyx4.0 on my Elfin .... please teach me how to change the sms text color
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
You just change it in the latest M2D customizer, font tab, it is on the drop down list. There you can change the font type, size and the font color.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Tane71:
Hi! Just wanna thank you a lot for your amazing and usefull software. Just great!

Now watching for further versions and improvements of course ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alhuang69:
Thank you very much....