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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
Can't you just go to the settings tab of Manila 2D and click on "Wallpaper"? I have received this request before, and I was about to start work on it about a week ago when I decided to enable the settings tab, and the wallpaper changer was already there.

I try not to duplicate any functionality that Manila 2D already does... ie M2DC doesn't add new items to the launcher or set your weather city and Celsius/Fahrenheit preference because Manila 2D already provides you with the ability to do that changes.

SO I am just curious do people not like the change wallpaper button on the settings tab? Or do people not use the settings tab? Or do people just really want M2DC to be able to customize every aspect of Manila 2D even if you can already do it via Manila 2D itself?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] showaco:
I used png files for the icons. I made a storage card folder for icons, so in IconPath I put the following string example: \Storage Card\Icons\m2dc.png

So I know png files work, and thats what the majority of my icon files are so thats all I've tried. Launcher by default loads ico from exe or lnk file, this reg entry is to set a custom icon to replace the default that can be stored anywhere on the phone- main or storage. Here's a couple of pics from initial playing:)

First is normal view, second shows the locks I made with the IsLock key. I also increased icon size in the htchomesettings.xml from 32 to 48.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kidnamedAlbert:
mpenguin14,

i have a problem when i want to change custom image on home.

i chose the browse buttonand none of my images show up.

only a few show up(like three)

theyre on the root of my phone and on the root of my card.

and only the same three images show.

i can do it through registry but takes a little longer.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
Thanks for the update and the pics, looks nice to me, setting custom icons for launcher settings has been on my "Reasonable Requests" todo list for a week or so, now that I have actual screenshots and confirmed status on the reg keys needed it looks like this functionality might actually get put into M2DC.

Thanks again

hmmm, well right now M2DC only allows you to use "png" files, so if they are a different format they wont show up... and maybe "png" has to be lowercase too. (I just checked, and yes, png does have to be all lowercase, I fixed this and it will be in the next release)

Are you using images other than "png" files successfully?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kidnamedAlbert:
oh okay thanks.

for some reason when i copy pictures or any doc to my card it uppercases it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ebautista:
Yes that's true, manila has it already. But I don't think it does the right thing. Because it doesn't change all background in manile but only in home tab. What I want to point out is that it should change the "fw_hh_background.png" and not the today screen. I believe that function in M2D changes the wallpaper in Today screen and not the entire M2D.

I hope you got my point.:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] twolf:
hmmm, I just noticed a couple of bugs.

One is the 3rd line from the home screen that keeps auto-checking itself everytime I open M2DC. This is obviously not a big deal and it was problably reported before.

When I try to apply any of my old skins with XML modifications, he overwrites the hole XML and not just the changed part (in my case, the clock).

This leads to M2D not being able to initialize again, because whn I created the skin M2D was on a earlier version than now, some xml paths changed.... :(

I have to manually replace the xml into the Windows folder again so that it can work.

And then manually copy/paste the xml clock area into the Windows xml.

This may not have an "easy fix" since you dont know what parts of the xml where changed.

I just wanted to bring this to your attention.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] natefish:
This is incredible. An shortcut extra button or two is a valuable commidity on the Vogue. Thanks for posting this.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hellokittyr:
Can you please tell me how to edit the home tab softkey from phone back to default? i want to be able to see my missed call and messages with the left softkey.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] voxid:
Sorry... it was the M-Amine Rom... for Polaris... and the news Customer. I reinstalled Manilla and it works again ... perfect!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
I think I too have noticed the 3rd line bug, I will look into it today.

The skin issue that you mention sounds like a tough one... in the coming weeks M2DC is going to become alot smarter when dealing with skins so hopefully that will resolve any problems, but for now, it looks like this is just a limitation of the customizer

Thanks for bringing these things to my attention, bug reports are always greatly appreciated

glad I could help, the latest customizer makes it very simple in my opinion. I personally am happy to have my dedicated S2U2 button back

I am not sure how to do this... does anyone know what "default" is being referred to here?

glad to hear that it worked let me know if it causes you anymore problems

I have fixed a lot of bugs, and added a few small functionalities, so small that you probably won't even notice. I want to fix the 3rd line checkbox bug, and add support for adding a directory of theme files before release, but a release is not too far away... less than 48 hours

Thanks for all of the feedback
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
found the bug and fixed it... it turns out that right now the third line check box is set to the value of the the second line... it was a simple and obvious bug once i found it, but thanks for reminding me
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] P1Tater:
Just wanted to say Thank You for all you have done with the M2DC. Very well done. I now can tweak my device completely like above pic with the home reg change. Thank you.

Would it be possible to incorporate the ability to change font styles or does that involve to much in the coding? Would the code have to be revamped or is it even possible?

Anyways, thanks.:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wapvirus:
Can i please ask i have had this problem all versions when i goto theme tab i have a couple of themes installed but no preview picture what am i doing wrong please someone put me out of my misery i have also searched but no good
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tyguy:
Not all themes have previews yet, especially older ones will show you the RED X.

You can make a screenshot as jpg and include it to older themes. How the preview works is explained somewhere in the theme thread or simply check one of MobileMatts themes what's included.

As far as I know it's a file called preview.JPG included in the theme.

You know that M2DCT files are renamed ZIPs so simply rename and unzip into a directory, add preview picture, rezip and rename to M2DCT ... should work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
Sorry I missed this one earlier... thanks for explaining the difference, I am moving the change background file feature to my "Reasonable Requests" section of my todo list

Thanks for pointing out the difference

That is a nice looking setup that you have there. It's not a problem working with M2DC, I really like giving back to a community that I have gained so much from. Thank you for the compliments.

The font style changing may be added sooner rather than later. THe code doesn't really need to be revamped, I implemented M2DC in a very modular manner so it is easy to add new features and tabs, changing a feature (like the theme manager) is what becomes hard and requires rewriting code.

I am playing around with some GUI ideas in my head right now for the font tab, and once I have one that seems to work I will start to put it together. In the end it is not all that hard to do... Right now the roadblock in my mind is figuring out the proper way to let users choose colors, I don't know if I should take the time to make a whole new "color picker" dialog, or if I should just allow the user to pick from 8 different pre defined colors, or ??? The other issues is querying the OS for the available font faces... I am sure it is easy, but I just haven't bothered to look into it yet.

tyguy is correct, M2DC does not generate previews, it just shows you a preview if the preview is included with the skin file. SO your theme file has to have a "preview.jpeg" or "preview.jpg" file ion it if you want to see a preview
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stinkbud:
I am a noob at this m2dc stuff but I alm enjoying what I have done so far.

My problem right now is that there seems to be an artifact effect from prior skins. Every skin I load onto my Sprint Touch seems to keep the alignment of the prior skins. This seems to be really bad with the clocks and the weather icons.

Is there any way to safely clear out the skin before loading up a new one? I would think that that should solve the problems I have been having.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tyguy:
Some skins do that - I go through the default skin and re-apply the skin I liked.

At least a feasible workaround.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nosedive:
nice work. i already use this program and it is very useful.

i also do cook roms and i wonder if you plan adding command line parameters for your program? i'd like to apply a theme during sdconfig.exe ... another idea is to cook m2d basic only (today plugin and runtimes) and use m2dc during UC to apply a theme

of course - you could make this run with mortscript, but i would prefer a simple command like

EXEC: "\program files\m2dc\m2dc.exe" "\program files\m2dc\themes\my theme.m2dct"

i searched this 3d for this request but couldn't find any. sorry if this was already requested
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
for the most part it is recommended to apply your default theme backup before applying a new skin, see the latest readme here

Right now M2DC is not guaranteed to be 100% stable by any means... it is a beta piece of software, and there is a huge todo list on the second post... maybe I will have it all working by Christmas, but until I release a "1.0" version there will probably be bugs

no one has requested it, but I have mentioned it before. I agree that it would be nice to be able to apply a skin via m2dc during UC (I personally use sashimi, but I get the idea), Unfortunately doing this would require some restructuring, so right now I am just going to put this on the "Reasonable Requests" todo list

thanks for suggesting it
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stinkbud:
Okay, the next time I need to do a hard reset I will make a clean backup. In the meantime I still have a few skins working. Thanks for the reply.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] v3lly2:
mail widget

wondering if im alone on this 1. i have the newest version of both manilla sd and the m2dc. just installed a new theme, and it owrked fine for a while. now everytime i go to the mail widget, it sends me back to the tap here to launch touchflo screen. its only the mail tho. i tried every other widget, but only mail messes up. i took it off in m2dc, and everything works fine now, just wish i could have the mail on mt manilla.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alvy:
Default values for the FONT in registry

May be it mentioned here already...

Default values for the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Manila2D\FONT] and [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Manila2D\FONT\WIDGET] are:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Manila2D\FONT]
"FontName"="HelveticaNeue LT 55 Roman"
"FontHeight"=dword:00000016
"FontWeight"=dword:0000012C
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ebautista:
m2d background

No problem man!!! I am a user of your software and I do very much happy using it. I can't give any monetary donation but I hope helping you to continually improve this by requesting reasonably with new feature is I hope enough to help you. :)

Keep it up man!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alainwong:
possible edit sms digit in black color ?

!!!!!!!!!!!possible edit sms digit in black color ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stewdog:
Aha!

Oh man, been searching high and low to get my appts text (Time and Desc.) a darker colour. For the appt. description I used font size 12. Looks great! Thank you so very much. My light bg theme is really starting to take shape.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nickfranky:
Hi!

I've 2 question/problem:

I installed the latest M2DC, downloaded some themes in *.zip format.

In the program, in the "themes" tab, i see the themes on the left side, but nothing appear on the right mini picture, that may shows how the theme look like, only red cross.... whats the problem??

I installed a new skin, works perfectly. But 1 thing i noticed, when i got a message, on the message tab noticed me '1' msg, i see it, but the '1' doesn't disappear, only when open "all messages".

So if i read the message in manilla2D touchflo, the '1' still there...

Before installed m2dc, it works well, 5-6 secs, and the '1' disappear...

Any suggestions?

Thanks!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
cool, you can also try the "default blue skin" in the skins thread, that usually clears most things up.

hmmm, I am not sure what could be going wrong there, it seems like something might be wrong in the xml, but I am nto sure. What skin are you using?

Thank you very much for this. How did you find these settings out? Do you have a opal (viva), or did you just do some registry monitoring, or some more advanced things(hex editing, disassembling, decompiling)?

not a problem about the monetary donations, I've definitely been in the situation where donations are not feasible, the feedback is always appreciated

not right now

Not all themes include the preview feature... M2DC does not generate previews, it just displays them if they are there

I think this is just how Manila2D works
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
just thought I would update you all of this weekends new feature

FONT SETTINGS

Right now it is only working with the original 4 fonts that I posted about, but adding other fonts is a trivial process.

I just need to make a color picker dialog now... time for another "boring programming task". (I wish wxWidgets was more mature for windows mobile, that toolkit has everything... oh well, time to re invent the wheel, but my code will be open source so hopefully it will help future MFC windows mobile peoples)

Update probably happening at about midnight US central daylight time tonight.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hellokittyr:
i dont know what you call it. but the default wm softkey are suppose to let you view missed call, sms, or alarm, or most recent event......
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
LATEST DOWNLOAD HERE (October 31 v0.18.200)

If you find M2DC useful, please consider giving a donation

UPDATE Oct-31-2008 16:00 CDT

v0.18.200

- Added font picker tab... this is highly experimental and may be buggy, please provide feedback

- re-ordered the tabs, now the tabs that you are more likely to use multiple times are shown first

- When adding a file to the shortcut the base name (no exe or lnk) is set as the softkey name

- file dialog now sorts directory and files alphabetically, listing directories first

- updated donator list

- launcher are saved before applying a new theme and restored when the theme is fully applied

- file dialog now compares extension string without regards to case

- save and restore tab enable/disable states

- fix bug when home XML line 3 would be checked inappropriately

- file dialog is now landscape and on screen keyboard compatible

Please let me know if you have any troubles with this build, a lot of work was done that you can't really see, but the font picker is pretty good as far as I can tell... it has not been fully tested though, so let me know where is messes up
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
That looks as a big update, will try it out right away, play with the font and other settings and report back... this is getting better every day...congratulations for the excellent work.. this is the best thing since porting of M2D.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ruebyi:
Thanks for the Update!

I only miss the opition in weather tab to change the "LastUpdate" and the "cloudy" etc. texts...

You are great!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
Font picker works very well, changed colors back and forth and no problems.

Tabs order is better now, i like it that way.

Thanks for the launcher fix, always had to reset it when changing themes.

Font tab has some missing fonts:

Weather: Low temperature current day, temperatures following days

Somehow this missing fonts got messed up, even if not changed and are now unreadable. I guess that maybe default is the first font in the fonts list, and as i added several cool (but also strange) fonts it took the first one which is not readable on the PPC screen.

Anyway font switching and color switching is fast and reliable, good work
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lanceiro:
Version

Thanks and congratulations for this great program!!!

When i check in "about" the version is 0.17.183 but i have installed the last version 0.18.200.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tyguy:
Version ..

I just wanted to tease and write it ... damn

If this is the only bug, our penguin deserves and extra fat fish - LOL
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] spartamusprime:
This may have been addressed already in the previous replies but here goes (I did a search but didn't find anything helpful). I reimaged my Tilt with Hyper Dragon III Blackstone WM 6.1 , it already comes with M2D and I installed M2DC. Here is the problem I can change the theme but when I exit M2DC the new skin will not load. It only displays "Tap Here to Launch". Can anyone help with this please.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Slaphappy100:
Just installed v0.18.200

I disabled the calendar on the Home XML and applied the changes.

Now, when I reverse the process and try to re-enable it the calendar is still missing from homepage and unselected in M2DC.

Can someone check this in case it's just me?

Ta!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tyguy:
Did you do it through a custom or default theme?

If custom go back to default back to custom.

My head spins reading homesettings.xml do see what and why it happens but I guess penguins head already flew off.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tyguy:
I tried Hyperdragon and faced the same issues resulting in going to a different ROM - AthineOS, though customized didn't run into any problems yet using M2DC and different themes.

To get the dragon back to spit his fire HOPEFULLY you backed up the default theme and settings (though cooked in it works), disable TouchFlo in Today, soft reset, enable TouchFlo, apply the restore default settings and theme and you should have a default dragon again.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] spartamusprime:
Thanks tyguy, I searched for the fix and now I have it working perfectly with the Cowboys theme.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] M.MALKI:
an update for sourceforge page is requested please.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nhatt:
Hi all

Please,anyone can share cab file M2DC v0.18 for me,because i can not download at first post,i have tried it several times and i dont know why...

Thanks for help!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
Here it is...hope mpenguin doesn't mind
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nhatt:
Ohh....Thanks for sharing,my friend!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
The low temperature of the current day and the temperature under the 4 day forcast, as well as the current condition, and updating status are all mysteries right now... I am not sure how to fully change them, I htink they use the following registry keys, but I need to test them more

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Manila2D\FONT\WIDGET\WEATHER\FORECAST\LOWTEMPRATURE\0]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Manila2D\FONT\WIDGET\WEATHER\FORECAST\LOWTEMPRATURE\LargeView]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Manila2D\FONT\WIDGET\WEATHER\STATUS\0]

I'm glad to hear that the font picker is somewhat working... I think there is definitely some issues with fonts, because well, we don't know all of the specifics on fonts yet. My guess is that maybe there is no such thing as a "default" setting within a font, ie once you want to change one aspect you have to change them all

Doh! I got the same thing... I am not sure why that happened, I made a build/release script about a month ago so stupid little things like this wouldn't happen, oh well, time to start working with python again, I will try to have that fixed for the next release

not a problem, just updated at 22:00 CDT, since I am going back into the scripts maybe I will automate this too so that there will be no need to request it... we will see though

Yeah, the htchomesettings.xml file is definitely a source of headaches... I have tried working with it about a dozen different ways, and no single way seems to make everyone happy. I have been trying to fully think it through for whenever I start working with the theme manager again. I know it needs to be done, but overall trying to merge values from one HTCHomeSettings.xml file is hard enough to do manually, and figuring out the best way t do it programmatically is definitely not easy.

try the source forge page maybe? https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=240317&package_id=292333&release_id=637359

not a problem, thanks for helping others out
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
@ mpenguin

In the HKLM/Software/HTC/Manila2D/Font registry there is a key for Launcher without values. If there is a font there should be possible to show names for the different launcher icons or am i mistaken?

As additional observation to the ones made before regarding applying fonts through M2DC, i saw also that also in the Settings tab the Sounds and Communications control panels have the same problem as the missing fonts in weather, the default font is being substituted by another one, in my case not readable, this without having aaplied them.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alvy:
I used "Data Doctor Forensic Software" - it's reveal all registry settings with it's default settings. Actualy I tried to find software to reveal ALL registry values, but found only this one :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
In fact this are the keys, i have applied the font type manually and it changed the font type but not the color.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] legalmantra:
ThanX mate u RoxXX

STICKY IT:p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dr4g0n75:
What I think he is trying to say... is when you are using M2D without M2DC installed, when you scroll to the sms widget.... if there is a new message there , as long as you pause on the widget a few seconds, the new message counter dissappears. Once M2DC is installed, the counter dosnt dissappear as it did before, you actually have to press all messages, and open the message app to clear the message counter.

I noticed this too, i think it might have worked with previous versions of M2DC but im not sure....hope this clears it up
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nu6918:
Thanks

Big thank , Need:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] beifang:
The CAB contained still 0.17.183 not 0.18.200:confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JCKOTZE:
I have downloaded and found 0.18.200 ,nothing wrong with download,you maybe have two versions on SD card and install wrong one.....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] m.schmidler:
Theme support isn´t working, dunno what I´m doing wrong. It worked with previous versions, but since 0.17 M2D won´t start after I applied a new theme.

It always says "Tap here to launch TouchFLO", I tap it, and after a few seconds same thing again.

Anything I forgot to do ? Maybe the theme file is outdated (I wanted to apply Sprint theme, also tried with M2D WhiteV2..)

actual ROM is Syrius R1

regards,

Martin