[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mpenguin14:
I am not sure... I know it is a little bit more complicated that just copying a font file to \Windows\Fonts, but I have never tried to add a new font before... can anyone help me with this one?

Yeah the backup ad restore of registry edits needs to get added soon, I also need to add .reg file support to M2DC theme files, as well as .tsk support, but we will see how that goes

Sorry about the delay on the adding a folder of themes, I too would find that feature very useful, but have been extremely busy with my jobs that pay the bills. I plan on getting the folder of theme files added this weekend though

hmmm, well right now I will copy over any 'hh_" file form a theme file, so if the theme file that you have contains the hh_weather... file then you will loose your settings, I should add a check for that

How to change custom clocks? Right now there is no really good way of doing this... that is the next big feature of M2D, and I doubt I will be able to have it released until thanksgiving weekend

it sounds to me like maybe you have the auto kill feature of WM6.1 enabled, where it iwll start closing apps that are taking up too much memory... maybe try my Manilla 2D Dev tools, you can disable Manila 2D with 1 touch, run tom tom, then re-enable Manila 2D with 1 touch

You are welcome (what was I right about?)

That is a good feature request... I guess it just requires changing "IDLAUNCHERWG_BTNICON_DIMENSION" from 32 to 48?

Someone asked for me to add the custom icons for different launcher apps a while ago, but I just haven't gotten around to it... maybe once i figure out how the UI would work in my head I can start getting that to work

this is a very good question and i cannot give a definitive answer, I can however tell you what I think is going on.

I know that there have been 20 updates to the Manila 2D cab, but there have been only 3 different builds of Manila 2D to my knowledge (feel free to correct me if I am wrong, but please try not to flame). The first version had 1 set of xml, the second version had a new xml file, it had a few more entries, most notably some new entries for the tab widget node I believe, and this new update 20 has even more xml entries than the previous ones did. If you use an old xml file on a new m2D installation, m2D tries to look for something in the xml, and when it doesn't find it, M2D decides to give up on life and kill itself. I think this is mostly for images... verison 14 through 19 of M2DC (my program) handled the xml in a very naive way, which is why M2DC_v0.20.207 was released, I changed the way I apply themes back to the way I did it in M2DC_v0.13.xxx, which means that I only update the "POS" and "RECT" values in the "\Windows\HtcHomeSettings.xml" file with the POS and RECT values from the xml file included with the theme... this way the xml file in "\Windows" will not loose entries, it will only modify entries, and therefore Manila 2D should start up without problems.

When i first introduced theme management I made the user backup their theme file so that they could always go back to their original theme, and I still think that is a great idea, BUT I was quickly (and rightfully) called out for it, I was thinking like a developer of desktop applications (which I am), not a developer of Mobile Devices (which is what I want to be). Forcing a backup takes up a considerable amount of space, and that can make or break the program for someone with a limited rom device like the wing.

I would love to include a default theme, but like I said that would tak eup too much space on a device... AND, M2DC is open source software, GPLv3, so everything that is uses has to be free and open, and even though we all love and use Manila 2D, it is not free and open, so I could not legally distribute the default files for M2D

that is awesome, I like seeing that I am not the only one that likes to to tweak the M2D registry

I will definitely consider that for a future release... I am thinking that I could add this whenever I add the above mention launcher customizations

I really like registry tweaks, they are so much nicer and more structured than xml tweaks. The last 2 reg tweaks that I posted about didn't seem to get noticed by anyone (changing the sms font settings and using internet explorer instead of opera in the internet tab)

I thought about opening a new post "[Ref]Manila 2D Registry Settings" because I never know the appropriate thread to post new M2D registry settings, what would people think of that? Would it be considered polluting the board? Or would someone other than me find this thread useful

Thank you to everyone for all of the feedback and support, I don't think i will get around to working on M2DC again until this weekend, but I should be able to get the theme file folder support added then