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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
Thanks!! :)

Thank you!

Mmmm.... that's really weird... With current version TL works fast even on the emulator (wich is the slower any app can work...). I've also tested it with my Herald and works fast as hell... Wich exactly do you experience to work slow? Page changing? scrolling? Note that it may take from 10 to 30 secconds for TL to completly startup (before it will be responsive but not as fast as after that time).

Have you tried any of the other themes?

Thank you very much for your support!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] salamt:
Big Big Improvement

Thanks for the nice software

When I tried the first version I liked the GUI

but now I am really shocked of how this sw changed. Response wise it is great and I liked it very much.

Two issues tho:

-On my touch pro (VGA) I found the default screen is not resized properly.

-On IPhone Theme there is little pause on flipping (but still fast) if this gone it will be perfect.

sure I am interested on final version

really great job man

Keep going

Edit: VGA is resized properly it is my mistake, I found that I can move the widgets :P noob
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Maikeu Locatelli:
shareware

its will be shareware in future?

because of license, or the licence is for other thing?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
It will not be shareware ;). The license system is meant to:

- avoid people from selling the app (like has happened to A_C with his S2 series) in other comercial products. Note that thaks to throttlelauncher flexibility you can make it look as different as you want and you will be able to build a full product based on ThrottleLauncher core. I don't want this to happen ;).

- Make the comunity grow. I give people contributing with themes, widgets, icons, etc (or even complete and helpfull feedbacks and good ideas) gold licenses (that are life time).

- Ensure people using throttle at least visit the web once a month (to update the license) or contribute by donating (showing their compromise with ThrottleApps). I've sent licenses for even 1$, wich I think is like paying nothing for the app ;). What ever people find ThrottleApps worth is ok for me.

thanks for your interest ;).

Hi!

thanks for the feedback! I'm glad you like the new version :). You're right that the widgets dafult locations are setted for qVGA device... though, as you have already find out, you can move the widgets to place them correctly or even add more or remove them ;). I'll check the iphone little pause you've reported ;). Thanks!

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] theelite:
Hey APBilbo,

The TouchFLO3D theme runs fine and quicker than ever.

But the Light3D theme I can't scroll the bottom menu items at all to choose pages. I can add and disable widgets from the first page but that is about it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
Hi!

the Light3D theme doesn't have an scrollable footer. It's just a little default functional and simple theme to include built inside throttle so it works out of the box ;). To take out all the juice from Throttle you'll need to add another theme like Tf3D one... ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] theelite:
ahh damn sorry :)

I am so used to have icons that scroll at the bottom so I jumped to conclusions, now I am playing around with it and it works fine. Thanks for this release, it's definitely speedier than past releases on my Vogue.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
It's ok.... glad to hear it's working fine :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CRACING:
Hello APBilbo,

Glad and glad, the version is real, real wonderfull. Just gon a take down the touchflo 3d ( Manila 3d ). Just now tried on WinMo 6.5 build 21500 ( HTC Wizard ) and its perfectly running and also the performance is fabulous :)

Will be doing future testing.

Thanks a lot.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
Thank you very much!! :).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] EvgeniyKo:
Hello APBilbo, thanks for the new version, but now I can not work to create new themes and refining old ones, because I now exams in high school. Thank you for the job.:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] delawaresace:
I have a Sprint TP running StarROM1.3

just downloaded this last night for the first time. i'm loving the speed. much faster and more responsive then tf3d, tf3d2, and titanium.

one bug i had was i had to unintsall and reinstall TL because the bottom row of icons moved itself to right over my clock. i tried to soft reset and turn TL on and off under Today settings but no luck.

also i don't seem to have landscape. is this normal for the theme that comes with TL (i think it's called light3d)

what does the gears do. it's the icon thats between the calendar and the home icon on the bottom row.

how do i set weather to my home town. i live in Wilmington, DE USA 19805

sorry about all the questions. just trying to learn TL. keep up the great work
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
That's ok ;). Good luch with the exams!!

Thanks!

I'm glad you're enjoying TL.

The problem with the footer probably was a change in the height o fthe plugin... it's weird though. If you see that hapening again, open ThrottleConfig and click in advanced, then click on the full button (uncheck hide bottom bar if you don't want to hide the soft keys). Then reload the plugin... That should fix it ;).

About LS support, You're right... The Ligth3D theme does not currently support LS mode... You can try the Touchflo3D theme that does include LS ;). Though I've to do some updates over it to make it take advantage of all the 1.0 benefits ;).

The gears icon is meant to go to the page containing embeded today pluygins. You can embed today plugin by opening the config dialog (the last option of the home slide panel) and going to the plugins tab. There you can select your today plugins and change their order if you want.

The weather must be something like Wilmington, USA like in the following URL.

http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=Wilmington,USA&hl=en

Hope this helps!

Thanks for giving TL a try!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] delawaresace:
thanks for the quick response. i still don't quite understand. where would i put "Wilmington, USA"? also there are more then one Wilmington in the usa (DAMN YOU NORTH CAROLINA). how would the widget know the difference? sorry if this stuff is basic info, i'm just trying to learn. thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Kiiv:
TL is always very slow on my polaris :(

Someone else tried on this phone? I didn't see many speed improvement since the first releases of TL so maybe this is due to the driver problem of the phone? :/
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] andrew-in-woking:
Very slow and clunky

Hi APBilbo

I'm sorry to say that Throttle Launcher 1.0 is also extremely slow to the point of being unusable on my HTC Kaiser. The device details are in my signature. It seems that most users are having a very good experience of TL 1.0 but I suspect that the problems I have had are something to do with the poor 2D drivers for the Kaiser. I noticed that a Polaris user had similar problems.

The plug in was very slow to respond and often it was difficult to select the right tab because what was happening on the screen was over a second behind what you were doing with your finger or stylus.

If I have time I'll try it again with the "video running in background" fix for the drivers and see if this makes a difference. My wife has a Touch Dual or Nike and I'll see if I can persuade her to test it on her phone. If any Kaiser users do get it running well on their phone, could you please post your ROM details and anything else relevant to your device.

Thanks

andrew-in-woking
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jrodizzkool01:
Help with throttlelauncher

First of all i think that this is an AWESOME app and today screen replacement! I have been having a couple of problems though with the 1.0 release.

The Light3d theme doesnt work at all for me. When ever i load it up, i get an error that says "Skin file on path Program files/ThrottleLauncher/setups/Light3D/skins/footer was not found or corrupt. Please check or reinstall your setupSystem.IO.FileNotFoundException: An error message cannot be displayed because an optional resource assembly containing it cannot be found at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError" then it says RESIZE and the image looks jumbled up, then my phone freezes and i have to soft reset. I have tried loading different themes such as the iphone 1 and android 1 and they load up but i cant move any of the widgets and they are painfully slow. Also, whenever i try to load a wallpaper it only takes up a small part in the middle of the screen (I have tried many different resolutions for wallpapers including vga res, wvga res and 640x640 res). I never had a problem with throttle launcher when i used previous versions and am just wondering if maybe i need to change settings or something to get it to work.

*I have an Alltel touch pro with stock rom*
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] premkang:
Love this but..

I'm afraid its very sluggish on Touch Diamond, both with default theme and BBStorm. I'd love for this to work well so if anyone can help, please do.

Thanks for the development anyway AP

Prem
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
To everyone:

Note that ThrottleLauncher may be a little bit slow at the begining. Specially when you first open pages (showing the loading ... message). After the first load of the page, page changing must be near automatic.

If you still find page changing slow you can try to go to the settings tab of ThrottleConfig and set backbuffer policy to 10. Then reload the plugin. You should see a great improvement, not in the first load of a page, but the rest.

Also Throttle takes some time to startup, it will be responsive till the very begining but not as much as after 20 - 30 secconds after the startup.

Hi!

Thanks a lot for the feedback! I'm sorry it's not matching your specs... Let's see.. do you have any other today plugins enabled other than ThrottleToday? Also wich theme have you been using?

I'm going to try to make a little app to meassure how fast are the different parts of the ThrottleLauncher engine...

Also what exactly are you finding slow?

Please try the tips avobe to see if speed is improved...

Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback!

Ok, I see that your issue is with the footer, is this OK? Does the scrolling on the programs page for example work smooth. If the problem is with the footer, you should try to set the footer transparency to none. You can do this in the ConfigDialog (click the config button on ThrottleConfig when ThouchFlo3D is selected) in the general tab.

I'll try to do some reasearching on what could be happening... I'll check SPB Benchmark results for Kaiser and Polaris and check differences with my both testing devices (Herald and Omnia, both working smooth, specially omnia ofcourse).

Thanks!

Mmmm... that's a weird bug... My only guess is that for some reason the theme has not been installed properly. Could you please check that the file "/Program files/ThrottleLauncher/setups/Light3D/skins/footer/skin.xml" does exist?

Eitherway, please try reinstalling the 1.0 CAB file. Also ensure that you have deselected every other today plugin. Oh, you're using ThrottleToday right? Not the ThrottleLauncher app...

Thanks!!

Hi Prem!

thanks for the report. Have you deselected the Touchflo3D today plugin? If not, please uncheck it on Today and softreset. Then check ThrottleToday as today plugin and see if it works faster... I think TF3D can interfer in speed...

If you have already unchecked TF3D and it's still slow, please tell me what exactly do you find sluggish (the scrolling, the page changing, etc). Also try the tricks at the begining of the post to see if it improves the speed. Playing with the transparency settings may also help...

Thanks!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] premkang:
Thanks AP

Yes, I have disabled TF3D, but I'll try the other steps you've suggested and will let you know how I get on.

Prem
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
Thanks! I await your feedback! Please, remeber to tell me what exactly you find slow ;).

BTW... I've been taking some specs from here and there arround the internet and I've seen the following:

Omnia

======

http://www.modaco.com/content/i9x0-omnia-http-omnia-modaco-com/273934/samsung-omnia-any-tweaks/

Graphics test: DDB BitBlt 2.31 ms 434 frames/sec

Graphics test: DIB BitBlt 16.4 ms 61 frames/sec

Herald

=======

http://www.portavik.ru/reviews/htc_p4350_review.html

Graphics test: DDB BitBlt 2.06 ms 487 frames/sec

Graphics test: DIB BitBlt 56.3 ms 17.8 frames/sec

Cruise (polaris)

======

http://mobile.mail.ru/reviews/htc/HTC_Touch_Cruise_2-rev.html

Graphics test: DDB BitBlt 1.79 ms 560 frames/sec

Graphics test: DIB BitBlt 48.6 ms 20.6 frames/sec

Diamond

=======

http://smape.com/en/reviews/htc/HTC_Touch_Diamond-rev.html

Graphics test: DDB BitBlt 7.17 ms 140 frames/sec

Graphics test: DIB BitBlt 74.4 ms 13.4 frames/sec

As the sources are different I don't know how acurate this could be (all the specs are taken using SPB Benchmarks though). Looking at the results seems that as you've reported, Diamond is slower rendering graphics than the other devices (probably because of the higer resolution...). The DIB's are specially slower :( (they are used for transparency). I can try to improve this on further releases though 13.4 fps is a really low value :(...

On the other hand Polaris seems to have better specs so theorically it has to work smooth there... (similar to how it works on my herald, I guess)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] premkang:
Hi AP,

Just tried those steps, its not made any noticeable difference. It seems be slowest when on the BBStorm theme you press the home button then try and scroll up and down although its pretty unresponsive to button presses almost everywhere.

Prem
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
Sorry to hear that :(. It's probably related with the specs shown in drawing DIB's... I'll take that in account for further releases.. I've to grab a diamond to test ;).

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Brshk1:
Hi andrew-in-woking,

I also own a Kaiser and TL1RC1 is running really fast and with no problems so far. At least this is true after those initial 20 seconds that TL needs to reach its full speed.

These are my device details, as you requested:

- Vodafone Stock WinMo 6.1 ROM, 3.28.164.3 ESN

- Radio: 1.65.16.25

- OS CE 5.2.19212

- .Net CF 3.5.7283.0

- HTC_CA Drivers installed

I think that most of my settings for TL and TF3D are the default ones, but I don't remember exactly. Just to mention a few that could be relevant:

- Tl buffer policy 4

- hide task bar off

- footer transparency disabled

- real transparency enabled and fake one disabled

- fps 14

- fade on

I hope you can solve your issues. If you need more info, just ask for it.

Brshk1.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nuuuuts:
I've also encountered some lag with my phone as well with throttle launcher. I've installed almost all of your updates hoping for a replacement for TF3D. It makes sense now, according to the graphics tests. I'm using a touch pro. I loaded the BBStorm theme, and going from one tab to the other.

I'll be looking forward to what you come up with.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
Ok... Thanks for the assert! I'm going to work hard for further release trying to improve TL ;).

Thanks! Glad to hear it's working fine! (all I hear lattely are bad news :( )
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] PzykoSkillz:
I'm just having a little problem. With the Android theme, each time I bring up the tab for the widgets, it gets bigger. I have to scroll down for like 3-4 minutes to get to the second widget now, help.... besides that, I love it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
Thanks for the feedback!

You're using VGA/wVGA screen device, right? The problem in the widgets page is a known bug of this version... :(. I'll try to figure it out for the next one ;).

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] duesi64:
Hi out there,

is there a way in the light3d-theme to get more than one upcoming appointment shown? that would be great.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
Not currently, sorry... ThrottleLauncher takes the info stored by the system in the registry... and it only stores the next upcomming appointment... Although I have something in mind to short this for further releases ;).

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] duesi64:
Thanks for your quick answer. But sorry, i have another noob question: how can i add widgets? i am copying and modifying the xml-files since three hours, but no luck...:-( please help!

I have the BBStorm Theme installed and i want to have the upcoming appointment on the homescreen.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
BBStorm theme doesn't support widgets. Widgets must be specifically supported by the theme. Light3D theme does support them tough... Wich device are you using? If using wqVGA or wVGA maybe you can tweak the home.xml file to make the next appointment widgets appear ;).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] duesi64:
I'm using a HTC Kaiser with qvga. So i think there is no way to sove my problem :( What about BBSmart2d? Is there a way to get the widget on the homescreen? Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
Hi!

Sorry for the delay... You can try to do this in the home.xml of the BBStorm theme:

Change

<row name="blank" height="-180" layout="free"/>

For:

<row name="blank" height="-180" layout="rows">
<widget name="YOURWIDGETNAME"/>
</row>

Change YOURWIDGETNAME for the widget name you want to be shown in the home ;).

Hope this helps!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Kiiv:
I'm back to give more details on my issues! Sorry to have been imprecise in my previous post ^^

I'll give my opinion only about the touchFlo 3D theme because it was the one I'm interested in.

So : yes, I have slownesses particularly with the footer. It's difficult to aim at the correct section. If I make slow movements it look smooth but if I go faster I have a delay between my finger and the effective movement :/

I also have the problem, in lesser way, with the scrolling on the application page.

I deactivated all the transparency options, it's better but it's not enough for me. I think all people have different degrees of acceptance but for me it's not enough smooth for a day to day usage :(

I like your work, particularly for the customization possibilities, and I've tried all the versions since the beginning of the development but I think the driver problem of the Polaris is a barrier to enjoy completely your app...

I will look further for the future releases, but don't focus on this problem if it exist only with this phone.

Thanks again for your work and your support :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] duesi64:
Hi, your my winner!!! :):):)Is this the easy way to add the Widgets to the frontscreen?

One last question: after installing this theme the background had not changed, this is simply the OS-theme. Is there any way to get the amazing red Background, that came with the skin?

Thanks in advance

P.S. Sorry for my bad englisch, i'm german
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
Hi!

Glad it has worked! I think the background is included inside the theme folder ;).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alexxx7373:
hello, is http://www.throttlelauncher.com ok?

i can`t open it

thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
Yes.... server was down sorry... pease try again now ;).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alexxx7373:
Now is ok

Muchas gracias compi!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jazzneel:
so does this UI work with rhodium roms? It was cooked in so I can't really uninstall it. This UI seems really neat though!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] baeza:
Omnia issue

This bug is still unsolved completely in RC1:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3339001&postcount=1324

The footer never disappears now, but some items in home page are not repainted when you go back to home page from other page.

Thnx

PS: Everything else Ok!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
Thanks for the feedback... I'll try to short the problem... (At list the footer is painting X-D)....Hehehe

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Lic2kill:
dowload on site seems to of been broken for the last few days
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nrce00:
Hoping someone can help me. I would like to simply add a second Widget page to the TouchFlo theme. I'm not a programmer but thought I could make sense of the config.xml file. I have spent two nights hacking it to what I thought would work, but when I reload the theme, it gives me errors in the config.xml file and I have to keep restoring my backup copy to get Throttle Launcher to load again. I have given up. I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but I don't know what it is. Lacking programing skills is not helping me. Not a biggie, but if someone had some help, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Klael:
Why I can't see the video on preview page? I tried mozilla and ie. flashplayer is already installed.

By the way, APBilbo, will it support VGA in true resolution or resized?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Djay64:
OMG good question.....

the VGA part
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Klael:
I was just about to ask "which one of my questions?":)

Previous releases were resized...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] us1111:
Totally

agree with that!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Djay64:
Haha Yeah i know...... i'm really hoping the next release won't be resized..... here's hoping ;)

Oh and the video seems to be working for me????
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
There you have it :)

http://www.throttlelauncher.com
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] arty:
the download says 0.94k :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] j_mee_5:
thank you

THANK YOU.......................................
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] junior120872:
The zip that downloads is 0.9.4kpre.zip. Is this the correct file?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
Sorry... my bad... please everybody download the file again :P..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] arty:
now its working :) THX
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
Nope it was the wrong one... The link is now working... please download again.

Thanks and sorry!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aeratos:
Great bro :) i will try it right now
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] loco38:
downloading and testing
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] us1111:
In the about tab i still see Beta 0.9.4? Is this a type or...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
What's the name of the file you've downloaded? I forget to change the link and it was for some time pointing to 0.9.4k.... :(.... please check it... Sorry
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aeratos:
fast fast but...Bro needs your help on my p3300 wi fi button dosent work:(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
do you have it connected to your PC? Try disconecting it please and hit the wifi again please.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] us1111:
Filename is:

http://www.throttlelauncher.com/.../0.9.5Beta.zip

I also cannot see all the widgets that you show in the preview video.. But that might have it's reasons.. I sure hope i have the wrong version, because it still is somewhat slow..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
Yes... that's the correct one :). Have you uninstalled the previous release?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aeratos:
ok i will try...second problem about widget first for, I try too add 4 widget ,after try too remove error today plugin.. and now its ok..but why error? many+in my screen?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] APBilbo:
Weird... please if you encounter that again don't close the error message and attach here the ThrottleToday.txt file located at \Program Files\ThrottleLauncher\ and place a screenshot if possible....

Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience...

By the way check that you've installed 0.9.5 by going to ThrottleConfig>about. By mistake I've directed the link to 0.9.4k...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aeratos:
ok bro...meaby all this beacuse i have m2d? (not launch) soon screenshots...im gonna try with new rom.