yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mr_deimos:
The stwater* files are backgrounds for start menu. The default_stwater is just a fallback image in case none other is found. It's not present in every ROM i've seen. And stwater_240_320 and stwater _320_240 are separate portrait and landscape background images for start menu. Sometimes they're the same as tdywater, but not always. So i guess you could look only for files containing tdywater and ignore stwater files - should work in most cases.

And if you don't find the file:

"\\Windows\\tdywater_"+reso+".gif";

You should also check if this one exists:

"\\Windows\\tdywater.gif";

The file containing resolution in its name has priority over file named just tdywater and will be used by the OS if both are found.

As for setting the scrolling parameters - hiding it in a config file sounds good for me. And in the long run it should really be easier than hardcoding the values. From my experience, if you hardcode something then you might have a hard time finding the value in the code a few months later ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] loke662:
Thanks for getting back quickly.

I'll try the 4.9c version.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mr_deimos:
Oh, and by the way - if you add 800x480 and 480x800 to supported resolutions (and make wVGA screens use the same skin settings as VGA) of skinfiles witout background (like whiteSkin and darkSkin), it will work "out of the box" on WVGA screens (toshiba g900, xperia X1, touch HD) as well :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ytsejam_:
Request:

1. When you put a program shortcut into a category, there should be an option to remove it from the "All programs" list so it would not be redundant.

2. Comming from #1. option to show only uncatergorized program shortcuts in "All programs" - or "All programs" can be toggled to "Uncategorized" instead (another option), if other categories are present. i believe, this may save some initial loading time by removing redundancies/duplicates in listed items between categories.

3. Having a header for the categories and tapping it to select from a dropdown menu of categories is a nice idea. and it should be skinnable too!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lastnikita:
Sure, it has Default_stwater_240_400.gif

and Default_stwater_400_240.gif

Hope this helps :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] yearn:
I just updated to 4.9 but it seems a little more sluggish than 4.7 and I missed the other skin options. I would like to see a "add your own background" option. but for the most part this is an awesome app. I use it all the time instead of the stock programs menu. Good work. I think ill stick with 4.7 for a while longer though.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] avellant:
new build: 0.0.4.9d

Hello, everybody!

Decided to upload recent build. It's a debug version, not a release and only 3.5 cf binary.

Changes:

-use today's background image feature fixed... should work with any device

-kinetic scroll velocity depends on screen resolution

-you can also override velocity from settings.cfg
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] avellant:
sorry, dbl posting :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] avellant:
I made the m_maxvelocity and this "friction" value changeable, you can edit them in settings.cfg, remember to change "Override_velocity" to true first.

Here's my simplefied solution. m_friction is justs tells how often to slowdown, if value is 1, it slows down every timer_tick, if 2, in every other and so on...

timers interval is 10ms.

//Slow down
if (((++m_timerCount) % m_friction ) == 0)
{
if (m_velocity.Y < 0)
{
m_velocity.Y++;
}
else if (m_velocity.Y > 0)
{
m_velocity.Y--;
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ytsejam_:
hi.. just wondering how's the development of this app?

also.. at 0.0.4.9d, is there a way to disable the FPS counter at the upper right corner of the screen for TouchLaunch?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JonasSavimbi:
I'd like to know the same thing, plz...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 69s nice 68s great:
i just took a look at this program and it is very nice. i havent checked all the posts on this program yet but can this program overwrite the existing program menu.?? if so how do i make this happen.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] avellant:
Sorry, i forgot erase fps counter from the binary. I was just waiting how long it takes to someone get annoyed :D

I will erase it for next build, i'm working on it, but i would like to get some new features to it first. I been workin on new slider control to change categories ( like in manila :) ).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] avellant:
if you use manila2d, you can override allprograms softkey with replace folderview option. but unfortunately, it can't replace start menu's programs link.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dia05sam:
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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Revin:
Thank you for your application, do you think it will be possible to add option to have keyboard like is in phone application? I mean the T9 keyboard with big buttons. I think it will be then very easy to find any app.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aziemer:
I found something strange, that nobody has mentioned yet (at least I didn't find any...): if you use a language different than english, the hilite of the current selection in most menues vanishes! I guess this is because entries in the menus do not match the values in the configuration anymore!?

aziemer
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Davka:
Great piece of software. Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lastnikita:
use today background is working fine now, thanks.

still needs some preloading at boot time IMHO, and an option to exclude apps from context menu :D

scrolling is not as good as ftouchsl.. sometime I launch an app I don't want, so I've set it to select on click. But now from time to time it won't launch the app I want, when double-clicking it.

You could set it to NOT launch while still scrolling, but rather stop the scrolling instead (and add a security pause, say 100 or 200ms). Then one can click to launch.

It would also be good to get a visual feedback when something is launched, you could change the color of the row background.

Could you do the same with control panel icons, like nueCPL ?

cheers
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zard:
With the fps counter on, it looks cool man.

Tried the beta and found it better than the version from post 1. As I had changed my M2D theme, everytime I fired up touchlaunch, I will get an error message and have to wait for a while to see the softkeys. I then need to go into options to change the skin. With the beta, now it starts with some display error but the softkeys appears much faster. I rather like the background colour when the error appears, pinkist background. I'm just wondering if you can make that pinkist background the default installed skin so there won't be any error message. Alternatively, choose something that can be available by default.

Congratulations for making touchlaunch faster and faster in each update. I didn't like to use it initially but now, I like it.

Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lopo:
[UPDATE][10 Nov 2008] TouchLaunch 0.0.4.9! Partly rewritten, multilingual(NET2.0&3.5)

Very good application. It's possible in the next release support for WVGA (480x800) devices.

Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JimVer:
Does this works iwht the I900 Omnia ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] avellant:
Shortly, yes.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mikhe69:
Hi avellant!

Does your app will get more updates????

Anyway, thank you for this excellent app!!!:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cj182:
Hey!

I've got a problem with replacing the folderview.exe. It shows the message: "action didn't work!"

I don't know what to do - If I reboot the device without witout opening the "folderview.exe" and open only TouchLaunch, then it don't work either...

If i use a TaskManager (I used "ITaskMgr. 1.4.5") to terminate the process, the taskmanager wants to kill the "shell32.exe" - and this shuts down the device... but the process "folderview.exe" isn't shown in the list jof processes, although i've opened it!

thanks for the answer,

cj182
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] leglog:
maybe this has already been made clear, but does this have utility with the htc touchpro?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aussiebum:
works good on my Xperia - (getting about 30fps when scrolling fast) - after hacking the Diamond black theme to support WVGA resolutions :)

One feature request though - current design for navigating between Categories isn't Single-Hand friendly; Have difficulties swiping to switch Categories when holding and navigating phone with just one hand.

Is it possible to have Categories pop out from the side like the Alphabet Grid? That way it's possible to fast-switch between ANY Category without having to swipe through each sequentially OR spending two clicks navigating through the Menus to the Categories page. Eg. Have the Alphabet Grid on the right side, and the Category quick select on the left (or vice versa)

Implement that and you have my Donation ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] frederikk:
Hi, can you tell us how you do that ? Is it only a question of resizing the image file to good resolution or something else ? Perhaps you can post your skin ? :)

Ciao

Fred
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aussiebum:
Whoops, forgot about posting it up :p

Yeah it's just a matter of 1) creating a wvga background png file and 2) editing the *.skin file to accept 480x800 (wvga) resolutions. Quick 5 min job :)

Here's the edited DiamondBlack.skin file + extended black wvga background for wvga use.... just replace the existing skin file + put the bg in the theme folder.

All credits go to the original author! I'm just a tweaker :cool:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] frederikk:
Thanx ! :)

Ciao

Fred
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bbonzz:
Attached the italian .lng file
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bbonzz:
I second aussie; maybe using the same way as M2DAppLauncher: with that one i had the categories folders displayed at bottom as it was a TF3D inside the TF3D (see first pic attached).

Another thing is about the letter bar. As you see in pics 2 & 3 attached, there's something wrong: when the bar appears, it's cutted at right (see letter "W" in pic 3); when disappears, it's still partially visible. Also if i modify the LetterBarTextLocationR and/or LetterBarWidth values in skin, there's no solution: if i move the letterbar more left to avoid the right cut, it doesn't disappear; if i move the letterbar more right to make it disappear, it is cut at right when visible...

oh, i'm running the app in 480x800 with Blackstone.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ross2280:
Thank you very much for this handy little app..!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lastnikita:
hi avellant, are you still working on it ? :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mazock:
Hi,

First, I think TouchLaunch is Great. You've done an awesome job.

I do have one issue, although it may be my ignorance. I accidentally open too may programs by scrolling. Is there a way to adjust the sensitivity?

Also,

I currently run Ultimate Launcher. I have UL setup to use the entire today screen. I would LOVE to be able to set TouchLaunch up as a UL tab.

Needless to say, it needs to be a Today Plugin.

Just a request.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] genoso:
Spanish Translation

Very nice tool, it could be nicer if loads faster and scroll speed could be configured...

By the way, here you have Spanish Translation:

View attachment 149651
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kraize:
I think this program is also awesome! :D It would be cooler though if I could use this to replace the programs folder and instead it open up TouchLaunch when I click Programs in the start menu.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cuplan:
Try this

Kraize,you might be better to try touchStart.

http://churenpoto.ddo.jp/wm/touchStart/index_e.php
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lastnikita:
not accessible for me at least, and could not find it anywhere else..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Martin Notz:
Skins for Touch HD

Hello everyone,

where can I find a WVGA skin which works with HTC Touch HD ??(Blackstone) :confused:

Thanks for an upload!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] yearn:
hey all I love this app I've been using it for a long time. but I was wondering if its been abandoned since its been such a long time since the last update. The only problem I've had with mine is the slow starts.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aussiebum:
use the search function on this thread ;) I posted a modified black diamond 4 wvga phones sometime in Dec in this thread....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] AvocadoBaby:
how do I replace the all programs soft button in tf3d? I clicked replace folder view but it hasn't changed it. It could be because i have a touchHD?

This is a fantastic program.

people have been suggesting tabs and icons at the top or bottom for quick access to categories. If that is too difficult, an alternative would be to have kinetic sideways scrolling. So that you can scroll sideways through multiple categories instead of one at a time? Maybe thats harder than the icon/tab option though :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aussiebum:
This is good stuff! Now, if this was (a lot) faster this would be an excellent replacement for both my Start Menu AND Programs (folderview.exe).

Two other suggestions: Cache the icons into a file (like TouchLaunch) so that it loads up faster, and add some utility options like "Reset PPC" to the Start Menu would be nice :)

Are you the dev?

EDIT: I think this program should be started as a new thread instead of a post

Oh for those who weren't able to get it from that website, here it is below.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cybermaus:
Nice app.

Of course, I only found the 0.0.4.9 on xda *after* I found 0.0.4.7 somewhere else and skinned it for WVGA. Now I could do it again. As if I do not know to distrust those 'collection-mirror' websites for having old copies. Oh well, my mistake, never mind.

But a very nice launcher indeed, really has a speedy feel.

A few idea's: I have a lot of junk on my phone, like old shortcuts and double shortcuts, so:

It may be nice if the program was smart enough to detect a dead link (it currently traverses them already, to cache the icon) and either does not show the dead link, or even gives an option to delete the dead link.

Similarly, if two links end up going to the same file, why not also not show the second one

Right now, there is only an option to 'copy to category'. So the 'all programs' always has 'all programs' logical. However, maybe there should be a category 'new or unassigned' which has all the programs not in any other category...

Anyway, thanks, nice program.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lastnikita:
Thanks for this :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] onlinespending:
I haven't actually used this, but this looks great! Is there a similar program for viewing the Settings icons?

EDIT: I remember there being a program that showed Settings in a Manila or TouchFlo style tab based manner. It was skinnable and replaced the normal Windows Mobile Settings. I just can't remember where that was. But if there's a TouchLaunch equivalent for Settings that would even be better. Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ca3sar:
Can this be used transparently in a pocket plus tab? or can you make it like such?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] claus1953:
Quickmenu replaces the start menu and shows programs, settings and switches connections for BT and WiFi as well as rotates screen, hibernates etc etc, very complete and customizable.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] onlinespending:
thanks for the suggestion, however I'm looking for something quite similar to TouchLaunch but allows browsing through the Windows Mobile Settings, rather than just Programs. QuickMenu is just a Start Menu replacement is not finger friendly.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] claus1953:
Just to correct... in QuickMenu you have besides the program folder also the settings folder which you can navigate (for example you can open the today screen or the connections screen with just one tap), and the QuickMenu folder where you can switch Bt, WiFi and rotate screen etc. You can make the drop menu larger so that it can be navigated without stylus, i have thick fingers and it works :D.

Also i launch it through a softkey and not as replacement of the start menu.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Zoltair Wright:
Have a look at nueCPL, I think it's just what you're looking for.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] saltorio:
I'm looking forward to giving TouchLaunch a try when you get landscape mode working. I tried it on my iPAQ 910c, and it couldn't load any of the skins. I could get to the config, but the TouchLaunch interface itself was all messed up and non-functional.

Any idea when landscape support will be implemented?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sean D.:
Bump for this!

Looking for landscape support too.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] emintolga:
Turkish Translation

Great application. Thank you very much.

I attached Turkish Translation:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] claus1953:
Since i have flashed a WM 6.5 ROM TouchLaunch is not working anymore.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lanceiro:
I have liked touchlaunch very much.

The only problem in my opinion is:

TouchLaunch doesn't recognize the folders in Start menu.

I have Wisbar in my pocket and when i go to programs touchlaunch displays several itens of Wisbar that is not a program , or important to me...

Best regards

Eduardo
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] millo1978:
How to save and restore configuration (links, categories, settings, etc.)?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rvonder:
Ties to my only suggestion: Provide a simple option checkbox called Hide 'All Programs'. Once I've created my various Categories pages and copied every useful program into one of those pages, I no longer have a need to see 'All Programs' again until I need it to reconfigure (eg, added a new program, or want to rearrange things).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MCXSC:
It's a nice tool! Best Launcher I've seen!

If you would make it to access folders and settings and maybe replace the start menu it would be a _perfect_ launcher! ;) :)

By the way: If I use "Use todays' background", there pops up a error message "couldn't use todays background". Any idea?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] machina2:
WVGA Skins

Hello all,

this is indeed a great tool that I am going to use now alot (embedded it with UltimateLaunch executed using Gesture)

Here is my contribution, two WVGA Portrait Skins :
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nonno:
Wow, just found this app, great work. Thanks also to @machina2 for his efforts in creating WVGA Skins.

Used the registry hack to remap the left softkey on the Today Screen (described everywhere, but here's one link http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=760487) to run TouchLauch.

I'd like to clean out all the garbage apps that I don't use to make it run even faster. Any ideas?

Thanks

Nonno
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rvonder:
WM allows backgrounds to be either .JPG or .PNG, but TouchLaunch appears to support only .JPG. Just use any decent image editor to convert your .PNG background to .JPG and it should work fine.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] machina2:
The only bug I found is when I click in an empty place of the list of applications : if there are few applications in a category and I click in the "empty slots", the application crashes. But it's not a big deal, I fill all my categories :-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MyPass:
Hi, Search to "exclude" in this thread, this fils must be edited and then copied to the custom folder. create the folder in the programfolder if it doesn´t exist.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MyPass:
ABC-Bar not working

Hello, its a great tool, but the ABC-bar is not working on my Diamond 2 (WVGA). It shows the bar but nothings happen, when i tab to it. Any ideas? Maybe it depends on the skin?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jimski:
Fantastic piece of software. Everything works (well almost) as described. Currently running v0.0.4.9d with NET 3.7 on a stock Fuze.

One little bug I have noticed.

-I have set Favourites as the Category to open on startup, but the app always defaults to All Programs. After a period of idle time (minimized) it always defaults to All Programs. Would be nice to open to the selected category.

I used SSMaHo to remap the All Programs soft key (the Option in TouchLaunch did not work) and it is working fine.

A couple suggestions:

-Maybe a transparant finger friendly scroll bar along the right edge (whatever edge is oposite the ABC bar depending upon preferences) to scroll up and down the list without inadvertently selecting a link.

-Either a tab or gesture to bring up the categories list. Swiping does not always work and now I have seven categories (including All) so it's cumbersome to go around the carousel. Menu/Categories works but as this is a finger friendly app something requiring less accuracy would be helpful.

Earlier today all of my Start/Settings icons dissapeared :confused:, as did the text on the System and Connections tabs (although you could still tap the screen and open a link). I don't know if it is related to TouchLaunch (loaded it late last night) but this has never happened before. I restored the folderview.exe (5K) loaded by TouchLaunch, with my backup folderview.exe (177K) file and did a soft reset. Everything is working now and Settings is opening faster than it ever has (instantly, no delay - used to be 2-4 seconds). If it happens again I may need so help.