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[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
WIDGETS PRO PLUS ULTIMATE WITH CUSTOM BACKGROUND

(QVGA, SQ240, SQ320 AND WQVGA ONLY)

061809.

This is exactly the same version as Pro Plus Ultimate 061809 but with a custom background on all screen except lifestyle. This can then be easily changed to another background by changing the qa_fundotela.dat file with your own custom made one or one of the files I have supplied. Just rename the background you want to use to qa_fundotela.dat and copy it to your Spb Mobile Shell folder on your phone, then soft reset. I included a black one as well as a couple of colourful backgrounds (pictures attached).

Note: After you rename the background file and copy it to your phone dont forget to rename it back so you know which one it is or you will get lost :p.

Do the following to make your own custom background dat file.

1. Rename any of the custom backgrounds in the zip file to qa_fundotela.zip

2. Unzip to a folder using the password: b0fm18zq

3. Make 2 backgrounds to use for portrait (240x400 saved as Background.bmp) and landscape (400x240 saved as BackgroundL.bmp)

4. Move the 2 new background files into the folder you made in step2 (overwriting the originals)

5. Zip the 3 files back up with password protection (using password: b0fm18zq)

6. Rename the new file to qa_fundotela.dat and copy to your Spb Mobile Shell folder on your phone (overwriting the original)

7. Soft Reset your phone

Download Links (xda isnt letting me upload to here sorry):

* [URL="http://www.4shared.com/file/113689312/50aea732/MS301_WidgetsProPlusUltimate_CustomBackGround_QVGA_062309.html"]MS301 WidgetsProPlusUltimate_QVGA CustomBackGround SpbMenu_Agenda_062309

[/URL] * Custom Backgrounds (zip file with 7 backgrounds and instructions)

Enjoy and pleaase give feedback for all my hard work :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] glyndal:
looks awesome mate as per usual ... loved your finishes on my touch dual but recently got a TD2 :(

I'd be happy to test the VGA if you ever get around to it (which I understand if you don't).
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
1. I didnt even see that request and I already filled it :D In Widgets Pro Plus you can select Digital Clock Digits (small or large) and then place the Date Widget under it for date and time with no border :D

2. I faced this problem aswell and couldnt find any way to get over the delay. Its fine when selected by the start menu but as soon as you make it into an application widget theres a delay opening it. Wierd :confused:

3. Read the first few pages to find out how to do this :p

4. yes you can you have to edit the files inside qa_layouts.dat
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
If everything is ok with the QVGA version then I will start working on VGA tonight. Theres ALOT of resizing all the new widgets I made so it will take a few days to put together.
[Windows Mobile Themes] gerald_s:
Just one question for my understanding: What sense does it make to link this button to the agenda screen? The pro screen is not changeable by us and there is already a calendar - linked to the agenda screen. Is there any advantage I can not see at the moment?

BTW: "Digital clock modern big" is great, its possible to have the weather on the left and the battery on the right of it.
[Windows Mobile Themes] halloj:
Yes, please. I love that look.
[Windows Mobile Themes] ali1010:
Hi mskip!

AMAZING!!!

heres where amazing happens. lol.

you are Jason Bourne of ms3.

first u made ms3 widgets pro plus its identity.

further updates u made supremacy

and now the ultimatum! wow!

hope its not the last.

hope you will make ms301 widgets proplus FOREVER!

thanks sir mskip!
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
I see your point I will change it to Task Manager now and change all the links :)

Thanks for the feedback :D

EDIT: changed the middle button on the pro screen to Task Manager and updated the Download Link
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Haha if only I got paid as much as he does I would be a very happy guy :p

I will keep updating Pro Plus as long as there is a need for it :D

EDIT: It would be nice to know how people are getting on with the new space at the bottom and whether there is a need to make an extras version with the bottom menu buttons included or if people are happy making their own menus.

PLEASE GIVE FEEDBACK ITS THE ONLY WAY IMPROVEMENTS HAPPEN!!!
[Windows Mobile Themes] ali1010:
Hi mskip!

im playin with it now.

i will give feedback asap.

thanks.
[Windows Mobile Themes] ali1010:
Hey mskip. i got to put apps at the bottom of lifestyle panel. how can i add buttons on other panels? bottom rightmost button and leftmost button are missing on all the panels except lifestyle.
[Windows Mobile Themes] ali1010:
hey mskip,

i put apps at the bottom of lifestyle panel. it was great! how can i put apps or bottons at the bottom of other panels? leftmost and rightmost button at the bottom are missing on all the panels except lifestyle.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
The panel and menu buttons on the left and right side at the bottom should be on every lifestyle screen since its just an overlay and doesnt move. Did you uninstall the old pro plus and ms3 and reinstall both so you have a fresh version to play with. What happens exactly to the buttons when you slide the screen?
[Windows Mobile Themes] TheEngineer0815:
Hallo

I am looking for a widget wich shows the number of active tasks!

Thanks for the help
[Windows Mobile Themes] ali1010:
sir mskip,

lifestyle screens are ok.

its in the other screens like the professional, spbmenu, etc... are missing the panel and menu buttons

please see screenshots. thanks.

oh, and how can i add bottom buttons on this screens?
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Thats strange they are fine on mine and I just tested it twice. Can you backup your settings and then uninstall/ reinstall both programs to see if you get the same results.

Can anyone else verify this problem? Maybe its just on WQVGA?? :confused:
[Windows Mobile Themes] jembot:
Thanks mskip! As always great widgets! I just noticed the 5 startmenu shortcuts as replacement for the bottom bar opens slow.. What could be causing it? The wait cursor appears before opening the associated shortcut.

But all else works perfect! Thanks! :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] ali1010:
ok i will try to uninstall/ reinstall both. il give feedback later.

thanks.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
PRO PLUS ULTIMATE WITH CUSTOM BACKGROUND 061809

Up and running :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
I dont know what causes the delay in opening the shortcuts as they run imediately if you select them from the start menu but as soon as you place them on the lifestyle screen as an application widget they slow down.

Maybe all application links have the same problem I will have to look into it more.
[Windows Mobile Themes] ali1010:
sir mskip is qvga same with wqvga? i downloaded the qvga for my omnia. should that be ok?
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
QVGA and WQVGA use the same program so you downloaded the correct one. Is it still giving the same problem after you reinstalled everything?

Hopefully another WQVGA user can verify this problem as it works fine on my WQVGA emulator.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Lucas0511:
I just thought of you because playing around with my clock.exe made it somehow corrupt. I resorted to what I describe in an updated post here

"on my HD the clock.exe after during testing just renaming it and naming it back to its original name somehow became "detached" from WinMobile. This problem might not occur when you move a backup copy of clock.exe out of the way in the first place, and fool around with the backup copy :-). I unfortunately played with the original.

There was an error message when I tried to open alarms. So my resort was to implement the alarm program change with VJBrisk, making GAlarm my default alarm program - as detailed in the first post. I think it is just critical to do it all with Total Commander, incl. generating the link to GAlarm, and after it all setting GAlarm to "advertise" its alarms in all other programs that rely on alarm settings (also explained in the first post)."

- and it worked on first attempt - with Total Commander. I dont think Resco can move/copy files with their origin in ROM.

Here is the galarm.lnk that TC created for me:

54#"\Storage Card\Program Files\ageye\G-Alarm\GAlarm.exe"

I attached that renamed lnk file that needs to go into \windows\

I suspect - like another user suggested to you two days ago - that your problem lies in misnaming the lnk file, maybe because my Win 7 system also hides the lnk file ending. Correct naming should be clockLNK.lnk - nothing more. So I suggest you rename the lnk file in TC, if you did not attempt that earlier. My TC allowed all file operations after install, no settings needed to be changed.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Lucas0511:
Could someone that integrated Klaxon with VJBrisk please report that alarms actually show inside MS3? This can be activated in GAlarm, not sure if Klaxon offers this too. Just to make sure that Zepiii's "Working Perfect" is true also for Klaxon :-) And Zepiii, you can add free GAlarm http://www.ageye.de/index.php?s=download as working.
[Windows Mobile Themes] toniolol:
Edit :

I've made some mod of the original QVGA CAB.

No for 24H people users, you could have the pro Time and date centerded tou could have an icon on the left and one on the right !

Dowload it here : http://toniolol.free.fr/download.php?view.36
[Windows Mobile Themes] TVDinner:
OK - interesting new issue this brought up.

1) I downloaded your file on my desktop and then transferred it to my storage card.

2) Using Total Commander I moved the file to the Windows directory - It asked me if I wanted to OVERWRITE the file that already existed with the same name. (SEE IMAGE 1). I said yes.

3) after doing this I did a soft reset of the phone

4) When the phone came back I then tried to access the GAlarm directly through MS3.0 and got a new error message (SEE IMAGE 2)

GAlarm still works if opened normally. Now I am lost on what to do next....
[Windows Mobile Themes] Lucas0511:
Can only speculate: Your lnk file seemed bigger than mine. Maybe your address of GAlarm is different from mine?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Lucas0511:
More weeks in agenda view:

HKLM\Software\SPB Software House 2\SPB Mobile Shell\Agenda\

change value in AgendaWeeks and/or CalendarWeeks to 4 for example

now agenda view can display 0 to 4 weeks ahead

Define list or grid display for each folder:

1. HKLM\Software\SPB Software House 2\SPB Mobile Shell\Menu\Root\

2. change to the folder for which you want to edit display (i.e. Internet)

3. change value DrawType to: List or Grid
[Windows Mobile Themes] TVDinner:
went through all of the steps again - still not working - same error as first time. I give up, lol

will just set GAlarm as favorite program sticky and access it that way. Was fun (not) trying, haha
[Windows Mobile Themes] Ruben Best:
questions???

It is possible to do 2 things

1) A clock extra big, as the clock pro, but at least of 160x200 pixels, or one XXLth Clock??

2) To conceal or to extract the taskbar??? If we have everything in our today of msh3 in order that she needs??

That good work estan doing. Thank you very much.
[Windows Mobile Themes] snobrdinrtiste:
there are two pro clock .dat files... one called vp_dclock_modern.dat and another called vl_dclock_modern.dat in the mobile shell directory
[Windows Mobile Themes] sgt_sidz:
ok manage to extract the qa_layout.dat file and looked into it found selectlayout.xml file and changed it from "tahoma" to "halvetica" but when I put it back in. The fonts still stayed the same after restart. Can someone guide me on which folder I should be opening to change the fonts on my MS3 ( at least the calender ) thanks lots
[Windows Mobile Themes] Nicaragüense:
No need to soft reset after changes

just go to settings/spb mobile shell from spb menu/launcher. when in that psge, click the menu button on the bottom right corner. then click exit. then simply restart ms3 from you today screen. Soft reset on if you fudged something up causing spb to hang.. or use some other way to kill the process.
[Windows Mobile Themes] toniolol:
Update to have good size big clock widget !

I've made some mod of the original QVGA CAB from matthewhypolite : MS3 Lifestyle Widgets (Pro Series)

Now for 24H people users, you could have the pro Time and date centered to could have an icon on the left and one on the right.

Only QVGA here (sorry) : http://toniolol.free.fr/download.php?view.36
[Windows Mobile Themes] jelive:
Found this post at http://www.spbclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24550&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

PowerToy Version 0.1 (build 6420) for Mobile Shell 3.x consists of Menu Editor. You can download it there.

Just unzip and put spb menu editor.exe on your device. I put in on internal storage and then opened Spb Menu Editor and added the file location to Settings/Spb Mobile Shell...now it's available along with other Spb 3 settings...nice to have this feature from Spb 2.1

Jim
[Windows Mobile Themes] abumhmmd1:
How did you manage to had the days weather iCons in VETICAL ?? ... as showen left

Mine is horizantal as showen right
[Windows Mobile Themes] xpressyourcell:
The Big VGA clock CAB disables the voice command features of the phone and they cannot be re-enabled unless the clock is uninstalled. Upon uninstallation and soft reset, MS3 must be reinstalled. I would say that these are some MAJOR bugs.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Nicaragüense:
i added my qa_layouts.zip file to post 236 so you can see what i did if you have a omnia or wqvga device. or if you wanna look at the xml to make something similsr on other rez's. i changed time,weather,favcontactsand lockscreen.xml to use menubar3, calllog and spbcontacts.xml will use menubar2 now instead of menubarcontacts. snd i basically copied the menubarcontacts layout snd saved it with all my changes as menubar3.xml

it still needs work but it is s start.
[Windows Mobile Themes] 1ucio:
Very Nice!!

Thx
[Windows Mobile Themes] efla:
Great ! ... but could you do one also for WVGA ?

Also, I think that the date could be sligthly shifted to the left (at present it is right aligned onto the digatal clock)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Nicaragüense:
Abumhmmd1, my weather looks like that probably because the wqvga layout is different from yours. yours looks to be vga.
[Windows Mobile Themes] danbert:
Having the same problem, I tried the same thing, (thinking it was surely a language issue).

But you're lucky, I'm unlucky!

Still nothing appears on my Omnia, except for few "pro" widgets but the rare to be displayed are... not the pro but the lifestyle one! :confused:

(Same result neither using the French or the English language...).

(J'aurais pu te dire ça en Français, mais c'est pour rester poli !).

Dan ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] ali1010:
Hi mskip!

it worked!!! thanks.

but then i have to put my settings and mods back again which means more playing the phone again. lol . the restore settings had an error. its ok. its worth it to have your latest ultimate widgetsproplus work on my phone.

i will give new screenshots and feedback soon.

oh i second that changing the agenda on professional screen to task manager. is it changed already?
[Windows Mobile Themes] degavi:
hi mskip and thanks for the fantastic work.the only problem with wqvga is as mentioned a slow startup for the shortcuts in folder.is there a way of editing the shortcuts since mine are pointing at the wrong direction??(programfiles istead of just program)
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Yes I changed all cabs to open task manager instead of agenda from the pro screen and changed the links so if u download it again you will get the changed version

glad it all works now :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] jembot:
Thanks mskip! I also tried adding a sgortcut to Task Manager and also observed the same slow reaction but no wait cursor.
[Windows Mobile Themes] jembot:
Widget Report

Hi mskip,

I noticed that the widgets are no longer selectable using the DPAD? Can you verify? Also noticed that swiping has some delays when the DigitalClockPlus Big Digits is in use. Dunno or is just me..Trying out the previous widget version to verify if apps or activesync is interfering since it's just the active app.
[Windows Mobile Themes] ojessie:
Hi mskip,

I'd like to try your ultimate widgets but I just get the message invalid link - could you please check.

Thanks, ojessie
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
The shortcuts I used are the shortcuts in the Start Menu, Programs, Spb Mobile Shell Folder I just copied them to a new folder so they are viewable (spb made the folder hidden although I have no idea why). If you run the shortcuts from the Start Menu they start quickly so I have no idea why they slow down when selected as application widgets.

If anyone can edit them to make them run faster then please let me know.

Hope everyone is enjoying the Ultimate version :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
If you select Task Manager by going Add Widget, Application, Tools, Task Manager then it should open quickly, it does on my phone anyway.

You mean the DPAD on the front of your device? I can scroll up and down the list and select widgets fine from mine.

I dont know if you mean Digital Clock Digits (big) or Digital Clock Plus (big) but I put 3 of each on the same screen and experienced no slow down at all.

If you have any slow downs or errors with DPAD try uninstalling both pro plus and mobile shell, then soft restart your device and reinstall mobile shell and then pro plus. Thats usually the cause of errors.
[Windows Mobile Themes] gerald_s:
@mskip:

Both your work on this widgets and your support is incredible.

Although I'm not using your widgets pro (still happy with jgjacksons) I was sending some money to respect all your effort.

Keep your fantastic work up, maybe I will change to your pro widgets if the slowdown with the new "bottom" buttons is eliminated :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Thank you very much :D

I will make a couple of versions tonight with the 3 buttons at the bottom for the people who dont like the lag in opening the spb shortcuts. Any preference?
[Windows Mobile Themes] jembot:
Yes please! :) The SPB Menu-Task Manager-Contacts bottom bar button arrangement (QVGA)

Thanks! Keep up the excellent work! :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] jgjackson:
I've been begging SPB to change the swiping (at least on option) to work something more like TF3D, where swiping the full width of the screen will swipe all the way across all the pages of the lifestyle panel. That would make multiple pages so much more usable.
[Windows Mobile Themes] burtcom:
Do you have the latest MS3 installed? One of the betas before the final 3.0.1 was released had this problem.
[Windows Mobile Themes] gerald_s:
My favorite shortcuts are launcher, show today, contacts but launcher, task manager, contacts is also very useful
[Windows Mobile Themes] wyldthng:
I would love Launcher, Today, Contacts. Other than the lag, the whole thing works great for me! Keep up all the awesome work.:D
[Windows Mobile Themes] kevin4305:
Launcher, Task Manager, Contacts would be great - just like one of your previous versions!

Awesome work mskip!
[Windows Mobile Themes] ozone777:
Here is a question that I'm sure someone has had to have asked at some point but I'll ask it anyway:

How much of a memory hit does the the phone take when we "widgetize" (just made that up :D) MS3?

Does anyone know, roughly, how much memory each widget consumes?

For you peeps with the newer phones sporting mucho memory it probably isn't much of a concern.

But for us older phone users (Titans mostly) memory is a scarce and highly coveted resource.

With all these new options, the impulse is to widgetize the heck out of MS3 but people like myself need to pace themselves and be more selective.

Darn you kids with your fancy memory filled phones! :mad:
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
If you have windows mobile based phone then you should be able to see in your system memory display how much memory is left on your phone at any given time. Take any MS3 widget program and mobile shell itself off and make a note of the memory, then load up MS3 and take a note. Then your widget program and take a note. Then load up some widgets and take a note. See where im going with this lol :p

Ughh I will probably end up doing a test tonight now you mentioned it lol in between making several menu based pro plus versions and starting to convert a VERY large amount of widgets for use on pro plus VGA haha maybe I will even get to sleep tonight :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
ok so Widgets Pro Plus extras (since the bottom menu bar is an overlay you will lose the ability to place anything at the bottom) with the following flavours to follow shortly (maybe an hour if I dont lose internet connection AGAIN :mad::

Launcher, Task Manager, Contacts

Spb Menu, Task Manager, Contacts

Launcher, Today, Contacts
[Windows Mobile Themes] ojessie:
Hi mskip,

I would highly appreciate if you could develop also a flavor of Launcher - Agenda - Contacts. Would be really nice.

Thanks and best regards, ojessie
[Windows Mobile Themes] -Vulture-:
@ mskip:

I have a small graphical glitch with your latest version and your custom backgrounds on my wqvga omnia. Just take a look at the bottom of the pictures attached. it seems like the backgrounds are too small to reach the bottom of the screen, but i checked it, they're 400x400 in size. Any idea? The first two pictures show no movement, the other two during scrolling (BUT only when i keep the screen PRESSED and move my finger around! When i just swipe and let the kinetic do the job theres no such huge corruption like on screen 3&4).
[Windows Mobile Themes] intersysx:
My Omnia WQVGA does the same thing with latest version.
[Windows Mobile Themes] dustinb17:
I would ALSO love to have a setup with "Launcher, Today, Contacts". I've used all your builds but always have to edit my qa_layouts to change the "agenda" to "today" so a CAB with that STOCK would be GREAT!

But I'm not the one creating custom builds for everyone so if there's not a big demand for it I'll continue to edit it after installing it. Either way thanks for ALL your hard work.
[Windows Mobile Themes] shaolinsoldier:
Ultimate looks great.. cant wait for VGA
[Windows Mobile Themes] inga22:
I don't know how to open qa_layout file... someone can help please?
[Windows Mobile Themes] degavi:
am i the only one DONT want contacts on the bottombar? Can you pleas make that for me mskip and i will send u a case of beer maby Menu Agenda Tasks
[Windows Mobile Themes] gerald_s:
Have a look at this post
[Windows Mobile Themes] -Vulture-:
No, your not! Im using PhonEx for my contacts, not MS3. So Launcher, Task manager and Agenda would be nice.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Ooo a case of beer haha yumm I like the sound of that :D

Spb Menu, Agenda, Task Manager on its way just give me 20 minutes as im trying to grab an extra 15 pixels from the bottom bar so that widgets can be placed nearer the bottom.

I will make that my first flavour :p
[Windows Mobile Themes] shaolinsoldier:
Just installed ultimate on my old 6700. been playing around so far so good great job! I like being able to put my own shortcuts on the bottom bar but the lag on the widget pro plus shortcuts is unbearable..
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Damn im 15 minutes late lol sorry about that I had to make sure everything worked in portrait and landscape modes.

Ok now have an "Extras" version with everything the ultimate version has, just without the empty bottom bar. I managed to make the bottom bar 35 pixels (portrait and landscape) instead of 50 which gains back an extra 15 pixels to use (might not sound much but it actually makes it alot more functional). You will understand more when you install the cab lol.

4 FLAVOURS OF THE NIGHT (as promised) :D

* MS301 WidgetsProPlus Extras_QVGA_Launcher_TaskManager_Favorites_061809

* MS301 WidgetsProPlus Extras_QVGA_Launcher_Today_Contacts_061809

* MS301 WidgetsProPlus Extras_QVGA_SpbMenu_TaskManager_Favorites_061809

* MS301 WidgetsProPlus Extras_QVGA_SpbMenu_Agenda_TaskManager_061809

Enjoy :)

EDIT: Fixed and ready to download.