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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stevieray:
help needed from vga-users...

I cannot have one screen with 3 lines of 4 icon-columns AND a 4th line with anoter 4 icons at the bottom - although I saw this on several postings :confused:

I use a HTC Diamond and I still try to find my screen. So I defined the height to 450, the icons are sized to somewhat about 100 (or less, but enough to get 4 in a row).

Can please anybody help me and give me a hint, how to set the real values or how to use the probably reserved space at the bottom (where the icons of an activeSync-Connection or so is positioned)?

Originally I wanted to position a rlToday-Clock at the top (as I saw on another posting) - but there is not enough space :(

Is that only possible on WVGA devices? Can't believe...

And just another question: I get the 3 bubbles as indicator for 3 screens - O.K. so far.

But if I try to define a bottom bar icon by pressing a blank area beneeth these bubbles - nothing happens!

The value of ScreenHeight seems to define the range between the top and the bubbles - excluding the possible bottom bar range. Am I wrong?

I am confused :confused:

Please look at the screenshot and explain the meaning of the areas marked with red arrows.

Thank you so much!!!

PS: It would be a very great option in the program to refresh the setting (reload the xml-file). Today I disabled and enabled the plugin a 1.000 times :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] netson99:
wow... great re-installing with the 0.8b t and not found any problems...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Shiek:
At the moment i have the 0.6 version. Now i would like to install the 0.8. Is there anything i have to do befor installing the new version?

Delet the old? Can the iPhoneToday folder stay on the device?

Okay, i found this.

!!!!!TIP FOR EVERYONE!!!!!

When you goto install a new version.

1. Backup your icon.xml, settings.xml and icons folder

2. Uninstall iPhone Today

3. Soft Reset your phone do not skip this!!

4. install new version

5. Copy back over icon.xml, settings.xml and icons folder

6. Soft Reset your phone do not skip this!!

ONE question! Do I have to delete the iPhone today folder, after step 2 or at any other step befor installing the new version?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] j101399j:
There are a few things going on, I only have a QVGA devise, so I don't know the exact sizes, but hope this helps.

To add the bottom bar icons

1. Press and hold in the top area where your icons are

2. Click "add icon".

3. In the icon menu, in the upper left corner, change the screen to (-1); this places the icons in the bottom bar (or 4th row).

As for your screen height, if your total screen is 640 X 480 (this is not the room you have for the today screen but the size of the screen)

1. Change the height in the settings.sml to 535; this will leave room for the menu bars at the top and bottom.

2. Change your icon width to 85 (you have to leave room for the text and the 3 dots)

See if that fits everything better and let me know. The final numbers you want are somewhere around this. Also if you want rlclock, you will loose a row of icons and you still have to shrink the icons farther to make it fit.

Hope this helps
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] j101399j:
Yes you can leave the iPhone Today folder with your settings and icons on the device, just back them up. If the install goes bad and you have to hard reset, you will loose everything.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Shiek:
Okay thanks for this.

Than i have some other questions. I want an icon for this menues:

- Settings

- Music Bibliothek?

And does somebody know some good homepages with iphone icons in the size of 128x128. Google is not very helpful for this problem! ^^

Is a working clock coming for the next versions? Like the little iphone clock? http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2008/06/iphone-clock.gif

On the iDiamond App the clock works.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stevieray:
See my posting #384 and forward the links...

or just remember: "google ist Dein Freund" ;)

use "http://images.google.de" and look for "icons iphone" - and have fun :)

@j101399j: thx for your answer! I will go on trying...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cel15:
Really nice program, the best "iphone" interface i've seen..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Shiek:
So, i updated my iPhone Today (to version 0.8)... but it dont work to 100%. Please help me. Look at the enclosed picture.

The Logos dont look as the have to look.

(this gray on every icon....)

What should I do?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pjam:
Cured my blank home screen problem

I have recently had a problem, similar to others, where trying to enable iphonetoday would leave my today screen blank. Even other plugins would not load until i soft reset.

In my case it has turned out to be my sms icon. I had linked it to windows\tmail.exe with a parameter of -service "SMS". This worked fine until the phone was soft reset and then the problems began.

My solution has been to create a shortcut within total commander to tmail.exe and then edit this to "windows\tmail.exe" -service "SMS". My iphonetoday sms icon now links to this new shortcut without adding the parameters within iphonetoday.

Just thought i'd pass this on. It seems that even shortcuts that initially seem to work can be a little troublesome.

Great programme. Loving it. pjam
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] netson99:
oh .. no, another bug on 0.8b

there is no response from the touch screen area after playing for a while, but the hard key is still function normally

----:(

and back to normal if I uninstall the iphoneToday ...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sir.John:
Thanks pjam!

I can second both: the problem that exists as described and the solution that works as pjam let know.

John
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moesfeld:
This is because of the " in the parameters this f**ks up the xml structure.

So just to let you al know; Avoid " in the settings.xml and icons.xml
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stevieray:
just a comment...

on "Edit Icon" you can / have to choose the screen / icon number by tapping UP and DOWN symbols.

Isn't it typical to tap UP if I want to increase the number and tap DOWN to decrease? I probably can turn my device but in normal position I have to use the opposite symbols.

Not important at all, but if we are at version level 1.x with thousands of (lucky) users this couldn't be corrected no more ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cel15:
On my Diamond the 0.8b version is working perfect. It's really fast and hasn't crashed yet (2 days). Not using animations and no slow-down problem.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] iain2510:
UK Diamond

Running V0.8b on a UK Diamond and working great - can someone tell me what the animations should look like? I've set them to 'on' for a few icons and when pressed a small white box, then a large white box comes onto the screen before the program loads and unloads. Is this what should happen? Keep up the excellent development please:)

The clock is Pocket Digital Clock (PDC_v1.1.10)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Modulus_1:
This is only mostly true, and so I elaborate:

Using single quotes around the string containing double quotes is acceptable.

A decent xml editor will let you catch these errors as the syntax colors will get wonky.

The first line FAILS, the second works fine.

HOWEVER, if you use the built-in Editor to change ANYTHING, it will revert the quotes like the first line again and FAIL/CRASH/HANG/WHILE(1) on boot.

So, just make links on your computer and transfer them to the device instead..

This was the reason my Touch Pro was hanging on boot, that lead to the KillIPT.cab.

I'd recommend putting that cab in StartUp while you're playing with icons.xml, it's better than hard resetting..

I had issues using No Today Plugins from the startup folder.. I couldn't get TF3D to launch at all..

To create the links on the device:

open \Windows in File Explorer

Copy tmail.exe

go to whatever directory you want, I use \iPhoneToday\Links

Paste SHORTCUT

Then I use Total commander to append .txt to the new shortcut.

Open it with PHM Notepad

Then just make sure it looks something like:

20#"\Windows\tmail.exe" -service "SMS -open "Inbox"

Then rename the file to smsInbox.lnk or whatever

and use it in IPT.

Yes, I am a masochist.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] j101399j:
Yes, that is the animation, mine is a lot smoother, it looks like a small white box that gorws to cover the screen, then the program pops up. Some program have a delay and it looks funny, but I'm just glad to have the animation.

Where are you putting the <backTransparent>1</backTransparent>; I put it at the end, just before </root> with no extra lines around it. If that is how you have it, send me your settings.xml

Another way to avoid the quotations " is to create a MortScript with the parameters in the MortScript file, this way is there is an error in the coding and you do not crash iPhone Today.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] agroote:
Settings on Touch HD

What settings do i need to have to get the entire screen filled with icons on a Touch HD? Anyone with a nice setting file to get me started?

+

I tried to adjust the height in notepad. Copied the file back to my hd. Now my today screen is completely black. Re-copied the original settings file, still doesnt work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cel15:
Hey guys, i was having problems modifying the XML files, so i've searched and found this: http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv

just upload your file, and it will tell you where's the problem, it's a XML tester, it detects Wrong spaces, chars, etc. Works great. I was able to find what wasn't working on my code.

Thread owner: It would be a good idea to post it at the first page so everybody could check their own code before asking what's wrong.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Modulus_1:
Here's my settings.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<root>
<iconWidth>86</iconWidth>
<numIcons>4</numIcons>
<moveThreshold>15</moveThreshold>
<maxVelocitiy>120</maxVelocitiy>
<minVelocitiy>4</minVelocitiy>
<refreshTime>15</refreshTime>
<screenHeigth>440</screenHeigth>
<fontSize>7</fontSize>
<fontBold>1</fontBold>
<Sunday>Sun</Sunday>
<Monday>Mon</Monday>
<Tuesday>Tue</Tuesday>
<Wednesday>Wed</Wednesday>
<Thursday>Thu</Thursday>
<Friday>Fri</Friday>
<Saturday>Sat</Saturday>
<backTransparent>1</backTransparent>
</root>

I wanted to avoid using MortScript just to avoid having more software installed than I need.. But, shortcuts that can't crash would be worthwhile...

Here are some screenshots to show the background's refusal to submit on iPhoneToday.. It works everywhere else though, even in the start menu :p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Shiek:
Please help me with this problem!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] trjons:
is it already customizable to change the number of days of appointments which show in red? zi only want today, not the next 2 days.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Modulus_1:
It looks to me like some of your icons are perfect and some aren't. Which makes me think that some of them are smaller dimension than the rest. Maybe you should verify the dimensions... ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 81344songz:
Can you put these instructions in a word document or pdf??

It would make things so much easier for nooBs like me.

Thank You
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hachuah:
Refresh on iphonetoday

I'm posting a screenshot for MiToNiOes to take a look... again, this doesn't happen with other today plugins (standard task/calendar, or rltoday).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MiToNiOeS:
its nuenobar v1.3 or v2 ???? the version 1.3 not work for me...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] netson99:
hard reset and installing 0.8b on clean OS; solve the problem ....

-- :) --
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cherrro:
Hello MiToNiOeS,

Only "Type : clock" missing.

Is it possible for you to add an active icon (as calendar) for the clock that always shows the right hours, digital clock will be the best.

Thank you!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jaskiratsingh:
0.8b seems perfect. The thing missing is notification of icon pressed, like default window notification. I dont know how many would agree to this but i think notification of pressed icon is required
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cherrro:
Each user has his priorities.

It depend of Minitoes preferences.

The digital clock was just a suggestion.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stevieray:
how to kick off the bottom task bar / soft buttons?

please tell us how you disabled to bottom task bar of your Diamond (where you positioned the clock).

I tried dciNobar - which is often mentioned - but without success :(

Do you have some other tool or special tweak?

Thx a lot!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] iain2510:
DCInobar

I found the following much easier with a decent file explorer eg TotalCommander . Go to Windows/Startup and see what's in it. If dcinobar is not there, search for it and copy and paste the exe file into your startup folder. This should make the program run when you start your phone and remove the softkeys. I also had a black bar at the bottom of my screen which had a small phone icon in it - this is the system tray and I don't know how to remove it. However, if you disable the program which places the icon in it the bar will disappear so go back to your startup folder and look for anything which might be doing so. I can't remember exactly but I'm sure I had to remove a comms program to get my screen completely blank. I don't think this was the correct way to do it but it seems to work!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stevieray:
nueNoBar works!

Thank you for your rapid response!

Although someone here said that dciNoBar would do better than nueNoBar I tried it - and won :)

But for me (and my Diamond) the newest version 2.0 didn't work - it gave me a new unfreshed top bar (containing the rest of the last opend window) :confused:

Then I tried the old version "nueNoBar-103-v1.3-cab.cab" and this works - until now ;)

Now I can have 3 + 1 rows with iPhoneToday and a digital clock above :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Shiek:
I dont think so. Each icon has a dimension of 128x128 and that should be enough. With Version 0.6 were no problems with the same icons.

And with version 0.8 every icon has this gray margin. You can see it on my screenshot:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Modulus_1:
Would you believe I actually looked at the screen shot you posted in:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3927841&postcount=688

and again in:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3935006&postcount=701

Amazingly, they all look the same with little grey areas around SOME of the icons, which leads me to believe that it's related to those specific icons..

Most likely the area intended to be transparent.

Of course, I suppose it could be related to your settings file, but probably not.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pjam:
thanks Stevieray. i've struggled for ages with getting rid of the bottom bar. Hadn't thought to try an older version.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thebond:
it didnt work on my HTC Touch.... :mad:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] j101399j:
Sorry I have been gone, If you have not found your answer, hopefully this will help for everyone. Here I go again, taking up a whole page of posting.

PM me a screenshot and make sure the screenshot is the same resolution as your screen. I can look up the size for you. IE if your screen is 640X480; make sur ethe screen shot is 640X480.

This one has me stumped. Your code looks correct. I copied your file, chaned the height and iconwidth only for my screen and it works. I'll keep looking and see what I can find

The icon's are the issue. PM me the ones with the gray bottom, I think the transparent properties are wrong and it is coming across gray...

Are you talking about the sip (mini keyboard) at the bottom. If so, shrink your screen height by 2, I had the same issue and this fixed that

So far the only way is to use MortScript with vibrate.

I think this was asnwered, you want to use Neunobar;

http://www.nuerom.com/BlogEngine/page/nueNoBar.aspxI ahve both, depending on the ROM 2.0 may work and 1.3 may work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] j101399j:
A little confused; why? I will be glad to; is that so you can print it out? Or does it need more details?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hachuah:
I am using v2... it works for me, I do the install, then reboot, then have to rotate the screen twice.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Modulus_1:
I wouldn't say that a word document is necessary, because I hate word and the rest office. But a pdf wouldn't hurt.. however, you'd want more details than just that single post. Specifically correct syntax of xml files.

For example, the 'special' commands for sms/email (-service "SMS" -open "Inbox") were causing my lockups on boot and resulting in quite a few hard resets.. It was hard to find those answers, and because the built in tool allows you to corrupt settings.xml by neglecting to correctly wrap the string or escape the quotes, it's a hard problem for anyone to track down, especially anyone new to ipt..

BTW, my transparency problem magically resolved itself after my phone locked up last night. I'm running ipt inside of manila today page, somehow none of the soft resets caused ipt to reload settings.xml. At least, that's my guess.. Sorry for sending you on a wild goose chase. :(

Now I have to convince the Manila Today Page guy that his background doesn't show through properly.. :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Modulus_1:
It turns out that MTP screws up background placement by 25 pixels, so to fix it, set a custom background with a 25 pixel TOP border, shifting the image downward. This makes no sense to me, but fixes everything..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sir.John:
Hi,

after some initial hassle to get the program running (which were successfully solved, kudos to j101399j yet again!) I'm quite happy with one of the best Today-alternatives I've come across so far. Just my cup of tea. Thanks heaps for that app!!

That said, I'd like to take the chance to suggest one or two ideas that may make life of IphoneToday users a little easier:

- Would it be possible to make "type: normal" the default value? Right now, default is none, thus requiring one click each in any case. "normal" may be wrong in some cases such as BT, Calendars and the lot, but it wouldn't require an "extra click"...it'll remain one click in those cases.

- I would like to ask for consideration of one rather big addition (at least so I guess). As I don't have installed S2U2 (and do not intend to do so, if not absolutely necessary as there are incompatibilities with 2 other programs I am running) I would really like to see one non-responsive, sort of "screensaver"-page, which perhaps can feature notification icons and/or a clock. Or just nothing but being transparent. This screen could only be used to scroll/gesture right to the first page with icons but nothing else, aka. accidently pressing buttons is prevented when this screen is displayed. Hope that was somewhat clear to understand (uh... ;-))

- Would it be possible to "import" all entries/links located in $Startmenu\*.* by default. I would guess that most users will use a lot of links of this folder to populate the screens of IPhoneToday, and even if not: deleting icons is much less hassle than adding them ;-) Besides: in a further step perhaps this can be an installation option (import links from...: yes/no)

All:

with my recent problems with the "StartmenÜ" entry in mind, does anyone happen to know, whether there exists a windows mobile environment variable pointing to this folder that one could use, thereby preventing the Umlaut-funny-characters-problem?

Thanks for reading,

John
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stevieray:
I would like this too - but ...

look here... :(:(:(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sir.John:
aww, too bad :-( But thanks anyway for the pointer :-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] chancer63:
TF3D- iPhoneToday- Toggler

Hi every1,

maybe there are some people out there who are interested:

a Mortscript that can toggle between TF3D and iPhoneToday. It is a script by _lab from htc-developers.de (Thx 4 that..) which I changed that now you can switch the two today- plugins by just running this script.

1- Mortscript must be installed --> http://www.sto-helit.de/downloads/mortscript/MortScript-4.3b2.zip

2- Put the mscr- file anywhere on your ppc and run it.

3- It would be good to create a shortcut, put that into windows\start menu\ programs and you can now create an icon in iPhoneToday and also in TF3D.

I'm using it on my Diamond Touch, don't know about other resolutions than VGA.

I'm quite sure you can change the script easily to other today- plugins by just changing the plugin names in the script.

Download the .txt- file and delete the ".txt".

CU
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cel15:
Hey, i'm using secondtoday to do that...didn't know it could be done with mortscript only. Thanks a lot!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] j101399j:
I'm going to start on a more complex install/walkthrough with everything I have compiled. Should be fun and very helpful for more people. Coming soon..

And it was not wild goose chase, evnthough it was an odditity, whenever there is a problem, looking into it is a new way to learn.

Jes having "0-Normal" automatically set would be nice. As for the "dead Page; that easy, create an icon with the no name, no exe, just select normal for the type and give it it's own page. Still working on the Ü problem
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] netson99:
remove bottom bar

hi all,

another update :

with nuenobar 1.3 + nuenobar-fix +vjtodaytoggleIIalpha

the bottom bar on today's screen can be removed ..

here is the screen :
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] j101399j:
I am working on a more detailed install/walkthrough. So I need everyone's help. 1st question for NON-QVGA devices

What is your...

Device Resolution type(WQVGA, VGA...):

Device Resolution (680X420...):

Do you have the bottom bar:

What is your screen height? w/ bottom bar still there:

What is your screen height? w/ bottom bar removed:

What is the size of your icons:

I am adding a settings section to my walkthrough and only have a QVGA device, so I don't know the other settings. Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cel15:
Little contribution

Diamond

Device Resolution type: VGA

Device Resolution: 640X480

Do you have the bottom bar: Yes, i use it, but already tested it without.

What is your screen height? w/ bottom bar still there: 530

What is your screen height? w/ bottom bar removed: 585

What is the size of your icons: Iconwidth = 86

hope it helps! :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] j101399j:
Cool thank you, any other scrren resolutions out there?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] trjons:
I'm using it on my Touch Dual (Neon 300)

Device Resolution type QVGA

Device Resolution (320 x 240)

Do you have the bottom bar: (is this the soft key titles? yes)

What is your screen height? 267

What is the size of your icons: 45

Any way to customize the number of days in the notification for Calendar? I see a big number there and think I have a busy day but they are mostly for tomorrow....would like to fix that somehow.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sir.John:
What is your...

Device Resolution type(WQVGA, VGA...): WQVGA

Device Resolution (680X420...): 480x800

Do you have the bottom bar: no

What is your screen height? w/ bottom bar still there: 692

What is your screen height? w/ bottom bar removed: 720

What is the size of your icons: 98
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] j101399j:
Cool thanks, it is still a work in progress, but here is a link to the 1st draft:

http://james27007.tripod.com/iPhone-Install.htm

Please remember this is a work in progress
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sir.John:
one small addition as I just gave you my settings and didn't get your intention in the first place. I like to have more room at the bottom, so 720 is not the max. possible height of a WQVGA screen (as HTC Touch HD) just tested that: everything up to 745 with top bar on and bottom bar gone displays fine.

Sorry for any confusion I may have caused.

John