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The Menus and Options

Start by pressing (and holding) anywhere on the screen. A menu will pop up

(If you press and hold on an icon)

Add Icon (See menu 1)

Edit Icon (See menu 1)

Delete Icon - This will delete the selected icon (if it is the last icon on the page, it will also delete the page)

Move Icon - This moves the icon', select it, then go to the page you want the icon and press and select Move Here

Copy Icon - This copies the icon; select it, then go to the page you want the icon to be copied to, press and select Copy Here

Move Here - This shows if you have seleced to Move an icon

(If you select this in a blank spot it will move the selected icon to the end of the page. If you select this on another icon (select icon to move then press on another icon) it will move the selected icon to that location and push the rest of the icon back)

Copy Here - This shows if you have seleced to Copy an icon

(Same as move icon)

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Cancel
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(If you press and hold in a blank area)

Add Icon (See menu 1)

Options (See menu 2)

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Cancel

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Menu 1

When you select “Add Icon” or “Edit Icon” you will enter the icon edit menu

Screen: This should be filled out all ready; to add the icon to a different screen or a new screen, change this number. To set the icon to the bottom static bar (the bottom icons do not move) set screen to -1. Note that the 1st page is number 0, the second page is number 1 and so on.

Icon: Location of the icon on that page. Note that the 1st icon is number 0; the second icon is number 1 and so on.

Name: This is the name that will display under the icon

Image: this is the location of the picture for the icon

Type:

If

this is a special icon, select it, otherwise select normal
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Alarm State: shows alarm bubble if alarm is on

Battery: This displays the battery % left as a digital number

Bluetooth State: shows green oval when BT is on

Calendar: Displays calender day/date

Calendar and Appointments: Displays calender day/date and a bubble with # of upcomming appointments

Clock: Displays time

Clock and Alarm State: Displays time and a bubble if alarm is on

Missed Calls: Displays a bubble with # of missed calls

Next Tasks: Displays a bubble with # of Tasks

Normal: This is used for all normal icons that don't have a state

Unread MMS: Displays a bubble with # of unread MMS (does not work if your mms and sms are counted together)

Unread Other E-mail: Displays a bubble with # of unread non-Active Sync/Outlook e-mails

Enread SMS: Displays a bubble with # of unread SMS (does not work if your mms and sms are counted together)

Unread SMS & MMS: Displays a bubble with # of unread MMS and SMS

Unread Snyc E-mails: Displays a bubble with # of unread Outlook/Active Sync E-mails

Unread Total E-mails: Displays bubble with # of all/any unread e-mails

WiFi State: shows green oval when WiFi is on

Execute: This is the program that runs when the icon is pressed. WARNING Do not select any exe, lnk, mscr files with any of these characters !@#$%^&*()_+=-<>,./? This will crash iPhoneToday. If you need to use a file with one of these create a shortcut to that file and aim the icon at that shortcut.

We now how special executables just put the bold bart below and when you press the icon, it will do the following actions:p

--keyboard command to show/hide the keyboard.

--winkey command to display the start menu.--rotate to rotate the screen 90 degrees

--rotate:<angle> (e.g. --rotate:270) to rotate the screen by the given angle

--volume:<number> to set the system volume to <number> (0-100)

--volume:+<step>

--volume:-<step> to increase or decrease the system volume by <step>

--reset or

--restart to soft reset the device

--off or

--standby or

--suspend to suspend the device

--minimize to minimize the iPhoneToday's window (only for exe version)

--taskbar to show/hide the taskbar (only for exe version)

--goto:up to go one page up

--goto:down to go one down

--add to open the add icon dialog

--options to open the options dialog

--close or

--exit to exit iPT (Note this is Disabled for the dll version)

--goto:2 (or any other number) to jump to screen #2 (or any other number)

--goto:next to jump to the next screen

--gotoprevious to jump to the previous screen

--reload or

--relaunch Causes iPT to reload the icons (used more with Mortscript)

Parameters: this is a command or setting used for the program being run. For example if you have a program that dials a number, this is where you would put the phone number

ExecuteAlt: This is the program that runs when the (special icon) has a status; call missed call

ParamsAlt: this is a command or setting used for the Alt program being run if any.

Launch Animation: Check this if you want a simple animation when the icon is pressed

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Menu 2

When you select “Options” you will enter settings the edit menu

Main Screen Tab

This tab changes the look and placment of the icons

Icon Width: This is how many pixles in height and width the icons will be

Icons per row: This is how many icons will be per row

Text Height: Height of the text, same as font size in pixles

Text offset: Use this to un-center the text

Text Color: Font color

Bold checkbox: Check this box to make the icon text bold

Gradient: If you disable transparent, and don't use a background image in the background tab, using these colors will give your background a mix of the 2 colors; try its kinda cool

Minimum Vertical Space: This is the minimum space between the left and right side of each icon

Additional Horzontal Space: This is the addition roon between the tops of the icons. It spaces them apart

Offsets: This controls the thickness of the margins around the icons

Bottom Bar

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This tab changes the look and placment of the icons in the bottom row (same as Main Screen Tab)

It does not have to match the Main screen, but it will look different

Background

This tab changes the look of the background

Wallpaper: This is the pictures used as the background

Static checkbox: Check this if you want the background to stay still; uncheck if you have a wide background that will scroll with the pages

Transparent checkbox: Check to make iPT's background transparent, this will make the desktop background visable

Color: Use with no picture, static and non-transparent, for a solid colored background
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Skin

This tab changes the look of the notifactions bubbles for special icons

Header height: This is how tall the page header/title is (you have to add the header by editing the icons.xml file)

Color: Color of header

Header weight:This is the thinkness of the header text

Header offset: How far from the top of the page the header sits

For more on headers and how to use them check here and check post 95

Circles Diameter: This is the diameter of the little page circles just above the bottom row

Circ. distence: This is the distence in pixels between the page circles

Bubble notif : This is the graphic used when there is a notifaction for a special icon, like how many appointments you have

Bubble state : This is the bubble used on the on/off state special icons

Bubble alarm : This is the bubble that is used for the alarm and clock and alarm special icons when the alarm is turned on
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Movement

This tab changes the way the screens move

(If you change these settings, write down the ones that work first; that way you always know what you can go back to)

Movement Threshold: This is how far your finger needs to slide before page starts sliding with it (make smaller to make page slide soner)

Movement Factor : This is how many pixels the page moves at once when slidding (keep small for a smoother slide)

Min Velocity : This is how slow the page wil slide back into place when you stop slidding (make higher to speed up page auto centering)

Mac Velocity : This is how fast the page can slide back into place when you stop slidding (make higher to speed up page auto centering)
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Special Icons

This tab changes the look of the special icons

Height : This is the height in % to the size of the icon for each area

Width : This is the width in % to the size of the icon for each area

Weight : This is how Bold/thick the text is for eacyh area

Battery: This is for the battery icon

DOW : Is the day of week (Mon, tues... Sun)

DOM : Is the day of the month (1st, 2nd, 3rd... 31st)

Clock : Well this is the numbers for the clock
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Miscellaneous

This tab changes the look and placment of the icons

Fullscreen: This makes the exe version full screen (no top or bottom bars)

Never Show Taskbar : This disables/hides the taskbar

Do Not Show Window Tittle : ????

Disable Right Click : This turns off right click or long press.

If you do this and need to get back into settings. Goto start --> Settings --> Today --> Highlight iPhoneToday and click options. Then you can re-enable it or change options

Ignore Rotation : It does not move the icons to landscape mode when you turn your screen

Notify Timer : This is how fast the page refreshes, or how long it will take the notify bubbles to apper

Close on launch : If you are using the exe version, iPT will close when you launch a program

Animate on Launch : I have not tired this one yet, but I think it allows/diables application animation when an icon is pressed

Vibrate on Launch : This is how long (in ms) to vibrate the device when an icon is pressed.
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