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[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Well not by much lol ;)

I will have to have a word with you about making your pack (as a whole) easier to use for the average person lol I had a look at it the other day and even I got confused.. and thats saying something coz im the most tech savy person you will ever meet lol :rolleyes:

Maybe make incremental releases as you do now for pepople who just want to use the manager or just use 1 widget, but have a FULL install cab kept up to date for people who just want to put everything on their sd card and not mess around hunting through all your different files to download everything seperately.

Just an idea mate :)

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
That's how it was in the beginning... but a full install cab with all the widgets and everything would mean a 100+Mb cab for a vga device....

That would mean that a user would need a HUGE amount of free device memory 'cause if I remember right during installation WM copies everything temporarily in there even if you are installing to storage card... :p (lol I remember back in time when I first built the very first beta cab for MsM version 3.0, I wanted to include the widgets in the cab... could not even install it on a fresh emulator with only mobile shell and nothing else because of "not enough available memory" even if I was installing to storage card with of course muuuuuuch more than enough space) :p

Widgets libraries, on the other hand, are not installed by a cab, but imported with a MsM function that does not require the whole size of the library to be available on device memory ;)

The widgets libraries though are already like you described... there are the incremental ones, sure, but there's also the "Full widgets library" with all of them together :) so "widgets-wise" the needed files could be just 2: the application cab and the full widgets library (which is thought exactly for the beginners, so they don't need to download all the incremental ones) ;)

What is currently missing, maybe, is a "100% full library", meaning not only with the widgets inside but also with menubars and pic-sets. I could actually consider adding those things to the full one and make it not a "full widgets" but a "full everything"... yep, that could make sense :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
A 'full everything' file would certainly make it easier for people to access all the capabilities of your manager without having to wade through your download folder to find the one they require. Maybe even put a message (' ') at the end of your install script so that after installing the Shell Manager they will get a pop up message with basic instructions on where to put the extra files needed for widgets and/or menubars. I have put a 'help' option on all the screens in my manager on ProPlus Freedom to give people a little aid and tell them what the section does (in case they cant get onto xda when they are using it). Might be a bit of work now typing out all the help messages but it will reap its rewards in the long term and could be very useful guiding people through what they need to do in all the different sections you have. If you are unsure then just load ProPlus Freedom into your emulator and have a look in the Manager Utility.

On a side note do you have an Italian Rom loaded? This guy on my thread has a completely different menu screen and theres no option for him to change his theme colour. Have a look at *THIS* post.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Will definitely consider the "full everything" library (even though it will be significantly larger than the full widgets, but oh well.... ) :p

About the message saying where to put what, I'll think about it but I'm not so sure it's needed for there's only 1 function to import a library (well... 1 to import a single library and 1 to import more at the same time, actually), whatever library it is.... MsM will just place the content of the library where it needs to be 100% automatically ;)

Yep, I saw that post already, that's an italian rom but I don't know why the "theme" function is missing... I have an italian rom on my O2, and it should be right there, named "Tema" :confused:
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
And you expect people to be able to do 1 thing without full instructions? You are a true optimist my friend haha ;)

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
lol but it's explained both in the installation instructions doc included with the cab and in the faq on the thread ;)

Uhm... on a second thought, yep: I may very well be an optimist lol :p
[Windows Mobile Themes] hscruz:
Vostradamus, Mark thanks for help.

...And sorry about the discussion that i have created :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
lol discussion? what discussion? ;)

everything's fine, don't worry:)
[Windows Mobile Themes] wickedbird98:
hey mskip...the widgets only pack seems to work great...I had an idea about a few more of the word widgets that stretch 2 pages...maybe one that says...internet...some others I would like to see is you feel like it...organizer...multimedia...social networking...music and videos...tools and settings...productivity...office mobile...I know that these are something more specific for me...but it could be used for others
[Windows Mobile Themes] stefanusgoh:
NEED Help with landscape/portrait control!!

i could not get the landscape/portrait orientation control work. can anyone help me with this? i found out that the defaut setting is portrait, but i could not find where this setting is located.

thank you very much for any help.

I'm using Omnia II, SPB mobile shell 3.5.5, WM 6.5
[Windows Mobile Themes] richie.aks:
is it possible to install all the spb themes on a single phone and have all the widgets workin? or will each installation overwrite the previously installed?

omnia sgh i900 user here.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
I will think about doing some more word widgets when I have a bit more time I have some work on other projects to finish off first.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
There is no setting in spb Mobile Shell to rotate the screen you will have to search for a screen rotation program there are plenty available in the forums.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
It really depends what you want to use and what widgets you want.

If you install a full theme and then install another theme then the second theme will overwrite the qa_layouts.dat file (which holds all the layouts and widget settings) from the first one thus non of the previous widgets will be displayable, even though you might see them in the list.

There is quite an easy way around the widgets problem which involves injecting the widgets into an existing theme rather than overwriting them.

If you want a specific theme but the widgets from another theme then you can always ask the creator of the widgets you want to make an injection pack that you can use quite safely on an existing theme without overwriting it, such as I have done for my ProPlus WP7 Theme.

Vostradamus's Mobile Shell Manager uses injection technology (sounds soo cool when I say it in my head) so you can use any widgets that he has, on another theme. Alternatively you could do it yourself if you have a reasonable knowledge and can follow instructions.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] stefanusgoh:
Hi mark

icic... can you tell me what the 3rd party app and where to get it?

i hope it wont be from MoDaCo website. haha. coz i could not get the validation process right.

thank you for ur help

regards

stef
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
In future please use the forums search function as it will give you quite a selection to try.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=468488&highlight=screen+rotation+omnia

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=614613&highlight=screen+rotation

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] tediberus:
are there any other widgets besides the usual clocks,batteries, date, panels ...... say a widget to show the most recent SMS ? or maybe a mini carousel of favorite contacts ..... even the media player seems more of a link than an actual widget.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
I'm afraid there aren't...

Spb did not release any sdk, so modders are limited to skinning/tweaking already existing widgets, but can't add new functionalities
[Windows Mobile Themes] tediberus:
i see ... now i know ..... i was wondering why that was hehehehe
[Windows Mobile Themes] zhuchella:
Hi!

I want to use G-Alarm 2.5 with SPB Mobile Shell 3.5. Can U explane me how put G-Alarm 2.5 into SPB Mobile Shell ?

Thank U
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Well how do you want to use it with Mobile Shell?

The easiest way is to install G-Alarm and then add it to a panel as a shortcut widget or if you install one of my themes or vostradamuses shell manager then you can place it as an invisible shortcut over a clock.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] zhuchella:
I want to use G-Alarm instead of default alarm of Mobile Shell.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Pauly_k:
Hi, I want to use this app I think it's great. But I have a quick question, I want a page set up that gives news feeds? A bit like Android on the Desire... scroll across and the google news page is there open?

Is this possible in anyway or any other good news feed?

Also if i get this can i keep the 'video call' button or is it lost from the dialer with this?
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
There are no RSS Reader widgets in spb mobile shell.

There is no video call function on the mobile shell contact screen but you can still use your original dialer if you want to use video calling.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] multipazzz:
SPB News 2.1 has a RSS widget for Mobile Shell. Works perfectly! :D

http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/pocketpc-software/news/history.html
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
UPDATE FOR PROPLUS FREEDOM!!

ChangeLog:

29th June 2010 (QVGA, WQVGA, VGA, WVGA)

+ Updated cab should now work on all language Roms (copy to storage card wont work on non WWE Roms)

+ Added ProPlus UltimateV1 MenuBar with carousel and menu buttons visable

+ Fixed some code in the ProPlus Manager

+ Fixed the Original Layout being mixed up on VGA resolution

Download links and more info *HERE*.

If you enjoy using this theme please consider making a donation. ALOT of work went into this to make it as good as it can be for everyone. Even if its just a small amount it gives me satisfaction and enthusiasm to carry on developing and appreciation of my work is very welcome.

Enjoy :D

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] d4rc0n:
Would you plase explain how to install it
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
How to install what?

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Dadi68:
Why noone creates an HTC Sense (winmo not android) theme for Mobile Shell?

Its so sweet! :confused:
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Released New Widgets Library for

Vostradamus Mobile Shell Manager
​

ChangeLog:

(30 Jun 2010)

Widgets Library:

New Widgets Library containing:

- New Battery: White/Gray Dots (made on request)

- New Battery: Status Pro (made on request)

- New Link skin: Special Audio (to be used for the profile widget) - (made on request)

- New Panels: Time (2 sizes) - (made on request)

- New Digital Clock set: Reflection Medium (white, black, blue, cyan, green, red, yellow) - (made on request)

- New Digital Clock set: Date Only (white, black, blue, cyan, green, red, yellow) - (made on request)

- New Digital Clock skin: Glass Date Line

- New Current Date skin: Glass Square

- New Panel2: Glass Big Square (2 sizes)

- New: Full Libraries now contain everything (widgets, menubars, advanced menubars, ms weather icon sets, spb weather icon sets). Only things left out are the pic-sets (this is to avoid too large files to download)

Detailed info and download links HERE!

Enjoy! :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] multipazzz:
@ Dadi68:

Have you seen this on the first page of this thread??? :confused:

:confused:
[Windows Mobile Themes] bornotty:
has anyone faced this ?? ive recently installed MS 3.5.5 and after that my htc video player runs very slow.. i use touch2/mega qvga device with stock rom.. just installed a gtx theme recently.. thats all.. =|

is there any tweaks to prevent this ?? or i just need to quit mobile shell..
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
NEW MENUBAR ADDED TO PROPLUS FREEDOM PACK!!

ChangeLog:

1st July 2010 (VGA, WVGA)

+ Added a BRAND NEW ProPlus MenuBar to the theme options, ProPlus Droid

+ Added an option in the Screen Mods scetion to change the Panels (carousel) into a tiled layout displaying the 7 lifestyle screens used by Elegance, Ultimate Elegance and ProPlus Droid. Very useful to see all your lifestyle layouts on the panels screen.

+ Fixed the Invisible Shortcut (small) displaying as the medium size

+ Fixed a bug in the Layout Backup, Restore Utility

The Launcher and Contacts buttons can be set via the Menu, Settings screen.

Download links and Information *HERE*.

If you enjoy using this theme please consider making a donation. ALOT of work went into this to make it as good as it can be for everyone. Even if its just a small amount it gives me satisfaction and enthusiasm to carry on developing and appreciation of my work is very welcome.

Enjoy :D

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Dadi68:
Yes!

Im using Naong's Mobile Sense for many months...

Im asking for a winmo htc sense not the android one... ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] multipazzz:
oh, didn't know that there was a difference...:o
[Windows Mobile Themes] wickedbird98:
@dadi68...I know what your talking about...something that more closely resembles the htc hd2 which is like a mix between sense and touchflo 3d
[Windows Mobile Themes] slashigol:
I have been waiting for your android skin for a long time.:rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Themes] mikentucson:
where im at now. been working on a couple different themes
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
UPDATE FOR PROPLUS FREEDOM!!

ChangeLog:

7th July 2010 (VGA, WVGA)

+ Added new (icon with text) box skins

+ Added new text backing skins for shortcut widgets in black and grey for single and double line text

+ Added Backup and Restore of the spb menu screen. Useful if you add files or programs to the 'My Shortcuts' section

+ Fixed the Lifestyle2 and Lifestyle4 links being swapped

+ Added NEW MenuBar.. PROPLUS DESIRE gives you full screen control with a small functional menubar at the bottom

Download links *HERE*.

If you enjoy using this theme please consider making a donation. ALOT of work went into this to make it as good as it can be for everyone. Even if its just a small amount it gives me satisfaction and enthusiasm to carry on developing and appreciation of my work is very welcome.

Enjoy :D

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Just released:

Vostradamus Mobile Shell Manager 5.05

+ a new widgets library

ChangeLog:

(07 Jul 2010)

MsM 5.05:

- Enabled spb task manager during MsM installation

- Panel Wallpaper functions now remember the last selected folder

- Raised max selectable pagecount to 9

- Extended “Change Pagecount” function to Lifestyle Home and Professional Home screens

Widgets Library:

New Widgets Library containing:

- New Battery Skin: Status Pro 5% (looks like the "status pro" one, works better on devices with a 10% steps battery driver) - (made on request)

- New Status Skins: Glass Blue, Cyan, Green, Yellow (made on request)

- New Analog Clock Skin: Doc3000 gtx (thanks to Doc3000 for this clock) - (made on request)

- New Weather Skin: Neon Silhouette 2 - designed by Jotha

- New Contact Skin: Extra Small - fits nicely on empty glass and neon links - designed by Jotha

- New Battery Skin: Glass 2 (made on request)

Detailed info & download links HERE!

If you find my stuff useful, please consider Donating ;) Both me and my cat will be very thankful lol :p

Enjoy! :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] toberino:
Is there a way to make the left button that would normally take you to the carousel view, link to the task manager instead?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
That would require extracting and modifying the xml file for the menubar.

Alternatively, you could try the advanced menubars of my MsM... even if they won't let you change the function of the left button you will have up to 8 configurable buttons (max number depending on which menubar style you select) taking you to whatever panel you want (task manager included of course) :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] toberino:
So heres a silly question. I am running Mobilesense, with the sense menu bar, which I really like. I noticed that you also have designed some menu bars that are included in MsM. I assume that I will lose my sense theme if I install MsM? If so is there any way to get the sense menu bar to work with MsM, or any chance you add it to MsM. That would be great.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Installing MsM will not alter your current sense theme at all: they can cohexist ;) I've always been trying to keep MsM as compatible and non-invasive as possible to let users use it along with their preferred themes :)

MsM also has a "menubar backup" function, which saves the current lifestyle home menubar, so if you wanna try to change it but still want to be able to go back to it you can do it (if you're gonna use this function I'd suggest, just to stay on the safe side, to make a backup copy of your qa_layouts.dat though, 'cause as much as I have tested the backup menubar function, I haven't tested it with mobile sense theme. Should work no problem, but just in case.....) ;)

Once you've backed up that menubar, it will show up in the change menubar function along with the other ones (i.e. it will be automatically "added" to your current MsM installation) :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] wickedbird98:
problem with a couple widgets

hey vostradamus...I've been having a couple problems with a couple of widgets...anytime I use the bigicon text white widget for any shortcut it reverts back to the original after I leave the page its on then come back...I've also been having problems with the diamond large skin...every now and then...at least 3 times a day I have to restore the xml because the widget disappears...all other widgets are still visible except the diamond large...any ideas?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
The big icon issue seems to be sort of a bug in mobile shell: I've seen problems related to it reported on spb forum too some time ago... I guess they haven't fixed it yet, or at least not 100%

About the large diamond weather, you're not the first finding it behaving strangely. So far I haven't been able to reproduce the issue, and I don't really know what could be causing it 'cause if it works one time there's no reason why it should stop working suddenly (unless it's again something "internal" to mobile shell, but I don't have a mean to check this). I'll keep investigating about on this though, hope to find something out (or at least I hope to manage to reproduce the issue lol) :p
[Windows Mobile Themes] gerald_s:
Backlight widget missing???

Some days ago I installed MS 3.5.5 and Mskips ProPlus Freedom on my wVGA device. Same I did on my qvga device. Now I noticed on the wVGA device that there is no backlight widget in the main widget section. On my qVGA device its between the phone profile and the battery widget but as you can see on the attached pic theres nothing on my wVGA device.

Anybody knows how to solve this problem - if possible without reinstalling MS?
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Does the Diamond Weather widget have the newer 31 images or the older 17 images? I know that 'problems' can pop up when using the older weather widgets with the more recent versions of Mobile Shell. Only thing I can think of that would cause problems.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
I did give an answer to your question in the Proplus Freedom thread.

I think the easiest thing to do would be to backup your layout, then uninstall ProPlus Freedom (you wont lose your backup) AND Spb Mobile Shell. Reinstall Mobile Shell and check that the backlight widget is present. If its not then I would say its an incompatabilty with your device. If its there then reinstall ProPlus Freedom, check again for the presence of the backlight widget. If all is still ok then set your desired menubar and restore your layout. Then check again lol.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Nope, it's full, it has the whole 31 images set of course ;)

Actually its exactly the same thing as its medium and small versions, just a different size
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Then Im out of guesses maybe you just 'injected' a bug in it to go into everyones phones and eat their screen lol :p

P.S. I think you should abreviate your name to VD then everyone who uses your manager could say they have VD haha ;)

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Damn, you busted me.... it's part of my evil masterplan to conquer the whole world by turning everyone's smartphone into a dumb iphone! :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] stingyboy:
simple question that i need a pro to answer:

how can i call someone not in my contact list? in other words, where the heck is a numeric keypad to place a call?

or is there a widget somewhere i'm just not finding. :confused:

thanks.
[Windows Mobile Themes] gerald_s:
Normally if you press the green phone button the dial pad should appear ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
In Spb Mobile Shell click on the Contacts button at the bottom, then either swipe from right to left or just click on the right of the 3 center buttons to get to the spb contacts screen (which has a dialer).

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] gerald_s:
I uninstalled everything than I downloaded Ms once again from the SPB website and than I reinstalled everything. But its still the same, there is no backlight widget. Very strange because I had it with MS V 3.5.3. Anyway guess I have to live with it
[Windows Mobile Themes] wickedbird98:
hey vd...lol...jk...the diamond large widget messing up usually happens if I exit mobile shell for some reason and I also meant to mention that the small and medium icons do not do this...only the large one...ill let ya know if it occurs in another manner
[Windows Mobile Themes] wickedbird98:
widget request

I was wondering if someone could make a contact pic widget for me...in naongs mobilesense theme or widget only pack there is an espresso themed contact picture frame but there is not a contact picture that fits into the spot without leaving some of the background exposed...I was hoping someone could make one that did fit
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
I guessed that already, noone ever mentioned issues with the medium and small sizes :)

I have something in mind that I want to check, but I'll have to wait 'til monday 'cause I forgot some project files at office :p
[Windows Mobile Themes] zvirek:
Link to another aplication through MS icon

Hi, Im new user of Samsung Omnia II WM 6.5.

Can somebody describe way (or suggest a program ) how to link another aplication to any SPB-MS icon ?

E.G: if i have an unread SMS, or email, i prefer to read it in Samsung TouchWiz aplication for SMS\emails, but if i touch SPB-MS icon of unread SMS it opens standard WM 6.5 aplication.

So can i change it that pressing it should open Samsung TouchWiz aplication ( or any other SMS aplication, which I will instal) ?

E.G: To change opening SPB-MS contacts and instead of it open Samsung contacts (by pressing contacts on down bar)

and so on....

help please
[Windows Mobile Themes] claus1953:
Why dont you put an invisible link to your favorite application over the regular sms or email widget?
[Windows Mobile Themes] zvirek:
re

Maybe i dont understand what do you mean with invisible link. How can I do it ?

The picture of Samsung SMS or email widget doesnt show the status (number) of unread sms or email.

And in the SPB launcher-messages menu these icons opens only the standard WM applications too.

So i think if i change the way for standard applicaions to the Samsung aplications ( or any others aplic. of 3rd parts ) it should be systemic change for all the SPBMS, or not ?

The problem is that I dont know how exactly to change it in registry, resp. I dont know the locaion of some Samsung applications. So I asked if exists any program to change it.
[Windows Mobile Themes] albarona1:
I think you men that you brefere the samsung sms pro to open unread messages , you don't mean widgets