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[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
The HP Glisten is a 320x240 device rather than the standard 240x320 so I can only assume Mobile Shell would work as if it was in landscape mode which effectively it is. Therefore I would think that the layout with the icons on the right hand side is normal for your display.

What do you mean by having the Task Manager in the middle instead of the Calendar? Can you provide a screen shot so I can see the layout?

I would say your best bet is to install ProPlus Freedom as its fully compatable with MS3.5.5 and gives you a choice of which icon you want in the middle on the ProPlus Elegance theme.

If you need more help just let me know :)

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] livndeadgrl13:
ok here is an image of what im talking about, the center icon is for task manager but above screenshots show a calendar or home icon, is my screen res vga then? im crappy when it comes to the whole screen res thing, i went into device info and it states h320 v240 so i thought it was qvga but i was wrong of coarse lol so ill try the new one if i have to id rather just change the menu bar like i did before ok thanks so much for your advice and help you are brilliant :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Your resolution IS QVGA but the default layout is Landscape rather than the standard portrait mode. Unfortunately by the looks of it this means that you cant have a menubar at the bottom as with the standard portrait layout phones, your menubar is stuck on the right side. Its easy enough to change the centre icon to calendar if you wish or you could install ProPlus Freedom and give the Ultimate Elegance Menubar a try. I think in landscape mode this would give you a small selectable page bar on the right and give more room to place shortcuts.

If you want to stick with the first option then let me know and we can sort that out.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] livndeadgrl13:
thanks so much, you know i have to say im kinda diggin having the side icons, i have like what 5- 7 pages btwn pro and lifestyle so i dont need more room than i have....for now anyway i may change my mind and try the proplus freedom as it does look like it might be sleeker for my screen. However i would love to have the calender in the center instead of the task manager as i use task facade anyway and then i dont have to add the calendar widget, so if you could help me with that it would be greatly appreciated, and hey i know your never bored but if you ever decide to mess around with a different screen size feel free to let me be your guinea pig :) again thanks so much :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
No problems mate just zip up your qa_layouts.dat file and attach it in here and I will make the neccessary adjustments and send it back to you.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] livndeadgrl13:
here you go thanks so much your time and talent are much appreciated :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Find attached the ammended file with the middle button changed to Agenda instead of Task Manager. Unzip, copy across and soft reset.

From the looks of the screenshot you sent me your screen is in the Professional Layout. I dont know if it set that as default or whether you changed to that but installing my cab should have set the default layout to Lifestyle with the Elegance Menubar.

Can you try going to Lifestyle and see what screen layout you get? If its working in landscape mode then you 'should' get the thin side bar with 1-7 screen selector buttons. You can switch to Lifestyle from the Menu button if you cant swipe.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] livndeadgrl13:
wow that was quick thanks so much, by default when i installed it was in pro layout so thats what i use, but i just placed it in lifestyle mode and soft reset and now that my start screen :) , And yes i get the 1-7 buttons which i never noticed till you pointed it out thanks :), ok you know those little buttons on either side of the numbered page how hard or time consuming would it be to make them maybe a little bigger like a button, i have a case and the screen is inset more than im used to and i have to use the pen almost every time because the case and my fingernails make it a little hard to use, and something else maybe im wrong but in the animations settings i have it flipping which it does but only in lifestyle, in pro it just slides with no animation at all, was it like that always or just on my hp?

in spb settings what does override "start" mean by default its no, does that have to do with spb starting every time you reset so you dont have to start spb in programs

now i usually add a couple different widget packs and the this phone is amazing compared to my tilt or wing, its 280 iv installed spb and a few programs so i stll have 170 left that amazes me lol cause i live to customize and there are some cabs out there i simply cant live without, in fact iv been pleasantly surprised by the impact, my husband picked it out as a surprise and i have to say i almost knew i was gonna hate it lol but i love it has 6.5 which iv never really been so fond of but with spb i never have to see it lol,

ok enough babbling thanks again and i dont think we have a hp glisten anything or one that is but goes under a different name maybe we could get one i have all kinds of things to share :)

thanks so much :)

UPDATE: just changed the dat file and it looks perfect thanks so much :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] mureta:
One Help Please

Hello Mr mskip!

First congratulations on your work. I'm waiting for the link (WQVGA) project under development with PRO DROID doc!:D

Never had a screen today as diverse as now. excellent! ;)

A question:

I am a beginner cook and was wondering how do I enter the SPB Shell mobille with ProPlus Elegance Theme v3.5.3 QVGA?

Actually it would be the EXT mobille SPB Shell and ProPlus Elegance theme for Omnia i900? Work perfect in my phone.;)

I use the kitchen Vistang Visual Kitchen, the Mr. has any idea how to proceed? Already tried and failed?

Sorry my bad english Mr mskip.:)
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Spb Mobile Shell isnt really designed to be cooked into a Rom as it is a Payed for app so you could only cook in a Trial version which would then expire in a few weeks leaving an expired program on the users phone. Thus cooking in a Trial app doesnt make your Rom very stable. Also my themes arent designed to be cooked as everything needs to go into the correct folder.

You would be better off posting links for your users to install if desired.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mureta:
Hello Mark,

Okay, no problem. It is a great alternative and reduces the work leaving only the link of your topic.

Mr Mark grateful for the response. :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
You're welcome :)

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] bbdoc:
Hello,

I just reinstalled my mobile with a new ROM, reinstalled SPB and ProPlus Elegance, but backing panels are not working. If I click on a shortcut, select "change skin", I do see the list of backing panels, but they are all showing black (or transparent, don't know how to call it). I already tried to reinstall both SPB and ProPlus but no success...

Any idea what's going on ?

Thanks for your help
[Windows Mobile Themes] wuffi123:
hi, i got 3 little questions, maybe someone can helpwith this:

-is it possible to have icons instead of numbers in the selector bar in the elegance theme, like in the ultimate-version?

-and i would like to have semi-transparent icons (excluding that one for the current page), could someone please explain, how i could do this?

-can i have different backgrounds for each lifestyle-page?

thanx
[Windows Mobile Themes] bbdoc:
Any news about this ? Is this topic still alive ?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
ProPlus Elegance has been superceeded by ProPlus Freedom so this version isnt active anymore. I would advise trying to install Freedom as that is made specifically for Mobile Shell 3.5.5 and Elegance isnt. If you still have the same problem then post back in that thread.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] beautyangel:
Same question asked before :

How can we have different backgrounds for each lifestyle-page?

Thanx for considering this question, and grateful to Mr. MSkip to answer please.
[Windows Mobile Themes] jak58:
Just started to use and.... simply great, fantastic.

Many thanks
[Windows Mobile Themes] Weapon X 20:
Samsung Intrepid

I am trying to get my shell setup on my intrepid and I'm having some issues.

my backgrounds from my files are too large and only zoom on part of the picture instead of the whole image, how can I fix that?

And I have my toolbar on the right side instead of the bottom how do I adjust that as well?

Quick responses are appreciated THANKS!
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Your phones resolution is 320x240 (QVGA Landscape) so the menu on spb mobile shell will always be on the right side unless using a custom theme with a different layout.

The background is displayed wrong if the resolution of your image is wrong. Im not sure what it needs to be for your device but you could try cropping it to 960x588 (24bit jpg) and see how that looks.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Weapon X 20:
Any way to rotate my entire screen then? So the toolbar is on the bottom and that size for the image didnt work. still only zooms on some of the picture unless I rotate it. Any other suggestions to try?

Thanks for the help though
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Usually the background on the lifestyle screen is double the horizontal resolution x the vertical resolution (minus the taskbar height). With that in mind you could try 640 x 214 (or 1280 x 428) and see how that works. Landscape QVGA is not well supported on Mobile Shell and without modifying the menubar you wont get the menubar at the bottom. Also putting it at the bottom would be a huge waste of valuable space on your phone and would only leave about 164 vertical pixels to place widgets which would be hugely restrictive.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Weapon X 20:
You think something like ProPlus or another program like that would help me with this customization?
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Not with your resolution sorry. If I had more free time then I could create a modifyed menubar to put it at the bottom and give you what you want but I have too many current themes that need updating right now.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] drhesham:
That is really good .. Thank you very much .
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
ALOT OF TIME HAHA :D

But I enjoy it and I like helping other people to enhance their phones so its all good.

I will change the black menubar to a blue tone and post it in the variations in a few hours. Dark blue? light blue? Your call ;)

Put your text in the 2 colours you want lol thats the easiest way, and its no bother im here to help :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] donnaw:
you're so great!!!!

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dark blue would be nice - rather like your electric blue theme. I'm using it on my pro,etc. I have a beach scene on the lifestyles. You do such great work. Wish I had the skills but I'm such a novice so I'm still unpacking and learning. Also I don't have good software for icons, etc and won't buy any just for this so I'm at the mercy of those like you who are talented and very nice.

I love this web site and all you guys!!!!:D:D:D

ps hope you got my donation
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Are you using the QVGA or VGA version?

Yes I got it thank you very much :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] caballero600:
Can I have the 3 button bar only copying the .dat file of the "VARIATIONS" section? or is that file for the numbered pages bar?

In case...

Could you post only the file for the 3 button bottom bar? thanks!
[Windows Mobile Themes] donnaw:
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you very much deserve it

QVGA

thanks
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Im not quite sure what you mean but all the menubar graphics are in the MSkipFiles.dat file.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Sorry I forgot to ask do you want the page selector bar to have number, dots or blank?

EDIT: I dont even know if the bar you want is for the pro or lifestyle screen lol
[Windows Mobile Themes] donnaw:
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I actually like the blank page selector - seems cleaner. I would like to have the bar on all the pages changed. Lifestyle, pro, all of they possible.
[Windows Mobile Themes] caballero600:
3 button bar

Sorry for my English:

Well maybe with this graphic is more easy to explain:

I want to have only this modification: (with calendar if it is posible)
[Windows Mobile Themes] rfarrah:
Yup, I found it about 2 minutes after I posted that, but thanks!
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
View attachment 233597

Try this and let me know if the colours are ok or if you want any part of it changing. Dont be afraid to speak out lol I dont bite. Well not hard :rolleyes:

Donators get preferential treatment :D

Rename the attached file to MSkipFiles.dat and copy to spb mobile shell folder on your phone and restart.
[Windows Mobile Themes] donnaw:
looks great - perfect blue

Here are some shots. But is there a way to change the bar on the other pages too? Like the Launcher or Menu?
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Those menubars arent part of my theme and would require alot more work to change. Sorry. Pro and Lifestyle menubar looks good with your backgrounds I will add it to the variations on post 2 :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] donnaw:
not a problem

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I'm quite happy with the colors. And to honest, the indigo on those bars blends in quite well. Thank you so much! I look forward to the rest of your work!
[Windows Mobile Themes] acidhax:
Ive tried this on my Palm Treo Pro --- 320x320 QVGA --- and it definitely does NOT Work :P
[Windows Mobile Themes] NIKOSXRI:
To delete the menubars you go to the corresponding xml and in the first line or two, you transform the menubar2 to menubar.Thats the easiest way.Then you repack the xmls to qa_layouts.dat
[Windows Mobile Themes] jgjackson:
Custom Widgets Impossible?

Are you having any luck with adding widgets? I've confirmed that the Plugin names for the skins are hardcoded into the program, both by experiments and by examining the binary and seeing Link.Small:Widgets, etc. right there in the exe. I'm afraid that it might not be possible to add skins, only change the existing ones.

There is one thing that's strange. There is no reference to Link.Box:Widgets in the binary. Yet when I change qa_layouts.dat to have no mention of "Box" it still appears in the skins list. There are several references to NoBox in the registry, so it appears Link.Box is special-cased (some widgets that use Link, don't use the Box skin).

So currently, I see no way to implement the invisible and small text versions of the Link widgets. For my own use, I've hijacked the Medium skin to be my "small text" skin.
[Windows Mobile Themes] donnaw:
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Yeah, I tried that and it only worked on the Agenda screen. And it wiped out the dropdown on the MenuBar. I also tried to point them to the MenuBarTransp but that didn't work either.
[Windows Mobile Themes] adasad:
Thanks! Great job mskip

can you make one(all same ) but without 3 button menu on the Pro (down)

Thanks again
[Windows Mobile Themes] knaak:
background pro for lifestyle

Perhaps asked before, put is it possible to get the pro background for the lifestyle ?
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
I havent made a version for SW320 yet thats why it isnt in the list.
[Windows Mobile Themes] NIKOSXRI:
Works for me check it again.
[Windows Mobile Themes] knaak:
wvga if possible?
[Windows Mobile Themes] alexgv99:
a bug?

Hi man. First of all, thank you for your altruist job. It's everything amazing.

I don't know if anybody else had the same problem, since I can't find any complaint about this...

I can't start the Lifestyle online background change anymore. I could do that once, but now, when I click in "Online Catalog" nothing happens. Is it a bug or it just happens to me?

Also, when I change through "Picture File" or "Local Gallery", the change doesn't happen too.

Sorry about my poor English, man.
[Windows Mobile Themes] gerald_s:
Everybody hopes that you and Mskip will find a way to add widgets to 3.5 because for a lot of people here Mobile Shell without your extensions is only half useful :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] hermann4711:
.... so sad :(

I tried it also and had no luck ...
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
You are correct, the online catalogue isnt available after installation but I dont know why since I didnt do anything with it. If the image doesnt change when you use a picture file or local gallery then you have to exit mobile shell and delete the background.dat file from spb mobile shell folder, then restart mobile shell (or soft reset) and it will appear. If you use a local file then it will only display the first half of the image so edit your picture acordingly.
[Windows Mobile Themes] maurodm:
9 button on launcher panel

hi, how can i add a 9 button on launcher panel?, thanks
[Windows Mobile Themes] skulk3r:
i've done a quick search and haven't come up with any yet, but i'm pretty sure i'm missing something....

how can i make it continuously scroll? at the moment the pages just scroll with the standard animations?
[Windows Mobile Themes] rfarrah:
If I understand it correctly, Elegance doesn't change animation because you get to scroll continuously.
[Windows Mobile Themes] dustinb17:
The "Continuous Scroll" means you can scroll from page 7 to page one with one swipe, or from 1 to 7 without going through the screens like 2-6. It doesn't mean you can swipe once and have it flip through 2 or 3 pages. Hopefully that clears things up if that's what you meant. If not then I'm sorry I don't think I can help with your question.
[Windows Mobile Themes] dustinb17:
Mskip,

How difficult would it be, or is it even possible to create a combination of Ultimate and Elegance. Basically just by eliminating the Menu Bar like in Ultimate and just using the bottom 10 pixels or so for your page selector. I know the Background would still be permanent like Elegance. Basically it would just be Elegance without a Menu Bar giving you the extra space and the option to chose your Menu Items.

I'm loving Elegance at this point but do miss the functionality of Ultimate. Either way I'm VERY happy with your work and appreciate all your time and effort in putting these packages together.

Something Like this perhaps

This concept is based on MS3.0.1 Screen Caps but I was hoping, if it's possible, to see something like this for MS3.5
[Windows Mobile Themes] knaak:
Thank you very much. Keep on doing this great job!
[Windows Mobile Themes] Strop:
Multiple Favorite contact pages

mskip

I have found an interesting feature allowing you to have more than one Favorite Contact pages (haven't seen it mentioned anywhere).

If you go into registry

HKLM/Software/Spb Software House 2/Spb Mobile Shell/Widgets/FavContacts

Then change PageCount to say 5

Now go to Favorite contacts the normal way with the icon at the bottom of the Lifestyle Now page, remove one of the contact widgets so that you can tap and hold on the page background when it goes to edit mode you can now scroll through the 5 pages and set them up with different contacts and swipe between them.

Maybe useful if you can find a way to point to the different pages with different icons.

Regards
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
I tried that method and it seems a bit temperamental it couldnt decide whether to goto the next favorites page or goto the contacts page. I have 2 favorites pages set up on Elegance and Ultimate and I dont know about other people but thats more than enough favourites for me lol :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] atomical007:
Thanks Mskip for your hard work.:)

Could you please tell me or provide me a file to made the Bottom Menu Bar invisible in Spb Mobile Shell 3.5.:D

thank you again.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
ProPlus Ultimate provides that. You cant have the menubar invisible with Elegance.
[Windows Mobile Themes] sm@rt:
I Mskip, i appreciate much our fine works... but we have some problems on italian ROM whit SPB3.01 and 3.5.

U have a big know-how for help me.

My problems it's any FAVICON panel, button and choice if use a option (taps here for...) FILE (camera and facebook work great) CHANCE option: at press of FILE BUTTON, immediately SPB3.xx crash and exit in the Chome, why?

Exactley when press file button choice what command, program or function SPB shell having call?

It's the same whit 23053, 23052, 23047 and 21928 SYS

Thx in advance
[Windows Mobile Themes] Strop:
Widgets

mskip,

I think Spb have made a great improvement in the Widget area with the advent of the skin option.

I have found that instead of adding new Widgets you can simply add a skin to the relevant widget i.e. PlusVertical, PlusHorizontal and they appear in the list of skins.

Regards
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Can you send me any info you have on this as I havent looked into the skins yet :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Strop:
Please PM me with how I can get a 700kb .rar file to you and I will send what I have done to date.

Regards
[Windows Mobile Themes] tjabba:
I think you do great work. really great. perhaps you can help me. I now hav spb ms 3 and I want ms 3.5. where can I find the right cap, to install it on my sony experia?

Greetz, tjabba
[Windows Mobile Themes] NIKOSXRI:
Which bmp to fill the gap in wm 6.5

mskip, which is the dat file and which is the bmp that is needed to be edited in that file for filling the bottom gap in the wm 6.5 screen?

Thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Themes] lunarken:
great work... its nice dude!
[Windows Mobile Themes] crazysane:
Always love your work and was waiting for the qvga widgets that you completed to be posted. Hope they come soon as I cant wait to return to the setup I had in the 3.0 series. Patiently waiting and willing to buy a round upon receiving the updates.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
PROPLUS ELEGANCE UPDATE!!!

ChangeLog:

100509 - posted new cabs for QVGA and VGA with all the widgets I have added so far. Analogue Clocks, Digital Clocks, Batterys, Full Calendar and Invisible Link (thanks to SiliconStar for Invisible Link).

Add a widget type that you want (i.e. Digital Clock) and then Change Skin to whichever one you want. You can now see previews of the ProPlus Widgets before adding them to the screen :)

If you are updating from the naked version then you dont need to uninstall and reinstall Spb Mobile Shell, just uninstall the naked version and then install the new version.

PROPLUS ELEGANCE: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=566245

ENJOY :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] ElAguila:
Thanks for the hard work Skip. Too bad you can't upload. I will check out the new elegance with widgets in a little while.
[Windows Mobile Themes] MarkAtHome:
The previewing of the widgets is brilliant, Mark, Thanks!

Just an FYI, I uninstalled the naked Elegance and upon reboot, my Tilt/Kaiser displayed Error in a small, red font centered in the black display (nothing else except for the Start button). Once I installed the latest, all that was cleared up.

Since SPB now has a widget for both bluetooth and WLan/WiFi, any chance of you doing your magic on those? If so, when clicked, my preference would be:

Bluetooth: Settings, Pair Device, Turn on BT if off/Turn off BT if on

WLan/Wifi: Settings, Turn on WLan if off/Turn off WLan if on

A widget color change to indicate enabled or not would be nice, too.

If it's something you can and want to do, note that there is absolutely no rush and it is not critical to me. There are more important things on your plate.

I appreciate your tireless effort to help this community.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mikedboyd:
Hi all - new to the SPB Mobile Shell experience. QUite a bit to digest. Question here is that while I get some of the potential changes (enhancements) from this, what's the difference between the Ultimate and Elegance downloads?

thanks
[Windows Mobile Themes] alexgv99:
Hi dude... it works like a charm. Thank you.