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[Windows Mobile Themes] mikedboyd:
Sorry - I was not at all clear. In between times, I totally uninstalled everything related to Mobile Shell and started over. First MS3.5, then your package, then the Widget package. I have the extra lifestyle screens, so that's still there. I've disabled the Pro screens, but that should be ok. It's mostly just that the menu bar at the bottom reverted to it's original state.
[Windows Mobile Themes] leepv:
Thanks for your reply.

Yep,i did,of course with a clean version. I read your tutorials twice bf starting up,thus i did uninstall both MS3.5 and Elegance then just install MS3.5 clean and Ultimate rightaway after that. Didn't forget to restart device,too.

Well,last thing missed out is that the launcher works in normal mode only. Sorry for keeping you busy on my bones. Thanks
[Windows Mobile Themes] thepeoplesclub:
Great work once again mskip, I have one minor problem. I am unable to change the background on the lifestyle page. It lets me change it but basically does nothing and stays as the beach picture. I have Uninstalled everything and tried again on a fresh install of shell 3.5 but to no avail. I'm running windows 6.5 on a touch Diamond2. Am I being daft here? Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Themes] spyrale:
hi Mark, thanks for your job again, i had a fresh install of your ultimate package with widgets and i found these 2 problems:

1 cannot change the background (not always)

2 when i put the digital clock frame on the lifestyle then i cannot remove, move or select this widget, i had to reinstall mobile shell to get rid of it.

i'm on omnia i900. thank you, bye :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] mguzzy:
Yeah... adding more pages is a great mod.. Now that there is an option to select the number of pages in MS3.5, I was wondering if it could be incorporated the into the settings. I was thinking it would be a nice to have the the choice. I dug around a little to see if I could find it.

thanx

Mark
[Windows Mobile Themes] bal2an:
It happens to me too. Try changing the background then soft-reset .. after 2-3 times trying, suddenly it works normally ... until now.

Sounds weird? :confused:
[Windows Mobile Themes] JaCoL_JcL:
mirror here:

http://odsiebie.com/pokaz/5972119---2e14.html

THX MSkip \o/
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
I have explained how to fix this on my first post. After you change to your desired image just go into the spb mobile shell folder on your device, then delete the background.dat file and soft reset. The new image will be displayed on your lifestyle screen :)

If it wont let you delete the file then exit mobile shell first (launcher, settings, spb mobile shell, menu button, exit shell).
[Windows Mobile Themes] Mattster_spv:
Great update Mskip.

Spb 3.5 would be so limited without your Pro Plus Ultimate cabs.

Another well deserved donation on its way. Thanks for all your time and effort.

Mattster.
[Windows Mobile Themes] JaCoL_JcL:
i change a background without any problem ;)

edit;

Any chance to get a version WITH a normal luncher - favorites menu in life style ?
[Windows Mobile Themes] rfarrah:
Define "normal luncher" -er, launcher I suppose. What do you want it to do?
[Windows Mobile Themes] JaCoL_JcL:
laucher in style mode like launcher in professional mode, with bar and 2 ikons fav and launcher
[Windows Mobile Themes] rfarrah:
That's what is so great about Ultimate: you can put whatever you want there.
[Windows Mobile Themes] JaCoL_JcL:
true, but what when i don t like it?
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
When you dont like what?
[Windows Mobile Themes] rfarrah:
Then you'll have a really empty screen! :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] crazysane:
MSkip,

Wondering if you have an estimated time frame on when the color backdrop pieces will be completed or if they can be done. I am really enjoying the Ultimate but still wish I had the bottom scroll bar to move to specific pages instead of having to slide acros each one of them. Anyway to add that as an option to this version like it is in the elegance theme?

Waiting patiently for the rest of the widgets and goodies.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Im not exactly sure on how to go about adding the backing panel widgets back into 3.5 at the moment. The new way of selecting widgets and being able to change the style without having to delete the existing widget and selecting a new one is great but it doesnt leave any option to add new groups so unless I hijack an existing group and change it to Backing Panels I will have to put it in another group which I really didnt want to do :confused:

I think I will do a mix of Ultimate (with the empty bottom area) and Elegance (with a page selector bar) once I have made a few weather widgets to give the packs a complete selection of new widgets. Im thinking I will make the page selection bar at the top (taking 15 pixels from the top instead of the bottom) but if anyone who wants a cross has any better ideas then please share them as its for all you people :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] rfarrah:
Did I miss the fix for this, or is it still an open issue with 3.5?

Not trying to add to your workload, Mskip (especially since you're on vacation), just curious - sometimes I read posts too fast and miss important info.
[Windows Mobile Themes] uniqueboy:
Hi mskip, maybe instead of doing a mix of your famous widget packs you could consider the possibility of cabbing up the components so that the user could selectively install just the items from each that are needed for individual usage.:) Just a thought.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
I finally fixed the background not changing with fundotela2 on the carousel screen :D

It seems spb in their infinite wisdom decided to make the carousel background seperate from the other screens but I just changed the xml file so that it uses the same as the fundotela2 screens and voila :cool:

I will include that fix when I update all the cabs for Ultimate and Elegance at the weekend :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
I try and make my programs as easy for the end user as possible to install and use. If anyone wants to use any of my widgets (for their own personal use) then its easy enough to do but I prefer to contentrate on making complete programs that enhance mobile shell :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] rfarrah:
Awesome. Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Themes] donnaw:
Like this idea

I think I will do a mix of Ultimate (with the empty bottom area) and Elegance (with a page selector bar) once I have made a few weather widgets to give the packs a complete selection of new widgets. Im thinking I will make the page selection bar at the top (taking 15 pixels from the top instead of the bottom) but if anyone who wants a cross has any better ideas then please share them as its for all you people

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especially since my thumb is over the selection bar anyway. Since I always know what screen I'm on it's not a problem but at the top so we can add widgets at the bottom would be wonderful.

However I'm not sure you can do it but making the slider bar look semi-transparent like the backgrounds on the clock/calendar would be rather nice.
[Windows Mobile Themes] ravibc:
good job mskip! :)

on the lifestyle screens, why have the launcher and contacts buttons disappeared? Anyways of putting these back on again?

Cheers :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] donnaw:
you can add them yourself

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1) Just select "Add Widget"

2) select "shortcut"

3) select "Spb Menus"

4) select whichever one you want

then you can place them anywhere on the screen you like.
[Windows Mobile Themes] ravibc:
that's cool! didn't see the new shortcut link first time round!

anyway of easily changing to the Elegant from the Ultimate?:confused:
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
If you want to change to Elegance the safest way is to uninstall Ultimate and mobile shell and start from scratch. You can try just uninstalling Ultimate and then put Elegance on but you might end up with problems so its much easier to just start again :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Thats the whole concept of ProPlus Ultimate LOL ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] donnaw:
yep

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MSKip did a good job. A well thought-out design. :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vita.T:
Thanks for mskip's great jod.

Is that any way to remap the green button to bring up idailer? Since the green button app by supbro won't work uhder MS.
[Windows Mobile Themes] lzwfkv:
Using Power Button with SPB MS

The same problem here; i really need to use Power button as well, i'm used to lauch S2U with that key.

It seems like SPB MS catches all the hadware keyboard interrupts to run what it is configured to do, not just the softkeys (e.g. left softkey to run carousel and the right one to run the main configuration menu in MS home).

Thanks for any help.
[Windows Mobile Themes] joefrank:
:) your the best
[Windows Mobile Themes] sananda:
thx man youre the best :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] dustinb17:
If it's at all possible I would LOVE LOVE LOVE a version with the page selector still at the bottom. I Love mskip's ultimate version but can't use it because the ROM I'm on causes an 8 pixel black bar at the bottom of my screen. A Selector Bar would cover this useless area and be more astetically pleasing. So if it's not a lot of trouble once you've figured everything out to produce a build with a bar at the bottom it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You
[Windows Mobile Themes] sananda:
ive recognized the same problem on my omnia . Would love a version with the pageselector and the buttoms at the bottom ;D
[Windows Mobile Themes] leepv:
Thats your own problems,not MSkips',thus pls do not whine about that,or you want MSkip makes a unique build for your own ?. When he made Elegance then some of guys complained that "can't remove the menu buttons and its more convenient if have no page selector down there"..And what ??. with Ultimate released some of you guys once again want back to menu buttons and page selector and asked why have them removed on ultimate... If so,why dont you have Elegance installed to satisfy your needs ? or you want to run both simultaneous on your device ? We not only learn how to gain over what we want to but also need to learn how to lose and how to please ourselves sometimes between the alternative even though we dont want to. Dnt make things complicated while still get a workaround.
[Windows Mobile Themes] ElAguila:
I have a quick question. I am currently using the Elegance and I really like. I was looking at the pictures you posted on the first page for the Pro version and I see in the last one that there are 4 icons in the bottom menu bar. Is this in fact now possible with the ProUltimate version to put 4 widgets down there instead of 3?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Batistian:
Don't be too harsh. :D

I assume that dustinb17 and sananda are using WM6.5.1 :rolleyes: with the "Start" & "X" buttons on the bottom of the screen.

WM6.5.1 is a leak from M$, not official yet, thus there's no support from any apps vendor including SPB.

The SPB v3.5 that we're using is not officially support for WM6.5 yet.

And since WM6.5.1's menubar is placed on the bottom, SPB MS is pushed upwards causing a "space" at the bottom.

I don't think placing a PageBar there will cover that space.

There's nothing MSkips can do about it, unless WM6.5.1 is officially released and comes officially in most HTC devices. Then, maybe SPB will update it's version for it.

And, for the same reason, I'm not using any WM6.5.1 ROMs on my devices :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] Batistian:
You can put as many as you like, if you have enough space :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] dustinb17:
You need to relax, my request for a new build was not even for Mskip, it was for donnaw because in his post he SAYS if anyone has ideas to share. I have NOTHING but respect for Mskip and AM currently running Elegance. And I've never requested a unique build of my own from anyone. I'm COMPLETELY capable of changing XML files to suit my needs.

I appreciate your defense of Mskip because he HAS put a ton of time and work into these builds and DOES get requests for unique builds. But before you post something like this you need to get your facts straight.

And again I have a GREAT deal of respect for Mskip and his work, and he's the MAIN reason I'm still using Mobile Shell rather than Titanium. I can't thank him enough for all he contributes.
[Windows Mobile Themes] PMoto:
I remember once to say in the old thread, that would be very good to have an option to save settings of ProPlus, so we could save the current configuration and spend no time rearranging all icons and all every time we reinstall ProPlus, because of an update or testing other versions, etc.

Well, I found a way... Sbp Definitions Backup.

I'm having a problem with appointments. Sometimes - don't know why - my appointments stop ringing and i'm not warned.

I must uninstall ProPlus and Sbp, to reinstall all again, and have my alerts in appointments back. Before uninstall it, I backed up my Sbp settings, and hope ProPlus settings were saved too...

Well, that a cool option, after reinstall everything, I went to restore the Backup and I get almost everything back, even ProPlus icons and stuff.

The only thing wrong was the icons in the button, were upper, and the background image... was the default one. Except that, everything was as before... even my favorits contact photos.

I guess this could be very usefuyll. I didn't try this in SBP 3.5, because I'm waiting for ProPlus widgets for 3.5, and didn't install it yet. Could someone try and post here.

And, MSkip, maybe you want to state this in the instructions of ProPlus. Could save some time to everyone.

Cheers.

PMoto
[Windows Mobile Themes] shammanCZ:
first of .. great release, thank you, you did a great job ....

Yet i have few problems with this cool stuff.

-The carousel is spinning only the usual way same as in 3.0 - from left to right and vice versa, not in all directions.

There should help some OpenGL whatever thingy i didnt found any specific info about ... confirm/deny?

-Another problem is sms, mms, emails in 3D - they are sliding only up and down, but theres no diagonal animation.

-When using 3D mms/sms/emails function after some time device hangs up and i have to reset manualy.

-The animation i can choose from the menu is not applied on Lifestyle layout.

-And my favorite one, when iam exiting mobile shell to normal home interface, device either locks up or reboots.

But i guess this are problems of MS 3.5 and not ur skin

Tested phone so far ... Asus P735
[Windows Mobile Themes] bwnotredame06:
I'm sorry, but how do I do I get to the ProPlus Settings, I can't find the link. any where on my phone. And I tried search XDA and that lead to nothing. Thank you for your help, and I'm sure I'll feel like a complete idiot when explained. Thanks Though.
[Windows Mobile Themes] donnaw:
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What do you mean by "ProPlus Settings"? What are you trying to do?
[Windows Mobile Themes] bwnotredame06:
I mean the panel to change the settings, i.e. add screens to pro and life
[Windows Mobile Themes] donnaw:
Ah - on my phone I go to SPB Menu -> Settings ->Spb Mobile Shell -> Home Screen

hope that helps
[Windows Mobile Themes] bwnotredame06:
Yes i can get there but that's the standard SPB Shell changer and only goes to 5 screens.
[Windows Mobile Themes] solomhamada:
i used your addon on mobile shell for a while .. i have to say i loved it very much .. the 7 screens are GREAT

and the additional skins are FABULOUS

i have to say BIG thanks for the effort .. and i'm sorry i can not donate .. no credit card

but again .. this is VERY SUPER work .. and i hope a lot of people donate

best wishes and regards

P.S: GREAT artistic taste .. REALLY GREAT
[Windows Mobile Themes] donnaw:
try this from previous post
[Windows Mobile Themes] crazysane:
MSkip,

QVGA new widget updates work perfectly. Once again had to do settings then go edit the registry to get the 7 pages back again, But other than that I love the 2 sizes of invisible links and the bars both horizontal and vertical.

I do believe you have a way of making things so easy on the end user that this is incredible so once again THANKS!

Edit:

After adding and playing around with the widgets a bit longer I have found that the proplus 2 analog clock does not show the am or pm in its rightful box. Not complaining but thought ya might like to know,
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Thanks for letting me know, I will fix the clock in the morning :)

EDIT: Fixed and cab updated :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] geo26:
I was disappointed from imarche new skins. I am going to install MSkip ProPlus for first time. Which is the best Ultimate or elegance?

Thank you in advance!
[Windows Mobile Themes] geo26:
Sorry I just read the first page!
[Windows Mobile Themes] dunster:
This is really great, I am curiously about the new Weather widgets, will see when the VGA version is available.

You are doing a great job, my compliments that you response fast on questions and tips.

Greetings, dunster.
[Windows Mobile Themes] -Vulture-:
Hey mskip...you must really be a crazy guy!

...

;)

Delivering all those really nice widgets, doing all this hard and time-intense work for us, i can only say thanks for that! MS3.5 wouldnt be the same without your widgets.

Anyway, i have a question: SPB did a rather bad job about integrating SPB weather into MS 3.5. The standard weather widgets open the minimalistic MS3.5 weather tab. I think in 3.0 they launched SPB weather when it was activated in the integration settings. But now theres isnt an option there and i have to update two weather programs. The one from MS3.5 has the much better widgets, but SPB weather is the better programm overall. Is there a way that you could, well, port those standard weather widgets to open SPB weather instead?

Thanks!

Phil
[Windows Mobile Themes] cac2us:
Downloading

I found that 2 out of 3 times, when I download files from Rapid Share, the file size is off by 50%.

Eventually I get the proper file, before they give me the popup to buy something.

Maybe this doesn’t happen with “PREMIUM ACCOUNTS”.

So, heads up, ALLWAYS check the file size when downloading from Rapid Share…

And thanks again mskip, for the fine work.
[Windows Mobile Themes] jssingh:
Naked to Widgets

Alright I may have asked this before but did not get any replies. So I appreciate all the help with this:

MSkip - I currently have the Proplus Ultimate Naked QVGA cab installed. It works great! If I install the cab with all the widgets, would I lose all my settings/icons on all my 7 pages?

Has anyone else tried that?

Thanks much!
[Windows Mobile Themes] crazysane:
jssingh,

I was able to keep all my settings of where things were located going from naked to widgets. But now we are on the second version of widgets and he has made some coding changes in the script. Therefor I do not know if it will keep everything exactly the same. I do know it was never much trouble to have to simply readd a link or two in its proper place. So give it a try but remember to uninstall the naked version before adding the new widget version.
[Windows Mobile Themes] jssingh:
Thanks ... I'll give this a shot! Will post back with results.
[Windows Mobile Themes] jssingh:
Works!

It works... thanks! Enjoying the new widgets ... especially the clocks and the panels!
[Windows Mobile Themes] mguzzy:
Thanks for the update mskip... So far everything is working great. I found I could install this update without having to completely uninstalling MS3.5 at least on my phone: i760 with WM6.1. I just uninstalled the mskips ultimate naked theme and restarted the PDA per the prompt. Then I installed the new Ultimate and I got a SPB error (the red error) which I half expected. I restarted again and all my settings were intact with the exception of the backgrounds.

I've been running with it all day and I've not found any odd behavior. .

I hope that helps any one trying to preserve their setups. I'm sure a complete uninstallation is a more prudent way to go but I thought I would try this.

Mark
[Windows Mobile Themes] crazysane:
Hey MSkip,

Any ideas how long it will take for the next round of updates to the widgets? I know your really busy and trying to enjoy your time off work but I also know you do some of the best work with the widgets. Just looking for an approximate time frame if you have one to share.

Alfo I changed the background for the pro and personal layouts but when it comes to the carousel it is black for most of the tiles. Any way to change those somewhere? would love to have something other than black.
[Windows Mobile Themes] pibe_szczecin:
SPB without bottom menu bar

MSKIP thanx for your work, thats great:)

Would you like to tell us, or do it for us, how to make spb 3.5 without bottom menu bar? I dream about clear screen, without the icon of spb in corners on the down of the screen.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
If you read the first post it will tell you that to change the background on carousel and other panels you need to rename one of the fundotela files to qa_fundotela2.dat and copy it to your device, then restart mobile shell.

I have to update the VGA widgets with the background panels and other stuff, then I will get to work seeing what new widgets I can create. Theres alot more scope for custom widgets with 3.5 with the Alarm, Date, Weather, Tasks and Calendar among others but I can still only work with the types that spb made. They havent and wont release any Development Kits for mobile shell so I cant make new types :(
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
You cant have a totally clear screen as you need the menu button to change the background image on the lifestyle screen. It cant be done from anywhere else. The carousel button could be taken off but then theres no way to add it back as a button if needed.

When I have updated Ultimate and Elegance with the VGA widgets I will start work on a hybrid of the 2 versions and will probably reduce the 2 bottom buttons to 10 pixels wide to make them virtually invisible but there when needed. That would create a 'nearly' full editable screen area with selectable pages and continuous scrolling.

Of course I will only do it if enough people want it and I REALLY need a VGA device to test my work on (emulators are ok but I cant test anything in landscape mode).
[Windows Mobile Themes] ElAguila:
Skip, hopefully you can tell me what I am doing wrong here. I downloaded the latest version of the proplus ultimate. I removed ms completely and restarted. I installed ms 3.5 again and then the menu editor cab, then the mobile shell links cab that you posted a while back, and then I installed the latest proplus ultimate. Everthing seems fine but for the life of me I cannot find the backing panels anywhere in the widgets to add them to my screen. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
[Windows Mobile Themes] crazysane:
The backing panels are an added feature in the add links. On my phone it is the third row down and center of the selections. So go to the page you want to add a backing panel, Click the bottom right corner, Then click add widget, Then search on the first screen that pops up for Backing Panels. Then choose which ever version of them you wanted.

Hope that helps you find them.
[Windows Mobile Themes] ElAguila:
They are not showing up for me. I am using the vga version. I removed all spb installs made sure the spb mobile shell folder was gone then reset the phone. I then installed MS 3.5. I exited MS and installed the latest proplus ultimate and then reset the phone. After it booted back up I went to the widgets screen and there is no backing panel widget there for me. There is only the list of standard widgets. I selected the "Shortcut" and on that screen there was no backing panel either so I went to "Tools" and to "SPB Menu" and it wasn't on those screens either. I am not sure what to do at this point.
[Windows Mobile Themes] jotha:
Reading the first Page would be an appropriate step to go from here :-)

MSkip has stated there that the backing panels are not yet implemented in VGA-Version. Just wait and hope...
[Windows Mobile Themes] ElAguila:
Well, there you go. I know it was a simple solution. I misread what had been posted. For whatever reason I thought it was available for vga. At least now I know there was nothing wrong with the install.