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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BoyBawang2:
Hi!

This is a perfect opportunity to reincarnate a useful feature that Microsoft have abandoned: The recently launched apps found on top of start-menu in WM6.1 but ditched in WM6.5 :(

I find "recently launched apps" more useful than taskman.

I think WM6.5.3 status-bar by default pops large notification icons when you tap it. Your great program can be positioned under it rather than replacing it.

cheers!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
thanks a lot for your support! Highly appreciated!!!

HTC Notification is running as a service, so you can't just call it to launch the window. One has to find a way to trigger the service to show the window. Maybe it's enough to just send a command to the HTC notification window? I try to check it...

you mean to only start it when hitting taskbar on the top/right position? This will be possible with next version. Then you can say on which part of the taskbar it will run from.

You can just add your favourite task manager to launch instead. It's just a simple setting in INI file.

I can add support for this in the next release. Maybe it's sufficient to say if you want to overwrite the default notification icons or not. And with another setting you could customize the position of the Taskbar Launcher window. The problem might only be that this is resolution dependent so you need a setting for each resolution....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Star-Lite:
I would love to see a taskmanager in that space, where you can easily switch between apps and close them :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] drx64:
Very nice app! Thanx a lot. ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] irus:
@OP i like this app but i was wondering if there is a way to add the magnify option that comes with the default. Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
There is one, try ArkSwitch.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aussie_boi:
Yes ArkSwitch works perfectly - have been using it for sometime - try it guys :P

@ RAMMANN - Any chance of a QVGA version in the future please?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
The next version will support all screen sizes. The icons will be automatically scaled down when running on smaller resolutions and through an ini file setting you can change size by yourself if you need bigger or smaller icons. I'm currently testing on Samsung Omnia which got a 240x400 screen.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aussie_boi:
Wow, great news. Thanks for the update :P
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Carlos_rpg:
a taskmanager w/ that look would be great!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Schzam:
Create link to the HTC Home Screen

I installed the "Taskbar Launcher" and it is great. I am customizing the launch pad and I created a link to access memory by creating a link file (20#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,4). However, I am still unable to create a link to the HTC Home Tab 0. I tried this link: 23#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,13,0, but it doesn't work. Could you help me with the link file that I should use. Thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
does it work when directly running the lnk file? if yes, be sure you describe the full path to the link in the tbl.ini file.

In the next version you can also specify parameters for each comands. I just tried and added "Memory" by directly calling the ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,4 (without .lnk file) and it's working.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Schzam:
HTC Sense Home Tab 0

Thank you for your prompt response. I tried the "Memory" command and it works. I think that my command for the " HTC Sense Home Tab 0" is incorrect. Do you know the command I should be using. Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jolas:
Perfect!!!

Everything is working without problems!

Autoclose is working without problems, too!

As I see, TBL.exe now uses a lot fewer system RAM (before it was using arround 598KB, now it uses 172KB)!

Thank you very much!!!:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zard:
I'm using 0.6 BETA [02/28/2010] and like the new feature "support alpha PNGs from custom commands are automatically detected from entry in Start menu etc.". Unfortunately, I noticed that some of my applications, the icons are not appearing. What I don't understand is that I noticed that I have apps both in device as well as storage card, and in both cases, there are some that works while some don't. In device, Resco Explorer works and in Storage Card, Klaxon Alarm works. The command for both are shown below:

Works:

[Explorer]

Exe = \Program Files\Resco Explorer\Explorer.exe

Param =

Icon =

[Klaxon]

Exe = \Storage Card\Program Files\Klaxon\Klaxon.exe

Param =

Icon =

Not Working:

[Taskman]

Exe = \Program Files\Resco Today Plugin\RTasks.exe

Param =

Icon =

[IExplore]

Exe = :DEFBROWSER

Param =

Icon =

[MobilePad]

Exe = \Storage Card\Program Files\MobilePad\MobilePad.exe

Param =

Icon =

[Garmin Mobile XT]

Exe = \Garmin\Garmin Mobile XT.exe

Param =

Icon =

[FM Radio]

Exe = \Windows\FMRadio.exe

Param =

Icon =

[Lexisgoo]

Exe = \Storage Card\Program Files\Lexisgoo\Lexisgoo.exe

Param =

Icon =

[Stopwatch]

Exe = \Storage Card\Program Files\MyLostBlog\MyStopWatch\MyStopWatch.exe

Param =

Icon =

[xdaShutdown]

Exe = \Program Files\xdaShutdown\xdaShutdown.exe

Param =

Icon =
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] namj2001:
Thanks.....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
@zard:

What exactly is happening? Do you see a question mark icon on those apps when it didn't work or are the icons completely missing?

can you also please check in registry HKLM\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start there's an entry for every shortcut in Start menu. The never applications have an "Icon = " entry in it. Can you please tell me which of your apps have this Icon entry and which not.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] polstein:
Excellent work, RAMMANN.

Some feature requests I'd like to put in for future versions:

In an ideal world, I'd like my taskbar to be split into:

Left - program launcher

Middle - currents tasks

Right - standard windows pulldown (if we can find a way)

The left/program launcher is almost done. But, is there a way to launch a contact directly from here, and if not can there be? I'm thinking of a screen with the contact info & dial number shortcuts as if you selected them from the conatcts screen.

Middle - I'm thinking of a sort of combination running tasks/end task. Often it actually seems quicker to re-run the program from the launcher to make it active (so I was thinking about doing without the current tasks screen), but then I'd have no way to end tasks. I'm current messing with Arkswitch in this spot, but 1 integrated solution would be better. Please take a look at Arkswitch & see if you can do something similar.

Right - the standard windows dropdown so I can easily get to volume, memory, connection status....etc. Hopefully there's a way to get there.

Once again, great work!

--

OH - I tried to let my new .ini file auto-detect icons, but most of mine came up blank as well. On the flip side, I spend some time last week finding better icons, so I'd probably prefer using them anyway.

Love how the 'current tasks' also shows my preferred icons - even if I launched the program from somewhere else!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
alright folks, I just got another idea, and now here's once another anthem. maybe you want to check if the hardware keys are working properly now.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zard:
Here's the information you need:

<Display>

[Taskman] = blank

[IExplore] = ?

MobilePad = ?

Garmin = ?

FM Radio = blank

Lexisgoo = ?

Stopwatch = blank

xdaShutdown = blank

<HKLM\Security\Shell\StartInfo\Start>

[Taskman] = Yes but no "Icon ="

[IExplore] = ?

MobilePad = Yes but no "Icon ="

Garmin = No entry

FM Radio = blank

Lexisgoo = Yes but no "Icon ="

Stopwatch = Yes but no "Icon ="

xdaShutdown = Yes but no "Icon ="
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
Thanks for your efforts! I'll look into it!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
This is a very good idea and probably also mandatory for a launcher app!!! As far as I know there's no direct way to launch a contact. BUT I just threw together a function that can easily do that. I also have an idea on how to implement this in Taskbar launcher. This will be some funny stuff! Just wait for next release....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gcmsh:
Really great job! It make me a lot of convenience except one point that i don't like the taskbar's layout（appearance） after version 0.4, such as 0.5beta & 0.6. The indicators of signal and battery that newly made covered everything that make me so inconvenient to find out the status of the network that i currently connected(2G or 3G, EDGE or HSDPA); the status of bluetooth device, sounds or music; the status of Active Sync; the status of Wi-Fi…… i just can't understand the meaning of the new taskbar layout. Could someone tell me the reason? i do hope RAMMANN can make a option for the people like me to turn the new layout on or off.

If offended, please forgive me! Just like Benjamin Franklin had said, "Love well, whip well. ":D:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
sorry but I have already written this numerous times. In INI file you can turn off the new taskbar look!!! Please read post #1 - I'm updating it with every release!! Anyway I'll add this into the configuration wizard for next release to make sure everyone gets it finally.....

Yes, the new taskbar is "breaking the rules". But it already shows when you're running a cellular connection, and it shows when you're running a WIFI connection. That's all I personally need. But since some people seem to need it, showing different icons for different cellular connection types (edge, 3G etc.) is possible for future versions.

The reason for new taskbar layout: I personally don't need 34534534 notification icons popping up all the time. It's annoying and constantly reminded me on PPC 2002 era. Instead I'm happy with a more compact/minimized approach. I'm running it on my phone all the time and never miss a thing.

May I ask if someone else likes this new style or is everyone just turning it off immediately? ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] polstein:
Glad I can be of help.

I aked about the standard Windows pulldown thing in another thread (no answers yet). I also looked into seeingi f I could install HTCNOTIFICATION on my phone, but looks like I can't. Still looking for a replacement on that front.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mrcrowley666:
I am very happy with 0.6 taskbar over the original taskbar. I enjoy the simplicity of it. Since it now indicates when wifi is connected too

The network icon to the left i have linked to wrlsmgr.exe which should work on any windows phone unlike the htc only stuff that has been buillt into the ini.

Probably the least pleasing function in the software is the task manager which you get by clicking the battery icon. Personally i would prefer it to link to the battery settings page. I also have Showcase linked to a hardware button which more than caters to my needs.

When i first installed this 2 icons where not appearing. the one top-right for iexplore and the top-left one for file explorer. This did not bother me in any case as i simply changed the programs and added my own icons.

I also noticed it took slightly longer to load at startup than the previous. I guess this is probably due to the new alpha icons though.

I posted a screenshot of how i have mine currently setup. The only problem i had is that i couldnt find a square volume icon.

I can appreciate the hard work put into this version. Not sure i would add much else as my personal preference is to keep it simple.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mikevillarroel:
i like it but i need a way to get to the HTCnotifications, how can i replace one of the icons(maybe the "turn screen") for the notifications?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
HTC notifications will be launched if you hit the left part of the taskbar. if you look into ini file, you see for area1 the associated command $HTCNOTIFICATION. Now you can just take this command, add or change an entry in the CustomCmds section and instead of an EXE just type $HTCNOTIFICATION. Like usual, see also first post: here I described everything in detail.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gcmsh:
I'm sorry to have put you trouble and thank you to have patience with my poor English:D Anyway, i'm happy to see your rapid response and I think the function of three touch-conrner is great, i used to set Phone Weaver's quick menu as left conrner click; TBL launch menu as middle corner click, while shut off screen app as right click. So i just thought that is it possible to add double click funtion to these three corners to make another three functions? For example, double click the right corner to activate HTC Notification or something like that.

Plus, the TBL launch menu's app numbers are limited to 8? Is it possible to increase the apps to 12 or 16 by making a bigger background image and edit the ini file all by myself?? Maybe you're thinking to set an option to input all icons from start menu to make TBL a new anywhere-launched start menu? ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
It's not limited! You can keep adding new shortcuts and the background should automatically resize. Just be sure to have continuous numbering i.e. continue to add them with 9=, 10=, 11= etc. and not 9=, 13=, 20= ok? You can add as many stuff as fits on your screen but I would not recomment it. There will be a feature in the next version and then you'll know why ;)

About start menu: My intention is not to replace it. Just a shortcut to most important stuff. if you want to call start menu from anywhere then you can add command $STARTMENU

I'm not really a friend of double-clicking on a phone. IMO it's not really very smooth and I think it's more suitable for Desktop PC. Also I think having too many possibilities (you already have the gestures as well) is just a bit of an overkill in the end and then everyone is confused and I have to explain what's going on LOL
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mikenif:
Any progress on your volumefix?

Got it working through tapping the windows icon in the dropdownmenu but when i launch your latest exe it doesnt respond to the volumebuttons

The fix JVH3 made is working but your method is a much more cleaner way to launch it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
I had posted a new version two days ago, is it this one you have tried?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=5763480&postcount=186
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mikenif:
Yeah it shows up fine but doesnt respond to the hardwarebuttons. but when bringing up the window via x-task and that JHV3 fix they do respond
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
well the JHV3 fix doesn't work WITHOUT the WM dropdown bar!?

To launch HTC Volume properly I think I have to do some reverse engineering. I never did such things before but I want to give it a try, so.... I can't promise anything.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mikenif:
Indeed thats why i prefer your method:D

Maybe you can create an exe/code that can activate that htcvolumecontrol window like X-task does

When i launch it through that it works perfectly.

Or maybe we can try to figure out what the HHTaskbar does to launch it
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mikevillarroel:
Your right! can you share your HTCNOTIFICATION icon to add it to the bar?

Never mind,thanks,i extracted it from your old v4
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
How can you launch volume control with xtask? I just installed it but nowhere I can find reference to volume control... maybe I'm just too stupid!?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mikenif:
Its quite hidden:D launch the taskmanager, click the white arrow on the right, choose other, choose windows, and there youll find it about halfway down, hold choose show, and then hold again and choose activation

I noticed when using your exe i need to reboot the device for it to respond when launching via xtask
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mikenif:
Also noticing that launching it via xtask doesnt save. It brings up dual volume control while sense is set to single (hhtaskbar does show correct)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gcmsh:
I got it, thank you very much, it's very kind of you:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
yes there might be issues when more than one application is hooking into taskbar. I don't recommend it ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Araviel:
Hi, I don't have signal at top left, how to fix it pls ?

Im on an wm6.5.2

Thanks in advance.

Edit : How to have the OK touch button at top right, it's hard to don't have now when installing softwares and apply settings :o
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] chalid:
you are on windows mobile 6.5. not designed for it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zard:
I have 20 shortcuts. :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zard:
I turned it off! :o
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
yes, that's right. TBL is designed for wm 6.5.x with the start menu on bottom. It's also written on first page in bold red letters. I don't know why people never read the first page!?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Araviel:
There are no similary taskbar for wm6.5 pls ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
supporting 6.5 is quite some efforts which I currently don't want to do because I rather would like to improve it further. If I have some spare time later I maybe can add support for older versions but it's not really planned right now. Right now I just assume that people on this board usually have the newest OS builds on their phone ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] malhznoi:
wow it's great job ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] levin07:
for future use....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
Since HTC Notifications is launched by default settings of TBL, Omnia II users might want to check out this one:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=639804

I tested it on a Omnia II and it's working w/ Taskbar Launcher.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aussiebum:
Hey RAMMANN, just had an idea that would be *really* useful if it was implementable in TBL.

It's probably going to be a huge effort, but how about "Push" notifications from TBL? So when my phone is not in a locked state (ie. no S2U2, etc running) and say a SMS comes in, instead of having to launch HTC Notifications to dismiss / go to the message, TBL slides open?

What do u think?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
Originally I had similar plans to include a panel with Titanium style notification icons (missed calls, voicemail, SMS, emails) and launch things directly from there. I also had plans to add panels which allows you to directly turn on/off bluetooth, wifi, data connection etc. But currently not sure if I'll really do it very soon because I also want to start other projects. But first I want to release the next version anyway and then make only bug fixes to make sure it's really running faaast and stable on any device. Then it probably depends on general interest/requests if I'll add more features.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] holybabel:
+1 Great Idea... :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] player911:
This seems like a great idea, but I don't like the fact that it hides all of my icons. If you displayed the normal taskbar icons and enabled the launcher, instead of the useless WM6.5.x popup, I would be in heaven.

At this point I just uninstalled it. Really good idea though.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
like always please read 1st post again!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
Transparent taskbar

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=647579

If someone uses the patched shell32.exe in his ROM please let me know if TBL is still drawing the taskbar properly.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] syrguy1969:
I finally got around to trying this app out, and I like it so far. I spent some tweaking time on it, changing the status icons (battery, signal...), making the background invisible and starting to add my own apps (could take a while LOL). From my experience, your future plans will be fantastic additions to an already great app!!

I do have one question I haven't seen in here yet though...how do you change the time from 24 hour to 12 hour format? I didn't see anything in the ini file.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] markthomson1404:
Thank you

Nice little app works great and can't wait to see it evolve
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
hi! You're the first asking for this! I will add an ini file switch for next release, should be no problem to implement! Damn! My to-do list is getting bigger and bigger :rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] syrguy1969:
Can't believe I'm the first to ask that, but that would be great!! I have a feeling I will be plating around with this some more!! I love apps that allow total customization!!! :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
Screw this!!!

Next version will automatically detect time format from system settings!

:cool:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ManuelLemke:
Terminate-Function

Hi, your Application is genious. Can you integrate some Terminate-Functionality for running Programs? For Example some Close-Button on the right Downside of the Buttons of showen Tasks, for stopping them.

Thx! Manuel
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
Yes, I'm already working on a way to close running programs.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] syrguy1969:
In the week or so I have been using this, I have one little glitch that may or may not be attributed to this app. It seems that there are instanced (about 4 today alone so far) that the taskbar and S2U2 seem to clash. Out of the blue the taskbar will go black until I close-out S2U2 (iLock2) making the taskbar reappear. I start S2U2 up again and it runs great for a while. Just thought I would mention it in case others were seeing the same thing.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
Again you are the 1st to report this! Do you use the new taskbar style (with battery/signal indication) or did you turn off this feature?

On my previously running ROM I also used S2U and didn't face any problems.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] syrguy1969:
I am using the new style taskbar. I am thinking it may be my Omnia...it has been freezing up a lot since I installed this, the new S2U2 and PocketWeather, so it may be the combination (a perfect storm if you will). It has not frozen on my since yesterday afternoon, but it is doing this little glitch I described....who knows, next time I refresh my Omnia the problem may go away!! :rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ramdroid77:
you are talking about which Omnia? I have I + II available for testing so I can try to reproduce.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FormerPalmOS:
Very nice app. I stumbled across this, read all 24 pages and jumped in with 0.6. Observations and comments, and for your info, how I use it:

1) Showing the default WM taskbar and running HTC Notification. I would also like to see your clock pick up the 12H/24H settings from local settings. The dark blue is hard to read. Easy enough to change the icons though.

2) Left area is the task launcher (for now, but see below), center is HTCNOTIFICATION and right is the task manager.

3) I've set up about 16 shortcuts for the launcher and they all work, but the logic to auto find the icon appears to rely on the icon value in the corresponding HKLM\Security\Shell\Startinfo key. Most of my apps don't have an icon value, instead the WM start menu is pulling the icon from the exe. Your task manager also pulls the icon from the .exe for running programs. It would be nice if the launcher icon could be pulled from the exe, but this might slow it down as each .exe would have to be read (or you would have to preload them at start-up, which you might be doing with .pngs anyway). Point being, it is extra work for the user to have to use a resource editor to extract the icon from the .exe - would be easier if you could do that.

But in all, the most useful aspect of this program is the elimination of the big WM taskbar and second the task manager so even if I can't use the launcher without a lot of graphics work to extract the icons, it's still a great program.

Thank you very much.