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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] michoob:
It means you will not be able to notice a specific battery drain when using meters.

By the way, the new version of IPTWeather is out, using the reloadIcon=2 feature! Please check my signature for the download link.

Thank you Tronikos for your great work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cheapdickhk:
Where can i download the .exe version??

Since i want to use full screen.....:(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cheapdickhk:
i find it out....but is there any way that can remove the task bar of window mibile??:(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
Ummagumma,

The problem was the memory meter. Every 2 seconds if there was a difference of at least 1 byte all the pages having a special icon were refreshed. Now I changed it to a difference of 100KB (since the free/used memory is displayed in MBs with one decimal point) and it redraws only the page (if any) that contains the memory meter icon. Also now the background check for notification and meter changes is disabled when window is inactive for both exe and dll version.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Osprey00:
tronikos,

1. re: transparent backgrounds on static bars: I got it working. It works great and looks really nice. Bravo! Unfortunately, there appears to be a bug in that the background (even one with no transparency) isn't displayed at all in "Alpha blend on background (alternative)" mode. That ought to be an easy fix. Also, FYI, transparent images work in that mode, so should work as backgrounds, as well.

2. The text quality options are nice. The ClearType modes are both a little too blurry for use on PNDs, but that's not largely surprisingly. I don't suppose that there are "levels" of ClearType, right? I do notice that a big part of ClearType in desktop Windows is the shadowing used. Is that an option in CE that you can enable? The "Antialiased" mode is nicer (less blurry), but works only on font sizes of 20 and higher (i.e. only parts of some special icons, like date and battery level). Do you happen to have any idea why that is? It's still better than nothing and fixes the ugliest of text, which was exactly the large font sizes in those special icons. It'd just be nice to find something that works on font sizes of ~12 without being overpowering and blurry on PNDs.

3. I notice that the new pressed icons aren't in 1.5.0, even though it sounded like you fixed the problem displaying them. If you prefer the old ones, that's fine; I'm just pointing it out as a reminder in case you simply forgot about them.

4. Is it at all possible to have iPT look up and use a font in the same folder as settings.xml before looking it up in the font table? That would just make it easier to share skins, as well as test fonts.

5. With your latest code change, "Autoconfigure adjusts the offsets again to make space for the bubbles," are you going back to how it was in 1.4.9 and always resetting all headers? If so, I think that a better solution would be to not adjust at least the mainscreen's top offset if the header size is something other than 0. Since it is 0 by default, the top offset would still be reset for the sake of the bubbles for the vast majority of users... yet, if the user has declared a header size other than 0, then it would be assumed that they changed the top offset, as well (because, otherwise, the header text shows up behind icons, as I mentioned before) and leaving at least the top offset alone in that case would be preferred.

Keep up the great work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sinoo:
Can an update be simply processed by replacing the files in the install folder?

So why not add the following:

- icon type: check for update

- matching bubble

- pressing icon opens settings on update page; downloads and replaces with new files

What a dream?! :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mike2nl:
Why you guys have changed the install of iPhoneToday in that way, that i have to use main memory to have the today plugin?

It was working perfect in 1.4.9 without any problem and i have seen not so many difference in loading the icons.

Why this? Have i to stop now to use new versions of iPhoneToday? Or it is a mussunderstanding? Please, be clear in that case
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] GuustFlater89:
Battery meter

Great to see all these developments!!! Thanks!

I really like the option to have the battery % visible during charging, but I would prefer to have the option to choose another icon while charging (with a wired battery or something...) and to skip the minus sign in the %. I still think the minus sign is not the most beautifull option....:p

Anyhow I still like iPhoneToday:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] chancer63:
You can use the attached ones with a little Mortscript.

CU
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
Osprey00,

2. It seems that the appearance of ClearType text can be improved by adjusting the gamma value

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms901156.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms901155.aspx

If it works I could change it programmatically.

3. I forgot to include them. BTW, I think I prefer the old one, the one that was darker. It looked more like the iPhone's one.

4. I'll look into it.

5. It is only adjusted if it is less than 5.

mike2nl,

It seems that windows do not support loading today items from storage card. That's why I added a warning if you try to install it to the storage card. Just ignore it and continue the installation.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schlork:
Could one be so kind and explain me following:

This is my alphablend testing page. First picture shows alpha blend alternative

(aren't the icons in second row looking perfect good?:) )

Second picture shows alpha blend black. What's clear is that icons in second row are now black instead of transparent, but what I'am wondering is that first row is still transparent?

Then I would love to make a miopocket icon set with transparent icons, like the last one of the first row. I was able to create this making the red face that big to cover the original picture, but this looks ugly==> too big.

I have a blank icon from Glaskart package, but if I open with IcoFX it changes to not useable. Seems IcoFX is not able to manage such icons, or I'am not able to handle.

Any ideas?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mike2nl:
Hi tronikos,

that's not 100% clear for me. Normaly the *.dll is installed in the windows directory. But i will do my tests in this week. Then i will report it...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Osprey00:
tronikos,

2. The gamma value doesn't seem to change anything, but I'm not exactly surprised, since I've enabled ClearType in the registry before and seen no results. That has led me, in the past, to suspect that ClearType support isn't complete on these PNAs. Then again, a very few apps (now including yours) have been able to turn it on, themselves. It never looks terribly good, though, so I wonder if the GDI on devices like these tries to "fake" ClearType with an inferior method. Oh well. Thanks for looking into it and for the links, regardless.

3. Oh, ok, np. The reason why I took another crack at improving on the default overlay is that the original doesn't look so good when the background isn't black or close to it. For that reason, it might be nice to include the new one as an optional one, at least until I do (if I do) take a third crack to come up with one that looks like the original, but better with all backgrounds and icons. It's up to you, though.

6. Do you think that you could add support for at least fitwidth and fitheight for the bar backgrounds so that we can choose to turn those off? Because of the squeezing and stretching to fit the bar's dimensions, it''s hard to make a background (even the relatively simple pattern that the iPhone uses) that looks good at multiple resolutions (and orientations). Thanks.

7. Could you make it so that the font sizes on the static bars are shrunk along with the icons when ShrinkToFit is enabled? It's a problem right now because the text invariably overlaps each other, creating a big, unreadable mess. I've manually tested down to 6pt and even that is readable, so there shouldn't be any issue with single-digit point sizes. Thanks a lot.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
Osprey00,

6. Yes

7. Yes
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] J_Hutt:
When I get a new SMS, I see the 'unread' number in a balloon. Do any parameters exist that will let me open the first unread message? ie I use -service "SMS" to get to the SMS folder, but would like to go to the first unread via ParamsAlt when a balloon shows the unread count.

Any ideas?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mebarg:
new icons

i i need help with 2 icons

i have this icons from ireflect

and i need to change his color from red to blue to be more than this other

so all the colors match in the botombar

this is my screen

http://yfrog.com/0sscreen001lp

and i leave you my wallpaper

my phone is samsung omnia i900l WM 6.5.3 and i am using ipt 1.5.0 as today plugin with no bottombar

thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Osprey00:
mebarg,

Here you go. You have a choice on the calendar: one that matches the top shade and one that matches the bottom shade.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] LEX@N:
Here is a few screen shots from my Mio GPS device. The first two screen shots have no wallpaper. They are using the iPT gradient effect, I set black/blue for mainscreen and grey/black for bottombar. The last SS is with a jpg wallpaper. alpha blend on background is off on all screen shots, and alpha blend on black background on.

Edit:Osprey,

yeah that was a desktop image converted to 480*272, but if I turn alpha blend on background on the banding goes away. I had been using the one schlork found of the metal background, but now I been playing with the gradient.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Osprey00:
Lexan,

Tip: Run XnView Pocket, set it to display images in "original size" (in the menu) without filename (in settings/preferences), open your background in it, take a screenshot and use that screenshot as your new background. XnView employs dithering, so your new background won't have the awful banding present in your current background.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] GuustFlater89:
@chancer63

These icons look just as I had in mind. Off course a piece of mortscript would work, but for some reason I do not like the '-' sign while charging. It would be great if this could be implemented in iPT itself......

Thanks anyway, I can survive for the time being:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lition00:
tronikos,

- Can you implement outlined text (with different color or width for outline) for special status icons?

I have trouble taking readable text color with my iconset.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] drflax:
One wish

Please Tronikos, you can add a icon setting to control dimensions on each icon independent.eg. to make the icon of clock bigger than the rest on one page or to put one picture icon like MS3.5 you know
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] michoob:
@tronikos: for users of the exe version, it seems that the following MortScript code doesn't return anything:

exists=WndExists("iPhoneToday")
Message(exists)

But it should return either 0 or 1.

It seems that in you tick in options --> general --> 'Hide window from taskmanager', then it works.

In fact, I'd like to be able to automatically detect in MortScript if the dll or the exe version is used thanks to the WndExists("iPhoneToday") command.

Perhaps you have an explanation for that behaviour, and/or even a better way to detect if the dll or the exe version is being used...

Thank you in advance.

EDIT: ok, I get it, sorry for having disturbed you. Instead of looking for the use of the exe version, I'll check the use of the dll version thanks to the following registry value (set to 1 if dll version enabled):

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Today\Items\iPhoneToday\Enabled
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nheric:
I can't change the icon type

Thanks for your help
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mebarg:
thanks!!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] garethtimm:
hi

--winkey command? how to use it? i wanna hide the start menu to get it to look like it does on pics..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
lition00,

I might.

drflax,

No.

michoob,

1. Use the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Today\Items\iPhoneToday\DLL to find out the installed path of iPhoneToday.

2. Use the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Today\Items\iPhoneToday\Enabled to find out whether the dll is enabled.

3. Use ProcExists to find out whether the exe version is running.

nheric,

That's weird... I'll see what I can do.

garethtimm,

If you are using the exe version check the fullscreen option under options->general. If you are using the dll version you will have to use nuenobar or something similar, check the FAQ. To use the --winkey enter --winkey in the execute field of a new icon.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] garethtimm:
thanks man found i wasn't using exe.. but what title bar do you have? it looks so nice? {on 1st page pictures}..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
garethtimm,

I took the screenshot from MiToNiOeS.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=508429

It seems he used Wisbar Advance
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jeanne8fr:
Hi Tronikos,

I wanted to use the --winkey in the 'out of screen' left. I created a shortcut with the exe and the parameter but it won't work for me.

Any idea?

Jeannette
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
jeanne8fr,

Just enter --winkey in the out of screen left field. I just tried it and it works.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jeanne8fr:
That's too easy......grrrrrr :-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
jeanne8fr,

If you want to use any of the special commands that start with -- from MortScript or a shortcut lnk you should use the iPhoneTodayCmdLine.exe if you are using the dll version and iPhoneToday.exe if you are using the exe version.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schlork:
Download here

I Just made a Miopocket Glaskart Theme including 15 different 480x272 wallpapers for testing. Glaskart seems to be made for iPhone, so it is understandable that I had my main problems to find icons for Garmin, Ozi etc.

It's my interpretation and I will try to make such icons myself, because it looks very good. Help is always welcome!

The owner of glaskart http://www.macthemes.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16790588&p=1 Max Rudberg is disliking colors in the icons. My opinion a little bit color would be nice. Example see Heart card on Picture.

Still I don't know what to do with Miopocket Minibar...... I need it, but it doesn't fit into IPT for optic reasons
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Osprey00:
schlork,

Looks nice. As for the MiniBar, when I integrate iPT into MioPocket, I'll figure something out with it. It'd be really cool to be able to do it with iPT, but would require a lot of work on tronikos' part to make possible, and I doubt that that would interest him and that it would be so much better than SystemInformation to be worth it. I'll probably just continue using SystemInformation and simply re-skin it. I doubt that I can ever make it look like it really "fits" with iPT, since iPT is so much more dynamic in its backgrounds and icons than SystemInformation, but I might be able to fit it in a bit better, at least color and icon-wise.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Cerberus_tm:
Wow, this is awesome! I have been looking for a fast and reliable home plugin that does just this. Thanks you tronikos for continuing this project! Three questions:

1. I saw some people have more than 3 pages of icons: how do I do that?

2. Is there a way to add all the programs in my Programs folder (start>programs) to iPT at once? I wonder where iPT gets its default programs/icons from, since they do correspond to what I have installed.

3. Is it possible to have two instances of the home screen plugin active at the same time? I might use it with Ultimate launcher, and have an iPT plugin active on two Ultimate tabs. But I haven't tried that yet for fear of making my phone unbootable (in case it locks up my phone, the lock-up will happen again as soon as I reset it, since the home screen will be loaded automatically).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sir.John:
Hi Hellhound,

1. Just add an icon and enter "3" as page (Counting pages starts with "0")

2. Not at the moment. tronikos might consider to implement it, but since it is a "one-time-task" that would need a lot of programming effort I doubt it will be considered highly beneficial. Let alone considerations of speed for this matter.

3. No clue, but out of curiosity: what would be the benefit if running iPT as one plugin gives you unlimited numbers of pages already?

John
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jaguaralani:
I must admit that this new version 1.5 is the best version so far, really smooth and fast

thanx alot

and attached is a little contribution from me side
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 3nric0:
One question.How to change this font.Really i dont like it.Thanks.

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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sir.John:
No strings attached, but if I remember correctly, the font used for these icons is your default system font. Probably worth to doublecheck that :-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] edan1979:
yup... definitely system icon...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 3nric0:
Ok ,i have changed in setting.xml facename"" in facename"Thaoma" and now:

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Thanks to all
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] michoob:
A MortScript script should be able to achieve that work, shouldn't it?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sir.John:
I just expirienced a minor flaw: appearantly the unread count bubble icon for "Unread SMS/MMS" wasn't updated and remained "1" after reading the new SMS. Editing the icon and "saving changes" (despite no changes whatsoever were made) got rid of this false count.

While this may be just a temporary flaw caused by akward clicking from my side I though to mention it, in case anyone else comes across this happening once in a while.

John
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] michoob:
@Sir.John;5968306: check that the refresh time setting in the movement tab is not set to 0 but to some value in ms

@tronikos: what is the default value for the refresh time setting in the movement tab? Is it 2000ms?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sir.John:
michoob: thanks for the pointers, but this is not it. refresh time is set to 9000 on my device but the bubble was there for about 15 minutes before I decided to do something about it

default is indeed 2000ms by the way.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ASPHALT5:
can I change font for this addon?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sir.John:
Yes, please check the recent page of this thread (p77) as well as the very first post on *this* page (p78)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sir.John:
Hmm, the problem seems to persist vice versa as well: now a new SMS arrived without a bubble showing up. After Editing the icon and saving it again unchanged it showed up alright.

Looks like I need to investigate that a bit more....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] edan1979:
yup... it seem i also got the same bug... sometimes there is a message received sound but there is no notification...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] garethtimm:
hi

in the new version i noticed that the bubble icons for notifications are cut off on the top..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] garethtimm:
i have not tested it, but i think it is because the new version has an option as to how often it will update notifications >general tab..

i am still just guessing but i think this was to save battery by updating less often.. you can set it to 1 if you want.. sure it would work fine then
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sir.John:
edan: you are still on iPT 1.4.9? So it's not limited to the newest version 1.5.0?

Hm, do you by chance run CurtainCall screen lock? this is the only software I have installed recently, and I seem to not have noticed this "bug" last week or earlier...

John

P.S @garethtimm: thanks for your hints, but it definitely is NOT the refresh setting, as mentioned earlier :-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] garethtimm:
sorry just saw older version has it too.. nevermind.. sorry :(

sir.john.. ya sorry just realized
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
I've actually considered doing this but decided not, because the icons don't look good when extracted from executables.

It used to be the default system font but I introduced a bug in v1.5.0... When facename is an empty string GDI picks whatever font thinks it fits better... I have already commited a change that fixes it. It will be in v1.5.1. For now as I said earlier manually edit settings.xml and replace facename="" with facename="Tahoma"

In the options increase the top offset of the mainscreen and bottom bar.

I guess you mean the "update notifications every" setting in the general tab. That one is 2000 ms. The "refresh time" in the movement tab is mostly used by the expanding rectangular animation and its default value is 20ms.

Sir.John,

In v1.5.0 I disabled the background check for notification updates when the window is inactive. For the exe version that was easy by checking the windows event WM_ACTIVATE. However, for ther dll version there is no such event so I used the WM_TODAYCUSTOM_QUERYREFRESHCACHE that on the emulator is received every 1-2 seconds and only when the today screen is visible. So in the WM_TODAYCUSTOM_QUERYREFRESHCACHE I check whether the "update notifications every" time has passed and if yes I check for notification updates. It seems that your device and probably others don't receive the WM_TODAYCUSTOM_QUERYREFRESHCACHE that often... Anyway in the next release I am planning to have a second thread and use windows notifications instead of polling.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] michoob:
I guess that will make the battery foot print of iPhoneToday even smaller!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jaskiratsingh:
Yes .. I have tried the movement tab but no luck :(

The transition speed from one page to another is not good as compared to version 1.0(d) or previous. Hence I am sticking to it

I have also faced another issue with 1.4. I am using ASUS P320 and when i open sms or file explorer and close it, the sip remains on screen. Has anyone else faced this issue?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
I managed to reproduce the bug under WM6.5. It took me a while to find out what was wrong. I think I fixed it. Please redownload again.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] savrix85:
Tried it, seems to be ok ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fl.bidon:
Upgrade procedure

Wonderful, I'm glad of the improvments.

Before I crash everything in my mobile can you post the upgrade procedure ?

I'm using V1.3 and I could not find my settings back after installing V1.4, so I suppose there is something to care about to upgrade to V1.4...

Many thanks !
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] savrix85:
If you have already upgraded it, I suppose you can no longer do anything. If the V1.3 left its settings, you have to go in My Device/iPhoneToday and copy icons.xml file and past it in My Device/Program Files/iPhoneToday.

However, the procedure is as follows:

-backup your icons.xml file from the iPhoneToday folder

-remove the older version

-install the new version

-copy your icons.xml file into the new iPhoneToday folder

I hope it's useful.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] michoob:
@tronikos: it could be usefull to include a build version in your iPhoneToday 1.4, because I see that there are already several 1.4 versions... it would be easier for everybody to know which is the last version. Just a suggestion ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fl.bidon:
Fortunately I backup up the "iPhone Today" folder so I will be able to restore the files you mentioned.

Thanks again,
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] j101399j:
I am not done yet, but I have started to go over what all the options in the menus do. if you get a chance check out the FAQs for this version, link in my sig. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] egzthunder1:
Sorry about that. I had no idea you had picked it up. I thought that you were just linking to the source page and that was it, and considering the number of threads on IPT, I just didn't understand why a subject on a "dead" app was being brought back up...

Looking good though. Glad someone else is doing something about this one.