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

I went ahead and created more variations of the blank icons to give people more choices. At first, I just wanted a real black and a dark blue, as exampled below; then, since it's not in my nature to stop there, I went ahead and created every other color that I thought was missing, as well as tweaked the existing shades (which I thought looked a little washed out). Here are two examples (the real black and dark blue), just to give those unfamiliar with this blank icon set an idea of what it looks like. Download at the bottom of the post to get all 19 colors.

FYI, if it's not exactly clear to everyone what the use for these is... simply download an icon from, say, www.iconfinder.com (a great resource), then superimpose it over one of these blank icons with your favorite paint program to create an iPhone-like icon out of it.

EDIT: Now that I know that Livven made the original icons, credit goes to him for them.

Download: uploading.com

Download: xda-developers (see attachment)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schlork:
Thanks Osprey00! very useful!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sinoo:
@tronikos

Just saw that you already updated the issues I mentioned. Thanks a lot. ;)

Something else:

I experienced that if I load an application that needs some time on my device (like Opera Mobile 10) the screen zooms in and out before the program has loaded. :(

Is it hard to add another option like: stay black for # ms (if running in foreground)? :confused:

Then we would be able to set the duration of the animation and make sure that we won't miss the zoom out animation when closing an application?!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Livven:
Yeah, I'm available for beta-testing as well. This is really the only major issue still present in this app.

If this was a native feature of iPT, it would be even easier, like I said.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tito12:
Hi tronikos

I was away for a few days, but here's the new log
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Cerberus_tm:
(This was about backgrounds for icons.) But you'd still need a high-res icon for the application in order to not get grainy textures from extracted icons.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sahhar1993:
why you dont add taskbar ???
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Livven:
Well, but it's the same without an icon background, so it doesn't make any difference. Or what do you want to say with it?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Cerberus_tm:
I meant to say that you will usually want to Photoshop a new icon anyway, in which process it is not much extra work to add one of your backgrounds through Photoshop. Being able to select a background in iPT seems like something an aesthete will do, but then he won't be happy without a higher-res icon. That said, the extra option wouldn't bother anyone at all, of course. I like your backgrounds, I might like to use them for making buttons, with your permission.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Osprey00:
Livven,

That would be neat, but would be a lot of work and likely raise some issues, like blending and speed. Consider how the icon would be blended with the blank icon. It would need to be alpha blended to look as nice as a merged icon done in a paint program, and that would impart a speed penalty. If it's not alpha blended, then it'll look pixellated against the blank icon. If the choice is slower scrolling, uglier icons or spending a little time creating single icons in a paint program that are fast and good-looking, I think that most people would choose the latter and not even use the feature. I don't think that it's a bad idea (I kind of like it, actually), but I'm not sure that it'd be great with the way that iPT is designed and currently limited by processing power.

Cerberus_tm,

1. My understanding is not that Livven meant extracting the icons from the apps, but supplying a blank icon in addition to the high-res icon that's already being supplied.

2. I don't believe that Livven created those blank icons. If he did, then I owe him an apology for modifying them and not giving him credit... but I'm pretty sure that I've seen them elsewhere as the work of someone else (unknown). So, I don't think that you need any permission. The same goes for my variations, FYI.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
1. No for the reasons Cerberus_tm and Osprey00 mentioned.

2. The alpha-blending is already visually perfect. I guess you mean faster. I took a quick look to this library. It seems faster since it is using directx instead of GDI. However, it seems that it requires continuous redrawing which means higher continuous CPU usage and higher battery consumption. Currently iPhoneToday redraws itself only when needed.

3. If you remember I had a beta version that was selecting all the text for 1sec but that didn't fix it either... Anyway if I find time I might look at it again but it is low priority.

4. It is using directx that most PNDs don't support.

OK I could add such an option. Currently its value is 2sec.

That’s weird. I will see if I can fix it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] edan1979:
is there any way we can put the dll version into the auto-rotate function...

nvm... solved it.. lolz..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sureshot007:
After using Cookies Home Tab, I realized it has a few features that are really nice

1 - it dynamically takes the icon from the program and you don't have to go searching for one

2 - you can drag the icons around to place them anywhere on the grid

These are about the only things I'd change with IPT. Otherwise, I think it's perfect :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] The_Punisher:
Excellent...The best iphone theme/imitation/whateveryouwanttocallit so far!!! Only problem I have is creating a shortcut to a folder. But so far.....the best performance and easy to use....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] michoob:
iPhoneToday already does that...

You cannot already move an icon to the place you want by a long click on an icon.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] freepc:
try to add icon with those parameters..........

screen: some number from -1 to X

icon: some number from 0 to X

type: normal

name: Punishers private

image: \program files\iphonetoday\icons\someniceicon.png

sound: \program files\iphonetoday\sounds\omgod.wav

execute: \windows\fexplore.exe

parameters: \some\path\to\your\desired\directory

executealt:

paramsalt:

works for my htc + wm 6.5
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] The_Punisher:
It worked!!!!!!! Thanks a lot!!!! Now it's even better for me....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] milinko81:
How can I change top-bar, to erase flag or Start singe, someone did it... well then would be just like an iPhone or even better.

And yet another proposal,at the iPhone when the finger moves from left to right you get a keyboard for SMS or whatever .... it would be a good addition to IPT...... maybe as extra .cab

Thank you ALL !!!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Livven:
Well, I don't want to create all icons from scratch, it'd be way too much work (and I'm quite good at Photoshop and like using it).

Actually, I think no. The application icon itself could be alpha-blended to the icon background the same way as setting a background for the mainscreen pages, which is very fast and would require almost no additional resources, I hope. Then the icon background could be blended to the wallpaper the same way as each application icon now. Maybe you can reconsider it, or point out if there's anything wring with my reasoning, tronikos ;).

Yes, that icon is inspired by the Diamond design (tab slider, dialer buttons etc. in old Manila versions), but I recreated it from scratch. Actually, that's pretty easy - just a gradient with #000000 at 0%, #202020 at 50%, #606060 at 100% and a white layer with 6% opacity as a gloss finish.

Hmm, I'm wondering how other apps achieve fast alpha-blending. How much difference would in battery life would this library make? Too bad because the panoramic swiping is really great...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sinoo:
Great. I would appreciate it. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schlork:
@tronikos

Would it be possible to make transparent background also working for exe version?

This would allow more flexibility to make some stylish solutions

Thanks

Edit:

Would it be a problem to add battery part of systeminformation.exe into an icon of IPT, if possible only colour without battery frame. I am asking because of Lockscreen. Should look like this

http://www.imtoo.com/images/newsite/...e-batterry.jpg

but working
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Livven:
Simply set your background to \Windows\stwater_resh_resv.jpg (type it in manually).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schlork:
@Livven

don't understand! I have a PNA Navigation system WinCE 5.0

What I want is, if I make a Background with some transparent parts, it shows the background behind. As I understood this works on dll Version but not on exe Version.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Livven:
So it displays the today background? That stwater is the name of the today background.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sureshot007:
So I just switched to 1.5.2, and I was on 1.3 for a long time. When I add a new icon, I still have to pick one from the folder. How do I change it to pick an icon dynamically?

EDIT: if I don't pick an icon, it picks it for me. I never noticed that....wow, I'm slow. Sorry about that, but thanks for helping me figure it out! :)

I guess I should have explained it a little more - with IPT, you can move an icon to a place, then it shifts the rest of them around. But what if I want all of the icons to stay where they are, and move one out of a row? If I delete an icon, I don't want to mess up the flow of the arrangement. I have gotten over this so far by populating the layout with blank icons, but I really like how Cookies Home Tab allows you to drag icons around to exactly where you want them.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] michoob:
Ah, ok, I understand. You'd like to have another way to delete an icon, an option to replace an icon with a blank icon... might be a good idea.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] namwollem:
Moving Icons

I know other people have brought this up, but how difficult would it be to implement the iPhone way on moving icons around....?

Press and hold an icon for two or more seconds, then they ALL "wobble" a bit, and you can drag and drop them around, and they automatically shift to accommodate the replaced icon!!

I know that at the moment, you can press and hold, then select MOVE, and then do the same again, but select MOVE HERE! But the iphone way is just a bit smoother....

(I know that ppl will say "why not just buy an iphone", but then I wouldn't have the CHOICE to run something a great as iPT ALONGSIDE all my WinMo apps!!)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mcv50:
Installed this on my T Mobile HTC HD2... IT WORKS AWESOME! I have been feeling a little strange giving up my T Mobile iPhone for this phone even though there is wayyyy more functionality and freedom with the HD2.

This little app makes the transition much easier.

Thanks and good job!

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

3. Sure, I remember, but recall that I said that it seemed to work in the beta, except that, after selecting all of the text, it selected only part of it again. So, if you can determine why it's de-selecting the text after selecting all of it, it might be solved. It might have something to do with the text being selected at least a dozen times, which is what appeared to me to be happening in that beta. I'm guessing that you had a loop going that tried to select all of the text every 100ms or so for 1-2s. If so and if you remove the loop, replacing it with a single wait of 0.5-1s and then a single "select all" call, that might work or at least make it easier to determine why the text is de-selected. Also, since it's somehow storing the position in the string where the user taps and re-selecting up to that point after the second or two is up, perhaps you can determine where that's stored and clear it or set it to the end of the string.

4. I suspected that, but was hoping that simply supplying the DirectX DLLs would be enough for the library to work. I guess not.

Livven,

1. You're right. Alpha-blending against a background (or background icon) that doesn't change is a whole lot faster than against one that does change, as evidenced by how fast it is with mainscreen backgrounds. I stand corrected. There may still be other reasons, though, as tronikos would know.

2. Oh, my mistake, then. I hope that you don't mind that I made many more variations of your icons. I've edited my post to give you credit.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eghoti1:
wow this just turned my x7501 into a wannabe iPad. Kudos!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] the_gunners:
in my omnia 2 (WM 6.5.3), there's a small gap between bottom bar and windows bottom taskbar.

How to eliminate this gap ?

and is there any parameter/shortcut to change profile vibrate-ringer ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
1. No.

2. You can already do it with MortScript.

A lot. :)

I've tried running some sample applications using this library on a Windows CE image with the direct draw component enabled but I didn't succeed. The applications keep crashing during initialization of the dll.

Try options->general->height
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Volki21:
Thanks for this great app. I'm using it on my x51v that is permanently docked into it's cradle. Something that jumps into my mind is that it would be great if it would be possible to make the backlight dynamicly switch on, based on some incoming events. E.g. I usually make the backlight switch off after some minutes to avoid damaging the backlight when running over months and years. If there are some new mails (or missed calls, more to that later), it would be great if the backlight will be automatically switched on again. So the "user" can see immediately that there are some new messages waiting, without having to look at small distance to the PDA. If all messages have been read, the backlight can be switched off again (after the usual timeout of course).

Another thing that I might provide if I find the time is an icon for missed calls on an AVM Fritzbox. This router is able to send socket events for incoming calls which I already used in a self written application (that is far less fancy than iPhoneToday) to show incoming and missed calls with names from the fritzbox phonebook. I only quickly checked the iPhoneToday code some weeks ago and I guess if I find enough time I should be able to integrate something like that myself and provide it as a patch.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Livven:
Usually, all today plugin have solid seperators between them , but there's a simple registry entry which makes them transparent. So, the gap on the bottom is such a seperator, which perhaps can be removed with code, I don't know.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sureshot007:
I tried searching the thread, but it didn't give me any hits with "reset, too, large"

When I soft reset the phone, IPT loads way too big on the screen (last row of icons mostly below bottom edge of screen), forcing me to unload it from the today screen, and then load it again, and then its all set.

I don't see a setting anywhere that tells it what size to be though, so where did I go wrong?

Unrelated question, probably not the right place for it either - a few months ago I tried cooking this into a rom for my last phone (Touch Pro), and on first boot it was never selected. Are there any chef's here that can correct my rookie mistake?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
options->general->height
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thepolishguy:
Sureshot -so funny. I am having the exact same problem and just came on to ask about it. I did what Tronikos suggested and set the height to 695 (WVGA) and now it loads the correct size on start up.

Tronikos -just out of curiosity, why does it load the page in the incorrect height at start up -but then if you disable/enable, it reloads it the correct size?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] TTJB:
Sorry for this stupid question. But what are the settings to get your bottom row of icons to have that grayish look behind them like the iphone? "8. Included an iPhone background for the BottomBar." Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sandi002in:
Hi,

Whenever i press the call end button it it gets minimized and i have to restore it again. Is there any way to stop it from getting minimized.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] apax:
im sorry whats getting minimized?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] apax:
hint BOTTOMBAR.....;)

under screen
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] TTJB:
Ok. I still don't get it. Just instructions please.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] milinko81:
Go to OPTIONS at Screen at the moment Mainscreen at the top just change to BOTTOMBAR and then Background Settings change ....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] michoob:
I think TTJB has not understood that he has to change the background. He probably thought it was an option to tick.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sandi002in:
Thanks for the reply,

The iphonetoday get minimized and windows default today page appears after which i have to restore iphonetoday again.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thepolishguy:
Go to iPhoneaToday options (long press the screen and select options). The opening screen, top left= "Select Screen Type:" Switch from "Mainscreen" to "Bottombar". Then select "Background Settings". Now "Image" - press the little grey box with the "..." Now press the "backgrounds" folder. Now press teh "Bottombar" folder. Now choose the long skinny image (iPT will resize it to fit the Bottombar). Press "Ok". Press "ok" on background settings. Press "OK" top right. Save settings.

If you need more help just private message me. Usually people on here are very helpful. Not sure why you got the answers you got.

It sounds like you are running the Exe instead of the Today Plugin. When you install iPhone Today you have those 2 different options. When you installed -did you say "Yes" to the option, "allow Today Plugin" (something like that)? If not -you may have to reinstall and answer yes. You can check this...

Go to Start Menu. Go to Settings. Go to Home or Today. At the bottom of the page select the "Items" tab. Look for "iPhoneToday" in the items. If it is there select it and unselect your other Today Plugins. You should be good to go. If it is not there than you did not install the Today Plugin (or the dll version as some would say).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] michoob:
@tronikos: since iPhoneToday 1.5.2, I have noticed that if the registry value reloadIcons is set to 1 before iPhoneToday has started, then it doesn't read it, and it messes up things a bit in scripts... I guess it is because iPhoneToday is waiting for the registry change trigger, so iPhoneToday doesn't "see" it. Perhaps iPhoneToday should check the registry values just after the start of iPhoneToday, shouldn't it?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] TTJB:
Thanks guys you were both right. Michoob, I did think it was an option to click. :)

And MaisonPulaski thanks for your detail. Now that I know what to do I have to try and figure out the resizing because I have resized all of my icons to make them larger and I have 5 icons on the bottombar using the exe, so whenever I select the horizontal gray bar the only thing that changes color is the definition of what the icon is below each icon. :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dinguznomad:
simpleton options

two option/choices that are integral for me

(and am very surprised w/such a robust option set these arent already toggles)

CAN I TURN OFF VIBRATE ON iCON LAUNCH? !PLEASE

(i would permanently turn all vibrate in REG if i coud)

(if this is a HD2/phone setting not IPT then pardon me)

can I set it to for only ONE screen, opposed to the 3 panels -- that I dont need

- this would allow the launch EXE when scrolling "out" of the screen to be more of a killer gesture
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jeanne8fr:
Set the vibration time to 0

Delete the icons from pages 1 and 2, you will have only one page.

J.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thepolishguy:
I am not sure I understand what you are saying? Can you post a screen shot?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
Could you try the attached beta and let me know if your issue is solved?

Do you have any other today items enabled?

Use the attached beta, go to options and save once to create the new settings.xml. Then manually change the IgnoreMinimize value in the xml to 1.

It should be fixed with the attached beta. Let me know if not.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Osprey00:
tronikos,

0. Thanks for looking into the WMGL library. Too bad about it, though.

1. I can confirm that the hidden, dummy option on the Options pages works. The automatic keyboard pop-up works much more like expected now. Thanks.

2. I have another idea for selecting all text in the text fields: since a double-tap in the text field selects all text, replace the EM_SETSEL command with whatever command sends a double-tap/click. If that's not an option or doesn't happen to work, maybe sending EM_SETSEL exactly twice in quick succession would do the trick. I think that a double-tap should do it, though.

EDIT: 3. This is really, really minor, but, if the focus is in a text field and I exit out of Options (using either the Ok or X buttons), after I click Yes or No to the "Save Changes?" dialog, the focus returns to the text field in the fraction of a second before Options exits and the keyboard, consequently, displays for a fraction of a second. It's not a big deal, just an aesthetic one, but might be easily avoided by either preventing Options from re-receiving focus after closing the "Save Changes?" dialog or changing the focus when displaying the "Save Changes?" dialog so that the text box doesn't receive it again. Again, very, very minor and no problem to live with, but might be easy to fix if it's worth anything to you to address it. No worries if it isn't.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thepolishguy:
No. But you do not have to worry about it (unless you want to figure it out) bc I just entered the height manually in the options and that solved the problem. I was just wondering why it would draw the page incorrectly at start and the draw it correctly after disable/enable.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rkmoray:
Looks Great

The system works great. Is there any way to add individual contacts on a separate page (similar to the contact page in sbp mobile shell)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wolf119:
Just Add Icon and point the Execute box to your dialer program (I use iDialer) then just put the full phone number in the Parameters box. Select your icon and your in business.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thepolishguy:
Here is another option. Whichever you prefer. I use "LinkMe"

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=555574

You can create a link to a contact for calling or texting. First create the link. Then create an icon in iPT and put the path to the link in the "Execute:" field.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] copilot19:
Is it possible to add an "icon hight" px option so you can set rectangle buttons ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eghoti1:
How about a way to create an icon shortcut to the general "settings" menu. I saw the cab with all the specific settings menus but I just wanted one that displays the general settings page.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nheric:
Hello tronikos

I have some requests for future versions of your great application:

- when you enter the options, remember the last used tab

- Always in the options, when you slide the screen it jumps two tabs instead of one... it's a bug ?

- An option to disable skipping pages when you touch the circles (just keep the double click to return to main page)

- If possible, make the status bar transparent

thanks again for your awesome work :eek:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jeanne8fr:
The attached settings.exe will do that.

J.