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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schlork:
@tronikos

as far as I undestand, you added a library (.dll?). I can't find in V 1.4.8
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MiToNiOeS:
buah!! its very very nice in HTC HD!!! Good job tronikos
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Osprey00:
tronikos,

My results with 1.4.8 are the same as lots of other users: the resized images (EDIT: not just PNG images, but also JPG backgrounds in non-static, zoomed mode) are noticeably uglier and the movement is a lot slower/choppier. My guess is that your code to use the LPNG library "if imaging API fails" isn't working and LPNG is being used even on devices like ours on which the regular imaging API works (and, apparently, is much better).

So that you don't feel too badly, the Options screen background is perfect on PNDs now and the icon text centering is a lot better. Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schlork:
I am not amused that you ignore me! LNPG library should be an LPNG.dll and thats not there. Am I wrong?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
everyone,

The loading time of icons has been increased and the quality may have been decreased because now the resizing of the images is done with GDI functions and not by the imaging API. I changed the code because I wanted to have the same code after loading the image using either the windows imaging API, the LPNG library, or the imgdecmp.dll (the last two ways do not support resizing). It seems it wasn't a good idea after all. Sorry for that I will fix it ASAP by letting the imaging API (when is available) do the resizing of the images.

schlork,

LPNG is linked statically and it's only used if the windows imaging api is not available. Since LPNG appears to be faster than imaging API in loading png images (even if I take into account the time for the needed resizing) I might add an option to always use it instead of the imaging api for users that want to experiment.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] devil_82:
haha it is ok no wonder all my icons pic looks degraded.....thanks for the pre-solution....it is all about testing :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
I just uploaded v1.4.9. Sorry again for the v1.4.8 but on my laptop I didn't notice the icon quality degradation.

devil_82,

Is your offer for your spare x51v still available?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jaskiratsingh:
Hi Tronikos,

No need to apologize. Alls well that ends well.

Thanks for the update. I will check it :)

Keep it up buddy

PS: The icons look great and scrolling is better than previous versions
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jeanne8fr:
1.4.9 is great. thank you.

J.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zerohunter:
how can i add a page on the iphone today?:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] macioo85:
Maybe some quick shortcuts to contacts with the picture of a person? Can be?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] annelid:
Just edit an icon to have a page number that doesn't exist yet.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sir.John:
I'm not too sure whether I fully get what you mean. Are you asking whether you can have some sort of Second Today: another Today plugin next to iPT? Then the answer is Yes. If not: please try to rephrase. :-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zerohunter:
thx for the guide. wat i meant is i wanna add the 4th page of the iPT, thx
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] edan1979:
create a new shortcut and in page section type 3... 0 is for page one
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mike2nl:
Ahhh thanks and back to clear grafics
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] devil_82:
for you anytime. sent me your address. :) i have private message you my contact. do let me know your address asap so that i can send out tmr morning via dhl. thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bbonzz:
I still see the strange memory behaviour reported HERE (anyway everything works well with static background disabled, transparent background enabled and Alpha on black with 25 treshold)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] LEX@N:
@Tronikos,

Sry didn't get a chance to test 1.4.8, but looks like plenty of others did. Like some others I have tested 1.4.9 and I noticed no change from 1.4.7, which means excellent performance. I can see the option to hide/show exit now, I unchecked it and the exit option disappears in menu just as you intended. I also notice the text is perfectly alligned now too, really good work.I have not tested,

* Added RoundRect option (for now only in the XML, no dialog yet) to display a

black rounded rectangular behind the text (like Android) yet, but will later today. Thx

Edit1: bbonzz, Gwes.exe deals with the user interface, while device.exe deals with the drivers. My gwes fluctuates with turning more stuff on my UI. Everything seems to effect it for me clock, memory free, how many icons I have loaded up, etc. Maybe Tronikos or others can explain why yours is responding that way, I only have a stripped PND. My memory usually fluctuates between a 2Mb range so not much of a bother and it did that before iPT.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] igal_f:
Thank's but i don't use mortscript - just the regular install.

I some times found that the phone is stuck when i don't use it for some hours, and only reset helps. i uninstall the software and every thing is ok - no batter drain and no stuck.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jeanne8fr:
So how do you turn that option on??

In settings.xml??

J.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
Yes. Manually edit settings.xml and change roundrect to 1.

Here is a screenshot of how it looks like.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jeanne8fr:
Cancel that. Got it...

J.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] roadkingg:
Time format

How do you change from 24 to 12 hour time format?;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jeanne8fr:
Yes thanks. I found out that it didn't look like much when you have a black background to start with :-)

J.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
roadkingg,

long tap on an empty spot -> options -> special icons -> clock -> check 12 hours format
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bbonzz:
I know: more graphic stuff (anywhere, not only in UI: when launching an app with graphics, images goes to GWES) means more GWES use. The strange thing i'm reporting is that i should have MORE GWES usage with Alpha turned on, while i have LESS GWES usage with Alpha turned on. But, in this case, i have an overload in Manila.exe process (that, instead, shouldn't be affected)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
Everyone,

I just fixed a bug with background resizing. If your background is not showing (i.e. if you uncheck fit width or fit height under options) please redownload 1.4.9.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] LEX@N:
yeah, my screen would just go blue, thx for fixing.

Edit: it would just go blue because that is what I had as default background color

@bbonzz, yeah I didn't explain your issue any, I'll just say my ram usage goes up with alpha blend on background: on, but no change in ram usage with alpha blend on black: on and 160 threshold. Also no change in ram with use black color as transparent in .bmp.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] magi1984:
tronikos your job is great!

i translate icon name in italian,how can i translate options menu in italian?

Thank's and sorry for my english!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
magi1984,

Download a resource editor (e.g. http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/ ) and manually translate the resources.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] magi1984:
thank you very much!

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

3. Yes it is. I will do it but it will require to have AlphaBlend on background enabled.

4. Thanks for your idea. BTW, the commad would be --relaunch and not --reload.

5. The different interpolation methods the imaging API supports are listed here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms912048.aspx

(iPhoneToday is using the InterpolationHintDefault)

I created one executable for each one of them. Let me know how they look like.

6. Unfortunately the current implementation of "pressed" overlay icon cannot be used for what you are asking.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] saeidonline:
How To Download ??!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jeanne8fr:
Did you read post 1?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ukintel:
Hi i just tested 1.4.9 and the problems are solved, Its fast agian. Thanks.

Just a suggestion but it would be nice if i could have 2 lines of text for my icon labels.

Maybe a second [name] option in the "add icon" dialog?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
saeidonline,

Go to the project hosted on Google Code, click on the downloads tab and you will see the download links there.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schlork:
@Osprey00, tronikos

I agree, Alpha blend on Black is smooth to use, but hasn't the fazinating effect like Alpha blend on background (experimentel). My idea is to make a set of Miopocket icons, like the here presented glaskart icons. This icons are looking amazing, but I would like to have them colored and not only Black and Withe. This work would only make sense, if Alpha blend on background (experimentel) could be improved in case of speeding up. So only question to you, is there a chance?

Multible skins:

Osprey, the idea you presented sound great and would be perfectly good for me! But to bring just my two cents, in worst case somebody wants to keep the same icons, but wants to have other arrangement, bottombar, background etc. etc. and this for example five times. This would meant, five times the same icon folder? Just my thoughts...

BTW I want to sort my icons.xml and my icons folder, cause having so many obsolete icons in. My idea is to give every icon the name showed in the skin e.g. XnView is XnView.png. Any ideas to do this

not

manually?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Osprey00:
tronikos,

5. The "Averaging" method is a winner! It looks much better at all sizes and is no slower. I wouldn't hesitate to make that the new default. It's so much nicer!

If you'd like to see for yourself, here's iPhoneToday with the current ("Default") method. FYI, the top icons are 40x40, the middle are 64x64 and the bottom are 32x32. You can see that the quality of the interpolation gets worse as the icons get smaller.

...and here's with the "Averaging" method:

As you can see, with the "Averaging" method, the middle (64x64) icons look really no different, the top (40x40) icons look measurably better and the bottom (32x32) icons look much, much better (see the book and player icons, in particular).

Also, if you're curious, Bicubic and Bilinear look about the same as Default (not so good). Bilinear and Default look pixel-identical to me, leading me to suspect that Bilinear is the default, at least on my device, while Bicubic is very slightly worse on one icon, but, basically, about the same.

Interestingly, the "Nearest Neighbor" one looks very similar (downright awful at all sizes) to how the forced-LPNG 1.4.8 version looked. That makes me think that LPNG may've been using "Nearest Neighbor" and, therefore, perhaps you can improve the image quality when LPNG is enabled by simply setting it to use a interpolation method. Remember that LPNG also ended up being much slower, though, so it probably still shouldn't replace the imaging API, but those who have no choice but to use it might be able to get better image quality.

6. Bummer. Well, if you ever feel like tweaking the overlay implementation or have another idea for achieving what I was asking about, it'd be a nice addition, IMO. I can live without it, but would definitely be nice.

schlork,

1. Have you tried setting the alpha threshold to a higher value? I'm currently using 160 with the iReflect icons (ones that iPhoneToday contains a few of) That makes the icons look about halfway between no AlphaBlend and "AlphaBlend on background."

2. No, in my example, you would put all common icons in the Skins\Common\Icons folder and iPhoneToday would automatically look in that folder in addition to the skin's own folder. You would not need to duplicate any icons between skins.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schlork:
Osprey00

1. Yes I did and using 110 brought the best effect using "glaskart" icons, but still not accetable for using. What would be interesting to know, if there is any chance to get "glaskart" working? There is no doubt IPhoneToday is great and with iReflect I am also perfect fine.

2. Ok, thanks for clarification!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
Osprey00,

Thanks for the screenshots. I will make the "Averaging" method the default.

BTW, v1.4.8 wasn't forcing the LPNG library. LPNG doesn't support resizing, only loading. It was because in v1.4.8 I was using the StretchBlt GDI function for the image resizing after loading the image by any of the different methods (imaging api, lpng, or imgdecmp.dll). In v1.4.9 StretchBlt is only used when the image is loaded by lpng or imgdecmp.dll.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] housefan:
Hi i wrote some days ago because of a weather plugin or so. Ok i understand that it is not so easy possibe to make this. Also for me it is more important that this cool

aplication runs fast and it does run fast :):).

Thank you for the new updates.

Is it possible to change the TOP bar like in the 1# post bar. I don´t like my Windows Mobile 6.1 bar its horridly :p...

I hope this post is no offtopic. :cool: But it would be cool to change this for the TODAY PLUGIN (i don´t use the exe Version). Or is it besser to use other programs/system hacks?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] edan1979:
its already a today plugin...

btw... i wonder... is there any way we can make if we push the home button we can go straight to the 1st page... like in sense...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] housefan:
Hi thank you

edan1979 :).

Can i download it everywhere? :confused:

Sorry I´m confussed :rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jeanne8fr:
Hello,

I had released a modified version of 1.3 where you could select the vibration LED. This was necessary for the Omnia which uses led11. Did you add that option in your v1.4?

Also do you have a "upgrade" version like MiToNiOeS did?. I would like to upgrade but don't want to change my icons and page setup.

Thanks,

Jeannette
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] j101399j:
same as before, backup the icons and settings files, install new iPT and put old files in iPhoneToday folder. This was the first thing I tried and it worked perfectly
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
Actually you can! Among other features I added vertical scrolling. Enable it at the movement tab and just create more icons in one page to expand it vertically.

The icons.xml will work but not the settings.xml.

Make a backup of your iPhoneToday folder, uninnstall it and reinstall the new version. Then overwrite the icons.xml and icons directory with your old files.

I used MiToNiOeS screenshot. I don't know what Wisbar is and what it can do. I might take a look into this.

Have you tried v1.4? I have changed the code to use the last available led that should be the vibration led on all devices. If it doesn't work feel free to commit any changes on the google code project.

Sorry no upgrade version for now but I will have one for the next release.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ukintel:
Thankyou for the quick fixes and fast response.

Does anybody know of a way to Hide the 6.5.x softkeybar on the today screen? Neonobar and the other fix posted on the IPT 1.3 thread didnt work for me :(

Ok i just realised my bubble icons were missing, I just configured the paths and all is good :)

Thanks for testing on 6.5 and fixing the WVGA issues. Good Job :)

Firstly, I have been fully aware of this feature however old habits die hard, when using touchflow or Titanium pressing the end key takes you home. It would be nice if IPT done this.

Secondly, I would like to create a Tabbed theme for IPT, maybe using the bottom bar my icons could link me to specific pages.

e.g Games, Apps, Media etc..

I have already created a nice tabbed theme using a Mortscript to replace the icons.xml with a different one and redraw today , but like i said; Its too slow. :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schlork:
@Tronik

yes it is working but offered a bug, or I am to silly to find it in options.

please see picture (If anybody allowed to link be so kind to upload)

imagebanana.com/view/w38bs0/Capture006.bmp.png
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] frmariam:
@trokinos

Wisbar (at this point) was a task bar customizer (I think it already had skinning capabilities... this is why I posted it here). This is the feature I'd love to see implemented.

Many ppl here know Wisbar Advanced (which is a fully featured Today/Taskbar skinner, task manager and more) but back in the days of WinMo 2002/2003 there were many mods created from the sources released in those days... One of which was Icbar (don't know what happened to the project... but something like this for current devices would be nice).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
schlork,

What's the bug? I don't see it in the screenshot. If you mean that icons of the mainscreen are behind the bottom bar this is how it is supposed to be.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jeanne8fr:
I installed 1.4. I love it. You did some great work. Now if you can give an option to save the current settings during upgrades, that would be great.

Jeannette
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ukintel:
Excellent news! I have been waitng for this for a very long time.

Thankyou so much!

Edit: What i am hoping to create is an rltoday topbar with Page link tabs (Apps,Games,Media,Internet) using morscript for the dll, it would be even better if we had an optional topbar built into IPT ;-) just an idea! lol
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schlork:
Have to excuse! It was the confusion to test with fully pages of "Zuma" icons.

Works great on an old Becker GPS device. It's now like a Porsche:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] michoob:
WOW, that's great! Thanks for your work, I have to try this 1.4 version!

But definitively you should write down the changelog ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] savrix85:
Hi,

it's great to see you've continued this project.

I tried every version you've uploaded on google code and with the latest, iPhoneToday-1.4-wm, if I do a soft-reset the plugin doesn't reload icons and there's only a black screen, but if you click on the screen, it works...only the graphics isn't shown.

I don't know if it's only my problem.

(sorry for my english :) )
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] [darkmaster]:
i got this problem too.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
savrix85,[darkmaster],

I have no real device. I am only testing it under device emulator and it works properly there after soft reset.

everyone,

I just added two more command line flags that can also be used in the executable field of any icon:

--goto:up and --goto:down to go one page up or down
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Osprey00:
tronikos,

I hear you about the "no new features, only bugfixes." Still, you've added a few new features (like vertical scrolling and up/down buttons), so please pardon me if I continue asking what you're capable of or willing to do. I will, though, try to keep requests to smaller features and refinements that may not trouble you much.

First, I like the vertical scrolling that you added. That's a good way to handle having more apps per category than can fit on the screen. I've noticed a fairly big problem, though (and not just with veritical scrolling enabled, as it happens with it off, too): if you have more icons than can fit on the screen, icons show up behind the bottom bar, making a mess of the bottom area of the screen. Do you know of a way for us or you to avoid that? Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jaskiratsingh:
By white line, do you mean the circle's outer line. If yes then you can do that by decreasing the circular diameter. You will find that option in one of the tabs

Sorry I cannot tell you about the tab name because I downgraded from 1.4 to 1.0(d) version because of the transition speed between pages :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jaskiratsingh:
If you install version 1.4, the icons and the pages will be retained but the settings will be default. You will need to configure the icons alignment and spacing
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] j101399j:
@tronikos;

Added to the FAQ's

Very nice exe commands, thank you :D

[edit] never mind
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
Osprey00,

Vertical scrolling was one of the first things I implemented.

The next/previous/up/down buttons that I added recently were very small changes (about 5 lines each).

In order to avoid the problem you are saying you can disable the background image and have a gradient background for the bottombar or fill the bottombar with a lot of icons to hide the ones behind.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tito12:
Hi

Thanks, again you taught me another tweak but it applies to the page dots at the bottom, not the notifications bubbles.

Have you tried the "Movement" tab settings in Options ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] edan1979:
download it on goolge page...

goto here... http://code.google.com/p/iphonetoday/

and download...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] housefan:
Hi thanks i have don´t mean the "normal" Iphone Today Plugin i already use it :D...

I mean the TOP BAR Icons like Windows logo or batterie logo is shown-

direct on the top

. I know that in the exe version you can change them but i have problems with EXE Versions. So i use the normal

TODAY Plug-IN.

Now i have found via google that there are a Hack Programm called sdkcerts.cab is to change this logos and adds the bar a better design.

I will try it out.

But thank you very much.

A function like going back to the first page by clicking a button is a good idea. I´m also for such a function.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
edan1979,housefan,

You can click on the page dots-indicators to jump to any page or double click to jump to the first one.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lition00:
I tested 1.4.9 version, and movement is fast now on my device.

But, I see some difference when "Alpha blend on background (experimental)" is enabled for .dll and .exe version - .dll (ToDay plugin) version is slow in this mode, where .exe is fast, like other "transparent" options.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] michoob:
Have you tried IPTWeather to get weather into iPhoneToday? ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] NilzP:
Tested on HTC Touch (ELF) on ONYX 6 - WM 6.5.x ROMs works like a charm!

I do have one question, when I want to remove the app, my today bar (Titanium home screen) doesn't show anymore???

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sir.John:
Try to re-enable it in Settings/Personal/Today/Elements
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] NilzP:
Works! still getting used to the new rom :-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] finsterling:
How do I install other icons? In the pic is one for Opera. But in the app I didn't found it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thesecondsfade:
When I have the landscape height set to 0, the today screen has a scrolling bar on the right and I have to scroll down and up in order to see all my icons, the bottom row, etc.(when I switch to landscape obviously). On version 1.3, it resized the screen correctly. I had to manually set the height to 375 in order to get it to size appropriately. Then I had to enable vertical scrolling (which isn't a problem, I actually like that feature) in order to see all of the icons. Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there a way to fix it?

I have a Touch Pro 2 and am using AthineOS 28232 CHome Only ROM.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dni63:
Hi,

I really like iPhoneToday :)

One question, can I make contact icon?

Thanks alot
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jaskiratsingh:
I am not sure about it with iPhoneToday but there is another application iContact. With that you can create a shortcut to a contact and then add that shortcut as an icon
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jaskiratsingh:
Here are couple of more icons
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] saeidonline:
yes . i go to first link that you put on 1st post

and then :

Forbidden

Your client does not have permission to get URL /p/iphonetoday/ from this server.

:(

can you upload to this site ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thepolishguy:
I can email you the file if Tronikos does not mind?