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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Osprey00:
tronikos,

Here's what I've come up with so far. Let me know what you think and if I should alter them any. The ones that are greyish are actually alpha transparent, which looks nice. The red ones duplicate the iPhone look.

EDIT: These are now the newer versions posted below.

BTW, I notice that iPT tends to set the percentages for width and height to not be equal, resulting in squished images (ie. these round icons end up being oval). The alarm icon, particularly, doesn't look so good like that, so you might want to have the width and height percentages equal with these icons.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
Osprey00,

Yes because the currently included notif bubble is not square. You can adjust it under options->bubbles. I haven't tried them with iPT yet but their shadow is a bit cut off at the bottom. Also I can see some angles at the circle. Any way you could fix them?

Edit: Nevermind they look great with iPT. Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] j101399j:
WOW, that is all I can say. Sorry I have been away for so long. Long story and a lot of travel (25% - 30% of the month out of the USA). Just tried 1.5.1, Very nice and well done. 1000x improvment on the grapics interface, plus the "pressed icon", I have been waiting a long time for that.

Anyways, I will only be able to stop by every once in a while and update the FAQ's. I'm going through them now, so they should show all the wonderful changes. Let me know if I miss anything
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] midnitefreakin:
@ Developer

I noticed just now that vibration is not working :(

moreover I wanted to ask since we can scroll vertically and horizontally, can we not scroll pages accordingly? give an option as to how to scroll and it will scroll accordingly?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sir.John:
Hi,

I never had any issues with the vibration feature. And I don't seem to remember anyone else rose an issue before. Please check your option page, tab "On launch": have you set a value higher than "0" for "Vibrate on launch (ms)"?

As for the scrolling: please elaborate. What do you mean with "an option as how to scroll" other than the options already present in options->Movement: Vertical scrolling, free-style scrolling? You lost me here, sorry :-)

kind regards,

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

Even though, as you noticed, it makes no difference when they're shrunk, I've fixed the angles and cut-off shadows, anyways. I also slightly darkened the shadows on the Notif and Alarm icons to better-replicate the iPhone's look.

We may have a bit of an issue, though. I didn't notice before (because I had a black background) that black pixels outline the bubbles where they overlap the background. Is this something that you have, too? This happens regardless of transparency mode (AB, AB alternative, AB on BG, all off) and, quite curiously, regardless of whether there's any alpha transparency on the bubbles' edges (as I tested with harsh, pixellated edges and black pixels still appeared and in the same places). Because it happens in every transparency mode and I can't seem to make a bubble icon that works, I'm thinking that it's something to do with how iPT is rendering it. You said something about it using "alpha black on background" for the parts that overlap the background. Perhaps something needs to be changed there to get these icons looking good against non-black backgrounds. That's assuming, of course, that you see the same thing happening in Windows Mobile. If you don't and it's just PNDs, then maybe it's not an issue, since PNDs can't use the bubbles, anyways.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zvi1:
CONTACTS/Today tab

What is the ParamsAlt I should use with LaunchMSItem.exe in order to use the icon link that will take me to:

1. the CONTACTS tab of the Mnila ?

2. the Today tab of the Mnila ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sir.John:
LaunchMSItem does not exist anymore on WM6.1, so this is a rather blind guess. But AFAIK LAUNCHMS does not support contacts. try \windows\addrbook.exe or something similiar as executable.

Apart from that: make sure it is really paramsALT you want to use: is it an icon with a notification stanza, and you want to go to your contacts page just when a bubble is shown?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nheric:
Hello Tronikos

Questions again :) :

- why the D-Pad work with the exe version but not works with the dll version ??

- with the exe version, is there an option to prevent the program from closing when the call end button is pressed ?

Thanks a lot for your efforts
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zvi1:
Thank you,

i am using from Advanced Functions the following and it works fine on WM6.1

9. Link an icon to a Call History

To link to call history (files attached):

1. Download the LaunchMSItem.zip

2. UnZip the LaunchMSItem.zip and copy the LaunchMSItem.exe to your phone; (I reccomend your storage card)

3. Edit your "phone" or "call" icon and set the type to "Missed calls"

4. Set the ExecuteAlt to LaunchMSItem.exe's location

5. Set the ParamsAlt to CALLHISTORY_ALL_CALLS

This will, when you have a missed call, goto call history

can I use it to call manilla TODAY and Contacts tabs?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] michoob:
That's obviousely not an iPhoneToday question, but a LaunchMSItem.exe question...

For the call of the Contacts tab, you should be able to find some tips in the iPhoneToday FAQ's by j101399j.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dj2w:
Bubbles

I changed your Iconsize from the Bubbleicons to H:55 W:61 and the Icons do not look more square.

See the result in Screen01
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jackchua65:
Is there a way to replace the default start menu with iPhoneToday.exe?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Osprey00:
dj2w,

You adjusted the icon size when the actual problem is that iPT currently downsizes their width and height unequally. Go into the Bubbles tab of Options and set the "W" and "H" fields to the same number (also go back to my versions of the icons). That's all that you need to do for the icons to have the correct proportions. Those numbers are percentages, not icon sizes (which I'm guessing that you assumed).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dj2w:
@Osprey00

Oh...This option I have not seen :D

I've followed your advice and now i have the correct proportions,Thx
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gklnair:
thanks

great

would love to try
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] edan1979:
now there is and option in the create icon menu where the type can be set to Missed Calls... it will directly bring you to call history when there is a missed call... no need to use launchmsitem anymore...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
Yes it has to do with how iPT is rendering it. The only mode that is ok is when you have a gradient background.

BTW, nobody noticed that with v1.5.1, icons can be alphablended on a gradient background when alphablend on background is enabled. Maybe because I didn't mention it in the changelog but that was because I wanted to improve it. Anyway, here is an improved version that should be equally fast to when alphablend is disabled.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Livven:
Hey tronikos, do you think it could be possible for you to make the vertical scrolling continous, as opposed to scolling row-per-row? That way it could be used as a replacement for the Start menu. I also hope that alpha-blending on background will get improved :).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] j101399j:
New iPhone Today FAQ/Wiki Here:

http://iphonetoday.wikidot.com/

It is a work in progress as I need to update the info and add pictures (I'll do that). But now it cn be edited. Please do not edit it unless you know how and have something to add

This way it can be updated a lot faster
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acc49ers:
I have 2 email accounts and so I made 2 email icons, shown below. Is it possible to have each icon show the number of unread email for that specific account rather than the total number of unread email?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] LEX@N:
Yes, Tronikos, The scrolling is double the performance from last time. I don't know what you changed but Alpha Blend on Background should be a viable option for all devices now.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schlork:
I am still not fully understanding what alphablend should do. Could anybody confirm my interpretation?

alphablend on black ==> Alphachannel of icons is interpreted as black colour, therefore on black background, it would be rcocnized as transparent.

alphablend on background==> Alphachannel shows background

I speak only for my PND. R181 Alphablend on background is now as fast as the alternative, but still pretty slower than disabled. Acceptable, but inbetween I switched back to disabled solution, cause sliding is a real joy then.

Some pictures to report:

1. Bottombar: alphablend, image and gradient enabled. Transparency alphablend disabled

2. same but Transparency alphablend enablabled==> Gradient invisible, non transparent icons are showing transparence to image. Example battery icon on mainscreen and bottombar are the same

3. My other iconset. Here bottombar icons are looking cracked at the top. Don't know why?

4. Alphablend enabled on Bottombar background settings. Looks really ugly
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] raja'i:
my first version of this plugin was 1.4

and frankly i didnt find it handy

i installed the 1.5.1

and frankly

i was SHOCKED by the performance

it is AMAZING

and the speed of updating the features and the versions is outstanding

u r great man

keep the good work :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vjgrace:
Hello all,

First off, I just want to say

THANK YOU

to Tronikos for your great work and devotion to this project.

My question (I couldn't find the answer in this thread or j101399j's FAQ thread):

How do you make the mainscreen static, not the background, just the mainscreen...no freestyle, vertical, or horizontal scrolling, I am just wanting to have

one

static screen, any ideas? any help would be greatly appreciated.

I know there is not much fun in having

one

static screen, but I was just wanting to have

one

non-moveable screen of icons and special icons. I have tried many adjustments in the movement screen settings with no success.

Thanks for any help/ideas
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Cerberus_tm:
Edit: I know! Just remove all icons from all pages except page 1: you will then only have a single page, no scrolling.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vjgrace:
Hello,

Thanks for the response, but still scrolls (horizontal), I don't have any icons on other pages.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] edan1979:
if you adjust the icon size to be totally fixed on 1 page... it wont scroll
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vjgrace:
Hello,

I am not sure what you mean by adjusting icon size to be totally fixed (any size I place for icons on just 1 page, I still get a horizontal scroll)...would you mind elaborating?

Thanks so much for your help
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Osprey00:
tronikos,

1. Ok. Well, hopefully, you have a trick up your sleeve to improve it, at least in the two better alpha blend modes, where the bubbles look the worst and when it really should look the best.

2. I didn't notice the gradient background improvement because I, personally, prefer using images to gradients (but might re-think as the gradient support gets cooler). Even without using gradients, though, "alpha blend on background" is a whole lot faster than before, like Lexan noted. Great job. It was already more than fast enough to be usable before, but now adds the same "butteriness" having no alpha blend mode enabled. Like Lexan said, it's a no-brainer to enable at least "alpha blend on background" now. Thanks. Is there any possibility of adding at least some of that performance improvement to the "alternative" alpha blend mode? That would truly be awesome, if so.

3. BTW, nice job changing the "?" keyboard button to read "KB". Twice, I had considered asking if there was something that you could do about that to make it clearer what the button was for, but it seemed picky and I figured that you'd do something better if you could. Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] edan1979:
make it small enough to hold all the icon you want... if you got 20 button there... then resize the button so all of it will be enough in 1 page... default size icon is 96 (err in my case as i'm using blackstone) re size it accordingly...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vjgrace:
Thanks edan,

Still getting horizontal scroll, I have made sure that all my icons/buttons are assigned to the first page and set to be fit on the first page but inevitably still get the horizontal scroll

Thanks again for your help, any other ideas?

BTW I have HTC Diamond (vga) running 6.5.3
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] edan1979:
hmmm... try not to use the bottom or top page as well and see how it will look like
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Cerberus_tm:
In your current configuration, do you mean the screen moves to the left but then falls back to the first (and only) page? Or do you mean it is actually moved to another page?

Oh, and do you see more than one dot/circle? If so, you still have more than one page, somehow?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vjgrace:
Thanks edan,

I have tried both using and not using top/bottom bar with mainscreen and same result, horizontal scroll...tried manipulating movement settings screen and to no avail...still horizontal scroll.

I don't think there is a setting to not have a horizontal scroll and just have a static mainscreen...this is probably too boring of a feature, lol...it would be nice to be able to choose whether or not to have a static or scrolling/moveable screen.

Tronikos has already done so much with this project, I would feel bad to ask for another feature, if you know what I mean (so much has already been implemented on the author's own time)

@ Cerberus_tm, just read your response as I was typing my response, yes the screen moves when there is only 1 page assigned...no, I do not have any circle/dots, just one page but still there is movement and it is not static (doesn't stay in one place with an accidental swipe even though there is one page assigned, there is always movement side-side even with 1 page)

Thanks anyway :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zvi1:
Missed Calls

NO! it does not take me to call history - try it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
acc49ers,

There are three email icon types: "Unread Others EMail", "Unread Sync EMail", and "Unread Total EMail". Have you tried all of them?

schlork,

Try alphablend on background with just gradient backgrounds. No images.

vjgrace,

Set the movement threshold to a high value. Or if you are using the exe version download the r181 version (uploaded 2 pages back), goto options->out of screen and enable stop scrolling at 0 for both left and right directions.

Osprey00,

2. "Even without using gradients, though, "alpha blend on background" is a whole lot faster than before, like Lexan noted." Are you sure?

3. Yes it wasn't easy at all. A lot of hacks to make it like this...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Cerberus_tm:
I hope Tronikos will find the time to add this, though, as you say, it is not a feature many people will want to use, hehe.

So when your page moves from left to right, it moves back to its original position very quickly, right (i.e. it doesn't remain halfway out of the screen)? The reason you don't want the scrolling is probably because you want to save memory/cpu/battery? I wish I could help you, but alas.

Edit: hey this is weird! I tried setting the threshold very high before, but it didn't work; now, however, I tried again, and it worked! At 200, I am unable to scroll the screen sideways: it doesn't move at all. Now I'm going to put it back quickly, hehe.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vjgrace:
Tronikos,

Thanks for the advice, tried higher threshold value (200), however still movement, I will try the r181 version to adjust settings, thanks.

@ Cerberus_tm,

yes, screen goes back quickly to original position, and exactly (re: reason why I want a static screen :))

EDIT: Thanks Tronikos, tried the r181 .exe and worked perfectly, great feature!!!! :cool:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Osprey00:
tronikos,

2. I guess not. I thought that I saw a noticeable difference, but the doubt that you gave me and my re-testing suggests that, if there's any difference, it's very slight. So, nevermind, I guess. Pity.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] midnitefreakin:
@ Sir JOhn

Vibration is @ 40 still not working.

Scrolling means i get to see icons when i scroll in any direction, not just screen moving. Right now when we opt for vertical scrolling, we dnt see page changing when we scroll up!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jackchua65:
I want to replace iPhoneToday.exe with the Start Menu Button.

I search the forum and come across this application that include source code :

Start Menu Button Hook v. 0.3

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=486712

It does exactly what I want.

If the author of iPhoneToday is interested to include this feature in the future release, that will be great.

Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tronikos:
Livven,

Vertical scrolling is already continous and not row-per-row. Do you mean maybe that you would like kinetic scrolling?

j101399j,

Thanks for creating the wiki. I created an account there and I will try to contribute whenever I can.

midnitefreakin,

1. Is your profile set to silent? If it is then vibration is disabled. If not, does the Vibrate command of MortScript work for you? Do you know which LED number is the vibration LED for your device? Do you how many LEDs your device has?

2. Add in one page more icons than the screen fits and then the vertical scrolling will make sense.

Osprey00, LEX@N, schlork

Check attached exe. Now you can select a background image for the main screen pages. Try with the following one:

http://www.webdesign.org/img_articles/13873/diamond-plate-metal.jpg

You should only check "fit width" and "tile".

You should also remove any image from the background layer, the one behind the pages, which is configured in the background tab (2nd tab) since it won't be visible (it will be visible only when the icons are out of screen).

Lastly, enable alphablend on background. The speed should be equally fast to when alphablend is disabled.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dj_suca:
hello first of all thnks for this great today plugin...

everything is running smooth on my omnia 2..

only on thing missing, does anyone know the shortcut do Lock screen on omnia 2 or what command is used.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tito12:
Thank you for contributing, however my choice will go to Ameba which does that and more, especially closing (really!) apps : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=583002.

It's a fact that IPT has made the Start button obsolete, at least for me using pnd version :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dexter75:
A little problem

Hy guys, this app is very cool...i love it...

but i have a little problem.

This problem surely is not a bug of the app, is a bug of some other app i'd installed in the past, but anyway i'm not able to fix it.

The fact:

If i select the IphoneToday plugin from the home page settings, my screen looks like screenshot number 1 (see the bottom bar).

If i go to start menu (with iphoneToday already running) and re-launch the app by clicking the IphoneToday icon everything is clear like in screenshoot number 2 (see the bottom bar)..

If i start to using this new instance of IPhoneToday after few second of use it return me to see the bad instance (screenshoot 1).

anyone have any idea on how to fix it?

thanks for your time and sorry for my english :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] michoob:
That is because when you "relaunch" iPhoneToday, you actually launch for the first time iPhoneToday.exe.

After some use, I guess you close or minimize iPhoneToday.exe, thus resulting in showing you the Today item iPhoneToday AKA iPhoneToday.dll, which is your first screenshot...

To my mind, the problem comes from the app that is launched and minimized into your today screen. You see it on your first screenshot, on the bottom-right.

If you close this app, I guess the swype keyboard will disappear, and all will look much better.

In any case, you'll still have the bottom bar with the Today version...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schlork:
tronikos,

alphablend on background and alphablend in background settings, only gradient, no image ==> see picture. However as I don't know exactly, what alphablend in background setting means, disabling it is doing the job.

speed is pretty fast. I can not find a difference between alphablend diabled/enabled. Great!!!

I assume static background is not possible then?

Edit: Some strange behaviour. At least for me. With the diamond plate picture in Background settings enabled and Alphablend, it is is really fast. Deleting the picture, having only black background, device get's slow again?????
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dexter75:
Well, I close the app in the bottom right (My Mobilier) and the swype icons disappear but the gray today bottom bar still remain. :(

Exactly like you say...

So it isn't possible to have iPhoneToday completly full screen?

thanks a lot.

bye
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] michoob:
I think it is, even if I haven't tried. :)

You should find some information about that in the FAQ : http://iphonetoday.wikidot.com/faq-s
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dexter75:
Woww.....thanks a lot michoob....

i've installed NueNoBar 2.0 like said in the wiki that you suggest me...

and it's work!!!!

fantastic...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dj_suca:
lockscreen button??? anyone???
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Livven:
Hmm, yes, it is possible to scroll through more than one row, but you have to push harder to avoid it snapping in. I guess that was what I meant, kinetic scrolling. Maybe as an additional option.

Alpha-blend on background (and alternative, too) is still a sluggish for me, it'd be greast if this could be somehow changed. Then it would make a perfect Start menu replacement :).

Keep it up!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nheric:
I just tested the latest beta version and i'm impressed by the reactivated program and by the reactivated developer...

Ideas for futur versions :

- Auto assign approriate icon type when i add a new icon (and a defaut icon)

- Possibly add a function to gradually icons disappear (fade) when one moves from page to page (like true iphone)

Questions :

- Is it normal that the D-Pad don't works with the dll version ??

- with the exe version, is there an option to prevent the program from closing when the call end button is pressed ?

thanks for your work
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schlork:
It should be not that complicated to create a lockscreen. But for me with my GPS system and Nokia phone it doesn't make any sense:D

Therefore just my brainstorming, assuming IPT is running on device

1. Download lockscreen wallpaper, should be somewhere here

http://www.macthemes.net/forum/search.php?search_id=1765127687

2. create a button in bootombar to start lockscreentoday.exe

3. lockscreentoday.exe is the renamed IPT.exe version

4. Hack with Ressourcehacker (some pages back from tronikos), rename all iphonetoday to lockscreentoday

5. Create a lockscreenfolder with lockscreentoday.exe and the other files of iphonetoday root. In Folder icons only lock wallpaper and lock Button

6. Start lockscreen and place the button, edit button: no exe called, no animation, simply nothing

7. Options/Out of screen for Left should call lock.mscr in the folder

8. Create this mscr, content is Kill( "lockscreentoday.exe" ), don't forget Mortscript.exe

9. If everythink works, disable "Right click" in Options

==> in IPT clicking the lock button starts lockscreen, which is covering then IPT==> in lockscreen moving Button from left to right (out of screen) is killing the lock app and back to IPT