[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Osprey00:
schlork,

I like what you've done there with "LockScreenToday." Very ingenius. I'm disappointed that I didn't think of it first. Anyways, I've corrected a few things with your upload:

* I disabled scrolling in all directions but the intended direction. Before, it was possible to drag the knob off the left (wrong) side of the screen.

* I made it so that the knob stops scrolling at the end of the gutter that it's in.

* I cleaned up the graphics on the knob image. I also made it 1px taller, to match the gutter.

* I made a new battery icon that matches the clock icon and is 96x96.

* I enabled ClearType on the font inside the icons.

* I changed the paths to relative (which you forgot to do, making none of the images viewable until the user corrected each one of them)

* I fixed the formatting of settings.xml, so that people can edit a cleanly-formatted copy. FYI, you really shouldn't upload the copy that came from your device, since the formatting is all screwed up then. Tweak your desktop copy until it works without modification on your device, then upload the desktop copy.

* ...and probably a few other minor things.

Again, good idea. It works surprisingly well. Also, thanks.

tronikos,

If you haven't yet, you should try out schlork's LockScreenToday (though use my version). It's quite clever and you'll probably be impressed with how iPT was adapted.

The only real downside is that it has to be custom-made for each resolution. Ideally, it'd be nice to separate out the slide gutter as a background for the bottom bar. I tried that, but discovered that the mainscreen icons (the "knob" with the arrow, in this case) can't be offset over the bottom bar (and, obviously, it has to be on the mainscreen in order to scroll). Remember, early on, when I asked you make it so that the mainscreen icons are hidden behind the bottom bar? It's kind of funny, then, that the way that it was before would solve this particular problem wonderfully :). I wonder if you could make it possible to override that with, say, negative values for the mainscreen's bottom offset (just like the circles) or at least compile a special version of iPhoneToday.exe without the "hidden" feature so that we can use that as LockScreenToday.exe. You don't need to; it's just a thought for something that might be nice to make LockScreenToday easier to set up on all resolutions.

Also, as I mentioned above, I made a new battery icon that matches the clock/blank icon's bezel and is 96x96 (the old icon was 90x90). If you agree, I think that it ought to replace the Battery.png that comes with iPT, for style, positioning and size reasons.

EDIT: 5. It may not be terribly pretty most of the time to have both wallpaper and mainscreen background set, but it should be allowed, IMO. It works fine, afterall. I think that it'd be preferable if iPT didn't make those choices for the user and, instead, let the user fix the issue if it's deemed to be a problem. By making those choices for the user, it's also very confusing for the user (as it was for me) because he/she won't understand what the program is doing and why it's loading up differently than when they last shut it down (and the fact that they shut it down in that condition suggests, anyways, that they were happy with the configuration).