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[Windows Mobile Themes] bigbadfred:
qvga?

Hi Mark,

any idea of a release date for an updated qvga version?

Love your work!
[Windows Mobile Themes] alex.alp:
a question

greetings!

a friend of mine saw your Proplus freedom for spb mobile shell that i have on my xperia and he got jealous lol and he asked me how he can have all those extra widgets and features. I told him "i have windows on my phone you have symbian 60 (s60)" is there a version of your proplus for symbian?
[Windows Mobile Themes] all-in:
hi i have installed pro plus but i cant change the theme.imean to droid theme,or pro plus andmake it look like in firtsts post pics?
[Windows Mobile Themes] micmaccc:
+1, is there any for s60 users? :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Well what are you doing and what is the outcome when you change a theme?

Its technically impossible to figure out whats going wrong if the only information I have is that you cant change themes ;)

Give me some more info and I will do my best to help :)

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Hey :)

I will try to bring [W]QVGA up to date within the next week.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
I dont own a symbian device and while there is a symbian emulator and a trial version of Spb Mobile Shell for symbian available it would only give me a month to work everything out. Plus I dont have any program to extract sis files and if I could find one I dont know if they would be in the same format as the WinMo files.

I guess without more resources the answer is no to a symbian version of ProPlus for Mobile Shell..

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] claus1953:
Good news :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] alex.alp:
I see, my friend has a naked version of spb mobile shell but as you can imagine it's limited, it has only home style or only the professional style i dont remember which exactly, anyway thanks a lot and i will tell my friend to move to windows mobile lol

keep up the great work!
[Windows Mobile Themes] jademah:
can you try to bring HVGA too?

thanks a lot.
[Windows Mobile Themes] MTom:
Hi

Weather in the panel to be added to a new city??
[Windows Mobile Themes] GEX THE GECKO:
1st off i just wanna say cheerz Mark;) ever since installing your proplus on my htc mini hd my htc sense animated weather wallpaper thingybob has magically started working:D waznt even working when i got the phone and from wa ive read on here im not the only 1 to have this problem.(so anyone with this problem ya got nowt to lose by tryin this (install proplus freedom and the widget pack and then add a weather widget update it usin wifi connection then just simply switch to htc sense using mskips proplus tools and that pretty much fixed it for me:) try soft reset azwell........I CANT SAY IT WILL DEFO FIX IT AZ I DONT NO IF ITS PROPLUS WHAT FIXED IT FOR ME, BUT EVER SINCE I INSTALLED THIS ITS BEEN WORKING FINE SOOOOOOOOOO GIVE IT A GO

thnx Mark and keep up the good work:cool:

HTC mini users if your like me and cant wait for the HVGA version u should install the [[W]QVGA version (this is the 1 im currently using) it doesnt work properly(menubars and few widgets like i mentioned in a previous post) but cant complain its usable and allows you to experience proplus and overall im very happy with it untill or if theres a HVGA version released...:)

p.s I wanna try makin my own widgets (or even editing widgets for example making a vertical battery horizontal just summet simple to start with) any help on creating or editing widgets would b appreciated thanks, if its solid to do and you think ive got no chance of learning how to do it, and am best of goin college for 6years or summet then just let me no and al nock it on the head:D but it iz summet that interests me as i use my phone a lot and i wudnt mind learning about widgets in my spare time and giving it a go, also i apolagize for the any amounts of spelling mistakes i make. lol i txt waaaaay to much:D

LIFE STORY OVER WAKE UP HAHA:D
[Windows Mobile Themes] USMC4USA:
Install unsuccessful Mskip Freedom HTC HD2 problem solved

First let me say that Mskip ProPlus Freedom for Spb Mobile Shell 3.5.5 is very cool and well worth the struggle I had getting it to install on my TMobile US HTC HD2.

I followed all the directions to the letter but kept getting install unsuccessful when starting install using file explorer double-clicking on the CAB file. Uninstalled all SPB prog's I had and scanned registry for any SPB values. After 2 or 3 clean re-installs of SPBmobile shell I was almost ready to give up. Then, I tried downloading the file directly from the net using my phones browser, instead of attempting install with MS file manager explorer, telling it to run once downloaded. When I tried automatic install durin download, I then received a similar installation unsuccessful error but this error, unlike previous, mentioned something about "certificate" rights prevented the installation from starting.

After doing additional research to prevent certificate issues I found in this thread 4519098#post4519098 once I had implemented those changes to my registry policies and tried again, the installation worked like a charm. I have posted this in hopes that others, if any, may benefit from this info and save themselves a couple of hours of frustration. But, the quality of Mskip proplus freedom, in my books, sets the bar for other developers.

I solute you on a job well done.
[Windows Mobile Themes] riotman:
hey, i used this modification a couple of days now and sadly had to remove it:

the reasons were:

I used he droid layout as the menu bar appeared to be best looking one, but the additional ram usage wasnt bearable. My navigation software lagged, with this theme being activated . my device is a acer neotouch with 256 mb ram. in addition for my taste you have to swipe too far with the finger to switch screens.

But all the opportunities to modify the look are really nice and all the widgets are wonderful as well, but the theme with the menu bar i liked unfortunately eats up too much ram.

Im running using the galaxy theme now. it totally fulfills my needs...

But still your software is wonderful, keep up the great work
[Windows Mobile Themes] micromacro:
Hi, I use SPB WEATHER 2.4.0 for the forecasts because my city is not present among the cities of the weather of SPBMS 3.5.5.

To the moment I have put an invisible link (toward SPB WEATHER 2.4.0) above the image of the WEATHER WIDGET Standard of SPBMS 3.5.5.

But the graphic image under, the temperature, etc... do they refer to a city that is not my city.

Can you also modify the WIDGET of SPB WEATHER 2.4.0 to the same way then of standard weather, so we can directly use that WIDGET?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Themes] gauravm:
hey

Hi Mskip (hopefully u see this!)

I initially had SBP 3.5.3 and I had ur elegance theme from here: xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=566245 installed.

But then that version of sbp started having issues so i upgraded to 3.5.5 and installed your freedom theme from here: xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=707596 . Everything is working fine now but I have a question: how can i get the page flip animation for going through the panels that was default on the elegance to be "turned on" in the freedom theme?

Thanks in advance!
[Windows Mobile Themes] GEX THE GECKO:
COME ONNNNNNNNNN HELP US OUT PLEASE:cool:
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
There are no HVGA emulators and the working dimensions for HVGA dont seem right when you look into the layout files so its almost impossible for me to create menubars for HVGA without a phone to test on and work out how everything goes together.

If you want to install QVGA and try changing to a MenuBar (say Droid) and take a screenshot then I might be able to get something from that but it would be hit and miss. I think most of the widgets should work and all the mon-menubar mods will still work on any resolution.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
What phone do you have? What resolution did you install and what happens when you try to change a menubar?

Can you provide a screenshot if something looks wrong?

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Sorry I dont know what you mean..

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] MTom:
Hi

I live in Nagykanizsa, Hungary is not included in the weather list
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Its very hard for me to explain in 1 message (or 1 page) how to create widgets because each different widget type has its own attributes. If you want to start off by just editing one of my existing battery widgets just to start with [qa or va]_battery_*.dat, play around with the graphics and work out how its works.

Extract the contents of the dat file with winzip using the password b0fm18zq.

The main images need to be saved as 16bit (R5G6B5) using either photoshop or Gimp for Windows (which is free). The mask (_m) image needs to be 8bit greyscale. the mask is really the transparency layer of the main image. Any part of the mask that is white will be solid, and any parts that are black will be see through, with scales in between affecting the amount of transparency.

If that confuses you then look at the main and mask images in the dat file and it will soon become clear.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Thats a problem with Spb Mobile Shell, you need to contact them and ask if they can add it but i dont hold out much hope of that as spb are pretty useless with customer service.

Nothing I can do about it, sorry.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Thanks for the tip and I hope you enjoy using it :)

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Spb Menu, Settings, Spb Mobile Shell, Animation, Tab animation on gestures, change it to what you want. I think it was sliding but im not sure.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] GEX THE GECKO:
CHEERZ MARK.

I REALLY APPRECIATE YA TAKIN THE TYM TO WRITE THAT INFO UP ON THE WIDGETS FOR ME. NICE 1:), GIMPS ON THE DOWNLOAD NOW GUNNA HAVE A MESS ABOUT SEE WHAT I CAN DO:cool:

GIMP LOL WTF, CREASED AT THA LIKE HAHA :D

P.S. ISIT LIKELY THAT HVGA RESOLUTION WILL BE ADDED FOR PROPLUS FREEDOM? A REMEMBER U SAYING YA CANT TEST IT BECAUSE OF THE EMULATOR NOT SUPPORTING THIS PHONE.IF I CAN HELP U IN ANYWAY MAYBE TESTING IT ON MY PHONE OR SENDING SCREENSHOTS OF HOW THE MENU BARS LOOK NOW OR SOMETHING JUST GIZ A SHOUT IM HAPPY TO HELP,......SORRY FOR CAPS MY KEYBOARDZ PLAYING UP:mad:
[Windows Mobile Themes] GEX THE GECKO:
Qvga menu barz

Mark

i read in a previous post you said if some one uploaded some screenshots of the menu bars in qvga on a hvga device it might help you getting hvga resolution to work... So here is the screenshots of proplus freedom in qvga on my htc mini hope this helps:)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
@Mark

if you wanna try to build some menubars for hvga res, you can use the 320x320 setup on the emulator: that's what I've been using so far to design my 320 pixels wide menubars, and they should work fine on hvga too (of course provided that you write the xml taking it into consideration, but that's not gonna be a problem for you)
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
HVGA SUPPORT FOR PROPLUS FREEDOM

Ok I will be trying to bring [W]QVGA up to date in the next 2 days and once thats done I will start working on an HVGA version of ProPlus Freedom with working MenuBars.

I need 2 people with HVGA devices that I can use to test the program, MenuBars and widgets as they are being developed. They must be on xda regularly to receive and test updates and not mind uninstalling/reinstalling Spb Mobile Shell with every new test version. Also they must be able to take screenshots of their device so I can see how it looks.

If you are insterested in being a guinee pig please pm me :)

Thank you.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] micromacro:
nothing for my problem?

:(
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
I will have to download spb weather to test it as I have never used that program before but I dont think external widgets to mobile shell can be altered.

I will have to get back to you on that.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
I'm afraid that's gonna be a no-go.... last time I checked, spb weather plugin class did not provide the additional info like wind, humidity and next days forecast :(
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Ok well at least it saves me downloading the program lol.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] latersooner:
Great job from great man:) can you plz post hvga theme

i download SPB Mobile shell version 3.5.5 which it is support HVGA but no great shells like yours come with it,i am looking for hero shell to work on HVGA...........BYE
[Windows Mobile Themes] dumitrudan608:
Verry nice work,

ProPlus Ultimate Elegance with icons is my personal favorite, but i miss that continuous background, and the flip page animation can be annoying especially when customizing page because it flips from half page.

Is it any way possible to customize ProPlus Ultimate Elegance with icons to not have the flip animation?

Please answer even if it is not possible, i think i understand that you had to make the pages more individual because of the hy number and that changes things, but what if you would build one with less pages but keep the icons?

Thanks and keep up the good work,

Daniel (dumitrudan608@yahoo.com)
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
HVGA wont be released for a few weeks at least. I have to bring [W]QVGA up to date before I can start on HVGA and then I have to do ALOT of editing of widgets aswell as convert every menubar and work out where they need to go.

Be patient it will be worth it ;)

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
You can change the flip animation to something else by going spb menu, settings, spb mobile shell, animation, tab animation on gestures. I dont know if thats what you want but its the only way you can change how it looks when it goes from page to page.

There is no way at all to make ProPlus Ultimate Elegance with the original sliding effect because of the way its made.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] cac2us:
Extra Fundotela Backgrounds for QVGA/WQVGA

Hey it's been a while,

Is there any reason why, when I try to download Extra Fundotela Backgrounds for QVGA/WQVGA, I get a 50kb. file that won't open?

The RapidWhatsit shows 1+mb.

Is the link OK?
[Windows Mobile Themes] dumitrudan608:
ProPlus Ultimate Elegance on Profesional

Thank you, whitout the animation is better, but is it anny way possible to apply ProPlus Ultimate Elegance to just Profesional layout, so i can have the sliding background on Lifestyle and ProPlus Ultimate Elegance on Profesional?
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
No there isnt sorry it can only be applied to the Lifestyle Screen (for now anyway).

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
I think maybe the file didnt download properly. The download link is fine I just tested it. Try again and if it doesnt work I will create a mirror to 4shared.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] cac2us:
Extra Fundotela Backgrounds for QVGA/WQVGA

I just switched to Chrome and will know in 12 min.

EDIT:

FireFox Portable plays nice with RapidShare....

Your software Mods are "Premium quality" as usual.

Thank you for posting...
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Thanks, I hope you have fun playing around with it :)

I tried to make it as feature packed as possible but easy to use and the 'help' buttons are a very convenient way of knowing whats going on.

Also selecting the 'check loaded theme' at any time tells you exactly what you have selected on your screens and was a very clever way of me being able to stop people from making mistakes that might ruin their theme :D

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] wackowizzard:
Nice

Can wait for WQVGA version!
[Windows Mobile Themes] scpion:
hi,

possible to create a semi transparent backing like those behind the digital clock of the sense UI? there used to be a grey one but it seems to be missing now..

Thanks for all the great work!:p
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
If you read my first post all the Backing panels are now Shortcut Skins.

Add a Shortcut Widget to whatever you want, Then change its skin to the Backing panel you want. I believe the one you are after is now called PanelMedium (grey2).

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Tomorrow ;)

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] rjrocks:
desperately w8in 4 qvga
[Windows Mobile Themes] wackowizzard:
Big tnx! :D

Looking forward!
[Windows Mobile Themes] nowhereXmanX:
thx thx thx thx thx thx thx, no sleep for me until QVGA is done.

hahaha thx a lot
[Windows Mobile Themes] fubo73:
I am not able to setup third button. I selected it, but still I can see only two buttons.
[Windows Mobile Themes] alex.alp:
problems while uninstalling the previous version

hi i was trying to uninstall proplus ultimate elegance 3.5.3 in order to install this new version and i got a message saying the software was not uninstalled completely :( Any suggestion?
[Windows Mobile Themes] nowhereXmanX:
try with sktool. i uninstallend with this
[Windows Mobile Themes] ushersorbet:
any news on qvga? I know its a lot of work and Im very greatful for your effort but my ppc6800 is just really missing all the features it was used to on the 3.5.3 lol

regards from Mexico!
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Are you selecting the right screen for the 3rd button? i.e. lifestyle or professional.

What MenuBar do you have on the screen that you want the 3rd button on? You can only use that function with the original or UltimateV2 Menubar. If using Elegance you have to set the third button up from the Elegance menu.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
The 'old' versions are buggy when it comes to uninstalling. All that has been fixed with ProPlus Freedom and you wont have any problems when coming to uninstalling or upgrading. To take off your old Elegance theme just click on the FAQ's link in the first post and it will give you instructions on how to uninstall it manually. Once its off install a clean version of Mobile Shell 3.5.5 and you are good to go.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
I had a busy night last night and couldnt get round to converting the bmp's for QVGA but im doing it this morning and it will definitely be released sometime today.

Follow me on twitter and you will get a tweet as soon as its uploaded :)

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] fubo73:
I've tried both lifestyle and pro, no chance.

I'm using original menubar and used new widgets theme to populate the lifestyle screen (I prefer it to pro).

Regards.

Oh, BTW, backup/restore did not work. I tried doing "backup to slot 1, move to SD, move from SD, restore" and slot 1 results empty.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Do you by any chance have a french language rom?

If so then maybe the folder names are different such as the storage card name and spb mobile shell folder name?

That happened to someone else ages ago I will have to try and remember how it was fixed.

Do the other things work such as preset themes.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] fubo73:
Of course Italian (see flag on the left).

About folders, I use to install everything but GPS app into internal memory, and folder names are different (mainly Program Files is Programmi). But, I saw you always used predefined variables in cab.

Presets do not work at all...
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Oops sorry about that I think im going colour blind lol :rolleyes:

Yes that would explain why nothing works if all the mods are being sent to the wrong place. I will try to work out how to get around the problem with different language roms (different folder names).

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] nowhereXmanX:
i uninstalled with Sktool with no problem.
[Windows Mobile Themes] GEX THE GECKO:
@MARK

Can i b cheeky and ask if you can add an extra battery widget to the HVGA version:D

Its the big battery widget but i want it like vertical instead ov horizontal

thnx :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
That shouldnt be any problems it just depends on the file size of the battery as I took my existing big battery out of the cab because it was too big. I can still do it but maybe as a seperate cab.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] GEX THE GECKO:
Thats cool wit me :D

nice 1
[Windows Mobile Themes] GEX THE GECKO:
@mark

In spb mobile shell therez the ability to change colour of the shell theme, isit possible that you cud add more colours to use in proplus freedom?

Jay
[Windows Mobile Themes] GEX THE GECKO:
might b a stupid question but here goes......:D

can the menubarz be transparant or maybe like semi transparant?
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Yes they can you just have to edit the transparency layer (_m) of the menubar image.

Why lol.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] GEX THE GECKO:
Just curious:D lol think it wud be a good idea to have 1 like the mobile shell 1 coz the wallpaper showz through it n the iconz are clear, if i edit an image (menubar) iz there anything else i woud need to do in order to get it to work like maybe edit the xml file or something?

Jay
[Windows Mobile Themes] tempname2001:
pretty good!
[Windows Mobile Themes] laverne:
widgets only

hi MSkip.

i have ur proplus on my phone as well as Vos's MSM. i love ur widgets and without the Pro Plus i dont get ur widgets. unfortunately im running out of memory and need to uninstall pro plus because im not using the full program. is it possible to just download the widgets only (all of them that come with pro plus)? just like i could download the WP7 widgets only.

oh and why does it take so long for ur program to install and uninstall? its not that big a file.

thanx Laverne
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
If you want to edit the mask layer of an image to make it more transparent then you dont have to edit any xml files but make sure you save the mask as 8bit greyscale or it wont show. The mask image only affects the transparency of the main image it doesnt do anything else.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
I will see what I can do about making a widgets only pack for ProPlus.

There are uninstall scripts in place that delete all registry folders before deleting the files, then copys the original qa_layouts.dat file back to Spb Mobile Shell so that it all still works fine. Even with all the it still installs and uninstall very quickly on my HD2.

What phone are you using?

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] laverne:
install and uninstall of Pro Plus

thsnx alot for looking into the widgets only pack. that would be so awesome. :D

i am using the omnia i900.

thanx Laverne
[Windows Mobile Themes] GEX THE GECKO:
Would this work for the hd mini lockscreen slider?

Jay....
[Windows Mobile Themes] eras3r:
Hello,

I install it but..i have the old good WM6.1 Today screen. I search for Clean Spb Mobile Shell but nothing... Now i try to uninstall but...my phone freez.

What can i do now? How can i uninstall the app?.

Samsung Omnia i900
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
I have never looked for that graphic but if you can find it in the dat files then yes changing the mask image would affect the transparency.

Just remember the password b0fm18zq when opening any .dat files.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
So what exactly have you installed and what are you trying to uninstall?

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] eras3r:
I installed:

QVGA/WQVGA

* Full version (with added widgets) 4Shared (20100712)

I can't uninstalled :

QVGA/WQVGA

* Full version (with added widgets) 4Shared (20100712)
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
So you installed Spb Mobile Shell 3.5.5 and then ProPlus and want to go back to the unmodified Mobile Shell?

What message do you get when you try to uninstall ProPlus?

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] eras3r:
No message...no Spb Mobile Shell 3.5.5...

My phone is not responding when i press "Remove" in "Remove Programs". I wait for 10-15min. but nothing...
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
You didnt install Spb Mobile Shell before you installed ProPlus Freedom?

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] eras3r:
I thing...yes ;(

But i install Spb Mobile Shell 3.5.0 and i have today screen like this in first post "Original". Is this fix my problem? :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] GEX THE GECKO:
Think i better leave it a might break ma phone trying to modify summet like that, lol im not 2 bright had trouble with tha battery widget thing:o

A can see you creating summet for mobile shell 5.0 :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
If you want ProPlus Freedom features on your device you will need to reinstall it.

Mark.