[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
FAQ FOR PROPLUS FREEDOM

Q1. What are the differences between the MenuBars?

I created the 'Selectable Pages' MenuBars with 7 pages as it gives people more than enough space to put everything they want on while still being able to select the pages without any trouble. Unfortunately you cant set the number of pages you want so it has to be 7.

ProPlus Ultimate Menubar has the open space at the bottom with the carousel and menu buttons on either side. With the Ultimate V2 Menubar the carousel and menu buttons are hidden (while still being selectable) just to make the screen look cleaner. You wouldnt want to put any icons ontop of the invisible buttons though as the carousel and menu buttons will always be on top regardless. Also with the Ultimate V2 menubar you can have the carousel and menu buttons at the top of the screen or the bottom, or you can delete the buttons completely and just bring the buttons back if needed. Of course these are all 'Smooth Scrolling' MenuBars and you cant use them if you want to jump to specific pages or have continuous scrolling.

There is also the ProPlus Desire MenuBar in the 'Smooth Scrolling' set which has 3 buttons (carousel, spb menu OR contacts, and menu) with space on either side of the menubar for a shortcut of your choice.

With the 'Selectable Pages' MenuBar you have some different choices:

ProPlus Ultimate Elegance will give you the 7 selectable pages buttons right at the bottom with a carousel and menu button on either side. This takes up hardly any space so you can make up your own set of buttons just above the MenuBar. If you want the same set of buttons on every pages then you will have to set them up individually though.

ProPlus Elegance will give you a 3 button menubar at the bottom with the carousel and menu buttons either side, and then the selectable pages bar above it which you can set to be small or large depending on how good you are with your fingers. With Elegance the Spb Menu and Contacts buttons are hard set (but you can change the options for these 2 buttons in the menu) and the middle button can be set by yourself (I think you can choose between the Today Screen, Task Manager, Agenda, and Weather). These will be the same on all pages as they are part of the MenuBar.

Lastly you have ProPlus Droid which gives you the 7 selectable pages, with the spb menu and contacts buttons underneath and carousel and menu buttons at the sides. I personally prefer this MenuBar as it looks beautiful, its clean, small footprint and looks like the htc android menubar (but mine has 2 buttons in the middle so its better).

Those are pretty much all your options I hope you understand the different MenuBars a bit better now

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Q2. How to make up the HTC Sense Clock from the Droid Theme picture

The HTC 'Sense' Clock can now built up of just 3 widgets:

1. Add a Digital Clock widget and change its skin to HTC Clock White or Black

2. Add a Weather widget and change its skin to ProPlus1 HTC (Info) or ProPlus2 HTC (Info)

3. Add another Weather widget and change its skin to ProPlus Info (Left S)

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Q3. After

Add another Weather widget and change its skin to ProPlus Info (Left S)

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Q4. How do I open launcher from the panels button on ProPlus Freedom?

Ok here goes:

1. copy qa_layouts.dat from program files, spb mobile shell on your phone to your pc

2. rename to qa_layouts.dat.zip

3. using winzip (must be winzip or you can have problems) extract the MenuBar3Lifestyle_UltimateV1.xml file using the password b0fm18zq when asked

4. open the xml file in notepad

5. about a 1/3 down you will find the following text

<Layout Name="Default">

<Plugins>

<Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.MenuBar" Name="Panels" ID="3">

<Int Name="ActivateOnPress" Value="1"/>

<String Name="Action" Value="Panels"/>

<Int Name="LeftBtn" Value="1"/>

<String Name="Icons" Value="ButtonsMB"/>

<Skin Name="IconSkin" Skin="MSkipFiles" MiddleSkin="MSkipFiles" DoubleSkin="MSkipFiles"/>

<Rect Name="SrcIcon" X="0" Y="54" Width="27" Height="27"/>

</Plugin>

replace the highlighted lines with

<String Name="Open" Value=":BTN0"/>

<Int Name="isActive" Value="1"/>

<Int Name="Replace" Value="0"/>

6. save the file and exit from notepad

7. drag the file back to your opened winzip file (qa_layouts.dat.zip) making sure winzip 'encrypt files' is selected with the password set to b0fm18zq

8. close the winzip file and rename back to qa_layouts.dat

9. copy the qa_layouts.dat file back to your program files, spb mobile shell folder on your phone making sure to overwrite the original

10. goto start menu, mskip's proplus tools, restart mobile shell

11. when mobile shell restarts test the panels button to make sure it opens the launcher

You can now set the new "launcher" button through menu (bottom right button) settings to open spb menu or launcher. This button has also now been mapped to your left soft button on your phone.

You can also use this method to change the panels button on any of the MenuBar3Lifestyle xml files and you can also set it to open any of the other spb screens by replacing :BTN0 with any of the following.

:BTN1 - contacts, favorites, calllog

:WEATHER - weather

:AGENDA - agenda

:TIME - time

:NOTE Be aware that if you reload the Original Theme (or reinstall ProPlus Freedom) then you will need to copy the modified qa_layouts.dat file back to your phone. You can also safely use this modification on any future updates so it would be easier for you to keep any modified xml files on your pc so that you can just import them back into the qa_layouts.dat file on the new version.