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a bit off topic but lets share our today screens

ok so here is mine i have used. i will call this liverpool Champions league winners
1- date
2- weather panel
3- sbp gprs monitor
4- sbp pocket plus
5- spacer
6- today player
oh and i used CEcapture its free you should find it at www.limelink.com

Boring old today screen, fine-tuned for efficiency
Cool idea & nice today screen.
Mine's a totally different approach. I tried all kinds of backgrounds, but found that photo's make the text hard to read, so eventually I came back to the boring old default blue one... I expanded it to the top and bottom of the screen.
Wisbar
Pocketbreeze
Battery bar pro
Weatherpanel (in Pocketbreeze tab)
My Today screen is all about information. I want my appointments, tasks and mail notifications to be clearly readable, with important items highlighted, yet easy on the eyes - no fluorescent stuff for me. Notice the carefully chosen text colors and the everso subtle hint of font shading to make it stand out. 8) (ok I know, I'm so full of it... :roll: )
The icon console in the Wisbar top bar is my own design. I tried to make it as compact as possible, to allow for a lot of running program icons next to the start button.
There's four scrollable rows of program shortcuts in the Program bar.
Might experiment with skinning a little more, it's fun.

i like the wisbar plug-in do you know where i can get it for free :wink:

Wisbar
i too liked the wisbar one where can i find it !!!
or is there any one who would like to share it

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spread_smiles said:
i too liked the wisbar one where can i find it !!!
or is there any one who would like to share it
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Google for "Wisbar pda"
The 1st link will take you to it.. It's freeware
OK.. I will help you: http://www.pdagold.com/software/detail.asp?s=76
-N

dosent work
thanks for the link but it dosent work for WM2003
bad luck
it says invalid ppc program
got another or on which windows are you useing it !!

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spread_smiles said:
thanks for the link but it dosent work for WM2003
bad luck
it says invalid ppc program
got another or on which windows are you useing it !!
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Works fine on my WM2003

where do you go to change the settings ????????????/

does anyone have a good windows mobile 5 ppc theme? or at least close to one?

Try this, its already optimized for PocketPlus.

I'm bored, so might as well post my new creation as well.

Juni's SWDeluxe Skin Suite v3.0
Juni's modified Chromium

Quickie question, those that have the task bar skinned...what app are you using to skin the notfication button and signal strength? Haven't found anything that works on the XV6600.
I'll post my today screen when I get home:
Date
SPB PocketPlus with Weather tabbed
SPB Diary
Messages
SPB 'Sphere' theme

I like my Today with plain black background. It's easier for me to read !!

Big Calhoun said:
what app are you using to skin the notfication button and signal strength?
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It's Wisbar Advance 2. Skinning it yourself is not too difficult; I made my taskbar and taskbar icons with Photoshop. But there's plenty of cool skins available, like the ones from Juni.

I've found that with Wisbar Advance 2.0, my resources are very low and it slows down the entire ppc. Anybody else with this problem? I love the various looks I can make, but because of it being so memory intensive, I've opted, for now, to not run it.

I'm with rsbenedict on this one. I've tried wisbar a few times, but it always seems to slow my device to a crawl. Has it improved recently?

WISBAR has been improved, try it for me no slowdowns

Skinners are getting better and better. I personally like this one as it matches my unit casing.

Hey Nomadman, what app are you using to pick up the news story?
Q.

Skin the pinpad / security screen / dialer?

Hi,
I have searched all over, and could not find an answer...
Is there a way to skin the pinpad screen? I have WM6, and it still looks like WM5. Any way to make the buttons look a little more like the rest of the phone?
Also, is there an alternate dialer beyond the 'Kaiser-style'? I think that looks gross.
Any answers would be appreciated.

Bump. >_>
Anyone have any ideas or places to point me?

Have you tried using one of Schaps dialers? Search the forum or his threads on his roms to download a cab.
WB

Not sure about the pinpad but in order to skin the dialer, you'll need to edit some files associated with the dialer.
There are about 100 picture files and 3-4 dll files associated with dialer and usually located in \Windows folder. You'll need to change the picture files and edit the dialogue of the dll files using resource hacker or similar programs.

wacky.banana - I am using Schap's 4.31 ROM
kamp - Thank you for the idea, I will look around and see what I can find.

Modifying the OperatorLauncherPlugin

Hey all,
This question is for the Sprint HTC Touch, new with WMPro 6.1.
I want to change the icons/links that are on the bottom toolbar, I guess its called the Operator Launcher Plugin. Right now it has: Phone, Sprint Music Store, Photo Album, Navigation and Sprint TV. Well I dont have a data plan so the Sprint TV and Nav are useless, and who pays for music now-a-days??? lol... so that has to go too.
I think I has an idea of how to change this, I just want to see if I am correct.
I found the 'ql_skin_p.xml' file and looked inside to see all of the links to the bitmaps and masks used for the icons, and links to the files. Is it as easy as photoshopping new bitmaps and masks, and using the new file names in the xml files, then changing the links?
Thanks,
Livens

Excalibur ZUNE Interface?

I was wondering if anyone had been working on a Zune-like interface for WM6.5 roms. I was noticing that a lot of the professional roms had a zune interface you can enable and I was thinking someone should make a .cab file for a new homescreen. Much thanks

I suppose that a Zune interface is POSSIBLE, but not practical for the Excalibur. THe zune has an interface designed for touch-screen ease. However, that isnt to say that you can't do a Zune-like HomeScreen for our beloved phone.
I'm busy working on my CycloneSkins horizon Theme at the moment, but if I had the time, this is how I would go about it:
-Get a copy of the SLIDING PANELS CPR Files (since Titanium is 'center-based' for its panels and sliding panels is top-based)
-Find some Zune iconsets
-Analyze the CHome registry key (and its subkeys and entries)
-Analyze the Sliding Panels.cpr file
-Eliminate images you find unnecessary from the CPR
-In the registry change image locations to Zune style images (on phone)
-Change font and font sizes.
Its a time-hogging and meticulous task, but it is 'do-able.'

Thanks man, I'll devinately look into this

pokejake2002 said:
Thanks man, I'll devinately look into this
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I left something out that I did when i started to plan out my Horizon skin.
Get photoshop or GIMP or some pretty decent image editor that supports layers, and photoshop a couple images of what you want your skin to look like. If you look at the first post in my CycloneSkins thread, that large image is fully photoshopped. i use it as a guideline. It is never fully accurate, but it saves a good deal of guesswork
If you ever need help, just ask
Good luck!

Two columns in traditionaly home screen xml?

I've seen some orange home screen for spv c550 or c600 mobile. It has two columns and it is very helpfull home screen solution.
Have you tried yet to install that kind of home screen layout.

xmarkom said:
I've seen some orange home screen for spv c550 or c600 mobile. It has two columns and it is very helpfull home screen solution.
Have you tried yet to install that kind of home screen layout.
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Do you have screenshot or link?

10507 said:
Do you have screenshot or link?
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just google L-Columns.v2.home.xml and i found that you need some orange.dll but i don't know where to put it.
This theme mentioned above has facade and fizz weather in one column.

also orange default theme in SPV smartphone models has nice solution but you cannot access with xml. When i open orange.home.xml there are only few lines. Some basic stuff as title, icon bar and organge plugin function in couple of lines.

If someone figures out how to successfully create columns in a CPR I will be ecstatic. I have tampered with the Columns="" and Rows="" parameters in the Titanium CPR so much, and still can't find a way to do it. For now, I dont actually think it is possible to have a two-column or two-row CPR Homescreen (at the moment). I do hope this gets some attention (and maybe a solution)!

Cyclonezephyrxz7 said:
If someone figures out how to successfully create columns in a CPR I will be ecstatic. I have tampered with the Columns="" and Rows="" parameters in the Titanium CPR so much, and still can't find a way to do it. For now, I dont actually think it is possible to have a two-column or two-row CPR Homescreen (at the moment). I do hope this gets some attention (and maybe a solution)!
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I've found solution and it works.
As i said just download L-Columns.v2.home.xml and install JRulez_OHSP.cab because it saves orange.dll somewhere in the phone.
Now i have RJTime (analog) clock and date on the left side of my home screen and SMS/MMS/Mail on the right side.
I still dont get why every uploaded theme and every thread about home screen design in this Excalibur subforum is about C-home theme.
My personal opinion is that you can create most powerfull theme, most "business one" theme in classic way, creating good xml theme with couple of plugins and couple of programs as RightKey etc.

xmarkom - Can you please upload these files to this thread, or post direct links to them. i would be very interested in making a theme using this concept (and adding it to my CycloneSkins collection). I tried google, but I couldn't find anything relevant.
Thanks a bunch!
(By the Way the "CHome" layout is named because of the CHome panel which is the panel which tells you how many missed calls, SMS, MMS, and Voicemail you have. This panel is a significant part of the CHome layout in terms of efficiency. I believe that is why it is called the CHome layout, although in the 6.5 roms it is the Titanium Layout, and in 6.1 and below it is called Sliding Panels Layout)

any screnshots??

Cyclonezephyrxz7 said:
xmarkom - Can you please upload these files to this thread, or post direct links to them. i would be very interested in making a theme using this concept (and adding it to my CycloneSkins collection). I tried google, but I couldn't find anything relevant.
Thanks a bunch!
(By the Way the "CHome" layout is named because of the CHome panel which is the panel which tells you how many missed calls, SMS, MMS, and Voicemail you have. This panel is a significant part of the CHome layout in terms of efficiency. I believe that is why it is called the CHome layout, although in the 6.5 roms it is the Titanium Layout, and in 6.1 and below it is called Sliding Panels Layout)
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ok but i'm seek of this titanium layout and sliding panels layout because everybody talk about that, and thats all the same thing.
xml traditional home layouts should be better.

Wouldn't agree and if i personally wanted a old home screen i'd stick with WM6 to which is cumbersom looks like a dinosaur and not as tweakable as 6.1 or 6.5.
Can you please upload the files that peeps asked for as a google search with that criteria will get them no where...

please post link, i would like to have this