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This is a current conditions panel. It is a work in progress. It is based off of what OrganicM has been working on. If you want to use this, it should be safe to say that you should be running the latest version of CHome Weather, or this will not work.
The zip below has some reg keys to import. Just drop them anywhere on your phone and execute, then reboot. Once done, drop the mscr into your NRG\CHome Weather directory and overwrite Organic's original. It is identical to the original except it has added codes that operate the new Current Conditions panel. Everytime the mscr updates manually, or automatically, it will update the current conditions panel. Oh yeah, almost forgot, there is an icons2 folder in the zip. Just drop the entire folder into the CHome Weather folder. Update your screen and this should show for your area. Let me know if there are any bugs.
This is a work in progress, so it will get better looking in time. I just was wanting to go ahead and post what I have so far, so I could get some feedback on likes, dislikes, edits, pros, cons, etc.
Hope you enjoy, and if you have any trouble just recopy the old mscr over this one and all should be well, so make sure you copy your old one, if you are afraid.........
LOL
EDIT: Here is the mscr file that updates all of your condensed icons for the forecast panel, my current conditions panel, and gives all the icons and conditions for all layouts. Make sure you have installed the reg keys.
ALSO: If you have calibri font installed, it will cutoff the text, just make sure you uninstall it if you care about text getting cut off
thats actually very cool...how does it update though? real time or no? and does it replace the forecast or the current weather panel of NRGs weather? or a third panel?
No, this does not replace of NRG's stuff. You have to have his CHome Weather installed. It is a 3rd Panel, you can turn it off or on with CHome Config or do it yourself via your registry. It updates in realtime as much as CHome weather does. It uses the Yahoo server to update it's info, so that is usually done at 53 minutes past the hour, I've noticed. So once an hour at 11:53,12:53;1:53, so on. You see.
It is a standalone, it works by itself, just update your weather from CHome Weather and it will update this panel. If everyone likes this, and some do not want to run Chome Weather, I can write an updater for just this panel, so that the forecast and CTestUIPanel aren't necessary. I just use their mscr and exe. I just added my own update features to it. I CAN write a standalone update, though.
Holla, let me know what you think!!!
Edit: Just found all the attribute names from weather.com, so now I can find dewpoint, feels like,etc. to my panels. Just look at the weather.com site for your town and whatever it has there, I should be able to find out.
I am missing the point
outerdepth said:
No, this does not replace of NRG's stuff. You have to have his CHome Weather installed. It is a 3rd Panel, you can turn it off or on with CHome Config or do it yourself via your registry. It updates in realtime as much as CHome weather does. It uses the Yahoo server to update it's info, so that is usually done at 53 minutes past the hour, I've noticed. So once an hour at 11:53,12:53;1:53, so on. You see.
It is a standalone, it works by itself, just update your weather from CHome Weather and it will update this panel. If everyone likes this, and some do not want to run Chome Weather, I can write an updater for just this panel, so that the forecast and CTestUIPanel aren't necessary. I just use their mscr and exe. I just added my own update features to it. I CAN write a standalone update, though.
Holla, let me know what you think!!!
Edit: Just found all the attribute names from weather.com, so now I can find dewpoint, feels like,etc. to my panels. Just look at the weather.com site for your town and whatever it has there, I should be able to find out.
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The new panels are quite nice, but I am missing the point here. I already have ORG's weather running on my device. What info will I get in these panels that I do not already have...
I do like the fact that everything is in one panel and uses the real estate better. I also like fewer slides (10 day is an overkill and often inaccurate) Perhaps 4-5 is the best.
For those who are looking to replace ORG's weather with this one will need the updater. Also I like the blue glass panels in ORG's...
Thanks to you guys for all the effort you put into it.
No Point, Really.
That's cool. I "appreciate" the remarks, or at least some of them.
I am not replacing the forecast. I use it. I work outside a lot and it's nice to know what kind of week I have ahead. I used to wake up and go turn on my tv and check out the weather, but now I've got the Weather Radar from Tech, which is way cool. I have Org's really pretty CTestUIPanel, my fave. I just didn't want to be limited to what kind of info for the current day that I am currently limited to with the CTest panel. It gives me my basic needs.
I have written scripts that can update the CTestUIPanel to say the same stuff that my Current Conditions panel says, but the problem is that I lose all of my regular panel until I update again. I have not found a way to make it cycle through all of my "pages" and on the last cycle, display the original chome weather screen (although I AM working on it).
Anyway, this is written solely to see what kind of interface or layout people like. You obviously like the CTestUIPanel layout over having a secondary panel to display the current info. I will keep that in mind for a future release. Hopefully, Organic likes this D) and can come up with something in HIS next release that surpasses this or at least matches this as an option. Just gotta figure out how to mimic a "page scrolling" concept to CTestUIPanel without having a "hot key" assigned using SmartToolkit......
debabratadey said:
The new panels are quite nice, but I am missing the point here. I already have ORG's weather running on my device. What info will I get in these panels that I do not already have...
I do like the fact that everything is in one panel and uses the real estate better. I also like fewer slides (10 day is an overkill and often inaccurate) Perhaps 4-5 is the best.
For those who are looking to replace ORG's weather with this one will need the updater. Also I like the blue glass panels in ORG's...
Thanks to you guys for all the effort you put into it.
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I spoke too early
I guess I spoke too early. Now that I have installed "Currently," I can see what it does exactly. Somehow, it was not clear from the pictures, till I saw it on my own device...
I like it. I am replacing TestUI with Currently. So, now I will have just two panels. One with Currently, and another with Forecast. At least for the time...
However, this is what I would really like: Just one panel... The first couple of slides could be about current conditions, and the remaining 5 or so about the next 5 days. Ideally, the user should be able to set how many days in the future he/she wants to see...
If I knew enough programming, I would pitch in, or do it myself, but I am challenged that way...
Thanks to you and ORG. Keep up the good work.
No problem, I'm glad you like this. I will "look" into expanding my idea to incorporate the forecast into the current conditions as a pages in 1 panel. I like that idea.
I don't know about setting these as options, but I will definitely look into that.
Thanks for your input.
That can definitely be done and it's pretty easy. Click on the forecast panel to update the TestUI panel... each click would flip through pages, kind of a carousel effect, before finally returning to current conditions. The user can choose how many pages to display and after a certain time of "inactivity" it defaults to current conditions. OR even bettter, the first page of the forecast cycles through multiple current conditions panels and the second page cycles through forecast details.... ideas.. ideas..
thanks for direction solution
yeah, I tried this option, just never got this running to where it updated everything with just a click. It would be nice to see someone getting that going with just a click. Showaco and I did this on an older release of CHome Weather. He even wrote a script that let's you go in reverse order to in order to simulate flipping forward and backwards through "pages".
Your prog looks pretty good. Maybe you can take this one and the other ideas and incorporate them. This is so cool, everybody collaborating on this stuff. SWEET!
Just downloaded, I'm going to try it out today and see how it works. Good work.
I am having some trouble adding the registry keys to the phone. I have no issues with updating Currently, which executes no problem, but currently2 freezes when it comes to My Device. Its stopping at the screen stating "script file imported successfully press ok" but it will not accept pressing ok.
Good job on this outer, much respect for this.
Try this......
Sounds like a problem with whatever you are using to import your keys with. It should work just fine. Others are using it, and have had NO trouble thus far. Try opening up Resco Explorer or Total Commander if you have one of these, and execute it from there. Also, if you are running one of Ricky's ROMS, it has a built in reg editor that will allow you to update these. Hope this works, if not, just post again, and we'll try to get to the bottom of this. Sorry, if this isn't working for you, yet. We'll get going together, though. No worries. PEACE, mate.
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I am having some trouble adding the registry keys to the phone. I have no issues with updating Currently, which executes no problem, but currently2 freezes when it comes to My Device. Its stopping at the screen stating "script file imported successfully press ok" but it will not accept pressing ok.
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This looks good, but no love for the blackjack. The home refresh kills me unless I get rid of my testui panel, I just can't let go of it yet. If I did, I would have to set it to manually update or write something to check to make sure I wasn't using an app at the update time. Because it sux when you're in the middle of typing and you end up on the homescreen.
Updated the mscr
I noticed that on my today high and low and tommorrow's high and low, it was displaying the same info, I fixed it. Below is the zip that has the updated mscr. Also, I know some people are liking the CTestUIPanel alot. So I made an mscr that uses the weather watcher data to give you updated info in the CTestUIPanel.
Caution: Each one of these needs an exe. All that means is unzip these and put them in your nrg chome weather folder. In your chome weather folder you'll notice how each of your original mscr files has its own corresponding exe. Check this, just copy a few of these exes into this same folder. Then rename them to your newer mscr file names. For example.
Rename one of your copied .exe's to:
weathernoupdate.mscr and it's corresponding exe is weathernoupdate.exe
See, that's it. Once you do, you can assign a hotkey and these work well. This way you can keep your current CTestUIPanel. I assigned a hot key to my current and currentreverse and it allows me to scoll left and right through my CTestUIPanel. Pretty cool, it's like having pages in the CTestUIPanel. I have to give Showaco all the credit for the idea. He showed me what's up and I incoporated it into one of my mscr's. Anyway, the original weather.mscr Organic uses is in here. My updated mscr, if you are using my Current Panels is in there, it is just titled weather.mscr.
Play with others, tell me what you think, remember smartoolkit assigns hot keys to programs. It can be fun if you have some free keys to assign to these puppies. Later.
Outerdepth
Where in the mscr that you round up the numbers for visbility and wind so you don't get the values in 2 decimel points.
Thanks
New Update
I have posted an update to the mscr and there are some screenshots in the zip as well. Make sure you have the regs. I have shown this to a few so far, and it is being well received from the "higher ups". Try it. I think you'll be glad you did.
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I have posted an update to the mscr and there are some screenshots in the zip as well. Make sure you have the regs. I have shown this to a few so far, and it is being well received from the "higher ups". Try it. I think you'll be glad you did.
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So, I just tried this little gizmo out. I followed the directions you gave in the first post...
copied icon2 folder to chome weather folder
copied updated weather.mscr file to chome weather folder
copied currently.reg and currently2.red, applied currently.reg and then applied currently2.reg on the phone.
I then restarted and nothing happened, only thing that changed was the icons, but none of the other information is showing ,and there is no 3 pages to scroll in the current weather panel. What did I do wrong?
Thanks,
Adrian
I don't know, try to rename the reg keys to .ccs instead of .reg. Then go to your file explorer on your phone, then open these. This should make sure they are installed correctly. Sometimes I had problems with other peoples reg keys, it would say they were updated, but they didn't. Mikey and some others had this problem too.
Just try the rename reg key deal and reboot, then update the weather.exe. This should fix your problem.
PLEASE, let me know if this worked for you.
CHECK OUT NEW WEATHER APP & THREAD! (This Thread Retired) ODSHOWeather.CAB (8-07-08)
**Note**Thnx to Rafer,NRG/Z28,Pudgedaddy, Luckybandit!!!
WE HAVE A NEW WEATHER APP!!!! IT IS BETTER AND MORE EFFICIENT
CHECK OUT THE NEW THREAD!!!
Updated: (7-08-2008) ODSHOWeather v1.0.2b (8:37 p.m.)
Please read all instructions before posting. Thanks.
Showaco, I are happy to bring you what will be one of the final installments of the weather panel. I have worked on testing this thing for a while. The new addition is the radar page to the forecast panel. This includes a new app that is included in the cab. It's called Weather Radar. It is located as your right soft key link. Just click it from your phone to set it up. This is a separate app that runs in our panel, but is not required to use the panel at all. I just included this, because it is frickin' sweet. Just input your location and it shows an updated radar image for your area that is updated by the NOAA every 6 minutes. Trust me, if you work outside for a living, this is a godsend.
Like I said, this weather radar app is not part of our weather update or any panels display properties or anything, it is simply a link to a separate (yet related) app. That's all.
With that being said. This radar page is pretty sweet. Follow the instructions below to make sure your clock weather, forecast panel, AND radar are setup properly, before you use this. Hope you enjoy, there are 4 wavs for you to check out as updated voice messages. There are 4 panel borders that you could display. You have an option for now forecast panel (lite version) and an option to display a forecast panel (full version).
Look at the 3rd url below, in it is a zip that you can use to replace your digits in your clock panel. The digits1 are the originals, the digits 2 are the HTC Diamond Font numbers. If you are curious as to what they look like, just search HTC Diamond. Luckybandit posted these, so thanks to him. In order to have these display, just rename either folder to digits and drop it in your \Program Files\Outerdepth\KPWeather folder. They will overwrite the ones you have, but don't worry, I have supplied you with both. They will not completely show up until the forecast panel update has run, so set your fupdate value to 1 in your reg, and then run the update. The location in your reg is HKLM Software\Outerdepth\KPWeather.
Lastly, we do have a banner, so you can also edit your banner's display text. It is located in the options menu as well. It will be displayed in the scrolling texts in your clock panel. ENJOY!!!!!
CHECK OUT SHOWACO'S POST #2!!!!!
Instructions:
1. Download cab from link below.
2. Copy cab to smartphone. Using explorer or Total Commander, click on the
cab. It will install. If you have downloaded the cab before, don't
worry about uninstalling it, it will do all the work itself. That's it. All installations are done.
3. Go to your weather options and set them up. Do all of the options, if you want or expect all of the features to work!!
4. Run Weather Update. It will write your forecast panel and radar. That's it.
Link: Updated (7-07-2008) (8:37 p.m.) 3 Direct Link Downloads !!
URL #1: the ODSHOWeather v1.0.2a.cab NO RADAR
http://mobile.txcaesar.net/mobile/a... Showaco Productions ODSHOWeather v1.0.2a.cab
URL #2: the ODSHOWeather v1.0.2b.cab RADAR FOR YOUR PHONE!!
http://mobile.txcaesar.net/mobile/a... Showaco Productions ODSHOWeather v1.0.2b.cab
URL #3: the extra digits you can replace in your panels!!!
http://mobile.txcaesar.net/mobile/apps/homescreens/DigitsforYourPanel.zip
For our wavs, we have male, female, and even ones for our Latino(a) compadres!!!!
More Links
Here's links to a blackjack site:
http://mobile.txcaesar.net/mobile/m...pic&t=79&sid=a6200f782cbb757e6528f21c4214369a
and a moto q site:
http://www.everythingq.com/forum/software/kp-weather-plugin-for-clock-panel-23881.html
Here's the original 320x240 sliding panel cpr file for anyone who needs it to remove cclock weather and fat panels.
Looks nice! I'll have to try it out soon.
Looks great
The thumbnails look great. I have a couple of questions:
1. Looks like you are using the fat panels. Is it possible to use just a fat panel for this, and slim panels for the rest of the panels?
2. Will you be posting a cab anytime soon that automates the installation?
Thanks.
Great job
Can't wait to load your app on my Excalibur and try it out but I am at work and need to wait until I get home since you do not have a cab file.
Looks great but !!!! Even though I have added quite a few things to my phone your installation instructions are beyond my knowledge.
Step #4? More explanation needed. Are these registry files. Are they exe files? Where do I copy them and how do I run them.
Also, one other thing that I would like you to include. When you include the new option of radar, can we choose our own radar. The local TV station has an great radar screen for mobile phones that I would like to use.
Thank for all your work,
Tim
debabratadey said:
The thumbnails look great. I have a couple of questions:
1. Looks like you are using the fat panels. Is it possible to use just a fat panel for this, and slim panels for the rest of the panels?
2. Will you be posting a cab anytime soon that automates the installation?
Thanks.
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1. In sliding panels, as of now, all panels must be same size, no exceptions. But if there is interest, it is possible to kinda create the illusion of different size panels using panel backgrounds.
2. We hope to have cab up in a few days.
tf442 said:
Can't wait to load your app on my Excalibur and try it out but I am at work and need to wait until I get home since you do not have a cab file.
Looks great but !!!! Even though I have added quite a few things to my phone your installation instructions are beyond my knowledge.
Step #4? More explanation needed. Are these registry files. Are they exe files? Where do I copy them and how do I run them.
Also, one other thing that I would like you to include. When you include the new option of radar, can we choose our own radar. The local TV station has an great radar screen for mobile phones that I would like to use.
Thank for all your work,
Tim
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To run the reg files, you need to use a reg editor, I use resco explorer which does a great job but there are others.
As for as radar, It is possible to use custom radar, but that isn't the way we were headed right now. But we will consider it.
thats sweet.....its goin on mine as soon as I get home
The one thing I might like to add it that if you have any issues after uninstalling NRG's Chome Weather , where it gives a whie screen with an error unable to find weather.exe it's because it's still stuck in your notifications queue. Run Sktools and locate your notifications and find the offending notification and check it, then remove it. This will stop that error.
I'm only mentioning this in this thread as to warn others about this possible issue just avoid any confusion that by installing outerdepth's weather app, it does not cause this error.
Locked out of Messaging
After following your directions I am unable to acces messaging on my Dash and there is no weather. Please give more detail on step 4 on how to actually "Run" and reg file. Is it an import?
You're going to have to tell me where to edit the scrolling marquee stuff. I dont see where to customize it.
Nevermind: I found it.... for anyone who wants to know, you have to edit the KPWeather.mscr file in notepad or other text editing software and locate the txt8 value about a little past half way down the page and edit it. then overwite other original .mscr
Update: Where would i go to edit the Condensed Text in the forecast panel. I want to read something else besides CWeatherODSP
Nevermind on update: I figured out how to change the condensed text in forecast panel too.... i'm such an idiot sometimes... was an easy find.
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You're going to have to tell me where to edit the scrolling marquee stuff. I dont see where to customize it.
Nevermind: I found it.... for anyone who wants to know, you have to edit the KPWeather.mscr file in notepad or other text editing software and locate the txt8 value about a little past half way down the page and edit it. then overwite other original .mscr
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For non weather related additions to text loop, it can be easily added in the loop.mscr as a regwritestring added to bottom of current list.
showaco said:
For non weather related additions to text loop, it can be easily added in the loop.mscr as a regwritestring added to bottom of current list.
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It would be nice to add that as an option in the weather options .mscr.... other folks may not be saavy enough to use a text editor. It would kinda of "idiot proof' that function
Awesome App
Congrats Outer & Showaco. It's a great app & it works flawlessly. Only suggestion I have is if it's possible to make this for normal panels (I use normal, not slim). I know it's very difficult to put that much of information on this size (and I must say the clock panel looks AWESOME) but my other panels look really fat with too large fonts.
Anyway it's just a suggestion. The app is really cool and I have to say thank you for all your hard work
Cheers
Hey Outerdepth, this is awesome. We're finally going away from CTestUIPlugin. However, after copying my weather script line for line, even down to the directory names and graphics used... I would at least appreciated a little statement that this is all possible because you're using my application But hey....
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It would be nice to add that as an option in the weather options .mscr.... other folks may not be saavy enough to use a text editor. It would kinda of "idiot proof' that function
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Will be done later tonight, thanks for the input. We will add a user text line that can be edited from options panel.
You may also want to edit the Title on the consensedtitle panel. It currently reads: CWeatherODSP .... which to me doesn't seem to descriptive. I personally changed it to read "7-Day Weather Extended Forecast". that seems a little more descriptive to me. Of course you can do whatever you want to it, but using the title i use or some other variation of what i use may be a little more descriptive.
Slim Panels
showaco said:
1. In sliding panels, as of now, all panels must be same size, no exceptions. But if there is interest, it is possible to kinda create the illusion of different size panels using panel backgrounds.
2. We hope to have cab up in a few days.
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If possible, I would like the slim panels. I hope that there are others who would want it enough to motivate you to create the illusion you are talking about. Thanks, and waiting for the cab...
Yeah! A Real Weather App
Great job guys and will be even better when you add the "Doppler Radar" with automatic updates. Please use the newly released "Doppler Radar" for smartphones and pocketPC devices, again guys, this is a super awesome job.................!
Hi guys !
Everything is in the title
The thing is that I don't really know what is the default server TF3D is usung to update the weather (I think it is from accuweather) but the data displayed are most of the time not really true and sometimes stupid!
for example, the max is at 4°C and the minimum is 1°C and the weather displayed is 6°C!!! How could that be!!
So that's why I would like to change the server...
thanks, Cheers!
I agree, I have the same problem
are we the onlt two to face the problems or is there someone else ?
Because it is really annoying
I have the same problem from greece ,
The server show conditions diferent from all other sites, and not reliable.
I was accustomed to spb weather which was very precise and gave forecasts for morning, day, evening and night and gave the opportunity to choose the server. The weather of TF3D is ridiculous!
(Sorry for my English)
yeh I agree!
But I really want to use the weather plugin of TF3D and not to launch an other app just to watch it
I want the same thing! We hope that someone plug in a few developments that could improve the weather of TF3D.
I would love to change the server, too.
But does TF3D use some kind of common format for its forecast data, so that the server can be changed at all?
Same problems for me,
me too....
Another one here.
Unfortunately, only people with complains, nobody with solutions.
Hi guys !
Still no idea about that ?
same problem, german weather is most time not true.
Maybe yahoo weather, it is much more better i use it sometimes on the iphone.
I also use the Forecastfox Firefox extension which uses AccuWeather data on my laptop. This data rarely matches the AccuWeather data on my HD.
Silentd said:
same problem, german weather is most time not true.
Maybe yahoo weather, it is much more better i use it sometimes on the iphone.
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yeh you're probably right but how to set it on TF3D ? That's the question....
Did anyone find a clue to do this?
I didnt find anything in the registry and filesystem only the Manila files and with a link to accuweather
another one here that wants better weather reporting!
Not quite the same here.
I don't like the accuracy of the weather plugin, too, but i wonder, if it would be possible, to CHANGE the whole application behind the tab?
I wanted to start SPB Weather instead of Manila 3D-Weather when i push the weather tab in touchflow.....
Anyone knows if THAT would be possible, instead of changing the weather server?
get Weather database editor , with that i got every single town in my small country , after u instal that, u need to use http://www.accuweather.com to find your place code and enter it, its easy, try.
i got this small addon on this site, and im very thankfull to guy who made it for us.
accuweather is crap :/ i found my town but the temperature is always wrong -.-
I m trying to put xml code of 3evo default home screen (titanium bars) in xml home screen (my own).
But only i could see after that are titanium bars, every other bar, icon, plugin does not show up.
Message ookba, AlexSS, or Stlyez, perhaps NRG also although I haven't seen him around much lately. These guys can give you much better info via pm then feedback you'll get in a thread.
jdshifflett said:
Message ookba, AlexSS, or Stlyez, perhaps NRG also although I haven't seen him around much lately. These guys can give you much better info via pm then feedback you'll get in a thread.
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Everybody here talk about skins for titanium home but i want some theme about different-style-skins with traditional facade or fizz weather or some nice plugins.
Skin in "my production" use 3 tab - Facade, Fizz Weather, Contact-ing and some sms/mms/calls plugin and looks good but i want to do better, perhaps to set RSS news on today screen like on PPC or to get better weather plugin...
Hi Guys,
After living with Manilla ever since I got my TouchPro2 (I hate HTC Sense), I decided today to go back to the original Today Screen style, with 'Pocket Digital Clock' and 'Easy Today Launcher' doing the honours as useful plugins.
What I can't seem to find (and judging by a search in these forums and the internet nor can anyone else) is a simple one line plugin that displays Unread SMS/Emails and Missed Calls Counts, either as nice little icons, or just text.
I don't want to switch to HTC Home Plugin as that's too heavy for what I need.
I had a quick look at the MSDN samples and I'm sure I could have a crack at it, but it'd take me hours to even get a rough version working.... So, does anyone have a plugin that does what I need easily, or (long shot) does anyone fancy knocking one up for me?
Thanks in advance,
-Jar.