(QUESTION) Is there any TF3D image pack - Windows Mobile Software Development

Hi, would like to try to develop some applications for my HTC Diamond, but would some apps i download have a nice skin that looks like the built in apps in the phone, but when i develop some applications they are standard old windows apps, that dont look nice.
So my question is how do i make them look like the built in apps, with the styled buttons and so on, do you guys use some sort of skin for your apps?
Or do you allways make the buttons etc, in a program like photoshop or similiar?
Thanks
Dan

Start here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=566188
Otherwise, ask us designer, If you need help

Perfect... Just what i was looking for.

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Costum RUU (ROM) Builder

Hi,
i've wonder me if it would be possible to develop a program, where you can build yourself your Personal Rom, with every single program included that you want and with a selfexplainationary guide.
I Photoshoped something for you (see attached file)
BTW. I've really no ideas about Cooking and stuff!! Really Zero!!
Take a look,
cheers
McTell
I like the look of what you did.
I have been doing some reading and tinkering with the cooking apps, however have been unable to see what the real benefit is over taking a Ultra Clean Rom (like the Dopod) and then adding whatever you want?
In any event, I like your design of concept.
yu130960 said:
I like the look of what you did.
I have been doing some reading and tinkering with the cooking apps, however have been unable to see what the real benefit is over taking a Ultra Clean Rom (like the Dopod) and then adding whatever you want?
In any event, I like your design of concept.
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You just answered your own question..... the benefit is you have a "Ultra clean rom" then your adding whatever YOU want..........
I've just the Problem, that when I download a Rom, that there is Software included which I dont want (e.g. HTC Home). Maybe in Lite Roms its not included but therefore I miss other things^^.
Maybe you can also say: Okay I take WM6 Black Satin and then I select with a nice UI the things you need...
Thats the idea of it...
So i dont know about selfcooking yet... but such a progrom would selfcooking make so easy
Unfortunately its not running that easy
If you are removing programs from a rom then you have to look whether there are dependencies with other programs or not, you have to take care of registry entries and so on and so on.
Have a look at Pandora kitchen
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=316881
with it you choose which apps you want to cook in.
The big disadvantage in cooking apps in a rom is that every program is stored in the /windows folder no matter where you put it via the registry. That means a waste of space and resources because windows is accessing this folder very often. The more files there are the longer it takes and the slower is windows running. This is the reason for me to use a very light rom and install all needed software for myself.

[REQ]TouchCube on HD?

I owe both a Polaris and a Blackstone and, in my opinion, TouchCube is far better than TF3D. TF3D looks nice but let's face it... it eats up system resources, it's laggy, when browsing through tabs it's not very thumb friendly (you have to bend your thumb to the max), you can't customize the tabs position (it would help if they were placed on one side because it would be easier to scroll through the same number of items having at least 30% more room to place the tabs), the so called customization... is way too limited (you get to change the fonts, the tab order, the shortcuts... in the end you'll get the same layout), the multimedia section was divided with the unhappy default association of the video files with an application clearly meant for photos...
So... my question: can the TouchCube be ported on the Blackstone and, along with it the Polaris Audio Manager? Can the Album application be "broken" in two applications one handling the photos and the other the videos?
I was thinking just the other day "what happened to the cube?"
It was pretty cool. Think it would be good a replacement for the action screen thats floating about?
Try duttys ROM with new manila, TF3D is uber fast
Sallcho said:
Try duttys ROM with new manila, TF3D is uber fast
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and what about ergonomics?
So... I get it that no developer is interested in porting the Cube to Blackstone
I have never tried it, but how about the option "Cube" under HTC TouchFLO when using Advanced Config. How about changing that to Enabled, will that do the job?
I'll make it my next project
I'm currently finishing an animated today screen for this phone while docked but when I'm done that that I'll start work on a cube launcher that replaces the current Program's tab with a custom app that gives you a cube with multiple options for launching programs... icon view, rotate to list view, rotate to cover-flow view etc
Did you try the cube here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=336234
Maybe you just have to adapt to wvga screen ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=336234
I tried this one instead... installs ok but it's for qvga it starts and then it goes to the top-left corner. the animations work just fine, some of the links must be rebuilt... and that's about it. But... i mus admit it... i don't have the knowledge to port it to WVGA...
I know it won't be free, but what about something like SPB Mobile 3 due out at the end of March? Have a look at around 58 seconds in here:
http://www.wmexperts.com/update-spb-mobile-shell-3
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Just found a video showing it on a Touch HD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv8DDNE3lgA&feature=related
Cookie999
I appreciate the work of the people at SPB. It seams they did a good job. But... I am not a phonecentric person and something like the cube suites me better. SPBM3 looks like it requires a lot of time to be customized and even when you think you got it you wake up with a fully texted today screen and a directions map to help you swipe through screens...
The HTC TouchCube might seam blunt compareing it to SPBM3 but this is what I like about it... an easy way to launch/hide, easy recognition of the page you're in... i can't explain it very well but for me... the TouchCube is more natural, more organized and a better interface than the windows start menu when it comes to basic tasks.
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! SPB Mobile 3 looks great... forget what I wrote before. No need to write what they have already written
Cookie999 said:
I know it won't be free, but what about something like SPB Mobile 3 due out at the end of March? Have a look at around 58 seconds in here:
http://www.wmexperts.com/update-spb-mobile-shell-3
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Just found a video showing it on a Touch HD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv8DDNE3lgA&feature=related
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Dude! That looks freeking awesome and just think I neally bought an iPhone 3G
=]
nice i like it...
Cookie999 said:
I know it won't be free, but what about something like SPB Mobile 3 due out at the end of March? Have a look at around 58 seconds in here:
http://www.wmexperts.com/update-spb-mobile-shell-3
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Just found a video showing it on a Touch HD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv8DDNE3lgA&feature=related
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looks great!!
it moves really good!
Please resize the cube for vga/wvga would love it!!
yea spb mobile shell 3.0 does look good buuuuuuttttttttttttt its not free cost almost $30 and to be honest like many of you have been saying, i do miss the cube app from the htc touch...that app was very cool an useful plus i loved how when you needed it you just swiped up an when you were done you swiped down an that was that... SO I TO HOPE THAT IT CAN BE RESIZED FOR VGA AND WVGA!!!!!
Mrferrari23
If only I could... I'd do it myself
If it was posible id like the touchcube too, it's more finger friendly imo and it's faster to use. Like said before, if I knew how to do it myself, I would..
Bell UI
Browsing the internet I found the Bell UI. Looks quite nice.
To all the chefs out there... is there a chance to port this to HD? 'Cause I'm kinda' giving up the idea of the Cube being ported to the HD...

Who here disabled TF3D?

Anyone disabled TF3D and kept the original WM home screen interface? I personally disabled it and kept the original interface even though I don't like how the WM SMS look. I disabled it because I don't like the default TF3D colors and I tried changing it black, but it's a no go. I don't know why! I did change the background and the drop menu all black which looks pretty neat since anything black looks good. What I really want is the WM6.5 Zune interface so I can't wait for WM6.5 official release!!!
Let us know what you have.
TF3D does not appeal to me!
TF3D is pretty, so people "oooo" and "aaah" over the phone and buy it.
However, I still think that TF3D is a bunch of useless kitsch that gets in the way of actually using the phone effectively. After a few hours of it interfering with what I want to do, I turned it off. (At least this time it took a few hours and not a few minutes.)
This is especially true of the messaging (it's just in the way), and the photo album. (who wants to see tiny, slanted, distorted versions of the pictures?) It's been a while, so I cannot remember the other specific things that annoyed me.
TF3D was the first thing I disabled on the device... I don't like that I cannot choose my own programs and way of working.
I use Wisbar Advance and Wisbar Desktop
on my personal Touch HD I much prefered the TouchFLo interface to the standard windows one - saying that, that was running a Dutty ROM
However on my work TP2 - I have it disabled as it gets in the way of my business apps - i.e. MS Communicator etc.
TF3D has bad things an good things.
The biggest failure and that's why TF3D is just crap is because it's not intuitive and easy to use. Way to many steps to get things done, pretty useless taskbar (exepts for the killing programs part). You can do to much information on one screen at the same time and too little. It's nice that they include things like a calendar, but it's pretty useless and in many ways TF3D makes the use of third party software actually harder.
The very good things about touchflo 3d is the push pages, the scheduels, and the best thing is the fueture to see all of your conversation with one contact. I really love it. Next to that it's snappy and pretty.
Well I treid SPB mobile shell 3, but it just doesn't do it. Also many features, but the fact is: when I use my phone it's to get something done pretty quickly. I just want to be able that I have a good view of all the info I need (messages, appointments) in the least ammount of time and to be able to do something in little time. The regular wm is just very easy. Start - settings/programs - choose- done.
Seeing my messages when there is a new one I get a popup and pres view and I there. I do not have to click the task baar. Get a new screen there push on the button, then being transported to the touchflo tab and then have to choose the message.
THats 2 clicks vs 4/5 clicks.
I kept the default TF3d for now, as soon as the official WM 6.5 ROM will be available, I'll switch to the Titanium UI.
Bright.Light said:
TF3D was the first thing I disabled on the device... I don't like that I cannot choose my own programs and way of working.
I use Wisbar Advance and Wisbar Desktop
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I will give Wisbar Advance a try. Thanks!
I prefer Manilla2D over TF3D.
how
how do you disable tf3d??
cavenger said:
how do you disable tf3d??
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go to Settings>Personal>Today>, Items Tab & untick the TF3D then click OK
ty!! Need to find something to replace it now.
henh said:
go to Settings>Personal>Today>, Items Tab & untick the TF3D then click OK
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mschaffer said:
TF3D is pretty, so people "oooo" and "aaah" over the phone and buy it.
However, I still think that TF3D is a bunch of useless kitsch that gets in the way of actually using the phone effectively. After a few hours of it interfering with what I want to do, I turned it off. (At least this time it took a few hours and not a few minutes.)
This is especially true of the messaging (it's just in the way), and the photo album. (who wants to see tiny, slanted, distorted versions of the pictures?) It's been a while, so I cannot remember the other specific things that annoyed me.
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I totally agree!
SPB Mobile Shell 3.0. I like having one-touch access to everything I need (email, sms, weather, contacts, favorites, apps, etc...) right on the front page.
FEWidgets Ultimate 1.0b7
cavenger said:
ty!! Need to find something to replace it now.
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An interesting 'Widget' based replacement for TF3D I came on when I was looking around on XDA.
"FEWidgets Ultimate" by nicodega.
It replaces TF3D completely as a 'Today' plugin.
Basically one just has to install the CAB.
(Note: it will not show up under All Programs, but as a Today plugin only)
> Go into Settings> Today>
> Remove check next TF3D
> Enable Check next to FEWidgets Ultimate
Two versions- Large widgets and Small Widgets for anyone who needs a whole bunch of widgets.
I did try it out on my TMO TP2 and both versions basically work when I tested each separately.
Though I haven't tried fine-tuning each widget for my TP2 yet.
Enjoy.
i kept my TP1 and gave the TP2 to Dad whose TmoWing crapped out. Had to disable TF3D for him today. The last straw was contacts/call history will not allow you to dial out, it's link to the phone dialer was broken or something. I don't know if this is a result of a tweak I did or if the Tmo's TF3D version has a bug. After disabling TF3D, you can press the contacts again to call out. For future reference, anyone know the cause/solution?
Like above guy said, now I need a replacement for tf3d. The last version of BatteryStatus that I used was 1.04build266 from this time last year, which has since been replaced by HomeScreenPlusPlus or something like that. Anyone know of a stable version for the TP2? Stable enough for Dad?
Today Plugins
I kept the default TF3D, but with HDWall, because I love the eye-candy of the interface and I find it very intuitive to use. I have also tried other today plugins, such as PointUI Home 2, FEWidgetsUltimate and iPhonetoday, but none of them felt as smooth and easy to use as TF3D for me. Out of the other interfaces I tried I find FEWidgetsUltimate to be the best.
LINK - iPhoneToday
LINK - FEWidgetsUltimate
LINK - HDWall
LINK - PointUI
EDIT: On my previous device I tried SPB Mobile Shell - LINK
I also got rid of TF3D. IMHO that is eye candy for people who don't know how to use a computer - and that is still a large number of people out there using phones. W/o TF3D I get things quicker done and have more flexibility to set up the phone the way I use it best.
Aquila-169 said:
I kept the default TF3D, but with HDWall, because I love the eye-candy of the interface and I find it very intuitive to use. I have also tried other today plugins, such as PointUI Home 2, FEWidgetsUltimate and iPhonetoday, but none of them felt as smooth and easy to use as TF3D for me. Out of the other interfaces I tried I find FEWidgetsUltimate to be the best.
LINK - iPhoneToday
LINK - FEWidgetsUltimate
LINK - HDWall
LINK - PointUI
EDIT: On my previous device I tried SPB Mobile Shell - LINK
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Thanks for the link! HDWall and Mobileshell looks nice.
It is VERY usefull for me! I can't use without! I'm bored by WinMo interface.
I too found TF obtrusive and unintuitive so switched it off. I used to use SPB Mobile Shell on the Kaiser and liked it, but I'm a bit fed up of the way it doesn't integrate with Informant and Flexmail, so I'm back to the WM interface and don't miss all the bloat.

WM 6.5 Classic + Lite Roms??

Anyone Know Where Can I Find A Classic and Lite wm 6.5 rom??..i searched here but i didnt find what i need...i found classic rom only or lite rom only...can anyone help
arrgh what exactly do you need, cause there is plenty of wm6.5 roms there, so i can't really understand what couldn't you find?
Yes, if you are a LOT more specific, I would be willing to cook you one real quick. It would be based on my last release of 23569. This has the buttons on the bottom of the screen instead of the top.
What features exactly do you need? Bluetooth? Office? Themes? Titanium??? Try to be really specific, and I will attempt to get you what you need.
Hey Supersport
Hey supersport
First of all thanx for all the good job and improvments you're making...
i downloaded your 23504 Blue & Lite and it works fine and its so cool. but could you plz make a ROM that is more power saver and also lite and fast.
I myself dont pay much attention to the beauty and ... but what is important to me is a lite,fast and stable rom and the one that doesnt drains battery fast and also i dont need many applications existing in these RMS...just some essential ones ...
BTW it would be very nice of you if you put a voice recoder in your ROM.
Thx in advnace,...man,so much i asked you,i just meant it would be much better for those who use their PPC only as a phone and besides they need just a few applications useful to them like voice recorder and etc... i appeciate all your effort and good work till now...
persguy said:
Hey supersport
First of all thanx for all the good job and improvments you're making...
i downloaded your 23504 Blue & Lite and it works fine and its so cool. but could you plz make a ROM that is more power saver and also lite and fast.
I myself dont pay much attention to the beauty and ... but what is important to me is a lite,fast and stable rom and the one that doesnt drains battery fast and also i dont need many applications existing in these RMS...just some essential ones ...
BTW it would be very nice of you if you put a voice recoder in your ROM.
Thx in advnace,...man,so much i asked you,i just meant it would be much better for those who use their PPC only as a phone and besides they need just a few applications useful to them like voice recorder and etc... i appeciate all your effort and good work till now...
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Good Morning persguy;
Can you tell me exactly what you would like in this ROM? I see Voice Recorder, but what other items do you want? When people say they want the essential items, I'm not sure what that person thinks is essential. If you specifically state what items are important to you, I will do my best to accommodate your request.
Do you prefer the start menu at the Top, or Bottom? Do you prefer WM 6.1 or WM 6.5?
I'd Like To See
Basics as far as making a rom that has a calendar, task manager, camera, weather ect. but lose all the youtube and twitter and parlingo type apps. Those things can be added if you want them but not taken away once cooked in. There a couple lite roms like this but in a way they are too lite. Im still trying to figure out how to install an energy rom type weather on the super lite rom. Maybe Im just slow or I missed something.
aj45690 said:
Basics as far as making a rom that has a calendar, task manager, camera, weather ect. but lose all the youtube and twitter and parlingo type apps. Those things can be added if you want them but not taken away once cooked in. There a couple lite roms like this but in a way they are too lite. Im still trying to figure out how to install an energy rom type weather on the super lite rom. Maybe Im just slow or I missed something.
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The Energy Series are anything BUT light. Unfortunately, to get those basics you speak about, it makes the ROM non-lite. I can cook a rom with the M2D interface (with weather) with unneeded tabs disabled and remove many of the 'Extra' packages if you like, but it will not be considered a Lite ROM. You can also customize that ROM using my Kitchen. This way you can add or remove any variables you like.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=712385
I had once tomme45i 6.1 ROM and it was really great but had some problems like i couldnt recieve files via bluetooth and some other minor problems.
I'm looking for a fast 6.5 not draining battery.The design is not important to me,and i just need basic stuff like calender,media player,office,voice recorder,...as im a medical practitioner i would install some medical applications myself but dont need professional mobile applications or any fancy ones,games,...by the way quickmenu is real cool...
Sorry guys for being late to reply.
ok..what i mean is that i see here many wm 6.5 roms in the classic way (they look like wm 6.1) but they are full of unwanted applications ..so i was wondering if anyone know where can i find a wm 6.5 classic rom and to be a lite rom which doesn't contain alot of applications.

HTC HD - BlackStone, my "Tweaked" Final Version.

Hello EveryOne!
I'm here since some weeks now, to look, try and improve everything. This, in order to build a final version of my HTC Blackstone in perfect accordance with my demands.
I mean:
Look, Speed, DailyUse, No Freeze, No Bugs, whatever the program I use. And I won, got the perfect one!
Please see here under:
A) Look:
Screens are in attachment...
Well it is sober, but that's what I like. My Htc BlackStone looks what it is: a BlackStone.
Sometimes, when I see what people ask here to developpers, I laugh and think: "Oh Gosh! Why don't they ask for a washmachine in their cell-phone too?".
B) Rom WM 6.1 Manila 2.1, and Radio:
The ROM is - HTC_Touch_HD_MR_2009_RUU_BlackStone_HTC_FRA_1.56.406.1
and the Radio - Radio_52.62.25.34_1.13.25.24
Why these ROM and Radio? Because they are the official of HTC, much easier for me to customize than some beautiful cooked I found and tried here, as Miri's, Dutty's, KWbr's or Panoshka's.
I tried other official versions, and I honestly don't see a meaningful difference, except that some added programs couldn't work properly.
I think the most simple it is, the best it works... So, even if mixing WN 6.1 with Sense 2.5, or WM 6.5 with Manila 2.1 works, the result seem to me too complicate. As well, making deep changes increase risk of instability, bugs, especially by adding other third party programs.
In fact, if you are developper yourself, you know what you do, then you can fix problems. But if you're not, then it's better to stay on one's level, without pretention or arrogance, and just try to customize with simple things...
C) Added programs, (IN THIS ORDER, laughing!):
01-BS_Rilphone_1_13_25_24.cab
02-NETCFv35.wm.armv4i.cab
03-Tnyynt SD TuneUP.cab
04-IPC_Black_Calculator.cab
05-Black Dialer EN.cab
06-Whiteglow Transparant Clock.cab
07-Glass icons.cab
08-Dutty's NoTopCurtain.cab
09-Diamond_TF3D_Config_Setup.cab
10-HD Tweak 0.5.4_French.cab
11-Celogeek_tweak_20080808.cab
12-mUn background4allpages.cab
13-HushSMS-v0.6beta.CAB
14-ACR Version 1.2.4.CAB
15-Express News 1.0.39.cab
16-DeluxeMoon.cab
17-BattLog0.2.3.130.zip
18-CorePlayer v1.3.6 Build-7427 for PPC.cab
All those programs can be found on the site, except for item 15-Express News and 18-Core player, I found on the websites using "search".
D) My comments:
Well, today, a cellphone can be use for quite everything: as GPS, Radar detector, remote control or...phonecalls!
Mine is fast, stable, safe, and does what I want efficiently:
Phonecalls, contacts, texts, mails, news, websurf, meteo, pictures, movies, music, FM Radio, and the Moon for fun...
I don't need more, and with this config, it is a rocket as fast as the new phones i tried: Iphone4, HTC Desire or Samsung Galaxy S.
I was about to buy a new one of these, to be "up to date", but I don't see the utility anymore!
A good config on a Blackstone is a MUST.
Best regards,
BobbyTrash
Ps: To perfect this look, I was looking for a ".cab" to make Topbar and Bottombar transparent, I didn't found it here. Some cooked ROM do it, perhaps a developper can provide such a cab...
In an other way, a short program allowing to rename and link easely unused tabs, would be useful too, whatever the ROM or kitchen...
mate you haven't cooked a Rom, your just tweeking
Yes, absolutely..
I just did it for people who search for simple customisation, more than for a cook...
I thought it was clear in my post, though! Thanks for your answer.
Bobby
probably should be moved to the themes and apps section
You're right...
How to do that?
Regards,
Bobby
Only mods can move threads
MOD EDIT - Thread moved to Themes & Apps section..........and renamed
do you have opera 10?
if yes, is it launching from the manila tab?
seugirdor said:
do you have opera 10?
if yes, is it launching from the manila tab?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7706060&postcount=2158
waraney said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7706060&postcount=2158
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does it work in wm6.1? because i asked it here because the rom in this thread is wm6.1
maybe you can ask on that thread, coz im using WM6.5x..

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