Develop Bugs

Vista skin - WIP - coder needed!

Hey all
I have an idea for a Vista skin, but I haven't got the skills needed to code it myself.
I therefore need a coder. I've made all the graphics needed - please see below!
Look here for my preview:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
As stated before, I've recreated Vistas look from the ground and up, using Photoshop. Therefore, all elements are ready for slicing and implementing!
// PREHISTORY //
I saw the skin "VistaMaximus" for iPhone, and thought that we could use something similiar for our Windows Mobile devices. The Vista skins I found for the HTC Touch HD were ok, but not exactly what I was looking. And I'd be damned if some iPhone-teenager shows up with a fancier Windows Vista skin, than my Windows Mobile phone can't best!!
// I TRIED...//
Well, the MaxTTM can do a LOT, so I gave it a try. However, it can't do nearly enough to make this skin (or I'm just a dork using it).
I'm experienced in making homescreens for the Windows Mobile 2003/2005 devices (coding my own XML-files from the ground), but I have no idea how to hack the TouchFlo3D interface, which this is propably all about...
// FUNCTIONS //
=> Having been inspired by the iPhone, the 3 dots in the bottom, indicates a "finger swipe"-navigation. It should lead to icon pages for the programs you have installed.
- This isn't the most important, as applications could be accessed from the windows button.
=> Implementing weatherapp and a note taking app on the frontpage is pretty crucial.
=> The calender on the frontpage should be removed automatically, if no events occurs on this day or the next day (smiliar to stock skin behavior).
// MY THOUGHS ABOUT THE CODING //
One could do this skin as a program, like the iPhone skin for Windows Mobile, iFonz/iFonz2. However, this will propably result in a very slow and sluggish performance?
I don't know too much about this however.
// Please help me out here... //
If anyone here's got the needed coding skills and want to help me with this skin, please PM me!
I will keep this thread updated on the status of this skin.

Reserved for future usage.

jeez looks promising
will be a must if it is finally released
maybe would of been better trying to go with windows 7 skin and not vista...

this looks very good...I hope you will make this

Thanks - A coder still haven't looked at this, unfortunately...
- Regarding a Windows 7 skin - sure, when the Vista one is done... For now, I like the Vista skin the most, because functionality and looks works very nice with the HD screen.

jakobdam said:
Thanks - A coder still haven't looked at this, unfortunately...
- Regarding a Windows 7 skin - sure, when the Vista one is done... For now, I like the Vista skin the most, because functionality and looks works very nice with the HD screen.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
All of what you have In mind can be done with Wisbar Advance Desktop 2 over at Lakeridge http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/index.php

Thanks - yeah, I'm currently googling my keyboard keyless, and I found Wisbar Desktop 2 an hour ago.
I'm still investigating the hows - as far as I can see; if I make a skin using it, the skin will require the users to also install Wisbar Desktop 2 - and to eventually buy it (in order to use the WAD2-files)? Is that correct understood?

jakobdam said:
Thanks - yeah, I'm currently googling my keyboard keyless, and I found Wisbar Desktop 2 an hour ago.
I'm still investigating the hows - as far as I can see; if I make a skin using it, the skin will require the users to also install Wisbar Desktop 2 - and to eventually buy it (in order to use the WAD2-files)? Is that correct understood?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes thats correct, I used to use it till I came over to TouchFLO but from what your after it's the only way I can see it could be done. Other than that your asking for a complete OS rebuild.

*sigh*, whatever happened to the good old WM5/2003 days, when we could make our own homescreens by just making an XML-file and some pics?
These overlay solutions - WD2, SPB MS2 etc. - are bound to be damn slow, compared to if it was possible to do themes that one could choose instead of TF3D.

Really good, I love your note in the preview picture about Piano lesson
Anyway, hope you will make it

Fantastic!!! I wish, I could help you...
Can't wait!!!
Greets and best wishes

Damn, I've tried for days now, to find a developer suite to make this skin. I really want it, and I've realized, that I'll have to program it myself.
But first of all, I need a coding environment. Visual Studio is too expensive, and the free Express doesn't support Windows Mobile.
So, anyone have suggestions what to do?

EDITORIAL: Newest Interface Schemes for WindowsMobile/ Android HTC Phones

There's a lot of development at XDA, but often hard to get a snapshot of what is happening all over the site. Since this topic covers multiple phones, and is about modifying the whole user interface of the phones, it seems right to post it here. I would like to see more energy put into User Experience design -- and general usability -- as opposed to just replicating what's out there.
For me, all the effort that's been spent on replicating the Windows 6.5 interface is such an un-leveraged, fairly wasteful use of time and energy -- other than for decoration purposes so someone can say "I've got the invisible honeycomb look!". ( Microsoft's CEO Ballmer himself, as most industry analysts, have seen it as a lame band-aid for Microsoft to APPEAR to be innovating after apple kicked its ass. This is why what should have been a HUGE marketing & branding campaign, heralding WINDOWS PHONE as the new brand for Windows Mobile as instead been fairly low-key. Because the phones are all out there already from HTC, etc, but they're running the ugly, left-in-the-dust 6.5 interface. Ballmer acknowleged WindowsMobile 7.0 should be out -- and THAT could be a game changer. It will for sure have elements of the Zune HD interface, which is following the interface "family" (or eco-system -- new word of the year) of Windows 7.0 desktop user experience )
I'd like to see what user interface designers think about all of this.
It seems to me that the world of touchscreen phones has, essentially, four navigation schemes:
(1) Apple iphone is a grid-based icon system, which "sells" the idea of specialty apps -- as replacements for 90% of them which could be web pages displaying through a decent mobile browser.
(2) Palm's Web OS, which essentially uses a full screen version of Apple's own "coverflow" display system -- providing a context-view of what else is nearby the main window you're working with.
(3) Android's widget-based system -- which I view as enabling unrestricted usage of the entire screen, to be adapted into custom navigation schemes and display systems for applets & widgets.
(4) WM's old-fashioned pull-down menu, click-through to tiny-type interface screens, all inconsistent from one another, forming a hodge-podge stick and glue user experience. It just barely gets you where you need to go.
(I know all of these can be, and should be, disputed. But it's just to set the stage for: what can we do on HTC phones that provides flexible and rapid-access interfaces for the functions people use most).
---------------------------------------
So here are some examples:
---------------------------------------
This is the interface for a new WindowsXP phone made in China. I saw this today on GIZMODO:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
--
The above XP phone interface is not for Windows Mobile, but for fully functional Windows XP OS. So we see more convergence of platforms and devices. But there are some resemblances to some other schemes emerging, some of which we see at XDA:
For example:
1. FEWidgets Ultimate 1.0b12 , screenshots below:
It's nice to see some original thinking going on here, vs just accepting TouchFlo 3 as a great interface just because it's shipping on so many phones.
2. HTC's Hero theme transformed people's view of the possibilities for Android OS ...
To me, android's initial round of wallpaper schemes made the whole UI appear lifeless and ugly, like some bad imitation Salvador Dali painting. But HTC's Hero showed how some simple graphical elements could transform the overall appearance of Android -- which I am sure made Android's makers very happy, since they built something with an open architecture. (I want to save Sense UI for separate discussion)
3. ANDROKKID (from XDA's iFonz developer)
Written in dot net, this is the newest interface scheme from "simo" of simosoftprojects.com. He developed about 4 iterations of the iFonz interface over a two-year period before putting it to bed earlier this year in favor of the more Android-like "Anrokkid". Once simo moved away from ifonz (icon grid) and towards androkkid, the "radical change" was making the whole screen addressable in terms of navigation and display elements, and open-source widgets.
Now that we see the Hero Theme for Androkkid, to me this look also demonstrates the greater power available to revamp the entire look of Androkkid... more than just dragging around some widgets on a phone desktop.
Some emerging examples:
--
Would love to get some comments -- and some posts of other current interface schemes being developed here at XDA. thanks!
(Mods -- if this thread belongs elsewhere, would you please move it and PM me so that I understand where and why. thank you)

Please tell me hot upgrade above mentioned very damn good products on my i780....?

psolunke said:
Please tell me hot upgrade above mentioned very damn good products on my i780....?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sorry I don't know what the i780 is ... I probably should, but I don't. Is it an HTC phone?
I think the best investment of time right now is ANDROKKID -- because I read recently that the developer of FEWidgets has less time to move along his excellent UI ....
Androkkid thread is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=540428
You have to invest time to go read and follow its instructions. People are very helpful in the thread. The main thing you may want to know is that Androkkid is an application that installs with a .cab file. It has never been cooked into a ROM, as far as I know. Because it is unnecessary to do so.
It requires Microsoft .net compact framework.

Samsung i780..now I hv WM 6.5 in it.
Please let me know how can you help me out.

psolunke said:
Samsung i780..now I hv WM 6.5 in it.
Please let me know how can you help me out.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It's very simple:
Go to the link for the thread I listed above -- the official ANDROKKID thread, and post there: "How do I install Androkkid on my Samsung 1780 running WM 6.5 ?"
Seriously, I cannot help you. Only they can. good luck.

Windows Phone 7 UI For Windows

Hi All!
Do you want Windows Phone 7 UI For your Windows Computer?
Well check THIS out:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Full Customizable:
It uses Rainmeter and is made by, fediafedia, Xyrfo, Varels42 and ME (Taichou-Henk)
Please go to this link for the download link!
http://taichou-henk.deviantart.com/art/Omnimo-UI-for-Rainmeter-158715959

no thanks, though i run linux anyway. I would like it for the hd2 though.
im sure others would give it a shot

So this is it's own application, not an xbmc skin or something?
It would be cool if it was a Media Center 7 Skin! Of course, most would probably want something for Myth or XBMC.

ebbinger_413 said:
So this is it's own application, not an xbmc skin or something?
It would be cool if it was a Media Center 7 Skin! Of course, most would probably want something for Myth or XBMC.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
it is not a media center skin
It's a skin for rainmeter, the customizable desktop widget meter
And it's not it's own program,
It's rainmeter, an opensource program to write your own widgets

I like it

will give it a try as soon i'm @ home again..
@satchef1 .. where can i get that wallpaper?

I can't remember where it came from, so I've uploaded a copy to imageshack for you (and anyone else that wants it). Enjoy

satchef1 said:
I can't remember where it came from, so I've uploaded a copy to imageshack for you (and anyone else that wants it). Enjoy
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
thx for that ;-)

Here's mine

How did you get that taskbar?

What have this to do with windows phones
Delete this thread.

stianbert said:
What have this to do with windows phones
Delete this thread.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Seeing as how it was just posted on the front page I don't think your request for deletion is going anywhere fast.
And its Windows 7 Series from.. gasp .. the windows PHONE. Its just a desktop theme instead of a phone theme.

Like the background with anime girl!! Please post Giblet-dono!! ;D

rmahmoodi said:
How did you get that taskbar?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It comes with the theme. But you have to download a software first to change the Start Orb (just google "Windows 7 start orb changer") & point the software to the bitmap in the zip from fediafedia

Have you try to set an other mail account than Gmail ? I don't understand how to modify the setup file to use my hotmail account.

Hmm... I must be really stupid... the 'Fail safe' installation failed for me.
I'm on Windows 7 32 bit.
I installed and ran Rainmeter, then exited.
I made sure Rainmeter\Skins folder is located in Documents.
Copied Omnimo UI\Data\Skins\WP7 to Documents\Rainmeter\Skins, and copied the Data\Themes\Omnimo folder to APPDATA\Rainmeter\Themes.
I launched Rainmeter, and the Omnimo theme is not in the list of themes, though WP7 exists in the Configs.
Any help would be appreciated, as the theme looks lush and I'd like to have a play

How to install the theme
It's much easier than the copying an pasting of files.
Since you already installed Rainmeter, you're good at this point, but if you wanna start fresh, these are the steps that I followed:
1. Download Rainmeter 1.1 from here: http://rainmeter.net/RainCMS/
in your OS version (32-bit or 64-bit)
2. Install it
3. Run it once
4. Download Omnimo UI from here: http://fediafedia.deviantart.com/art/Omnimo-UI-1-01-for-Rainmeter-158707137
5. Extract the files, open up the extracted folder, and run the Rainstaller exe
6. Select the WP7 theme in Rainmeter
7. Done.
Also, if anyone needs any help setting up icons for their programs in the WP7 programs panel, which is called the launcher in the configuration, pm me and I can guide you on how to make your own program icons and, or, I can make them for you and send them to you. so far, i was able to make the mixcraft icon and bittorrent icon seen in my screenshot. I'm still trying to figure out how to use the mail icon with hotmail like Misutsu is also working on. Cheers everyone!

How do you manage the STEAM and ZUNE modules? THX

how can i set an other e-mail account like hotmail?

this rainmeter is really cool!
but i have some issues on customizing it...
how to add simple shortcut in other "wp7" boxes (or how to create new boxes) (i'd like to make some custom shortcuts to XBMC, GAMES folder, APPS folder, MYPC and NETWORK resources, etcetera)

[Q] Windows 7 Mobile Standalone Project

Ok, so Wisbar Advance Desktop is great for making a Windows 7 theme, but for me there just aren't enough options to actually do a great job in imitating the Windows 7 OS. So, I was wondering why nobody has made a standalone app of Windows 7 for windows Mobile?
If I had the knowledge, I would program one, but I can only make graphics in photoshop.
In case of confusion, I don't mean a port as I know that is impossible, but a recreation of windows 7 using images, sounds, scripts, custom apps that windows 7 app would understand and run within that program would be the best thing windows mobile 6.5 could ever see .
Any views on this??
Obviously, it would be a fairly big app, no bigger than running wisbar advance desktop with a theme installed though, but the app could be cooked into a rom with all the other crap removed so there's lots of memory for windows 7 mobile to run.

I think this is the best [App] TodayXLive v1.0.0.3 BETA TEST

esberlat said:
I think this is the best [App] TodayXLive v1.0.0.3 BETA TEST
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi but that is a Windows Phone 7 theme, not Windows 7 Mobile. I've made a quick first screen shot of how Windows 7 Mobile would look at a WVGA resolution:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Windows Media Player running - This would actually be a custom made app using Windows Media Player graphics/ skin (windows 7 style) using coreplayer API scripts to have the full functionality as coreplayer such as wider format support. The app would be made to overlap the windows 7 mobile app interface to give the illusion that Windows Media Player is running on the desktop .
This would give a true feel of having 'light weight' windows 7 OS on a mobile device.
If you hold down with your finger, you can access the menu just like how it would look on windows 7 and put the video in full screen. I'd love to be able to use the desktop as a go-between for switching from one app to another such as to winamp or a file explorer.
You guys probably think "why don't you just buy a 4 inch tablet running windows 7??" Simply because, the full windows 7 OS doesn't run well on tablets and isn't optimized for touch.
As you guessed, I'm a windows freak, and not a windows mobile fan lol. Please if anyone can shed any light on this idea, please give your input. I'd be interested to know how much it could possibly cost also (any problems with this moderators, feel free to edit).
More images to come shortly.

I use remote desktop, it's the best windows 7 port for the TP2

husam666 said:
I use remote desktop, it's the best windows 7 port for the TP2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Remote desktop is cool, but you have to be on wifi network or 3G in order to use it and also your remote desktop (your PC) would have to be free and have noone working at it. Besides, windows 7 just isn't practical to run on a small screen as you can only see a 10th of the desktop area whereas a mobile version would be optimized for a small screen. A theme just doesn't give the same feel as once you fire up an app on the phone, you're back into the windows mobile interface so you're no longer in a windows 7 desktop. Unfortunately, it seems this has always been the case for wisbar advance. Of course, you'd have to create modded apps to run on the desktop. Only one which already exists is winampaq and works very well but don't have windows media player.

Tozzy2 said:
Remote desktop is cool, but you have to be on wifi network or 3G in order to use it and also your remote desktop (your PC) would have to be free and have noone working at it. Besides, windows 7 just isn't practical to run on a small screen as you can only see a 10th of the desktop area whereas a mobile version would be optimized for a small screen. A theme just doesn't give the same feel as once you fire up an app on the phone, you're back into the windows mobile interface so you're no longer in a windows 7 desktop. Unfortunately, it seems this has always been the case for wisbar advance. Of course, you'd have to create modded apps to run on the desktop. Only one which already exists is winampaq and works very well but don't have windows media player.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
if you have more than one user account you can connect to one while the person is using the other, but it kinda fills the RAM if you have very limited resources

well once you peel the skin it's the fugly WM interface again...do you think HTC and Sammy have not tried that idea? :-D

husam666 said:
if you have more than one user account you can connect to one while the person is using the other, but it kinda fills the RAM if you have very limited resources
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks very much for that, I never knew. I have 4GB and my family only use for browsing the internet so that leaves loads of RAM for me

Tozzy2 said:
Thanks very much for that, I never knew. I have 4GB and my family only use for browsing the internet so that leaves loads of RAM for me
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
you should be fine with that, a running user account takes about 500-700 MB of ram

x2h said:
well once you peel the skin it's the fugly WM interface again...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Exactly . It's not a sight for sore eyes lol. I think Microsoft failed badly when they designed WM.
do you think HTC and Sammy have not tried that idea? :-D
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
What went wrong? I've just been looking at a ROM with 145MB free RAM, plenty of space for a stripped down win 7 to run in replace of the WM start menus and grids etc. Then all it needs to run over the top of it are the well known familiar apps such as WMP window image using coreplayer scripts replace the need for coreplayer, a yahoo messenger to replace palringo. It's been tried before?

[App ] Control your Windows 8 via Android

I Found it via Google, but i found THIS thread too in XDA..
I am not the owner of this app, or any of its content. I just want to share this to world that's what the reason i am posting this thread.​
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Screen Shots :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
What is
Windows 8 Controller?
It is an app for smartphones which lets you control your Windows 8 PC as if it is a tablet.
Watch out its just amazing
Windows 8 Controller lets you control your Windows 8 PC as if it is a tablet. Just using your Android phone, you can experience the Windows 8 gestures like pinch, stretch, rotate, swipe, side gestures etc.
Easily scroll through web pages, pinch to zoom in your photos, cycle through open apps...
It's fast and fluid! Give it a try, you'll love it!
Some features of Windows 8 Controller includes:
- Multitouch gestures (pinch, stretch, swipe, rotate)
- Natural Scrolling Experience (Scroll horizontally and vertically as you scroll on a tablet)
- Use as a mouse (move, left/right/middle/double click, drag)
- Side gestures (Swipe from left/right/bottom/top to switch to next open app, show charms, show app options, close app respectively)
- App Commands (Remote controls for General use, Windows Media Player, VLC Player, IE, Firefox, Chrome, YouTube and Netflix player. More to come very soon)
- Tiles Screen (A tiles screen including most needed shortcuts like show start, show desktop, open computer and much more)
- Power Options (Don't you think it's not so easy to shut down the Windows 8? Not anymore. Windows 8 Controller includes power shortcuts. Shut down, restart, hibernate, sleep, lock, log off your computer with one tap)
- Volume Control (Do you need an easy way to adjust the volume of your Windows 8 PC? You've got it! Windows 8 Controller has a volume controller by which you can adjust/mute/unmute your computer's volume from your phone. Also you can use the hardware volume buttons of your phone)
- Virtual Keyboard (Type text by using your Android's keyboard. Take advantage of auto-complete feature of your keyboard or use swype keyboard. You can even type text to your computer by using voice-to-text feature of your Android phone's keyboard)
- Easily go back/forward (Tilt your phone left/right to go back/forward in your favourite web browser or file explorer)
- Four (or five) fingers pinch (to reveal start screen easily)
- With auto-connect and quick-connect features, it is very easy to connect your phone to your computer and start using Windows 8 Controller.
* Some features are only available in Pro version!
** You need to download and install Windows 8 Controller Server app (it is totally FREE) to your Windows 8 PC because your phone communicates with your computer through this application.
To download the server app, please visit www.windows8controller.com[/SIZE]
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Download section ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Download your mobile app here:
Google Play Store
Download PC Windows 8 Controller Server app for your Windows 8 PC here:
Windows 8 Controller Server app
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Please Do hit THANKS BUTTON If i helped you to find the stuff You are searching for.. ​

Spammer
Sent from my C6602 using xda premium

niiiice
thank you

Wampcia said:
Spammer
Sent from my C6602 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes agree. Don't put all the apps here. Why not logmein or teamviewer ect....