I know everyone is really into having slim panels. Maybe not everyone, but enough that it is it's own craze. Anyway, I am trying to steer away from that idea just to see what is possible with the homescreen. I have made some Big panels for everyone to check out. They work perfectly.
I want to say that so far there are cprs for big panels for the HTC, 6 Day Forecast!!!, and Normal with background layouts. I will finish the others later. I need to not talk out of my butt and say I will get this done now, it will probably be the end of the weekend. I will do all of the CHomeWeather layouts and the standard 320x240 layout.
Below are the new, updated screenshots. They are sweet. Also, in the zip is a copy of the screenshots and the NEW CPR's. You have to unzip the zip to your pc. Next open up the extracted files and notice they say big at the end of the name before their file extension, .cpr.
Just rename the cpr you want to use to the same name it has now, just delete the part that says "big". That's it, drop into your cpr folder in the CHomeWeather folder and agree to overwrite. That's it. Now your panels are big. I will try to get with Organic to see if he is interested in including these layouts in his next release.
Thanks to Organic for giving me the original cprs, and thus saving me a lot of leg work on making sure everyone is using the same cpr's.
By the way, all links, programs, myFaves contacts, soft keys, everything works like it is supposed to.
Leave some feedback. I will try to make the changes that are most popular. Hope you like.
Update: I finished the iPhone layout. It looks really nice, I think. Same rules apply about renaming the cpr. Enjoy. Check out post 2 for the new screenshot!!!!!!!!!!!
Updated Pics: now includes iPhone
Here's the rest of the screenshots I have.
Update: Added ss of the iPhone layout. These are all the new weather v3.
not bad man not bad at all, I usually prefer the slim but these seem pretty nice. I will give them a try once you post it up. Thanks man.
I think you have a lot of wasted space. Might as well make use of the extra space.... right ?
Thanks for the input. I must say, I thought you would realize, I haven't altered it at all other than make the panels large. I haven't adjusted the images or text for crap. I will though, today. Just wait. I think even you, Org will have something nice to say. Thanks for the opinion anyway. All input is greatly appreciated.
Later.
I will be done with this tonight. I just got home, so it will take a few, but it will get done, tonight.
Bigger panels with more information on would be, as my kids would say, awesome.
Is there a way to mix panel size? Larger ones for weather info, smaller for single items like battery life?
Or am I being unrealistic and ungrateful?
alright.....
The way this works does not allow different sizes for panels. I would love to say there is a way around this, but I don't think there is. Each panels size is declared in the panel itself, but also at the beginning of the file, it states what size panels are in general, so the phone knows how to navigate and properly display them. If, you get it wrong in the panel, stuff just gets cutoff, no big deal
But, if you do this at the beginning, it makes the scrolling "off" and none of the screen works like it is supposed to. I tried.
So, hope this answers your question. I will be writing these files. I don't know if the new weather panel cprs are different than the old ones, yet. I will find out tonight. Also, I will add cprs for the default cpr for the landscape layout. Later
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Bigger panels with more information on would be, as my kids would say, awesome.
Is there a way to mix panel size? Larger ones for weather info, smaller for single items like battery life?
Or am I being unrealistic and ungrateful?
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New Update, check out the 1st post
good job on the update man, respect the work you do out here man good job once again.
Outer, the big panels look nice. Good work! It's good to have more choices. Now we have slim, regular, or fat daddy. Keep it up.
question is....in a regular panel you are restricted to 79 or 80 characters to be printed into that panel.
Can you figure out how many characters you are restricted to in these fatties?
Hopefully you are allowed more characters.
You have the same number of characters available. Just because you make the PNG bigger, doesn't mean you get more characters too. lol
What would be a nice trick is.. either using bigger fonts or using BOLD typefaces And of course... maybe center everything... like the page counters
Since Outer posted these, I've been playing with them and came up with a few variations.
I'm thinking a Nokia with a really big, rectangular screen
...but then, Nokia's were always my favorite phones.
Update: Iphone layout added
I have now added the iphone update. I personally like the new 6day forecast layout, but if you still like the old styles and use one of the other panels for forecast data, then here you go. This was the favorite for everyone for ever. Try it out. The new layout looks good. The new cpr's are in the 1st post. The screenshot is updated in the 2nd post. Enjoy!!!
Hey guys,
been looking around about customising my Touch HD but a little unsure if a different theme can help me here, I really like the current theme I have; which is just default with some extra taskbar icons; simple but effective!
Thing is I want to add notes or reminders or something to the today screen, so I can view things at a glance without having to add them to the calendar, things like a reminder to pick up some beers on the way home, or a reminder to go post some letters or even a shopping list! Though I'm pretty sure I saw an app somewhere around that was called shopping list, would ideally like to be able to dismiss reminders etc by touching them then confirming or something similar, so I can check stuff off as I've done it easily..... at the moment I only have Call history and Calendar on the today screen; anyone know of a way to edit what is displayed on the today screen?
EDIT: I just realised this makes me sound a complete moron lol, I mean being able to add things to the TF3D today screen, otherwise i'd just use the winmo version, however I really like the touchflo interface just wish there was more customisation available!
Also if I download an iphone theme (just to confuse the mac fanboys at uni...) can I easily switch between that and my current theme after a soft reset or something? Or does it involve me editing it via the activesync?
Hope someone can help!
It might be better for you to install something like second today or touchflo detacher.. that way you can switch between touchflo and your iphone theme at the touch of a button..
or you can use the second today to put all the information you want on the winmo today screen.. the screen real estate on the HD is amazing.. and then map your iphone theme to another program and have all three hotswapping on the touch of a button.
Personally I think part of the beauty of touchflo is the lack of clutter on each tab.. adding too much to the homescreen defeats the object.
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It might be better for you to install something like second today or touchflo detacher.. that way you can switch between touchflo and your iphone theme at the touch of a button..
or you can use the second today to put all the information you want on the winmo today screen.. the screen real estate on the HD is amazing.. and then map your iphone theme to another program and have all three hotswapping on the touch of a button.
Personally I think part of the beauty of touchflo is the lack of clutter on each tab.. adding too much to the homescreen defeats the object.
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Agreed. I use 2ndToday & PocketBreeze, activated by the left soft key on the TF3D home page.
hmmm did want to just have it all there to be seen as soon as I turned on the phone, tho after reading more extensively around the internet I see it's just not possible at the moment. However I'll hold out hope that one day it'll be possible!
Might try that 2nd today screen thing, might be a bit of a pain to have to flip between them but hey... needs must. Might also look into properly customizing it to look snazzy as I've seen a lot of peoples today screens look rather nice!
In practice it's not a pain... it's a touch screen so it becomes habit to touch the button or slide the slider as you pick up your phone in one motion.
I did have a go with slide2unlock but it didnt seem to work properly, might have to play with it some more.
Is there any cab available to turn the 15 contacts icons on the "contact" tab of the new Sense 2.5 to 20 icons? I'd like to have more people in there.
I would second that
the shortcuts are little too big for me
and needs to be more
+ 1
If there is a cab for it I would love to have it
Should be possible, but don't know how. They got it working for the shortcuts on the homescreen also.....
+1 WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THIS!
Please some1 should be able to do this if they can do it for quick links.
i am waiting for it too!
Bump to the top pls develupers!
Unsure if this is possible. Maybe to increase to add more to it.. but not the resize.
Once you resize.. (such as the 4 on home page...) you cannot add contacts with pictures. It simply shows a blank pic. Program Icons show ok... not contacts..
this would be nice, also the program launcher on the home screen could be more than just the 9
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Unsure if this is possible. Maybe to increase to add more to it.. but not the resize.
Once you resize.. (such as the 4 on home page...) you cannot add contacts with pictures. It simply shows a blank pic. Program Icons show ok... not contacts..
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Using miri rev 11 contact pics showed correctly when using the extra shortcuts on homescreen.. but unfortunately not in the later builds...
Anyway i would also like extra contacts or resized would be even better
+1that would be good to have
What about this? Not exactly what you want, but what goes
http://www.supware.net/Avatar/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=552558
avatar is nice...but only 12 icons...
My contacts tab in Manila si disabled and I use Iconsoft PhonEx. You can put so many contact pictures as you like and slide them up and down
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that looks like another nice app...but $25 USD for an app that shows icons on the screen ??!!! That's too high for ANY pda software in my opinion - it should come with a lifetime supply of chocolate bars!
I ask the question;
People buy a pda for many reasons but for most people one of those reasons is to communicate with their contacts. Why then should we have to pay extra money for software that simply displays a good viewable list of our contacts?? The real answer is we shouldnt. If I get spare time I'm going to write a .NET app that does it and providing it here for free. I hate how hard HTC have made it to customize manilla.
hi all
i am sure this will have popped up somewhere before but can't find anything at the mo.
I would love to be able to put a small callendar widget on the lock screen, i don't want to interact with it just see the next one or two appointments
any one got a way of doing this preferably without spending money?
cheers
Tom
paperclip69 said:
hi all
i am sure this will have popped up somewhere before but can't find anything at the mo.
I would love to be able to put a small callendar widget on the lock screen, i don't want to interact with it just see the next one or two appointments
any one got a way of doing this preferably without spending money?
cheers
Tom
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If you dont mind spending a few $'s try widgetlocker
http://appbrain.com/app/com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker
So I've always hated those emoticons with noses and stupid faces that no one would ever understand like So a simple, no hacking/rooting needed solution I came up with is to use your personal dictionary.
I defined all of my emotions, ): ;( etc etc, and then for ALL of them, i have their shortcut as "pl", so i just do a short swipe down pl, then hold on the first suggested smiley face, and then all the other faces popup.
This is useful for people who text with one hand (their right) and cant reach the second keyboard layout to add faces and stuff. If there's an easier way, please let me know!