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New Sliding Panel Homescreen!!! ODPanels!!

Hey ya'll.
I've been working on a new idea for the sliding panels layout. It is fully functional so far, I am currently working on the exe for everyone, so that you may keep your current layout order and all icons, then have them swapped to the new panel layout.
Below are some pics of what it looks like. For all intensive purposes, what I have done is position the layout of the screen so that the panels still move left to right, but scrolling between panels is done also left to right using the icons at the bottom of the homescreen. You still push up and down to scroll between the panels, but it appears as though it's moving left to right.
I am still going to spice up the resolution of the pngs for the different icons, but here it is so far. In a few days, I will have a cab posted for everyone to download. This is a solo project for me, so it will take a little longer since there is no one but me working on this.
Check out post #2 for additional pics.
Let me know what you think!!

Here are some more photos
Here's the rest of the shots I have so far.

the pictures look great.
im just not sure what you mean by the up/down and left/right etc. stuff.
could you explain?
but besides thatttt... good job =]

easy
Simple, Watson.
LOL, what I meant was, you scroll through the panels just as before, there's no difference in the motions.
With this new layout though, instead of your condensed icons running from top to bottom, I have put them at the bottom of the screen in a bar/slider.
Now you have the entire homescreen to display your active panels, and have an even COOLER row of condensed icons, that scroll as you move from panel to panel. That's it.
jcrain11 said:
the pictures look great.
im just not sure what you mean by the up/down and left/right etc. stuff.
could you explain?
but besides thatttt... good job =]
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It looks like the launcher/panel/bar/whatever in MacOS X. "Mousing over" the icons with the up/down keys shows the panel for that icon. Right and left then work just like they do now. Right?

Yep
Right-O me matey. By the way, wassup beartard, we haven't talked in forever. How's it going? I'll get with you on the im, later.
Hope you like this. We can customize this to make it work anyway you want. This has a bar like you call MacOS X, I'd like to refer to it as more of an "Object Desktop" kinda thing. I will have some more theme ideas for this as well with some new dll's for the bronzeres.dll. You can already see some of that from the screenshots I have.
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It looks like the launcher/panel/bar/whatever in MacOS X. "Mousing over" the icons with the up/down keys shows the panel for that icon. Right and left then work just like they do now. Right?
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Hi i love the idea and am going to try it out.
suggestion thought i think it might look cleaner if the panel on top the active one i mean had some sort of border or something to case it in. I bet that intails alot of work but i thought that might look nice.
maybe a light round cornered rectangle of equal proportions for all panels transparent just a faint white? LOL like the original slideing panels but youre setup lol

Looks really sweet so far man, will it include your weather app as well? Great work looks like it will be a much needed change to sliding panels!

It does look great, good job

Good job, it looks great. So when will this be available to use for download?

I am about ready
I have this setup for layouts already. I am trying to figure out how the hell to customize this for everyone, I am having luck, but it's coming along slowly.
I am glad you all like this so far. I am going to make this work with my weather app, plus as far the weather app is concerned I am gonna have to make it have this app be compatible, so there is a lot to do. I wanted to let you all know that the way this works will cause all of your custom panels to be located over a general "small" icon on the bottom row.
What I mean by that is, this uses your iconpaths in your registry, so that you don't have to use my custom made icons. You can keep your own. But since all of the custom panels have the same GUID value in the registry, it will put your icons for your custom panels all over the bottom row and not look pretty, so in order to fix this, I have to put all of your custom icons in one area on the bottom row of icons. If you look at the screenshots, you can see what I mean. All of your active icons will display over the generic hard drive icon, which represents your custom panels. Other than this one thing, it works flawlessly. Unless I here some serious flack about that one thing I just mentioned, I should have this out in a day or so.
Later
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Good job, it looks great. So when will this be available to use for download?
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Oh right on, well I will be waiting for this. Thanks again for putting something like this together.

Here's some more shots
I have toyed around with having a background for the icons at the bottom.
I am gonna make several different layouts with different pics, but this structure of the homescreen will stay the same regardless. It will always be a left to right sliding look.
Also, I have gotten integrated with my weather app.
Also, I have made some new xml's for this, you can choose from the iconbar uptop, which will have new icons, you can also have one with no iconbar, or one with the topbarnotes plugin on top. All of these will come with a version with a background for the iconbar or topbarnotes and a version of each with no background.
I will post more screenshots later. Got the family thing to do for now, enjoy.
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Oh right on, well I will be waiting for this. Thanks again for putting something like this together.
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this is tight.. i like this.. im waitin on u no pressure

Fantastic!
I love that you have the actual battery and signal strength percentage...
I absolutely love it.

Looks like a useful util
Thnx

So when is launch date?

Looks nice so far...

will it support portrait mode ?

OD man your killing me. I can't wait to try this out. I have been waiting for the install since you first posted this. JK don't rush it.

[THEME] Apple Mac (OSX Leopard) for WAD2 by Mallman

Available at www.swampthing.net

Looks very nice, you're on a roll!
Funny thing, I'm using the same calendar icon in a theme I'm working on. It's far from finished as the whole black area with the appointments still needs to be done, but just wanted to share it with you because of the icon.
Keep up the good work!

GryphonLeon said:
Looks very nice, you're on a roll!
Funny thing, I'm using the same calendar icon in a theme I'm working on. It's far from finished as the whole black area with the appointments still needs to be done, but just wanted to share it with you because of the icon.
Keep up the good work!
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haha great minds think alike!!! Looking good bro, keep it up as well!! I would love to try out some of your themes

GryphonLeon said:
Looks very nice, you're on a roll!
Funny thing, I'm using the same calendar icon in a theme I'm working on. It's far from finished as the whole black area with the appointments still needs to be done, but just wanted to share it with you because of the icon.
Keep up the good work![/QUOT
what is the program on your photo ????? with clock and weather ??
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Will work for HD screen resolution ?

borce_razor said:
Will work for HD screen resolution ?
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will work on any 480x800 device which is the HD resolution so yes Should release it this evening.

mallman,
Apple Mac theme looks great

Looks nice man, loving the IPHONE theme and this will be the 2nd theme i put on my HD

what is the program on your photo ????? with clock and weather ??
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It's all WAD2, with a custom theme which is not finished yet. I don't want to hijack this thread, so when it's finished, I'll post a new thread.
Looking forward to this new theme Mallman!

Theme version 1.0 released in post #1, Enjoy!!! Donate if you love it

Where do we put the weather icon folder?

Metalboz said:
Where do we put the weather icon folder?
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anywhere u like read last question in the FAQ

Thanks for everything you have done.
But this don't work for me-HD- :Q: How do I navigate this theme?
A: This theme is pretty much all buttons. While on the main page you can slide your finger from bottom to top to bring up the apps page and from top to bottom to return to main page. While on the apps page you can also slide right to left to see the seond apps page
I can't slide the page.
Everything else works perfectly.
Any ideas???????????????????
Thanks.

kperi said:
Thanks for everything you have done.
But this don't work for me-HD- :Q: How do I navigate this theme?
A: This theme is pretty much all buttons. While on the main page you can slide your finger from bottom to top to bring up the apps page and from top to bottom to return to main page. While on the apps page you can also slide right to left to see the seond apps page
I can't slide the page.
Everything else works perfectly.
Any ideas???????????????????
Thanks.
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n0ot sure why not. when on the main page just place finger on screen and slide. you have to put a little pressure. you can check the gesture by going into author mode and then tap/hold and select page>properties. then check and see if your gestures are there.

updaed FAQ navigation question

new version with a changed look uploaded. See post #1 for details on how to obtain it

cheers dude, great collection and thanks again.
Loving every minute on xda forums.
XDA-developers forum RULES....

a tip to sliding the pages is to put a little pressure and make sure you are not in author mode.

HTC Widget for Brightness?

Is there an HTC widget available for brightness? I am usually on auto, but at times I need to change it. It is a lot of swipes to do so in the interface.
I know there are some in market, but all the ones I see dont work with the auto setting.

the Power widget will let you adjust brightness from auto>full>minimum.

Weather & Toggle Widgets has an awesome brightness widget.

SwitchPro has a nice configurable widget bar, I like it better than Powerstrip.
It does, cost .99 where Powerstrip is free, but you can always refund if you end up not liking it.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/alei.switchpro
edit: Powerstrip doesn't work with auto brightness anyway, SwitchPro does.

i use brigtness level widget. it's got a slider and predefined quick settings.

Thanks for the suggestions, guys. Will try them out.

GumboChief said:
Thanks for the suggestions, guys. Will try them out.
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I'm not quite finished it but I've been editing a widget I got in the Market to match the style of the HTC ones. I'm a complete noob at the process so I've been going in circles but am nearly done. I'll be happy to send it to you when I'm done.

okolowicz said:
I'm not quite finished it but I've been editing a widget I got in the Market to match the style of the HTC ones. I'm a complete noob at the process so I've been going in circles but am nearly done. I'll be happy to send it to you when I'm done.
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I'd love it if it could look like this:

GumboChief said:
I'd love it if it could look like this:
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Here is the basic design:
The images were the easy part. Getting them to show up on the home screen correctly has been a pain in the *ss. I've been tweaking the XML of a widget I got in the market but haven't yet perfected it. Schedule is prettyl light today so I am hoping to finish it tonight.

okolowicz said:
Here is the basic design:
The images were the easy part. Getting them to show up on the home screen correctly has been a pain in the *ss. I've been tweaking the XML of a widget I got in the market but haven't yet perfected it. Schedule is prettyl light today so I am hoping to finish it tonight.
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Perfect look. What would the functionality be? Would the switch control auto-brightness?
How would one access the sliding scale?

I'm playing around with a widget that has five settings. Tapping the widget cycles through the different settings.
Ideally I'd like to have one with the same functionality of the Dazzle widget which has 4 settings including Auto as well as a sliding scale. If you know of a free brightness widget other than Dazzle with that functionality I'll give it a try. The Dazzle one looks to be a bit more difficult to edit.

Just to update you. I am making progress but not finished. I'm editing a widget with a sliding scale and that displays the current setting.
I've got the Widget to display at the right size but I am having trouble figuring out how to get a background to the label. It shouldn't be too hard to reposition the value setting so that it is centered in the widget at which point I'll redesign it to be cleaner. But, need to figure out the shadow first...
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Looks great. Can't wait to see the final product!

The value level number is killer

P.S. I kinda like the number right where it is

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P.S. I kinda like the number right where it is
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Well, if you put it that way
I got the spacing figured out for the text label (it was skewing to the left before). And, I changed the brightness icon from blue to gray because I thought there was too much blue if the value indicator is going to stay.
That said, there are still two issues I've yet to figure out:
1. I've yet to add the background behind the text label. This is not a big deal with dark wallpaper, as you can see in the pic. But, with lighter wallpaper it looks like sh*t (see earlier screenshot).
2. Because this is merely an edited Market App there is a good chance the Marketplace will still prompt for an update if there is one. I need to figure out how to remove whatever signature is there to prevent that.
Needless to say, I'm still working on it... But, since it is currently usable with a dark wallpaper, I've added a link so you can download and use it while I figure the rest out.
link removed (updated versions in later posts)

Will install now, and let you know what I think in the morning.
Thanks so much for the effort!
Also, with appbrain, it is easy to tell it "ignore market updates"
When an update is found, click on the X and it is an option.

Very quick feedback-
If auto is set in the HTC settings, it overrides the slider in about half a second.
If I turn off auto in HTC settings, then slider works as expected.
Is there a way to make this compatible with "auto"?
I use auto most of the time, except in the dark, when auto is still too bright.

Genius. Thanks for sharing. Works great!
PS A little blue in the center wouldn't be bad. Would go along with the other HTC Settings widgets better.
Either way though, this is a great little tool.

yeah I think this is awesome, cant wait to see how it goes with the little fixes you wanted.
Great job!

Organize your Home Screen with Live Tile Generator (No Jailbreak Required)

Just as the title says.
Go to http://www.zoubda.fr/livetilesgenerator/ on your phones internet browser (IE, Surfcube etc)
It will generate a webpage with whatever title's you want so that you can organize your homescreen.
Once the page is generated click the bottom 3 dot menu and select "pin to start"
Done and done that easy!.
Enjoy guys!
By the way, NOT my work I just stumbled across this reading through some WP7 news threads

Just thought I'd add a few photos to show everyone how easy it really is. Literally just follow along with the steps shown and you shouldnt have any issues. It's about as easy as... well... it can be!

But how did the color of other tiles changed?? For me it just shwos one tile with 'test' as black.. all other tiles have the old color..

What other tiles, my actual App tiles?... The Grey? That was done using a colour changer that you can use when you have a jail broken phone. This is not going to change the colour of all your tiles. This just adds custom tiles that you can use to organize your home screen

http://blog.iqagency.com/?p=3751
Read about it here... awesome idea and it has organised my start screen beautifuly.

woow this is really great I hope Microsoft make something like this

eizsoft said:
woow this is really great I hope Microsoft make something like this
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Microsoft has already given you the ability to do this, and it works great. Check the links.

Avandor said:
Microsoft has already given you the ability to do this, and it works great. Check the links.
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That's true, and it does work, but it isn't a perfect solution. If the OS provided the ability to add special "title" and "separator" tiles (that don't respond to taps) that followed the user's selected color theme, then it would be perfect, especially if those special tiles could be half height.
Still, after adding my own categories last night, my Start screen is light years better than before. I think I may follow the example of the link you created though, and redo mine in Photoshop and upload them to my own web space. Then I could make better use of side-by-side tiles.

This is pretty simple and somewhat eligant but frustrating in the fact that if you click on it you go to a web page.

RoboDad said:
That's true, and it does work, but it isn't a perfect solution. If the OS provided the ability to add special "title" and "separator" tiles (that don't respond to taps) that followed the user's selected color theme, then it would be perfect, especially if those special tiles could be half height.
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I agree... I have yet to click on any of the tiles I pinned (have 3 currently), but would be perfect if no link was added, just a simple separator style of tiles (with different lengths).

Hello all
I updated the page (http://www.zoubda.fr/livetilesgenerator/) It’s now possible :
-to add a picture as a background instead of a color
-share the link so you can create them on your desktop and simply copy/past the url or you can share it with your friends.
And I also removed the white space at the left of the text.
So, you can now have things like that :
Enjoy

Nice work! Thanks.

Hello,
Suggest that you make colored squares with the upper half of the square in black and the bottom colored. In this way, the black upper half will give the illusion of black/blank space to separate the top tiles from the bottom category tiles.
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Hello all
I updated the page (http://www.zoubda.fr/livetilesgenerator/) It’s now possible :
-to add a picture as a background instead of a color
-share the link so you can create them on your desktop and simply copy/past the url or you can share it with your friends.
And I also removed the white space at the left of the text.
So, you can now have things like that :
Enjoy
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very cool stuff, thanks a lot for sharing!

Nice work!
If there was a way to organize the app page by category I'd be very happy!

Thank you very much
This is working great for me...
I hate to be picky, but i have a question:
is it possible to make these tiles half the height but keep the width the same (rectangle not square)?
this way you can see the new app "category" but not space the tiles so much apart.... or do the tiles have to stay at the set dimensions (square) from MS?
also, is there a way to disable the generated tiles from opening on clicking them by mistake??
Thanks again

All tiles are square, 173x173 pixels. There is no way to make a half height tile today. And, unfortunately, there is also no way to make a tile that won't respond to a "click".
The technique that we are using here isn't one that was designed to allow people to display category titles. It was designed to allow people to pin links to web pages onto the start screen.

You can always link those tiles to any web you want.
1. Load the image you want as a tile in the browser
2. Type a new URL on the address bar.
3. Quickly press stop (X) before the phone starts loading the new site. The new URL will be on the address bar but on the screen you will still have your tile image.
4. Pin to start. Now you have a web link tile with a custom image background.

Aaron McCarthy said:
Just as the title says.
Go to http://www.zoubda.fr/livetilesgenerator/
It will generate a webpage with whatever title's you want so that you can organize your homescreen.
Once the page is generated click the bottom 3 dot menu and select "pin to start"
Done and done that easy!.
Enjoy guys!
By the way, NOT my work I just stumbled across this reading through some WP7 news threads
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Yes cool, But go to the link on you mobile phone Internet Explorere.
Not your desktop/laptop.

FlowerPotmen said:
Yes cool, But go to the link on you mobile phone Internet Explorere.
Not your desktop/laptop.
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What's wrong with it? Works like a charm. If it doesn't work for you, I assume your IE is set to mobile view instead of desktop view. Switch and check again.

Small UI problem with Mango

Hello,
I officially updated to 7.5 using Zune on my Vodafone Germany-branded LG E900.
Now when I go to settings and scroll to the very bottom it looks like there was place for one more item.
Normally I have 6 fully visible setting items in the list, but when I scroll as far down as I can, there are only 5 fully visible items in the list and at the bottom there's black space.
This is true for both system and app settings.
Is this normal?

slimshady322 said:
Hello,
I officially updated to 7.5 using Zune on my Vodafone Germany-branded LG E900.
Now when I go to settings and scroll to the very bottom it looks like there was place for one more item.
Normally I have 6 fully visible setting items in the list, but when I scroll as far down as I can, there are only 5 fully visible items in the list and at the bottom there's black space.
This is true for both system and app settings.
Is this normal?
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It's normal on all mango phones, and actually, its quite comfortable for me, because I hold my phone with my thumb dead center, and when tapping the last item I don't have to reach the very bottom of the screen, and that black gap right there just fixes it for me
But I don't know, maybe its for future integrated apps? Or maybe its because of the modified "more options" aka the three dots ... navbar got slimmer on some hubs like Picture and Zune, and People.

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It's normal on all mango phones, and actually, its quite comfortable for me, because I hold my phone with my thumb dead center, and when tapping the last item I don't have to reach the very bottom of the screen, and that black gap right there just fixes it for me
But I don't know, maybe its for future integrated apps? Or maybe its because of the modified "more options" aka the three dots ... navbar got slimmer on some hubs like Picture and Zune, and People.
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Well OK I was just wondering because I don't see this on other lists.
I don't really like but I guess I can live with it.

slimshady322 said:
Well OK I was just wondering because I don't see this on other lists.
I don't really like but I guess I can live with it.
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It's in the application list, too Actually, there's a gap whenever there isn't a bottom toolbar.
Can't say I even noticed it, though.