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The best wm6 homescreen maker...

i have 1 question wich is the best an d the most complex homescreen maker for wm6 ?

Profy_X said:
i have 1 question wich is the best an d the most complex homescreen maker for wm6 ?
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there is none worthy of mentioning.

i really don`t understand what you mean....

he means it's no one

i have ruttensoft homescreen designer 2007 but i can`t change the picture from the menu maybe you know some software that can do this...

Theres a reg key somewhere, can't remember atm, but I will post the relevant keys etc when I next get chance
Phil

Ah phil, you are back, hows the progress of BETA II

Theres a reg key somewhere, can't remember atm, but I will post the relevant keys etc when I next get chance
Phil
i don`t understand what reg key didi you mean ....for what?

i guess he meant this path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\Rai\:MSStart\BKBitmapFile
and change it (path to picture which you want to have under menu) for example \Storage Card\Wallpapers\mypicture.jpg
i dont know if its usefull for u
regards.

can you give some more detailes ..?

Easiest way for you to learn, is to copy an existing theme
(it's a plain text) and see what line changes what...
That's the best way to discover, learrn & remember

now i know what did you mean but i don`t whant to do that,i whant to do a complet homescren with pictures in menu any many more but i do not know what soft to use because the ruttensoft homescreen designer 2007 can`t do that... maybe you know a soft...

have 1 question wich is the best an d the most complex homescreen maker for wm6/5 ?

dude there aint any good homescreen maker...a good one to change color scheme is homescreen designer...but to change startmenu and other default pictures ...use some reg editor like sktools or something...jjust search for the picture and change it....for ex...start menu in HTC S710 is by default named startmenu...search for it and change the path as u like...

this is very simple online .hme theme maker: http://theme-maker.bwap.org/bwap.or...artphone-pocket-pc-theme-constructor/hme.html

what？

Most complex editor is well known to every one, Its called "NotePad"
open ur home.xml file and start playing
I am too lazy to do this :/ actually I have modified alot of home screens (with custom plugins) this way
plugins are:
Sli Clock
Smart Monitor
RJHTML
RJTime
RJShortcut
LCDPlug
Battplug
commercial ones:
Facade and Fizz traveller
they come with some embedded elements like code which u paste in ur xml file, specify coordinates (from top left corner of screen as origin) and then finally size. Format state is actually for selectable plugins. Trust me, it jsut requires a bit of HTML knowledge and some hit and trial.
But I bet its alot complex.
If u want to edit homescreen real time on ur smartphone, I would recommend using Vieka's Free WordPad (totally compatible with any text document)

How to change path for Settings in Start Menu

I was messing with the registry and could not figure this out. I got as far as finding where the settings program launcher is....
HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\ProgramLauncher
Here we can add programs to the launcher and I beleive if I can add the .exe to WM All Settings page it would be great. I can't find such a file though. This is where I need help unless I'm completely wrong here. This would allow to add an All settings Tab to be added in the Launcher.
Or
If you go to HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\ProgramLauncher\3 Changing things there should work. Would ony changing the path work? I just need to know where the .exe for the Settings page is.
It just frustrates me that I have to go to the Settings tab then All settings.
Thanks for any and all help. I am trying to learn here.
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Edit: This maybe more difficult than I think. But I did figure out how to unloch the locked items and also to move them so they are at the bottom.
To Unlock go to
- HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\ProgramLauncher
-Select one of the keys numbered 0-23 (a number for each of the slots. The locked items are numbers 0-3 and are ordered on the list going left to right/top to bottom)
- Just change the DWord value from 1 to 0 and you can now remove these if you wish.
- You can do the reverse to lock any other program in place. Click on it an set the value from 0 to 1.
--Now Soft Reset or go to today settings, turn off touchflo 3d and hit ok. Go back and turn TF3D back on. All set.
To Move the items go to
- HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\ProgramLauncher
-The locked items are numered 0-3
-Say if you want to move settings to the bottom left you would select key '3'.
-Rename it from 3 to anything you wish for instance 'n' (or any number starting from 24) make it short because you will change it again.
-Now go to key '23' and rename that to '3'
-Go back to 'n' or whatever you named the old 3 and rename it to '23'
-Now Soft Reset or go to today settings, turn off touchflo 3d and hit ok. Go back and turn TF3D back on. All set.

bro, where can i locate this?
HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\ProgramLauncher
from file explorer? i acnt find any. thanks

HTC Touch Freak said:
I was messing with the registry and could not figure this out. I got as far as finding where the settings program launcher is....
HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\ProgramLauncher
Here we can add programs to the launcher and I beleive if I can add the .exe to WM All Settings page it would be great. I can't find such a file though. This is where I need help unless I'm completely wrong here. This would allow to add an All settings Tab to be added in the Launcher.
Or
If you go to HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\ProgramLauncher\3 Changing things there should work. Would ony changing the path work? I just need to know where the .exe for the Settings page is.
It just frustrates me that I have to go to the Settings tab then All settings.
Thanks for any and all help. I am trying to learn here.
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Edit: This maybe more difficult than I think. But I did figure out how to unloch the locked items and also to move them so they are at the bottom.
To Unlock go to
- HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\ProgramLauncher
-Select one of the keys numbered 0-23 (a number for each of the slots. The locked items are numbers 0-3 and are ordered on the list going left to right/top to bottom)
- Just change the DWord value from 1 to 0 and you can now remove these if you wish.
- You can do the reverse to lock any other program in place. Click on it an set the value from 0 to 1.
--Now Soft Reset or go to today settings, turn off touchflo 3d and hit ok. Go back and turn TF3D back on. All set.
To Move the items go to
- HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\ProgramLauncher
-The locked items are numered 0-3
-Say if you want to move settings to the bottom left you would select key '3'.
-Rename it from 3 to anything you wish for instance 'n' (or any number starting from 24) make it short because you will change it again.
-Now go to key '23' and rename that to '3'
-Go back to 'n' or whatever you named the old 3 and rename it to '23'
-Now Soft Reset or go to today settings, turn off touchflo 3d and hit ok. Go back and turn TF3D back on. All set.
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There is a way to directly link to specific Settings items, see http://www.4winmobile.com/forums/windows-mobile-faq/12666-applet-shortcuts.html Just save the text string after the "=" as a plain text file with extension ".lnk" and put it in the "/windows/start menu/programs" folder, as I'm sure you know.
I've used some of these and they can save a lot of stylus work. I don't see a way to link to the general Settings page itself though.

HTC Touch Freak said:
It just frustrates me that I have to go to the Settings tab then All settings.
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Same here! Would love to know how to get the "real" settings page directly!

shakiraa said:
bro, where can i locate this?
HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\ProgramLauncher
from file explorer? i acnt find any. thanks
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You have to get a registry editor. I use PHM but have heargood things for Resco registry editor. Just google search for a cab.
HKLM=HKeyLocalMachine

EASIER WAY to unlock the first 4 shoutcut in start menu.....
HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\ProgramLauncher\0
change the "IsReadOnly" dWord value to "0"
restart your TouchFlo3D
Do the same for 1, 2, 3....
HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\ProgramLauncher\1
HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\ProgramLauncher\2
HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\ProgramLauncher\3

Pete_S said:
There is a way to directly link to specific Settings items, see http://www.4winmobile.com/forums/windows-mobile-faq/12666-applet-shortcuts.html Just save the text string after the "=" as a plain text file with extension ".lnk" and put it in the "/windows/start menu/programs" folder, as I'm sure you know.
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Thanks for the tip - works perfectly. Only problem now is assigning an icon other than the ugly white page with Windows square on it. I have tried the trick described here in the Wiki, but it doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?

Only problem now is assigning an icon other than the ugly white page with Windows square on it. I have tried the trick described here in the Wiki, but it doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?
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Provided you have your shortcut in one of the initial 23 positions of the Program Launcher, you could try setting the icon path from the registry, in the location as described by HTC Touch Freak in the first post
To Unlock go to
- HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila\ProgramLauncher
-Select one of the keys numbered 0-23 (a number for each of the slots. The locked items are numbers 0-3 and are ordered on the list going left to right/top to bottom)
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There's also an "IconPath" parameter under the 0-23 keys which you might have more success with.

Pete_S said:
Provided you have your shortcut in one of the initial 23 positions of the Program Launcher, you could try setting the icon path from the registry, in the location as described by HTC Touch Freak in the first post
There's also an "IconPath" parameter under the 0-23 keys which you might have more success with.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I already tried that after posting the above. Managed to find out the icon is no 398 in shellres.192.dll, and inserted that into the IconPath line. Now, when I click on the shortcut, I get a message saying
"The file 'ctlpnl cplmain' cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of its components cannot be found."

I wonder if it's possible to make up your own icon, as you can in desktop windows - a bitmap of the appropriate size with ".ico" extension?

Thanks for the link Fisha21. I made a link for remove programs, put it in the programs list and also saw there was no icon. Well i thought, maybe i can easily approach the link differently.
I downloaded Link Creator 1.4 - Shortcut Creator (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=494613) and just assigned the link to the right softkey.
For those who don't like that, there are many different options that it can be linked to (keymappings etc.)
Hope that helps a few peeps

Mar'Cel said:
Same here! Would love to know how to get the "real" settings page directly!
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Backup and delete HTC Settings.lnk
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Shell\StartInfo]
HideSettings = "0"
Soft Reset

Sprint TP2 - Change right sofktey in TF3D / Sense UI?

Is there a way yet to change the right softkey in tf3d / sense ui to the programs screen? HD Tweak can change the right softkey, to anything in its right softkey list except to Programs (Default). That's what I want to change it to though. When I choose Programs (Default) and do a soft reset, it changes to camera instead.
I've tried HD Tweak and softkeymanager and neither will do what I'm trying to do here.

it's just a registry change. i changed mine to contacts. i did mine a while ago so i forget the details. i'll try to find the link.

Yeah, I've read around and some say it's just a registry change. Usually you need a name for the softkey and a path to an exe or shortcut right?
What's the path for or the location of an exe for that programs screen (the one with the rows and columns of icons with "+" signs on them) in TF3D / Sense UI?

found some info on it at here.
Quote:
Originally Posted by dshosu View Post
I think I may have figured it out or at least am on to something...
I remapped my LEFT softkey to open Windows Media Player.
HomeLSKArguments:-manila off
HomeLSKPath:
HomeLSKText:Media Player
HomeRSKArguments:
HomeRSKPath:\Windows\wmplayer.exe
HomeRSKText
I have a brand new Sprint TP2.
I believe you figured it out. Arguments is not needed though. -manila off doesn't do anything.
So RSKPath points to left... that's really annoying. I remember reading this somewhere, but it was so ridiculous that I never tried it. LSKPath doesn't do anything though. =( Definitely a bug somewhere
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That'll work if the thing you want for the softkey has an actual shortcut or exe file. I want the right softkey to be the programs screen in TF3D / Sense UI (the screen with the columns and rows of boxes with "+" signs on them).

[App- mod] My little QuickMenu-modification

(Updated with a version that shows a little horizontal line on the taskbar. One can now easily move the "activation area". See attached image titled "v2".
This will work on all WM versions:
Note for WM 6.5.x users: the activation area can not be placed on the clock!
Note for WM 6.5 users: setting the offset of the first setting on the option/view tab to 393 will place the horizontal line above the battery)
Note: after installation you have to start Quickmenu manually (/Program Files/QMenu/Quickmenu.exe). Another option is to do a softreset (Quickmenu is set up to start automatically after a softreset.
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For users familiar with Nanlings Quickmenu (QM):
I've substituted the icons in quickmenu with transparant icons so you can place the "Q button" on the taskbar where ever you like. I've made a cab installation file that will also modify the registry entry for quickmenu in such a way that
a) the transparant Q-button is placed exactly on the battery icon of the WM 6.5.3 taskbar (setted the offset of the Q pic to 371). Very nice for one-handed operation with your right hand.
b) the running tasks are placed by default in the root of the QM-menu. This transforms QM basically in a sophisticated taskmanager. I like that more.
I thought is was wortwhile to share these modifications. Just check it out, maybe you like it.
For users not familiar with Quickmenu I like to refer to this thread There you can grab the unmodified program that will work on all WM version (including WM 6.5.3 and 6.5.5)
And...
Instructions about how you can make this work on a rom with a different language can be found here. (Problem is that when you run the program on a rom with a different language code you then 0409, which is the code for WWE-roms, you get unreadable characters)

finally! can't express how thankfull I am!

Really great work! 10x appelflap! How is battery drain with it?

vlad48 said:
Really great work! 10x appelflap! How is battery drain with it?
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Don't know yet.

Works great on artemis-FR (just need to rename mui in programfiles and we have it in english)
BTW, is there more mui with Quickmenu to have it in our own language ?
Thanks a lot

thanks for the adjustments have not tried them yet but will. question though:
I've been using QM since I saw it in one of nrg28 ROMs. the version I downloaded (no clue where from) behaves differently:
- no action if I tap the battery button, other than notification bar showing
- QM is activated by pressing left-top on taskbar (where previous Start was, now typically black area)
- and, and this is the best part imho, it is activated by a short press on the Windows HW button no need to reprogram long press of Send or End button. brilliant!
to be honest, and definitely not want deminish your hard work, these are 3 pretty nice advantages. or am I missing something?
I don't use the Q icon (default disabled) because I couldn't see the point since the Start button/text disapeared. Battery drain is not noticable.
because of default short press on Windows hardware button feature, it is perfect for task SWITCHING. task manager is of course also directly accessible.

no complaints, great find and great mod.

Really coooool man thanx a lot

dXsL said:
thanks for the adjustments have not tried them yet but will. question though:
I've been using QM since I saw it in one of nrg28 ROMs. the version I downloaded (no clue where from) behaves differently:
- no action if I tap the battery button, other than notification bar showing
- QM is activated by pressing left-top on taskbar (where previous Start was, now typically black area)
- and, and this is the best part imho, it is activated by a short press on the Windows HW button no need to reprogram long press of Send or End button. brilliant!
to be honest, and definitely not want deminish your hard work, these are 3 pretty nice advantages. or am I missing something?
I don't use the Q icon (default disabled) because I couldn't see the point since the Start button/text disapeared. Battery drain is not noticable.
because of default short press on Windows hardware button feature, it is perfect for task SWITCHING. task manager is of course also directly accessible.
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You're right, without any modifications it is as beautiful as it is !
The only thing I did was to modify it for one-handed operation. I discoverd that almost everything I do is with the right tumb while holding my device in my hand. Because of this everything what is on left side of the screen is almost out of reach. (even the bottom startbutton. I have small hands, you see). That's why I created an activation field on the battery-meter by using a transparant Q-icon. Transparant, so you see the battery-icon.
Try it, you love it.

ric69 said:
Works great on artemis-FR (just need to rename mui in programfiles and we have it in english)
BTW, is there more mui with Quickmenu to have it in our own language ?
Thanks a lot
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According to this forum-member, who introduced me to this great app btw, you can change it to you language by just changing the code of mui files to the desired language code.

any working QuickMenu modification for WM 6.5.0 out there?
thx
@appelflap
Great work!

php-resource.de said:
any working QuickMenu modification for WM 6.5.0 out there?
thx
@appelflap
Great work!
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Yes, someone has made a finger-friendly setup for the HD2 along with some instructions of how to change the language. Look for it here
But you can try this version as well. It should give you an "activation field" somewhere around the battery icon. (don't know exactly where, but you can play with it, see first post). Very nice for one-handed operation.

by changing the mui files you wont change the language interface itself, simply only making it usable in non-wwe roms (all text will turn out as squares if you dont do this)

rbiez said:
by changing the mui files you wont change the language interface itself, simply only making it usable in non-wwe roms (all text will turn out as squares if you dont do this)
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Ai, my fault. Thanks for correcting me.
For those who want to get it working in their own language: you can edit
Code:
Program Files\Qmenu\QMenuCfg.dll.0409.mui
Program Files\Qmenu\QuickMenu.exe.0409.mui
with the tools from this thread.
(don't forget to change the language code afterwards)
Maybe it's a good idea to share these translated mui files. Post them in this thread and I will point to them in the first post.

don't work on my french rom hd2
I have a strange caracter in the menus

godsavenger said:
don't work on my french rom hd2
I have a strange caracter in the menus
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Try changing the code of these files:
Program Files\Qmenu\QMenuCfg.dll.0409.mui
Program Files\Qmenu\QuickMenu.exe.0409.mui
to
Program Files\Qmenu\QMenuCfg.dll.040C.mui
Program Files\Qmenu\QuickMenu.exe.040C.mui
(040C is the code for french .... i think
Does it work?

Thks
It's work fine !!! (in english now lol)

appelflap said:
Try it, you love it.
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You were right: tried it, LOVE it
TIP1: to make QuickMenu window pop-up by a single press of the Windows key (the part I think is great to use it as a Task switcher): open QuickMenu window / select Quickmenu / select Option... / select 4th checkbox Register win key of device
TIP2: if you, like me, prefer to activate Quickmenu from the left side of the screen (I have a hard time hitting the battery icon ): open QuickMenu window / select Quickmenu / select Option... / select second TAB on the bottom called View / deselect 1st checkbox open QuickMenu / (you can of course also change the offset value to something you like. default is 192, but then you get an invisible icon in the middle of the taskbar - also kind of hard to find )
tnx to Appelflap for a great mod!

i just made a shortcut, add a nice icon and add it to the first row of program shortcuts. no need to sharpen my finger, no useless complications with the top icons... and it works in all ROMs.! Simple! so, this not only for the "bottom buttons" ROMs
see pic

Great program
thanks bro

[Tutorial] Where to change the text colour of softkeys and taskbar app name

After searching a while, and partly thanks to poyensa who pointed me to maxtf3d tool, I compared the whole HKCU and HKLM reg trees before and after using that to change the softkey colours, and here's the summary:
Go into the following reg folder
Code:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Today
and create (if not already present) a string key named
Code:
Skin
in which you insert any name (example "myskin") and then create a folder in the same path with the same name of the skin and go in there.
In case the key "skin" already exists you have to go into the folder which goes by that name.
The key
Code:
Color_CommandBarText
is the one you want, if already present in the preset theme you need to change it, if instead you created the skin reference, or the key was not present in the preset theme, create a BINARY key by that name, and insert a 4bytes value inside.
For the black value it would be
Code:
00 00 00 00
Restart, the softkeys text colour will have changed.
To change the application name in the taskbar, you have to go into
Code:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Color\
and add a BINARY key (if not already present) named
Code:
9
in which you set the text colour in the same manner you did for the softkeys. Restart, served.
The colour for the start menu icons text should be situated in that same folder, in the BINARY key named 39, yet adding that key and restarting doesn't work.

Absolutely noone knows?
Yes, this is a bump

Hellooww
I know as a fact that it's possible, as GTX sports black text softkeys... noone actually cares to share the info?

Have a look HERE my friend...I suppose it could help you !

try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=493011
for me HD2 it works but only the tab for color>commandbar text, active enable box and once you have choose your favourite color in RGBA code press activate, TRefresh and softeresset afterwards

Method posted by poyensa worked, I could finally change the text colour of the softkeys using his instructions... thank you
Yet I am prone to tin2404 approach, as I need to know *how* to change that, I mean registry wise or manila wise, which are the things that I manually need to change, otherwise after each flash I will need to use max tf3d utility

Updated thread with working method.

Thankyou ephestione, i have changed the color blue (08 08 8A) using your instructions and it works!

Hi, in your first part of changing the softkey bar text you don't need to add a new skin you only have to go into HTC Black.tsk or whichever theme you're using, then edit the Color_CommandBarText with the colour code you wish to use (default is white FF FF FF 00). In here you can also edit the highlight colour of the text (Color_CommandBarText_Highlight). Hope this helps.

AvRS said:
Hi, in your first part of changing the softkey bar text you don't need to add a new skin you only have to go into HTC Black.tsk or whichever theme you're using, then edit the Color_CommandBarText with the colour code you wish to use (default is white FF FF FF 00). In here you can also edit the highlight colour of the text (Color_CommandBarText_Highlight). Hope this helps.
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Yes, I have read about that also in MS KB, yet I had no entry whatsoever for any skin under that registry folder, I had to create one specifically for that purpose...
@poyensa, karma going back and forth, you pointed me to max tf3d utility, and only then I could "reverse engineer" it to devise a method

Hi all,
newbie questions,
how to add a new binary key using the PHM registry editor?
How to change the color of the taskbar clock's number?
Thanks in advance.

Sorry I don't use PHM regeditor, but for that purpose I use totalcommander, go into \\plugins folder in root, then registry, then continue from there. pressing the +Add Value+ item
Also DotFred's advanced taskmanager has a registry editor which is not bad at all

ephestione said:
Sorry I don't use PHM regeditor, but for that purpose I use totalcommander, go into \\plugins folder in root, then registry, then continue from there. pressing the +Add Value+ item
Also DotFred's advanced taskmanager has a registry editor which is not bad at all
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Hi ephestione,
You made my day! Thank u very much!
I installed totalcommander and followed all your instructions and I did it successfully.
Any idea on how to change the color of the taskbar clock?
Thanks in advance.

ehm, no idea about that one
Anyway happy you found a functional registry editor, also, totalcommander is a great tool in general
Anyway, if skinning the taskbar clock is what you're after, then you gotta get BattClock, search in XDA forums for that

ephestione said:
ehm, no idea about that one
Anyway happy you found a functional registry editor, also, totalcommander is a great tool in general
Anyway, if skinning the taskbar clock is what you're after, then you gotta get BattClock, search in XDA forums for that
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Hi Ephestione,
Yeah, you're right, totalcommander is a great one, I'm playing with it now and it's really good, btw do u know how to go back to a previous step?
Also, I appreciate your suggestion about BattClock which is very good app, but personally I like the simplicity and nice look of the Battline one and unfortunately there is a kind of conflict between those programs.
Thank you very much.

[email protected] said:
Hi Ephestione,
Yeah, you're right, totalcommander is a great one, I'm playing with it now and it's really good, btw do u know how to go back to a previous step?
Also, I appreciate your suggestion about BattClock which is very good app, but personally I like the simplicity and nice look of the Battline one and unfortunately there is a kind of conflict between those programs.
Thank you very much.
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What conflict is there? Do the Stripes occupy the same space? If yes, just make them empty in BattClock or put them in another place or show other information.