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Hi,
Don't know what its intention was/is but here you go:
[HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\DeviceBeta]
"Today"="whatever text"
Perhaps for debugging variables?
Cheers,
Tweakradje
Edit: works ok... BIG LETTERS though
Sweet,
works on my O2 Atom ...
how did you come up with this?
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To bad... Nothing whatsoever on my MDA2
Nothing on my magician too :-(
Wizard - works fine. cute :>
Edit: Big letters, indeed.. aligned bottom-right. Today items -will- obscure it (easily seen in Landscape mode even with just a few lines on the Today screen).
Edit2: ampersand underlines a single character (like menu entries) - doesn't do anything when pressing the underlined letter, though Cute face: (-&.-)
i like this. perfect on magician.
ZeBoxx said:
Wizard - works fine. cute :>
Edit: Big letters, indeed.. aligned bottom-right. Today items -will- obscure it.
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Ok, will test it again, i have a filled Todayscreen
Edit: To bad, still nothing
Well, this is what it'd look like if it did work for you :>
Ahhh, WM2005, not WM2003
hang.tuah said:
i like this. perfect on magician.
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How did you manage it under 2K3?
sorry for my late reply.
Just follow the instruction.
u r done.
What instructions ? Adding the key ? I tried...
how you do that ? pls tell in detail !
Works on SX66 with WM 2003 SE
i tested on my o2 xdaIIs with tmobile nl rom and it works. although i have to disable spb diary plugin because it overlap the easteregg.
might i ask do i make this value as a string or DWORD? any help would be great! also maybe some instructions!! lol thanks!
Loving the MDA
mightymegit:
Here's a step by step:
1. Get a registry editor, there are free ones just google.
2. Open the editor and navigate to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shell
3. Under the above key create a key named 'DeviceBeta' (with out the ').
4. Under the new key create a string value named 'Today' (with out the ').
5. Set the value of 'Today' to the text you want displayed.
6. Make sure there are no plug-ins covering the bottom of the screen.
Enjoy.
P.S.
It is my belief that this key was intended for marking experimental ROMs. I once saw an iPaq with a test ROM and it had the words "Test only Not for sale" on it's splash screen. It is, after all, called "Device Beta"...
It Works in Qtek9000 great.
Too large letters though...
In all honesty... if you want this sort of thing, without the (transparent) today items obscuring it, you're much better off painting it into your background image. That way you get full control over the size, color, etc.
It's a cute registry bit, but that's all there is to it
ZeBoxx said:
In all honesty... if you want this sort of thing, without the (transparent) today items obscuring it, you're much better off painting it into your background image. That way you get full control over the size, color, etc.
It's a cute registry bit, but that's all there is to it
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Hmm, well... A regkey can be changed on-the-fly... A text in a bitmap can't....
I'm still looking for a way to put the status of 'Activesync when cradled' on the Todaysceen, but haven't found a way yet...
This could do just that, if it would just work on my Himalaya with WM2003
Got some splash screens you want to see in WM6?
Post them here
I'm looking for two screens, one to replace the splash screen you see on startup (the one which at the moment has TEST UI over it in red), this one must be a 240x320 BMP
Also a splash to replace the WM logo, this must be a 240x320 PNG
I've attached the current first splash screen as well (unfortunately, the forum software compresses the image to JPG so probably best to host the image somewhere else and use tags)
Phil
One (edit) two from me...
bmp format 240x320 px
hope you like it
That is VERY nice
Phil
i really think that the htc images that were posted look very nice and should be used for the next release. then people can change that picture themselves if they want.
@Davex: Very nice
@Bogdi1988: Where are the files to change on the smartphone to change the boot image and the Operator image ?
i know in wm5 there was a way to change somewhere in the windows folder, and some reg editing. so i am guessing it is the same in wm6.
i remember i tryed the iphone skin for wm5 and that's how it was for that.
Here is the QTEK boot splash. Yes, I agree its pretty ugly.
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i know in wm5 there was a way to change somewhere in the windows folder, and some reg editing. so i am guessing it is the same in wm6.
i remember i tryed the iphone skin for wm5 and that's how it was for that.
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yes i had me also changed these pics but i'm not sure that we can change the 3 differents pict who can see at hte boot ( green pic - operator pic - Windows mobile pic).
Here a french how to , which explain how to change bootscreen http://www.mlab.name/forum/viewtopic.php?id=54
It's one from vodafone edited by me
I want you... to chose one of these
To the authors..... the second green windows mobile logo is fine, needs not be replaced... (IMHO!)
Also note that these are color variations on the same theme..... you can choose a mix of these images.
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I want you... to chose one of these
To the authors..... the second green windows mobile logo is fine, needs not be replaced... (IMHO!)
Also note that these are color variations on the same theme..... you can choose a mix of these images.
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i like the first one.... the others seem kinda boring comared to the first one that has those little designs... that's my opinion
HTC screens are nice, by the way, is that possible to remove the warning TEST ONLY?
I vote for the HTC screen on boot up, and leave the Windows Mobile screen alone.
HTC Screens from 2nd post look smart.
They would suit all brands too - ie imate, qtek etc
I vote for the second post too, nice job there
thenext1 said:
I want you... to chose one of these
To the authors..... the second green windows mobile logo is fine, needs not be replaced... (IMHO!)
Also note that these are color variations on the same theme..... you can choose a mix of these images.
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bogdi1988 said:
i like the first one.... the others seem kinda boring comared to the first one that has those little designs... that's my opinion
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full ack. i find the first very nice.
xxxxchrisxxxx said:
HTC Screens from 2nd post look smart.
They would suit all brands too - ie imate, qtek etc
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If i can find logos which are in good quality, then is no prob to make it for other brands as well. What i prefer is remove the third screen when booting (the one with operator something) and the second when shuting down (also with the operator cube or whatever). I tried to find the WM5 key where you can change/delete it but without success.
jayjoe said:
full ack. i find the first very nice.
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i posted four screens to randmoize various "features" around the 4.... i can make "those little designs" for the 2° screen (the cappuccino one), or can put the hourglass instead of the "starting up", can have the windows flag logo'ed in black&white, etc etc etc
jsut tell me what to do
just put the first one! it looks awesome. and also the two htc pics look great!
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just put the first one! it looks awesome. and also the two htc pics look great!
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thanks for the support
i decided to have some new splashs for TNT series but with high quality graphics, so i need your help.
2 pictures are needed, one for the welcome logo, and the second for splash screen
Welcome Logo:
size 320*320, and type on it windows mobile 6 professional
Splash Screen:
size 320*240 and type TNT Series by its right (don't right wizard, becasue it will be used on other devices).
in general the black color is prefered on the other colors
thanks and waiting for the great designs.
when i get home from the office i can make one
I think nothin can help you out a lot! He's the one!
Badbert have been making a good work also! Contact [email protected]
BTW, new designs would be nice!!
Can you give me an idea of what your looking for?
What my dead line?
What our dead-line?
I was bored so I thought I'd give this a try. I didn't create the image, I found it on deviant art and modified it a bit.
thanks for all
xeno1 said:
I was bored so I thought I'd give this a try. I didn't create the image, I found it on deviant art and modified it a bit.
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very nice, but many users asked me to remove the bump logo , so i need without the bump logo .
thanks for helping man
Here's my contribution. If you have another specific idea please feel free to post and I will try something different. Just and FYI for anyone who ever wonders what font Microsoft uses it's Franklin Gothic...
WELCOME SCREEN___________________________________
SPLASH SCREEN_____________________________________
Sysgod said:
Here's my contribution. If you have another specific idea please feel free to post and I will try something different. Just and FYI for anyone who ever wonders what font Microsoft uses it's Franklin Gothic...
WELCOME SCREEN___________________________________
SPLASH SCREEN_____________________________________
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very nice mate, remove the bump logo on the second one and add some good logos instead.
waiting for more
What do you think of this one?
Sysgod, i like it... but my opinion isnt much =\ Lots 0 gold... pretty pimpy.
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What do you think of this one?
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this is the best till now
create something for Welcome picture too
but, try to make the text aligned to the left (so keep blank on the right) because the size 320*320 is used to be suitable for landscape too, so we have to make the text not to the center, try to make it on the top and left little bit.
did you understand me, or show you an example??
Ok, I have 2 relatively stupid questions. The first is what exactly is a bump logo? And the second is how does Sysgod get his images to load in the post like that? Is that done using the insert image button? I would try it out to see, but I don't have an account anywhere to upload it to an HTTP source.
Ok here is a Welcome Screen image that I edited, shifted to the left. Is this what you were talking about?
xeno1, you have to have someplace to upload them. If you don't have access to a site then use a free service like imageshack or something similar and just post the link to the image with the image icon in the reply menu.
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Ok here is a Welcome Screen image that I edited, shifted to the left. Is this what you were talking about?
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yes, but also needs to be shifted to the top, and think again about the text size.
i suggest to move the windows logo down and the text to the top, imagine that the device is moving from portrait to landscape and the opposite . so i hope it will be suitable, if you want to get more clear, look at welcomehead.96.png in your windows directory (in case it is on 320*320 size)
thanks for the good work
Ok, I think I understand what your talking about. How's this?
Sysgod said:
Ok, I think I understand what your talking about. How's this?
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good, what about shifting the windows logo down to make it away from the text!!
it is very nice
Ok, fixed...
FYI, CHome Weather 2.0 works on the VOX. Please follow the link to see the original thread in the Excalibur forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=396068
And click here to download the files needed for the Vox.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2250095&postcount=43
Hello...just downloaded this version of CHome Weather and it looks amazing...great job. There's only one problem, probably related to the 240x320 cpr file because, like I already read in the excalibur forum, there's an issue in 240x320 where the background looks a little odd and doesn't fit the area like it supposed to. But again amazing job...keep it up
EDIT: I've just used a version of the 240 x 320 cpr file already used in another version of your plugin and it works great now
I was just now testing the other layouts and there are some issues:
- I realized that everytime i change the layout, it doesn't matter the cpr 240x320 file i did put there because when the layout is changed the cpr file is kind of replaced by the one corresponding to the sellected layout.
- In the HTC and Iphone layout, it shows always an icon with a cross below the icon of the current weather, instead of showing the icon corresponding to the weather.
- In regular layout, the gold and silver backgrounds don't work well in 320 x 240.
- In the regular layout, in the 1 and 3 layouts, I can't see the hi and low temperature.
Yeah, you'll have problems with the portrait layouts.
Is it possible to fix the problem with portrait?? That is the last thing, that keeps me from donating.
I am so happy with this program. I worked as Organic M's test subject to get this working. I can't say I notice the problem you guys are talking about in regards to portrait mode.
This is what I see:
have the author, removed the files from the location... I am unable to get those...
Can someone help plzzzzzzz!!!!!!!
Thanks
Loku
lokeshmudgal said:
have the author, removed the files from the location... I am unable to get those...
Can someone help plzzzzzzz!!!!!!!
Thanks
Loku
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There are 2 links in the main post at the top of this thread.
The first one is the weather program
The second one is all the files that need to be installed to /windows on your device
Davis,
From your post, it looks like that screen is in ladscape mode. Portrait is taller than wider, yours looks wider than it is taller.
Thanks a lot.. I found the same at the post. I was just eager to get Weather update on my VOX...So got carried away...
Thanks
Loku
frauhottelmann said:
Is it possible to fix the problem with portrait?? That is the last thing, that keeps me from donating.
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Well if you put it that way, you'll definitely NOT get me to fix the portrait layouts. How about.. "here's a small donation and small request... I would really appreciate it if you could work on the portrait layouts(which is a major PITA) so this works properly on my phone".
Well then I Only wanted to know if it is possible to do it. But I can live without it. I can look outside to see the weather. You know I made a lot of stuff for the Vox...but I never received ANY donation!!!
works beatifull. got no issues with any layout (i'm using plain black background). excellent job!
the only question i have is if it is possible to manually edit order of appearance on home screen somehow as i could do it in standard homescreens in _home.xml file?
frauhottelmann said:
Well then I Only wanted to know if it is possible to do it. But I can live without it. I can look outside to see the weather. You know I made a lot of stuff for the Vox...but I never received ANY donation!!!
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This is definitely NOT what I wanted to happen here. I worked with Organic M to get this app to work with our phone models and he was nice enough to help us out.
This is far from the thanks that he deserves, since the app is designed for an entirely different model.
Why so serious? can't we all just... get along?
tepss said:
works beatifull. got no issues with any layout (i'm using plain black background). excellent job!
the only question i have is if it is possible to manually edit order of appearance on home screen somehow as i could do it in standard homescreens in _home.xml file?
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I think the Chome Configurator will allow you to change the order of Slides on your Home Screen.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=393104
polarbair said:
Davis,
From your post, it looks like that screen is in ladscape mode. Portrait is taller than wider, yours looks wider than it is taller.
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I have no idea what you are talking about....
???
As I said I only wanted to know if it is posible nothing more. And I just wanted to clarify that people here are not thankful! I really do apreciate his work. And the work of all the other coders and cookers! I hope you understand my point!
Does this plugin use necessarily the whole width of the screen, or is it possible to customize its size or layout (present conditions, 2-days forecasts, 5-days forecasts...)?
At present I'm using Fizz Weather with Orange plugin on my Wings, in order to show an analoug clock and weather forecasts next to it (see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=89987&d=1212446950); will it be possible to make the same thing with Chome Weather?
So... is anyone still interested in making this work better with the Vox ? Maybe ask some of your ROM cookers to look at the policies in the registry and ask them remove the restricts that don't allow cab files to copy files to the \windows directory ? Then I wouldn't have to make two separate .cab files when I released a new version That, and if anybody wants to help test the portrait layouts, we can make this happen.
Yes it would be great to see the weather plugin fully working on the Vox...that thing about the restrictions I never understood that because after checking myself the registry many times, I saw that the restrictions were disabled and the thing about installing files in the windows folder still remains a problem...
Hello, guys!
You all are professionals and know almost everything about different versions of WM. I have one very important question: is there at least minimal possibility to port somehow this WM 6.5.5 feature - bottom start button to the old WM 6.1 firmwares?
Thank you very much in advance and sorry if this question is a foolish one
It's sort-of possible but would take a little work. Why not just use a 6.5 rom instead?
I think the greater challenge would be resizing the top bar (smaller) and the bottom bar (larger).
Thanks for the answer!
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It's sort-of possible but would take a little work.
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I even can't imagine how it could be implemented... Don't you know if there already was some work for achieving it?
littld said:
Why not just use a 6.5 rom instead?
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Because it seems more slow to me. Official WM6.1 is very fast and simple as I see, faster than 6.5. I've tried a lot of 6.5 builds. But what I really miss in WM6.1 - is this bottom start button. If it be there - it would be the best firmware for all people like me, who like simplicity and usability instead of these huge slow animations and pictures.
littld said:
I think the greater challenge would be resizing the top bar (smaller) and the bottom bar (larger).
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Yeah, it's useful too. Would be nice if somebody experienced considered this interesting and made some investigation...
it's easy to erase the Start menu link from the top bar. you can just overwrite the WindowProc and replace/enhance the WM_PAINT method and here you go.
It's no problem to launch the start menu. But changing the bottom bar is a *****! You could just overwrite the paint method as well. But this is not the full truth. The problem here is that every window got it's own bottom bar. So first you'd have to go through list of all windows/processes, retrieve it's menu bar and from there finally replace the window proc. Then you need to watch out and terminate your window proc if the application closes. And of course you also need to know if a new program is starting up. A nice-to-have feature of this solution would be that you can explicitely tell what happens when you hit the X button (hide or close) and don't need another hack for it.
Thanks a lot for your explanation, RAMMANN. It's very clear.
I can't do it by myself due to lack of experience. Well, the thing left is to wait if somebody experienced wants the same
Well it's a project that probably involves A LOT OF soft resets during development. I was originally planning to make the WM 6.5.x bottom bar look like PHOTON (the WM 7 that got abandoned) but when I figured out it's not THAT easy I postponed the idea for the time being, and will rather start with a smaller project (enhancing bottom bar of WM 6.5 start menu). But I reckon this might still be a very interesting project! hmmmm
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Well it's a project that probably involves A LOT OF soft resets during development. I was originally planning to make the WM 6.5.x bottom bar look like PHOTON (the WM 7 that got abandoned) but when I figured out it's not THAT easy I postponed the idea for the time being, and will rather start with a smaller project (enhancing bottom bar of WM 6.5 start menu). But I reckon this might still be a very interesting project! hmmmm
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Haha - that's exactly what I'd been doing years ago. I abandoned it as well, probably for the same reasons.
I think a decent compromise would be to set the Start menu in your left bottom bar on the Today screen (pretty easy to do, just registry change) and use a button assignment for other programs. If you install one of the start menu replacements (Green software) you can overwrite the start icon with something blank.
RAMMANN is right - a lot of work to repaint all those application windows!
littld, thanks for your answer too.
littld said:
set the Start menu in your left bottom bar on the Today screen (pretty easy to do, just registry change) and use a button assignment for other programs.
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Could you please give some links to these tweaks? Thanks in advance!
littld said:
Haha - that's exactly what I'd been doing years ago. I abandoned it as well, probably for the same reasons.
RAMMANN is right - a lot of work to repaint all those application windows!
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Well I didn't give up yet. I didn't even start dev for it. I just coded few lines to print something like "Hey your bottom bar is hacked!" in the Manila and start menu bottom bars. This is a very interesting project and has potential to allow a lot of things like Photon style or even an Android style bottom bar and I mean not only a standalone app like Androkkid but a full system replacement. I'm still looking around for an efficient way to realize this project and first things first so I'll be doing a start menu enhancement to warm up
J-Pro said:
littld, thanks for your answer too.
Could you please give some links to these tweaks? Thanks in advance!
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I don't have the links but you can search. You want an app called VJKeypress - one of the keypresses will launch the start menu for you. Make a shortcut (.lnk file) for it. Search for how to change the left softkey text and program (somewhere in registry) to the new VJ link.
Thanks for your answers, guys.
RAMMANN, when you have some progress on this project, please, update this thread. I think people would appreciate it.
Thanks again!
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it's easy to erase the Start menu link from the top bar. you can just overwrite the WindowProc and replace/enhance the WM_PAINT method and here you go.
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I know this is an old post i dug up here, but i was wondering how i would go about earasing the start menu link from the top? i'm using 6.5 and i want to totaly dissable the top start soft key. thank you