Fixed the white bar at the top, i copied the backgrounds into the home folder not realising that they were set in the schemes.

For all users to change the background just change the colour scheme and the rest happens for you.

Just need the Vista icons now

pahoman

I used the PAH Vista (WMP) screen layout, colour scheme: default, background: default and I end up with a white background on the home screen, appart from the usual previously used icons and the time showing.
When I scroll down the screen the other settings show with a blue background and if I change the colour scheme default or the background default I get the following message...
No home screen layouts can be found, install a valid home screen layout and then select it using the home screen item in Settings.
I am probably doing something wrong but I thought the layouts were contained in the cab. or do I need to download separately?

Sorry to be a bother

John

.....perhaps you could create a install that uses totally free apps.

The WMP cab just an "add on" pack

Got it, just didn't realise I had to install one of the other schemes first.

Thanks again for all your help and of course for the trouble taken to build thes great screans.

Now the fun begins

John

You're welcome

Love your stuff Paholman, its been great! have one question for you: I have a blackjack with WM6..how can I use your startup and shutdown screen...better yet, how do I set it up with my own creation...whats that .dll file you were talking about

I have just re-installed the PhoneAlarm Version of your HomeScreen Pack after having to do a re-set of my phone and now the time plug-in is aliened to the far right of the screen and not in the box as it used to be. any help in getting the HomeScreen to display properly would be appreciated

Cheers

Roland

Hi paholman

once again congrats and thanks for the excellent homescreen. Ive installed the non PA/non facade version.

Ive been looking at the screens you have and wanted to know how you got ur appointments to look like they do. Specifically having the date in bold and the actual appointment in normal font. Mines all in normal font so its difficult to make out the date from the appt.

Also how do u get the next few appointments due, on the homescreen. Mine only shows the next scheduled appt, yours shows the next 2?

Is there any way to enlarge the amount of screen that the scheduler takes? thats the most important thing for me and would like it to take more of the screen.

I dont know how much of the above is to do with the fact i dont have facade but i would appreciate ur input

thanks again!!!

Hi Roland,

Which phoneAlarm skin are you using? The PAH Vista set contains both 12 and 24 hour versions, so try a different skin to see if this helps.
Once you find the erroneous skin, can you send it (attach it) so I can check the code.

Did you install the latest version?

Thanks

Hi,

Thank you for your feedback.

The multiple calendar lines is indeed displayed by the Facade plugin, as is the ability to display custom images as icons (Facade Launcher) which is what I used to display my Vista icons.

There is a free multiple calendar plugin called CBReminder: It can be downloaded here: http://chrisb.homelinux.org/cbreminder/
This works pretty well at displaying multiple entries, but it doesn't allow different sizes for Portrait/Landscape switching, seems to mis-align on a reboot where it puts double spaces between entries, so it can look odd at times. The only other minor glitch is when you don't have any appointments it does not display "There are no appointments" but the German translation instead.

This may not matter to some, but I couldn't find any way to translate this, admittedly I didn't actually try to contact the developer, but as I'd bought Facade I didn't meddle with the free plugin too much. I could do a PAH Vista version that uses this plugin and see if you liked it.

Perhaps Chris (Prosper) knows a little more about this plugin as he's more experienced with homescreens than I am, and he has a link to the plugin on his homepage. Alternatively you could contact the actual Developer of the plugin on the above link to find out more.

I hope this helps

Thanks for your advice. I think i may have to invest in facade. Im just a little worried about buying these products though. In terms of if u lose /upgrade ur phone. Can u transfer the program on to ur new phone or do u have to buy another one? Also if i do buy it, do i have to uninstall the homescreen first or can i just install the facade cab and it will sort itself out. On your installation instructions u say to instal the facade cab before PAH cab?

You can review the actual topic here: http://www.modaco.com/change-startup-shutdown-t244189.html


Some devices such as the Orange SPV E650 have animated GIF files as their startup and shutdown screens, and this is what I replaced with the ones on the 1st post. Other devices such as the HTC S710 does not have the animated screens. The difference between the two devices as far as I can see if oemstartup.dll in the Windows folder. On my device this is the DLL that is used when shutting down and starting up to enable the animated GIF files to play. The Orange SPV E650 has this file, and value in the registry, but the HTC version doesn't.

I don't know which devices have it, and which don't so it's a case of checking yourself, and the registry entries:-

HKLM\System\Startup\1\Dll (String)= "\Windows\oemstartup.dll"
HKLM\System\Shutdown\1\Dll (String)= "\Windows\oemstartup.dll"

If you have these, then the animated GIF's should work, so save them as files from the 1st post, copy them to yoru device \Windows folder, and update the following registry entries:-

HKLM\Software\HTC\Startup\Image (String)= "\Windows\PAH_Vista_Startup.gif"
HKLM\Software\HTC\Shutdown\Image (String)= "\Windows\PAH_Vista_Startup.gif".

Those that don't have the above registry entries and oemstartup.dll file, may use the following registry keys:-

HKLM\System\Startup\1\Splash (String)= "\Windows\PAH_Vista_Splash.gif"
HKLM\System\Shutdown\1\Splash (String)= "\Windows\PAH_Vista_Splash.gif"

With the above, only static images can be used, animations don't work.



I hope this helps

sorry to be a bother, but i was wondering if the starup/shutdown screens were ever converted to landscape?