[Upd. 29 Sep 2010] Vostradamus Mobile Shell Manager [(W)QVGA-(W)VGA]

[Guest Vostradamus]

Vostradamus Mobile Shell Manager 5.07

For Spb Mobile Shell 3.5.x

Featuring:

- Widgets Handling (Preview, Activation, Deactivation)

- Additional Lifestyle Panels (sliding background common to all such panels)

- Additional Professional Panels (fixed customizable background in every panel)

- Mobile Shell Panels Background customization

- Multi Language Support

- Contents Copy from one panel to another

- Panel Layout Backup

- Panels PageCount customization

- SpbWeather Panel Icon set Customization

- Mobile Shell Weather Panel Icon set Customization

- Bottom MenuBar customization

- Bottom MenuBar Backup (if you wish to save it before trying new ones)

- Quick links to standard Mobile Shell Panels

- Countless widgets (and growing!)

Click for Preview Images

ChangeLog:

(29 Sep 2010)

Widgets Libraries:

New Widgets Library containing:

- new Link skin: DateLike (same graphics as the standard current date widget) - (made on request)

- New Colors for "Neon" Status Widget: Gold and Orange (made on request)

- New Colors for "Modern Combo" digital clock: Gold and Orange (made on request)

- New Colors for "Small Box Original" link skin: Gold and Orange (made on request)

- New Status Widget: Invisible 2 (same graphics as standard status widget, but visible only with incoming items. No counter) - (made on request)

- New additional versions for the "Glass" digital clocks, keeping the leading 0 on 1digit hours (made on request)

(05 Aug 2010) ---> Last update before my holidays :P

Widgets Libraries:

New Widgets Library containing:

- new Digital Clock set: HTCFont Large (White, Black, Blue, Cyan, Green, Red, Yellow) - (made on request)

- new Links set: Blocky (White, Black, Blue, Cyan, Green, Red, Yellow) - (made on request)

Menubar Libraries:

New Advanced Menubar Library containing:

- "Curved Black" advanced menubar - (made on request)

(30 Jul 2010)

MsM 5.07:

- Extended Advanced Menubar usage to 240x240 and 320x320 devices. All currently available advanced menubars converted to work on these devices too

IMPORTANT: installing version 5.07 alone is not enough to make menubars work on square screen devices, you also need to download and import either the latest menubar library or the updated full library

- Optimized menubar change script

- BugFix: sometimes while activating a menubar the available menubars could show up in the wrong order. Fixed

- BugFix: sometimes when activating the last widget of a category it could remain in the list even after activation. Fixed.

Menubar Libraries:

New Advanced Menubar Libraries containing all the current advanced menubars updated to work on square screen devices

Widgets Libraries:

New Widgets Library containing:

- New Status Widgets Set: Pro (same graphics as the Professional one, number box with different colors: Blue, Cyan, Green, Yellow) - (made on request)

- New Status Widgets: Empty (completely invisible status widgets, available in 2 sizes) - (made on request)

- New Status Widget: Plain (made on request)

- New Battery Widget: Plain Vertical (made on request)

- New Digital Clock Skin: Date Numbers (only shows the month/day numbers, no time) - (made on request)

- New Current Date Skin: Day Name (only shows the day name, no number or month) - (made partially on request)

(26 Jul 2010)

Widgets Libraries:

New Widgets Library containing:

- New Link Skin: Glass Circle, also empty (made on request)

- New Link Skin: Glass Hexagon, also empty (made on request)

- New Backing Panel: Glass Large (made on request)

Menubar Libraries:

New Advanced Menubar Library containing:

- "Curve" advanced menubar (made partially on request)

(19 Jul 2010)

MsM 5.06:

- Support for Advanced Menubars with MS icons

- BugFix: activating/deactivating the last widget of a category was making the last-but-one disappear from the list for no reason. Fixed.

- Added function for automatic scheduled change of Lifestyle Home wallpaper. It can be scheduled daily, weekly or monthly and it chooses a new random jpg wallpaper from a user-chosen folder.

Best (and easiest to find on the net) sizes for wallpapers are:

----- Desktop Wallpaper size if you have a widescreen device (WVGA – WQVGA)

----- Widescreen Desktop Wallpaper size if you have a non-widescreen device (VGA – QVGA)

Menubar Libraries:

New Advanced Menubar Library containing:

- "Spb Style" advanced menubar (same graphics of the standard spb one, but with 1 to 4 customizable links with spb icons)

- "Icon Buttons" advanced menubar (1 to 4 customizable glass buttons with spb icons)

(14 Jul 2010)

Widgets Library:

New Widgets Library containing:

- Black & White Hub Links skin set (Agenda, Apps, Games, Grandkids, Home, Internet, Media, Music, People, People2, Pictures, Settings, Video, Weather, Work) - (made on request)

- New Empty Link skin set: Neon Empty Big (White, Blue, Cyan, Green, Red, Yellow, Magenta) - designed by Jotha, sized to accomodate a "small" sized contact widget

- New Special Combined Widget: Neon Silhouette Combo (battery, analog clock, weather) - designed by Jotha

Menubar Library:

New Menubar Library containing:

- new manubar: No Text 3 Buttons (links to launcher, agenda, contacts) - (made on request)

(07 Jul 2010)

MsM 5.05:

- Enabled spb task manager during MsM installation

- Panel Wallpaper functions now remember the last selected folder

- Raised max selectable pagecount to 9

- Extended “Change Pagecount” function to Lifestyle Home and Professional Home screens

Widgets Library:

New Widgets Library containing:

- New Battery Skin: Status Pro 5% (looks like the "status pro" one, works better on devices with a 10% steps battery driver) - (made on request)

- New Status Skins: Glass Blue, Cyan, Green, Yellow (made on request)

- New Analog Clock Skin: Doc3000 gtx (thanks to Doc3000 for this clock) - (made on request)

- New Weather Skin: Neon Silhouette 2 - designed by Jotha

- New Contact Skin: Extra Small - fits nicely on empty glass and neon links - designed by Jotha

- New Battery Skin: Glass 2 (made on request)

(30 Jun 2010)

Widgets Library:

New Widgets Library containing:

- New Battery: White/Gray Dots (made on request)

- New Battery: Status Pro (made on request)

- New Link skin: Special Audio (to be used for the profile widget) - (made on request)

- New Panels: Time (2 sizes) - (made on request)

- New Digital Clock set: Reflection Medium (white, black, blue, cyan, green, red, yellow) - (made on request)

- New Digital Clock set: Date Only (white, black, blue, cyan, green, red, yellow) - (made on request)

- New Digital Clock skin: Glass Date Line

- New Current Date skin: Glass Square

- New Panel2: Glass Big Square (2 sizes)

(23 Jun 2010)

Widgets Library:

New Widgets Library containing:

- New Digital Clock: TimePanel (lookalike of the one in the Time panel) - (made on request)

- New Digital Clocks set: Neon 7 Segments Medium (white, blue, cyan, green, red, yellow) - (made on request)

- New Digital Clocks set: Neon 7 Segments Small (white, blue, cyan, green, red, yellow) - (made on request)

- New Hub Link skin: Grandkids - (made on request)

- New Status Widget skin: Dark Transparency with Red on incoming items - (made on request)

- New Battery: Neon Silhouette 2 (designed by Jotha)

- New Themed Widgets Set: Glass. The set includes:

--- Analog clock

--- Digital clock (2 sizes)

--- Battery

--- Status

--- Link

--- Empty Link

--- 2 Backing panels

(18 Jun 2010)

MsM 5.04:

- Added Task Manager to the panels list for the SPB Panel Wallpaper function

- Inject Any XML function now remembers the last used folder

- Added Lifestyle Home, Professional Home and all user-defined panels to the possible options for Advanced Menubars

- When selecting one of the above panels as a function for the menubar, MsM will ask if it needs to work in “Link” or “Carousel” mode. Difference is:

----- Link mode: opens like tapping on a shortcut. The panel can be closed with windows mobile “x” button. Do not use Search, Facebook and Twitter widgets on a panel you plan to reach this way ‘cause they would act weird

----- Carousel mode: opens like reaching the panel via carousel. The panel can’t be “closed”, if you wish to leave it you need to tap on another link or to use the carousel. Search, Facebook and Twitter widgets works normally on a panel reached this way.

Menubars Library:

New Menubar Library containing:

- "Invisible 2" menubar

- "Invisible Large 2" menubar

These are the same as the invisible and invisible large ones, but the invisible button links to the launcher instead of the carousel.

New Advanced Menubar Library containing:

- "ButtonsNumber" menubar. Thin, clean look for a menubar with up to 8 buttons!

(11 Jun 2010)

MsM 5.03:

- Update for MS 3.5.5 compatibility

Widgets Library:

New Widgets Library containing:

- New Hub Link Skin: People2 - (made on request)

- New Weather Skin: Neon Silhouette - (designed by Jotha)

- New Link Skin Set: Neon Silhouette 2 (new colors/silhouettes) - (designed by Jotha)

- Fix for QVGA "line" birthday widget where the contact text in case of no picture available was misplaced

Menubars Library

New Advanced Menubar Library containing:

- "NeonButtons" menubar

(07 Jun 2010)

MsM 5.02:

- Added Advanced Menubars handling. Advanced Menubars are menubars with a variable number of customizable buttons (1 to 4 plus side buttons).

- Fixed a small issue which could sometimes prevent the correct creation of a subfolder during installation.

Menubars Library:

New (first) Advanced Menubar Library containing:

- "Simple" menubar

- "Star Wars" menubar

(03 Jun 2010)

Menubars Library:

New Menubar Library containing:

- new "Shelf" menubar

- new "Neon" menubar

(01 Jun 2010)

MsM 5.01b

Looks like I forgot a file while building version 5.01, here's the fixed version, sorry for the inconvenience ;)

(31 May 2010)

MsM 5.01:

- Added Full Backup/Restore function to backup the whole current mobile shell configuration: activated widgets, additional panels, menubars, custom backgrounds, custom widgets added through the manager and so on. Due to the wholeness of the backedup data, Backups created with this function will be restorable only on the same Mobile Shell version.

- Import Library function now remembers the last used folder

- Create Shortcuts – MS Panels function now also creates a shortcut to Mobile Shell Task Manager. This is required for the “thin 2” menubar to work

- Small fix on credits visualization

Menubars Library:

New Menubar library containing:

- "Thin 2" menubar - Same looks as the "Thin" one, different links. Requires running "Create Shortcuts - MS Panels" function in MsM first to enable the task manager. - (made on request)

- "Side Buttons Original" - Side buttons (carousel and menu) with the looks of the original ones, nothing in between them. Whole screen height available for widgets. - (made on request)

(26 May 2010)

- MsM 5.00 released

Full details and download links HERE!

Enjoy! ;)

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A few examples of different layouts that can be created with the only use of MsM :)

Edited September 29, 2010 by Vostradamus

[Guest Vostradamus]

Released version 4.01 (small bugfixes) :)

[Guest COOLCABMAN]

Hello mr Vostradamas,

this is awsome, thanx for the efforts, really fantastic, works smoother than the older ver2, must try for all the guys/gals using spb shell.

thanx

[Guest Vostradamus]

Hello mr Vostradamas,

this is awsome, thanx for the efforts, really fantastic, works smoother than the older ver2, must try for all the guys/gals using spb shell.

thanx

You're welcome ;) and thanks for the appreciation :)

[Guest Vostradamus]

Just released :)

Vostradamus Mobile Shell Manager 4.02

For Spb Mobile Shell 3.5.x

ChangeLog:

(25 Mar 2010)

Mobile Shell Manager 4.02

- Added option to choose between EzViewer and IExplore for previewing widgets

Widgets Libraries:

New widgets library containing:

- Hub Links Collection (white/cyan and black/cyan)

- Borderless picture frame (Skinnable hub links require "small" size and squared images)

- Hub-sized invisible link

- Hub-sized "skinnable" analog clock (white and black)

- New status icons skin: Thin

New Widgets Preview:

Detailed info and download links HERE!

Enjoy! ;)

[Guest snakebite63]

Hey Vos,

I really like what you have done with your widgets. Will your new widgets work with MSkips themes ok.

Thanks

[Guest Vostradamus]

Hey Vos,

I really like what you have done with your widgets. Will your new widgets work with MSkips themes ok.

Thanks

sure :)

all the widgets and most things done by my manager are add-ons which do not alter in any way what's already inside mobile shell, be it standard spb contents or other customizations ;)

The only not-mine thing that can be altered is the menubar in the main lifestyle screen... so if you have one of mskip themes on and you don't wanna mess it up, just don't change that menubar (you can still change it to any other additional panel, lifestyle or pro, that you create with my manager though) :P

[Guest COOLCABMAN]

hello every body, here below are the screen shots of vostradamus widgits manager, its just wow, smooth, thanx to him for all the efforts, i am his fan and follow his posts at xda too, vos great work.

[Guest Vostradamus]

hello every body, here below are the screen shots of vostradamus widgits manager, its just wow, smooth, thanx to him for all the efforts, i am his fan and follow his posts at xda too, vos great work.

wow, never thought of using the hexagon links that way, I thought everyone would have placed them "honeycomb style", but they look nice this way too :)

[Guest COOLCABMAN]

thank u for the comment vos, at the end we r thankful to u, its all cause of ur efforts we r able to do all this.

by the way how do we replace pictures of hub links, waiting for ur reply, have a great day.

regards

[Guest Vostradamus]

thank u for the comment vos, at the end we r thankful to u, its all cause of ur efforts we r able to do all this.

by the way how do we replace pictures of hub links, waiting for ur reply, have a great day.

regards

Hub links as I showed in the preview pictures are made using 2 widgets each:

- one picture frame showing the picture you want to use for the hub, the picture frame must be set to use "borderless small" skin and the picture must be squared

- one link widget pointing to the hub you want to open, set to use the appropriate link skin (the currently available ones are listed in the preview image) and placed right over the picture frame

With this little trick you will be able to use any picture you want for the hubs, as long as you make it squared :)

(and of course if you like the kittens I used in the preview I can send them to you lol) ;)

[Guest COOLCABMAN]

hello vos, thanx for the guide, i can manage to set pics, i cannot put cat cause my kids get scared of them, hehehehe, i tried to put dear once and my son was running aways from me, then i asked him he said there is bhobho (animal) on ur cell heheheh.

thanx bro.

Tried it bro, must find appropriate pics for the hub now, :) thanx once again.

Regards, giv lots of hug to ur cats from me n my kids ;)

Edited March 26, 2010 by COOLCABMAN

[Guest Vostradamus]

hello vos, thanx for the guide, i can manage to set pics, i cannot put cat cause my kids get scared of them, hehehehe, i tried to put dear once and my son was running aways from me, then i asked him he said there is bhobho (animal) on ur cell heheheh.

thanx bro.

lol I guess you could opt for a serie of pics of bikini beauties then :)

[Guest Vostradamus]

Released 2 new widgets libraries

ChangeLog:

(31 Mar 2010)

Widgets Libraries:

New Widgets Library containing:

- New Digital Clocks set: Dogs (White, Black, Blue, Cyan, Green, Red, Yellow) - (made on request)

- New Links skins: JH Metal circle and JH Metal Square - (designed by H. Heigenhauser)

- New Backing Panels: JH Metal (available in 4 sizes) - (designed by H. Heigenhauser)

- New Status icons: Thin 2 (made on request)

- New Contacts skin: invisible (available in 4 sizes) - now you can use a picture frame even with a group picture as contacts! Just place invisible contacts over it!

- New Contacts skin: special icon - to be used assigning a default action and placing it over a normal contact picture (see example)

New Special MSkip Widgets Library containing:

- a selection of MSkip widgets prior to his WP7 themes (the selection includes analog clocks, digital clocks, weather, backing panels, picture frames) - (made on request)

Detailed info and download links HERE!

Enjoy! :P

[Guest Vostradamus]

Just released :P

Vostradamus Mobile Shell Manager 4.03

For Spb Mobile Shell 3.5.x

ChangeLog:

(02 Apr 2010)

Mobile Shell Manager 4.03:

- Changed “MS Panels” folder icon and Standard Panels Shortcut Icons

- Changed ProPanel creation script so that Pro Panels will have different icons from Lifestyle Panels

- Menubar in Main Professional panel now changeable like in all other panels

- Added Panel Backup function: every panel can be backed up (home lifestyle, home pro, additional panels) and restored singularly. The function makes a backup of the CONTENT of the panel, background and menubar will NOT be saved (of course they can still be changed after restoring a backup).

- small BugFix: panel removal function now correctly removes panel link in tools\ms panels

Widgets Libraries:

New Widgets Library containing:

- New Status icons: Thin Invisible (invisible with no incoming items, visibile text and red signal box with one or more incoming items. No counter shown) - (made on request)

- New Hub Links: Media, Music, Pictures, Video (available in white/cyan and black/cyan)

Detailed info and download links HERE!

Enjoy! :(

[Guest Vostradamus]

Just released ;)

Vostradamus Mobile Shell Manager 4.04

For Spb Mobile Shell 3.5.x

ChangeLog:

(15 Apr 2010)

Mobile Shell Manager 4.04:

- Added function to inject any XML in qa_layouts.dat (can be useful as a tool for mods other than mine)

- Small BugFix: added missing confirmation message in the MS Panels Shortcuts creation function

- Added function to change the weather icons in MS Weather Panels. PLEASE NOTICE: this will ALSO change the weather icons used by default mobile shell weather widgets. Icon sets currently available: Spil and Stickers

Widgets Libraries:

New Widgets Library containing:

- new Status Icons skin: XWing - designed by Hans Heigenhauser

- new Status Icons skin: Bubble - counter only - (made on request)

- new Weather skin: HTCMoxy - (made on request)

- new Weather skin: Big Transparent (white and black) for skinnable weather widgets - only for Mobile Shell Weather

- new huge invisible link (2 of them to cover the whole screen) - (made on request)

- new borderless picture frame size: tiny (for small hubs) - (made on request)

- new small hub sized invisible link

- new small hub links collection (all the previously available hub links available in small size too)

Detailed info and download links HERE!

Enjoy! ;)

[Guest Vostradamus]

Just released ;)

Vostradamus Mobile Shell Manager 4.05

For Spb Mobile Shell 3.5.x

ChangeLog:

(19 Apr 2010)

Mobile Shell Manager 4.05:

- Added Widget-sets functions to:

1) Save widget set: saves the current activated widget list

2) Activate widget set: read a widget list file and activates all its widgets at once

3) Deactivate widget set: read a widget list file and deactivates all its widgets at once

- BugFix: sometimes some spb weather widgets showed up in the change list menu even after deactivation, this should be now fixed

- Modified activate and deactivate script so that “personal” registry subkeys can be used for user-made widgets

Widgets Libraries:

- Updated widgets library 20100415 to fix an issue with Bubble Status Icons

Widgets Creation Tutorial

Hans Heigenhauser (Jotha on Xda) kindly prepared a detailed tutorial which will guide you through the steps needed to create a new Widget Skin to be used with Mobile Shell Manager.

The guide is about a Status Widget skin, but the steps are basically the same for the other widgets too ;)

Detailed info and download links HERE!

Enjoy! ;)

[Guest Vostradamus]

Released a new Widgets Library ;)

ChangeLog:

(21 Apr 2010)

Widgets Libraries:

New Widgets Library containing:

- New Link skin: "Odd Small Hub": it's just the normal icon link, but correctly alignable with the small hubs - (made on request)

- New Borderless Picture Frame size: "smallest", to fit 3 hubs in a row, can be used together with the old and already available "large invisible link" - (made on request)

- New Status Icons skin: Bubble Large - (made on request)

- New Digital Clock set: Reflection (large and small), available in White, Black, Blue, Cyan, Green, Red, Yellow - (made partially on request)

Detailed info and download links HERE!

Enjoy! ;)

[Guest Vostradamus]

New Widgets Library just released

For Vostradamus Mobile Shell Manager

ChangeLog:

(26 Apr 2010)

Widgets Libraries:

New Widgets Library containing:

- New contact skin size: tiny real (made on request)

- New Themed Widgets Collection: FIFA 2010 (result of a cooperation with everprecious forum user Jotha) - For the happiness of Soccer Lovers :huh:

- Widgets Sets definition files for "FIFA 2010" and "FIFA 2010 without panels" (to activate/deactivate all FIFA widgets in one go)

New Stuff preview:

Detailed info and download links HERE!

Enjoy! :P

[Guest Vostradamus]

New Widgets Library just released

For Vostradamus Mobile Shell Manager

ChangeLog:

(29 Apr 2010)

Widgets Libraries:

New Widgets Library containing:

- New Battery skins: Moon (large and small) - designed by Jotha

- New Status skin: Girls

- New Battery skin: Girls

- New Themed Widgets Collection: Alien vs. Predator (made on request)

- Widgets Set definition file for "Alien vs. Predator" (to activate/deactivate the whole set of widgets in one go)

New Stuff preview:

Detailed info and download links HERE!

Enjoy! :huh:

[Guest Vostradamus]

Just released :P

Vostradamus Mobile Shell Manager 4.06

For Spb Mobile Shell 3.5.x

ChangeLog:

(05 May 2010)

Mobile Shell Manager 4.06:

- Added menubar: Invisible Large Buttons – (made on request)

- Professional Home wallpaper can now be changed like the additional ProPanels (need to change its menubar at least once first, to enable the wallpaper customization)

- Added function to mass-import in one go ALL the widgets libraries stored inside a single folder - (made on request)

- Added function to customize the wallpaper on standard MS Panels (Time, Agenda, Weather, Contacts etc) Every panel can have its own background (portrait + landscape, like ProPanels).

Detailed info and download links HERE!

Enjoy! :D

[Guest Vostradamus]

Just released (bugFix version) :P

Vostradamus Mobile Shell Manager 4.07

For Spb Mobile Shell 3.5.x

ChangeLog:

(06 May 2010)

Mobile Shell Manager 4.07:

- BugFix: Invisible Large Menubar was not working correctly on qvga devices, now it's fixed

Widgets Libraries:

New very small "bonus" Widgets Library containing a small version of the Alien Vs Predator battery widget... made on request, and quickly released as an apology for the stupid bug on the qvga menubar lol :D :P

Detailed info and download links HERE!

Enjoy! :P

[Guest Vostradamus]

Released new Widgets Library for

Vostradamus Mobile Shell Manager 4.07

For Spb Mobile Shell 3.5.x

ChangeLog:

(10 May 2010)

Widgets Libraries:

New widgets library containing:

New Digital Clocks set: Clean Simple (available in white, black, blue, cyan, green, red, yellow) - (made on request)

New Analog Clocks set: Neon x Mskip WP7 Theme (available in white, blue, cyan, green, red, yellow) - (made on request)

New Status set: Neon x Mskip WP7 Theme (available in white, blue, cyan, green, red, yellow) - (made on request)

Detailed info and download links HERE!

Enjoy! :P

[Guest Vostradamus]

Just released :)

Vostradamus Mobile Shell Manager 4.08

For Spb Mobile Shell 3.5.x

ChangeLog:

(14 May 2010)

Mobile Shell Manager 4.08:

- Optimized activation and deactivation scripts: no more waiting for list reload after activating/deactivating a widget!

- New functions set: create/edit/delete changing pic widget.

The changing pic is a special widget to which users can assign a “pictures set” and it will automatically change picture at set intervals: daily, weekly, monthly… user’s choice as well as at what time the change will take place (please note that Mobile Shell will be automatically restarted for the picture change to take effect, so it’s advisable to choose an update time when the phone is likely not in use).

Users can create as many changing pictures widgets as they want, assigning them to different pictures sets and sizes to enhance screen customization possibilities.

Once created, changing picture widgets will be available as skins for a “current date” object, much like the backing panels.

Pictures sets will be released like widgets libraries, plus users can easily create their own ones following the tutorial written by Jotha (attached to the main post of my thread on XDA)

Changing Pics Pic Sets:

- Animals (courtesy of Jotha, includes Small and Medium Square, Small and Medium Portrait, Small and Medium Landscape layouts)

- Cars (courtesy of Jotha, includes Small and Medium Square, Small and Medium Landscape layouts)

- Nature (courtesy of Jotha, includes Small and Medium Square, Small and Medium Landscape layouts)

Detailed info and download links HERE!

Enjoy! ;)

Edited May 14, 2010 by Vostradamus

[Guest Vostradamus]

New Widgets Library for

Vostradamus Mobile Shell Manager 4.08

For Spb Mobile Shell 3.5.x

ChangeLog:

(19 May 2010)

Widgets Libraries:

New Widgets Library containing:

- New Themed Widgets Collection: Neon Silhouettes. The collection includes: Analog Clock, Digital Clock, Status, Battery, 7 Links

This release is a co-production by Jotha+Vostradamus :)

Detailed info and download links HERE!

Enjoy! ;)