Customising the C500 Homescreen

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Customised Orange C500 Homescreen with embedded abaxia plugin

Inside the Orange Homescreen XML

A. Changing date format.

You will see something like this when you open the XML:

DateFormat="ddd MMM dd, yyy" ...will manifest as Tue Feb 09, 2005 on the homescreen

B. Changing homescreen links names

You will see something like these:

1. There are 6 icons located at the left of the homescreen corresponding to 6 Opt tags...from the top

Opt_0 for Contacts

Opt_1 for Call History

Opt_2 for SMS, MMS and eMail

Opt_3 for Calendar

Opt_4 for Camera and Album

Opt_5 for Custom links

Opt_3_1 with value data 'Papyrus' will open Papyrus calendar program provided Papyrus.lnk at \Storage\windows\Start Menu\ is renamed to Calendar(.lnk)

C. Creating Custom links

1. Changing the name on the homescreen is easy. Just rename value of Opt_5_X to your app's name taking into consideration that Opt_5_0 would be the top most entry.

2. It is also easy to change the links. On the XML, you'll see these:

Url_0 ="file://\Storage%20Card\regedit.exe" corresponds to Opt_5_0 ="PHM Reg Edit" and thus will launch PHM Registry Editor program when this is clicked:

%20 in between the words 'Storage Card' means a space. Thus file://\Storage%20Card\regedit.exe means \Storage Card\regedit.exe, always include file:// to the value data.