How do I customize the email (msgcount2) plugin?

[Guest daweinst]

Windows Smartphone 5.0 has a plugin that will show you on your homescreen when your POP email accounts have new emails. If there are no new emails, then nothing is shown on the home screen. If you have new emails, it lists the POP accounts with new mail, and shows you how many new messages there are. The details for the plugin are:

<plugin clsid="{8486CC1E-025B-4888-9C76-048DF7C1787D}" name="msgcount2"

I prefer using this plugin to the one that will just show you a number of all emalis, and will show a 0 if you have none.

I'm designing my own home screen and I'm having trouble customizing this plugin. I can't seem to change the font of the text or the location on the screen of where it appears.

Can someone please tell me:

1) Is it possible to change the font and color of the text? If so, how? If not, where does it take it's color from?

2) How do I change where on the screen this plugin appears?

Thanks!,

Dan

[Guest kaplanfx]

bump! I also want to tweak msgcount2. I've been able to change all other plugins, but I just can't figure out how this one works. What I want is to have my msgcount2 plugins on the same line, and always show even if there are no new ones. Like:

SMS: (0) Email (3)

I'd like to have my voicemail on the same line of possible.

Voicemail: (0) SMS: (0) Email (3)

Anyone know how to do that?

-Kap

[Guest cyamamoto]

Hi,

ti change font color...

x="16" font-size="13" fgcolor="#000000">

in my screen apears:

Mensagens sms(X)

how can i do to remove the label "mensagens"?????

[Guest jfischetti]

What tags do you add to center the entire plugin on the home screen too.. Can't figure it out.

[Guest pavankp]

Hi,

ti change font color...

x="16" font-size="13" fgcolor="#000000">

in my screen apears:

Mensagens sms(X)

how can i do to remove the label "mensagens"?????

A registry change should do the job. The key you want to change is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\System\State\Messages\sms. Change the data of the String value called "Account name" from "Mensagens sms" to "SMS" and it should now just show "SMS".

Pavan

[Guest cyamamoto]

I cant find this entry in registry...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\System\State\Messages\sms

im using phm registry editor mpx220 wm2003se

any sugestion??

Regards,

Carlos

[Guest cyamamoto]

I cant find this entry in registry...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\System\State\Messages\sms

im using phm registry editor mpx220 wm2003se

any sugestion??

Regards,

Carlos

:) solved

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Inbox\Svc\sms

[Guest flodis79]

:) solved

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Inbox\Svc\sms

Was that the one? Did it still remain under your new name even after

a new text message has been received? When I tried, it would switch

back to "Text Messages" after I got a new sms..

Btw, I think the name change will only affect the messaging menu,

not the homescreen. I have "SMS" on the homescreen, but "Text Messages"

in the messaging menu. At least it's so on my Qtek 8310.

[Guest cyamamoto]

Was that the one? Did it still remain under your new name even after

a new text message has been received? When I tried, it would switch

back to "Text Messages" after I got a new sms..

Btw, I think the name change will only affect the messaging menu,

not the homescreen. I have "SMS" on the homescreen, but "Text Messages"

in the messaging menu. At least it's so on my Qtek 8310.

i modified this registry entrie and it changes in homescreen and the messages panel... im using mpx220 wm2033se, it works with outlook account too.

[Guest pavankp]

i modified this registry entrie and it changes in homescreen and the messages panel... im using mpx220 wm2033se, it works with outlook account too.

Actually I had made three changes that totally took care of this. Here are the changes I made:

Under HKCU\System\State\Messages\sms\Unread, change Text to SMS (0).

Under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Inbox\Svc\sms, change FriendlyName to SMS.

Under HKCU\System\State\Messages\sms, change AccountName to SMS.

I have tested this only on an i-mate SP5 (running WM5.)

I made a CAB file for myself that does these three changes. I've attached it. (The cab file puts an empty dummy.txt file on the Storage Card which you can safely ignore/delete.)

Pavan

SMS_Label.CAB

[Guest dishe]

bump! I also want to tweak msgcount2. I've been able to change all other plugins, but I just can't figure out how this one works. What I want is to have my msgcount2 plugins on the same line, and always show even if there are no new ones. Like:

SMS: (0) Email (3)

I'd like to have my voicemail on the same line of possible.

Voicemail: (0) SMS: (0) Email (3)

Anyone know how to do that?

-Kap

It seems that there is a text string in the registry found at

HKCU\System\State\Messages\sms\Unread

which tells the sms to show up as "Text Messages (0)" (on my imate sp5 at least).

If I remove it, the text messages dissapear from my home screen if 0.

I tried adding it to the email by pasting it in

HKCU\System\State\Messages\EmailOther, but it only worked until I got 1 message. Once I delete that msg, it goes back to blank and now I NO msg indicators when they are 0!!

This is not what I wanted to do at all... anyone have any suggestions?

[Guest prk72]

What tags do you add to center the entire plugin on the home screen too.. Can't figure it out.

Try this:

<plugin clsid="{8486CC1E-025B-4888-9C76-048DF7C1787D}" name="msgcount2" height="25" autoheight="false">

		<text halign="center" />

		<background>

			<format state="selected" bgcolor="COLOR_HOMEHIGHLIGHT"/>

		</background>

		<mail account="others"/>

	</plugin>

[Guest prk72]

Can anyone tell me why my Yahoo account only shows up when I have an unread message?

This is my code:

<plugin clsid="{8486CC1E-025B-4888-9C76-048DF7C1787D}" name="msgcount2" height="25" autoheight="false">

		<text padding-left="10" padding-bottom="5"/>

		<background>

			<format state="selected" bgcolor="COLOR_HOMEHIGHLIGHT"/>

		</background>

		<mail account="others"/>

	</plugin>