What exactly does the Orange Plugin provide?

[Guest jasperkins]

I'm new to smartphone homescreen design, and have the Motorola Q. I have noticed that there is limited options with the current plugins that work for WM5 and the Q- in Landscape.

I have installed Facade, and its a great tool. However it also appears the 4orangeh plugin is a great plugin for homescreen designers. I am still trying to determine what it really provides.

Thx!

[Guest w411y]

I have not used the plugin (basically because it scares me ;)) so what I say may not be 100% percent correct.

As you may already understand, the plugins are listed in lines or layers. The Orange plugin allows you to display more than one plugin in a layer.

For good use of it, check out Jamma14s XP homescreen and pretty much most of DrBlows work. Oh and oops I tell a lie... I used the plugin in my Vista Grass screen :) All of what I am referring to is available from the downloads section of this site :)

Welcome to MoDaCo :D

[Guest jasperkins]

Thanks for the welcome. I really am learning alot via this site. the one thing that is still upseting me is that I cant find a plugin or way to put data on the same line- apparently like the 4orangeh.dll provides.

There are screens which look like they have a workaround using shortcuts, however its really not the same.

[Guest jasperkins]

I have been playing with the orange plugin just fine on my motorla Q smartphone. (I copied and registered sucessfully the 4orangeh.dll from my other "Orange" phone device.

The problem I have is that I still cant get any plugins to nest on the same line. Can somone send me a simple home.xml that works so I can test against my code? Just a basic Date and Profile on the same line?

As the Q is a Landscape phone I am trying to port over some of DrBlows QVGA designs. However the plugins just dont seems to work. Now I can get the shortcut plugins to work, however this really doesnt open the functionality of the smartphones homescreen.

Thanks,

Jason

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