Homescreen with icons disposition

[Guest sebset]

Is it possible to customise the homescreen to obtain this kind of icons disposition? :roll:

http://www.mobile-review.com/review/sonyer...t610-2-en.shtml

thanks

[Guest yatpeak]

I think it would be, however the icons would be most recently used, and not preset ones.

Wyatt

[Guest Richie M]

Wyatt, you wouldn't be able to do it with MRU (don't think).

All you'd have to do is have 4 "custom shortcut" plug-ins, each containing three shortcuts, the only problem with this is that sometimes the icon is not picked up (but that may only be with small icons i think)

[Guest fraser]

I wish more skins had "custom shortcut" plugins on them. I much prefer this rather than the Most Recently Used one. I like to configure the 5/6 apps I use the most, then use the Program menu to get the rest.

MRU is inconsistent, I'd rather have a static list.

[Guest neilfenstein]

You can get fixed small icons, you just set them as individual shortcuts.

What i would like to know is how you get the small icon names to come up on the fixed icons like some skins have for MRU.

I am doing a web cast with microsoft next wednesday to learn how to program homescreens and plugins for Smartphone 2002.

[Guest sunny]

possible and i can do it... but it's not very usefull...

[Guest midnight]

A single plugin would have to be written, not 4 individual ones, because, otherwise the navigation around the icons would screw up otherwise.

Should be simple enough tho, there is already a plugin to display custom shortcuts, so a modified version would need to be created, unfortunately i dont know any c++ programming so i can't do it.

[Guest Richie M]

Midnight - I've been told you cannot program Plugins at the moment - I've asked here b4.

You'd use four plug-ins to get the 4 lines of 3! and it would make navigation easier IMHO, i dont think you can do a new line in the plug-in anyway.

[Guest yatpeak]

If you put in four plugins though, wouldn't it show four sets of the three most recent programs?

Thanks,

Wyatt

[Guest Richie M]

Wyatt - nah cos you don't use MRU you use the Shortcut Plugin

[Guest midnight]

i've tried the 4 lines of 3 icons, and the navigation is weird.....

say you move to the 3rd icon on the first line,

then you move to the next line down, and move to the 2nd icon,

if you move back up to the 1st line again it goes back to the 3rd icon again (it remembers the position where you left that line, and so navigation is strange when you are just moving around tha icons)

anyhoo, here is the code to put into the homescreen xml if anyone wants to mess around with it (not perfect, but it works, positioning needs centralising etc., and some icons are missing, presumably cos there is not 32 pixel icon for that shortcut)...

<plugin clsid="{A1536C57-6AC2-4c31-9542-B144B0E9D076}" name="scutline1" height="36"> 


<format state="selected" bgcolor="#FFFF00"/> 


<background b-border-width="0"/>


<shortcut width="36" action="IPSMWindowsStart MenuGamesSolitaire.lnk"><text> </text></shortcut> 


<shortcut width="36" action="IPSMWindowsStart MenuWMPlayer.lnk"><text> </text></shortcut>  


<shortcut width="36" action="IPSMWindowsStart MenuAccessoriesPocketMVP.lnk"><text> </text></shortcut>


</plugin> 


<plugin clsid="{A1536C57-6AC2-4c31-9542-B144B0E9D076}" name="scutline2" height="36"> 


<format state="selected" bgcolor="#FFFF00"/> 


<background b-border-width="0"/>


<shortcut width="36" action="IPSMWindowsStart MenuInbox.lnk"><text> </text></shortcut> 


<shortcut width="36" action="IPSMWindowsStart MenuCalendar.lnk"><text> </text></shortcut>  


<shortcut width="36" action="IPSMWindowsStart MenuContacts.lnk"><text> </text></shortcut>


</plugin> 


<plugin clsid="{A1536C57-6AC2-4c31-9542-B144B0E9D076}" name="scutline3" height="36"> 


<format state="selected" bgcolor="#FFFF00"/> 


<background b-border-width="0"/>


<shortcut width="36" action="IPSMWindowsStart MenuTasks.lnk"><text> </text></shortcut> 


<shortcut width="36" action="IPSMWindowsStart MenuPicture Manager.lnk"><text> </text></shortcut>  


<shortcut width="36" action="IPSMWindowsStart MenuSound Manager.lnk"><text> </text></shortcut>


</plugin> 


<plugin clsid="{A1536C57-6AC2-4c31-9542-B144B0E9D076}" name="scutline4" height="36"> 


<format state="selected" bgcolor="#FFFF00"/> 


<background b-border-width="0"/>


<shortcut width="36" action="IPSMWindowsStart MenuSettings.lnk"><text> </text></shortcut> 


<shortcut width="36" action="IPSMWindowsStart MenuOrange Update.lnk"><text> </text></shortcut>  


<shortcut width="36" action="IPSMWindowsStart MenuOrange Backup.lnk"><text> </text></shortcut>


</plugin>