Assistance with Small icons & shortcuts on homescreen pl

[Guest yoos]

Hi!

What I'm trying to do is copy some of the stuff I have seen on this forum to create a homescreen I like. I want to have small icons at the top but the problem is when they are selected the highlighting is not alligned with the icons. In the attached pictures below you can see what I mean... Also there is a weird marking to the right of each highlight?

Any ideas how I can align the highlighting correctly on the icons and get rid of the weird markings? I am guessing it has something to do with the padding, but I can't figure it out... Thanks!!

Here's my xml too...

<?xml version="1.0"?>

Microsoft Corporation

http://www.microsoft.com/

Full Small Icons

Full Small Icons

Disposition pleine

Volles Layout

Configurazione piena

Plano cheio

Diseño lleno

完整布局

Schermindeling

Fuldt layout

1.0

bgcolor="transparent" fgcolor="COLOR_HOMETEXT" padding-top="2" b-border-color="COLOR_HOMERULE"

b-border-width="1">

b-border-width="1"/>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Call in progress:

Call in progress:

Appel en cours:

Anruf in Ausführung:

Chiamata in corso:

Chamada em curso:

Llamada en curso:

正在呼叫:

Actieve oproep:

Igangværende opkald:

Missed calls:

Missed calls:

Appels manqués:

Verpasste Anrufe:

Chiamate perse:

Chamadas perdidas:

Llamadas perdidas:

未接电话:

Gemiste oproepen:

Mistede opkald:

SMS (), E-mail ()

Email (), SMS ()

Email (), SMS ()

E-Mails (), SMS ()

E-mail (), SMS ()

Correio (), SMS ()

Correo (), SMS ()

邮件 (), SMS ()

E-mail (), SMS ()

E-mail (), SMS ()

Profile:

Profile:

Profil:

Profil:

Profilo:

Perfil:

Perfil:

配置文件:

Profiel:

Profil:

SS 2.jpg

SS 1.jpg

[Guest Richie M]

Hi m8, first off unfortunately you cant do anything about the weird mark :(

This is because the actual shortcut plug-in wants to put text next to the shortcut but as a cheat to stop this it was found that by entering an ASCII space character it satisfies the need for text hence the weird mark (in other words where the weird mark is where the text should be).

To make the icons align better try reducing your shortcut width to 16 or 17 instead of 20 :)

[Guest vijay555]

does this plugin actually load icons off shortcuts?

i'm trying it with the non-default applications (eg, trying to get it to load smartexplorer), and although the shortcut works, the icon doesn't. Pour-quoi?

V

[Guest yoos]

thanks Richie! I actually had a smaller value in their originally (16 I think), but that still didn't look perfect... I'll mess with that and see what I can do...

vijay555, I am just learning the xml and I am not an expert. I just copied that part from someone elses post on here (I think their name was Dr something...). I am guessing it is getting the icon from the shortcut though.

[Guest vijay555]

no problem yoos, it's just that i made a home screen incorporating the bar with Richie's suggestions, but then noticed afterwards that it doesn't display the icons for the shortcuts i had in there (these were programs installed locally in IPSM, and on storage card)

So in the end i found that there was no great use for the shortcut bar, except for running the standard apps, (IE, notes, calendar etc)

Can someone correct me: is it possible to put custom apps (with proper icons, not the question-mark icon) on the bar?

In any case, if i may beg you again Ritchie, could you push me in the direction of the source code for ANY homescreen plugin. can't find it on smartphony after the re-shuffle, and would like to start playing around!

Cheers all!

V

[Guest vijay555]

Richie: don't worry mate, i found the original alarm plug-in souce, by opening my eyes :)

A new world beckons - next step, controlling my bmw convertible with my SmartPhone!

V

[Guest Richie M]

Richie: don't worry mate, i found the original alarm plug-in souce, by opening my eyes :)

A new world beckons - next step, controlling my bmw convertible with my SmartPhone!

V

Well done m8, i think tho it is a pretty good example of how not to write a plug-on as most of it doesnt work in the original source :( and that will sometimes freeze your phone up :roll: so be carefull. Unfortunately there are no other decent plug-in examples available ATM :D

[Guest vijay555]

:) tell me about it!

read thru the source, eeks.

I can see why the plugin's so dodgy..

I think it would be a good idea for someone (ie You!?) to clean up the code and write a neat template. There's obviously good room for improvement, which you've clearly incorporated into the updated alarm-plugin, but it'd be nice for the Forum to get out a good, clean, generic plug-in, and we can all start working from there.

BTW, who made the LCD plugin? that thing looks great, well programmed, although perhaps TOO specific. I presume it's non MS of course, but the coder deserves a pat on the back one way or the other...

And BTW2: for additional Kudos, have you or another genius considered writing an external program from scratch to set the alarm time, directly to/from the registry.

Most of the code is already in the plugin (ie read/write registry keys, of course), and knocking together a screen with a couple of radio buttons etc should do it!

For those who have no idea, check Registry, local machine, software, microsoft, clock, 0.. all will be revealed

Using a seperate app launched from your plugin, or anyway, we could set the alarm without having to go thru settings > date >alarm.

Any thoughts all?

V

[Guest nickcornaglia]

Why do people create posts with links to this thread. It's about the 10th time I hit it.

And it's usually in an unrelated word.

:?:

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Its a new system we have implemented.

When someone posts about a certain topic, say "home screen", the forum picks up on it and automatically links through to the relevant thread explaining it.

This makes life a little easier for newbies :)

[Guest Richie M]

:) BTW, who made the LCD http://smartphone.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=714>plug-in(s)? that thing looks great,  well programmed, although perhaps TOO specific. I presume it's non MS of course, but the coder deserves a pat on the back one way or the other...

Yeah the LCD one is really good, i have contacted the author about releasing the source code so i could do an english translation on the Alarm App part of it(and of course modify it to my own spec :() but he doesn't want to release the code "yet" :D

[Guest priccijr]

This is exactly what i'm looking for. Which part of that xml code do I need to copy into my homepage to add the icon bar?

[Guest SPLSH.net]

:idea: Not sure if this will help y'all, but I set my alarm through an autorun XML file and it's pretty simple...

since I'm not much of a programmer :roll: , but do know the registry pretty good this for me is the way to set all my default settings (all connection, ActiveSync, my favorites, the clock, alarm, time zone, etc)

Here's the code for the clock (including the alarm); :arrow:

<wap-provisioningdoc>


         <characteristic type="CLOCK">


                  <parm name="Date" value="m/d/03 h:m:s PM" />


                  <parm name="Time" value="m/d/03 h:m:s PM" />


                  <parm name="AlarmOn" value="1" />


                  <parm name="AlarmTime" value="m/d/03 h:m:s AM" />


                  <parm name="TimeZone" value="105" />


         </characteristic>


</wap-provisioningdoc>

Cheers!

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