Replacing MRU with specific apps?

[Guest chucky.egg]

Is there a way to replace the MRU bar (which I assume means Most Recently Used) with a list of specific apps?

Anyone know how to do it?

[Guest nickcornaglia]

Here is an example. I deleted your other post. Good Luck! :)

<!-- Set Icons -->


<plugin clsid="{A1536C57-6AC2-4c31-9542-B144B0E9D076}" name="myicons1" height="20"> 


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


<background b-border-width="1"/> 


<shortcut width="20" action="IPSMWindowsStart MenuCommunicationsInternet Explorer.lnk"><text> </text></shortcut> 


<shortcut width="20" action="IPSMWindowsStart MenuMultimediaWMPlayer.lnk"><text> </text></shortcut> 


<shortcut width="20" action="IPSMWindowsStart MenuCommunicationsInbox.lnk"><text> </text></shortcut> 


<shortcut width="20" action="IPSMWindowsStart MenuProductivityCalendar.lnk"><text> </text></shortcut> 


<shortcut width="20" action="IPSMWindowsStart MenuProductivityTasks.lnk"><text> </text></shortcut> 


<shortcut width="20" action="IPSMWindowsStart MenuCommunicationsCall History.lnk"><text> </text></shortcut> 


<shortcut width="20" action="IPSMWindowsStart MenuProductivityContacts.lnk"><text> </text></shortcut> 


<shortcut width="20" action="IPSMWindowsStart MenuMultimediaCamera.lnk"><text> </text></shortcut> 


</plugin>

[Guest chucky.egg]

Thanks!

I'll give it a go tonight

[Guest chucky.egg]

Here is an example...

Thanks for the code, but I can't see why it's not working. I can move to Messages, Calendar, and Profiles, but it just skips straight over Programs.

I'm using Paul's SWEP3-Vader homescreen, but with this code in place of the MRU Page. Can you see any obvious errors? (I've attached the whole xml file as well)

ep3vader.home.zip

[Guest nickcornaglia]

I have my programs (startmenu) arranged with sub folders.

For example, when you click on programs there are sibfolders:

Communications

Multimedia

Productivity

Reference

Games

Utilities

Make sure that your shortcuts are pointing to the proper folder. If you dont have a communications folder...then the inbox.ink link doesn't exist in that spot. Out of the box...the shortcut to that one would be loacted in IPSMWindowsStart MenuInbox.ink

Get it? :wink:

[Guest chucky.egg]

Ahh! I'm being thick!

Thanks!

[Guest nixy]

Your problem sounds more like a plugin error.

Have you recently updated your ROM???

If you have then you will nolonger be able to use shortcuts to any skins you use.

Its to do with the rom update changing where and how the plugins are named.

There is much more to it that this but I am still learning about it myself and am having the same problem as you.

please install the skins DX_PPC and we tell me if you are having the same problem as me.

My phone menu (the skins menu).. skips straight past all my shortcuts and instead ONLY lets me select the default menu options:

1. INBOX (OK)

2. CALENDAR (OK)

3. PROFILES (OK)

4......skiped (Photo Album)

5......skiped (Media Player)

6......skiped (Internet Explorer)

7......skiped (MSN Messanger)

8. SETTINGS (OK)

Install the skin and let me know so maybe we can find the correct plugin CLSID and correct the problem

[Guest nixy]

BTW/ YOU ARE NOT BEING THICK :)

As I said I think u have updated your ROM and CLSID links are no longer at skin xml addresses.

There are numerous threads addressing this problem but I have as yet not located a fix or a correction to the links in registry.

I will go through the registry today and try and locate the shortcut addresses/code myself.

[Guest chucky.egg]

I think u have updated your ROM

I've not updated my ROM, it's an e100 straight out of the box (decertified though).

I haven't had time to try it, but I think the folder issue is certainly part of it if not the whole solution.

Will try it asap and reply

[Guest frarnold]

I think the problem you have is not a bug but a "feature". The code above uses a registry entry under "A1536C57-6AC2-4c31-9542-B144B0E9D076". You find it on ORANGE smartphones, but not on some other models like the i-Mate from PPCW. As a result your attemt to use fixed program links on the home screen cannotr work - as it doesn't for me either :) I think we just have to wait for a third party solution, mate...

[Guest nickcornaglia]

If you can see some of the apps and not the others, then the plugin is working in some form isn't it? Sounds like a link problem and not a plugin problem. If the plugin were invalid on your phone, it wouldn't work at all. Right?

[Guest nixy]

That'll teach me for not reading the whole thread for once.

My prob is different and nothing to do with MRU.

So without wishing to annoy anyone can I just ask a question to those that seem to have more of an understanding..........(thanks)

I am looking for an answer to why: since I updated my rom, I have no longer got access to any of the DX_PPC skins menu shortcuts.

Instead my spv skips past them all. The only shortcuts are the default windows ones. Other skins have SAME problem!!!

I assume that the rom has changed something somewhere in that the home screen code cant find what it is supposed to.

I cant find any answers although on the pinoy forums the same problem has a similar explanation but refers to a change in the registry layout via rom.

Having reinstalled one of the original OOB Orange rom image backups I now have access once again to skins shortcuts.

Anyone any ideas

I digress...............

[Guest frarnold]

Mate, I think I am learning something there. So you have an ORANGE smartphone. It supported direct program calls on home screens - like the ones in DX-PPC - before the upgarde. Since you upgraded it doesn't anymore. That sounds to me that the registry entries you had before the upgrade - and also the related DLLs are not on the upgraded version. You can "easily" check it by doing the following:

- check if the CLSID references you find in dx_ppc.home.xml are also in the registry (you can use either RESCO file explorer or the freeware tool under http://www.phm.lu/Products/Smartphone/RegEdit/)

- if they are not in the regsitry anymore you have the cause

That at least is the cause why it doesn't work on my i-Mate and also not with the latest i-Mate ROM upgrade of course...

I tried to manipulte the registry on my i-Mate smartphone, but that didn't bring me anywhere either...

Mate, can you point me to that PINOY forum that talks about manipulating the registry... I'm interested to having a look.

Cheers

Frank

[Guest nickcornaglia]

The shortcut plugin on the Orange phones does not appear on the other ROMs as far as I know. I've seen somewhere in another thread where someone offered an alternative registry number for higer ROM versions...but that didn't work for me either.

So unless you're using an Orange ROM or a ROM with a shortcuts plugin, you won't be able to utilize these on your homescreen.

[Guest nixy]

...thanks for the info peeps.

You've described what I had been hoping not to hear after I had began pulling the xml apart. I did try to understand how the clsid works in reference to the registry but unfortunately found it a wee bit overwhelming.

I am still learning but I am begining to understand whats being described.

And heres me thinking rom updating would be the answer to it all.

I read yesterday that several of the original problems that the updates fix such as clunking noise (contacts) and the sms counter will remain fixed even after a rom revert.

:? I am thinking of putting the Orange rom back and keeping my fingers crossed that these probs are still fixed because I would miss the sms counter and HATE that nasty noise.

many thanks for the help n advice. :)

[Guest nickcornaglia]

The Orange update will be out soon. You shouldnt have a long wait! :)

[Guest Animefan]

Now just call me stupid but I dont get any of this! :?

I attached the Leftsidescreen I use... It has about 7 MRU's in the top..

I dunno how to change them and by adding the Plug-in Thing you gave me didn't help! Try looning at the homefile and tell me if you see whats wrong? :?

[Guest Animefan]

oh. and here is mine where I modified it with the code... dunno whats wrong? pls help! :)

Oh and, im using and Orange SPV, with the Danish 1.3.7 update or someting, and that about a MRU Plug-in thing, I dunno?

RM_Leftside_2.home.zip