i600 ShortCut Plugin - Strange Behavior

[Guest nickcornaglia]

The i600 has a shortcut plugin...but it seems to be locked to just the two offerings...News and Data Card.

I tried to plug the clsid into a different skin to see if it works and it STILL shows the News and Data Card no matter how thin (1px high) I make the plugin and without the news and target info.

At first I thought it was stuck in memory...but after a powercycle and skin changes it was still there.

Why would they decide to only offer the 2 links?

Why would they bother to define them in the xml if the plugin holds the data as well. I wonder if there are any more tags to this plugin?

<!--2 shortcuts: to VZW MSN News and File Explorer pointing to the Data Card-->


	<plugin clsid="{C2B4659F-6524-482b-A62A-A1D3096D52DB}" name="launcher">


  <news target="iexplore.exe" command-line="http://vzw.msn.com/pocketpc/menu.aspx/News/" text="News"/>


  <data-card target="windowsfile explorer.exe" command-line="Storage Card" text="Data Card"/>


	</plugin>

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

Yeah, seems strange...

So what does this give you?

 

     

     

 

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[Guest statscat]

hmmmmmm

you sould think the text would be in a

tag rather than an attribute (what about languae differences etc) ........ It seems that everyone has copied the orange shortcut plugin so it must have been pretty cool (AT&T even used the same layout)

as for the tags try adding the standard tags and see if they have any effect etc.

what happens if you try

HAve you got a screen shot of the homescreen with the plugin in its original setting and then in your new skin.

then I guess I would see what

its seems a very strange one but maybe they didn't want them to be configurable .....

[Guest nickcornaglia]

"]Yeah, seems strange...

So what does this give you?

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Nothing :lol: Still trying.

[Guest awesterink]

Same thing here. Have been messing with this for a while now, but can't get it to show anything else but the original News and Data Card shortcuts. Grrrrrrrrrr. :evil:

[Guest nickcornaglia]

Yup...very strange that they use all of the extra XML code to define the plugin when the plugin is hard coded to show only the News link and DataCard link. I agree...why all of the extra XML when it's not even needed.

[Guest XKAISERX]

You guys are doing great work. I've spent sooo much time searching for a solution to this very issue.

I MUST HAVE THIS CAPABILITY. Any smarthphone device begs to have specific program shortcuts fixed on the home screen just like any other OS whether it be a wireless device or a PC?!?!? The MRU list is a totally useless function in my opinion.

Keep up the good work. Hopefully someone will come up with something.