compiling cLaunch or good today plug tutorial

volDeus · #1 (**permalink**) 12-26-2007, 08:48 PM

i dont know if this is the right forum ... if its not sorry ..

im trying to code a simple today launcher that will use icons from an .exe with varying opacity (24 bit + alpha channel) for fancy anti-aliased edges and stained glass type buttons with more of a "native support" instead of a seperate icon skin and executable ... ive looked around a little bit for a tutorial on writing today screen plugins and didnt find anything that looked promising .... i also downloaded the source to cLaunch and the source to the plugin its based on ... tdLaunch ...

i tried building both cLaunch and tdLaunch in VS 2005 and following the instructions on MSDN for deploying/debugging a today screen plugin with the emulator but once i do the reg editing and i get to the part where "Sample" is supposed to show up in the items view of today settings ... its not there ...

if anyone knows what im doing wrong, or knows of a good today screen plugin tutorial so i can start over from scratch ... please let me know ...

volDeus · #2 (**permalink**) 12-26-2007, 10:33 PM

ok heres an update ...

found a decent tutorial with a sample and got it to start up in the emulator ... got both of the launchers to start up in the emulator also ...

i finally figured out that when i try to build for WM6 and deploy in the WM6 emulator it doesnt work ... but if i use PPC 2003 target and emulator it works fine ...

if anyone knows why i cant get it to work with the WM6 emulator and WM6 as the target please let me know ...

peace