Ultimate Launch

[bedoig]

I just started playing around with UL, and I'm loving it so far. Here is the simple, 5 tab setup I'm running for now:



[Edit: I've gotten a lot of PM's about the clock pictured above. To save everyone the trouble in the future, it is simply a combination of rlToday and the skin in post 128 here. There are a lot of other nice skins in that thread too. ]




I've got a couple of things I can't figure out though:

1) Does anyone know of a way to get more than one row of contacts pictures on your today screen? Right now I'm using TofClocks Speed Dial plugin, but I can't find a way to get more than one row of contacts pictures. Anyone know of a way to get it to look more like the second pic here:



2) I'd like to put my calendar info on one of the tabs (probably the one with HTC Home), but UL doesn't list Calendar as an available today plugin. Anyone gotten this to work with the built in Calendar today plugin, or another app?

[eehrhard]

Originally Posted by bedoig

1) Does anyone know of a way to get more than one row of contacts pictures on your today screen? Right now I'm using TofClocks Speed Dial plugin, but I can't find a way to get more than one row of contacts pictures. Anyone know of a way to get it to look more like the second pic here:
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Does this work on the plugin when it is installed outside of UL? My guess would be it is in the settings of the plugin. My experience has been that UL just displays the plugins really doesnt affect them in any way. I might be wrong though.

Originally Posted by bedoig

2) I'd like to put my calendar info on one of the tabs (probably the one with HTC Home), but UL doesn't list Calendar as an available today plugin. Anyone gotten this to work with the built in Calendar today plugin, or another app?

The calendar and Tasks do not like being put in UL. You have many options though. I downloaded Pocket Infomant during a free app friday last year and its today plugin works great.



I know there are many other plugins that will do this too. You might even be able to get BatteryStatus to show it but I have not played around with it that much yet.

[bedoig]

Thanks for the reply.

Originally Posted by eehrhard

Does this work on the plugin when it is installed outside of UL? My guess would be it is in the settings of the plugin. My experience has been that UL just displays the plugins really doesnt affect them in any way. I might be wrong though.

No, it only displays one line regardless of wether it's being run in UL or not. I was hoping someone knew of a hack, or another program altogether, to get it to work. I did just come across a program that the Touch has natively called MakePhoneCall.exe that sounds promising. I'm trying to get a copy of the exe to try on my Titan.

Originally Posted by eehrhard

The calendar and Tasks do not like being put in UL. You have many options though. I downloaded Pocket Infomant during a free app friday last year and its today plugin works great.

I know there are many other plugins that will do this too. You might even be able to get BatteryStatus to show it but I have not played around with it that much yet.

I've been playing around with BatteryStatus a little bit myself. Pretty cool program. Way more features than I expected. I'll take a deeper look at it.

Thanks!

[02840]

Originally Posted by bedoig

2) I'd like to put my calendar info on one of the tabs (probably the one with HTC Home), but UL doesn't list Calendar as an available today plugin. Anyone gotten this to work with the built in Calendar today plugin, or another app?

Both TodayAgenda and Calendar+ work within UL, and they're both free.

TodayAgenda: http://tiews.info/index.php?show=software%2Ftodayagenda&lang=en

Calendar+: http://mohairsofa.com/Default.aspx/document/10

(Also, TasksPlus seems to work well as a Task plugin replacement: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...1&postcount=58)

[bushd]

If you want to put in speed dial for its own tab, say like applications, make a new Shortcuts tab. Add in shortcuts to \Windows\MakePhoneCall.exe and the parameter set the phone number. For the icon you will need to chose the XP icons and make your own for that. This atleast is a bypass to make your speed dial look and space like your applications without having to have another plugin active. Hope this helps everyone.

What application did your counts for email, vmail and the like eehrhard?

I am looking for something (free) like peracount but that is done by icon instead and something that can be pressed without the stylus. Thanks

[eehrhard]

Originally Posted by bushd

If you want to put in speed dial for its own tab, say like applications, make a new Shortcuts tab. Add in shortcuts to \Windows\MakePhoneCall.exe and the parameter set the phone number. For the icon you will need to chose the XP icons and make your own for that. This atleast is a bypass to make your speed dial look and space like your applications without having to have another plugin active. Hope this helps everyone.

I never even thought about that working. It makes sense as that is how you do all kinds of things with UL. It will be a pain to make an ICO for each person you want to have a pic button for but you could do some neat stuff.

Originally Posted by bushd

What application did your counts for email, vmail and the like eehrhard?

Its my new next favorite plugin behind UL. Its BatteryStatus you can get it here http://www.chi-tai.info/cs_BatterySt..._WM5_iM_cs.htm

My theme is from this thread over at XDA. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=350510 There are a bunch posted the one i am using is bs_deimosclockrammodSegoeUI. I also have the HTC Home replacement that Stoths made that is posted here on ppc.

It is sweet and is completely customizable though XML.

[bedoig]

I've been trying to track down a copy of MakePhoneCall, but no luck yet. Is it included in the stock Touch ROM, or a part of a custom ROM you are running?

Would one of you mind posting the exe and any related dll? Thanks.

[stroths]

For those that do not have BatteryStatus installed and want the HTC like screen, I have put together a cab (BatteryStatusExt.1.05.build_0277_HTC.zip) that will install Batterystatus, the HTC skin and also set it as a type 5 in the registry. A type 5 today screen plugin will not display scroll bars which is the same way the HTC Home Plugin was setup if I remember correctly.

Below is my current UL setup which includes a tab with the HTC Clone Batterystatus plugin.



NOTE: The attachment won't setup the weather, ultimate launcher or add the 3 tabs I have shown. It just gives you the HTC looking clock, date, owner name and the 5 icons below the clock for notifications.


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EDIT: For those that already have Batterystatus installed, you can try the attached zipped cabfile BatteryStatus HTC Home Skin.zip file. The cab should install the skin and set Batterystatus as a type 5 plugin. I haven't tested this install out but it should work.

[PropagandaX]

Originally Posted by stroths

For those that do not have BatteryStatus installed and want the HTC like screen.....

Stroths, Is there any way to extract out the "indicator" portion of this theme. I have my own clock I want to use?

[Killabee44]

Stroths,

I have Batterystatus (now known as HomeScreen PlusPlus advanced) version 106.338 but I cannot get hardly any of the skins to work. They just don't display. Not sure if it's the fact that I am using UL with this version of Batterystatus. Any ideas?

Also, does anyone know where I can find this theme or what it's called? Thanks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuP0j...layer_embedded

Originally Posted by stroths

For those that do not have BatteryStatus installed and want the HTC like screen, I have put together a cab (BatteryStatusExt.1.05.build_0277_HTC.zip) that will install Batterystatus, the HTC skin and also set it as a type 5 in the registry. A type 5 today screen plugin will not display scroll bars which is the same way the HTC Home Plugin was setup if I remember correctly.

Below is my current UL setup which includes a tab with the HTC Clone Batterystatus plugin.



NOTE: The attachment won't setup the weather, ultimate launcher or add the 3 tabs I have shown. It just gives you the HTC looking clock, date, owner name and the 5 icons below the clock for notifications.


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EDIT: For those that already have Batterystatus installed, you can try the attached zipped cabfile BatteryStatus HTC Home Skin.zip file. The cab should install the skin and set Batterystatus as a type 5 plugin. I haven't tested this install out but it should work.