Spb Mobile Shell v1.5

[budney]

Mal - Have you had any problems with Shell & WP?

The last couple of days my Treo freezes up on start up after a soft reset. Taking WP out of a tap fixes the problem. I am thinking it's a WP problem though, as installed themes and icons are not showing up when in WP settings. And yes they are in the right folders. The default icons are not showing up in the themes when selected. Also I have tried to reinstall and tried a few a couple of the different CABs here.

[storyr]

Originally Posted by budney

Now like Mal mentioned where is storyr.

I'm here - barely. Sorry I've been out of touch. I've been slammed with work since February...

Should I try this app out?

[Malatesta]

Originally Posted by budney

Mal - Have you had any problems with Shell & WP?

The last couple of days my Treo freezes up on start up after a soft reset. Taking WP out of a tap fixes the problem. I am thinking it's a WP problem though, as installed themes and icons are not showing up when in WP settings. And yes they are in the right folders. The default icons are not showing up in the themes when selected. Also I have tried to reinstall and tried a few a couple of the different CABs here.

Nope. Never had a single crash with SPB Shell, let alone anything with WP.

Not sure. Maybe trying a different theme?

Hey Storyr,

What's neat about SPB Shell is it allows to dedicate basically 1/2 the screen under a new Tab.

So the quest is, how can we best take advantage of that? :P

If you want to give the program a try and maybe you can think of something that'd be great. Of course this assumes you have time so there is no rush on it. tia

[budney]

Originally Posted by Malatesta

Nope. Never had a single crash with SPB Shell, let alone anything with WP.

Not sure. Maybe trying a different theme?

It's finally working right! I have no idea why it freaked like that. I too have never had any problems with WP. But like they say, "Their's a first time for everything".

I really like Ken's WeatherBox Fins layouts, but the larger ones don't fit Treos with Mobile Shell very well. I thought I may be able to do something with it , but one look at the skin file and image files made my head spin.

http://pixel.citadel.org/weatherpane...atherBox_Finis

[storyr]

Originally Posted by Malatesta

Hey Storyr,

What's neat about SPB Mobil Shell is it allows to dedicate basically 1/2 the screen under a new Tab.

So the quest is, how can we best take advantage of that? :P

If you want to give the program a try and maybe you can think of something that'd be great. Of course this assumes you have time so there is no rush on it. tia

I went ahead an installed the SPB Shell beta on an emulator - to check it out. I did discover that WP-Pilot will work with WeatherPanel in a tab - just move it below SPB Mobile Shell in the Today Items. Caveat: WP-Pilot thinks WP is there all the time - even when another tab is selected. It's really no big deal though. If this version of the Shell really takes off, perhaps I'll modify WP-Pilot to detect WP's visibility.

Meanwhile, I thought I'd mess around with Commuter-240 - make it taller and add a multiple day forecast at the bottom? Or not...



Hey Mal - great to see you back on the Treo - just like old times

[Malatesta]

Originally Posted by storyr

I went ahead an installed the SPB Shell beta on an emulator - to check it out. I did discover that WP-Pilot will work with WeatherPanel in a tab - just move it below SPB Mobile Shell in the Today Items. Caveat: WP-Pilot thinks WP is there all the time - even when another tab is selected. It's really no big deal though. If this version of the Shell really takes off, perhaps I'll modify WP-Pilot to detect WP's visibility.

Meanwhile, I thought I'd mess around with Commuter-240 - make it taller and add a multiple day forecast at the bottom? Or not...



Hey Mal - great to see you back on the Treo - just like old times

It's good to be back! So much cool stuff is happening with PPCs, it's nice to see some solid, stable and fast software out there.

As far as the Commuter 240...

That could work although I find it only goes with the black theme, so maybe if it could be transparent?

But I have to kind of agree with budney: Ken's WeatherBox Fins layouts really look great for that Tab, but they need some slight adjustments here and there (mostly on the secondary and tertiary screens).

For myself I kinda like this idea:

Current conditions/today forecast (with percip, etc.)

Then maybe a 3 day forcast. Not too much detail so it doesn't look cluttered.

I think when this app hits 1.5 officially it'll be pretty big as SPB has addressed a lot of issues/requests with this one.

[budney]

Great ideas Mal.

Did you get WP-Pilot to work as storyr mentioned?

[Malatesta]

Originally Posted by budney

Great ideas Mal.

Did you get WP-Pilot to work as storyr mentioned?

No.

I see what he means though. It is present on the main page/today screen but when I select the Weather tab and try to "scroll down" it doesn't show at all.

BTW StoryR, this is what I mean by a secondary screen not showing. I'm sure this is any easy fix:

[storyr]

Originally Posted by Malatesta

I see what he means though. It is present on the main page/today screen but when I select the Weather tab and try to "scroll down" it doesn't show at all.

BTW StoryR, this is what I mean by a secondary screen not showing. I'm sure this is any easy fix

Be sure you're using WP-Pilot 2.0. It has a fix to find WeatherPanel - no matter where it is...

[budney]

2.0 is what I'm using, and have it right under Mobile Shell on the today list.