SPB Mobile Shell 3.0!! (3.0.1 RC 5/21)

[MrHawaii]

Originally Posted by MrHawaii

I posted a link to a CAB that enables a third button on the bottom of the screen which would give you LAUNCHER, MENU, CONTACTS. I would think if they got MENU in there you could presumably put something else in there like Show Today, ETC.

This is how they added the menu button. If someone wants to take a stab at it and add other things, that would be nice.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=576

Originally Posted by Lucas0511

Turborepu over at Modaco took the time to write down how to add a 3rd button manually to the menubars in the Pro and Life panels, but also in the others:
"the qa_layouts contains various xml files.. if you know how to edit that you can make the three button or 4 our how ever many you figure you can fit if you make the images. if you want to avoid making changes and without the ability to revert to the original files, just save your new "menubar" file as something like "menubarcustom" or menubar3 4 etc..(menubar2 is already used by spb)
The pro screen(lockscreen) and lifestyle screen(lockscreen2) use menubar.xml
the weather, time and carousel use menubar2.xml
the call log(calllog), favorite contacts(favcontacts), and spb contacts(spbcontacts) use menubarcontacts.xml
towards the top of the xml files for any of these pages(lockscreen, lockscreen2 etc etc) you will see
"<Layer Name="Menu" Dialog="MenuBar" />"..
Menubar refers to the menu it will use.. so say you made a new MenuBar files but called it "MenuBarcustom", you'd then have to go into the screens that you want to use this one on, and make it be " <Layer Name="Menu" Dialog="MenuBarcustom" />"
You'd do this for any of the screens you need this on..
if you go into the menubar.xml you will see this towards the top.
"- <Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.MenuBar" Name="Btn0" ID="1">
<String Name="Backgrd" Value="MenuBackgrd" />
<Int Name="GlobalIcon" Value="216" />
<String Name="Text" Value="Launcher" />
<String Name="Open" Value=":LAUNCHER" />
</Plugin>
- <Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.MenuBar" Name="Btn1" ID="2">
<String Name="Backgrd" Value="MenuBackgrd" />
<Int Name="GlobalIcon" Value="217" />
<String Name="Text" Value="Contacts" />
<String Name="Open" Value=":FAVORITES" />"
there is more, but this refers to the two buttons, you can also see here that they have the "text" value which is the text you see on the menu.. this part of the file also defines the plugin, so say you wanted to add a third button like in the post above me, you'd have to copy the same layout of one of those buttons and change the values reflect what you need it to do..
"- <Plugin Class="Spb.LSP.MenuBar" Name="Btn2" ID="3">
<String Name="Backgrd" Value="MenuBackgrd" />
<Int Name="GlobalIcon" Value="217" />
<String Name="Text" Value="SpbMenu" />
<String Name="Open" Value=":SPBMENU" />"
it is important to change the top line "name" value because when you edit the actual placement of the buttons, further down in this file, it refers to the "name". i changed the btn id to 3. i have no clue what that does... but it seems like the all have their own ids.. probably for some spb reason, maybe for changing values when the program language is changed. for this button i dont know what the icon value is, but if you look in the menubarcontacts.xml file they reference the icons differently. NOTE: plugins added on the bottom on the list will be ontop, so if you make layout changes with over lapping buttons, the one to the bottom will be place over the ones on the top of this list.. it seems to me anyway..
now that the plugin is defined, you can edit the actual layout(look) of the menu. if you scroll down you will find the layout names and what not.. and there you need to duplicate the btn0 or 2 and make it say whatever you named your new button.. I named it "btn2" in this example.. and make sure you do it in the proper 240x400 or in the case of the menubar file, 240x320. then 320x240 for landscape.
the button layout definitions will look like so..
"- <Plugin Name="Btn0">
<BoundRect X="0" Y="0" Width="120" Height="40" />
<Rect Name="SelRect" X="50" Y="0" Width="70" Height="40" />
<Rect Name="IconRect" X="50" Y="5" Width="70" Height="32" />
<Point Name="BkNormal" X="0" Y="0" />"
fiddle with the settings.. they seems pretty self explanatory if you know what you are doin..
this is where you have to do some math and figure out the x/y values for all that stuff to get the buttons to be placed where you need them .. hope this helps gettin you guys started.. "
Sample screen: http://myppc.ru/uploads/posts/myppc....creenspb07.png
SPB Menu button between Launcher and Contacts at bottom

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by nalab1

Hi!

Has anyone got around the problem with MS3 contacts and SMS Chat? Specifically selecting a contact and then clicking on "Send SMS" and going directly to that contact in SMS Chat

I have never been able to get that to work (but when I am in MS3 contacts & click send SMS it opens a new SMS in the stock WinMo chat app)

I programmed my round center button to open SMS-Chat with a fast double click with AEButton + & I can just select the contact from within SMS-Chat. This works great because I can jump straight into SMS-Chat from any screen or app.

~John

[sherown]

Originally Posted by jnuts5423

what i the world am i doing wrong. when i install shell, it kills my tf3d. it wont launch after installiung. ive shut off everything on the today screen, but it still kills it. #1 how do i fix this, #2 is there a simple way to reskin it without hard reseting? I swear i had all three of them working but now tf3d wont launch. what did i do? I flashed 3 times trying it different ways.

You will need to go into your Folder explorer<Windows<start up and in that folder delete the spb file. Then soft reset and it should start up in tf3d and you should be able to toggle between all three.

[1999TL]

Is MS3 becoming unbearable to any of you guys b/c it starts to slow down the phone too much during the day?

[cordevil95]

Is anybody else having issues with deleting calendar items?

If I click on an appointment, it opens up with the built in WinMo calendar, I then delete (it's gone from the winmo cal.) but it still stays on the SPB calendar. Now that appointment in SPB is dead. If I click on it it does nothing... which I guess makes sense since it's not really there. If I do a soft reset SPB then shows the correct calendar items.

Can anybody else recreate this and see if it's happening to them too? Thanks.

[Devileyezz]

How do you guys use the dialpad to make calls? For example, calling a number not in contacts is a nightmare. I have to go back to the Today screen to do so.

[1999TL]

Don't you just press your green call button to get to the dialer screen?

[HBOOT]

either you stick "phone"symbol which is dial pad to your lifestyle page (i have it in more 3 pages), also i have "spb home" mapped to the send/receive button so when i am driving and using gps, one click on the TP takes me to life style page and dial pad is one touch away

+1 for the call buton, however I like to get back to home screen and get right to my contact when gps is driving

[freeza]

Originally Posted by 1999TL

Is MS3 becoming unbearable to any of you guys b/c it starts to slow down the phone too much during the day?

Yes! that and the 0 sms messages when there are messages bug are what got me to temporarily disable MS3

[HBOOT]

I find that my TP is working even better than before when I was running MS2, touch screen is very responsive and tons of progs load w/o hick ups...no prob with sms, I assume u running th latest version of MS...