WM 6.5 Custom Taskbar

[tsowen]

Since there are quite a few differences between the WM 6.1 Taskbar files and WM 6.5 taskbar I have created a new thread dedicated to WM 6.5 and the taskbar. This will not be as technical as my previous taskbar thread. For methods on how to edit a dll, what a dll looks like, how to replace files and so forth please refer to this thread http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=54514 Please remember this is a work in progress since WM 6.5 is new so there are going to be a few issues at first but we will work around it.

Here is the rundown of the basic files:

- shellres.192.dll: Signal bars, sync icons, Wifi, 3g (G, Ev, 3G, H, E, 1x) syncing+receiving data icons, battery Icons
- tapres.192.dll: controls G, Ev, 3G, H, E, 1x
- HTCVolumecontrol.dll : Volume icons
- Outres.192.dll : Message icons
- Notify.dll.0409.mui : Alarm icon
- GPSAux.dll : QuickGPS Icon
- CDMA_RSS_PCC
- notify.dll.0409.mui: Alarm
- PictureMailRes.dll: Picture Mail
- tshers.192.dll: New Network Detected (WiFi)
- VoiceCmdRes.dll: Voice Command
- WLMMessengerResources.192.dll: Windows Messanger

For the Bluetooth Icon - There are two bmps that WM 6.5 uses to display the BT & headset icons on the Transparent home screen. One is the standard file, i.e. "BT On Mode.bmp", and the other is a background file, "BT On Mode Mask.bmp". The Mask file is the negative/transparent background of the regular file. The Mask files will need to be provided along with the other files in order for the BT top bar icons to display correctly on the standard transparent home screen. Otherwise, the system will use the previous (stock) Mask file, which cause the distorted image.

Originally Posted by Captain_Throwback

As an addendum to my previous find, I believe that a side effect of anyone using the stock WM6.5 dialer along with tsowen's of 12aon's taskbars will be that the Bluetooth icon will not display in the taskbar.
The reason for this is that each of their taskbars includes phcanOverbmp.dll, which seems to override the BT icon info in the shellres.192.dll. This dll looks for the BT icon bitmaps in the \Windows folder (both the icon, and the Mask background file), and in the absence of the Mask bitmap, on the standard home screen, no icon will be displayed.
I can confirm this because I tried deleting the "Mask" bitmap files prior to cooking my ROM, thinking that it would just use the regular bitmap files, but instead, I have no BT icon show up on the top bar.
If you are not using the HTC Dialer, I recommend following tsowen's suggestion regarding the battery icons. This may also correct the BT icon issue, since I don't think those bitmaps are part of the standard 6.5 install. Someone who is using the stock dialer will have to test it, though.
So maybe its a good idea to have 2 separate taskbar versions after all - one for people using the HTC dialer (including phcanOverbmp.dll), and one for those using the stock dialer (using phcanbattery.dll). Of course, we still have to work out all the kinks, yet. But progress is definitely being made .

Known differences with WM 6.5 - most everything now is controlled in the shellres.192.dll file such as battery, signal bars (GSM) and your GSM network icons 3G, E, H and G. WM 6.5 does not come with a phcanOverbmp.dll but will read it with the correct registry edits. Some taskbar developers are choosing to use it Since HTC used the the phcanOverbmp.dll to skin the pin dialer and add extra icons to the taskbar. You will need to place the following registry edits into your phone or if your a developer into your cab in order to have it read correctly:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\ResOver\Bitmaps]
"BaseDll"="phcanOverbmp.dll"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\ResOver\Bitmaps]
"BaseId"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\ResOver\Bitmaps]
"BatteryIconIdStart"=dword:000003e9
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\ResOver\Bitmaps]
"BatteryIconLevels"=dword:00000065

Work around for the battery images since WM 6.5 they are located in the shellres but only 11 icons are included so for those who wish not to use the phcanOverbmp.dll due to the dialer skin take the old phcanOverbmp.dll and delete all the bmp's and icons other than the battery images which should be 101 images starting with Icon Group 1001 now save the file as phcanBattery.dll make sure your registry is set as below:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\ResOver\Bitmaps]
"BaseDll"="phcanBattery.dll"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\ResOver\Bitmaps]
"BaseId"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\ResOver\Bitmaps]
"BatteryIconIdStart"=dword:000003e9 (Hex) or 1001 (Dec)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\ResOver\Bitmaps]
"BatteryIconLevels"=dword:00000065 (Hex) or 101 (Dec)

Make sure you double check and you deleted everything out of the .dll other than the battery images. Tried the above mentioned technique and it worked correctly.

Below you will find the "STOCK" WM 6.5 dll's associated with the taskbar

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[tsowen]

tsowentaskbar WM 6.5 Beta (based upon my taskbar 6 elite v3) (Work in progress)

12AON has really help pioneer the way for the WM 6.5 taskbar so huge props to him and also thanks to MysticGenious and others who offered to test and evaluate my files. Here is the updated WM 6.5 version with the dll's straight from WM 6.5 (only for those running 6.5) with this version GSM users now have colored bars. As always same rules apply as any other taskbars when installing the cab. Any bugs or problems please report back. This is based upon my taskbar 6 elite v3 located here http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...54&postcount=4

BT Discoverable.bmp
BT On Mode.bmp
BT Stereo Headset.bmp
CDMA_RSS_PPC.dll
GPS-icon.bmp
GPS-icon Mask.bmp
HTCVolumeControl.dll  
notify.dll.0409.mui
outres.192.dll
pchanOvermbmp.dll
PictureMailRes.dll
shellres.192.dll
Stereo Headset.bmp
tapres.192.dll
tshers.192.dll
VoiceCmdRes.dll
WLMMessengerResources.192.dll
_setup.xml

Known Issues:
1. 3G, G, H and E Active Data Icon transparency needs fixed

For those who need the RevA file is below

Fixes:
1. Corrected All BT Icons and added mask.bmp files for corresponding images.
2. Uploaded all dll and bmp files in attachment WM6.5 Dlls.zip

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[7sudden]

Originally Posted by tsowen

tsowentaskbar WM 6.5 Beta (based upon my taskbar 6 elite v3) (Work in progress)

Just tried the tsowentaskbar WM 6.5 Beta on my Verizon TouchPro (running MightyRom 5). Everything looks/works amazing. One final note, can anyone help me get the "vista" looking colored Logo on the start button? (the same one in the taskbar 6 elite v3)

[kevin_richard08]

Originally Posted by tsowen

tsowentaskbar WM 6.5 Beta (based upon my taskbar 6 elite v3) (Work in progress)

12AON has really help pioneer the way for the WM 6.5 taskbar so huge props to him and also thanks to MysticGenious and others who offered to test and evaluate my files. Here is the updated WM 6.5 version with the dll's straight from WM 6.5 (only for those running 6.5) with this version GSM users now have colored bars. As always same rules apply as any other taskbars when installing the cab. Any bugs or problems please report back. This is based upon my taskbar 6 elite v3 located here http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...54&postcount=4

BT Discoverable.bmp
BT On Mode.bmp
BT Stereo Headset.bmp
CDMA_RSS_PPC.dll
GPS-icon.bmp
GPS-icon Mask.bmp
HTCVolumeControl.dll  
notify.dll.0409.mui
outres.192.dll
pchanOvermbmp.dll
PictureMailRes.dll
shellres.192.dll
Stereo Headset.bmp
tapres.192.dll
tshers.192.dll
VoiceCmdRes.dll
WLMMessengerResources.192.dll
_setup.xml

Known Issues:
1. 3G, G, H and E Active Data Icon transparency needs fixed

For those who need the RevA file is below

Fixes:
1. Corrected All BT Icons and added mask.bmp files for corresponding images.
2. Uploaded all dll and bmp files in attachment WM6.5 Dlls.zip

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Hey tsowen I installed your "taskbar 6 elite WM6.5 version.cab" and it looks great. Especially since when I installed the colored HTC slider bar icons the 'stock' WM6.5 taskbar looked bland. However, my battery meter is frozen in the green state, no matter how low the battery goes. Any ideas what I may have done wrong? Thanks!

[andrew-in-woking]

Hi gadgetfreak

I am trying to install the Bear-Bonz task bar and Notification Manager modificatoin on my HTC Touch Pro 2 GSM. I have a custom ROM installed (At0mAng Fusion 5.6) which is WM 6.5 with the Topaz Notification Manager cooked in.

When I install the GF Bear-Bonz Taskbar - WM 6.5 GSM.cab from Post #6 the icons change but the Notification Manager stops working. When I try to enable the service using dotfred's Task Manager, it gives me an error saying that it can not start the service because the file is not found.

Installing Topaz Notification Manager Mod Round Icons.cab in Post #6 does not make the notification manager work again.

I have tried to uninstall the taskbar through the WM Remove Programs applet as well as through SK Tools but it seems to have half uninstalled leaving some modified taskbar icons, volume control and wait cursor (custom in ROM).

Can you please suggest what can be done to get the Notifications Manager to work?

Cheers

andrew-in-woking

[gadgetfreak]

Originally Posted by andrew-in-woking

Hi gadgetfreak

I am trying to install the Bear-Bonz task bar and Notification Manager modificatoin on my HTC Touch Pro 2 GSM. I have a custom ROM installed (At0mAng Fusion 5.6) which is WM 6.5 with the Topaz Notification Manager cooked in.

When I install the GF Bear-Bonz Taskbar - WM 6.5 GSM.cab from Post #6 the icons change but the Notification Manager stops working. When I try to enable the service using dotfred's Task Manager, it gives me an error saying that it can not start the service because the file is not found.

Installing Topaz Notification Manager Mod Round Icons.cab in Post #6 does not make the notification manager work again.

I have tried to uninstall the taskbar through the WM Remove Programs applet as well as through SK Tools but it seems to have half uninstalled leaving some modified taskbar icons, volume control and wait cursor (custom in ROM).

Can you please suggest what can be done to get the Notifications Manager to work?

Cheers

andrew-in-woking

I'm willing to bet that part of the problem is different versions of the Notification Manager. If you can up load your notificationres.dll, I can take a look at it over the next few days.

[andrew-in-woking]

Originally Posted by gadgetfreak

I'm willing to bet that part of the problem is different versions of the Notification Manager. If you can up load your notificationres.dll, I can take a look at it over the next few days.

Hi gadgetfreak

Thanks for the response. I suspect you're right. I'm having a very busy week but I'll try to get the files uploadad over the weekend.

Thanks again

andrew-in-woking

[gadgetfreak]

Originally Posted by kevin_richard08

Hey tsowen I installed your "taskbar 6 elite WM6.5 version.cab" and it looks great. Especially since when I installed the colored HTC slider bar icons the 'stock' WM6.5 taskbar looked bland. However, my battery meter is frozen in the green state, no matter how low the battery goes. Any ideas what I may have done wrong? Thanks!

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[brummycraig]

Hi, First time post, bit of a noob. I have a vodafone UK branded TP2 and have spent hours trawling this forum and xda devs and am pleased to have found these great taskbars. having issue getting the battery icon to display results, just showing full all the time. everything else working fine. Mine has the VF 6.5 rom and on searching for various files I found it has a VFUK_phcanOverbmp.dll as well as the standard one, and having searched the net no one has mentioned this file?
Your thoughts/comments much appreciated?
Many Thanks
Craig

[tsowen]

tsowentaskbar3v1.5 for WM 6.5

BT Discoverable.bmp
BT On Mode.bmp
BT Stereo Headset.bmp
CDMA_RSS_PPC.dll
GPS-icon.bmp
GPS-icon Mask.bmp
HTCVolumeControl.dll  
notify.dll.0409.mui
outres.192.dll
pchanOvermbmp.dll
PictureMailRes.dll
shellres.192.dll
Stereo Headset.bmp
tapres.192.dll
tshers.192.dll
VoiceCmdRes.dll
WLMMessengerResources.192.dll
 
_setup.xml

The wait is over here is taskbar 3v1.5 for WM 6.5 as always install sdkcerts then the taskbar cab.

**Fixed Network Icon**
**Fixed Speaker Icon**

Added Rev A Cab for those who need it.