I read from Magic Button's official website that they have a new version 2.1 that resolves the task bar color problem. However, when I followed the link to download.com, it is 2.0 that get downloaded, and this version mess up my task bar.
Google on "Magic Button 2.1" does not yield any result.
Has anyone got version 2.1 or is able to post a link?
Thanks.
Edit: Found the link. It is on the official webpage itself! The download.com's copy has not been updated.
Hmm... it's a shame that even version 2.1 mess up the color. My black task bar color is no longer black. It's today icon is also in the wrong position, covering half of my network signal (in 128dpi. Did'nt try the other dpi yet)
What a pity. It has been my favourite task manager for a long long time, and was given up when I moved to WM6. I was so excited when I saw the version update history, and thinking that 2.1 would work without problem in WM6. Looks like we have to wait for version 2.2 and see if it works.
Fortunately, pBar is working. It does not show the running tasks on the taskbar, but that's the next best thing now.
Thanks for the tip. The taskbar colors are much improved, but not perfect.
Here's a link to my previous post on fixing the placement of the Today icon when using 128dpi:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1484655#post1484655
Steve
SteveD01 said:
Thanks for the tip. The taskbar colors are much improved, but not perfect.
Here's a link to my previous post on fixing the placement of the Today icon when using 128dpi:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1484655#post1484655
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Thanks for the solution regarding Today icon position. Came across your post before, but didnt remember it untill you mentioned it. Thanks
But the color is outright the wrong color at the moment. It is the default blue whereas my task bar is black. Is there a way to fix the color? I really like the glossy black task bar, and unless MB can blend in, I would stick with pBar.
Sorry, I'm using the default blue theme, so MB looked pretty good to me.
Do a search on using UITweaker to fix the MB colors... not sure how it will work with the new version though.
With further investigationk, I found out that magic button is not actually showing only in blue color. It is able to use any WM6 color. The reason it does not blend in to my black task bar was because my black taskbar was "painted over" by Tweak2k2 rather than part of a black theme.
I tried it with other colors besides blue, and found out that it can blend in with any color.
Now the logical thing for me to do is to come up with a glossy black taskbar WITHOUT using Tweak2k2.
Can someone give me some pointers on how I can change my taskbar to glossy black ?
BTW, Steve, your tips on changing the Today icon position works beautifully. Thanks for that.
Still lots of bugs?
Magic button 2.1 seems to be quite buggy.
The position of the today icon just randomly moves about. It even moves all the way to the right, completely wipe off my clock and date, network signal, and other icons. When it is not doing that, the position of the today icon does not seem to stay at the same position. I notice that the registry value changes by itself as this happens.
Any idea what causes this and if there is a cure?
eaglesteve said:
Magic button 2.1 seems to be quite buggy.
The position of the today icon just randomly moves about. It even moves all the way to the right, completely wipe off my clock and date, network signal, and other icons. When it is not doing that, the position of the today icon does not seem to stay at the same position. I notice that the registry value changes by itself as this happens.
Any idea what causes this and if there is a cure?
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I use this program as well and it's also my favorite. I'm considering putting it into 3.0 of AP when released.
Yes it's a little buggy and I've noticed that the fix for color blending isn't working very well, nor is the placement of the house icon. I've e-mailed the developer to see if they can resolve this. If they fix both issues it would be a perfect addition to the ROM as it would replace xbutton and batti (buggy batti btw and I've disabled it for now with a tremendous improvement).
Thanks for noticing the registry value changes on it's own. Maybe we can lock down that value some way so this doesn't happen but it may cause an issue. Not sure if there is a way to lock down registry values or protect them in WM6 but it's worth a look into.
eaglesteve said:
Magic button 2.1 seems to be quite buggy.
The position of the today icon just randomly moves about. It even moves all the way to the right, completely wipe off my clock and date, network signal, and other icons. When it is not doing that, the position of the today icon does not seem to stay at the same position. I notice that the registry value changes by itself as this happens.
Any idea what causes this and if there is a cure?
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There is some slight movement of the Today icon upon closing all active tasks, but not enough to cause problems for me.
I suspect when the Today icon moved all the way to the right (covering all your taskbar info) you may have inadvertently changed the registry setting by selecting Magic Button 'Settings.' If you go into Settings, it will overwrite the hack, and if you don't select "Show clock and 4 icons" it defaults to 0, moving the Today icon all the way to the right upon exiting Settings. I think if you do the hack last, after getting all your other options set, the hack will hold... at least it seems to for me.
I think the flaw is too serious
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I tried the registry edit, and found out that in 128dpi, the smallest value for the position (as described in Steve's post) is 06. That would place the today icon immediately to the left of the phone signal icons, and would cover up any mail message and vueflo icon. If you make it 08 so as to enable the vueflo and mail message icons to be visible, then when you move to 192 dpi portrait mode, the today icon would be completely off to the left of the screen (i.e. does not appear on the device at all).
This means that with value of 08, magic button is completely non-functional in 192 dpi.
Even with value of 06 (which still covers some icons in 128 dpi), at 192dpi it is no longer possible to close an application. This is because we need to press and hold the running icons on the task bar in order to close it. At 192 dpi, the runnng icon is no longer visible on the taskbar, thus you can longer press and hold in order to close it. Even if there is only one application running, as long as you are not on today screen, the running icon would not appear on the taskbar. If you're on today screen, because the today icon shifts unexpectedly to the right by one position, then it is possible to close the running application if you have only one application running. However, if you have more than one running, then even on today screen, you could not close any application. The only way around this is to switch to the landscape mode so that running icons have room on the taskbar to appear.
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The color blends better in 96 and 192dpi. In 128, the look is bad. Unfortunately, most of the time I'm using 128dpi.
I think pBar is still the one.
But seriously, I do not say that pBar is perfect. In fact there are a few problems, as listed below:
1) the date and time color is not right. My solultion: don't use it.
2) the favourites items could not be rearranged. The move button does not work. My solution: not a big deal. I don't need to move them.
The only regret is that it does not put up the running icons on the task bar, therefore, switching/closing program is a two click process instead of one click. Similarly, going back to the today screen is a two click process instead of magic button's one click.
Its advantages are also plenty:
1) it is very space efficient.
2) it solves the problem of comm manager in realVGA display.
3) it allows up to favourites program to be quick launched.
4) it really has no problem in realVGA environment. Magic button does not handle realVGA very well, in terms of icon positioning.
Related
I just got my XDA and I installed a new background. Now my Today looks nice, but the menu-structure (programs) has :? a white background, and I can't get it back to transparant. Has anyone a idear how to restore this. I even tried a hard resete...nothing! Thanks. By the way, the XDA rules bigtime.
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It is not really transparant, it just seems like that because they use the same image as the backrground but just slightly lighter.
Microsoft has a tool called "Theme Generator v2.0" to create those themes. Download it at...
http://www.microsoft.com/mobile/pocketpc/downloads/powertoys.asp
Resolved
Ok, gues what. You can only have 9 shortcuts on your menu (well we all know that, right). However, when a program is installed it can automaticly put a shortcut on the menu. That makes it to a total of 10 (or more). Therefore your menu gets longer (it also shows two black arrows for up and down). Just bring down the number of menuitems (shortcuts) and 9 or below makes the menu transparant again. Live and learn.Solution by Rinie, Thnx.
Does anybody has Battery Meter software for showing in Today Screen? I don't want any heavy stuff that will make my Today Screen Lag, just an indicator showing Battery Performance only. So, could someone upload the file to the forum if possible? Thanks guys
hey mate,
not sure about other apps as i've gotten used to having my systeminfo in my today screen. here's a screen shot of the plugin; it displays the power bar, the memory and the running apps. for the third one; the "n" allows you to switch to the next app running, the "a" pulls up the screen for the running app, the "c" closes the present one running and the "closes" all of the running apps. let me know if you need this; i can post the cab file. rather small in size too.
cheers
Battery status in Today's screen .
Check out this link:
http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/batterytimetodaypluginforpocketpc.shtml
Its a tiny piece of sw for showing battery status in today's screen . I have WM 2003SE and have no issues with it . Quite stable .
SL
O2 XDA II
WM2003SE
Hi robson....
From the screen shoots, it looks nice. U r using WM2003SE rite? The software stable? No bugs in it or conflict with the OS? Well, could you upload it to the forum? I'd like to try it out, thanks mate
hey ilmans,
yup using wm2003se; no bugs with the systeminfo app. even supports landscape mode. and just to make a small correction and addition:
"the "n" allows you to switch to the next app running, the "a" pulls up the screen for the running app, the "c" closes the present one running and the X "closes" all of the running apps." you can also click on the white field which shows the app listed; this pulls up the screen for the program running.
cab file is attached; just paste in your my docs folder (xda); go to file explorer, run the file (auto install), then go to your today items menu, check systeminfo (you can also use options to make the fields transparent) then back to the today screen and there you go.
cheers mate
Try Battery Watch 1.02. Excellent freeware
batterybar
Thanks alot, also works for me; useful addition!
(Qtek 2020, 2003SE)
read the entire thread here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=330855
the english translated version of this software is available for the terminally lazy..
http://soft.photoracer.net/docs/wktask_en.html <-- here
works ok
Pretty neat indeed, love the way you can drag and change width of the program buttons. Doesn't seem to be memory hungry orslowing down the system (contrary to others as e.g. Magic Button). Only add ons I would like to see are a battery bar (like in Magic Button) and a home button (again like in Magic Button).
Just my 2 cents...
wow, what a fantastic find! I've been looking for this for a long long time since upgrading to wm6 where magic button no longer is acceptable. I've been using pBar, but this lets me switch programs more easily, since running applications are nicely displayed on the task bar. And the color blends in so well.
I absolutely love this. Bye bye pBar.
Thank you fards, for this 'post of the day'!
fantastic good program pbar is poor ... tank
Nice find. Thanks
Seems to be very stable
Given up magic button for it. Very nice and very stable so far. High degree of control over what the x button does on apps is great.
I agree, may be it is the final taskmanager
Using Opera, after download when you tap on X it will close opera, even if you sat up OPERA "do not close tapping on X", because the download window isn't seen as part of Opera. The solution is to use personalized settings ALSO for download window
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I agree, may be it is the final taskmanager
Using Opera, after download when you tap on X it will close opera, even if you sat up OPERA "do not close tapping on X", because the download window isn't seen as part of Opera. The solution is to use personalized settings ALSO for download window
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While downloading, you can use "Menu" in right lower corner. Then you have "Cose: which actualy closes the download window and returns to Opera.
the best i've ever see
Works well and looks cool! pBar had some features I missed, I'm wondering if I can possibly use both or if they'll collide...
wgary said:
Works well and looks cool! pBar had some features I missed, I'm wondering if I can possibly use both or if they'll collide...
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I could use both at the same time but I'm not going to. You want to use the comm manager features? Or is it the battery meter?
VistaHide Battery Gauge
I have now added the VistaHide Battery Gauge and am one happy person!
See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=281891
bins said:
Pretty neat indeed, love the way you can drag and change width of the program buttons. Doesn't seem to be memory hungry orslowing down the system (contrary to others as e.g. Magic Button). Only add ons I would like to see are a battery bar (like in Magic Button) and a home button (again like in Magic Button).
Just my 2 cents...
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The battery bar is available in the latest version 1.1.7.0.
By now, you must have figured out that the horizontal drag bring you to the home screen, and vertical drag allows you to minimise the current application. In 1.1.7.0, you define what will happen in vertical and horizontal drag. The default setting is to launch the favorite applicatios with the vertical drag, which is a good setting I think.
You can also choose to show the active applications as just an icon, or the old way, which occupies most of the taskbar.
Check out the latest version here http://soft.photoracer.net/docs/wktask_en.html
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Try this one: it supports VGA as well:
Ariel battery monitor
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=364278
Thanks for the link, this task manager is absolutely perfect.
I will probably send some euros to his father !
does anyone know of a way to change the default height of today plugins such as SPB Time or GPS Today? A registry edit or something. i hate having a scrollbar on the side of my today screen and i have maybe a 16th of an inch i need to scroll down. id love to get rid of that bar and keep my setup. thanks guys
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does anyone know of a way to change the default height of today plugins such as SPB Time or GPS Today? A registry edit or something. i hate having a scrollbar on the side of my today screen and i have maybe a 16th of an inch i need to scroll down. id love to get rid of that bar and keep my setup. thanks guys
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Most should have an option somewhere to change the height. I'm pretty sure both SPB Diary and SPB Pocket Plus that I use have height options. I don't think there's a registry setting for other plug ins that don't have the option though.
There are a couple tools outs that remove the bottom bar that displays what the buttons do. Removing that gains you a little extra space.
BTC
Hi!
I don't think my chances of finding an answer here are good, but I can't post into the Blackstar thread.
If I put it into tablet mode the status bar can be opened in the lower right corner, but the icons shown are unconfigurable. No matter what I change in settings they stay the same. I'm particularly missing the flashlight and reboot buttons as well as airplane mode.
Interestingly the theme seems to be different. They are green instead of white.
Also, I don't like the status bar opening only in the corner (instead of across the whole screen) and being at the bottom. Is there a way to change either?
Thanks a lot!
I guess there's quite a few things broken. Installing a theme lead to Systemui crashing.
The only way I found to "remove" that was re-flashing the ROM. Which now led to the weird problem that there is only one wallpaper now. Before I had several choices (mountains over a lake, beach with footprints...). I can't figure out what happened there. They must have come with the ROM in the first place since I never installed anything else. How can re-flashing the ROM cause this???
probably from not wiping everything properly when you first flashed, and between flashes...