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For those that prefer a minimal interface, here is a launcher that uses a popup menu to allow switching to different groups (instead of tabs).  The expand icon (icon with left and right arrows) opens and closes the menu (as will selecting a group), while the right arrow allows switching to two different pages of shortcuts for each group (for a total of 80 shortcuts).

This is not a full blown skin but a module that can be pasted into an existing skin (for the slider skin, just past the contents of the file over regions 16 and 17).  Copy the launcher menu.png int the Images\Colors-3D folder.

Just another example of the flexibility of TodayPlus.

Hi Fishboy,


Is very cool, where dumb the parameters to go down a little, this very next to icones of the battery. Tks, execente work!



Tina

Hi,

The launcher looks great and i would like to use it. Do you have any idea how i can put the launcher in the space above the news ?

I've tried everything but i cant get it right.

I've enclosed my skin file.

Your help would really be appreciatted.

(http://members.chello.nl/~o.ozturk/display_7.jpg)

Quote from: YogimanThe launcher looks great and i would like to use it. Do you have any idea how i can put the launcher in the space above the news ?

Move the Launcher region a put it before the RSS region.

Just placing the launcher regions before the RSS, Weather, and Timezones may not work. Because there is code to allow combining of these three regions, I believe you will have to modify the defregion-overwrite commands in region 14, page 100, and add 19 to the third parameter (y offset).

So change this

defregion-override,1,0,70,240,56,6
defregion-override,4,0,70,240,56,6
defregion-override,10,0,70,240,56,6
defregion-override,19,0,70,240,56,6

to this

defregion-override,1,0,89,240,56,6
defregion-override,4,0,89,240,56,6
defregion-override,10,0,89,240,56,6
defregion-override,19,0,89,240,56,6


This should work, but I have not tested it.

I haven't tread this skin either, but moving the position of the launcher section up of the slider skin does move it up.  The "spacing" of the PPOM section does need to be adjusted to compensate for the change.

Moving the launcher region and placing it before the rss/weather region worked but there is still a lot of space above the launcher. I think i have to make the Region with the date smaller, but again i've tried a lot of thing but i could not make it smaller.

Changing the defregion overwirte did nothing visible fishboy.

Thanks for the suggestions... im again a couple of steps closer to my ideal skin ;)

Quote from: YogimanMoving the launcher region and placing it before the rss/weather region worked but there is still a lot of space above the launcher. I think i have to make the Region with the date smaller, but again i've tried a lot of thing but i could not make it smaller.

The problem is caused by the "offsetadd" in Region 0 and 14, they are all set to high.  I have remarkd the orginal "offsetadd" and left them in the skin for you to see them.  I did not fix the POOM adjusting problem, if you need help with that let me know.

Edit: Someone edited and removed the attachment without a Moderator's note.

Quote from: YogimanChanging the defregion overwirte did nothing visible fishboy.

Making these changes affect the use of the "combine" button (2nd button from left with down arrow) next to the menu popup button (left and right arrow).  Clicking on this button allows the Weather, RSS, and Timezones to share the same display space (clicking on it again restores them to separate displays).  You will need to make the changes mentioned above for this to work correctly (otherwise it will draw the combined display on top of the launcher.

Quote from: jhollin1138

Quote from: YogimanMoving the launcher region and placing it before the rss/weather region worked but there is still a lot of space above the launcher. I think i have to make the Region with the date smaller, but again i've tried a lot of thing but i could not make it smaller.

The problem is caused by the "offsetadd" in Region 0 and 14, they are all set to high.  I have remarkd the orginal "offsetadd" and left them in the skin for you to see them.  I did not fix the POOM adjusting problem, if you need help with that let me know.

Hi,

Thanks a lot, your adjustment worked like a charme.  It would be great if you could help me with the POOM section. I dont know why but i get a scroll bar... i think the poom section is too big but i cant get it smaller.


I've changed the quicklauncher  a bit because i'm left handed.

(http://members.chello.nl/~o.ozturk/display_9.jpg)

Quote from: YogimanThanks a lot, your adjustment worked like a charme.  It would be great if you could help me with the POOM section. I dont know why but i get a scroll bar... i think the poom section is too big but i cant get it smaller.

Repost your revised skin file, I will see what I can do.

BTW, Can a moderator move this discussion out of Fishboy's thread?

Quote from: fishboy

Quote from: YogimanChanging the defregion overwirte did nothing visible fishboy.

Making these changes affect the use of the "combine" button (2nd button from left with down arrow) next to the menu popup button (left and right arrow).  Clicking on this button allows the Weather, RSS, and Timezones to share the same display space (clicking on it again restores them to separate displays).  You will need to make the changes mentioned above for this to work correctly (otherwise it will draw the combined display on top of the launcher.

Ok, thanks for explaining. ...  I'm learning a lot these days :)

Quote from: jhollin1138

Quote from: YogimanThanks a lot, your adjustment worked like a charme.  It would be great if you could help me with the POOM section. I dont know why but i get a scroll bar... i think the poom section is too big but i cant get it smaller.

Repost your revised skin file, I will see what I can do.

BTW, Can a moderator move this discussion out of Fishboy's thread?

This is the latest one.... thanks, you've been a great help  :D

Here is a version to go to go along with LordTwisted's new skin (menu background image created from LordTwisted's Filter menu).

Hello fishboy !

I appreciated very much your launcher, that is as compact as I need.

I tried to modify it for the 10.2 but I only made a disaster... :oops:

Can you please post it with the right changes so I can put it in the slider.txt ?

Thank you.

Here is a copy of slider.txt from 0.10.2 with the launcher added (which appears at the end of the file).  Seems that srs added a new region 17 that conflicted with mine so I changed regions 17 and 18 to 18 and 19 respectfully.

Thanks, thanks, thanks !!!  :mrgreen:
There is one more thing I cannot fix... :?

Below the launcher seems there is unused free space... (it uses the same space than the default one)

I played a little bit with with the defregion and offset, but seems to be insensitive to any change...

Can you help me ?

Thank you.

Quote from: sdmainoBelow the launcher seems there is unused free space... (it uses the same space than the default one)

You need to adjust the amount space the POOM region is allocating for the Launcher region.  
Look for sections that look similar to this (will be in multiple places in the POOM region):if,region,16,0
addvar,var15,-37
else
endif
And play around with a smaller number, I would guess around -18 might work.

jhollin1138 is correct on what needs to be changed.  The value I believe should be set to 21 for all occurences.  

I was going to post a new skin file, but found another region conflict issue (region 19).  I tried changing my regions to 20 and 21, but apparently TodayPlus does not like region numbers > 20.  Will look for another region number to use and then repost the file.

Ok, here is the slider.txt file with the adjustments to remove the additional space at the bottom (modified poom section size adjustment for region 16 from -37 to -21).  Also commented out the jumpregion,19,999 in the RSS region (apperantly srs planned to use region 19, but then commmented it out).