Launcher with Popup Menu

[fishboy]

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.

[acschirmer]

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

[Yogiman]

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.

[jhollin1138]

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 ?

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

[fishboy]

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

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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

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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.

[jhollin1138]

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.

[Yogiman]

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

[jhollin1138]

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.

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.

[fishboy]

Changing 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.

[Yogiman]

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.

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.

[jhollin1138]

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.

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

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

[Yogiman]

Changing 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

[Yogiman]

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.

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  

[fishboy]

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

[sdmaino]

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...

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

Thank you.