Recombinant skin

[ya1950]

Today seems to be the day for new skins  Here's my contribution.

First some background. I've been very impressed by the quality of skins posted here and often find myself wishing that I could have everything together in one package. So that's what I've tried to do – create a 'best of the best' according to my own idiosyncratic tastes. I hope others will find this useful as well.

I started with rbg08's OSX skin because I like his tabular system. I've added system information based on arbitraieu's sysyteminfoplus. Many of the icons on the main page call various system applications:

- clock – Time application
- battery – Power application
- program/storage memory % bar – Memory page of memory application
- storage card memory bar – Storage card page of memory application
- backlight – Backlight application
- suspend – try it and see


The launcher is based on fishboy's tabular launcher with four tabs of twenty programs each, configurable in the configuration file.

The time section sports 5 of LightMan's digital clocks which toggle a list of more time zones. Weather, RSS/stock feeds, Calendar, and POOM sections are all from OSX.

(BTW - WA themes are by juni and LightMan.)

To install just unzip everything into the Program Files/TodayPlus directory keeping the directory structure in the zip file intact.

Some caveats. The shortcuts all work on my machine – an IPAQ 2210. They most certainly will not work on all machines. Here are some links to help those with other machines modify the shortcuts to suit their setups:

http://discussion.brighthand.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=79526

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnppc2k/html/ppc_tcuts2.asp

That's it. Thanks to everyone who has helped me and made their work freely available and especially to srs for creating TodayPlus.

ya1950

[guiliome]

I put yhis skin with the last today + version.
Everything works, except for the internet files.
They don't synchronise with the web, so there is nothing files  in the buffer folder.
I would also like to put a refresh button on the main page.
Hou do I do that.

PS. my internet connection is alright it works with the original skin.

[ya1950]

guiliome

Which internet files aren't working? The weather feeds or the RSS/Stock feeds or both? Which version of TodayPlus are you running? This works with version 1.00 and higher, I'm not sure about earlier versions. Give me some more information and I'll try to help.

The refresh button is there - click the 'Updated ..." text by the clock for a refresh  

ya1950

[guiliome]

There aren't any files in the buffer folder.
None of the internet files are working.
It's the last Todayplus version I have (10.1).
I have re-installed todayplus and synchronised it. It worked. Then I put the skin that worked with the file i download with the original version. the connection is alright, so I have a problem with the skin I think.
When I delete the files of the buffer and  I synchronise, it doesn't download new files.

[guiliome]

It' ok . I found the refresh-button, sorry.
Thanx!

[GoblueIpaq]

ya1950,

Are you using Wisbar Advanced?  If so where did you get your cool skin!

GOBLUE

[ya1950]

GoblueIpaq

The WA skin is Juni's at:

http://koti.welho.com/kruohio/skinz.html

The background is by Lightman - I don't remember where I got it but look at his signature for his WA theme site.

ya1950

[GoblueIpaq]

Much appreciated....

[Asturcon]

Your Recombinat skin is great...   It is a perfect combination of my favorites skins with a pretty extra  "suspend"  

[mofunk]

This looks great, however it freezes on my 2215. Maybe I will load it back up, do a reset and let it sit for a bit before I move around.

[ya1950]

Asturcon - thanks for the kind words. I'm glad you like it.  

mofunk - I'm perplexed - it works on my machine which is the same as yours. Make sure you are using the latest version of todayplus and clear the buffer directory before starting. Also try restarting the plugin. If these things don't work let me know and I'll try to help. Also do you have any other plugins running?

ya1950

[blatty]

I like this skin but would prefer to have calendar and tasks appearing together as the default. What would need to change to get this feature?

[ya1950]

blatty - If I understand you correctly you want the tasks and agenda items to appear in the same listing. To accomplish this open the recombinant.txt file and scroll down to the end until you find the following:

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///// /Remove tasks from Agenda listing //////

//options,taskformat,0,13,13,%tab,68%%checkbox,0,1,12,12,checkbox.bmp,checkedbox.bmp,tr%%tab,82%Due: %subject%
//options,taskoverdue,0,13,13,%tab,68%%checkbox,0,1,12,12,checkbox.bmp,checkedbox.bmp,tr%%tab,82%%textcolor,255_0_0%Due: %subject%%resettextcolor%
//options,taskcomplete,0,13,13,%tab,68%%changefont,tahoma,13,s%%checkbox,0,1,12,12,checkbox.bmp,checkedbox.bmp,tr%%tab,82%Due: %subject%%changefont,tahoma,13,%

options,taskformat,task0
options,taskoverdue,taskoverdue0
options,taskcomplete,taskcomplete0

options,blanktext,-1,13,13,%tab,86%-Nothing Further-
options,dateformat,0,0,0,%bold%%date,MMM dd ddd%%regularfont%

changefont,tahoma,13,
//outlook,2,1,238,66,0,0
outlook,2,1,238,66,1,0


Starting with the options,taskformat line remove all occurances of  '//' Then delete the line that reads:

outlook,2,1,238,66,1,0 - make sure it's this line and not the one above it.


This should give you what you want.

ya1950

[didune]

Hi !
Real great skin you've made mate, the one i prefer so far ! but I have some problems with my Ipaq and cannot use buttons on the right part. So i'd like to know if there is a way to put the right arrow in the weather part on the left to change of cities ? what should I modify to put it for example beside the name of the city ? I've tried to make it bigger but it still doesn't work... Thank you very much if you have a trick  

[Blazingwolf]

Hi !
Real great skin you've made mate, the one i prefer so far ! but I have some problems with my Ipaq and cannot use buttons on the right part. So i'd like to know if there is a way to put the right arrow in the weather part on the left to change of cities ? what should I modify to put it for example beside the name of the city ? I've tried to make it bigger but it still doesn't work... Thank you very much if you have a trick  

Find this line in the weather section of the skin:

// ADVANCE TO NEXT CITY
imagebutton,226,-1,right_arrow.bmp,t,0,13,var9_1

Change the highlighted section to move the button. If you put in something like 2,-1 it will be moved to the far left of the screen. however it may overwrite some of the text. So you will need to place where there is no text or move the text also.