Custom HTC Sliding Panel Home Screen

[dafr34k]

what if i only want to add the favorite applications panel? how would i do that?

[njsges]

i love the homescreen. how do i customize the program favorites in that panel. i see where they are l listed in the xml, but i'm not sure how to change them.

nj

[YoDude]

Just got my Ozone last week...
This is a great home panel! Still tweaking the settings but so far I like this even better than the Skyfire home panel!
THANKS!

[genie4today]

Thanks for posting this! I'm getting my Ozone later this week and will definitely give this a go.

[mattbirk]

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here. I tried adding another favorite to the favorites panel by copying the code and pasting it, changing the info.

I attached a picture of my code. The Digg favorite works just fine ( I replaced your IMDb with Digg), but when I tried adding my own, it didn't show up.

Thanks,

Matt

EDIT: Sorry, I post too early, I was able to figure it out after reading the code more closely. On the top (not shown in picture) I have to add CustomPage4 to it.

I'm slowly figuring this out.

[YoDude]

I know a little code - very little, actually...
But can anyone pls tell me how to go about adding the shortcut & icon for email inboxes to the custom sliding panel such as this one that is part of the HTC panel? It is the only thing I am missing from this wonderful custom panel.
Thanks a lot!

[genie4today]

I just spent the afternoon putting this fresh new coat of paint on mine, thanks to you. It really makes everything much nicer. Thanks!

[leedash13]

Thanks again for all the great comments, I really appreciate it!

I know a little code - very little, actually...
But can anyone pls tell me how to go about adding the shortcut & icon for email inboxes to the custom sliding panel such as this one that is part of the HTC panel? It is the only thing I am missing from this wonderful custom panel.
Thanks a lot!

YoDude, that's actually one of the biggest problems I tried to figure out for hours with no luck. What I actually did was change the homescreen code to show the Microsoft CHome panel, rather than the HTCVOICEMAIL panel. The Chome panel breaks apart each mailbox (which I prefer) rather than the HTCVOICEMAIL which just has one icon for all mailboxes. So as of now, my Plugins Order tag looks like this:

<Plugins Order="CClock;CHome;CCustomPlugin1;CCustomPlugin2; CustomPlugin3;HTCWeather;Settings" CPRFileName="CustomHTCSlidingPanel" >

Here's the catch, while the Chome is great for e-mail, the missed calls button doesn't link to the Visual Voicemail since thats microsoft specific. So, I made yet another CCustomPlugin that links to the Visual Voicemail application. Unfortunately it won't say how many voicemails you have (like the HTCVOICEMAIL pane does) but its a best of both worlds approach. Here is the custom plugin code for that:



That code also includes a link directly to the power management screen of the control panel which is handy to get that full size bar of your battery life. Also includes quick links to file explorer and pictures & video (feel free to remove/customize links as necessary)

Updated XML file and battery icon are both in attached ZIP

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i love the homescreen. how do i customize the program favorites in that panel. i see where they are l listed in the xml, but i'm not sure how to change them.

nj

njsges, to change the favorite programs, you just want to edit the text in between each tag of the XML. It's easiest to edit it in something like Adobe Dreamweaver since it will color code the XML for you, but even like notepad would work fine. Here is what each 'tag' is for:

TitleText: The name that shows up at the top of the glass box

SmallIcon: The graphical icon you want to show up in the class box (PNG format is probably best) also, don't know how this differs from the Picture tag, all my SmallIcon and Picture tags are the same

ActionURL: What happens when the OK button is pressed while that glass box is selected (can be a program path to an exe or file, or a internet URL to a website)

SK2URL: Soft Key 2 URL, what happens when the right softkey is pressed (usually mine are the same as the action URL, but sometimes you want something different to happen)

SK2Text: Soft Key 2 Text, what you want the bottom right bar on the screen to be labeled as

Line1Text & Line2Text: The text that shows up right in the glass box next to the icon, Line 1 is on top of Line 2 naturally

Picture: As mentioned before, path to the icon you want to use, can be same as <SmallIcon>

So, as long as you don't change any of the tags themselves, just the text in between them, it should be relatively easy to customize this homescreen. Definitely let me know if you have any more specific questions.

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what if i only want to add the favorite applications panel? how would i do that?

dafr34k, this is a pretty easy customization to make, in the xml where you see the Plugins Order tag, you would just take out the names of the plguins you don't want. Just make sure you leave a semicolon between each item. So say you just wanted the clock, chome and the favorite applications and thats it, that line would look like this:

<Plugins Order="CClock;CHome;CCustomPlugin1" CPRFileName="CustomHTCSlidingPanel" >

Thanks again for everyone's comments!

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[kimmyl444]

Lee,
I just bought an ozone. I am obviously not very good with this stuff. I was able to download the zip file, but when I tried to copy to my device (or cut and paste), I get a little red circle with a line through it. What am I doing wrong? I'm using Windows Vista. Thanks!

[leedash13]

kimmyl444,

Make sure you're using the zip linked in my first post (http://www.leedash.com/htcozone/Cust...idingPanel.zip) and not the one I just attached a post ago. Also, follow the installation instructions from my original post, there's a few files that have to go in specific locations for everything to work. Let me know if this helps, thanks.

-Lee