[Tool] Pro Tweak - Easy Custom

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[Tool] Pro Tweak - Easy Custom

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Started 10 months ago by Montecristoff
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Montecristoff
Pointui
Hi all,

Want to go further in Pointui Customization?
Pro Tweak will be here to help you!

This thread contains all you have to know to customize your Home 2 Pro version.

[29 may 2009] ABCDEFGabcdefg have done a very good tool to help all Pro users!!!
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Posted 10 months ago #
strages
Member

first :)

mmh nice!, more customisation is always nice,, but couldnt this be better done in the cutomisation options screen? Yes this saves memory but is a little inconvenient isnt it?

tx though ! :)

Posted 10 months ago #
Joel
Pointui

Here is a bit more info about the Custom.cs file...

//This class provides the ability to provide an alternate event handler for certain home screen events. //Return true if you handle the event and the default processing should not occur. class ScreenHome_CustomHandlers { bool ScreenHome_AfterLoad(ScreenHome screen) { return false; } //---------------------------------------------- bool btnPhone_OnClick(ScreenHome screen, Control sender, int x, int y) { return false; } bool btnMessaging_OnClick(ScreenHome screen, Control sender, int x, int y) { return false; } bool btnFavContacts_OnClick(ScreenHome screen, Control sender, int x, int y) { return false; } bool btnFavApps_OnClick(ScreenHome screen, Control sender, int x, int y) { return false; } bool SoftKeyButtonClick(ScreenHome screen, String buttonID) { return false; } bool btnTitle_OnClick(ScreenHome screen, Control sender, int x, int y) { return false; } //---------------------------------------------- bool AnimateOut(ScreenHome screen) { return false; } bool PositionOffscreen(ScreenHome screen) { return false; } bool AnimateToPositions(ScreenHome screen) { return false; } }

ScreenHome_AfterLoad - allows you to initialize things differently for the home screen - for instance you may want to hide the title bar that has the date/time on it by doing screen.title.SetVisible(false);

btnPhone_OnClick, btnFavContacts_OnClick, btnFavContacts_OnClick, btnFavApps_OnClick - basically just an easy way to override what happens when you click the 4 primary nav buttons - you can change them to load/do whatever you want, of course make sure you return true if so default processing doesn't occur.

SoftKeyButtonClick - do something different for clicks of soft key buttons.

btnTitle_OnClick - same as buttons.

AnimateOut, PositionOffscreen, AnimateToPositions - these are a bit more complicated but allow you to control the home screen animations and positioning of controls.

An important concept you need to understand is that any code you may have written or used in an applet has been restricted - it can only affect things within the applet context because each applet runs in it's own script context and does not have access to the main application script context. However, with Pro, this Custom.cs file allows you to inject code into the main script context and therefore is why you can be changing things on the home screen.

A few properties of the main screen:
AppletRibbon arRibbon;
AppletIndicator aiIndicator;
Button btnPhone, btnMessaging, btnFavApps, btnFavContacts;
Button btnSearch;
HomeScreenTitle title;

You could also do things like redefine screens - but we will need to provide more info about this in the future as there is a bit to it, not in the implementation but in what's possible. As an example, maybe you don't like the way our screen works that allows you to browse files, so you want to change it - well currently the screen is defined:

class ScreenPrograms : FileExplorerScreen { //....etc etc }

So you could add a class in your Custom.cs by the same name and build in different functionality, so that everywhere in the app that the list of programs is shown such as picking apps for the favorite apps screen - it will now show your custom screen.

Posted 10 months ago #
ganzee
Member

Thanks Monte. This will hopefully satisfy those who do not have the developer skills themselves.

Posted 10 months ago #
jerome
Member
So cute !
After create the custom file ...
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Posted 10 months ago #
s@ndy
Member

Hey Monte stay focused, we are still waiting for your WWHToday homelets !

Posted 10 months ago #
sinofthegod
Member

soft-keys and animations customization!! at last!

Posted 10 months ago #
costp
Member

Ah lol Monte ! Like always, I was thinking about something like that ...

Bon je vais peut-ête d'abord terminer Panoramizer...

Regards,

Posted 10 months ago #
Montecristoff
Pointui

For sure costp ;)

It's Pointui effect.
Always something to do
Always something to think
Always something to imagine
Pointui community is the real reflect of Pointui Spirit...

Home is your Home, Community built.

A lot of work to do
A lot of projects to achieve
With you, you and you
TOGETHER
Welcome in Home adventures!
Pointui is freedom
Acid for WM
All of us are ready for the revolution

(this is just a little night thought, sorry ;) )

Posted 10 months ago #
itouch24
Member

until this is released.. how would u get bookmarks to look at your opera bookmarks instead of internet explorer?

Posted 10 months ago #
WerzilUK
Member

http://community.pointui.com/topic/easy-fix-settings-for-googleopera-works-on-omnia#post-17503

Posted 10 months ago #
PhiBee
Member

Mmm...
I wish I understand the way you all think !! :p
Maybe I'm too old !
So I'll wait you results and take what could be usefull fot me !

Thank you to all the great developers over here !

Posted 10 months ago #
J.R. phx
Member

@ Joel

This is excellent, but is there a way to change the click-and-hold functions of the four primary buttons? I tried using btn<button>_OnClickHold() functions but they don't seem to work...

I set the btnMessaging_OnClick to do a Messages.DisplayInbox("SMS"), exactly what I was wanting from that other thread =)

Posted 10 months ago #
Joel
Pointui

Hi J.R. phx, you can do that - we only made available the click methods in the way shown above to make it easy to override. However, it's probably even easier to do it the hard way :)

What you need to do is in the ScreenHome_AfterLoad method - just set the click hold handler for the button you want:

bool ScreenHome_AfterLoad(ScreenHome screen) { screen.btnMessaging.OnClickHold = btnMessaging_OnClickHold; return false; } void btnMessaging_OnClickHold(Control sender, int x, int y) { //do your click hold stuff here }

You can also leave the existing click-hold handler untouched as in the case of the phone button by just adding your handler as an additional one using "+=":

screen.btnPhone.OnClickHold += btnPhone_OnClickHold;

(so in this case, the default handler will do it's thing as well as yours - although this could cause some problems if they started fighting)

Posted 10 months ago #
J.R. phx
Member

Awesome Joel - thanks, worked like a charm!

One more noob scripting question - is there a way in scripting to get the on/off status of Pro's built-in auto-lock, and/or flip the status?

Posted 10 months ago #
Joel
Pointui

Sort of, see here:
http://docs.pointui.com/Device#void_Lock.28.29

You can lock the device and see if it's locked. But it's up to the OS on how it gets unlocked and there are no APIs to allow you to do that programatically.

Posted 10 months ago #
FightingTux
Member

I have two problems with the custom.cs...

1) OnClick does not work for the title! (maybe I did something wrong?)
No matter if i set
screen.title.OnClick = btnTitle_OnClick;
in ScreenHome_AfterLoad or not!

Here is my custom.cs:
class ScreenHome_CustomHandlers { bool ScreenHome_AfterLoad(ScreenHome screen) { return false; } bool btnTitle_OnClick(ScreenHome screen, Control sender, int x, int y) { ScreenContacts contacts; FlowStack.Branch(contacts); return false; } }

2)And it does not work to set an OnClick handler to an image loaded in the custom.cs, too! :(
(Image will load but the OnClick does not work...)

Posted 10 months ago #
Joel
Pointui

Hi FightingTux, not sure off top of my head but I bet the title control does not accept input - try calling screen.title.SetTabStop(true); within ScreenHome_AfterLoad().

Posted 10 months ago #
FightingTux
Member

Thanks Joel!
It works with screen.title.SetTabStop(true)! :)
This solution works for both of my problems...

Posted 10 months ago #
ler329
Member

This is what I'd like to do, but not sure how to write a custom.cs file....

- change "press & hold" functions of four main buttons which would point to exe commands;

- change soft key "all contacts" to my own contact app

- remove top title bar with time/ and date.

Could anyone offer suggestions to get me started?

Posted 10 months ago #
NorrinRadd
Member

Is there any way to invoke the Screen, "ScreenRunningApps" when in another app outside Home2, like in 1.5 when clicking the Start Menu area? Thanks!

Posted 10 months ago #
efendi
Member

I'm gonna be frustrated!
What i want:
- right Softkey: change Bookmarks to Contacts
- remove the top title bar

at first i created a custom.cs with the code from post 1.
this one works perfect (i have "contacts)
then i added a new code to custom.cs to remove the top title bar
this code works perfect, too
BUD now the right softkey is changed back to Bookmarks

here is my custom.cs:
class ScreenHome_CustomHandlers
{
bool ScreenHome_AfterLoad(ScreenHome screen)
{
//change the right soft key
screen.SetSoftKeys("Menu", Terms.Get("Menu"), "Contacts", Terms.Get("Contacts"));
return false;
}
bool SoftKeyButtonClick(ScreenHome screen, String buttonID)
{
//what do we want to do on the right soft key?
if (buttonID == "Contacts")
{
//show the contacts screen
ScreenContacts contacts;
FlowStack.Branch(contacts);
}
return false;
}
bool ScreenHome_AfterLoad(ScreenHome screen)
{
//remove the top title bar
screen.title.SetVisible(false);
}
}

what's my fault
please help me

Posted 10 months ago #
FightingTux
Member

You overload the ScreenHome_AfterLoad at the bottom of the code!
class ScreenHome_CustomHandlers { bool ScreenHome_AfterLoad(ScreenHome screen) { //change the right soft key screen.SetSoftKeys("Menu", Terms.Get("Menu"), "Contacts", Terms.Get("Contacts")); screen.title.SetVisible(false); return false; } bool SoftKeyButtonClick(ScreenHome screen, String buttonID) { //what do we want to do on the right soft key? if (buttonID == "Contacts") { //show the contacts screen ScreenContacts contacts; FlowStack.Branch(contacts); } return false; } }
Something like that should work!

Posted 10 months ago #
efendi
Member

Hi FightingTux!
I tried your correction and now it works perfect!
Thanks a lot!

Posted 10 months ago #
Nimche
Member

How can you just remove the time and date or just one of them without removing the title.bar?

Posted 10 months ago #
scorpius7589
Member

Can't wait for this to come out. I don't know enough about coding to make my own custom.cs

Posted 10 months ago #
ler329
Member

Hi efendi

Could you upload the custom.cs file to share with us? And Also instructions where to put file, etc.

With you changing the right soft key to Contacts...is there a way to choose the path for the exe command??

Thanks
Lee

Posted 10 months ago #
efendi
Member

Hi Lee,
here is the file. You only have to put this file into the home2 folder and restart Home!

Posted 10 months ago #
efendi
Member
Hi Lee,
here is the file. You only have to put this file (change custom.cs.txt to custom.cs) into the home2 folder and restart Home!
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Posted 10 months ago #
ler329
Member

Thanks efendi, it did the trick!!

Since I'm not a coder and don't want to screw anything up....how would I get the right soft key to open "Internal Storage/Program File/Iconsoft/Phonex.exe", instead of the Hom2 contacts??

Thanks
lee

Posted 10 months ago #

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