Originally Posted by [AFX]
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When doing the My Documents/Pictures/etc links, we use text controls. Here is an example of adding My Documents:
- Tap and hold on the Start menu dock
- Go to New > Text
- For Object Type select Custom Text
- For Text to Display, fill in something. I used Documents.
- For Tap Action, fill in \My Documents or whatever folder represents your documents directory.
- Press OK when you are finished. Font is option once again.
- Repeat this process for each item, filling in the Object Type, Text to Display, and Tap Action respectivley.
Once we have filled in our Start menu, we can move onto something else. Let's go ahead and start our Sidebar dock. We are going to make this dock toggle on or off as well, so if we don't want it, we can hide it easily. This will in the end, be controlled by a button.
- Tap and hold somewhere on the desktop.
- Select New > Dock.
- Select the box representing the Background image
- Browse to the directory where we installed the Windows Vista WAD files and open the Sidebar folder
- Make sure this dock will be docked to the right edge of the screen
- We will give this dock the name "side".
- Uncheck "Hide this dock after executing a subitem"
- Checking or unchecking "Visable by default" is optional.
- Press OK. We now have our Sidebar dock ready to be filled up.
- Currently, the sidebar is overlapping our taskbar. We need this to sit behind the taskbar. Tap and hold on the Sidebar dock and select Send to Back. Now the sidebar is behind the taskbar.
What do you want to add to your Sidebar? You can pretty much add anything you want to this. For example, the Day of the week, an analog clock, some meters, maybe some shortcuts to some programs, some information about upcoming appointments/tasks, e-mail...the list goes on. I guess we can start with the day of the week, which is very simple.
There are many different customer text "identifiers" in WAD that you can use. Here is a list of identifiers that you can use. This list is quoted from duckies' post on the Lakeridge Software forums with additions from myself:
%T12% - Displays 12 hour time
%T24% - Displays 24 hour time
%DOW% - Displays the Day of the week
%MN% - Displays the Numeric month
%ML% - Displays the Long month
%MS% - Displays the Short month
%Year% - Displays current year
%Batt% - Displays the current battery percentage
%FM% - Displays Free RAM
%MTT% - Displays Total RAM
%Appt% - Displays Appointment Count
%Tsk% - Displays Task Count
%Day% - Displays the current day of the month
%Page% - Displays the name of the active page
%Week% - Displays the current week of the year (using ISO calculations)
%Free:(path_% - Displays the current free space on the specified card
%Total:(path)% - Displays the total space on the specified card
%Perc:(path)% - Displays the percentage of free space on the specified card
%Used:(path)% - Displays the amount of storage used on the specified card.
%GMT12:(offset)% - Displays the time offset from GMT in 12-hour format.
%GMT24:(offset)% - Displays the time offset from GMT in 24-hour format.
%Unread:(account)% - Displays the ammount of unread emails in specified email account.
%MissedCalls% - Displays how many missed calls you have.
On SOME OF the above variables, (path) should be replaced with the path to your storage card (i.e. \ or \SD Card).
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First I thank you for your great tutorial, my Cingular 8525 screen looks a lot better now. I tried to make a link for My Documents and failed. I followed exactly what you said but when I click the link it gave me this error message: "The file "cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of its components cannot be found. You might need to reinstall or restore this file." Do you have any idea to fix this problem. I tried to change to location to be like this \My Device\My Documents but it still didn't work. please help me out
And how do you create a Separator Line between you Internet Explore and Outlook?
Thank you very much in advantage