Both Wisbar and Pocket Plus have free downloads. I strongly suggest you download and give them both a trial. I thoroughly enjoyed Pocket Plus, but I found that the tabs got cluttered very quickly. Wisbar is a great program. It is actually two programs. The Wisbar Advanced Program gives you the features mentioned above. The Wisbar Desktop gives you a "virtual page" feature where you can make numerous pages and keep different information on each page. I love Waisbar Desktop because it allows easy access to everything.
In the end, I found both Wisbar and PocketPlus to be great programs, so it really comes down to which you like using more.
The two programs are quite different. Wisbar is a customizable title bar replacement w/ some quick launch capabilities and other cool features like cascading menus. Pocket Plus is primarily a quick launch application with safe mode, PIE and File Explorer integration and a few other features. Both have a close button that actually closes an application. Both are resource hungry apps. Both support skinning.
I own both programs and couldn't ever dump WisBar -- if for nothing else than the cascading menus. I shelved Pocket Plus for SBSH's iLauncher. It is much faster than Pocket Plus and most of the PP functions are supported. I use PIE Plus to give PIE the missing features it should have. I use Resco File Exploer to browse my PDA. Still waiting for MonoCube to release a WM5 version of SafeMode.
To answer your question, if it's an "either or" situation, keep WisBar, although both are valuable applications with little overlap.
I bought PocketPlus, it was one of the first software products I bought for my PPC; however, I no longer use it.
I downloaded and tried out WA2/WAD, too, but it just did not "grab me". Maybe I will try them again sometime.
What I did find that I liked was the combination of PocketBreeze and iLauncher. There are screen prints on my View MyPDA.
I do strongly recommend downloading the trials of any software and seeing for yourself what works for you and what you like. There are different software products for a very good reason: Different people like different things. And that is OK. I would not want it any other way myself!
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Thanks for the comments. I've been experimenting with WA2/WAD and iLauncher. Unfortunately, I'm experiencing some problems running them together.
When I start WA2, my iLauncher tabs and desktop disappear, and what I actually see is WA2 without any sign of iLauncher except for the 'documents' along the bottom of the screen.
I looked at Pocket Breeze, but the screen seems to cluttered.
Well, I fooled around with it and managed to get iLauncher running at the same time as WA2. I think it was WAD which was getting in the way. Pity, because the WAD desktop looks great. Is there a tab kind of option for WAD?
I looked at Pocket Breeze, but the screen seems to cluttered.
PocketBreeze is highly customizable. Each of the tabs can be set independently. For example, the Calendar tab can show, or not show, Tasks. PocketBreeze is actually the only active Today Plug-In on my PDA.
There is a post around here called something along the lines of Show us your Today Screen. Many, many pages and examples. Have fun!
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Wisbar all the way!!!!!!! Although I would like to be able to just download P+´s ability to go to safe mode without having to install the whole program!
Well, I fooled around with it and managed to get iLauncher running at the same time as WA2. I think it was WAD which was getting in the way. Pity, because the WAD desktop looks great. Is there a tab kind of option for WAD?
No, but there is the Virtual Desktop options - you create a new page/desktop, and you embed PocketPlus or PocketBreeze into that page, and set up buttons to move back and forth between pages. Check the thread on the Lakeridge Software forum for instructions... but it's basically a context-menu on the desktop away - just Context Menu, "Add New Today Plugin", IIRC, and then go.
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