ThrottleLauncher v0.9.6 Beta

ThrottleLauncher v0.9.6 Beta

Overview : Skinnable application launcher that consists of several pages containing rows. Each of the rows can be scrolled horizontally by using the finger.

ThrottleLauncher is a launcher app designed for WM5 and WM6. Basically it consists of several pages containing rows. Each of the rows depending of it contents can be scrolled horizontally by using the finger. The app is fully configurable through xml files so the rest of the features depends on the different setups.

The rows can contain several type of items:
• Icons: can execute any program or link.
• Clock: analog clock.
• Text: can be updated periodically and can contain dinamic dates or registry values.
• Photo dialer: you can place contacts with asociated photos on a row.
• Running and recent apps: all running and recent apps can be shown inside a row.

Main features:
• Kinetic scrolling
• Fully configurable
• Skin support

Note: To configure Twolf Flashes included in version 0.9.3, for each flash (clock, contacts and weather) there is a txt file located at ThrottleLauncher/Setups/Touchflo3D/Twolf/. In that file look at each file items descriptions for more details.

What's new in ThrottleLauncher 0.9.6 Beta:
Functional:
· Vertical scrolling works a lot smoother.
· Calendar speedup by offline getting appointments (appointments may take a little while to show) Loading message added to the plugin.
· Fully redesigned ThrottleConfig app.
· Widget creation support to create contacts widgets and shortcuts.
· Messages update automatically when new one is received or when they are deleted.
· Multiple mail accounts support in TF3D theme.

Theme development:
· #$THEME_BASE# Points to the current theme folder (ie. like #$THROTTLE#/setups/touchflo3d was but with the possibility of placing the theme in SD card for example). This does also support storage card installation as long as they are inside /ProgramFiles/ThrottleLauncher/Setups folder.
· Deprecated keeppagebackbuffer, clearbackbuffers (this two are useless as pagechanging and buffering is automatically optimized now), minclicktime (people don't like delays when clicking).
· New way of arranging groups (last apps, running apps, contacts and folder contents). Now you can use the items flag to arrange the info in panels or what ever you want. Check the allcontactswithphoto or applications tag of the updated iphone theme.

Technical:
· Fully rewritten today plugin integration (no more taskmgr hangs between other thing). Lot's faster engine.
· Graphics rotation fix.
· Plugins on first page solved by changing loading policy.
· Paged mode issue solved.
· Transparency issues problems when changing pages.
· Solved issue when dragging over the top bar.
· Redesigned Message2Reg.
· Solved all the standalone app issues (including the plugin backgrounds ).
· Added a backup of the log file to ThrottleToday2.txt
· Solved ThrottleConfig problems.
· Reduced memory footprint

Requirements : PPC WM5, WM6 - .NET CF v2.0 (v3.5 strongly recomended)

Download:

http://www.uploadjockey.com/download/9029848/ThrottleLauncher.rar
http://www.ziddu.com/download/3168137/ThrottleLauncher.rar.html

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