Interfaccia iPhone su Windows Mobile. iPhonetoday 1.5.0

Giuseppe Spina | mar 24, 2010

Riportiamo un nuovo aggiornamento di iPhone Today, interfaccia gratuita per Windows Mobile che permette di avere la stessa UI dell’ iPhone sui nostri dispositivi. Si giunge alla versione 1.5 e, nonostante l’ultima versione mostrata era la 1.4.5, il change log è molto lungo a seguire. Riproponiamo anche un video dell’autore, anche se relativo ad una vecchia release (0.9.5), per chi non conoscesse il programma.

iPhoneToday v1.5.0 (Mar 21, 2010)
Fixed battery drainage issue.
Improved quality of icons by using the averaging interpolation method for resizing them.
Added an alternative method for alpha blending to the background that should be faster but requires more memory.
Added an option to “use mask for transparency” that might help the scrolling performance on some devices.
Added text quality option (Default, Draft, Nonantialiased, Antialiased, Cleartype, Cleartype comp), but it is available only when alpha blend on background is disabled.
Added facename (font family) option for the text labels under the icons, the header text, and the special icons text. (you have to manually configure the XML, no dialog yet).
Added shadow and roundrect options for the header text.
Added –winkey command to display the start menu.
Added an option to show battery percentage while charging (enabled by default).
Changed default value of vibration for non phone devices to 0.
Fixed crash when copying icons from topbar.
Fixed bug with pressed icon not displaying correctly when alpha blend is enabled.
If reloadIcon is 2 icons.xml are saved after loading them from registry.
Installer now displays a warning that today plugin will not be available if you choose to install to storage card.
Some minor fixes and improvements.

iPhoneToday v1.4.9 (Mar 15, 2010)
Fixed degraded quality of images of previous release (image resizing is done by the Windows Imaging API again).
Fixed a bug with background resizing.
Added RoundRect option (for now only in the XML, no dialog yet) to display a black rounded rectangular behind the text (like Android).

iPhoneToday v1.4.8 (Mar 14, 2010)
Using LPNG library (an extremely light-weight library – it just adds 6KB) if imaging API fails (mostly helpful for PNDs where imaging API is often missing). This allows now all devices to load and display transparent PNG icons.
Huge memory savings compared to v1.3 when AlphaBlend is disabled (32bit icons are now converted to whatever the screen supports, usually 16bit).
Fixed text labels being 1-2 pixels left of the center of the icons.
Fixed background color of options dialog to be the windows default color for menu backgrounds.
Added –keyboard command to show/hide the keyboard.
Only for PNDs: added a help button (question mark) on the title bar of the options and icon settings dialogs (next to the OK button) that toggles the appearance of the keyboard.
The 3-letter abbreviation of the day of the week is now by default displayed in the language of the user locale.
Converted the included pressed icons from gray scale to true color since LPNG only supports loading true color PNG images.
Resized the bubble icons.
Added a warning that scrolling will be slow when AlphaBlend is enabled on devices that do not natively support it.

iPhoneToday v1.4.7 (Mar 09, 2010)
Changed the icon set
Added pressed icon effect
Currently incuded icons: CrackedGlass.png, Fingerprint.png, RoundedPressed.png (default), Spotlight.png, StopwordPressed.png (Thanks to Osprey for the images)
Added text shadow
Added some new options for the background image: fit width, fit height, center
Added refresh time setting in the movement tab
Added new command: –volume:++ and –volume:–
Fixed a bug with animation rectangular staying sometimes on screen
Fixed some minor bugs

iPhoneToday v1.4.6 (Mar 06, 2010)
Added some new icon types:
Volume
Memory Load
Memory Free
Memory Used
GPRS State
Signal Strength
Operator Name
Signal Strength & Operator Name
Added some new commands:
–rotate to rotate the screen 90 degrees
–rotate: (e.g. –rotate:270) to rotate the screen by the given angle
–volume: to set the system volume to (0-100)
–volume:+ or –volume:- to increase or decrease the system volume by
–reset or –restart to soft reset the device
–off or –standby or –suspend to suspend the device
–minimize to minimize the iPhoneToday’s window (only for exe version)
–taskbar to show/hide the taskbar (only for exe version)
Alpha blend transparent icons with the background
Option dialog to configure the transparency of icons
Fixed transparency of png icons with black pixels
Today item’s height is configurable again
The color of the expanding rectangular – animation on launch – can now be configured
A default sound on launch can be set
Added a play button in the icon settings dialog to preview the selected sound
Fixed the ignore screen rotation option
Fixed focus of the choose color dialog
If the bubble png icons are not found nicer bubbles are programmatically drawn
Added a reset settings to defaults button in the about dialog
Configurable margins for the text inside the special icons such as day of month, day of week, clock, battery, etc.
You can set which applications to run when the icons are out of screen instead of cycling through the pages
Reorganized the options dialog
AppToDate support
Installer will ask to create a startup shortcut to the exe if you answer no to the question whether you want to enable the today item plugin