Start Menu - 4/5 Items Wide

[isangelous]

Update 27/11/2009:
I have now made a multi-device version here. It adds landscape support and the text is slightly larger to accommodate devices with smaller screens which I think looks better on the hd2 too.

Old version:
Hi All,

I wasnt very impressed with other 4-wide and 5-wide options, so I just modified the .cpr from my hd2 myself.

This doesnt touch the registry, so wont be much use for non-stock ROMs and other devices unless you edit it yourself:
HKLM\Security\Shell\StartMenu\CustomGridForm = "StartMenuCust"

You will need to soft reset after installing.

Enjoy!

[ET]

Could you please post some screenshots?

[isangelous]

No problem, screenshots added to post 1.

[pdgpereira]

My CustomGridForm is already =StartMenuCust. Should your cabs work on my case (original rom)?

Other question: Did you get your start menu to work on landscape? I've seen some threads about this but I would like to know where to change this on the reg myself. Some apps might have unstable behavior when adding apps to the white list.

Thanks!

[isangelous]

If you are already StartMenuCust it should work - I think its only when custom roms start coming out that will change.

I should have mentioned - This is just for portrait. You could change the landscape yourself as it is fairly trivial. Look in \Windows for:
StartMenuCust_480x800.cpr = Portrait
StartMenuCust_800x480.cpr = Landscape

Edit these in notepad (it is just xml). You have to change the row count to 4 and change the relative size of the images, text etc.

[Armes]

Just tried this out .... very effective thanks!!

just a little point, after the install, the black screen offers a Restart button or cancel; on my stock HD2 neither worked, it had frozen. A soft reset got it going again, with a 5-column display

[vinokirk]

any chance of gettin them in a straght line instead of honeycomb?>

[pdgpereira]

Editing seems to be simple enough. The problem is that my start menu doesn't rotate automatically. I could use gyrator to make it work but I would prefer to use the whitelist or any other reg edit. I avoid using programs that have to be running in the background or tweak my Leo for me, as much as possible. If I reg edit and it doesn't work, I know what I did and can always change it back.
Any idea on how to do this?

Thanks!

[isangelous]

pdgpereira:
This thread seems to cover the reg changes you need to make. I havent tried it though!

vinokirk:
Not a clue, sorry!

Armes:
I dont know why it crashed for you. It asks you to restart itself (presumably because it changed a system file) so its installers fault!

[pdgpereira]

Thanks for the link. I had been there but with no previous success. I finally did it. I isolated the reg tweaks made by gsen cab, I think, and added some others. A soup of reg tweaks... The problem with cabs is that you never know what exactly they do. I'll be doing some reg cleaning in the next hour.

Now I will try out these 4/5 columns in landscape.

Thanks guys!