Turn TouchFlo 3D on and off?!

Simon D · Jun 7, 2008

I think the TouchFlo 3D is fantastic for "showing off" your Touch Diamond, but it's a bit gimmicky, and slightly cumbersome, so I'd like to be able to turn it on and off when it suits me.

Out of the box, to do this you need to go into the homescreen settings and select TouchFlo 3D, or, deselect it, and reselect all your usual homescreen plugins - a bit of a pain.

However, I've realised that browsing to the "Manilla exe" in the Windows directory turns on the TouchFlo without affecting your homescreen plugins. If you then kill the manilla process using a a Task Manager which shows processes, you're straight back to your normal homescreen. I've made a shortcut in the Start Menu so I can toggle between the two relatively quickly and easily.

But, I'm looking for some clever person out there to make a simple app which toggles between TouchFlo 3D and normal homescreens at the press of a button. I'm sure it can't be that difficult (for someone who knows what they're doing)??!! It just needs to launch the Manilla exe and then kill it when you want to turn it off.

Anyone fancy having a go?

Cheers
Simon.

leekg · Jun 10, 2008

It is possible to toggle between spb mobile 2 screens and touchflo 3d though.

paulbacik · Jul 18, 2008

Kill Manila.exe

Has anybody come up with an automated(one click) way of killing the Manila.exe process ?

wensing · Jul 18, 2008

Mortscript

Create a script with Mortscript to check for the presence of manila.exe.
If not present, start it.
If present, kill it.
Create a shortcut to the script in \Windows\Start Menu\Programs
Assign this shortcut to button 1.

arcanehacker · Jul 18, 2008

Simon D said:
I think the TouchFlo 3D is fantastic for "showing off" your Touch Diamond, but it's a bit gimmicky, and slightly cumbersome, so I'd like to be able to turn it on and off when it suits me.

Out of the box, to do this you need to go into the homescreen settings and select TouchFlo 3D, or, deselect it, and reselect all your usual homescreen plugins - a bit of a pain.

However, I've realised that browsing to the "Manilla exe" in the Windows directory turns on the TouchFlo without affecting your homescreen plugins. If you then kill the manilla process using a a Task Manager which shows processes, you're straight back to your normal homescreen. I've made a shortcut in the Start Menu so I can toggle between the two relatively quickly and easily.

But, I'm looking for some clever person out there to make a simple app which toggles between TouchFlo 3D and normal homescreens at the press of a button. I'm sure it can't be that difficult (for someone who knows what they're doing)??!! It just needs to launch the Manilla exe and then kill it when you want to turn it off.

Anyone fancy having a go?

Cheers
Simon.

thought thats called SecondToday?

gravye9fd · Jul 20, 2008

ToggleManila.mscr

I have the same problem, that I want to turn on TouchFlo 3D, but still want to keep my "Classic" Today Screen intact.

Although I tried SecondToday, however it cannot display the internal plugins such as Tasks, Calendar and Date

Thanks to wensing's suggestion, I created this simple script. If you want to run the script, please follow the instructions below.

a) The first thing you need to do is to disable the TouchFLO 3D from Today Panel Plugins, then activate your favourite Today Plugins (except TF3D)
b) Install MortScript
c) Put the "ToggleManila.mscr" in any folder you prefer.
d) Create a shortcut to this script, name it (eg. ToggleToday.lnk) and put the shortcut inside the folder "\Windows\Start Menu\Programs".
e) Go to Settings->Buttons, and simply assign "Button 1(Hold)" to point to the ToggleToday shortcut.

Of course you are free to experiment with other settings or assign it any other buttons.

Another thing to note is, because TF3D will "take over" the Home hardware button, I have no choice but to kill it, so that the classic Today Screen can be activated after TF3D is killed. However this also means the next time you activate TF3D, it will take some time to load. So please be patient and wait for the TF3D while it is loading.

Anyway, this is my first attempt at using MortScript, just a simple piece of work, but hope that I can bring some joy to my fellow Diamond users.

Hope that it works for you guys

paulbacik · Jul 21, 2008

Thanks Wensing

The mortscript suggestion works perfectly.

oldhouse · Jul 22, 2008

I am running SwiftBL 3.0, and when I launch the script, TouchFLO3d restarts automatically. Does this script work only on roms that have uninstallable manila?
Or do I have to edit some registry settings so that manila doesn't restart automatically?

podman2004 · Aug 23, 2008

when I try and assign a button there are no buttons to select in my menu, any ideas why?

gravye9fd · Aug 27, 2008

Uncheck TF3D

oldhouse said:
I am running SwiftBL 3.0, and when I launch the script, TouchFLO3d restarts automatically. Does this script work only on roms that have uninstallable manila?
Or do I have to edit some registry settings so that manila doesn't restart automatically?

Have u tried to uncheck TF3D from Settings->Today->Items before launching the mortscript?

gravye9fd · Aug 27, 2008

podman2004 said:
when I try and assign a button there are no buttons to select in my menu, any ideas why?

So far, I am using Settings->Buttons and I assign "ToggleManila" to Button1(Hold). By default this may have been assigned to other programs such as Voice Commander etc. Just replace it with "ToggleManila".

I am not familiar with other more advance programs that allow u to assign it to the other hard buttons, so I am sorry I can't advice u on that.

By the way, u might have to create a shortcut that points to the actual file where u place the ToggleManila.mscr, and then u put this shortcut (I simply name it ToggleManila.lnk) inside Windows->Start Menu->Programs before u can select "ToggleManila".

See if it works.

Davey101 · Aug 31, 2008

This works great, thanks everyone involved!

I find it better than 2nd Today because the device is much quicker without manila running.

mallman · Sep 12, 2008

Davey101 said:
This works great, thanks everyone involved!

I find it better than 2nd Today because the device is much quicker without manila running.

i second this statement. tried it and works great for me on the touch pro

charly_mx · Sep 12, 2008

Have you tried the latest ROMS??

Manila works pretty smooth and yu device will be blazing fast. I will be using it always..

Davey101 · Sep 12, 2008

charly_mx said:
Have you tried the latest ROMS??

Manila works pretty smooth and yu device will be blazing fast. I will be using it always..

I'm using Dutty's Diamond v1.8 (full) and used to have speed problems when launching applications, particularly after using the audio player.

TF3D is alright but it doesn't actually do anything that special. The weather screen is pretty but most of the other screens are useless, especially the horribly limited 'favourite contacts'. Now that I've got used to the standard windows today screen I prefer it.

I'm looking forward to trying out Schap's TouchXperience though!

desaparecido500@gmail.com · Sep 14, 2008

that's work very nice

now we must wait for TFL3D tasks and who knows how this thing will be

fredcatsmommy · Sep 18, 2008

this works great with the manila2D with the touch. One question though. The script kills the manila2D very quickly, but it does take several seconds for it to run it; any way of speeding that up?

monamibouli · Sep 18, 2008

thanks for the script

work very well

prilpril · Sep 30, 2008

thanks for the script. great work

naim khan · Oct 1, 2008

As Leekg has mentioned you can use TF3D and SPB Shell together.
I have left TF3D as it is and installed the SPB Shell as well. On the home screen have reprogrammed one of the Soft keys to SPB Menu -- touching that takes me to the Shell. Closing it brings me back to TF3D!
I do have a question though -- is there any way of changing the default msic player to windows media?

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