Can I stack two short plugins NEXT to one taller plugin?

[manicotti]

With the Orange plugin, it's possible to put two or more plugins on the same row. In this example, the red and green plugins are side-by-side with the blue one in the next row.

Is it possible to put two short plugins next to one taller one? In this example, two short plugins (the green and blue ones) are next to the tall red one.


For my purposes, all three plugins would be display-only -- they don't need keyboard focus.

If this can't be done with the Orange plugin, is there another way to do this (an HTML control that's lets one get at the time, date, carrier, profile, and other info)?

[RFI4U]

I know the orange dll will allow you to do the first example but I've never tried
the second configuration.

[manicotti]

Right, I got the first to work. What I want to do is put a tall time display at the upper left with the standard icon bar (squeezed to 240x24) to its right and the profile below that.

[rudeboy]

in theory this could work... but 1) i have never tried and b) well, it sucks we don't have a decent doc file on orange.

[RFI4U]

Originally Posted by manicotti

Right, I got the first to work. What I want to do is put a tall time display at the upper left with the standard icon bar (squeezed to 240x24) to its right and the profile below that.

I've tried putting the icon bar inside an orange "wrapper" and it worked but
the icon bar didn't like to be squeezed, some of the icons would display
overlapped on one another.

[manicotti]

I've done it on a Blackjack and it works fine -- as long as you give it at least 240 pixels. The basic icon bar was designed for a width of 240 pixels. I can use the other 80 for something else. For now, I'm working on making that 80 pixel "found space" contain the Profile plugin so that I can get a row back.

[qwho]

Originally Posted by manicotti

For now, I'm working on making that 80 pixel "found space" contain the Profile plugin so that I can get a row back.

Done.


<!-- Orange -->
<plugin height="10" width="100%" halign="left" handlekeys="CHILD" y="0" x="0" clsid="{A2536C57-6AC2-4c31-9542-B144B0E9D077}">
<format state="selected" font-weight="bold" fgcolor="#999999"/>
<format state="unselected" font-weight="normal" fgcolor="#FFFFFF" />
<shortcut width="80">
<!-- Profile Plugin -->
<plugin clsid="{95976968-45D5-40c9-9779-2B859B1C2FEC}" name="Profile" height="4">
<background b-border-width="0" >
</background>
<label x="3" y="0" w="70" valign="top" halign="left" font-size="18" fgcolor="#FFFFFF" >
<format state="selected" font-weight="bold" />
<text><profile/></text>
</label>
</plugin>
</shortcut>

<shortcut width="240" y="0">
<!-- Iconbar -->
<plugin clsid="{837FC251-FE69-43ad-84E0-EBCEDEBA0884}" name="Iconbar" height="1">
<background b-border-width="0" />
<iconbar bgcolor="transparent" fgcolor="#DDDDDD" y="0" x="0"/>
</plugin>
</shortcut>
</plugin>


</home>





As for two small plugins next to one tall one, I'll look into that next.

[manicotti]

qwho, can I make the Profile plugin NOT be selectable or make the MRU plugin the default selected plugin?

[qwho]

[quote=manicotti;60660]For my purposes, all three plugins would be display-only -- they don't need keyboard focus.
quote]


What plugins are you looking to use? That would be helpful while trying to get this to work. Let me know!

[manicotti]

Originally Posted by qwho

What plugins are you looking to use? That would be helpful while trying to get this to work. Let me know!

OK, you asked for it. Here's a block diagram of what I think I really want. Other than the built-in plugins and the Orange one for placement, I'm only using SmartMonitor (plugins 1 and 4) and I'm only using it to get better signal and battery strength icons with actual percentages below the graphics.



You'll note that I want the icon bar to think that it's 240 pixels wide, but I only want the orange plugin to show 168 pixels of it. This will have the effect of cutting off the last three icons, two of which are replaced by SmartMonitor's signal indicators and the third of which isn't used.

The only plugins that should get keyboard control at all are 5) MRU, 7) Call progress, 9) Calendar, and 11) Message Counts. I don't need focus for 2) Profile because I can get to them by tapping the power key, 8) Cool text because virtually no one uses it (I saw it in Venice, Italy once) and clicking it just makes the text disappear, 10) All day events because clicking it does the same thing as clicking on a regular calendar event.

This design gives me every plugin that I want and ensures that each plugin has a fixed position (which makes doing background graphics easier). It also keeps the lower right clear for graphics on most days (those without all day events).

If you know how to get me around the keyboard focus issues and how to get SmartMonitor to live in the Orange plugin, I'd be very grateful. If you want to code the whole thing, I'd be silly with joy and very grateful.