Please try the trial before purchasing it!
What is Homescreen Designer?
Homescreen Designer is a
WYSIWYG-Application for creating powerful Homescreens for Smartphone!

What are the System
Requirements?
- Desktop PC with
.NET Framework (Tested on Win 2000 / XP SP1 and XP SP2, Windows 95/98/ME is NOT supported)
- Desktop-Resolution of at
least 1024x768
- Standard-DPI-Setting of
96DPI
- Smartphone with Windows Mobile 2003
(or SE) (Smartphone 2002 is not yet
supported)
- Activesync Connection
Which Features are included?
These Plugins are supported
(more to come later on)
Standard-Plugins
- Iconbar
- MRU
- Time
- Date
- Carrier
- Profile
- Calendar
- Allday
- SMS
- MMS
- Email
- Missed Calls
3rd-Party-Plugins
- Windows Media Player
- Analog Clock
- Alarm (Only WM2003)
- Fizz Traveller (Only
WM2003)
- Oxios Task
- Slideshow (Only WM2003)
Move the plugins with
your mouse to the correct position
Enter Name for
Homescreen
Change Size of
Plugin
Change Color of
Plugin
Change Bold/Normal-State
of Plugin
Change all Colors
to a scheme!
Automated export
of your new designes Homescreen to your Device with
automated activation of it
After exporting
it, it will automated be saved as .hme-Homescreen
file so you can easely distribute it to others!
Saving as project file
Change Error/Info/Question etc-screen
Change startup/shutdown-screens
Change background
Image of start-menu
Create
distribution-ready zip-files with all 3d-party-plugins in it
Change width of
Calendar/Allday
Set calendar-height from 1 to 5 lines
A lot of other
stuff!
And a lot more!
Just have a look at
this Flash-Animation!
Installation
Please Note: Homescreen Designer is based on Microsoft .NET
Technology! You have to have installed the .NET Framework 1.1, it can be
downloaded using Windows Update or directly
by Microsoft.
Please try the
trial before purchasing it!
Release
Notes
Version
1.0.0
Initial Release
Version 1.1.4
New Features:
- New Calculation Algorithmus for 100% exactness
- MRU Plugin (Icons of last runned applications)
- possibility to add a picture as background of the start-menu
- Possibility to include used 3-Party-Plugins in a Zip-File for better
distribution
- imported pictures which are in size 176x200 will not be converted => No loss
in quality anymore!
- Multiple line support for Calendar Plugin
- Alarm Plugin now compatible with Smartphone 2003
- Calendar: Time/Location-Support (selectable)
- Width-Setting for Calendar and Allday-Plugin
- Possibility to move the
Iconbar-Plugin
- SMS/Email/MMS: Possibility to change prefix and after-text
- Possibilty to let Homescreen Designer automatically notify yourself if a new
version of Homescreen Designer is available (With list of new things)
- Possibilty to move multiple selected plugins at once so you can better allign
them (Select Plugins while holding Ctrl-Key)
- Possibilty to delete multiple selected plugins at once (Select Plugins while
holding Ctrl-Key and then press delete)
- Time-Format: Possibilty to choose between 22:00 or 10:00 PM
- Date-Format: Short and Long-Format (Please note: This is using YOUR Short and
Long-Format that you have selected on your device. So it will not exactly be the
same as in the Designer)
- Possibilty to uninstall a installed plugin (Make sure that your active
homescreen is not using the plugin!)
- Prefix for Profile and Carrier possible
- Homescreen Designer will ask if you want to overwrite an existing homescreen
Bugfixes:
- The "Application has generated an exception that could not be handled"-error
on startup should now been fixed!
- Better exactness
- Error message when wake up PC from sleep or hibernating modus
- some minor bugfixes
Version 1.3.2
Smartphone 2002-Support
(Tested with SPV Classic)
Fizz Traveller Plugin
Oxios Task Plugin
Slideshow Plugin
Volume/Questionbox/Informationbox
etc-Screen support
Direct link to upload/download-Forum
Homescreen Designer
makes automatically a screenshot of your homescreen and creates the necessary
entrys for the Forum! The only thing you have to do is adding the files as
attachement
Coordinate for better
aligning
Option to save as xml
file for editing
Prompting to save work
on exiting
Possibility to import
colors from a existing Homescreen! (XML, HME and CAB-Files!!!)
New visual enhancements
If you activate a
plugin, it will automatically search for a free place at the homescreen. If
there is not enough space it will automatically downsize itself to fit the space.
If then it has still not enough space, it will notice you that there is not
enough room for it...
Branding on SIM-Screen
and Call Dial/Call Progress can be changed!
Move your plugins with
the mouse-wheel
Backcolor of Startmenu
can now be in 4 colors (2-pixel-lines)
Install cab/hme-Homescreens
(and other cab-files) from your desktop-PC with one click!
4 different themes for
Application itself (+ Standard XP and Classic)
German translation /
Deutsche Sprache! (More to come!)
Files are now saved in
a subfolder of \Application Data\Home\ for better overview...
Extract HME or
CAB-Files automatically!
Bugfixes:
Bug not showing allday
bold if selected has been fixed
Color is changing
although clicking on cancel has been fixed
Bug Solved: If 2
Plugins are aside of each other and one is bigger than the other, then it was
possible that the aligning was not correct...
Some minor bugfixes...