Please try the trial before purchasing it!

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...