Does anyone know how to develop a Today Plugin for the new Today screen on Windows Mobile 6.5? Like the Titanium Weather Plugin?
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A:
You are most likely not finding anything because your looking for the wrong name. The new home screen plugin's are not called 'Today Plugin'. They are called 'Widgets'.
The new widget system is written on top of the old today plugin's, and is itself a today screen plugin. The widgets build build using HTML, CSS and javascript.
Check out Getting started with widgets on Windows Mobile 6.5 article at the Windows Mobile Developer Centre.
Shane Powell
2009-07-02 20:32:58
I read that blog post before, and it doesn't say anything about Today. Also in this article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd721906.aspx nothing about today is mentioned.
MartinHN
2009-07-03 05:32:52
I'm not sure I understand what you want. If you want to develop a today screen plugin, then it's the same as WM5 and WM6. Nothing has changed. But a today plugin will not install into the new today screen in WM6.5, which is itself just a today plugin that takes over the whole screen and exposes it's own plugin system called widgets.
Shane Powell
2009-07-03 06:43:37
A:
Okay, so the today screen has a plugin that has widgets?
You go to settings -> Today -> Items, and 'Windows Default' is selected. This puts 'music', 'pictures', 'text', 'e-mail', etc... on the today screen. If you want to add an item to this list, how do you do that?
Why do I ask? Because the 'pictures' item on the today screen is stupid. As in, there is no customization. I put my pictures on my storage card. There are no pictures in the default 'My Documents'\'My Pictures' folder, thus the 'pictures' item on the Today screen says 'No Photos'. If I can't customize it, I'd like to write my own.
And yes, I'd like to do this on Windows Mobile/Phone 6.5.
M Kenyon II
2010-07-29 15:47:12
This is not an answer to the question, so you shouldn't have posted it as such. Shane's answer provides links that will answer how you would write your own. If you have another question, then use the "Ask Question" button in the upper right.
ctacke
2010-07-29 15:51:23