Despite the name, MortButtons is NOT a tool to assign applications to buttons, like BtnPlus, VITO ButtonMapper, PowerButton, and similar tools.
Instead, it allows to create multiple small menus, which can be used with just one button. It also offers a menu that consists of all currently running applications, thus enabling a quick and easy task switching like Alt-Tab in Windows. These menus can be assinged to your buttons with either the systems settings or any tool you use. Features:
- Every application button can be used (up to 5 diferent menus).
- No problems with games or other apps using the buttons - works fine in combination with BtnPlus, ButtonMapper, and similar tools.
- Task List: Lets you switch easily to one of the running applications.
- Minimize, close, close all, and close all but current application.
- Selection with multiple presses of just one button possible.
- It's also possible to select an entry with the direction pad or by tapping it.
- Select the applications or documents to start from start menu or the complete file system.
- Document starts (opened with the assigned application) are supported.
- Create new documents ("New" menu entries) with application buttons.
- Use own menus or entire directories as submenus.
- Activation of Today screen and already existing windows (i.e. the app's only activated when running, no start by accident!).
- Skin support with overrideable font and color settings.
- Display style (background, skin, ...) and timeout settings can be set for each main menu.
- Own icons can be used for menu entries.
- Supports WM2003 SE: VGA, landscape, rotation - by entries or when a program is launched. A manual, alternative Skins, and some other informations can be found here. Note:
When updating, be aware that Windows Mobile 5 - in spite to its predecessors - always uninstalls the previous version. Because of this, you have to backup the menu informations when you update from a version lower than v2.4b2. To do this, copy Button1.mbi to Button5.mbi, as well as the folder "Submenus" (though the latter should remain untouched). Starting with V2.4b2, these files are backed up automatically when you choose to keep the settings during deinstallation, and restored after installation (if you install to the same directory - otherwise the backup will not be found). Nevertheless, a backup can never harm even with those newer versions...
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If you got an error while installing Themes, Software or Games, please, read FAQ.
Supported operating systems:
Pocket PC 2002, Windows Mobile 2003, Windows Mobile 5.0
EG Glass EG Glass - Screen magnifying glass for pocket PCs. Original and ergonomic interface: decorates your HPC, the program easy in use and does not disturb, but helps you in work. The capacities: useful interface, adjust of brightness and contrast of the pictures, peek of the color in point, determination of the image size, optional antialiasing of the picture, skin change
tAgenda TAgenda is a plug-in which displays appointments and tasks of Pocket Outlook on the Today screen
PeraCount PeraCount - Today screen plugin that shows counts of voicemail (on some CDMA networks, this will say 1 no matter how many you actually have), missed calls, emails, and text messages. Drop down menu allows you to check all items
CETUNER 2005 CETuner 2005 is a powerful utility for creating and changing themes, adjusting colors and customizing fonts on Pocket PC/Windows Mobile
Spb ToPlay Spb ToPlay - Spb ToPlay plug-in was designed to provide you with an easy way to start listening to the music from your Media Library right from Today screen
OpenWith Adds to the context menu of the item "Open With ..."
WM5Color Changer WM5Color Changer is a program for you to change the Windows Mobile 5.0 color scheme for the existing theme on the Pocket PC. These color settings are usually not found in themes as there isn't any theme generator out there that has included these features.
Usage Notes:
Select a component from the dropdown list that you wish to change
BatteryBar BatteryBar - BatteryBar is a Today screen plugin that allows you to view the state of the Pocket PC battery (as a percentage and graphically through a coloured bar), the state of the used memory space (as Mb, percentage, and graphically through a coloured bar), and lastly the state of the storage space memory displayed in the same manner as the others
HandyShortcuts HandyShortcuts - HandyShortcuts is a Today screen plug-in that provides quick access to any program on your Pocket PC, and even files and directories.
But the order of shortcuts is impossible to easily manage, it is limited to 7 per line, you can't change the height of the icons, etc
Other Software by developer «Mort (Mirko Schenk)»:
MortRing A tool to assign ringtones and SMS signals to single contacts or categories (assigned in Outlook or Contacts on your PPC) on Phone Edition PPCs. The ringtone assignment won't work on every PPC, esp. if there are lots of contacts (you'll hear the default ringtone or the one of the previous contact). Sadly, there's nothing I can do about that..
MortPlayer It's an MP3/Ogg player which is optimized for the needs on a Pocket PC. That's (among others) big screen buttons, simple playlist update from the contents of certain directories, and support of hardware buttons. Included features:
All basic functions (Play, pause, skip track, spooling, ..
MortSaver MortSaver is a combination of screensaver, keylock, and a "stay off!" function. Screensaver:
The display's turned off, but the PPC keeps running (e.g. for audio players). In spite to other tools, MortSaver turns off the dispay again if it's been switched on by e.g. an alert or the on/off button
MortScript MortScript interprets a (quite) simple batch language. If you know .bat files in DOS or shell scripts: it's something like that. Its focus is to remote control or launch other applications, not to write real applications. I.e., you can't do complex dialogs or graphics with it