[S9, J3, X7] Lynx v1.2.0 (2011/07/03)

[Kizune]

Latest Version: v1.2.0; released on 2011/07/03


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Links

PlugIns and Widgets

Photos - Lynx in Daily Life

Lynx @ MediaFire


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Version History

v1.1.0
- Initial release

v1.1.1
- Added new theme to Clock Widget
- Added Startup Actions PlugIn
- Fixed Brightness and Bluetooth Widgets
- Fixed Custom Icons

v1.1.2
- Converted shutdown, sleep and lock icons to custom icons
- Added option to show current album art as wallpaper in Lock Screen: Settings > Security > Album Art Wallpaper
- Fixed bug that custom icons disappear from folders

v1.1.3
- Made Clock Widget: Android Theme 12h compatible
- Fixed that icons, widgets and folders disappear if the number of desktops is set two '2'
- Fixed that the time isn't always 12h format in Event Manager (if 12h format is enabled in Cowon's settings)

v1.1.4
- Improved External Widgets support
- Added Radio Mode compatibility to Music Widget

v1.1.5
- Fixed Bugs in Event Manager
- Fixed Session Feature
- Fixed Autoplay
- Fixed Method to run Flash Files using Custom Icons

v1.1.6
- Fixed Bug in Autoplay (again)
- Fixed Bug that the Player's Mode wasn't always changed correctly (eg DMB)
- Fixed Music Widget: Theme 1 (in Radio Mode)
- Added Option to change the first Day of Week in the Event Manager: Settings > Miscellaneous > Event Manager: 1st Day
- Added new Button to some Widgets which opens for example the Music UI (Music Widget) or the Picture Viewer (Slideshow Widget)

v1.1.7
- Fixed Method to run Flash Files using Custom Icons (again)
- Fixed Bug that Custom Icons replacing Standard Icons weren't saved correctly

v1.1.8
- Fixed Method to run Flash Files using Custom Icons (and this time for real!)

v1.1.9
- Replaced icons with new icon pack Ilves
- Added Jukebox
---> Opens when you open the music control bar
---> Can be turned off in Settings -> Miscellaneous
- Added Quick Gesture Widget
---> Tap the widget and then perform a gesture
---> Swipe up/down + hold: Change volume
---> Swipe left/right + hold: Seek
---> Swipe left/right: REW/FF
---> Swipe left -> right / right -> left: Random track
---> Tap: Play/Pause
- Fixed Method to run Flash Files using Custom Icons
- Other small improvements
- Bugfixes

v1.1.10
- Replaced icons with improved icon pack Ilves V2
- If there are new notifications, you can now tap the speech bubble icon in the system tray to open the notification center

v1.1.11
- Improved Text Scroller
---> Settings > Appearance > Text Scroller: Bounce, Delayed Bounce, One Direction

v1.1.12
- Fixed bugs introduced with v1.1.11
- Fixed bug that the menubar couldn't be hidden if there's one desktop

v1.1.13
- Added World Clock Widget
- Added Travel Mode PlugIn

v1.1.14
- Travel Mode PlugIn: Added option 'Leave Screen on'
- Fixed method to run Flash Custom Icons for Korean devices

v1.1.15
- UCI is now X7-compatible

v1.1.16
- Lock Screen: You can now decide what you want to see - the Date Bar or the Mini Player.
---> Settings > Security > Show...: Date Bar / Mini Player
- Disabled the Option to open the third Mainmenu for X7-users because the Cowon X7 has only two Mainmenus
- Album Art Wallpaper PlugIn: Overlay was still shown when the Setting 'Overlay' was disabled

v1.1.17
- Added Localization Support
- Added Profile Widget
---> You can configure Profiles in Settings > Widgets > Profile Switcher Widget
---> Please note that the widget is on the next page in the Icons & Widgets Selector
- Bugfixes

v1.1.18
- Added PlugIn: 'Event Manager Notification Extension'.
---> Code for notifications of the Event Manager was removed from Lynx. Leave this plugin installed or you won't get any notifications from the Event Manager.
- Changed PlugIn Structure.
---> Update all of your Plugins.
- Notifications are now displayed everywhere in Lynx except for the Event Manager.
- Profile Switch Widget: Added EQ setting to profiles
- Bugfixes

v1.2.0
- Improved Menubar
---> Removed '+'-button
---> Added Launcher Button (run user-defined Function)
---> Swipe Bar to see the other Buttons (Shutdown, change Mainmenu, Messages, Music Controls)


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Preview video by da1writer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5qrthUUBq4


Preview video by Who Am I?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SyE9-Qb84k


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[Kizune]

Quick Instructions


Installation

I General

II Desktop Editor
II.1 Putting icons and widgets on the desktop
II.2 Folders

III Other Information
III.1 How to install: Custom Icons
III.2 How to install: PlugIns
III.3 How to install: Widgets
III.4 How to configure: Slideshow Widget
III.5 How to configure: Wallpaper Changer PlugIn


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Installation

Download Lynx and extract the archive to 'System/Flash UI/'. Then rename the file 'mainmenuN.swf' to either 'mainmenu1.swf', 'mainmenu2.swf' or 'mainmenu3.swf', depending on which of the three available mainmenu you want to replace.

Note: If your computer doesn't show file extensions, then don't add '.swf' to the filename. It is already there, it's just hidden.



I General

When you use Lynx the first time, you'll see a screen like this:




1. Sysbar

Shows general information and information about the system's state (time, battery, volume,...)


2. Desktop

Workspace where you can place icons and widgets.


3. Menubar

Provides access to most important features.
Buttons from left to right:
- Opens the menu
- Opens the icons & widgets selector
- Expands the menubar

In expanded state, the menubar looks like that:



From left to right:
- Shutdown
- Change Mainmenu
- Show Notifications

You can swipe to change the menubar's content.



Depending on the current mode (radio or music), the menubar either shows buttons to control the music playback or it shows buttons to control the radio.




This is the aforementioned icons & widgets selector.

The buttons in 4 from left to right:
- Shows standard icons
- Shows custom icons
- Shows widgets

And in 5:
- Go to previous page
- Close icons & widgets selector
- Go to next page

You can use the page navigation buttons only if there are multiple pages available. The scrollbar over this bar is shown if this is the case.

You can execute any icon by tapping one, which means there is no need to add all icons to the desktop.



II Desktop Editor

II.1 Putting icons and widgets on the desktop

If you want to add an icon or widget to the desktop, just press and hold it until the selector disappears and you can drag the icon or widget around.



As long as you drag the icon or widget around, the editor looks like this.
The white rectangle is the grid. More about that after the next screenshot.

You can drop the icon over one of the arrows to move it to the next or previous desktop. In order to delete it, just drop it over the X.




This is how the editor looks like when you don't drag an icon or widget.

Buttons from left to right:
- Close editor
- Open icons & widgets selector
- Configure grid and icon selector (screenshot)




Widgets often have multiple themes. If this is the case, there's button with two arrows shown over the widget. You can drag the widget by grabbing the button's center and you can change the theme by pressing one of the arrows.


II.2 Folders



In order to create a folder, just drop an icon over another one, and in order to add an icon to a folder, just drop the icon over a folder.
The icon selector, colored in green, will appear if you are about to perform one of these two actions.

(Note: The term "icon" here stands for standard icons and custom icons)




You can arrange icons within a folder by pressing one until you can drag it. Make sure not to drag it out of the folder, otherwise the folder will be closed.

Of course it is also possible to rename a folder:



Just press the title and a keyboard is shown where you can edit the title.



III Other Information

III.1 How to install: Custom Icons

Put icons (PNG files) in 'System/Flash UI/Lynx/Custom Icons/'. Every icon must be there twice: One with and one without label. The naming is: 'icon name.png' and 'icon name__l.png'. 'icon name' is a unique identifier of the custom icon.

Open the file 'custom icons.xml' in 'System/Flash UI/Lynx/' with a text editor. Your file may look like this:

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<icons>
<icon name="Event Manager" type="Launcher" file="lynx_eventmanager.swf" />
</icons>
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For every icon you have create an entry in <icons>...</icons>.

If you want to replace an existing standard icon:

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<icon name="name" replace="icon id" />
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Name: A unique name for the custom icon
Icon ID: One of these: music, videos, pictures, browser, radio, record, documents, flash, typist, notepad, hunter, settings, dictionary, dmb, calculator, stopwatch, comix


If you want to add a new icon:

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<icon name="name" type="type" file="file" />
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Name: A unique name for the custom icon
Type: 'Launcher' or 'Flash'
File: Filename of the file the icon opens. If the type is 'Launcher', the file must be in 'System/Flash UI/', otherwise it has to be put into 'Flash/'.


III.2 How to install: PlugIns

Usually, just extract the contents of the archive into 'System/Flash UI/Lynx/PlugIns'.
Then, open the file 'plugins.xml' in 'System/Flash UI/Lynx/' which may look like this:

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<plugins>
<plugin file="wallpaper_changer.swf" />
</plugins>
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Just add a new line between <plugins>...</plugins> and insert

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<plugin file="filename.swf" />
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where filename.swf is the filename of the plugin.



III.3 How to install: Widgets

Usually, just extract the contents of the archive into 'System/Flash UI/Lynx/Widgets'.
Then, open the file 'widgets.xml' in 'System/Flash UI/Lynx/' which may look like this:

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<widgets>

</widgets>
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Just add a new line between <widgets>...</widgets> and insert

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<widget id="id" />
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where id is the name of the widget (usually the name of the folder in the archive).



III.4 How to configure: Slideshow Widget

In order to create a custom slideshow, you have to create a folder in 'Pictures/' add first. The name doesn't matter since you can specify it in the settings.
Then create two subfolders: '150x110' and '210x150'. Put pictures in both folders. The first one is displayed when you use the small slideshow plugin, and the other folder is displayed when you use the large slideshow widget. The name of the folders is the recommended size of the pictures you put into them.

When you're done putting pictures in both folders, create the file 'pictures.xml' in both folders using a text editor like Notepad.

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<pictures>

</pictures>
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Create for every picture an entry between <pictures>...</pictures>:

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<picture file="filename" />
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Filename: The name of the picture.

Your XML file may eventually look like this:

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<pictures>
<picture file="49f4c7342-b695-4b6a-8c3f-8481269e78c01.jpg" />
<picture file="04615.jpg" />
<picture file="04627.jpg" />
<picture file="fgd4r346.jpg" />
<picture file="Find_your_way_1280 x 960.jpg" />
<picture file="Nature (24).jpg" />
<picture file="One_Way_iPhone.jpg" />
<picture file="steps_by_damnengine.jpg" />
</pictures>
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Now open 'Lynx' settings -> Widget Settings -> Slideshow Widget' and activate the option 'Use Slideshow Folder'.
Then press 'Set Slideshow Folder Name' and change the registered folder name to the name of the folder you just created. You don't have to include 'Pictures/'.


III.5 How to configure: Wallpaper Changer PlugIn

Wallpapers have to be put into 'System/Flash UI/Lynx/PlugIns/res__wallpaper_changer.swf/' and can be JPG or PNG files.

Open XML file 'wallpapers.xml' in 'System/Flash UI/Lynx/PlugIns/res__wallpaper_changer.swf/' and add between <wallpapers>...</wallpapers> for each wallpaper the following line:

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<wallpaper file="filename" />
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In order to assign a wallpaper to a certain desktop, just add the attribute 'desktop="N"' to the wallpaper's entry you want to assign to a certain desktop. N is the number of the desktop.
Please note that this only works if the Wallpaper Changer Mode is configured to change the wallpaper when you go to another desktop.


Example file:

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<wallpapers>
<wallpaper file="download.jpg" desktop="3" />
<wallpaper file="fgd4r346.jpg" />
<wallpaper file="Find_your_way_1280 x 960.jpg" desktop="1" />
</wallpapers>
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[Kizune]

Photos - Lynx in Daily Life

[Kizune]

PlugIns and Widgets


Widgets

Lynx Clock - Source Code - (2011-05-07)



PlugIns

[Yosaki]

I thought it was a release already. =( The preview screenshots look great!

[DSperber]

Originally Posted by Kizune

PlugIns and Widgets

Widgets

Lynx Clock

Currently experimenting with Kizune-izing my J3, learning how to use and customize Lynx and Leaf, to go with Sense. No real need for Vision, but I put that one in too just to get the "full Kizune" effect.

FABULOUS... all of it. Really. Superb.


However I have one suggestion on the clock widget. The smaller and normal sized digital presentations do not show AM or PM to the right of the numbers. I think this would be a nice addition.

Currently only the one very large theme which has the hours and minuts split onto two "white pages" had an AM/PM button in the lower-right corner of the minutes "page", actually overlaying the bottom of the right digit. I don't want my clock that large, taking up that much room on my desktop.

So I've opted for the very nice standard 2-row clock theme with the large HH:MM on the first row and day/date on the second row. This is perfect in my view.

Now all I'd like to see is the AM/PM a bit to the right of those large HH:MM digits, perhaps in the same type of AM/PM button as you already have in the larger digital clock theme, or maybe just as AM or PM a bit to the right of HH:MM.

For added complexity, you could perhaps even add the AM/PM button/text as additional "theme" values in the selection process, optionally being shown or not as additional theme varieties.

But all I'd like for myself is to be able to see the AM/PM large and readable in some form, just like the HH:MM itself.

Thanks.


(P.S - that link in the thread to the clock widget from May 7 is old. The current widget included in the customized download package is newer, dated June 18. Perhaps updating the in-thread link value, or maybe posting a new up-to-date standalone link for the widget at the top of the thread or in a new post at the bottom of the thread, would be appropriate.)

[MrAeronymous]

Originally Posted by Kizune

rename the file 'mainmenuN.swf' to either 'mainemnu1.swf', 'mainemnu2.swf' or 'mainemnu3.swf', depending on which of the three available mainmenu you want to replace.

well if all people copy paste the names like you then there might be a little problem

besides that, great release

[Kizune]

Thanks.

[da1writer]

I have a suggestion for you Kizune but...
You would be stealing from one of the greats ...

I know you removed the "integrated music player" but might you be interested in creating a "mini jukebox" like Klaus browser has?

With it being made into a plugin, you could then put multiple option for it in your settings menu and giving those who don't want it the option to remove (aka why the suggestion as a plugin).

This mini jukebox plugin would be probably the same size as Klaus one (maybe bigger) and would be near the bottom of the mainmenu - hidden at first. Swiping up on the plus box (or Swiping to your already integrated media control bar) would bring up the mini jukebox, Swiping down on the jukebox would hide it again.

Now this mini jukebox would be a bit different than Klaus. Your current version of Lynx already has a media control bar, so no need to be redundant - If anyone wants to control their song they can simply press the plus sign and the fast forward, play, rewind, and progress bar are already available. So this mini jukebox would simply have a mini cover art, song, album, and artist (if possible) and wouldn't be interactive by the user.
What?! Hear me out, I didn't say entirely. Swiping the mini jukebox to the left or right would give you all your audio option needs.

As an added bonus (and performance tweak), the mini audio pop up we have right now would be disabled automatically as it too would be redundant to have.

Hopefully this is understandable as I suck at photoshop in order to give you a visual.
I understand if this isn't possible, this is only a suggestion. I already love lynx alot!

[CrashLikeThunder]

Originally Posted by Kizune

Quick Instructions
In expanded state, the menubar looks like that:

I can't work out how to expand the menubar like this.

[Kizune]

Sorry, the instructions are old - you have to slide the menubar to the left or the right to see more buttons.

[CrashLikeThunder]

Oh okay, thanks Kizu. I'm coming to all these threads very late so I don't get to keep up to date with developments.

[Jeroso]

Hi Kizune, thanks a lot for your improvements of the X7 ! I received mine recently and instantly loved Lynx, Sense and Leaf.
There is however two small questions that you can perhaps answer.

The first one concerns the possibility to move to the next track while the player is locked in my pocket. I know that you can assign the volume buttons to forward/backward, but at the loss of adjusting volume. Since it is possible in the main X7 menu to assign the M-button to play/pause, would it be possible to assign it to forward ? We then could have the best of both.

The second is related to generating automatic playlists. I still have and use a creative zen (very solid player, I have it for more than 6 years now without a single problem) and love the function that automatically generates a list of rarely heard songs. I suppose this is an automatic playlist created from the player statistics. Would it be technically possible to implement that on the X7 ?

Anyway, your UCIs rock!

[andrew_berge]

Looking great. I might actually get off the standard UCI for this

[Kizune]

Lynx v1.1.0 is officially released now