Today screen

[Bballplaya5292]

I have like no experience on programming/developing and want to create a program that displays text on the today screen. The text changes every day and you can add more text to display. Like quotes that change daily and you can add quotes. Can anyone help me?

[rhmorrison]

I have like no experience on programming/developing and want to create a program that displays text on the today screen. The text changes every day and you can add more text to display. Like quotes that change daily and you can add quotes. Can anyone help me?
So, let me see if I understand this correctly... You want to display one text a day from say a text file on the today screen. Hmmm... This sounds like "A quote a day" to me and with a quick search I found four such programs in the Today Plugins (http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?cat=13&sortby=) section of PocketPCFreewares (http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php) (5 if you count the Bible quote of the day, which I didn't):
Aphorisme - 1.0 (http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=895) QOTD (Quote of the Day) - v1.5 (http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=406) PhraseToday - v1.0 (http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=594) Daily Quote Plug-In - v2.0 (http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=269)Don't reinvent the wheel! :treadmill:

[Bballplaya5292]

Yea those are the programs that gave me the idea of doing such a thing but I wanted to create my own program with something like that except use writing prompts.

You could say I'm trying to make a (writing) 'prompt a day' type program :D

[rhmorrison]

You could say I'm trying to make a (writing) 'prompt a day' type program :D
:deadhorse: Everyone of the four programs listed uses a simple text file with the quotes, sayings, that are to be replaced. Pick the one of the four that you like the best and REPLACE THE TEXT file with what you want to display each day.

[Bballplaya5292]

I looked at those and noticed that feature. The thing is, easier as it would be, I don't want to use a different program, I want to create my own. I wouldn't be using the developer forum if I didn't want to develop it. Thanks for the advice, but it's really not what I'm looking for.

[rhmorrison]

Goto :google: (http://www.google.com) and enter the keywords "PocketPC Creating today screen program" and press ENTER!

One of the best links is to the Today. Sections. Pocket PC Developer Network (http://www.pocketpcdn.com/sections/today.html).
On this page are a number of good links; two of special interest are:
Scott Hunter's Really Cool Pocket PC Page (http://www.cshonline.com/pocketpc/#ProgrammingAdvice) MSDN - Using the Today API (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnppcgen/html/ppc_yapi.asp)
Personally I used the Sample Chapter from Programming Microsoft® Windows® CE, Second Edition by Douglas Boling (http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/5461a.asp#100) when I was interested in learning about this subject.

That should give you all the information (and source code) that you need in order to write your own Today Screen application program.