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JonB · Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 91 Location: Hull, UK

I recently got round to installing my copy of mindtools onto my netBook and of course dropped by the colour icons page to grab an icon and patch. I found both but when I try to use the patch MBMs I can't find anything to replace and the programs don't seem to pick them up automatically.

I have no idea if there were multiple versions as I can't find there old homepages (Widget has no mention of them I can find and Handango seems to have vanished) but if it helps I'm running v1.1.

Can anyone help me brighten the progams up?

Jon

Jonas · Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 95 Location: Gemany

As I remember, Mind Tools is a set of three programs. They are all in different folders. So you need to replace e.g. the file *.mbm (don't remember the name...) with the file in !:\Systen\Apps\* .
This should have done it.

Greets, Jonas

JonB · Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 91 Location: Hull, UK

Indeed. Thats all I thought, the problem however is that there are no MBMs to replace, all I have is an app, aif, hlp, and rsc file per folder for ActionPlanner. BrainStormer and CreativeMind.

Any ideas?

Jonas · Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 95 Location: Gemany

The aif files are replaceable, the mbms... ah put the in !:\System\Apps\Actionplanner\ e.g. AP.mbm => ActionPlanner and so on.
BTW: Isn't this described in Readme.txt??

Jonas

JonB · Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 91 Location: Hull, UK

Yes that is described in the ReadMe and thats what I did... But nothing happens, I still get the b&w icons instead of the colour ones in the files. I've opened them with MBMView and they're fine. I've tried (for example) putting the AP.mbm in \System\Apps\ActionPlanner and also renaming it to ActionPlanner.mbm and removing the .MBM etc etc. Every combination I could try.

Do you have MindTools? What version is it and does it work in colour, as I said mine is v1.1, does this matter?

Jonas · Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 95 Location: Gemany

AFAIK it only changes the graphic in the main Program - MindT. They are in color now, thats everything...

Jonas

MartinG · Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:25 pm Post subject:

And they colour the toolbars I think...

Martin

JonB · Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 91 Location: Hull, UK

Looks like they should colour everything minus the splash screen, everything else is in the MBM.

I just can't get the progam to "accept" the file, no matter where I put it or what it's called, please, someone must run it. Where are the MBM files on yours? What are they called? And what version of the programs are ya running?

Pretty please... Smile

MartinG · Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 11:39 pm Post subject:

It's v1.1

One interesting thing - everything has to be installed on c: drive on my machine for it to work at all. They all refuse to run otherwise. The 3 patches are all where you'd expect them to be other than that however.

Martin

JonB · Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 91 Location: Hull, UK

Excellent!

Thanks Martin, that worked. I had the whole lot on D: (without thinking) but after I moved it all to C: it's fine, all the pretty colours showed up Smile

I never expected the apps to statically look in C:\System\Apps\x, I thought all EPOC apps looked for things dynamically disk to disk in the apps folder and (for the most part) didn't care which drive it was. Never even occured to try installing on C: to be honest. Guess you really do learn something every day.

Cheers again.

Jon.