Overview

I wrote this back when surrealstart was only version 1.0, and have found it handy so I thought I'd tidy it up and release it.
AbstractStart is a start menu replacement, it works by reordering the start menu, putting the most used things at the top

Designed for

2003, 2003 SE, WM5 (classic 176x200, QVGA and QVGA Landscape)

Screenshots

Looks pritty damn similar to the normal Start menu, eh? Well it was harder than it looks :-)

Download

Version 3.0 final! [ActiveSync Installer] (~87kb) [Smartphone Installer] (~49kb) English (United States), Italian (Italy), German (Germany), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Czech, Spanish (Traditional), Turkish, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Serbian (Latin), Greek, Polish, Portugues (Brasil), French, Bulgarian, Swedish, Dutch and Russian.

Danny
added Windows Mobile 5 AKU 2.3 layout
correctly propagate paste menu item state
fixed crash when non-existant icon was selected in WM5 layout
always close after different layout was selected
use correct selection color on WM5 layout (homescreen colors)
use correct resource file handle
fixed error 3 on shortcut move

Riki:
It's past time I move this out of beta, so I'll call this version 3.0 (there was not 1.0 or 2.0), the first final release - please post this to your faviourate smartphone website!
TODO: Add Danny's name to the about box

Contact Me:

If i've missed anything, or you have a feature request or a bug, email me (Riki):

g4mb17

@

hotmail.com

Translation: If anyone wants to translate this here are the strings:

[DIALOG]
"About"="About"
"Abstract Start V%d.%s\n© Riki June 2004"="Abstract Start V%d.%s\n© Riki June 2004"
"Add Speed Dial"="Add Speed Dial"
"Auto Sort:"="Auto Sort:"
"Edit"="Edit"
"Hits"="Hits"
"Keypad assignment"="Keypad assignment"
"Language: %x\r\nMUI: %s"="Language: %x\r\nMUI: %s"
"Layout engine:"="Layout engine:"
"List"="List"
"MRU list Update:"="MRU list Update:"
"Name"="Name"
"New Folder"="New Folder"
"Options"="Options"
"Rename"="Rename"
[MENU]
""=""
"About"="About"
"Add Speed Dial"="Add Speed Dial"
"Cancel"="Cancel"
"Close"="Close"
"Cut"="Cut"
"Delete"="Delete"
"Done"="Done"
"Edit"="Edit"
"Items List"="Items List"
"New Folder"="New Folder"
"Options"="Options"
"Paste"="Paste"
"Rename"="Rename"
[STRINGTABLE]
"AbstractStart"="AbstractStart"
"Available"="Available"
"Cancel"="Cancel"
"Classic List"="Classic List"
"Disabled"="Disabled"
"Do you really want to delete %s?"="Do you really want to delete %s?"
"Done"="Done"
"Enabled"="Enabled"
"Hits"="Hits"
"Home"="Home"
"Menu"="Menu"
"More"="More"
"Name"="Name"
"None"="None"
"Not Magneto"="Not Magneto"
"Pg"="Pg"
"Programs"="Programs"
"Reserved"="Reserved"
"SE Large Icons"="SE Large Icons"
"Start"="Start"
"Windows Mobile 5 AKU2.3"="Windows Mobile 5 AKU2.3"
"Windows Mobile 5"="Windows Mobile 5"

notes: '%s', '%d' and '%x' are tags that Abstract Start replaces, so should not be translated.