Is it possible to use a flash file as a Today Screen plugin?
I would like to develop a highly interactive/visually appealing today plugin in flash, but not sure what program I could make it run in (RLToday/WAD/etc).
Any thoughts would be good. A video example of a similar "look" I am thinking about can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3BeSG-aKLo
looks like "Itask" that i found last weeks on wisbar-site
in Skin-section, is it ?
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11402&highlight=itask
If you can develop a flashplugin like this or similar, be my guest and please try
Yes, that is a video of iTask in action.
Yea, it's iTask. Nice look to it, however, I'm not going for the iPhone feel. The other thing I don't care for is that it is a separate program. That's why I wondered if there is a today plugin that supports Flash. I'll keep searching...
I made a few tests with Pocket Theme Manager 2.
it creates a htm and uses your swf file and ataches them to a .tsk theme file.
All files are stored in \windows with the "a2tk" filenames.
Unfortunelly you have limits to the size and background of the html.
try my theme:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
you need to install first:
flash player 6/7: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer_pocketpc/
Pocket Theme Manager 2: http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Skins/Pocket-Theme-Manager-19326.shtml
my theme: http://rapidshare.com/files/3759884/TW.tsk.html
you have in this theme a clock, a drawing pad and a small calculator. you also have a animated 3d logo and a small picture (unfortunelly mine, hehehe) it was suposed to be changed to a dinamic png loaded from "my documents". All these are draggable so you can place them wherever you want on the limited screen, have fun...
Still waiting to anyone to create a nice flash today plugin, imagine all the nice gadgets you can have there...
So...who now has most experience in Flash ?
flashtheme maker
if you are looking for some flashtheme expert? please check here. try to PM Deltaflyer.
http://forum.mypdacafe.com/viewtopi...ostorder=asc&highlight=today+themes&start=150
actually, my problem is that there is no good flash today plugin to start with...
I can make flash do a lot, see here:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1022966
I made a small alternative menu/OS in flash for my old N-Gage...
But WM just doesnt have a good flash player
Why does it need to be a today plugin? eg Slither's cube launcher.
actually that not a today plugin, its wisbar desktop which you can run in top of today screen. made by rhov23
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11402&highlight=itask
flash can be used on today with activetoday AND macromedia flash installed.
just make html with swf...set that html in activetoday and it should work..
a flash today plugin is a today plugin that displays swf files...
or, even simpler, a today plugin that displays a html file that calls a swf. in this case all you will loose is part of the background image from the tsk file (as said above).
but the best and fastest way would be to just have the swf file read on the plugin, without the html file.
imagine your today plugin with a image gallery like in this page:
http://twolf.planetaclix.pt/ogamico/
where you can stock, drag, amplify or diminish the photos.
You would have flash gadgets on your today screen...
you want me to imagine it on 320x240 qvga screen LOL??
yeah, done.
sorry, omaps and probably qualcomms are lame with swfs... only thing i need is xscale CPU goddamn...
btw, really, try activetoday with matched swf to realize what potential it has(you need macromedia flash 7 - no mf7 no go...but it is quite ok, in general). just make empty html with swf inside..
Just posted a message to the developer of RLToday to see if he would include SWF support. I believe he is worried it would make the program too fat - but it's worth a try. Some of the other progs I have looked into don't really give us the coding ability like a RLToday.
Another interesting program would be to get our hands on Flash Home by Adobe. Says they only provide it to OEM developers, but wow - that could really open up the development.
Flash OS
I don't know if any of you have seen this, but it's a flash OS. it's still in the early stages but does give me some ideas on making wm6 somewhat pretty.
http://www.whoneedsaniphone.com/blog.asp
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Hey all, dunno if this should really be wizard specific, but here goes...
I'm looking for a way to apply an animated background to my today screen, using a single GIF file. I'm not sure if it is possible myself, but the flash ones soak up so many processor cycles, on an already limited device... I have run a basic search, but i've not come up with anything other than how to use one as a sort of screensaver.
Would be nice to have some slowly animated backgrounds, like the ones I stole off my mum's new w950i (which is also very nice, although not a scratch on the wizard).
Hope someone can help, thx
Brins0
Hi
iwould appreciate something like this aswell, but another thing that would be awsome is Animated caller ID or mayb if we can set short .mp4 or 3gp or .wmv file to playback a video instead of just a picture!! i no that on my symbian devices i can do it with a third party application, it has the ability to associate a .3gp as the file for a specific caller then a music video plays instead!!!!.
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brins0 said:
Hey all, dunno if this should really be wizard specific, but here goes...
I'm looking for a way to apply an animated background to my today screen, using a single GIF file. I'm not sure if it is possible myself, but the flash ones soak up so many processor cycles, on an already limited device... I have run a basic search, but i've not come up with anything other than how to use one as a sort of screensaver.
Would be nice to have some slowly animated backgrounds, like the ones I stole off my mum's new w950i (which is also very nice, although not a scratch on the wizard).
Hope someone can help, thx
Brins0
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there are no free solutions as far as i am aware. Some software that does the trick here http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=3372 and there are others too - google to find
I think you've misread my request. I don't want to use flash, only GIF files...
brins0 said:
I think you've misread my request. I don't want to use flash, only GIF files...
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Ha ha sorry i misread your post try active today http://www.pocketfacelift.com/activetoday.html
Let us know if it works well, i am interested 2.
i suspect that FaceLift is just embedding an HTML control on the today screen. Can be very resource heavy for the solution. There are better apps for that job...
V
vijay555 said:
i suspect that FaceLift is just embedding an HTML control on the today screen. Can be very resource heavy for the solution. There are better apps for that job...
V
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Thanks vijay
I am testing activetoday (diff from facelift), any recommendations V?
EDIT Activetoday works v nicely, only 47kb install and takes 200kb ram. I would consider buying
EDIT2 Seems a little buggy - you have to soft reset after each change of animated gif, but still good Still works after standby etc....
I don't know if it's actively developed anymore, but there's an app called SideX which I think is great. Lets you float keyboards, plugins etc.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
That came with a great today screen html plugin, but it probably does no more then the one you mentioned - however, in the SideX package you get a ton of other features with it....
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vijay555 said:
I don't know if it's actively developed anymore, but there's an app called SideX which I think is great. Lets you float keyboards, plugins etc.
That came with a great today screen html plugin, but it probably does no more then the one you mentioned - however, in the SideX package you get a ton of other features with it....
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Thanks vijay will test out later
I found this link on your fav site V, http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/sidex2003.shtml
I hate that popridden site. It's always best to google cache that site...
I use a browser I wrote to remove all of their junk to at least make it readable, but popups, popunders, popovers...
V
Here is a new audio player 4 ya! Customizable, big buttons, etc. Pack into ROM ENJOY!!!
Very Nice... Finally an app that I like more than WMP.
how do you install it?
Its for ROM cooking (you place the folder in the OEM one) but if you copy the folder into your phone and you run the .exe it runs OK
WizeMan said:
...but if you copy the folder into your phone and you run the .exe it runs OK
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then put a shortcut on your start menu and your set
Looks very good, but I think wmp is better
Anyone want to post a screen shot or maybe a cab file for this?
A few screenshots and a feature list would be a better way of encouraging usage. Simply telling me that this is "customizable" is hardly a big reason for me to bother downloading it!
No offence and I'm grateful you shared the app but I'd appreciate it if you'd also share some information about it.
[Edit]
I did a little research of my own and assuming this is the same thing, it's a nice looking app. Two features that look nice compared with built-in WMP: ability to create playlists on the phone and ability to make an MP3 (or your selected part of an MP3) into a ringtone.
See the app in action here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwhTHFoXPiQ
the video one looks better
here it is in cab form. It just installs to the windows drive, copies the shortcut and installs the reg keys.
what reg keys?
I did it the old fashion way, copy over and created shortcut myself. havent checked if it created reg keys. kinda lazy right now
these ones are included in the package
Code:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\audiomanagerapp\DefaultIcon]
@="AudioManager.exe,-102"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\audiomanagerapp\SelectIcon]
@="AudioManager.exe,-103"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HTC\AudioManager]
"AudioManager"="1.0"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OEM\MASD]
"AudioManager"="1_2_409721_v"
Screenshot
I love this program... Not too sure how to skin it yet, but it's very nice by default.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Thank you for the screen shot and the cab file
Been running it for a few days now. Works great. The power consumption is just unbelievable. It hardly consumes anything. Weird. I hope there is some way to show album art. It looks too plain
What video one?
just installed on prophet, works well.
thanks you guys!
What is different about this than the already installed WMP?
great app
installed on wizard...nice app, it's more intuitive than WMP.
well i thinks its nice, but it doesnt have a Today screen plugin like WMP does, but the make your own custom rington is really cool. other than that its not that different.
Hello everybody !
After numerous attempts to customize my HTC trinity for a thumb-based experience, I finally got onto some applications that really do the job :
- Tene's PocketCM for the contacts
- ArticCat's OTO for the calendar (works well so far, however I hope to see more of it soon)
- Paulya's Vista II dialer replacement
- A_C's S2U for the lock and S2V for the pics viewer
- HTC's PhonePad for the SIP and Mediaplayer for the music player
- SPB's Mobile Shell for the navigation and the menus.
What I'm missing is a launcher that would work as a today plugin, and that would support large icons in PNG format (thus, with alpha transparency). By "big" I mean "larger than the default 32x32 pixels that all launchers support" - 48 or 60 pixels beeing the size I'm after (something large enough for my fat thumbs ). I don't need tab support, since there are only a small number of apps I want to access from the today screen (typically 8-12).
Do you know if anything that'd meet my needs exists for WM5? Even for a small/reasonable fee (means, around 10-15$) ?
Thanks a million in advance !
I think i used claunch to put a really big shortcut (64x64px) on my todayscreen
Greetings, Vi
ThrottleLauncher
Search for the ThrottleLauncher thread here. No Today plugin yet but all indications are that it will be coming. Great launcher, you can size the rows the pictures are in to any size you wish. I am using 56picsels by 56picsels.
pocketage - no size limit
I tried to install PocketAge from the latest CAB I could find on this board, but something must have gone bad... My Trinity is now stuck as reboot
Everytime I soft-reset it, it got stuck then block at the following step :
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Of course, none of the hard or soft buttons work and I can't dismiss this reminder. I tried to remove the corresponding event from outlook but I couldn't manage to sync the device. I noticed I can access the device filesystem. One strange thing, though, makes me thing that the system is not completely frozen : the clock on the reminder changes and shows the correct time.
Any idea how to recover my phone without having to hard-reset it ? Thanks !!!
Mr. Vi said:
I think i used claunch to put a really big shortcut (64x64px) on my todayscreen
Greetings, Vi
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yeah, claunch is a good one. it's a today plugin and you can use custom icons. not sure if they are png though never tried it. it has way more options than you need but you can configure it how you want....
JamesAllen said:
Search for the ThrottleLauncher thread here. No Today plugin yet but all indications are that it will be coming. Great launcher, you can size the rows the pictures are in to any size you wish. I am using 56picsels by 56picsels.
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Here you have a demo video of ThrottleLauncher 0.6 (still under development but will be available this week probably)
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=O-_ECwlsKSk
Hope it matches what you are looking for....
I'm working on a flashlite diamond layout, so far this is what i've got. The signal and battery status up top should both work and the icons on the bottom scroll when you click on the far right one. Hopefully I'll be adding some more functionality to it soon. Please leave any comments or suggestions. So far only tested on the wing and you need flash lite installed.
Update: New icons, finger scrolling
Working on a way to disable the right click while its open, also soon an update with clock
http://cid-11fcacbb36b0b63f.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/phone%20v1.4.swf
Sweet!! give us MORE please
thanks for making a flashlite version of the diamond interface. its a good beginning but i'd like to scroll the icons with a finger move instead of tapping the last icon. also the icons should have a higer resolution in the future.
keep up good work!
also, looks great and all, but will you eventually make the icons look EXACTLY like the diamond's?
Looks nice, if you want any help on the graphics just send me a pm.
New update!!!
fast update! unfortunately i cant open the swf anymore.. It says: check for valid SWF or valid SVG failed, aborting attempt to load content.
i hope you can fix this problem.
is the 22kb filesize correct?
EDIT: the correct filesize is 14.5kb i selected "save file as" the frist time. you must download the swf by clicking on the link instead of savefile as.
Made a small flash clock to resemble the Diamond with a animation like it:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Tried to attach it to the "pocket theme manager 2" tsk theme, but that peticular software doesnt work in WM6.1
Get it here, source-code included: http://rapidshare.de/files/39815429/diamond_clock.zip.html
hey man
i like the watch's animation
keep up the gd work
hope somethin gd will come out of this project
all the best dude
twolf said:
Made a small flash clock to resemble the Diamond with a animation like it:
Tried to attach it to the "pocket theme manager 2" tsk theme, but that peticular software doesnt work in WM6.1
Get it here, source-code included: http://rapidshare.de/files/39815429/diamond_clock.zip.html
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hi,
i loooove that diamond clock but how may i make it a today plugin?!
twolf said:
Made a small flash clock to resemble the Diamond with a animation like it:
Tried to attach it to the "pocket theme manager 2" tsk theme, but that peticular software doesnt work in WM6.1
Get it here, source-code included: http://rapidshare.de/files/39815429/diamond_clock.zip.html
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i tested this swf on my PC running in IE and it seems there are a few second ticks missing. it skipped 03,23 and so on.
tom108 said:
i tested this swf on my PC running in IE and it seems there are a few second ticks missing. it skipped 03,23 and so on.
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Yep.
It seems to be skipping 1 sec every 16 secs, at least what I am seeing.
I'm currently working on changing it from flash lite to just a today screen plugin I'd love to use your clock if thats ok, also I'll make a plugin for just the clock
pgiuoco said:
I'm currently working on changing it from flash lite to just a today screen plugin I'd love to use your clock if thats ok, also I'll make a plugin for just the clock
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This clock as a today plugin would be sick! Looking forward to it
The Minute-Counter has the same prob as the second-counter!
jumps from 14 to 16...
but awsome work!
I used POCKET THEME MANAGER 2 in my wm2003 pocket pc, but it doesnt work so good in WM6, so i'm now using it with FLASHTHEMES...
On the other hand, the FLASHTHEMES generator doens work good with vista, so im having some problems creating a normal black TSK to use it with, lol...
btw, just tested it and the seconds jump from 2 and 2 on my htc touch dual, thats a slow ystem problem...
I'm at work right now, but when I get home I'm planning on trying .netcf to make a todayscreen plugin
pgiuoco said:
I'm at work right now, but when I get home I'm planning on trying .netcf to make a todayscreen plugin
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Tried that... apparently getting the swiping menu is easy but integrating the Phonebook and SMS is giving me some problems. I needed someone to code the native C dll files to retrieve Contacts and SMS messages and then I can integrate it into my program...
slow system problem?
i have a kaiser and my pc is a core2duo 3ghz, 3gb ram ...i don't think its too less performance ^^
hey again
there's a problem with the clock
the hours counter is nt moving
hope this will go into a gr8 today plugin
I know it already exists one, but its not customizable in what folder to show.
My ideia is to mix some of the already available plugins out there.
The Favorite People plugin already has the show picture part done.
And the System and Weather plugins use mortcript for some extra tweaking.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
I was thinking of a simple softkey button that allows the user to choose a folder (with a browse layout).
And a simple mortscript code to list all the available images on that folder, saving it to a text file database or so.
The plugin would have 3 pages (previous, current and next image). Then, as you scroll left or right, the mortscript would change the name of the images on the plugin pages to make a circular order (or random, if that extra setting existed).
The size of the pictures would be much bigger than the current one, like the plugin changes that theDaniel (used here as an example) and KerMiT80 already made. The picture date of creaton would be a nice detail, as shown in the example, but that would probably give much more work than necessary, so it would probably not appear.
Instead, the plugin could show the full count of the images inside that folder, and what number is showing at the moment.
The condensed view could show a text with a picture icon saying "x pictures in folder Y", being X the total number of pictures inside and Y the folder name or path.
And, of course, if you click on the picture it would pop-up the "picture viewer" showing that image.
This would be pretty easy for me to do in flash, but outside flash, not so much...
So, does anyone want to do this? I can help on the CPR editing, some of the registry code and do the dinamyc picture frame with a small shadow...
Someone is already making such plugin, rpereira is designing a slideshow picture plugin with a specified folder.
Thats great news, where did you read that?
hi twolf,need your help
Hi twolf,glad to see you online again.
er,could you please tell me that which rom are you using?I really want to flash my touch,however,t don,t know which rom is better.
your ROM looks so beautiful!could you share it ?plz......
twolf said:
Thats great news, where did you read that?
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He told me... It will be added to the Analog Clock plugin, but he will make a stand-alone aswel
xiaohaiqiu said:
Hi twolf,glad to see you online again.
er,could you please tell me that which rom are you using?I really want to flash my touch,however,t don,t know which rom is better.
your ROM looks so beautiful!could you share it ?plz......
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Actually, that screenshot is not mine, its from theDaniel plugin right-change, I just used it for the example, my current today is like this:
I use WM6.5 Lite by NemanjaLO:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=500021
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He told me... It will be added to the Analog Clock plugin, but he will make a stand-alone aswel
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I went to see his Analog plugin thread, wow, its so much better than the original idea now.
I dont like analog clocks so never installed his plugin before, now that I did I just wanna change it:
The grey area would be extras, in case someone lese would want, I wouldnt use it.
Hi twolf,
It's the thread below where we were discussing the picture slideshow.
rpereira posted a video example of what was possible too.
I personally can't wait for this to be available.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=518634
twolf said:
Actually, that screenshot is not mine, its from theDaniel plugin right-change, I just used it for the example, my current today is like this:
I use WM6.5 Lite by NemanjaLO:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=500021
I went to see his Analog plugin thread, wow, its so much better than the original idea now.
I dont like analog clocks so never installed his plugin before, now that I did I just wanna change it:
The grey area would be extras, in case someone lese would want, I wouldnt use it.
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OH~thx! twolf!