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Image converter

Can anyone recommend a free image converter please.
I want to convert a bitmap file 240x350 to a small size 21x25
Any suggestions please.
Thanks very much.

Gimp.
Paint.net
I use Paint Shop Pro.
V

vijay555 said:
Gimp.
Paint.net
I use Paint Shop Pro.
V
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Thanks Vijay! Another question please.
How about a converter for jpeg to bitmap? A freeware would also be nice.

You can also try a free application called Photo2PPC
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Hi ViJay, how are you ?
I am in XDA also !

Diggia said:
You can also try a free application called Photo2PPC
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Hi ViJay, how are you ?
I am in XDA also !
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Thanks. This is a Pocket PC application right? Is it compatible with the Universal?
How about a converter from jpeg to bitmap? What can I use?

cktlcmd: GIMP and paint.net are both free and are more than capable for simple jpg > bmp conversion.
However, even free-er than free, load a jpg into internet explorer, choose file > save as, and save as a .bmp. Voila
Diggia - I'm seeing you everywhere old friend! I only registered on your board the other day. I'm getting lost on how many boards I'm registered on, and how many apps I have to update for you guys. I'm spending these relatively quiet days doing updates on apps, one at a time I love your skins btw. Great stuff, great webpage.
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vijay555 said:
cktlcmd:
However, even free-er than free, load a jpg into internet explorer, choose file > save as, and save as a .bmp. Voila
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Thanks very much! Didn't know I can do it this way.
I was visiting your site and saw VJBassHue. I wanted to ask how can I change the color, there was no explanation on your site.
Another question please, out of topic: How do you setup SmallMenu to show your desired folders or applications?

cktlcmd: VJBaseHue. Have a hunt around for ZeBoxx's posts/theory on the matter (also his enormous contributions in the Wiki).
VJBaseHue is, like most of my stuff, a command line tool.
If you need any help with command lines (I'm sure not!), check here:
http://vijay555support.host4phpbb.com/viewtopic.php?t=30
check out ZeBoxx's example shortcuts that come with VJBaseHue.
Then use his online chart, choose a colour, and edit the shortcuts.
eg
\program files\vijay555\vjbasehue\vjbasehue.exe 187
I think - from memory!
Re SmallMenu
{
"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'm using the Plus version, but basically you just point it towards a folder, containing subfolders or shortcuts to other folders, and it parses out a menu from there. Extremely customisable, too much so perhaps, but once I made the effort, I haven't changed my setup on both WM5 and Wm2003.
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vijay555 said:
I'm using the Plus version, but basically you just point it towards a folder, containing subfolders or shortcuts to other folders, and it parses out a menu from there. Extremely customisable, too much so perhaps, but once I made the effort, I haven't changed my setup on both WM5 and Wm2003.
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Yes, I got as far as this. I too bought the plus version after I read your recomendation about SmallMenu. I am glad I did. Basically my question was misunderstood. What I want to know is how can I change the format of small menu? I checked the settings in small menu and it has no options like the one showed on your picture from your above post. How can I make it look like your settings?
I was using the bitmap conversion to change the windows icon on the start menu using SmallMenu. I was successful to change the windows start icon to a Palm icon. Just playing around a bit.

Christian: sorry, I'm still not quite getting which bit you can't customise?
Do you mean like the folder icons, eg how I have a star for favorites? Or something else?
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vijay555 said:
Christian: sorry, I'm still not quite getting which bit you can't customise?
Do you mean like the folder icons, eg how I have a star for favorites? Or something else?
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Yes, the folder icons, etc... How did you arrange it that way? SmallMenu has no check lists as to which applications would be allowed to be showed or suppressed.
Thanks for your patience.

Hey, thanks for your patience!
Ok, Assuming you're talking about my top level menu, !Favorites etc, I use the ! to ensure important folders come before any others. They're arranged alphabetically of course.
To get the icon in the menu, eg the star for favorites, you need an icon library in a dll or .exe.
10:
Make a shortcut (best perhaps with notepad the first time, after that use an explorer program) and write:
30#"\Windows\PHMShell32.dll,-173"
Save that into Icon.lnk.
Here I'm using the icon library that came with PHM Tools. Very useful.
Stick the Icon.lnk into any folder, and probably after a reboot, you'll have a star for your folder icon.
Goto 10
break;
Ok. So now you have nicely iconed folders, just arrange your subfolders appropriately, and SmallMenu will parse and cascade .lnks and subfolders into nice menus.
V

Thanks very much Vijay!

VipPimRingTone(8.9.0.0) An Application to assign ringtone based on Category

This is my First Application Developed
Name : VipPimRIngTone
Description :An Application to assign ringtone based on Category.
Works great on 8525. Let me know any enhamcement Needed.
Few Screen Shot:
1.
{
"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"
}
2.
3.
4.
Download from this thread @ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1496521
Use it at your own risk. If you like my work then please <<Donate>>

Excellent!!! finallY!
Nifty little application that works in WM6 too! Definitely a keeper.

Many thanks for that little jewel.
The simplicity of this solution is exactly I was looking for, it assigns ringtone to ringtone fileld in contact. No registry hacks, no monitorning incoming calls, it not resides in memory all the time, simply like that!
Problems I've found so far:
- ringtones must be copied to \Windows\Rings\ folder to be visible (at last on my WM6 TyTn). It think app shoud look for rings in \My Documents\, \My Documents\My Ringtones\ or maybe in custom defined folder?
Enhancements proposal:
- option to remove ring from group (to allow system global ringtone to be used)
- backup/restore. It will be helpful after OS upgrade because Outlook/ActiveSync ignores ringtone field in contact data. Simple text format of the file will be great i.e. to maually change ringtone location/name before restore.

v3patel said:
This is my First Application Developed
Name : VipPimRIngTone
Description :An Application to assign ringtone based on Category.
Works great on 8525. Let me know any enhamcement Needed.
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Great app, good work on this.
I'm going to test instead of PhotoContacts (yes, i know about photos, but for me the most important thing is to assign different ringtones to different category).
Thanks.

v3patel
This was a great little app - thank you loads!
I have developed the idea a stage further, inspired by this, and have made a new app called 'Tone Manager' which lets you do it "all in one sweep" if you see what I mean - basically, you assemble a list of categories / ringtones, order them by priority, and then it sweeps through your contacts and assigns ringtones.
Release thread is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=327254
Thanks again!
Carlos

thanks a lot!!
Very usefull utility

Anyway to add assigning a ringtone to contacts and text messages?

I can assign a ring tone to several contacts anyway. What are the benefits to this program?
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Oh to categories. now I get it.

PLus you can import and export
hfam95 said:
I can assign a ring tone to several contacts anyway. What are the benefits to this program?
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Oh to categories. now I get it.
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Plus you can import and export. very useful when upgrading rom.

Great Start
V3Patel, Outstanding!! I've been going crazy looking for an app like this one.
Tried it on my herald with WM6 and worked. If you don't mind, I found two bugs that could help you improve:
1. For some reason it didn't creat the shortcut needed for it to appear on the programs folder. Easy solution though.
2. It does support the storage card, but doesn't tell you it does. What I did was hit the search button beside the folder option, tap on any of my storage card .mp3 ringtones and voila... storage card appears as an option.
Thanks

Installation on O2 Atom with WM5
I installed on O2 Atom with WM5. Program is not working and asking for a newer MS .net framework.

Installation on Blackjack with WM5
I get the same error message... Needs newer version of .NET framework...

amazing!
just what was needed! - all PPC users should have this built in from Microsoft!

how do you set up categories and assign contacts to them?
larry

Why don't move this thread to the Development and Hacking forum ??

Dont work on HTC Touch (ELF)
Hi, i have an HTC Touch, install this app, and not showup in programs. I install it on \device and the result, same to \storeagecard.
Any help to make it work will be appreciate !
FJS

neither on my AthenaWM6
fsalazar said:
Hi, i have an HTC Touch, install this app, and not showup in programs. I install it on \device and the result, same to \storeagecard.
Any help to make it work will be appreciate !
FJS
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Hi all,
same problem, can't find icon in program but I can remove it from "installed applications".
Giuseppe

Create a Shortcut
Your problem happened to many of us. Depending of where you chose to install it, say program memory or the storage card, go to the progam files folder within it. There you'll find a folder called VipRingCab... copy the application file inside it and then paste it as a shortcut in /Windows/Start Menu/Programs... And problem solved.

THANKS!
Sagitario said:
Your problem happened to many of us. Depending of where you chose to install it, say program memory or the storage card, go to the progam files folder within it. There you'll find a folder called VipRingCab... copy the application file inside it and then paste it as a shortcut in /Windows/Start Menu/Programs... And problem solved.
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Hi Sagitario,
thanks a lot! Just found. I search before for a program icon and I forgot to look for a folder! I also tried with the "search" option but it couldn't match that folder.
Now ok, thanks a lot,
Giuseppe

Great program
But could you please make a SP version....? It would have been really nice if the program worked on both PPC and SP...

HTC Album - How to set as default on TyTN II?

Hey. I have a HTC Kaiser which doesn't have the HTC Album, it has an "Picutres & Video" app but I don't like it. I want to remove it and set the HTC Album as the default. SO that when I'm in Camera mode and click on Album:
{
"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"
}
it needs to open the HTC Album but how? I saw this:
"- to set album being default viewer go to HKLM - software - htc - htcalbum - default viewer set to "1""
and did it this way:
Then soft reseted the device and it didn't work... it opens the "Picture & Video" again.
Please help!

the camera uses the file pimg.exe, which is hard coded in the rom. to get the htc album instead, you'd have to make a copy of the htc album shortcut and htcalbum.exe and rename them pimg.exe and use something like resco explorer to overwrite the one in your windows directory

steb0ne said:
the camera uses the file pimg.exe, which is hard coded in the rom. to get the htc album instead, you'd have to make a copy of the htc album shortcut and htcalbum.exe and rename them pimg.exe and use something like resco explorer to overwrite the one in your windows directory
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Can you explane me more, I'm new to Pocket PC stuff. Where can I find these files and shortcuts?

Problem solved.
Solution here:
http://www.ppcsg.com/index.php?showtopic=95479

d3sm0nd said:
Problem solved.
Solution here:
http://www.ppcsg.com/index.php?showtopic=95479
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Does the "Album" button in your Camera actually open HTCAlbum? Mine still opens the MSapp. This is because it is hardcoded to point to pimg.exe and a new version hasn't been released for the rest of the phones.
What those registry-edits do (and say they do) is to change what is the default open-with program. Essentially, when you click on a .bmp in File Explorer (etc), it'll open with HTCAlbum, instead of the Picture Viewer.

The only way to get the buttons in camera to launch htc album is to make a copy of htc album and rename it to pimg as said. However, this is very buggy due to the way the camera launches htc album. When you click on those buttons that triggers pimg, htc album launches but bottom tray is broken, and you cannot access the "X" button. Clicking on task manager "X" button does nothing. Also, if you cannot go back to the camera, the camera will be running in the background, which causes a bunch of problems until you close the camera from memory management.

KyleK29 said:
Does the "Album" button in your Camera actually open HTCAlbum? Mine still opens the MSapp. This is because it is hardcoded to point to pimg.exe and a new version hasn't been released for the rest of the phones.
What those registry-edits do (and say they do) is to change what is the default open-with program. Essentially, when you click on a .bmp in File Explorer (etc), it'll open with HTCAlbum, instead of the Picture Viewer.
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Yes, you're right. It doesn't open the HTC Album when I click the "Album" button in my Camera. I won't do this with the renaming.

hehe wow u guys are going to have a suprise this new years then. i provided the full oemapps and oem lang of the latest polaris rom to one of my buds and his latest kaiser rom will have all of the latest apps in it including new camera with working htc album. i wont say who is going to release the rom so i wont ruin the suprise.

d3sm0nd said:
Problem solved.
Solution here:
http://www.ppcsg.com/index.php?showtopic=95479
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Problem created.
WARNING following the last suggestion in that link, could result in a forced hard reset. My touch panel was set to 30xxx and i changed it to 400 like it said. Touch screen is dead, and to my knowledge theres no way to fix it on a sprint touch. I tried to use a third party app to control the phone but i cant even click okay let the app run without the touch screen. I can get into the registry and and stare at the 400 number using only hardware buttons. Its just staring at me, damnit i really dont want to hard reset i have alot of things set up just how i want them.

The best solution is to install the new camera app from Nadavi... the shortcut goes directly to HTC camera album =)
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[APP][REQ]Brins0net_SoundBoard

This was requested by some folk on here, so I made it for them. Perhaps someone else will have a use for it at some point...
{
"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"
}
Usage:
- Tap and hold outside of a PictureBox element and select "Load Configuration File" *
- Exit is in the same menu
- Tap on a picture and sound plays
- ???????
- Profit!
*Due to an irritating bug in the .NET compact framework, files can only be seen in "user areas" such as My Documents, so you must place the configuration file there, but providing the files path are correct, the resources can go in *any* folder
Sound files can be in any format, you will hear the system default beep if the file cannot be played. Images can be in any format, and will be scaled to 100x100px when loaded in. If you want them to be sharp, try to keep them as close to this resolution as possible
Note: This has been made in the QVGA environment, but should scale to VGA correctly, images will have to be 200x200px to be sharp as they are scaled up.
More information and download HERE
Edit: Forgot to say, i've included a test set, although there are no sounds in it. This can be edited/removed, and is only really there to give you a head start, and to save me explaining how it works...

This is actually pretty smart... Now to go dig out my old iPaq cause quite honestly I'm not too keen on my 2.5yr old using my Jewel.

citats said:
This is actually pretty smart... Now to go dig out my old iPaq cause quite honestly I'm not too keen on my 2.5yr old using my Jewel.
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Glad you like it. I'd have liked to make it a little simpler to use. If I had a folder browser object, I could simply get a folder to look in, and it'd be alot easier to configure and move around...
Alas, it's not in the 3.5 conpact framework, so i'd have to make my own. If more people like it, I may consider improving it though...

Load config only sees folders.

brins0 said:
Alas, it's not in the 3.5 conpact framework, so i'd have to make my own. If more people like it, I may consider improving it though...
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I'm using 3.5, should I have 2.0 loaded?
I think it is a great little app, so far in idea I just haven't been able to get the config to load.

citats said:
I'm using 3.5, should I have 2.0 loaded?
I think it is a great little app, so far in idea I just haven't been able to get the config to load.
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It was compiled for 3.5, and probably won't run with 2.0. To open the config, you need to tap and hold at the edge of the white area of the form, and a menu will appear. Select the "load option" from in there.
For the program to "see" the config file, it has to be in "my documents" either on the device, or on a storage card/internal storage. The config file *does not* have to be in the same place as the resources, but the file locations will have to be changed. I'm afraid, as I mentioned in the first post, that this is a limitation which I have no immediate control over, unless I make my own control... Sorry

As can be seen in this scr the ini file should be visable below the Templates folder but the config load does not see it.... normally the file type would indicate *.ini etc... but instead says "Configuration Files

citats said:
As can be seen in this scr the ini file should be visable below the Templates folder but the config load does not see it.... normally the file type would indicate *.ini etc... but instead says "Configuration Files
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Sorry about that, for some reason the IDE likes wrapping things like the filters in "s
The filter was set to '"Configuration Files|*.ini"' rather than 'Configuration Files|*.ini'.
Try re-downloading the archive from the same place, i've corrected it now. You can use the same config file as before. Apologies for my silly little mistake

brins0 said:
Sorry about that, for some reason the IDE likes wrapping things like the filters in "s
The filter was set to '"Configuration Files|*.ini"' rather than 'Configuration Files|*.ini'.
Try re-downloading the archive from the same place, i've corrected it now. You can use the same config file as before. Apologies for my silly little mistake
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That licked the problem... 2.5 yr old now wants a diamond... (ipaq currently running opie)
Thank you very much brins0
*edit*
attached what I have done...
Find lots of sound files here Not all are wav but lots of animals.

citats said:
That licked the problem... 2.5 yr old now wants a diamond... (ipaq currently running opie)
Thank you very much brins0
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You're most welcome, spread the word plx

citats said:
That licked the problem... 2.5 yr old now wants a diamond... (ipaq currently running opie)
Thank you very much brins0
*edit*
attached what I have done...
Find lots of sound files here Not all are wav but lots of animals.
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Hi i know this sounds cheeky but could you post what you have done so we can use it as some of us are too lazy or stupid to do it ourselves. It would be good if people could post there sounds and pics too so we can all see what our kiddies prefer. Thanks again to brins0 for doing this and also to schmeichler who started the ball rolling.
Once i`ve seen how people have done there`s i`ll have a go myself!

@johnboywilson
OK... to use my config you must copy the "Learn Animals" folder to the root of your "Internal Storage". Follow Brins0's instructions to load the config from your "My Documents Folder"
Don't become too complacent however.
If your not running on a Diamond or you want to store the "Learn Animals" folder in a different location you will have to edit the "Learn Animals.ini" to reflect your chosen path.
zip attached with wav and png's (I've made my images 100x100)
*if you want to sample the sound you will have to download the zip*
Hope some youngsters enjoy.

One with Vehicles.
To use copy the "Vehicles" folder to the root of your "Internal Storage".
and the "Vehicles.ini" to your My Documents Folder.

This one might be more advanced... Instruments.
To use copy the "Instruments" folder to the root of your "Internal Storage".
and the "Instruments.ini" to your My Documents Folder.

citats said:
This one might be more advanced... Instruments.
To use copy the "Instruments" folder to the root of your "Internal Storage".
and the "Instruments.ini" to your My Documents Folder.
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Cool your a star i`ll give it a go....

Wow, I didn't realise that such a simple program would be such a big hit. I may try and change the way configurations are stored to make it a little easier, if I can work out how to get just a folder name. Then you wouldn't have to have a config file at all, just a folder with images and sounds labelled 1 to 6.
By the way, it will work with any kind of image and sound, not just PNGs and WAVs. I only used those to demonstrate, coz they are the file types which suffer least from compression.

Hi, this is very cool just what i needed. I have found a problem though. Its nowt to do with the programming its more to do with my daughter!
She presses the hardware buttons and ends up going back to home screen. Is there anything that can be done to solve this?

johnboywilson said:
Hi, this is very cool just what i needed. I have found a problem though. Its nowt to do with the programming its more to do with my daughter!
She presses the hardware buttons and ends up going back to home screen. Is there anything that can be done to solve this?
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One thing I could try would be forcing the form to be the top most window at all times, but this means that you cannot do anything until you close the application, or another window insists on being the top most form.
Edit: another way I thaught of doing this, would be to hook into the event for when the form loses focus, and then re-show the form when the event is fired. Although this would mean there's no way of getting out if there is a problem with the program... The best thing to do would be to ahve an option in the menu, defaulting to on, which will keep the window focused at all times...
I'll experiment later on for you... Check back later

brins0 said:
I'll experiment later on for you... Check back later
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I've made the proposed changes now, and the form is always on top now, irrigardless of whether there's another form active. Unfortunately, sometimes the upper bar shows through if another application is opened, but after tapping on the form, it vanishes again...
Hope that's better for you now

I just had to make a StarWars sound board
and just like on citats files
To use copy the "StarWars" folder to the root of your "Internal Storage".
and the "StarWars.ini" to your My Documents Folder.
Thanx brins0 for a great app... my friends will hate me now!

[REQ] Windows File Swapper

Just a fairly simple idea that occurred to me, I thaught it would be very useful to have a small application that just exchanged files. For example when copying manila files to windows it would be useful if you could exchange the new file for the old one and then when the mess was made it would be easy to just press swap again and all would be as before.
Select file, select destination, press ok and that would be it, the origional windows file would now be where the new one was. If I'm not being clear enough I mean, the windows file would be "backed up" automatically to the location of the file you are exchanging it with, ready to swap back if necessary. Think about it!!

Well I can't make such an app. Does no-one even have a comment on the idea, I think a lot of people would use this if it existed. Or is there already something that can do what I am asking?

uniqueboy said:
Well I can't make such an app. Does no-one even have a comment on the idea, I think a lot of people would use this if it existed. Or is there already something that can do what I am asking?
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you could use a file sync program, most of the good ones have the ability to connect to virtually anything.
I pay for one called "Super Flexible" it has a portable install, if you are interested i could send it to you with a(my) serial?
PM me if you like the sound

MysticGenius said:
you could use a file sync program, most of the good ones have the ability to connect to virtually anything.
I pay for one called "Super Flexible" it has a portable install, if you are interested i could send it to you with a(my) serial?
PM me if you like the sound
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Thanks for your reply. Probably not a good idea to mention serials here but thanks anyway. I will have a read up about that and see if it can do what I was thinking of.

Had a quick google on that and it looks rather complex for what I want. The software I want would be a simple tool that only copied to the windows folder while making a backup of the files it was overwriting at the same time. It would not do anything else since there are so many tools that do everything but this already, like Resco or TC. I think a simple tool like this would be of benefit to the whole community. At the moment to say install a new clock in TF3D I might make a .cab or just copy the file into my windows folder with TC, then if I don't like the new clock, it is not so straight forward to simply uninstall the new clock. If I delete the files or uninstall the .cab my manila will not revert back to my previous clock, but it will revert back to the original clock built into the rom, so I have to make yet another installation of the previous clock. I have had a lot of clocks, some I made myself and some by others (whiskeybro and mbord). Often I am just trying a small change, like a date colour or a clock hand or a slider and with the app I am proposing it would be so easy to just switch back and forth. I also seem to be trying a lot of other stuff like new bluetooth icons or shellres192 dlls or phcanOverbmps, I hope you see what I mean.

uniqueboy said:
Thanks for your reply. Probably not a good idea to mention serials here but thanks anyway. I will have a read up about that and see if it can do what I was thinking of.
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I have bought 5 serials, and i only use 1! i got it on a deal!
uniqueboy said:
Had a quick google on that and it looks rather complex for what I want. The software I want would be a simple tool that only copied to the windows folder while making a backup of the files it was overwriting at the same time. It would not do anything else since there are so many tools that do everything but this already, like Resco or TC. I think a simple tool like this would be of benefit to the whole community. At the moment to say install a new clock in TF3D I might make a .cab or just copy the file into my windows folder with TC, then if I don't like the new clock, it is not so straight forward to simply uninstall the new clock. If I delete the files or uninstall the .cab my manila will not revert back to my previous clock, but it will revert back to the original clock built into the rom, so I have to make yet another installation of the previous clock. I have had a lot of clocks, some I made myself and some by others (whiskeybro and mbord). Often I am just trying a small change, like a date colour or a clock hand or a slider and with the app I am proposing it would be so easy to just switch back and forth. I also seem to be trying a lot of other stuff like new bluetooth icons or shellres192 dlls or phcanOverbmps, I hope you see what I mean.
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but what you want it an on-the-fly file changer that needs to access the root of the device (not the internal storage) so this would have to be achieved through activesync, as this is the only way i have seen the windows dir of the device on my pc.
since this is the case you can do this through windows explorer by changing the view settings to the following:
{
"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"
}
Put a check in the top box, and remove the check from the bottom box.
then when you plug your phone in, select activesync (you dont need to have a setup as this works if you select "connect without configuring"), then you can browse the windows dir and backup and change what you like.
if this solution is not good i can look into writing something.

How about you look into the code of Diamond Config. It does something VERY similar except it deletes all the manilla files first and then transfers them over. It also has a backup feature. IF you could modify it and make it not delete and just overwrite, then it shoud work. Or PM the creator of Diamond Config.