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[ConnState V1.3] Connection State plugin - Localization added

Maybe someone could find this interesting...
While I find cumbersome to find out the (for instance) IP addresses assigned to the device, or frustrating when Internet Explorer cannot find any web page because the current connection is the WRONG one...
... I ended up writing my own Today Screen plugin to display more information on the active connection. Yeah, I know this is not quite a "common" requirement, but maybe someone finds it useful... or even can suggest further improvements - that will be of course welcome!
I've attached some screenshots of it running on both a WM5 emulator and my real Hermes running WM6 - thanks Schap!
Please, feel free to use it, redistribute it, add to a ROM kitchen, or cook it into any ROM...
Updated August, 13th...
More changes with the 1.3 version. Now localization has been added. I'm currently shipping this version with English (native) and Spanish languages. I've also added a ZIP file with a little document where you can find instructions to localize/translate ConnState to your preferred language and a template localization file for English.
Hasta la vista!!!!
Version History:
V1.0
First version released.
V1.1
VGA screen support added (enough to make it usable)
V1.2
Completed VGA screen support.
Added expand/collapse button - per popular request
V1.3
Localization support. ConnState currently ships in English and Spanish languages.

Thanks!!! Good work.

Thanks, PPCNUT... now let's see if someone likes it!!

dpduser said:
Maybe someone could find this interesting...
While I find cumbersome to find out the (for instance) IP addresses assigned to the device, or frustrating when Internet Explorer cannot find any web page because the current connection is the WRONG one...
... I ended up writing my own Today Screen plugin to display more information on the active connection. Yeah, I know this is not quite a "common" requirement, but maybe someone finds it useful... or even can suggest further improvements - that will be of course welcome!
I've attached some screenshots of it running on both a WM5 emulator and my real Hermes running WM6 - thanks Schap!
Please, feel free to use it, redistribute it, add to a ROM kitchen, or cook it into any ROM...
Hasta la vista!!!!
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Thanks, man... Great work.
One sugestion, you can make the plug-in shorter, or with + icon to show all the info, to save today space
Regards.

jcespi2005 said:
One sugestion, you can make the plug-in shorter, or with + icon to show all the info, to save today space
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Of course... in fact, why didn't I think about that in first place? :$ I was thinking about leaving the plugin "collapsed" (the size of "no connection") and add a right-hand minibutton that expands the thing up to its size... And even allow tapping you on it to open another window with full details on the connection...
This weekend will be fun
Thanks alot for your comments!!!

This is actually very nice work and I would use it, once you were able to condense it into a smaller amount of space.

Dont work in VGA screen (
(tested on Universal WM6)
Hope you fix it soon.

Nice. I would definitely use this if it was 'shorter'

Totally not for noobs but if you are are a road warrior, or on the road a lot sniffing WiFi hotspots then this is really a great add on!

thanks a lot.

dpduser said:
Of course... in fact, why didn't I think about that in first place? :$ I was thinking about leaving the plugin "collapsed" (the size of "no connection") and add a right-hand minibutton that expands the thing up to its size... And even allow tapping you on it to open another window with full details on the connection...
This weekend will be fun
Thanks alot for your comments!!!
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Thanks to you for make this piece of software
Regards.

New Version! - VGA screen support!!
Mountain King said:
Dont work in VGA screen (
(tested on Universal WM6)
Hope you fix it soon.
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Sorry, man... As I wrote it for myself, I tend to "hardcode" certain things Now, version 1.1 supports VGA screens.
Check first post for updates - and thanks!

New version 1.2
jcespi2005 said:
One sugestion, you can make the plug-in shorter, or with + icon to show all the info, to save today space
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maevro said:
This is actually very nice work and I would use it, once you were able to condense it into a smaller amount of space.
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blitzwurst said:
Nice. I would definitely use this if it was 'shorter'
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To all of you that took the time to try this little toy, I have just released version 1.2. Take a look at the first post with the new CAB and screenshots.
Thanks all for your comments and suggestions!
Cheers!

improvement suggestion
would it be possible to display the proxy info? this would be very useful for the Cingular users (pie does not work via cell connection without proxy and wifi does not work with proxy). thanks

dpduser said:
To all of you that took the time to try this little toy, I have just released version 1.2. Take a lot at the first post with the new CAB and screenshots.
Thanks all for your comments and suggestions!
Cheers!
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Nice, man.... i'll give a try later... Congratulations

Nice one, @dpduser - that's staying on my Today screen!!!
As it's a today screen plugin, can you make the Options button in the today screen configuration give us access to the things we wanna see displayed in the plugin?? I'm thinking of having the MAC addresss displayed, but wouldn't necessarily want it all the time - same goes for the connection being used; if I'm at home, then I'm usually using Wi-Fi.....you catch my drift??
Sorry if I'm talking out of turn, just my $0.02 You can probably tell, I'm not a programmer, just a netadmin with a deathwish
Mark.

VGA rocks!!!
It would be nice to have localization support in 1.3 release.
Please confirm it
Regards,
Mountain King

Feedback & ongoing work
First, thanks to all of you that took the time to play with ConnState!!
For the "improvements" part, and as I have read from your feedback:
- Regarding an "Options" dialog to configure somewhat more "advanced" features, yes, I'm working on it - It just takes a little longer than expected because now I'm trying to do a more compatible component, that must support QVGA & VGA screens and has to do so both in portrait and landscape orientations (if you do it, do it right, isn't it? ) BTW... anyone out there with a SQUARE screen device?
- MAC addresses? Yeah, I guess it's feasible... I'll try to add both MAC & PAN addresses. Not obvious, somewhat tricky but absolutely feasible!
- Show proxy information: regarding this, I was amazed at how tricky it is to discover the current proxy configuration for a connection! In first place I have to deal with WM's Provisioning and do that in XML (so an XML parser has to be placed in!)
- Localization!! Of course YES!!! Now I have two options to do it: one could be to maintain a single .DLL with embedded resources in a variety of languages or I could build a number of different DLLs each one built for a language... Hmmmm... Currently deciding on it!! I can do both Spanish and English versions... What languages are required? Would you, nice people, help me localizing this?

dpduser said:
First, thanks to all of you that took the time to play with ConnState!!
For the "improvements" part, and as I have read from your feedback:
- Regarding an "Options" dialog to configure somewhat more "advanced" features, yes, I'm working on it - It just takes a little longer than expected because now I'm trying to do a more compatible component, that must support QVGA & VGA screens and has to do so both in portrait and landscape orientations (if you do it, do it right, isn't it? ) BTW... anyone out there with a SQUARE screen device?
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dpduser said:
- MAC addresses? Yeah, I guess it's feasible... I'll try to add both MAC & PAN addresses. Not obvious, somewhat tricky but absolutely feasible!
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dpduser said:
- Show proxy information: regarding this, I was amazed at how tricky it is to discover the current proxy configuration for a connection! In first place I have to deal with WM's Provisioning and do that in XML (so an XML parser has to be placed in!)
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I have no idea for this feature.
dpduser said:
- Localization!! Of course YES!!! Now I have two options to do it: one could be to maintain a single .DLL with embedded resources in a variety of languages or I could build a number of different DLLs each one built for a language... Hmmmm... Currently deciding on it!! I can do both Spanish and English versions... What languages are required? Would you, nice people, help me localizing this?
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I'm Vietnamese so that I like to see my mother language display on my PPC.
In addition, it'd be cool if I could translate the localization file by Notepad without creating a DLL file (just like Spb does).
http://www.spbclub.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=10&sid=9f9d1e650a54130db66bea3db2dd9ad0
If you need translator (in Vietnamese of course ), feel free to write me. I will help you with pleasure.
Keep up the Good work!
Thanks
Mountain King

Installed, working great on Hermes, except the today plug-in isn't activated by default after install. Maybe this is because of the variety of devices enabling the today-plugins, i don't know.
What does CorrentDTPTNetwork mean?

***[COOL]*** Samsung i718 Flash Menu

Here's the flash menu ported from Samsung i718, Its very cool & working nice on my touch.

tHANKS!! I've got a couple of friends with i718's and always thought the menu was slick. Great job and thanks again!

very nice, well done working great on my hermes

So we must have flash player installed on our device prior using this application?

nope no flash player. it seems to be an actual app

Is that how you spell "Organiser"?
Also, is there a way to edit the programs targets in the registry or something?

mr.jcarter said:
Is that how you spell "Organiser"?
Also, is there a way to edit the programs targets in the registry or something?
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i dono yet. found this over at Ipmart yesterday though. I tossed it on my touch and my brothers mogul and its sweet. Even my mom was able to navigate WM6 once we showed her this. I'm sure someone will find out how to edit it real soon. Possible skins anyone???

Nice find!

i find that the i718 or something like that, looks really a lot like the shadow,
maybe tmobile copied it
o, and by the way, nice find, but the launcher doesnt look like like the ones ive seen one the phone

I've read a few sites on this phone now and the opinion varies a bit. One place I found that was good for expert reviews and real life opinion on the Samsung SGH I718 even had a few photos and the like which i found helpful. Hope that helps others that landed here doing their own research:->

This is HEX-edit job not a regeistry job.
windows\launcher.exe can be HEX editet for customizing.

mr.jcarter said:
Is that how you spell "Organiser"?
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Yep, that's how you spell it in english. Real english

shandar said:
Yep, that's how you spell it in english. Real english
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Yeah, we definitely need some adjustments to this. I would like to add a clock to the home screen.

Some Questions
Some link in this interface haven't a workings properly, How I can solve this problem?

love this app, just wish i could customize it, or even just get rid of the dead links. would love just to have the messaging and favorites pages.

Yeah.. I'd really like to add my own menus to this.

1 Tab HTC Home

Guys,
First of all thanks to all contributors on this site.
Now let me mention that i'm not artistic at all, hence i depend a lot on all the great skinners here to make my device look neat.
My question is : I'd like to have the Tab bar disappear from HTC Home if i only have 1 Tab. Actually let's just make it disappear. Is it possible? The reason is that i just want to use the Home screen as i use other softs for Weather, Launcher and Contacts. That would save quite a bit of space on today.
If anyody has done it or knows how to do it, please let me know.
Thanks
Matt

the closest thing ive found is pocket digital clock a couple threads below... or the batterystatus theme i use in my iStyle theme

matthieup said:
Guys,
First of all thanks to all contributors on this site.
Now let me mention that i'm not artistic at all, hence i depend a lot on all the great skinners here to make my device look neat.
My question is : I'd like to have the Tab bar disappear from HTC Home if i only have 1 Tab. Actually let's just make it disappear. Is it possible? The reason is that i just want to use the Home screen as i use other softs for Weather, Launcher and Contacts. That would save quite a bit of space on today.
If anyody has done it or knows how to do it, please let me know.
Thanks
Matt
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Check this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1950705&postcount=16
if you read that you should be all set

well i know i did ask the question in that thread initially, but i didn't managed to modify that file in a succesfull way

matthieup said:
well i know i did ask the question in that thread initially, but i didn't managed to modify that file in a succesfull way
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Goto post #1 of that thread and download the zip file for the original theme and extract the htc files and overwrite them in your device. You should probably disable htc home plugin first then re-enable. You might have to soft-reset as well.

Hm...all it did was make it 1 tab, it did not make my tabs disappear

i suggest you check out UltimateLaunch, ditch htchome and use a small clock or something like RLToday. I chose to use RLToday for just a clock and messages notifier

I also would like to see this. I have been looking for this for a long time.

I'm interested also.

As Michaelr219 suggested above, search for "pocket digital clock". I've been using it for a few days and it works well. It takes up less space also.

I highly recommend using batterystatus theme:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=350510
There are lots to choose from and some look much better than HTC home.

yeh, batterystatus and it's themes are very cool & flexible!!

[APP] FEWidgets (Omnia like widgets, need it done VGA)

This is an app that puts widgets like the Omnia on the today screen. The only issue is that it doesn't support VGA yet (hence the reason for the post). I used SecondToday to get another today screen, loaded FEWidgets, and mapped the top volume key to go back and forth between TF3D and the today screen with FEWidgets. It worked liked a charm, with no lag or hesitation. The widgets worked fine by controlling comm devices like bluetooth and WIFI. The only thing you may have to change is the wallpaper in the programs folder in order to get VGA (480x640) wallpaper to cover the whole screen (once you get them in the folder there is actually a widget you can change them with). FEWidget does use the entire screen, so other today screen plugins can not be used. The only problem is the widgets are small (QVGA), and looking to you guys to find a solution. I haven't had a chance to look at the files, but I will to see if the widget icons can be manipulated. It is damn cool though. A simple button press takes you to another screen with widgets!!!!! The Diamond engine handles it so well, it should have been intergrated. Here is the link to the thread, and all credit goes to nicodega for an awsome app.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=430190
(Ill try to post some screenshots in the morning, but there are shots in original thread).

zmob123 said:
This is an app that puts widgets like the Omnia on the today screen. The only issue is that it doesn't support VGA yet (hence the reason for the post). I used SecondToday to get another today screen, loaded FEWidgets, and mapped the top volume key to go back and forth between TF3D and the today screen with FEWidgets. It worked liked a charm, with no lag or hesitation. The widgets worked fine by controlling comm devices like bluetooth and WIFI. The only thing you may have to change is the wallpaper in the programs folder in order to get VGA (480x640) wallpaper to cover the whole screen (once you get them in the folder there is actually a widget you can change them with). FEWidget does use the entire screen, so other today screen plugins can not be used. The only problem is the widgets are small (QVGA), and looking to you guys to find a solution. I haven't had a chance to look at the files, but I will to see if the widget icons can be manipulated. It is damn cool though. A simple button press takes you to another screen with widgets!!!!! The Diamond engine handles it so well, it should have been intergrated. Here is the link to the thread, and all credit goes to nicodega for an awsome app.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=430190
(Ill try to post some screenshots in the morning, but there are shots in original thread).
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Hi,
i am trying to download the files to test it. problem is that the link dont work, could you help me pls?
thanks in advance
ciao

nice program, works well, only thing is like you said - it's too small
waitin for a vga version

your today screen looks fantastic,how do u change topbar icons?do u use wisbar?

Hi
Have you seen this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=417825
SAKAJATI has the VGA files for Omina....

chasist said:
your today screen looks fantastic,how do u change topbar icons?do u use wisbar?
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Start here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2657881#post2657881

can you tell me where you get this have you this in a cab file looking for this if you have please share it thanks (ahave it make in yellow )

keko001 said:
can you tell me where you get this have you this in a cab file looking for this if you have please share it thanks (ahave it make in yellow )
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Dude wrong thread for your request and question, and I didn't make them, the icons and request should be done in the proper thread. Just hit the link and go through them, the cab files are there or PM me, this thread is for something totally different

VGA version
I'm working with nicodega to get this perfected on the Diamond.

zmob123 said:
I'm working with nicodega to get this perfected on the Diamond.
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this would be great! so there would be no reason to buy and test the omnia
cu

hi all,
i am running the last version of this great application on my Diamond.
it seems to be fine and fast, remap the left soft key in TF3D et voila'.
many thanks to the developer.
ciao

yes, you are right, it works!!
not so smooth but it´s nice to play with!
cu

hi guys,
frankly speaking, this application is nice to see but useless.
it dry a lot of memory and if you dont get it still on the background..... is slow to open.
anyway, thanks for sharing.
ciao

zmob123 said:
Dude wrong thread for your request and question, and I didn't make them, the icons and request should be done in the proper thread. Just hit the link and go through them, the cab files are there or PM me, this thread is for something totally different
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ok so I can not find this mod mentioned in the thread you posted, nor can I find it via search which more or less leaves me no chance as to ask you again in the wrong thread if you could point me to the mod or the file to get those icons changed.
Thank you in advance and sorry, I do know its the wrong thread. As it should be a simple question to answer though I would highly appreciate a hint
cheers

Just tried it out.. And it is really nice! However.. It is pretty laggy..
Have a look at this vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doOLS2oPTGY
How have they made it so fast and smooth? And there is more widgets there.. Maybe the got a newer version ?
Oh and maybe i have gotten this wrong, but as i have understood this, you guys have takin this today plugin out of the omnia right?

Da9L said:
Just tried it out.. And it is really nice! However.. It is pretty laggy..
Have a look at this vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doOLS2oPTGY
How have they made it so fast and smooth? And there is more widgets there.. Maybe the got a newer version ?
Oh and maybe i have gotten this wrong, but as i have understood this, you guys have takin this today plugin out of the omnia right?
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well thats str8 up on the omnia... we are dealing with porting it do a different resolution... i'm not too sure why else it may be lagging but i'm sure it will be smoothed out in the coming releases.
One thing i really like is the screen rotation of the omnia in that video... is that impossible to get for our diamonds?

thks but don't work on my diamond

Does anyone know how to assign specific buttons to toggle this in SecondToday? All I see is right and left softkey and neither of them seem to work anyway. Ideally I'd like the Home key to toggle between TF3D and FEWidgets.
Secondly, if I run the FEWidgets alone I can move them around etc. but if it's loaded through SecondToday I cannot, is there a way to fix this?

Cal-El's Clocks for new Hero style Manila 2.5

Here are some Clock cabs I made for the new Hero style Manila 2.5! One will give you clear flip panels and a blue tinted background with white letters! The other black flip pannels with white letters and a green tinted background! I noticed there are not many mods for the new Manila 2.5 so I wanted to get some started! Enjoy friends!

thanx looks good

Great stuff. Thanks

Hmm can't seem to get this to work.

Doesn't work on my tp2. why?

Hi ppl...
@ Cal-El,
Nice job man... But for my EnergyRom I wanted a mix of both of your clocks.
So I've downloaded them (and joined forces ) and came up with a new variant that fits really well with the rom colours. Check it out! Once again thank you.
BTW, I have an Xperia X1.

outta curiousity how did you combine them, i like the look that you achieved, any chance of making a cab for it or explaining how to join forces lol thanks

VETTEPC123 said:
outta curiousity how did you combine them, i like the look that you achieved, any chance of making a cab for it or explaining how to join forces lol thanks
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Hi VETTE, sorry for the late answer...
I'll provide the clock for sure and try to explain for you, it's no big deal.
First I gathered the two cabs, then extract them with WinCE cab manager and then used manila editor to see wich files belonged to wich part of the clock.
So I wanted the blue background (there is a file just for that) and all the rest, black number background and everything else, from the green one. I just copied the files from the green clock and the file for the blue background to windows directory and it's done.
Never forget to disable HTC Sense before doing anything, also make sure the attribute files checked in the properties are "archive", "read only" and "system" before copying them to windows dir. And last but the most important, make backups of the files, we never know what can go wrong.
Cheers.

Psy'RaKKa said:
Hi ppl...
@ Cal-El,
Nice job man... But for my EnergyRom I wanted a mix of both of your clocks.
So I've downloaded them (and joined forces ) and came up with a new variant that fits really well with the rom colours. Check it out! Once again thank you.
BTW, I have an Xperia X1.
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Will there be a cab for this soon guys thanks

jr5416 said:
Will there be a cab for this soon guys thanks
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HI.
Here, try this one...
--> Don't forget to disable HTC Sense before installation. <--
Cheers.

Psy'RaKKa said:
HI.
Here, try this one...
--> Don't forget to disable HTC Sense before installation. <--
Cheers.
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.cab worked great, thanks...

This is slightly off topic, but how do you get the calendar part under the clock to actually give upcoming appointments instead of saying the word "calendar"? Also, is there a way to add tasks to the home tab?
Thanks!

Psy'RaKKa said:
HI.
Here, try this one...
--> Don't forget to disable HTC Sense before installation. <--
Cheers.
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Wow thank you so much bro will try now

Worked great thanks again bro , u should make some slider icons bro u got some skills going