File Name :: HILAlarm
Author :: DocBru
Category :: Utilities - Homescreen Plugins
Description ::
This plugin allows enabling and setting the smartphone alarm directly in your homescreen.

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You can. I don't know this homescreen, but basically every homescreen is modifiable (if it's not prohibited by a license or something, but I think that's not really happening). You must have some knowledge about creating / editing homescreen XML definitions for this or ask the author of the plugin whether he would integrate the plugin.

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Bruno

Plugins have to be integrated into homescreens.
To test it you can just switch your homescreen to my example via the settings menu.

To use it in "Windows Default", you would have to modify the XML settings of this (I dont know if the standard windows screens can be modified at all)? If you don't have the necessary knowledge, you might want to download a homescreen which uses my plugin, I'm aware of two yet:

http://www.modaco.com/content/forum/200482/http-www-modaco-com-index-php-showtopic-200482/

http://www.modaco.com/content/forum/201385/http-www-modaco-com-index-php-showtopic-201385/


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Bruno

Sorry, background settings are not supported for single label elements... only for the whole plugin. I wonder if that's a bug or intention :roll: I know that I extended the label thing a bit (by the state)

YOu need to install it directly on the smartphone.
Just push it to somewhere on the phone e.g. /temp
Than execute the file on the phone by file manager or internet explorer.

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Bruno

[quote=dlogan1,Feb 17 2005, 23:22][quote=DocBru,Feb 14 2005, 15:47]
Setting background options for plugin individually and background images should work now.

OK, I feel really stupid. What am I doing wrong? When I download this file to my PC it thinks it's a zip file. I don't know how to get it installed, but would love to try it out. An easy to use alarm is something I've been looking for on my MPx 220.

Thanks, dlogan1
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The cestart.exe isn't available, it's wrong in the documentation.
The trick is: Create the .cab and place it in /temp
than open Internet Explorer from the start menu and enter the address "file:///temp/mywhatever.cab" to install

Regards
bruno

Setting background options for plugin individually and background images should work now.

See attached update

Got you. Unfortunately it's not possible (at least to my knowledge).




1. is a known issue. I don't really know why it happens, but it's very minor.
2. I recognized that when I built the sample homescreen (thats why it is in the default section :roll: ). Actually it should pick that up, I must have a look what I did wrong there.

Thanks for contributing.
Bruno

Sorry I didnt really get what you mean. What do you mean by "alarm time to be reversed"?

btw unfortunately there is only three actions (joystick press, left, right) which I can use... up / down is used by windows for navigating between the plugins

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Bruno

I'm using an interface to lookup system colors (like COLOR_HOMETEXT) out of the XML file which is only available since 2003.

I am not sure yet how to make that work in 2002.

The other code might be compatible.

Hi Drblow,

thanks for your feedback.
To be honest I didnt test the background image :roll: I will check that as soon as I have time.

The orange background color is defined in the default format settings of the home.xml (pretty much at the top). Just remove that or chagne it to whatever works best. The homescreen example is also just a sample, I am no great designer but wanted to deliver something so people can immediately test the plugin without having to integrate it first into their homescreen.

The scrolling is a little slow unfortunately. In my test without background image and without background color it was performing way better... But the idea is that one will not have to change the alarm too much anyways, but just activate / deactive it. I also thought of having the plugin scroll minutes in both directions but that would mean you could not easily change the alarm by some hours. I tested it and the feeling / usability was worse in my mind. Any ideas are appreciated of course.

The plugin uses native windows mobile functionality for the alarm, which should always work. I don't those other alarms and I dont know if they provide an API where I can get / set the alarm, maybe I will find time somewhen to check that. But first I would like to remove other possible bugs.

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Bruno

I took the same approach as you. Parse the text node's child nodes.

Another thing I was also struggling with is that get_text() trims the string, i.e. leadind and trailing spaces will be removed, which is annoying when you want to do variable substitution inside a string. I used get_nodeValue() instead.

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Bruno

Hi,

here is the first release of my first plug-in.

I wanted to use the existing Alarm Plugin around here, but it did not seem to work to well with 2003 (regarding key bindings) and on my phone I would not get into the alarm menu. As I wanted to play around with the Smartphone SDK anyways, I decided to build my own alarm plugin for my phone running WM2003.

After quite much more work than expected :roll: I have something finished now which I think works at least a little

The plugin works a little different than others. It does not use the control panel for setting the alarm, it is completely controlled from the homescreen. It basically has three states which are cycling in this order by clicking it:
Alarm Off -> Set Alarm -> Alarm On

While in "Set Alarm" state you can change the hours by pressing left and the minutes by pressing right. Note: The alarm won't become active in the "Set Alarm" state. You have to confirm it (click the plugin).

You can still use the phone's standard alarm setting methods via the settings (at least while you're not in "Set Alarm" state). The plugin should pickup the changed alarm automatically.

The .cab file contains the plugin and also a homescreen example called "HILAlarm-Demo".

A short reference:

• The plugin clsid is: 61868840-7761-11D9-9669-0800200C9A66
• The label tag supports the additional state attribute with the values "alarmon", "alarmset", "alarmoff" to only draw in a certain state
• The tag is supported in text tags for substitution with the current alarm time set. The time format is localized to the phone regional settings.
• Most of the standard options should be supported (gradient is one which does definitely not, others may not because I didnt test them)
• See the sample homescreen xml file for an example of the usage.

I'm pretty sure it only runs on 2003 due to some code lines. I tested it in the Microsoft Emulator and on my T-Mobile SDA music.

I'm pretty sure it has loads of bugs, consider it an alpha release for now. Especially around some layouting options. Use this at your own risk I would nevertheless appreciate if some of you would dare to test it and give me feedback about issues, problems, improvements or just to say it works.

Thanks
Bruno