Guest Paul [MVP] Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 Those great guys over at MadBeetle have tonight announced the public release of their exciting new 'Animated Homescreen' Plugin. As the name suggests, the plugin allows Homescreen Developers to feature animations on their homescreens! MadBeetle provide the homescreen plugin itself and an animation editor. More details can be found here, an excerpt of which follows... The plugin is designed to play animations in such a way that the affect on your phone and your phones battery is minimal. The animation player dll is just 50k, and uses a minimal amount of memory when playing back animations. The animation stops playing when the backlight switches off or you switch away from the homescreen. We are providing the mechanism to play animations on your homescreen, and hope to encourage home designers to use the tools to create the homescreens. In the mean time, you can try the two homescreens we have created (above), and once homescreen designers start providing new files we'll make them available to download here. If you are a homescreen designer you can download the Animation Editor here, and the plugin here Use it create your animation and submit your files to us for signing. At the moment we are offering free signing for non-commercial use (unsigned files display 'DEMO' over the animation, but once signed this is removed). Please read the terms of usage and instructions for the animation editor. In recognition of what I think is an awesome potential for development with this new (FREE FOR NON COMMERCIAL USE) Plugin, I have created a new area in our Homescreen Downloads database specifically for animated homescreens... I look forward to seeing everyone's new creations in there :lol: I am particularly impressed, having used the plugin for a few days, that MadBeetle's claims that the plugin doesn't affect battery life appear well founded... good work :( P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest agent.m Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 nice one! on it staight away dont care if battery runs down quicker. used to spv battery. gonna try my avatar out on it :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 Don't forget to submit your screens to MadBeetle for FREE signing, then upload them in our new download database area at http://www.modaco.com/index.php?dlcategory=23 :lol: P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Randallc Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 I installed it but no animation???? Is there something I need to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nedge2k Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 Hmm...not bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mitton Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 I installed it but no animation???? Is there something I need to do? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Same here, installed the river homepage on my i-mate SP3 with no sucess. Is there a plug-in that needs to be installed? or is it included in the river.hme file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mitton Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 Same here, installed the river homepage on my i-mate SP3 with no sucess. Is there a plug-in that needs to be installed? or is it included in the river.hme file? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> In anwser to my own question, the plug-in needs to be downloaded and install from www.madbeetle.com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mavisdavis Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 In anwser to my own question, the plug-in needs to be downloaded and install from www.madbeetle.com. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I got a C500 latest uk rom and its not animating :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest poutinemaster Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 It looks very nice and quite simple to use to create new content. Unfortunately, I cannot install the .CAB on my MPx200. It says that it cannot be installed on my cell or my storage card. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lukeap69 Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 cannot install it on SP2002 (tanager) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zoegod Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 i cant install it too. :cry: it dont seem to install in my phone or MMC memory. im using SPV2002 (smart amazing phone/e100) is it for SPV2003 only? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xenophobe Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 Works fine on my SMT 5600! I'm sure there's gonna be some COOL stuff uploaded in the next several days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zoegod Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 is this for Windows mobile 2002 or 2003? mine is 2002 and it dont seem to install. my phone is using Qtek7070 OS and is NOT application locked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nickcornaglia Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 (edited) QUESTION: Can one animate the entire background or does the plugin take up it's own space like all plugins? I was going to animate my neostream 2005 homescreen until I realized this probability. Edited February 16, 2005 by nickcornaglia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MoRFLeZ Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 Aaawww this is so typical. My phone is still away for repairs and I reaaaally want this! encece ya have to do your neostream screen! That one looks awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nickcornaglia Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 The bad part is I need to take out all plugins that are shown to the left of the little guy. I was hoping that it worked BEHIND all of the plugins. :lol: Well, I guess we need to get creative to make the gap between plugins as minimal as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nickcornaglia Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 Hmm...not bad <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Did you have something better that you're working on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest coyspiracy Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 yea. that neostream looks good. i'd love to try it.. i cant wait to show it off tomorrow. show everyone what windows mobile's capable of. haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zoegod Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 still cant install on my Tanager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest m444rcus Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 What am I missing, where am I meant to put the .hme file, I've tried the Home folder... please help :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fozzie Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 Put it wherever you want; you need to run it though to actuallly install the homescreen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pauledmond Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 The bad part is I need to take out all plugins that are shown to the left of the little guy. I was hoping that it worked BEHIND all of the plugins. :lol: Well, I guess we need to get creative to make the gap between plugins as minimal as possible. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes, unfortunately it takes space, so the info that can be displayed is reduced. Looks great, though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MoRFLeZ Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 What am I missing, where am I meant to put the .hme file, I've tried the Home folder... please help :lol: A .hme file is to be installed just like a .cab file! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TBanan Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 (edited) I used the "Smart Exploere" to exe the hme file and all installed and work right from the start. Looks great on my E200! And it's only active when the screen is in use and is lighted. More of those, please!!! :lol: Edited February 16, 2005 by TBanan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest madbeetle Posted February 16, 2005 Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 (edited) The plugin will only work on Smartphone 2003 phones.. as its these phones that have the ability to detected the backlight going out. You need to install the plugin first then the hme files. Obviously you only need to install the plugin once. Get the plugin from http://www.madbeetle.com/Homescreen.html To install the plugin and the hme files you can do the following :- [1] Connect your phone to your PC and establish an active sync connection [2] Using file explorer on your PC, copy the cab file to your mobile device into :- Storage\Windows\Start Menu\Accessories [3] On your device open the accessories folder via the Start Menu. [4] You will see the cab/hme file listed, select it and run it. Its a plugin just like the other plugins, so you can't put other plugins over the top of it. The Alien would look cool though Encece, but you'll need to change it a little. Edited February 17, 2005 by madbeetle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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