Guest bretto Posted July 14, 2004 Report Posted July 14, 2004 (edited) Hey all, Just finished my 1st smartphone app. Seems to work ok but have only tested it agains the o2 smartphone 2 running wince 2003. Included is the application, a homescreen plugin and a sample home screen. Homescreen plugins are definitely a learning curve but worth the headaches and multiple hard resets :D. Feel free to try it all out and let me know if there are any probs or whatever. Cheers Added some screenshots. spa4.gif //--------------- The latest apps are here spalarmv1_06_demosetup.exe spalarmv1_06_demo.ARM.CAB //--------------------- Some homescreens for your pleaseure. They all use the SPAlarm plugin. SPAlarm_Defaults.ARM.CAB marvin.ARM.CAB comic_babes.ARM.CAB Edited February 19, 2005 by bretto
Guest gpcarreon (MVP) Posted July 14, 2004 Report Posted July 14, 2004 Hi. Welcome to the site. :D Can you please post screenshots of your app? Thanks :wink:
Guest prouti Posted July 14, 2004 Report Posted July 14, 2004 The alarm sound does'nt work with the latest orange ROM in a E200. Alarm is ON but i have no sound
Guest bretto Posted July 14, 2004 Report Posted July 14, 2004 hmm... I'm simply getting the system registry info for the standard alarm as the sound file to play. Dont know if there has been a change on that platform. Here is what I'm using as the sound file which works for me on the o2 smartphone2. HKEY_CURRENT_USERControlPanelSoundsClockSound
Guest Motofone Posted July 15, 2004 Report Posted July 15, 2004 Same here. seems good app, easy and simple to set alarm. Screen comes up but no sound. Have you got double backstroke in your code Shouldn't it be control panel sounds ?? just single.
Guest Brody Posted July 15, 2004 Report Posted July 15, 2004 Nope, its the way it works, double stroke trust me :P
Guest bretto Posted July 15, 2004 Report Posted July 15, 2004 Hey thanks for the feedback guys. I was trying to keep things simple and use existing setups for the sound etc. Dont really understand why it doesnt work. One thing is that the earpiece volume does effect the sound level of the played alarm. Can someone tell me if you have a sound file setup in start->settings->sounds->alarm clock. Maybe I should change things to let the user specify their own sound file from a list. Not a big change if thats what you want. Also is there a need for this simple app on pocketpc? I get mine in a couple of days and will be mofiying the alarm to run on it also. Cheers Bretto
Guest drblow Posted July 16, 2004 Report Posted July 16, 2004 This is a cool little app m8! :P Nice one! It would be great to have user specified sound files too. :wink:
Guest drblow Posted July 16, 2004 Report Posted July 16, 2004 Oh! :oops: Except ... it just doesn't seem to be making any sound at all!? I just installed it in on my e200, set the alarm, wrote that last post, the alarm went off, but no sound! Whats up with that? :shock: By the way, really like your homescreen plugin! Like the switching between keys switching the alarm on/off ... nice! :P
Guest bretto Posted July 16, 2004 Report Posted July 16, 2004 OK sorry folks I just worked out whats going on with the sound. Appears my app doesnt play .mid files. It does however play .wav files nicely. Will make that fix asap.
Guest Shaks Posted July 17, 2004 Report Posted July 17, 2004 Hi, works excellently with a really good homescreen plugin implementation, not a rough one, this one seems to support all functions of homescreen customisations which is excellent. Only probs I can find so far are: No Midi support and clicking the time in the program takes it back to the homescreen instead of opening a blank page to edit the time in. Shaks
Guest bretto Posted July 18, 2004 Report Posted July 18, 2004 Thanks guys Gr8 feedback. I'm trying to implement the midi support but as I have never done it b4 its not going as fast as I wish it would. The other should be a breeze to sort out. The homescreen plugin was painful (really painful) but now I've struggled thru it I've got a solid base to use for future ones. Hopefully I will get a new version uploaded in the next few days. Got a few more helpful little apps in the pipeline so hope u like them too. Cheers Bretto
Guest Shaks Posted July 18, 2004 Report Posted July 18, 2004 Also, would you be willing to support multiple alarms?
Guest MorphFx Posted July 19, 2004 Report Posted July 19, 2004 Did you use c# or embedded c++ or vb for this this application?
Guest arman68 Posted July 19, 2004 Report Posted July 19, 2004 Great work making this a homescreen plugin. I tried it earlier and have a few comments; hope you will find them useful. * no sound, I understand it is because it is midi and you are looking into it * when the alarm goes off and the keyboard is locked, it is not possible to dismiss or snooze (the built-in alarm has this possibility) * rather than reinvent the wheel, why not base your plugin on the existing alarm? * if you'd base your plugin on the existing alarm, a great addition would be to make it automatically switch on and off the alarm depending on the day. That way you could enhance the built-in plugin by providing a on/off setting for each day of the week BTW do you know about this homescreen plugin for the built-in alarm: http://www.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=5785...der=asc&start=0
Guest bretto Posted July 20, 2004 Report Posted July 20, 2004 Hi All Ive designed the app to allow for mutliple alarms in the future. The name section at the top (eg SP Alarm V1.04) and registry provide for this. Just a simple list/add/delete/edit feature wrapping the existing structure will do it and i was thinking of using the left/right keys to scroll thru the list of alarms to allow the user to select one to edit, etc. I wrote the app in vc++ 3.0 for wince 2003. (i'm just dipping my toe in for now so dont want to spend heaps of cash on dev packages.) I wrote the app because my smartphone alarm bugged me a bit. 1) to set and disarm was a bit of a length procedure. 2) the snooz function was in a sub menu which made me always turn the alarm off while i was half alseep 3) the alarm info wasnt on the homescreen. I know about the default alarm plugin which is great except at the time I wanted all this the plugin would lock up at times when selecting it from the homescreen. Think I read somewhere that this problem was because we dont press done all the way out sometimes. Basically I just wanted something simple for my purposes. As an after thought I figured others might like it too. Seems they do and I'm totally happy to make the mods requested. BTW Just go my imate ppc. its blown me away. A lot of the stuff that bugs me about my smartphone is addressed on the ppc. Thanks heaps for the feedback ill get it all sorted asap for you guys. Cheers Bretto
Guest monochrom13 Posted July 24, 2004 Report Posted July 24, 2004 Hi Bretto, love what i see... but i'm having problems with the exe package. I keep getting the msg "Can't read uninstall file" & not valid window ce app. Will really apreciate if u can help. Can u post a cab file... :P Thanks alot, i'm using the O2 xphone and the alarm is really killing me. :cry:
Guest monochrom13 Posted July 24, 2004 Report Posted July 24, 2004 Hi sorry bout the previous post... already got it to work, its just my dumb computer in my office... :oops: Thanks again for such a nice app. :wink: Cheers
Guest Shaks Posted July 25, 2004 Report Posted July 25, 2004 Just a few issues: If the volume is turned using the vol up/down buttons, the alarm is silenced. I think the alarm should have a fixed volume. It's very difficule to set the colours for the homescreen plugin text/background etc for some reason. Also, my phone is set to auto device lock. When the alarm goes off, I have to unlock it before I can turn it off or snooze it. On the original alarm I could snooze it or turn it off withouth unlocking it. Also would it be possible to add a feature where you select the snooze time when snoozing it say if you decide you need 10 minutes instead of my defaul of 5 minutes you can select it when it goes off. Shaks
Guest bretto Posted August 13, 2004 Report Posted August 13, 2004 Sorry guys Ive been without a dev system for a while. Will be back on the case in a few days. Cheers Bretto
Guest Shaks Posted August 25, 2004 Report Posted August 25, 2004 Any news yet bretto? awaits with baited breath, Regards Shaks
Guest bretto Posted February 13, 2005 Report Posted February 13, 2005 Sorry guys it has been a long...long time since I have been able to get onto this again. If anyone is still interested here is the latest. I just cant get it to play anything but wav files without making the thing too big for what it is so that is the limitation with this app. The home screen plugin is still as useful and there is a snooz interval that can be set when the alarm goes off and a new vibrate function that can be set in the options dialog. People have been using this now for some time and it appears to be very stable and dependable. As always any feedback would be appreciated. NB: I have updated the download links in my original post. Cheers Bretto
Guest bretto Posted February 15, 2005 Report Posted February 15, 2005 Hi All The full version of this app is now for sale at Pocketgear and Handango Cheers Bretto
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