'Sniper!' Testing Places Full! Completely Full So Dont Even Ask!

[Guest conan_troutman]

What really? Even if the app is installed on storage card? So I just have to put links in there and windows will start all of them automaticly?

About Beta testing ... currently I wait for the next version of Sniper with improved Bluejacking mode to arrive ...

yeah it works but it takes ahwile to boot up also it brings each applet that doesnt have the capabilities to run in the back ground right up to the front

which is why we need the hidden feature to work

here is a story for you all hopefully it will conince you Iam right

your in the canteen at work everyones phone start to go off they all check their phones the people in the room laugh or smile or even both how ever your phone nothing you wonder whats so funny....

again the whole room erupts in beeps and buzzes as phones go off you check your phone nothing everones luaghing

your getting paranoid whats wrong does the person sending the messages like your bluetooth name maybe they just dont like you

again a round of beeps a nd buzzes still your phone nothing.

thats it you cry ripping out your shot gun your all going to die foe laughing at me

bang bang bang

theres a guy in the corner hes sending the messages you confront him

whats so funny punk you all laughing at me

no he says it just some jokes and funny pics i thought i would share

share share you cry am i not good enough to share with....

yes he says i sent them to everyone you see i have this program that allows me to send messages or files to everyone in the room via bluetooth

everyone you say i can do that and i can recive them so why did you not send it to me... scum die bang!!

you sit head in your hands you know the police will arive soon you got to send a bluetooth mesage to all phones in the room then you realise

sniper wasn't running you killed all the applets an hour ago and for got to switch it back on

beams was switched off to cos you cant use beams and sniper as one over rides the other.

damn you killed everyone becouse of your paranoid delusion created by the fact the maker of sniper forgot to put in an autostart hidden mode function

hhmmm wonder if I can sue them. get away with this mess on a technicality

wasn't my fualt sniper made me do it.

see in court suckers

yep ithink the hidden mode and autostart into hidden mode are hugely important.

what you reckon ?

[Guest iforevans]

Ok, new Beta is out. 0.9.90.

This version, is I hope you will notice, a lot prettier. Thanks Victor!

NB You will not see the fancy background on the homescreen if you have messages in your inbox!

Blujacking now works with files as well as messages. I still have intermittant problem if a receiver does not acknowledge the transfer. Aprt from that I think we're good.

Cheers

...Ifor

[Guest leethacker]

Yes, I can finally see that we're coming closer to release. :-) The new graphics really make the program a lot better.

Havent played that much with the new version yet, but what I still notice is the bug, that the bluetooth status in the menu is not always up to date. So it still shows sometimes that Bluetooth is off even when its on. Heres how you can solve to problem. Just program a piece of code that checks the bluetooth status and updates the checks (i hope this is the right english word :) ) in the menu whenever "options" is pressed. Thats it - problem solved. ;-)

Oh, and another little discovery: Forget about the colors in "About Sniper". All black gives it a more professional look that the blue-red-black text mix it is now.

Edited June 4, 2006 by leethacker

[Guest conan_troutman]

sniper freezes

when it recieves an incoming beam the program stores it to the RecievedFiles folder then freeze you cant scan reply or shut it down

happens on the qtek wm5 installed on sd card and on the MPX 220 wm2003se installed on device

[Guest iforevans]

sniper freezes

when it recieves an incoming beam the program stores it to the RecievedFiles folder then freeze you cant scan reply or shut it down

happens on the qtek wm5 installed on sd card and on the MPX 220 wm2003se installed on device

leave it with me ...

...Ifor

[Guest iforevans]

sniper freezes

when it recieves an incoming beam the program stores it to the RecievedFiles folder then freeze you cant scan reply or shut it down

happens on the qtek wm5 installed on sd card and on the MPX 220 wm2003se installed on device

Is it messages as well or just files?

...Ifor

[Guest iforevans]

sniper freezes

when it recieves an incoming beam the program stores it to the RecievedFiles folder then freeze you cant scan reply or shut it down

happens on the qtek wm5 installed on sd card and on the MPX 220 wm2003se installed on device

Hi conan_troutman,

I can't reproduce it here. Can you tell me exactly what you did. Was the sent file sent from Sniper too?

...Ifor

[Guest iforevans]

Hi conan_troutman,

I can't reproduce it here. Can you tell me exactly what you did. Was the sent file sent from Sniper too?

...Ifor

OK, finally masnaged to reproduce it. Only seems to happen on WM5, not WM 2003! Which is a shame as the only device I can debug on is the WM2003 device :-(

I'll get back to you here when I have a resolution.

...Ifor

[Guest iforevans]

Ok guys,

quick release just sent out (0.9.92) to fix the issue reported by conan_troutman. Seems ok now, was a WM5 specific threading issue.

Cheers

...Ifor

[Guest rowmiyo]

Yeah, any message is truncated. I haven't tried it with other nokia models, i'll try to find/borrow some nokia models and see if it'll work. I'll post the results as soon as I find some....

i have tried it with he nokia6600, same truncated result. :)

[Guest jameshpg]

Hi ifor,

Just something I've noticed whilst Bluejacking. I've only tried this when trying to bluejack files but if you're at the main sniper screen (lovely background by the way):

Options>Scan&Send>Options>Bluejack!>Options>Bluejack with file>Choose file>The scanning window appears but on my QVGA C600 this is in a small window as if for a regular screen size that you might get on an E200.

Otherwise, app is looking great.

James

[Guest iforevans]

Hi ifor,

Just something I've noticed whilst Bluejacking. I've only tried this when trying to bluejack files but if you're at the main sniper screen (lovely background by the way):

Options>Scan&Send>Options>Bluejack!>Options>Bluejack with file>Choose file>The scanning window appears but on my QVGA C600 this is in a small window as if for a regular screen size that you might get on an E200.

Otherwise, app is looking great.

James

Ooops, forgot to allow for QVGA, on that screen! It will be fixed.

...Ifor

[Guest iforevans]

Yeah, any message is truncated. I haven't tried it with other nokia models, i'll try to find/borrow some nokia models and see if it'll work. I'll post the results as soon as I find some....

Hi rowmiyo,

Any chance you could post 3 things for me? The original file from the nokia, the truncated file and the file as it arrives OK if saved as file not message?

Cheers

...ifor

Edited June 5, 2006 by iforevans

[Guest jameshpg]

Ooops, forgot to allow for QVGA, on that screen! It will be fixed.

...Ifor

Thanks Ifor, otherwise everything is A-OK!

Feature request: When you are bluejacking you can press Stop! and it will terminate scanning yeh? Well I think you should implement this Stop! feature whilst scanning regularly because otherwise it gets boring waiting for it to scan if you change your mind and want to bluejack instead

Feature request: Should be able to use Sniper to change your device name - never need to use the bluetooth menu again then!

James

[Guest leethacker]

Today also discovered something while bluejacking that is not that good: If someone does not accept a file that Sniper tries to send to a phone, bluejacking will not continue but Sniper will try to bluejack that phone as long as the person who owns that phone accepts that file. It would be much better if Sniper would after some period of time forget about that phone that does not want to accept the file and continue with the other phones on the list.

Btw: Bluejacking function totally rocks! I showed to my friends today and they were totally impressed and they all now also want a Smartphone with Sniper on it. *lolz* :-)

[Guest iforevans]

Today also discovered something while bluejacking that is not that good: If someone does not accept a file that Sniper tries to send to a phone, bluejacking will not continue but Sniper will try to bluejack that phone as long as the person who owns that phone accepts that file. It would be much better if Sniper would after some period of time forget about that phone that does not want to accept the file and continue with the other phones on the list.

Btw: Bluejacking function totally rocks! I showed to my friends today and they were totally impressed and they all now also want a Smartphone with Sniper on it. *lolz* :-)

Hi leethacker,

I know the issue, when i sent out this version I did put a note in there that about the problem of people not accepting the transfers. I am looking into a possible solution. The problem I have is that the API call to send the file/msg doesn't have a timeout/cancel feature, so I am trying to come up with a workaround.

Sniper looks pretty now ey?

Cheers

...Ifor

[Guest iforevans]

Thanks Ifor, otherwise everything is A-OK!

Feature request: When you are bluejacking you can press Stop! and it will terminate scanning yeh? Well I think you should implement this Stop! feature whilst scanning regularly because otherwise it gets boring waiting for it to scan if you change your mind and want to bluejack instead

Feature request: Should be able to use Sniper to change your device name - never need to use the bluetooth menu again then!

James

I think I may be able to change the name, but you can't change the BlueTooth Radio address of your device, it's built into the BlueTooth chip. So if someone knows your address they will know its u :-( No Way around it.

...Ifor

[Guest leethacker]

Hi leethacker,

I know the issue, when i sent out this version I did put a note in there that about the problem of people not accepting the transfers. I am looking into a possible solution. The problem I have is that the API call to send the file/msg doesn't have a timeout/cancel feature, so I am trying to come up with a workaround.

Sniper looks pretty now ey?

Cheers

...Ifor

Oh, stupid me did not read the text in the mail - sorry. Jep, Sniper looks very pretty now. I am starting to begin to think how Bluetooth sucked before I had Sniper on my phone. ;-)

[Guest iforevans]

Oh, stupid me did not read the text in the mail - sorry. Jep, Sniper looks very pretty now. I am starting to begin to think how Bluetooth sucked before I had Sniper on my phone. ;-)

Wow, that's great to hear. I hope other people will think the same :-)

I am going to add a few more things before I release.

1. I am going to include a zipped up CAB file for Sniper and put an option on a help menu so you can send Sniper over Bluetooth to a friends phone. They will be able to run the cab and instantly have Sniper (The Trail version ;-) on their phone.

2. I have a cool Sniper rifle shooting mp3 that I am going to use as msg/file received alert :-)

Then Sniper goes live!

...Ifor

[Guest leethacker]

ifor, both 1 and 2 are awesome ideas! :)

[Guest conan_troutman]

is wrong to feel horny in anticipation af an applet?

cos if it is I dont wnat to be right

Still wanting to have the program run in the background (hidden mode)

that is a massive feature for me

[Guest iforevans]

is wrong to feel horny in anticipation af an applet?

cos if it is I dont wnat to be right

Still wanting to have the program run in the background (hidden mode)

that is a massive feature for me

Well, generally I guess ;-)

But for Sniper, it's OK. BTW I have one other feature that you might like. I am going to make Sniper skinnable and hopefully the next Beta will have one skin for boys (the current one) and one for girls which is a little more femine ;-)

...Ifor

Edited June 5, 2006 by iforevans

[Guest Jasonkruys]

Is anybody testing this / are allowances made for VGA screens (like on my M5000/universal)? I noted an OP above highlighted QVGA screens weren't allowed for...

Edited June 5, 2006 by Jasonkruys

[Guest iforevans]

Is anybody testing this / are allowances made for VGA screens (like on my M5000/universal)? I noted an OP above highlighted QVGA screens weren't allowed for...

Hi Jason,

The app is built so that is always sizes itself and its controls for the screen size it finds iteself on, whatever that may be. However, the background may look a little blocky scaled up to fit a vga screen ... hmmmm ...

...Ifor

[Guest iforevans]

Is anybody testing this / are allowances made for VGA screens (like on my M5000/universal)? I noted an OP above highlighted QVGA screens weren't allowed for...

Oh and what u saw above was just a new feature where I had forgotten to place the resizing code. We have a variety of testers. I myselft test on standard and QVGA screens.

...ifor