Guest ajb3000 Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 As some of you may know, RetroFone opened an SMS gateway designed for SPV users which can be found at www.retrofone.info/spv . Over the past few days HelloDave and myself have been creating a program to utilise this gateway which will allow you to specify a number for the message to be from and allow you to send a full 160 characters. It also gives you access to the numbers in your phone book (to an extent!) so you don't have to remember everyones number. Anyway, here it is, it is written in HTML so should work on both cert and decert handsets, if you have any questions feel free to post them here. EDIT: I have just uploaded the 'new' version, only difference is max characters is set to 159 instead of 160, as texts with 160 characters were not being sent correctly. EDIT 2: If for any reason the download does not show, you can get it by clicking this link: http://www.modaco.com/download.php?id=48 EDIT 3: As most of you will now realise the service had to be suspended due to high costs and abuse. However it WILL return and we are working to make it viable to keep it running for a long time to come. There is a press release from RetroGroupInternational about this service on Page 9 of this thread. Feel free to install the program on your phone, but bear in mind an updated version may be released to work with the new gateway.RetroSPV SMS.zip
Guest mike-oh Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 Cheers, will give this a bash!
Guest MECX Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 where do i put the HTML file? cheers in advance :)
Guest ajb3000 Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 Which file? Have you read the ReadMe?
Guest ajb3000 Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 So has anyone used it yet? What do you think?
Guest ajb3000 Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 37 Downloads and not 1 comment?
Guest jaknife2000 Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 I have used it mate. Mind you i was using it in its earlier form yesterday. Yep like it, got the contacts working lovely. Superb piece of kit. Does this mean its the start of more js / html progs for the SPV ? we can only hope. After i changed the sender back to the 0 instead of the +44 the receivers did (As you said) get the sender name properly. Yep thumbs up from me.
Guest HelloDave Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 There's a small bug in RetroFone's gateway (not our script :)) that messages of exactly 160 characters don't seem to get sent, or get "lost" somewhere along the line. Anything up to 159 characters works no problem. ajb's going to post an updated zip soon, but if you want to fix it for now just change all occurences of "160" in sms.htm to "159".
Guest HelloDave Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 Thanks for your comments jaknife - glad you like it! Does this mean its the start of more js / html progs for the SPV ? we can only hope. I'll have a go at writing any feasible suggestions! Just remember that the javascript support in PIE is at about the level of Netscape 2 (so forget DHTML or anything fancy) so programs will have to be basic on the user interface side!
Guest jaknife2000 Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 Ok doke, 159 it is then. I do have a question tho, and i know i am the winger, but on the contacts page, could you know there is the contact part at the top, then you click choose, could there be an add button as well ? Possibly if you wanted to send the sms to mutliple people ? I don't know, possibly a list box below the choose button, then you could select the ones you want, then click choose or rather send message (As it could be renamed to), and it would once on the sms.htm screen, read from the previous page, a sort of a = 1 to list1.listindex Next a type loop, so that it sends a multiple ? I don't really know how far the js can go on this thing, but i am sure you get the gist. Possible ? or just be being a git, and wanting something stupid ? Just an idea.
Guest ajb3000 Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 using the SMS gateway you can send to more than one number at the same time seperating the numbers with a , (comma) and no spaces, so this could be possible to implement.
Guest jaknife2000 Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 Glad to hear its possible and that you guys are listening to me. It was just a thought. But yep, im using it, and i like it. Thats two html / js apps now, this and euro converter thingy.
Guest jaknife2000 Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 I have another idea, possibly not possible this time tho, What about a interval to send ? As in could it be set up to delay send a message ? You choose the recipient, and if its a delay send or immediate, and if immediate it sends the script over instantly to retrofone, or using the SPV's internal clock, could it be used to send the sms at a different time ? Time would be fine, date would be a tad difficult. The only thing i think that could cause an issue with that, would be that your browser, that (as far as i can tell on mine) doesn't shut down, it just sits in the background until i kill the bugger with Task Manager. So if it still processess offline content when not at the front, it could do a delay send. Again just an idea, i don't personally have any practical use for it, maybe to send an sms back to yourself to remind you of something ? i dunno. You could of course get a lot more technical with it, if the delay is possible, like sending regular updates to somewhere, if you had a standard form setup. I dunno, it just popped in my head as an idea. Sorry if im being thick again. hehe
Guest HelloDave Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 [EDIT] This is referring to jaknife's first post on SMSing multiple contacts; I typed my reply a bit slowly! I know what you mean, but while that is in theory possible it's a bit of a pain to code becuase you'd need to pass varying numbers of parameters around. I'm not even sure how well it would work becuase RetroFone's script tries to redirect you to another page when you send an SMS, which would mean that sms.htm would "forget" its position in the number list every time it sent a messasge! It would be a lot easier with a browser that supported frames or multiple windows, which of course PIE doesn't :) TBH, I don't really send the same SMS to more than one person except on very rare occasions, when I could just use copy and paste on my PC, so it's not really worth me spending a lot of time on this, but if anyone else wants to have a go and prove me wrong, please do! All the source code is in the zip file!
Guest ajb3000 Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 yea, I think a delayed send is a bit of a waste of time to be honest. I might have a look into the multiple contacts later tho, i've had enough of coding for tonight. For the time being just add the extra numbers in a row seperated by commas as stated above.
Guest HelloDave Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 Ah, if you can seperate numbers with commas then multiple contacts isn't too hard - no need for evil loops! :) Just needs a bit of tweaking in the contacts.js script.
Guest madu Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 OMG!! And it's quick too! Fastyer then connecting to GPRS /just Dialing bit/ - at least on mine! Nice one!
Guest Drift3r Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 I'm having trouble running the javascript. It could be any number of problems, the main one being that .js extension is tied to my Dreamweaver and so doesn't execute the script. I've also tried opening it with IE instead but nothing seems to happen. I have the contacts.csv file within the same dir and there is a Contacts.htm file already but that doesnt get written over. I guess my question is which program should I run the .js file though? Thanks for your help P.S This will be a great app and ever so useful!
Guest ajb3000 Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 right click on the javascript and select 'open with command prompt'
Guest sprouts42 Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 Sorry to sound stupid but I am confused, I can use the retrophone site, but where is the program to transfer contacts? Is it a website or a download or what? Can someone give me a quick overview?
Guest geezer466 Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 Excellant piece of kit. Easy to apply well written readme file explained it all. I found that replacing Retrospv below in the sms.html with the originating number allows for easy replies for the sent party. From:
Guest madu Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 sprouts - download the .zip and read the help file in the archive.
Guest ajb3000 Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 I found that replacing Retrospv below in the sms.html with the originating number allows for easy replies for the sent party. From: That is all explained in the ReadMe!!
Guest jaknife2000 Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 hehe, i don't sound so thick now. At least when i had my queries, a readme didn't even exist.
Guest sprouts42 Posted February 25, 2003 Report Posted February 25, 2003 Hahahahaha I must have missed the zip file completely, dunno how that happened. I was scouring the thread for a link or anything. I can be a spoon sometimes.
Recommended Posts
Please sign in to comment
You will be able to leave a comment after signing in
Sign In Now