Speed Dial Tools (Quickclose updated 12-May)

[Guest spacemonkey]

Update ************************************

Quickclose now has a splash screen that displays for 3 seconds, no user prompting is required. It also has an icon and additionally it should return to the homescreen on completion even when called via a Speed Dial

************************************ Update

OK, there's a few things on the phone that annoy me so I'm gonna do a few little apps to make them easier...

Here's the first, QuickClose. The idea is that you can attach it to a speed dial and it will close all the background apps to clear up memory for what you want to run next. What it does internally is a SHCloseApps call, then a malloc to allocate all memory and then a free to free it back up... hopefully this will leave the phone in a pretty clean state. It's like opening task manager and killing everything except tray and programs.

Ideas for future ones, device lock, but from a speed dial.

Swap between noisy and silent, but from a speed dial.

Any suggestions for things you'd want in this form please suggest away.

No, site yet so I've just attached it (sorry, I think unregistered readers can't see attachments)

QuickClose.zip

[Guest jim80b]

thanks spacemonkey, just what ive always wanted...

hated going into taskman, shutting everything down then exiting.

looks really bad when you have to do that when showing off to friends

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

Nice one cheers ;)

[Guest arunhallan]

a program that overrides the bloody handset bloody profile! (on speed dial of course)

[Guest Thurstan]

Speed-dial switch between line 1 and line 2? Possible?

[Guest jcinfo]

Many ,thank !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Q: you can create the same whith "no confirmation" ??

[Guest spacemonkey]

No confirmation is easy, the only issue is that you don't see a single thing, you won't necessarily know whether the app has run or not...

Maybe no confirmation but a 1 second splash screen or something?

[Guest madu]

Nice1 Spacem'y!!

Yeah, a splash-screen with custom backgorund and a flash animation, while playing an mp3 from a storage card!! hehe ;)

Only joking - a splash screen like 'Working…' for a sec is the way to go!!

[Guest MoRFLeZ]

Okay this would override the main idea that it's a speed dial proggy... but how about combining all (3-4 however many small speed proggys you'll make) in one proggy .. so instead of the confirmation (will you blah blah) you choose the proggy you want to run *innocent blink*

Maybe an app that deletes files in temp folders/MAPI(??!) and whatnot .. not much unlike Space Maker lite *blink*

[Guest spacemonkey]

hmmm... we'll see.... I still need to figure out the technical method for the other ones, writing the app is easy, figuring out what system calls I need to get the phone to do what I want is hard...

I could always package them both ways, seperate apps for speed diallers, and a popup, press 1,2,3 or 4 type thing for a one stop shop type user...

See how I go, depends how many other functions I can actually get to work of course.

[Guest MoRFLeZ]

Yup that sounds like an ideal way of doing it!

/me is still waiting for her free Space Maker proggy and a proper alarm! *nudges the coders*

[Guest jcinfo]

The "something" is good iy think and if it's possible for put a icone ;)

verry good job y have put the niews in my home page. thanks

[Guest Thurstan]

Obv a little thing but i second the call for an icon when you have the time!

[Guest]

Great work! Does exactly what it sez on the tin.

Also, I would like to vote for a 1 sec "Closing all aps..." splash screen, rather than a conformation request.

[Guest spacemonkey]

anyone want to give me a cool icon and full screen splash screen? ain't my thing.:) maybe a splash saying closing apps and advertising modaco?

[Guest NederSoren]

What about asking midnight?

[Guest fozzie]

An app to switch between Line 1 and Line 2 would be soooo useful.

Any chance of putting the apps here as CAB files so they cany be downloaded directly onto the phone?

[Guest Speedy]

Spacem

You mentioned an app switching profile from silent to noisy.

Maybe just make it from nomal to silent and the other way around.

I would love an app for that, since will be using it a lot in school.

Cheers

A

[Guest spacemonkey]

OK, midnight has said he'll do some sort of splash for me if he has time :)

As to profile swapping/line swapping, if I can figure out a method to do these, I'll do them. For profiles I was thinking a way of picking a couple of profiles and then using it without picking would just flip backwards and forwards.... kinda like what my old J70 did.

[Guest Machineman]

Thanks.......... very nice tool!!!!!

[Guest grib]

How the heck do you install this (step by step please )

Thanks

[Edited - Will(language)]

[Guest spacemonkey]

Steps:

1. download the zip file

2. extract the zip file

3. Copy the exe file to anywhere on your phone you like

4. Create a shortcut to the exe in /IPSM/Windows/Start Menu (in fact you could just put the exe itself in here would work too.

5. Run it from the start menu.

For a speed dial usage,

after installing it as above, go to the program on the start menu , choose menu (right softkey) and pick 'Add Speed Dial'

[Guest vijay555]

spacemonkey mate, love this app, v.useful.

2 things:

1. is it possible to make it so that when it shuts down apps, it goes back to the home screen? just for neatness - think it would be better than being stuck on a speed dialing page

[edit: i presume you could just run home.exe?]

2. rather than the txt based alert, could you do a Smartphone alert (ie using the alert dialog)?

[and i suppose the option or a seperate hard coded version that just closed without the confirmation, just a beep or something?]

Luv your work mate.

V

[Guest madu]

I second that vijay!!

And once again: nice1 Spacem'y

[Guest spacemonkey]

The plan is to replace the message box with a screen that promotes modaco and displays for 1 second (so you know it's run) but doesn't require any input.

As to going back to the homescreen... I'll see what I can do with this. I agree it would be tidier, unfortunately I think it's more to do with the operating systems approach to speeddials than anything... I'll see if theres a call I can make to bring the homescreen up tho...

I've had a crazy week, but will hopefully look at this tomorrow.