Guest Gears Posted July 9, 2003 Report Posted July 9, 2003 I'm no flashy programmer or anything, BUT... As the MMS client on the SmartPhone can display animated GIF's - is it possible to construct a program to do the same, run in the background and run after a preset time ? This would be an absolutely excellent screensaver util?! :shock: I know you can do far better with PocketCandy etc etc but for ease of use this would be great... unless there's already one out there ?
Guest MoRFLeZ Posted July 9, 2003 Report Posted July 9, 2003 Ummm - but isn't this just exactly what PocketCandy does *confuzzled look* Runs in the background, and after said time starts up!?
Guest NederSoren Posted July 9, 2003 Report Posted July 9, 2003 nope.. But to use animated gif's as screensavers would make the phone look like any other Sony Ericson or nokia..
Guest Gears Posted July 9, 2003 Report Posted July 9, 2003 I know mate.. but I'm thinking ease of use and the huge amount of GIFs :)
Guest MoRFLeZ Posted July 9, 2003 Report Posted July 9, 2003 Aaaahhh gotcha! Hmmm sounds like a sweet idea .. just a simple program letting you choose time / background color / gif-file .. and voila. Now let the smart people take over and make it happen *innocent blink*
Guest madu Posted July 10, 2003 Report Posted July 10, 2003 ie: Slideshow for Ani GIFs Yeah, good shout!
Guest motbe Posted July 11, 2003 Report Posted July 11, 2003 I'll put it on my list of "desired screensavers". and if no one else gets to it before I do... I'll write one like that.... I'll be out of town for two weeks hiking on the Appalachain Trail, so it might be a while before I get to it!
Guest Crispy Posted July 12, 2003 Report Posted July 12, 2003 Maybe not 100% related, but a screensaver that simply just shows a 222x176 image full screen would also be nice ... (and of course it should be an external image!) But that’s properly already on the list, right? :roll:
Guest Mr_Protozoa Posted July 12, 2003 Report Posted July 12, 2003 Sounds sweet, can a clock be overlayed onto it too?
Guest NederSoren Posted July 13, 2003 Report Posted July 13, 2003 Maybe not 100% related, but a screensaver that simply just shows a 222x176 image full screen would also be nice You mean 176x220, right? :)
Guest Crispy Posted July 13, 2003 Report Posted July 13, 2003 You mean 176x220, right? Â :) Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh! :roll:
Guest motbe Posted July 14, 2003 Report Posted July 14, 2003 Sounds sweet, can a clock be overlayed onto it too? Well, technically I could just port my TimePiece screensaver, and that would suffice for a clock.. :) I could add a "Random Image" option for the background in the skin too... So I guess that's two screensavers, a Slideshow, and TimePiece......
Guest mvsmith07 Posted July 30, 2003 Report Posted July 30, 2003 Hi Any joy on writing the slideshow screensaver without, or preferably with, the date/time displayed along with the jpg image background? There's screensavers out there for the PC doing this and one for the smartphone would be cool. A running slideshow of your favourite celebrities would be just the thing to sit and stare at during boring moments at work! :)
Guest mvsmith07 Posted July 30, 2003 Report Posted July 30, 2003 I've answered my own query by discovering another thread, which mentions an app called DockWare and this provides this slideshow with date/time facility. Have only got the freeware version at the minute and haven't been able to test the auto-startup feature as yet because I haven't got the power unit for the phone here. I think I am right in thinking it only auto-starts when the phone is plugged into a power source.
Guest motbe Posted September 12, 2003 Report Posted September 12, 2003 Well, I finally had the time to whip up a slideshow type screensaver. It supports GIFs (including Animated ones), JPEGs, and Bitmaps. Quite a few things are hard coded in (it pauses for 5 seconds between images, the background color is black, images are displayed in their normal size and not sized to fit the screen, etc), but I'll get to making a configuration for those later. What's configurable now is the directory where the images are loaded from. If you don't configure this, it defaults to the root directory of your phone, and then loads all images from every sub-directory on your phone. You can configure this setting by creating the registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareStrickland ConsultingPictureShow And then create a new "String" value under that key named: "Image Directory" (without the quotes). Set that value to the directory you'll be placing your images in. I haven't played with putting images on a CF card or SD/MMC card in my PocketPC, but doing so should work. Also, I couldn't compile this exactly for the SmartPhone, but it is compiled for the ARM processor, so it should technically run fine on the SP. Let me know if it doesn't run properly. One other note is that the animated GIF code can be quite slow at times (and so can the code that loads JPEGs) depending on the size of the images in the GIF and how many frames there are (there's alot of info stored in those files). I'll be tweaking that code for speed here soon.. So, you might notice delays of more than 5 seconds at times, and that's due to the loading of larger images. Oh, to install, just unzip the file attached to this post, and then place it in your installed dir for PocketCandy Screensavers (which is probably Program FilesPocketCandyScreensavers unless you've modded it, of course I can't remember exactly which dir I set the install to for PocketCandy)PictureShow.zip
Guest MoRFLeZ Posted September 12, 2003 Report Posted September 12, 2003 Nice one mate! It works pretty well, now all you need to do, is work on having PocketCandy keep on the backlight when it's in the cradle *nudge nudge*
Guest motbe Posted September 12, 2003 Report Posted September 12, 2003 Thanks for the nudging... Gotta keep on me about that.. I think I've got about 5 or 6 ideas I'm juggling.. From Flash based screensavers for the PocketPC, this slideshow app, newer versions of some of the CPU hungry pocketcandy screensavers, a halfway written rewrite of TimePiece (with the followup port to the SP), and the rewrite of PocketCandy... I think I get more ideas than I do get time to finish the old ones! But, yes, I do have a newer version of PC about halfway done. And I think I've sorted out how to made the backlight stuff happen. And have added code for that, just have to test it a bit more before releasing it...
Guest MoRFLeZ Posted September 13, 2003 Report Posted September 13, 2003 That's great news!! I can't wait to test it - but I can certainly understand your dilemma - all the ideas sounds like great addons to the proggy!
Guest gpcarreon (MVP) Posted September 13, 2003 Report Posted September 13, 2003 @motbe :shock: NICE WORK MAN!
Guest brucesm Posted September 18, 2003 Report Posted September 18, 2003 Well, technically I could just port my TimePiece screensaver, and that would suffice for a clock.. ;) I could add a "Random Image" option for the background in the skin too... YES YES please do this. Great app, I was looking at this today and wondering if I could do a version for Smartphone 2002.
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