[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
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2006.02.10 - much of this post won't make sense in the light of edits made above. I direct you towards the Chewbacca Defense inorder to explain this. Please ignore the irrelevant parts of this post and thread.

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Guys, I will continue work on this project.

In light of Simon's comments I am not compelled to release anything further here until I consider it final. That could take time, but I felt it better to keep the community involved with development then for it never to see the light of day. As I said, I was asked to develop and release this software at the interim stages.

Please give feedback on whether you would rather the beta stage was kept public, and be involved in requesting features etc: the software will always be freeware for non commercial use. My own feeling now is that I would rather not release my own software prior to it being final; however, I program for the thrill of making my own software, and I would like you guys to be able to request features!

I'm afraid that the code won't be made open source at this point because I wanted first to be in a position to present code that did what it was supposed to. I am using a technique that I would not typically use in programming to achieve fullscreen TS, which was why I wanted to be sure that it wasn't just unique to my system. I believe that sl9 is working on this project also.

I of course test my own code thoroughly before releasing it, but as with the VGA phone dialer, which again is software I developed just for the community, since I don't use it, software can behave differently on our systems. Hence public testing. The black bar, for instance, was not visible on my system because I was running a black background. The start button is perfectly visible for me and is not obscured.

Simon, I take your comments very personally. In five months I've posted over 800 posts. They are not all begging to feed my starving children. I give my time for the benefit of the community, and the vast majority of my posts are to help people out of trouble. IF someone feels some tangible benefit, they can either wait for a commercial developer to sell them software to order at £10+ a go, or donate something out of generosity. I'm sure your wife gets paid for her efforts. I don't. I post because I love this community and gain satisfaction from helping people out. As it clearly states on my website,

The donation is entirely voluntary. If you wish to express your thanks. Feel free not to!

Anyone can request on my forum to have software programmed for them if I can. I do this out of love of programming, in my own time, and not with ANY expectation of financial reward. If you are the type of person that prefers to take with no contemplation of the effort put in to making your life easier, so be it.

And btw, it is possible to help Buzz out, if you wanted to. It's not all about money, spade or no spade.

V

PS I should add: my website costs are over £100 annually for hosting, domain and SQL database, out of my pocket. Donations amount to around £15 for the year. By my reckoning I'm paying you guys to use my software, rich capitalist that I am. This is not about money, XDA Devs never was, as far as I know.