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[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
New Release

SlideActions 1.9 uses polling of the current state rather than relying on system notification to react to slide movements.

I've resisted doing this because it isn't as elegant as reacting to notification events but needs must when the devil drives.

The consequences of this are hopefully greater reliability of events happening when you want them to. If you select Unlock on slide open now I expect it'll be pretty reliable.

People who have problems with S2U2 not coming and going as desired may find improvements from this as well.

Also there's a new option to Close or Kill third party applications under advanced. Users should try 'Close' before 'Kill' as applications ought (but can't be gauranteed to) close graciously saving data when told to. But can be killed if need be.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] katerini:
Ferrex, where is the 1.9 version? On your Website is still the 1.8 version.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
Oops, is in list now.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] Deano1964:
Great Program! but...I still get the screen saying "press cancel" when i slide up to unlock...even with 1.9...
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
Yeah, sigh. My plans are thwarted, again. Back to work on unlocking.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] twolf:
hmmm... im not sure why but it now freezes my phone after end call+sleep...

:D

back to v1.6 again, hehehe... its still the best for me.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ducamie:
argh. ferrex, the new versions keep crashing on me!

can someone upload an early version, ive lost mine.

edit: sorry didnt realise all the versions were on your site.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] twolf:
just a quick suggestion... shouldnt you change the post name by now?

SlideActions v1.9 - Control the keyboard slide of your touch dual

(or something)... ;)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] Tinners:
Just downloaded v1.9, everything is working fine apart from when I end a call I keep getting the error: An unexpected error has occurred in slidemon.exe

Any suggestions? Forgot to add, this is with S2U2 installed!
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] sackbauer:
i second this and would further more appreciate version numbers in slide actions ( or at least in the filename ). i do have dozens of slide actions files in several folders and do not know which version *lol* should clean my folderstructure *gg*
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] johan6504:
It’s a shame that this bug stop me from using this app, I really like it!

I have the same setup and the same problem. An unexpected error has occurred in slidemon.exe every time I end a call. Very nice app but will not work for me unless this bug is fixed.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] GlenH:
By the way, i have noticed that the original version works fine with some ROMs (HTC original, Toms V1) but not with others (for instance with the Mary ROM, it gets stuck in a loop trying to unlock the phone after a call ends).
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ewoudpons:
I get that same error, i didnt notice exactly when: either during the call or on the end of the call and possibly only if the other party called you.. this app is really worth it if it works though.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
New release

SlideActions 1.91 is released.

This is minor bug fixes and no new features. It's my addressing a few issues I've personally experienced and perhaps will resolve a few reported issues others have had.

I haven't loaded any new ROMs onto my phone because I can't be bothered with reconfiguring it so I haven't any particular experience with the problems reported by users of new ROMs, hopefully their problems will be fixed incidentally.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] badaas:
thx ferrex!

can i request something, a passcode option for opening sms if using slide to open mail?

thx
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
I don't think I'm interested in that. I would think a generic sms protection program would be more appropriate - I've no idea if such a thing exists.

Although I do personally have a wish for better SMS functionality on my phone as well - who knows, I may write something. But I wouldn't hold my breath.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] dekoning:
my device keeps on randomly wanting to connect to the internet!

without me asking it to.

stopping the connection connecting doesn't work .. cause it keeps on trying to connect.

This has happened since I've installed thise sliding actions.

I can't listen to music through headphones either .. after closing the slide (locking buttons, putting device to sleep) And I used to be able to dot that aswell..

Anyone?
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] twolf:
actually its working fine with me, i've only used v1.6 because i had problems with all the other versions, but this one doesnt gave me any problems so far, im with the black mary 4.2 rom.

also, im using a software called nodata to disable/enable the grps connection, but thats because of the htc today weather screen.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
There is no way that's SlideAction doiung anything.

Slideactions locks buttons, and puts the phone to sleep by issuing virtual keypresses.

How other applications react to those keypresses (such as media players) is up to them.

I've just checked on my phone and its media player doesn't stop or pause on locking but does on sleeping. I don't know if that's configurable or not and I have no plans of trying to do it any other way.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] mohamedtarmohamed:
i will test it later
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] Maxxd01:
im trying to acess http://www.puna.net.nz/wm6/ several days, but I really cant download the file :( cant you put it on asaupload?
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] furialfil:
The Link is not working...
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] Maxxd01:
So how can I download the program?
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
Don't know why the server became unresponsive, but it's been rebooted and ought be good to go now.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] Hungryduck:
Thank you! Great job!
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] dekoning:
since I've installed sliding actions .. my phone connects to internet everytime I receive message or have had a phone call ..

anyone else ?
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
I cannot imagine how Slideactions could be responsible for this. The only thing it does when you receive a phone call, if the option to Lock In Call is selected, is issue a 'Lock' key press.

I find it diffilcult to imagine a circumstance in which that would cause a data connection to be made.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] skred:
Tx

Awesome ! Great job, thanks a lot!
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] Maxxd01:
Hi.

I use WWE Tom's Rom, and after I installed this program I have a problem. when I slide open, appears quick tasks, and then (one second) appears "*" in the screen. I removed the program and that do not happen. So, why is appearing the "*" ????
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
I suspect you have 'Unlock' on open set. The '*' may be an artifact of SlideActions trying to unlock your phone. If set, Slideactions attempts to force an unlock when your phone doesn't seem to be doing it itself by issuing a sequence of key presses, one of which is the '*' key.

If so unsetting the 'Unlock' on open option ought fix your problem.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] mladen.petrovic:
Thanks

You've made my life so easear!
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] aussieandre:
Great Ap

This is a great application. Congrats to the developer. Is there any reason why it doesnt have the option to answer a call by opening the slider?

[edit] mmm. just noticed "answer on slide" option in advancd phone settings. This doesnt work for me. Sliding up when phone is ringing has no effect. Anyone else have this issue?

Thanks

Aussieandre
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] twolf:
Actually that was already a system default, it should work for you.... :(
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] aussieandre:
Thanks Twolf

Unfortunately it isnt working for me. Under Phone Settings "Slide keyboard to answer phone" is ticked, but when phone is ringing and I slide the keyboard up it doesnt answer.

I will just have to live with it I think. A hard reset might fix it but that is too much effort.

Aussieandre
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] rikc34:
sweet

i just got my dual, mine is a neon 300, and if you want to know how to change the sliding sounds with ones that differ from the stock three let me know
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] mixer321:
excellent piece of software wicked!!!!:)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
News

I have just flashed a new rom (WWE_2.09.405.1) available direct from HTC opn my phone.

So I'll soon be testing SlideActions with it.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
S2U2

I don't know how long it's had it, but S2U2 now has End Call on Slide Close.

So S2U2 pretty much does everything useful SlideActions does and without the problematic locking becaue it provides and controls that feature itself.

Unless you have a particular problem that Slideactions solve I think S2U2 will usually be the better choice for most people.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] twolf:
Sorry to disagree, but I dont like S2U2 and i dont have any locking issues on the latest version of SlideActions.

:)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] zhuozhi211:
unlock s2u2 when slide up

first of all thank u for the great app!

i had a prob when used it tog with s2u2 - most of e time it doent hide when slide up.

maybe someone already solved it. my method is to trigger ilock2.exe with param= -nomsg, when slide up
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] rling:
Been trying out the latest Lilly ROM (1.4.1), which had the Manila 2D interface.

SlideActions will not work with it initially, as it did not have HTC Today installed. Installing the HTC Today (2.1.1005722) cab enable most features of SlideActions. However, it does not bring up the phone dialer, as the ROM has a different dialer (or has it in a different location), I presume. This is the only feature I could not get to work...

Is there a fix for this, or a registry change, or is there a cab for an alternate phone dialer?

TIA
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
Slideactions is a pretty simple application that has no dependencies known to me. If it fails to work with a ROM other than the one I'm using there's little hope of my being able to help with problems.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
I tried to S2U2 for a bit but it turns out I really like the unlock on slide open you don't get with S2U2.

Oh well. I may be about to rewrite SlideActions to a new version as an exercise in improved background apps for WM6.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] twolf:
If you do rewrite it, I can get you some half a second sounds for the opening and closing... ;)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] derDominic:
you are able in the advanced tab to setup the close event to close s2u2 by opening the slider......

So your phone is unlocked and you can play around with the keyboard........
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
Heh heh, I don't know how to use my own app.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] tanxavier:
hey, ferrez, simple thankx just ain't good enough to express my gratitude.

You have my blessing for the full of this life.....:)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] patbo:
hi,

i use a homescreen plugin called pointui home and so i am not able to get to the phone dialer when i open the device (because pointiu home = fullscreen).

is there any way to get this working? is there any application for the phone dialer i can start on open?

many thanks :-)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
If I understand you, your problem is that the option in On Open for 'If on Today window' to Open Phone Dialer doesn't work because your PointUI plugin inteferes and you'd like to find a command to run the phone dialer for the advanced options?

I've just checked and running \windows\vtkey.exe on open would seem to do the job.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] pp18:
sounds the same problem as for M2D. the problem seems lie with how the today plug-in (pointui or m2d here) is implemented. i notice that now with m2d home screen on-top, pressing numbers on the hardware keypad won't bring me to the dialer as before. it shouldn't be something related to SlideActions, but machine doesn't think it's displaying the Today screen at all. that's why SlideActions' "If on Today window..." option is not working.

thanks to ferrex's suggestion. as a workaround, now i use the Advanced tab to launch \windows\htcactionscreen.exe on open so that i can use the action menu and the direct phonebook feature. :)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] twolf:
Also, if you do get to rewrite it, add 5 seconds of forced stand-by when we close the phone after a call, so that those pesky pop-up messages with how much the call costed dont make the phone come out involuntarily of stand by.

:(
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] guap:
Thank you. I'm trying to use it on xperia as we have tflo3d form Blackstone with no landscape support, still trying ;)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] twolf:
Isnt that the ADVANCED tab?

:/
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] twolf:
Hope this helps:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=220247

Also, this regkey removes the pop-up notification, but not the "power-up" request:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=2248890
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
I have no ideas what this refers to. Sounds like a 'service' that isn't provided where I live.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] twolf:
Ill try to explain the best I can...

I think its mostly in "rechargable sim cards accounts", as you pay X money per month to charge and spend as you use.

Imediatly after the call you receive a notification with your current account money or how much money that call costed.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] rling:
Any way of implementing this from my end without waiting for a rewrite of SlideActions?
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
The idea is you use SlideActions Advanced tab.

Usually you begin by selecting an application in the bottom drop down - but the application you need won't be in that list of installed applications as it's a system application.

To enable the input you still need to select an application so pick any old one.

Then type over it with the name of the application you want to run...

This is the path to the quick actions menu I think..

\windows\htcactionscreen.exe

This is the path to the dialer I think...

\windows\vtkey.exe

Pick whichever you want.

Then click 'Add' to add it to the list of applications handled by Advanced actions.

By default added application run on slide closed and hide on slide open.

To change these select your application to enable its options.

Then select the events you want to change, ticking the options you want.

So say you want the dialer to appear on slide open you'd set all events to null except On Open which would be Run.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] rling:
Installed and now SlideActions works perfectly on my ROM (which has Manilla2D). Now to figure out how to add these changes as default so I can cook it into the ROM...

Thanks:)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] rling:
Spoke too soon. The On Close' feature to either close or kill the app on closing does not work. The Dialer remains. On next slideaction opening, it tries to make a video call.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] chitza:
Unlocking S2U2

Hello there,

Congratulations to the developer, I just purchased a Touch Dual a few days ago and the next day I was already thinking about writing an applications such as SlideActions. Fortunately, it was already written :)

Now, after a few hours of use I realized it wouldn't unlock S2U2 on slide open, so I finally found a way (run iLock2.exe with the -nomsg parameter), but I didn't really like this approach, since it required me to relaunch S2U2.

So I ended up writing a small application that unlocks S2U2 by simulating a finger slide on the screen and I thought some users might also want it (it's attached in this post, just configure SlideActions to run it on slide open).

At first I wrote it in C# and it worked great, but it was very slow, so I ended up writing it again in C++.

The only drawback of the C++ version is that it doesn't check if S2U2 is the foreground window (this could lead to an undesired behavior).

I would appreciate any help about the GetWindowText function failure (PInvoked from C# it works, but native calls in C++ fail).

maxLength = GetWindowTextLength(foregroundWindow);

//commented out, it fails at the moment
//if (GetWindowText(foregroundWindow, sWindowCaption, maxLength) > 0)
{
//if (sWindowCaption == (LPWSTR)"S2U2")
{
...//simulate finger sliding the touchscreen
}
}
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] chitza:
Unlocking S2U2 - with check

Now it checks if the foreground window's caption is S2U2.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
The original reason for writing the Advanced options for slideActions was a need to work with S2U2 - it's just a generalised solution to that problem which allows SlideActions to work with other applications as well.

If you add S2U2 as an application in the advanced tab the default settings work quite happily with it (or at least used to, if nothing's changed). Hiding S2U2 when you Slide Open and bringing it back to the fore (it's locked screen) when Slide Closed.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] chitza:
Sorry, but it doesn't work for me (I just tried your suggestion).

All I get is S2U2 (v1.40) flashing a little bit (it's showing the home screen and then it shows itself again). Is there any other trick/setting?

I searched for S2U2 command line parameters to no avail, but I didn't find one that unlocks it... I even peeked in the source-code of SlideActions (older versions), using Reflector, still no luck :)

So, is it a S2U2 setting that I'm missing?
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
I just downloaded, installed and tested S2U2 1.41 and it works fine on my phone with SlideActions -

I'm using HTCs ROM WWE_2.09.405.1 with SPB Menu, with no other U.I changes.

I turned off 'Lock Keys' On Close and 'Unlock Keys' On Open because that will be handled by S2U2 then just added S2U2.exe in the Advanced tab - the defaults settings being appropriate and it works fine.

I have noticed that when I turn SPB Menu off S2U2 seems to want to stay around. This does seem to be different behaviour from my past experiences which may be new ROM or S2U2 related and down to the nature of the Today Window and what ought be/is in the foreground.

Changing S2U2's OnClose behaviour in SlideActions Advanced tab to 'Close' rather than 'Hide' solves that one.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] chitza:
Indeed it works by closing S2U2, thanks for you help.

I think S2U2 detects it's being hidden without unlocking and tries to remain on screen (maybe to compensate with some other applications interfering with it). I'll make a small app that hides it every X seconds to confirm that.

In the mean time maybe I could convince A_C to add a feature to iLock or handle a specific WM_ message in S2U2 that unlocks/hides it :)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
If you have any luck at that could you try and convince Microsoft to provide an Unlock API please.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] lilfellabob:
slide unlocks?

Hey guys got a HTC touch dual a couple of days ago and have been screwing around trying to get the settings to my liking. However Slide actions doesnt instantly unlock my keys when i slide the phone, it comes up with Press "cancel" then press "Unlock". then once i cancel that message it unlocks. Any idea why this happens or how to fix it. Its very annoying having to slide then cancel the message for it to automatically unlock.

Please help,

lilfellabob
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
The phone is supposed to unlock automatically on slide open, but isn't at all reliable. I use Spb Shell and that totally breaks the phones native unlock on slide open.

So I wrote code in SlideActions to do it for me, BUT...

There is no documented 'Unlock' API for Window Mobile that I can find, so what SlideActions has is a kind of hack attempt to provide one.

I have few problems with it, but some people find that they do. There is nothing I can do about it until I find a proper API for the job. I've done the best I can with what I know.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] iago_00:
I was trying to have phone dialer opened but it doesn't work. I have m2d installed. any fix?
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
If you go back a couple of pages you'll see instructions on how to run vtkey.exe on slide open which I suspect is what you want.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] diddles:
OK....This program rocks. I installed it on my phone and my fiance's phone. It works flawlessly on her phone, but when i click on "MORE" I get a error, invalid cast exception . Does anyone have any ideas? I tried to reinstall both programs, but to no avail
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
"More"? That word is no-where in SlideActions interface.

Could you provide more detail please?
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] diddles:
Duh, I think I didn't explain good enough. I am using S2U2C, the customizer. When I click change, and then try to click on the "MORE" button, it gives me the "InvalidCastException" error, and i have to quit the program. The "MORE" option gives you the opportunity to change the text on the screen, change the exception programs, and stuff like that.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
This would be a question for the provider of S2U2C then. This thread is only about the Slideactions application I wrote and I've no knowledge of S2U2C at all.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] diddles:
Cool....Thanks. i thought I saw a similare question asked earlier in this thread. I'll ask Mushi.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] eloco:
Nice work. For sure i gonna give a donation for this usefull app.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] MoritzN:
Same here - the application works fine with HTC Home or anything else and loads Dialer on slide-open, but not with Manilla 2D, probalby because checking (and seeing a different) foreground process.

It works if you put the dialer (\windows\vtkey.exe) as an advanced action, but that will open it, not regaring where you are (don't want dialer when i slide open while writing an email e.g.).

Possible solutions would be a) add a feature to advanced like "this action only when XYZ in foreground running" or b) add M2D to the general lit of processes being checked when the slide-close actions are taken.

Anyway, thank for that COOL application so far, really good stuff, I hope development continues!
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] ferrex:
Hmmm, I may have a thunk about adding a conditional feature to Advanced options.

Development however is unlikely given my current spare time is mostly learning to write apps for the iPhone.
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] MoritzN:
I'd love to get it working - so if you find some time somewehere.. Wouldn't adding M2D interface to the "is running" checklist for homescreen apps be a quicker&dirtier way to get it on the road ;-) ?

Thanks for yourfast reply!!

Moritz
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] alexnalexn:
I have installed the cab file (fm : http://puna.net.nz/wm6/HTCDTExtend.CAB) into my mobile,

but I cannot find Ionwerks under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ .........

Did I make something wrong ? :confused:
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] snudel:
because noone opens the slider to call someone. what for??? the keys on the screen are big enough to dial with fingers...
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus General] pp18:
ferrex has mentioned it. you need to create the keys manually. if no such registry key found, by default the three features are regarded as "On".