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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PaSSoA:
AutoRun iTask

Hi everybody,

So I've had a little time today so I've been playing around with the startup options. This is what I've found, even when I place itask.swf to run after server.exe runs, sometimes it opens with a white screen. I think it has something to do with the Today screen in WM itself, unless the wallpaper and / or theme of WM gets loaded as well, itask will have a white screen.

So I created a simple mortscript to ensure that "Today" is loaded first before itask gets executed. So far on my Atom, it's working fine :D

Here's what to do:

1. Download the itaskrun.zip and extract it

2. There are 2 files inside, itaskstart and itaskopen

3. Copy and paste itaskstart to \Windows\startup\ You do not need to create a shortcut. Ensure all other shortcuts (.lnk) to server.exe / itask.swf are deleted from the startup folder.

4. Copy itaskopen to \Windows\

5. Reboot and see if it works.

Note: itask launches almost immediately for me, but obviously applications like the phone might not be ready yet, be patient while the other applications / getting network loads in the background.

itaskopen is there so there so that when you press the red end key, it remains opened. If anyone doesn't want it, please download itaskrunonly.zip and follow steps 1 to 3

Hopefully it works for other devices too, and if anything goes wrong, just delete the file from \Windows\Startup\ and add your shortcuts back :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kaiser47:
i did not have more time recently to customise enough itask to make it my default ui, but last night i tested the last version of "ifonz" (another iphone-like interface on this forum).

pros : great config panel, as many pages as you want, potentially bigger icons, nice animation features (but terribly slow on my hermes), landscape mode compatible, working top-bar (sound/battery/...icons)

cons : not as reactive and fast as itask, not categorised apps = many pages to scroll to reach one particular app. no nice flash apps or rss reader ...

less functionnal and needs also lots of tweaking/config to make it really nice

conclusion : for me it is not as good as itask could be with very little modifications and further development.

i'm really ready to donate if itask continues and i hope Rhov23 will finally get out of his problems soon.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cavalloz:
does itask show the small red circle for missed calls, new sms and calendar events??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rhov23:
unanswered phone, sms, email. in order from left to right on the bottom buttons

:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rhov23:
I actually might get something done for tomorrow. An advanced calculator is already finished (as an addition to the simple calculator), maybe some appointment info, and a little bit more system info.

I've also started on testing out making it in landscape, and I've found a freeware rotate.exe app that might come in handy. I've not figured out how the layout will be, as the initial design of mainpage doesn't look very good in landscape. My plan is to make landscape version of mainpage, appspages, gamespage, iprogspage, calculator, weather, news, settings. This will take some time as most of these pages will need an almost complete rebuild when it comes to animation, position and size of some elements.

The problem with how to make the layout for landscape is that I use an odd number of buttons for the main page (15), which is only dividable by 3 or 5 and a 20 icons for apps page which is only divideable by 4 or 5 for practical symmetrical layout. This means that the gap between the icons will be fairly big in landscape, or I'll have to use 6 buttons in 3 rows and 2 buttons on the fourth row. :(

Thanks for your comment :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kennae1911:
Good to see you back dude, hang in there with whatever you are going through. Sometimes you have to work on projects to keep your mind off of things....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rde34:
We Appreciate it Rhov

If it hasn't been said enough, I just want to reiterate that we appreciate all of your hard work and innovation Rhov. You deserve every donation you get. No matter what you change/improve going forward, I will donate again. I've had to deal with some family issues farely recently so I can understand how much of a toll adversity can take. We all appreciate whatever you have time to do.

In addition, I've tested the ifonz software and wanted to report that itask is still a notch above all the rest. The attention to detail in the design of itask is superior. For my taste the amount of customization left for us to tinker with is what still sets itask apart. Ironically, I think for many in the "how do I..." and the "why can't I..." posts, this is what seems to cause some beginners the most problems. I think ifonz may may be easier for beginners to get all setup.

Anyway Rhov, it's good to hear that you're still able to keep this wonderful application moving forward. I hope everything else in your world is getting easier.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rhov23:
Thanks both to you and Kennea for your kind comments.

I look forward to working on iTask and I hope to give us all an update soon.

If anyone has any ideas, please share, creativity comes from input and experience, and both are equally valued from my perspective. iTask would not have come this far without you sharing your troubles with iTask, or your ideas.

If anyone out there with some flash knowledge are interested, I'm willing to co-develop iTask, as I lack some skills when it comes to xml, and probably many other areas as well.

Thanks again :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rde34:
Almost ready for primetime

As far as input goes, all I can think of are any ways to improve the performance further and making the games icon/section completely customizable(I know it sort of is already but, I'd maybe like to rename it something else and use it for something else). It sounds like you've read most of our minds with the prospective implementation of landscape. I still get the ActiveScript stuck error more than I'd like and some programs really lag when I open them from within itask while flash is running versus from the wm6 today screen. So, I guess my suggestions/input going forward would be solely based on improving the performance even further. However, itask has come a long way. I only close it a couple time each day when my system really starts to lag. Other than that, it is up and running on my Mogul as the UI probably about 70% of most days.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rhov23:
Yes the actionscript stuck is a problem. I have a feeling it is flash filling up the memory, especially on the main menu, with getting new info from sms/teleprovider etc. and not deleting the old info. byte by byte it eats up the memory. I have no way of testing it, but if itask is on for a day, without the device going to sleep mode it happens to me as well.

Performance is tweaked to almost maximum. I'll try and look over the code of the menus.

Landscape would be really something. It will take some time and effort, but it'll come soon enough :)

Games: You can rename it to whatever you like in input.txt (see the bottom part)

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rde34:
Thanks Buddy, I wasn't looking in the right place to change the Games Icon Text. I went to the bottom of Input.txt and figured it out. I'll keep tinkering with my device to see if there's a method I can employ to avoid the ActiveScript Stuck error. I'll keep you posted. Can't wait to see what further improvements you come up with next. Thanks, as always.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kaiser47:
i'm happy to see that rhov23 has not abandonned itask.

now if it can help for the next versions, here are my observations, features request grouped here :

-the last addition of a 2nd page with more icons in "apps" is a great thing, but i think each other section ("iprogs, games, ...) need that also = at least 2 pages per section.

-i dont know if this is fixed but there was a "localisation problem" in the rss news reader about french or latin news : the accents ( à, â,é, è, ï .....) were not displayed in the texts. see here

but to me there is something else more "painfull" in the rss reader : we must read all the news from one url before getting to the next url. would it be possible to add 2 other +/- buttons to select the url from wich we want the news ?

- a way to link the "right to left" gesture to the external slide to unlock program ?

-control problem in some iprogs flash apps : tetris game : dpad moves are not continuous, like in the pingpong game for example where if i keep dpad "right" pressed the bar continues to move right until it hits the wall.

In tetris, one press right = "one collum move" only even if i keep it pressed.

and it is annoying for a tetris game to press several times to make a block move quicker. also there is no "instant drop" by pressing dpad "down" : it is usefull

-the support of landscape mode ?

-a way to maximise the global performances, smoothness and reactivity if possible. but it is already one of the best. the only one proggy i know which is better on that point is pointui = very fast, responsive, and smooth interface.

-addition of a graphical config tool/menu witch can be called from inside itask or also external ?

now there nothing else i see to add to itask. these requests are only my feeling and may not suit other users. i know some of this features cant get implemented now, but rhov23 will choose what is really needed/usefull, and the priorities.

i have tested some flash games on my ppc recently and some do work, so rhov23 i can send them to you if you need more to add to "iprogs" ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PaSSoA:
iTask CAB Installer

Hi everyone,

I have taken the liberty to create a cab file for new users so that they won't be asking "Where's the root folder" or "Where to download Flash Lite" etc.

Steps:

1. Extract the zip file to your PC

2. Copy the 3 cab files to your device

3. Install Flash Lite 2.1

4. Install Mortscript

5. Install iTask

Reboot, itask should now open whenever your device starts up with server.exe running first, you

do not need

to manually open server.exe or itask.swf . If you do not want this setting, navigate to \Windows\Startup and delete itaskstart

If for whatever reason you wish to uninstall this great application, you can do so by navigating to Start\Settings\Remove Programs\ choose "Rhov23's iTask" and click remove ;)

It's that simple. Cheers! :D

Sorry bout this download link, can't seem to upload to this site. I'll try again later. For the time being, you can download it from

here

Edit: Finally managed to add the attachment, I'll keep the other link as a mirror. For those who have tried it, a little feedback if it works will be good. Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mcfarlan:
Hi,

This is the only method I have tried to install this theme. However, there are some issues to be resolved. (1) It is replaces my dialler with the default HTC (2) Replaces my contact list with a listing of French? contacts (3) Programs are launching on their own at random, the program then exits . (4) If I select an icon that apparently I don't have the correct path to, I get stuck in a screen that says "udefined" and have to soft-reset to get out.

I did soft-resets and re-installed a couple of times to see if it would work better but there was no difference.

Think I will try the long way first and then determine if the issue is iTask or the cab installs.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kaiser47:
i have not tested passoa's cab but perhaps the only issue is : you didnt read this topic to find how itask works

- you dont need reset to get out of itask : dpad action buton or red phone key.

- "Programs are launching on their own at random, the program then exits" - i guess these are only loading screens (= pictures) if you dont configure your input.txt then dont expect itask to work for you.

all this and the other issues you are talking about have solutions or at least informations in this topic, you just have to read before asking.

and keep in mind that itask is not really a theme, and it is a dev in progress = not finished. so if you just want something that works after install try something else or come back later ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mcfarlan:
Thanks for the quick response. I did read, but maybe I did not understand...I only soft reset to get my buttons enabled again, like unfreeze my phone not to get out of iTask. I am not being critical, just relating my experience after reading the thread and taking the easy install.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cavalloz:
they don't work, i don't know why but they don't show the red pic for sms, phone or calendar.

and can i set itask to show only 4 icons per row just like the iphone?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PaSSoA:
If you've configured input.txt correctly and the paths are right, then the buttons will work. As mentioned in an earlier post, itask seems to load faster then other applications on startup, meaning that even when the itask loads, the device is still booting up in the background, so when you try clicking on something, it goes back to the main page. Please be patient and give the buttons a try again after everything boots. As for the htc dialer / random pictures those are your loading screens which you can replace by running loadani.exe, instructions are in the manual. To exit itask, just click on the battery icon, you don't have to reset your device and if you get a actionscript:stuck or undefined error, just tap and hold the screen, a sub-menu will appear and you can open itask from there again.

All of us are here to help one another, I believe constructive criticism help especially in a development-in-progress application such as this :)

I think this application is not meant to be a iPhone clone but an alternative, so you have to check with Rhov23 on that. Make sure server.exe is running before itask opens, if you're using the script / cab I made, you shouldn't have that problem.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cavalloz:
they do work now thanks man.

i downloaded your itaskrun but i dont have a "startup" directory in \windows\ so i don't know what to do. i tried to create that directory but it doesnt work
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mcfarlan:
Hello PassoA,

The problem was being caused by WA/3. I had it configured to run at startup and it did not play well with iTask. Once I stopped running Wisbar on startup, I no longer had the freezing problem. Your Cab install works well..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mec235:
Good job, very usefull for new user.

But my antivirus has found a problem with "MORTSC-1.001" in MortScript...CAB.

Please, can you check it ? Thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kaiser47:
must be a "false positive" . all modern and paranoid antivirus behave like this sometimes with particular programs. i ve been forced to change my antivir 2 years ago because of this : blocking one of my favourite programs because of a suspicious dll :-(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rhov23:
I'm well on the way of making a landscape version :)

I've made an almost seamless switch between portrait to landscape and back again, and landscape version of mainmenu, weather, news, and calculator is now finished.

There are some troubles still to figure out, like the loading animations in landscape. It would be really boring to have to make loadani's for the double amount of programs (both in landscape and portrait), so I'm really not sure what to do here. Maybe I'll just skip the loadani's all together in landscape.

Another thing is that some of the internal apps, especially games are dependent on being played in portrait, so I'll probably remove the link for them in landscape-mode for less confusion.

I really hope you'll enjoy the upcoming landscapemode, because it makes it harder to make updates, cause I'll have to write for both landscape and portrait when I make changes.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rde34:
We can't wait! Please keep us posted.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PaSSoA:
Hmm.. what device WM versions are you using? It's strange you don't have one.

Great job sorting it out, it should work fine :)

Thanks. Definitely a false positive, this cab is from the official mortscipt website. I myself have used it for installation and everything's working fine.

Wow! good job on that, personally I have no need for landscape, but of course I'm sure there are many who uses it, so great work on that. I agree that maybe you should just get rid of loadani for the landscape mode, it might be too much hassle.

I think leave some of the applications that run in portrait, 'cos on the other hand when in portrait mode, there are applications that also run in landscape mode, like camera album etc, I don't think it needs to be 100% landscape but apps like pocket IE or whatever browser should open up in landscape. Of course if it's easier to get rid of it altogether, then it's your call ;)

What are the thoughts of the users here, I'm sure more feedback will be useful? :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Videonut:
Hi rhov23. Glad to see you here, hope all is well or getting better.

Did you get a chance to try the newer version of my dataconnection program in post 861. I put in error checking so hopefully it'll work for everyone now without crashing. I would love to see it implemented into the program for the RSS and Weather apps. It turns out that if you're already connected to the network that running the dataconn program won't cause any problems, for me anyway, so implementing it into the program shouldn't cause anyone problems.

I would really appreciate it if people with different devices and Phone providers would try it out and post back any issues. You can test it without using iTask, if you want, by going into programs and finding DataConn once it's been installed.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rhov23:
It didn't do anything on my device. Sorry :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mcfarlan:
Someone may have already said this so ignore if it is a repeat.

I was not getting the screen shots the way I wanted them to look but wanted the animation effect. I therefore took a wait screen from one of the themes on the forum (Torx iphone) and replaced all of the 'loadpics' in the iTask folder with that one image. Looks really good and consistent. I would probably do the same in a landscape version using a 320x240 image.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cavalloz:
qtek 2020

windows mobile 6.1
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Videonut:
Are you on a GSM system? I'm CDMA so maybe that's the reason it works for me and not you.

Do you have to manually start a data connection to use the RSS and Weather or does your phone connect automatically?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cavalloz:
why doesn't imput.txt have "&mainexec5=" or "&mainexec8=" or "&mainexec9="???

i need those to link my apps but if i add them they dont work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rhov23:
Because the internal apps are there
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rick GM:
Pictures & Videos

Anyone know why I can't assign Pictures & Videos on my HTC Touch to an apps icon. I'm using this text: &appsexec11=\windows\Start%20Menu\Programs\Pictures%20&%20Videos.Ink&END

Good to see you back on the scene Rhov23 and hope things are improving for you.

ps the space in "pictures" isn't in my text
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rhov23:
You cannot have "&" command in the text as this is used to seperate the variables in input.txt.

As noted in my little manual, check out this site to get the url-code for "&"

Edit: the url code for "&" is %26

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14143&sliceId=2

Hope this helps :)

edit: Thanks for your concern btw :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mcfarlan:
Rhov,

Took some dedicated time to understand and configure the relationships between all of the parts (loadani was the last for me). I have installed many looks, themes whatever you want to call them and I must say itask is really great. Good work man...looking forward to v1
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cavalloz:
can i change them to something i need more?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rick GM:
Tried this; &appsexec11=\windows\Start%20Menu\Programs\Pictures%20%26%20Videos.Ink&END and also this;

&appsexec11=\windows\Start%20Menu\Programs\Pictures%26Videos.Ink&END but neither would work !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rhov23:
I'll have a look at it. In the meantime you can just delete the "&" in .lnk file :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] TheChampJT:
For pictures and videos use \windows\pimg.exe
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rick GM:
Deleting the "&" didn't work but The Champs solution has it sorted. Thanks. BTW, using \windows\pimg.ink wouldn't work either.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rhov23:
I mean't deleting the "&" in the real .lnk file, not the text in input.txt :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cavalloz:
is it possible to change the internal apps icon link??

i dont need the calculator, the news or wheater...

thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rick GM:
I tried that as well- still no joy. It doesn't seem to like some .ink files. Works perfectly with Word Mobile.Ink, Excel Mobile.Ink, Powerpoint, Adobe. Pointing it to pimg.ink, no good, pimg.exe works fine.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Videonut:
I just noticed you're using "I"(ink) and not "L"(lnk) in your description here.

That'd be a problem in the input.txt file
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rick GM:
You've solved my problem Videonut. Good spot. Thanks !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jy06:
hi,

in first time i want to congrutulate you for your amazing job!!! (sorry for my english)

in second time on my phone, the network operator name is not displayed, it didn't display missed calls or sms, i have try launch server but it is the same ( many try,after soft reset etc), i have a symbol just before the speaker symbol but don't know what it is (maybe for bluetooth or wifi but both are not active).

just for information when i tap on the header (think you call like this, where there is battery status etc) it goes back to wm6 today screen

if it can help it is a lg ks20 with wm2006

for finish many thanks for this amazing job!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mainguy21:
it wont even let me install it. i keep getting errors saying something about its installed on a disk??? sorry this is my 1st post and im sorta new to this.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Alkhal:
A few Questions for Rhov23

Hey Rhov23, I was wondering if you could help me assign the gesture on the main screen to S2U2? The gesture I am referring to is "slide left" over the digital time.

Also is it possible to alter or switch the weather icons? If so where is it located?

And is it possible to alter the date format on the main screen?

Going through your PDF kind of inspired me to learn Flash. This actually fun :D

Thanks Rhov23.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rde34:
Rhov, what's the latest?

Rhov, for all of the fans of itask, how about an update on how your work is coming along? You got us all excited with mention of what you had been working on recently. Thanks and we all hope you're doing well.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rhov23:
I'm on easter holiday now, I will not be able to finish the update until some time in the next week.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cavalloz:
please tell me