yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
Hmmmm, nothing against java, but wont that get even slower in our machines? :(

New Version 4:

- Lighter flat background (looks better)

- movieclip drops now remove themselves after falling (better for the memory on the long run)

- After 3 seconds inactive, the drops start falling by themselves randomly.

- You can now add your own background picture, just place bg.jpg in this folder:

> For WM6 (not sure about WM5) the folder is /Application Data/Volatile/FlashRipple4

> For WM2003 the folder is /temp/FlashRipple4

If for some reason this is not the folder, run it once and search for a folder called FlashRipple4 with your Explorer application.

As always, sourcecode and EXE included in the zip, I also included a background image for testing.

PS: Epyon, here is an ideia for a nice background for your niece: ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Pisca:
Thanks Twolf

Real nice and improving
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bornotty:
hey thanz again.. this version is slower compared to others because this has got the automatic ripple.. anyways now it just needs better gfx, maybe like the one shown in the above java link.. and i have added this in the first page.. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
Slower? ...really? :/

I just noticed a slowdown in the end since v to v2, after that is always the same animation, so it shouldnt be any slower...

The automatic ripple only kicks in after 3 seconds and its the same code, its just... you know, automatic. :)

I really cant do much more to speed it up with the transparency, its already in low quality by default... :(

And if I try to make the image on the background distort according to the ripples, my pocket pc will explode... :D

Thanks for putting it on the first post, but I'd remove the "Finding nemo" screenshot, it may confuse ppl. ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
Just to see how slow flash is in our (current) machines with bitmap distortion...

LOLface

Press any part of the screen to distort the picture's face.

Press up/down to change between high/low quality (default is medium).

If you want to place your own picture, then use the extra EXE, in the myLOLface folder.

for that, place your 240x320 jpg in:

> For WM6 (not sure about WM5) the folder is /Application Data/Volatile/LOLface

> For WM2003 the folder is /temp/LOLface

If for some reason this is not your folder, then run it once and search for a folder called LOLface with your Explorer application.

Sources included in the zip.

Its too slow to have fun with in my 400mhz, 73mb of free RAM Touch Dual, maybe its faster in your pocket (thanks for the video drivers, HTC)... ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DairyKnight:
I really doubt whether this will happen. Right now, there's no PPC device with Multi-Touch, and the CPU power doesn't seem to be enough.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
This is your fault... hehehe

Can't sleep...

Flash Fixe

I had to redo the water drops, so it would use less memory, its not as nice, but it'll run fairly good in most machines.

You can test it here:

http://www.zshare.net/flash/17110990e05d1f9a/

To use:

Press or drag anywhere to create water ripples.

The more ripples, the better you see the background clock.

You can interact with the fishes also, they nudge slitly to the sides by touching them.

Press up/down on your keypad to select high/low quality, default is medium.

Press left/right to activate the rain mode.

Sources and EXE included in the zip (WARNING, bad coding inside!).

Enjoy :)

I will not drink coffee after 21h.

I will not drink coffee after 21h..

I will not drink coffee after 21h...

X(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Epyon:
That is great!

I think you should drink MORE coffee, because insomnia really brings out your creativity :D

On FlashRipple4, could you decrease the frequency of the automatic taps? It's a little too much I think.

I downloaded the trial version of Bryht and have been playing around a bit. I haven't come up with anything worth posting though :rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bereda:
great job twolf now i know someone knows how to make a flash version of s2u2 if you do what you just did with the fish on a locking app itd be so cool
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
twolf,

I love your flash files, excellent work! Would like to see if the following can be done:

You have the fishes swim randomly. Upon pressing the touchscreen, can the fishes swim towards the ripple, it's like feeding the fishes? :D

Agree that if this can be incorporated into S2U2, it would be an excellent application.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] CraZyLiLbOy:
It's funny how people compare this table surface to an iphone/itouch lol
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bornotty:
:D ahh.. nice development with the fishes but,. we must not forget we are trying to bring up the image of Microsoft's Surface :D

twolf drink more coffee you seriously rock in flash!!

ill add another video of surface to inspire you all, im totaly crazy about it.. :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbqS9x7sBZA
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bornotty:
can you change the background and make a .jar format for windows mobile ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g00ndu:
I tried converting swf to gif, and is able to get the fishes in gif.

However, the gif file is hugh.

twolf, would be great if you can delete the time (you can of course keep your signature :D). With that I am trying to get the gif into s2u2. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bornotty:
well i mentioned that in my first post :) that instead of the multi touch feeling lets try to bring the single touch for our device, same stuff using one finger only and not two :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
Really? I though they were too little, thats why I created the 'rain mode' in the fishes... But if you want, open the FLA and, in the library, open the movieclip called COUNTER and add more frames after the label LOOP.

That should do it. ;)

I really cant even try to do that, this is flash, not so fast and not a multitouch eye-candy smooth application...

I'm just working whith what I have... :(

I made some nicer (or more eye-candy) flash movies for a today plugin gadget, but it cant have many animations, or else it becomes so slow its useless, see them here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=414315

g00ndu, a gif file would be waaaaay too heavy, because of the random movement of the fishes and the degrades in the ripples... Also, since its not flash, it could be so much more... the fish could have scales (texture), smoother fin movement and shadows, the ripples could be smoother and include bitmap distortion and the background could have a moving texture. Or you can use a movie from Vista DreamScenes, it will be much good-looking.

There is so much more it can do when its not restricted to a low mhz machine...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
As a test, I did this version...

Special EyeCandy version (good luck with that):

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Transparent ripples

The ripples are now on top of the fishes

Scales on the fixes

Shadows on the fishes

Changed the way fish swim

Changed the way fish leave the screen

Changed the way fish react to being touched (they give a smooth full 180º turn now)

Changed the background back to v1 (its cleaner)

The clock is on top of everything else (it was the only way to be seen, I removed my name from the screen so that it wouldnt bother much)

Corrected a bug in the minutes

The keypad codes work as before, low/high quality, rain mode on/off (still has a small bug)...

I was going to make the fish come near the places where you touch (as requested), but they'd always be too clutered that way...:(

Test it here:

http://www.zshare.net/flash/1712970283d7eedf/

This version is soooo slow on my machine. :D

Sourcecode and EXE included in the zip.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
Btw, relative to "eye Candy", interactive and drag-and-drop gadgets, here are a few screens from the other post:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=414315
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
Sorry for the excessive posting, the forum only allows 4 images for post. : (
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bornotty:
its ohk twolf we all appreciate your work :)

i have seen the above flash work in other thread, i hope it will be in built in the next version of ThrottleLauncher :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bornotty:
btw, this is an app more like relating the ms surface

can you please change this one as a .exe file ? :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
I can, but it should have more interaction... Also it would have to accept our own images.

I made a website a while back for some friends, with something similar to that:

http://www.ogamico.com

Where you can stretch the pictures by pressing on the bottom right tip, drag them around or click on the name to jump to the area... But I wanted something a little more elaborated, even though we dont have the multitouch, any ideias?

;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bornotty:
your a genius twolf!! :D please make a early exe of it!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Pisca:
In fact the last version is real slow in my Wizard, but.... what can I do

Wait, you can make a miracle
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bornotty:
yeaa twolf already mentioned that its damn slow :( its just for experiment though..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
As requested...

FotoFlash:

Press and drag the pictures to move them around.

Click the right-bottom tip to strech it.

Click the top-left tip to rotate it (still some bugs here).

With the extra EXE you can add your own pictures.

Keypad up/down for high/low quality.

Press enter to exit the application.

To add your own pictures, just place img_1.jpg (1,2,3... maximum 8) with 320x240 px in this folder:

> For WM6 (not sure about WM5) the folder is /Application Data/Volatile/FotoFlash

> For WM2003 the folder is /temp/FotoFlash

If for some reason this is not the folder, run it once and search for a folder called FotoFlash with your Explorer application.

As always, sourcecode and EXE's included in the zip.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mbarvian:
my god twolf, these apps are amazing!

keep it up ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] berchielli:
twolf, você é um gênio! Ficou maravilhoso seu aplicativo das fotos, o único problema é a lentidão!(HTC Touch).

Se continuar a trabalhar neles, quem sabe não encontra um jeito de deixá-los rápidos? Sem dúvida um aplicativo para o dia-a-dia.

Parabéns.

Comprimentos do Brasil!

Alias, excelente forum o PPCtuga!

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Excelent work twolf! Very nice app.

Keep the good work.

Tks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
Thank you vey much :)

Unfortunelly I cant speed it up without removing the "niceness" factor, Flash is not supose to be fast on slow machines, and 400mhz is slow already, so 200mhz... :D

You can see it by the FlashFixe example, the "light" version runs fine on mine, but its no way near as beautifull as the "EyeCandy" version.

Flash Lite 2.1 is a little faster than flash 7 and I belive Flash lite 3 (that's supose to come out this year) may be even faster, but it brings more memory bugs there werent there before and there arent good tools out there to use them on our pockets pc's.

Even the EXE's I made had to be done by an external aplication, since Macromedia/Adobe never really gave us a way to create the WinCE EXE's (even though it says on the flash documentation)...

So, honestly, I'm waiting for the new ppc's processor and RAM revolution pending since the iPhone came out... :D

And no more HTC machines in the future for me, they are good looking but dont really care about video drivers...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Pisca:
FotoFlash tested in my Wizard, with low def. almost perfect

One question, if I include my photos they are suposed to be downgrade to 320x240 and renamed like in Source folder ?

Thanks for your effort and Nice work

ps: tested with my pics, renamed to img_1 .. and replaced in Source folder, as well as in My pictures and Flash Folder in Volatile, but when I ask the exe, the pictures shoan are the ones loaded, not the new ones
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
The mypics EXE has to be in the same folder as the original was, and with the same name... ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bornotty:
this is simply awesome im using fl7 on my elf, its bit slugish but once you get your finger on the application you just never stop.. thanx again twolf for a fast response.. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] datawrhsdoc:
Oh...that's simply disturbing.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bornotty:
its just for fun and experimenting ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Pisca:
Sorry I couldn't figure the right direction :confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
You may like the original better, lol...

Pisca, lets see this step by step...

I'm assuming you have the EXE in the root of your Storage Card, if not, place FotoFlash.exe there so that we can test it, the correct EXE is the one inside Mypics folder on the zip.

Run FotoFlash.exe, there should be no pictures showing (if there are, either you have the wrong EXE, or I made a mistake, hehehe)

Now grab 8 pictures you like and resize them to 240x320px with the JPG extension.

Rename them to img_1.jpg, img_2.jpg , img_3.jpg , img_4.jpg , img_5.jpg , img_6.jpg , img_7.jpg and img_8.jpg .

After running the EXE, you'll have an empty folder in your storage card, it should be somethig like: Storage Card/temp/FotoFlash

If this is not the folder path, search for a folder called FotoFlash with your Explorer application.

When you find it, place your own pictures in that folder and run the EXE again, all should work now.

;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Pisca:
Thanks, I'll try it

I have in my pda root, but if I can move to Sd-Card, great

Also I've resized 320-240, I'll change to 240x320, might be the diference, also they are renamed img_x.jpg

Thanks for your help

ps: I've used the whole pack, another mistake, should be only MiyPics folder
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
Oooops, sorry, it was 320x240px, my mistake. It sould work anyway, it would just look bad, hehehe.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bornotty:
any luck with the WaterRipple the gfx work..??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
hmmmm, sorry, didnt uderstood that, what gfx work?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bornotty:
i mean the after touch effect.. the water ripple which still looks like several circles.. :o
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
Can you give me an example of that?

I mean, the real water ripples go on for a looong time, if I do that it'll just be slower and slower as you use it, also it comes back to the transparencies issue... :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi3LW5riHfc
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bornotty:
hmm,. already shown you the videos of my examples.. :)

now its turn to try for the bitamp dissortation single wave only.. which will create a single wave(circle) without any second circle following
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gammarho55:
s2u2 wallpaper?

i saw a mention of this earlier... wasn't sure if anyone got this running? is there any way to add the "eye candy" flash as a background in s2u2? i just think that would be awesome! great job guys... can't wait to see what u guys come up with next!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jazenf:
I can't get the latest version to work on my HTC Touch, what version of flash are you using ?

And is there anyway that I can use as my home page ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
I really dont know, gifs are too heavy and 256 colors, you'll have to ask the a2u2 author to make it throttle-compatible (because its the only good plugin out there for flash) or be able to read flash inside a html.

Flash 7, homepage??? do you mean today screen?

Only with throttle.

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Made a new version, by remixing the eye-candy version.

FlashFixe v3

Test it here:

http://www.zshare.net/flash/17241846b0b4f4c3/

What's new:

Change the background color to white, it looks cleaner

Removed two of the fishes to release memory

Kept some of the fish shadows and scales from the eye-candy version

Total remake of the remaining fish, he is now QUARK, a moody Lionhead goldfish ^_^

Total remake of QUARK swimming animation and programming

Total remake of QUARK random swimming path, he now zaps from one end of the screen to the other side

Total remake of the water drops animation and programming, to save memory

Click on QUARK turns the clock visible for a few seconds

Click on QUARK changes his color, six diferent colors: GoldenLion, RoseRed, YellowSub, DeepDark, AlienBlue and PowerpuffPink

I tried to make him follow our finger, but the animation becomes too weird, so I gave up on that again.

And tried for him to make a little turn every time it got clicked, but it looked like he was dancing.

Also tried to drag-and-drop him but that made the hole thing look fake, so removed all that...

To use:

Press anywhere on the screen to make a water drip effect, if you drag your finger across the screen it will create a water ripple path.

To see the clock, make some ripples across the middle of the screen.

If you don't press the screen for over 3 seconds, drops of rain will start to fall, they will stop as soon as you press anywhere on the screen.

To set the heavy rain mode on/off press left/right on your keypad, it will also stop if you press anywhere on the screen.

To set quality high/low press up/down on your keypad, default is medium.

Put it in high quality at least once to see the full effect. It can be slow, but so worth it...

When you click on QUARK he changes color and the clock becomes grey for a few seconds, don't overdo it, or he will get upset and leave (he will return eventualy, but the initial trust on you was lost)...

Press enter to exit the application.

As always, you need flash 7 installed and the source codes are included on the zip.

;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gammarho55:
thanks for the reply, twolf... can you please, please, please explain to me in plain terms how i can use this inside throttlelauncher. i'm beginning to get a bit bored with the whole "diamond" themes everyone is making, which is why i'm really looking forward to his next release. i'm not a programmer or such, so i get a bit confused with everyone's instructions. is there any way to replace throttlelauncher home page with this animation? all i really need on my home page is the clock anyways lol. once again, thanks for all your time and effort... we appreciate it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
Sorry, but i have to ask you to edit the previous post, that huge quote really isnt necessary... :(

I never did a throttlelauncher homepage, so I really dont know how its done, lol...

I saw some tutorials on how to do that, but havent read them yet.

I really wouldnt advise having this peticular flash on your today screen, you«d loose most of the battery on a day...

:D

But if you really want to go ahead with it, edit it with flash to remove all the frames (except the second one) in the clock, so that its always visible.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
Flash gadgets, possible with the future Throttle Launcher today plugin (Proof of concept)

(Flash+Gadgets=Flagets?) ewwwwwwww, this must win the uglyest name award, lol...)

Its not fully workable yet and it has some bugs, the ideia is to be a fully working today plugin.

This is just a quick preview on EXE format for now, its easier for everyone to see them working...

Click on the + to see more gadgets, click and drag them to the screen (if you just click it nothing happens, you really need to drag it).

See the option button, if needed and throw it to the garbage when you dont want it on screen anymore.

Oficial post: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=417256
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] EvgeniyKo:
twolf thank you :eek:, it is good idea, but maybe you make some more gadgets( the first time i dont now how see some more gadgets) , and make for today.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
Hmm, thank you, but i didnt understood your question... :S
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] EvgeniyKo:
I tell about the first time I dont understand how see some other gadgets ( need put on plus icon), and about maybe you make it for tuday screen WM.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Pisca:
Real nice, I'll be waiting next adjustments

You are a Genius

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
you click the + and then DRAG (not click) the itens you want to the middle of the screen...

This IS for a today plugin, didnt you saw the forum link? it will fully work on Throttle, he plugin is already available, but not finisehd yet, stuff like how much memory available is left or battery left still doesnt work.

I've included a more detailed explanation of the gadgets in the other post.

---edit---

Here's a small video showing it work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzluoAwDGrg

Its a little laggy because it was recorder with MyMobiler, its actually very smooth on my Pocket pc.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rxyamaha:
Game for Surface

Great work Twolf, I am loving the work done by him. Here is one more video to inspire you... Warcraft game for Surface.. Look at this it's awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEax1mJhJQ0&feature=related
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nir36:
would certainly be cool if there was an operating system or today screen working like this.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
well, I dont know, a table seems a big large to keep on your pocket, lol...

We are looking for ways to make the pocket pcs better looking and take full advantage of the toushcreen, that has been around at least since 2002, but neither M$ or any other company ever took it beyond the little stylus usage. iPhone came and gave them a good glance of how things could be done, and in good time... now better applications are poping up here and there, and not made by M$...

However, no matter how many good ideas we have, we are still limited to our current slow processor, RAM and non-multitouch screens.

So we cant really do a giant screen be able to respond to commands, multitouch or even play warcraft 3...

It would be great if we could, but we are not there yet... maybe when pocket pcs project holographic 3D images of the game and we can pick the player up one by one, then we can talk, lol...

So come on, send workable ideias...

And I have to say this, I do this in flash because its easy for me, but in a better compiler like C++ or .net (that I have no ideia how to use) things should be much lighter and smoother. also, flash isnt made to work with the operating system, so its very limited there... I have faith that APBilbo's Throttle flash today plugin, with all the FTCommands finished, could do a lot more, but in the meantime, is there any other developer in the house? :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nir36:
I didn't mean i'd like to see a tablesized pocket pc :)

What i meant is that we could use the same style for moving stuff and working with photos and other media but as you say this would obviously require a very strong gfx processor and fast cpus...

I do flash and I think that having the option of combining it with .net (all i know is ASP.. so i can't help there) is much stronger than just working with C++ ..