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[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] mkucuksari:
It was working before, but not now ??

I was using your 1 st Beta version and it was working perfect.

Then I installed Beta.2 ver (first uninstall the previous version of course :)) and notice that after succesfully installation, when I press "GetImg" button, the prg is closing itself, instead of opening the camera :confused:

("Line / Box Move" button is still working. I can also draw line and resize the box)

Then I try to use first Beta which was working perfect before. And get the same fault.

What can be the prb ?? Any idea.

PS: In order to help you, I want to share the big differences happened at my phone since the first succesfull working period. (that I can remember of course:)

1- I am not sure if my Net CF 3.5 is still working correctly or not. Does your prg require it?

2- I also installed Net CF 2.0 for some other reason.

3- I installed the new HTC application " HTC Footprint" from the following thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=478088

This prg is also using the camera for getting pict. So I thought that there can be a conflict with your prgm. But after uninstalling the footprint, your prg was still not working :(
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] DarkAngelFR:
Hello,

Ok yes DarkRuler was build in DotNet CF 3.5. If you install this, the CF2.0 is useless (3.5 includes 2.0).

Tell me if this fix the problem, I will try to see if I can build this app in 2.0 but not sure because of the AutoUpdate feature...

Thanks for support and feedback!!

Regards,

DarkAngel
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] mkucuksari:
Hi,

After hard-resetting and installing NET CF 3.5, your wonderfull prg starts to work properly again. :)

Many thanks, and waiting the new versions :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] DarkAngelFR:
[APP] DarkRuler . FinalBETA : Measure Tool

Hello,

For those having the beta running, go to "option" menu and check for update......

For others : download the CAB here, go to the option menu and do the update to latest version...

What's new :

New Design (tell me if you have any ideas to improve this)

BugFix : the photo should now be fully visible in the box (was cut!!)

AutoUpdate now automatic to be always on the latest release (optional)

Now you can change the "box size"...use this carefully!!

What's next :

Trying hard to integrate the camera view inside the application instead of running the camera program (any developers here ?)

Adding default size for boxes (CreditCard, PostalCard, RedBull Can, ... any suggestion?)

Thinking about automatic card detection (just thinking)

Still looking to find an easy way to add "rotate the card"

Looking to improve the "user-friendly"...

Other small things...

That's all for today...more news to come on my blog here and on twitter here (lol new on this ;))

Hope you will like this and use it sometimes :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] mbritten:
anyone have another place to download this program from? can't seem to download with these links
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] JudgeDredd67:
Yes, I would also like to try this out but all links are dead. It would be nice if someone could upload it here.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] ebay.kom:
Dead Links

Hey , Same for me here ,,,,,,:(
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] 07accordEX:
here you go
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] DarkAngelFR:
Thanks 07accordEX!

Sorry for this broken link, the brother of my girlfriend is @home and turned off my server this night!!!! :mad: :eek:

I will put CABs on another mirror but you can use the update feature of the CAB given by 07accordEX (the update are using Microsoft Azure Servers so never OffLine :p )
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] 07accordEX:
heh dont mention it

were all here to help each other out

I cant wait to see the next update!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] DarkAngelFR:
@07accordEX : you like the new design ? Any feature request for next update ? ;)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] ozkarah:
that is one of the most innovative idea I have seen recently. thanks
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] 07accordEX:
only thing im waiting on is improvement of the box for better measurements

does the box resize if the picture is up close? if not I guess that would be a good future feature
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Weisan:
it works nice. thought of changing the box size with stylus instead? like putting 2 dots and then make the box out of the 2 dots or something like that.

maybe make a icon too.

when moving the box the stylus isnt centered in the box mayb u made it that

also i got a error when i go to menu-> option after that it crashes.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] JudgeDredd67:
It would be very cool if you could also use the line tool to set the baseline. Say you know the distance between two points, you drag the line from one to the other then enter the distance and then you could mesure anything else. This way you could measure much larger objects. Maybe also if you could zoom in to set the box the zoom out to mesure? Just ideas. :)

Edit: Never mind :) I figured it out. Draw the line you know the distance of then go back to the box and adjust the box till the line measures what the distance is. Then go back to the line tool and your ready to go.

What a super app. Very good work.

Thanks. JD
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] DarkAngelFR:
will reply to all later (time to eat here lol)

quickly : http://web.idlezone.org here you will find mirror for CAB files ;)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] DarkAngelFR:
Thanks, it was more a technical challenge to me at start, really appreciate it's being used!

To resize the box you should use the 'D-Pad'...turn around to increase/decrease the box size.

Nice idea to be able to place the box in 2 "click"!

Yep, this is not an error! I made this so you can use the application without the stylus...using a finger you should still see where you place the box!

In the detail box do you have more informations? What device are you using? In the option menu of the latest release I'm just showing the settings so you can change them, looks strange it fails to load...

I see what you mean, and your idea is to be able to edit the "box size in cm" using the picture instead of option menu? Should be nice to have a choice "Use a CBlike box // Use a Line"....Will think on this!

Thanks all for those feedback, the harder part of this program is to keep the interface "user-friendly" so don't worry if sometimes updates bring you strange design updates ;) I may test small things :D

See Ya'

DarkAngel
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Weisan:
i found the problem. i downloaded the file 07accordEX attached thinking it was the "FINALBETA" but it was worse... 2.0.5 or smth so i connected through AS and options worked and i updated to 2.1.3.

after update the picture get squeezed from top to bottom. instead of cutting from top and bottom like the previous version.

i will try a install from ur site and try if the problem still persist.

EDIT* downloaded from http://web.idlezone.org. same version as 07accordEX posted b4. the option crash is still there and is probably caused by me not have a data connection active. (modaco nodata)

no biggy i can live with 2.0.5
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] DarkAngelFR:
** oups **

okey this is my mistake!!

I will fix this tonight and publish quickly the update (should be available in about 2/3 hours, time for me to get back from work, fix and build and publish ;) )

BugFix ok and published to Azure : should be better (resize the picture keeping the aspect ratio!)

Just turn on the autoupdate option when connected to the net so you will get the next release that fix this issue!! (an "Update" button will blink on top after some time depends on network!)

The old release was connecting to the net to check for update when openning the option menu, now it connects in background when autoupdate is ON, if no web then it fails silently :)

See Ya,

DarkAngel

PS: this is the first real bug noticed here!!!! not enough tests on this "picture stuff" ^^
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] DarkAngelFR:
Hello,

Just a small message here to tell you guys that the latest beta version will be online soon (this night if everything goes nice).

I've added support for non-htc device (more or less, to be more tested) and added things for the "picture position and size". Next release will come later with many things requested here (card orientation change, other use than a card, ...) but before I will clean up the code since this is my first "complete app" I have lots of things to clean up (it's more technical than visual but well...)

I may post a new thread for DarkRuler in the more "global" part of this forum since it should (after this long beta period) be compatible with almost any winmo 6 / framework 3.5 devices!

Hope you still have fun with this app sometimes!!

See Ya'

DarkAngel
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] skymario:
Thx your hardwork, i like this application.

Great idea, make my diamond become ruler.:D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] DarkAngelFR:
This is a pretty expensive ruler :rolleyes: happy you like it!

I'll publish next release in something like 2/3 weeks depends on bugs and time I have here...

If anyone here has some "quick request" (I mean they would like something fast) just ask so I may do this quickly :D

See Ya'
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] bbonzz:
DarkAngel, i'm testing it on my HD: in no way i can change the box size. Not with hardware buttons, not double tapping (as in Opera), not drawing a "virtual circle" around the zoom area (it's how we zoom in htc photo album with HD), not with soft keyboard...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] NLS:
the new devices with no d-pad (hooow smart)

in any case even in my TP, the d-pad is not "pixel perfect" in resizing the rectange

the application misses things like:

- free resize of the rectangle with the stylus

- zoom the picture for greater detail in positioning the rectangle (but not lose the other measure even if it extends beyond the zoomed region)

- rotate
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] schmeichler:
first - GREAT APP/IDEA!!!

concerning resizing... how about a different way of doing this? For sure moving a box over a creditcard in the pic is fancy - but for measuring/calculating you only need a defined reference right?

How about these steps:

- take a pic

- choose reference (creditcard, cd-cover, ... whatever - but has to be common and defined)

- mark reference! no moving a box but more setting start and end of creditcard (long side)

-> no moving or resizing necessarry

- measure...

known references could then also be entered by us - like using a car key or anything we always have with us and know it's size :D

would this not make using it easier?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] DarkAngelFR:
Hello,

Double tap is not implemented but the "virtual circle" should work...if not maybe click on the "up" button (dPad) should increase size and "down" for decrease...Strange you got this issue but maybe the library I'm using is not 100% ok with the HD, could you just please confirm me you're using the latest build ?

Many other requests come in this direction, I'm really trying to think of a simple way to do this kind of zoom/rotation...I think I will allow to change picture size event after box position (today is "take picture, position and resize, validate, position/resize box and line")

I'm working on this kind of thing, I was thinking on having a mode where you choose the "reference type" just after picture is taken. Reference type would be a list of known "objects" and you would be able to add/remove items in this list... Will be implemented in v1. The main problems I'm facing now are more design problems than technical ones, I have to find a nice "user friendly" way to give those functions without loosing space on screen...

If any of you out there wants to send my your design ideas (event done with paint lol) do not hesitate!!!

Thanks to all for testing and sending me feedback, I will soon post here a complete list of requests and kind of schedule for implementation so you will be able to tell me what's the most important for you ^^

For your information the app is now OpenSource here : http://darkruler.codeplex.com

I will keep this up-to-date so you can follow my work on this project :rolleyes:

Again thanks all for those feedback!!

DarkAngel
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] NLS:
Great... my kind of guy.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] bbonzz:
yes, it's version 3.0.1.0. i've tried with the virtual circle, but the only thing i obtain is to move the box around.

On HD we have no dpad, so we miss also the up and down buttons: but we have them on virtual keyboard. But no, also using it the box doesn't change. I've tried with up, down, left, right arrows, +, -, enter, backspace, all the chars on my keyboard, but nothing :(
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] DarkAngelFR:
OK!!! I get this!

I never noticed that the HD miss the dPad!

Is the display ok on it ? what is the screen resolution ?

I may have to add 2 buttons on the screen ("zoom in" and "zoom out") so you will have same thing as dPad, or I can map keyboard keys to this function (strange that up/down not work but maybe because it's a virtual keyboard!)

here we miss the "multi-touch" function :rolleyes: I'd like to stay in a "finger" application, not a "stylus" one so I think buttons will be added for HD (maybe an option checkbox in the option menu ;) )

-- v0.4 will be build for HD / release planned for tonight (french time) --

Nothing else than those quick buttons will be added, just for you to test and letting me time to find a nice "user-friendly" way to do this....
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] bbonzz:
Screen is WVGA (480x800): i'll be happy to test it when you'll be ready :)

About the display: it's almost ok. Of course the icons are stretched (my screen is 160px heighter than Diamond one), but despite the height the "picture ok" and camera cover 1/3 of the photo (see screenshots).
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] DarkAngelFR:
Hello again!

Thanks a lot for the screenshot!!!! I have a device emulator for "standard" and "VGA" device but not for WVGA :mad:

I made small design fix that should please HD guys ;) also added support for keyboard (was suppose to be in 0.3 lol) and buttons also for zoom in/out (see option menu)

I don't have time to fully test this build so I won't publish it to the "auto-update". For test please get it from codeplex here : CodePlex and take the "0.4" release. Be carefull I made changes to the design (button size and added option for zoom in/out) ;) Note: You should have the "Update" button blinking to get the 0.3 release, this allow you to get back to the latest stable beta release!

See ya later, got a long night coming.... :(
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] bbonzz:
Now it's perfect: great work, bro!

the keyboard is now supported (only to move the box around, but that's enough since now we have the onscreen buttons to zoom)

thanks again
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] JudgeDredd67:
I want those buttons on my version as well please. I have a Raphel, Touch pro or whatever it goes by. For some reason I have lost the ability to resize the box with the scroll wheel.

Great work with this app.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] DarkAngelFR:
my pleasure :p

Strange the scroll wheel is broken...I put this release on codeplex to let time for more testing, looks to be ok so it's now published to the "AutoUpdate System"! Restart the app and wait for the "update" button to blink ;)

Tell me if any problems come with this release :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] mendel129:
I really wanted to try out your app, but it ain't working...

I'm using it on an HP 614c with windows mobile 6.1 and the correct 3.5 version of the .net.

The errors i'm receiving are the following:

Uitzonderingscode: 0xc0000005
Uitzonderingsadres: 0x03f92d90
0x00000000 wordt gelezen
Module met fout: coredll.dll
Offset: 0x00048d90

bij CameraCaptureDialog.SafeNativeMethods.SHCameraCapture(IntPtr pshcc)
bij CameraCaptureDialog.LaunchCameraCaptureDialog(IntPtr ptrStruct)
bij CameraCaptureDialog.ShowDialog()
bij FormMain.pictureBoxCamera_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
bij Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
bij Control.WnProc(WM wm, Int32 wParam, Int32 lParam)
bij Control._InternalWnProc(WM wm, Int32 wParam, Int32 lParam)
bij EVL.EnterMainLoop(IntPtr hwnMain)
bij Application.Run(Form fm)
bij Program.Main()

Can you try to fix this? :-)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] trids:
Very nice app!

Just some feedback on rough edges when running version 0.4.0.1 on the HTC TyTN2 (aka Kaiser):

Although I have a DPAD, it doesn't zoom anything. Instead, it moves the picture (after taking the photo) or the box (when trying to select the credit card).

Enabling the on-screen buttons for zooming doesn't zoom the picture when tryng to target the credit card. Instead, it zooms the box-selector. This means I have to zoom the picture after taking the photo, in order to see the credit card clearly -- but then i can't see the edges of what i want to measure with the line!

The onscreen zoom buttons work in the opposite direction to their labelling: the "+" should zoom IN, and the "-" should zoom OUT. If this is considered a matter of opinion, then could you please parameterise it in the settings dialog ;).

When trying to position the box (and the box is zoomed in), the box is offset from the stylus: leftwards and upwards. It would be better if the box was centered on the stylus.

And some suggestions if i may:

Please support zooming of the photo at all times, including when positioning the box and the measuring line.

When zooming in past the dimensions of the box and line, please support fine positioning of line ends and box placement and box sizing. For example, if i zoom in on the end of a line, i would like to be able to reposition that end of the line - not start drawing a new line.

Any chance of being able to load a picture from the file system, to take measurements? This would be very handy once your implementation of custom reference dimensions (as opposed to the fixed credit card dimensions) is available

Keep up the good work!

:)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] DarkAngelFR:
Hello,

Thanks for the info. I will try to have a look at this...looks like the camera is not able to be launched on your device... I will implement in v1 a way to use a picture already on device so this problem will disapear if I don't find a way to fix this. Could you please send me your device (with guarantee) so I can test ? (joking, just to say you that I will add more tests for error handling but if this is not enough I may not be able to fix this because I don't have your device here so testing will be hard...but I promise I will have a deep look at this bug!!!)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] DarkAngelFR:
Thanks!

For the DPad try push the middle button ("enter" key, this should switch between move and zoom functions, nothing visual yet since I did this quickly to help for the HD)

For the zoom of picture I will add this later so you will be able to zoom/move picture even in "measure mode". Your idea is nice : having a "placement mode" and a "measure mode", being able to zoom the whole picture (box and line staying on the same place). This will be a tricky part but should be fun to code. This way you'll be able to zoom a part of the picture, place the box, unzoom the picture, place the line...did I correctly understand ?

About the +/- : yes this should be an option in settings it's an easy thing to do, and yes I'm always lost in those +/- option for zoom : + mean "zoom in" or "see more" depends on users... ;)

For the box position I made this a little offset from the "touch zone" so you can view the box using your finger. I may add an option for this too so you'll be able to say "box is placed exactly on the stylus, box is place with little offset, box is centered around the stylus".

ALWAYS WELCOME!!

Oki I'll be short :

1-> OK

2-> Yes but not yet : draw the line is easy : finger down = start and finger up = end. detection of the fact that you selected one of the points (start or end) can be great but I'll have to take care of "finger usage" (not precise enough for being able to say you clicked on a point of line or just near to start a new line...). But I like the idea so "yes I will implement this" but not in next release ;) (I would say in 1.1)

3-> Already on the way to do this...You're not the only one asking for this ;)

I will try, this week I won't touch the code because I have many things to do @work. But I'll be back on it soon to bring the v1.0 before the end of the month...

Your ideas and bugs found by others (just before your post for example) will be all published to CodePlex so you'll be able to : see what's already done, get the beta versions to test, submit votes/other bugs/ideas/...

See Ya',

DarkAngel
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] jhw549:
Just thought people would like to know: There are rumors floating around PPCGeeks Forums saying that this app is nothing more than a scam. That it makes a data connection immediately after taking the picture, uploading the picture you took with your credit card number in it.

Please note, I do not endorse or verify these claims, I am simply passing on information of a potential security risk.

SOURCE
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] NLS:
That's easy to verify ain't it?

Mine doesn't connect to the Internet, sorry.

I don't see a post in this thread OR the thread Chronster posts, that says about connection to Internet.

Nice urban legend... Chronster is very lucky that I am not the developer and we are not in the same country. I would turn the application to commercial just to be able to sue his *ss to North Pole.

Strangely enough he waits for the second page in his post to say that he hasn't verified the info etc.

Think twice before calling people "dump" you &^$*^$%.

(I won't bother registering that forum to flame him - he can come here to get that)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] trids:
I think it does look on the internet .. but it is in order to check for updates. It's the "auto-update" feature (of CodePlex?).

Anyway, if someone is too thick to realise that the app works just as well with any credit-card SIZED object (like a loyalty card, membership card, etc), then he's choosing to be ignorant. A credit card is a very clever choice for a reference size, as it is one of the few readily available objects that is the same size internationally.

Plus, it looks like the author has plans to later make the app use any object of known size for reference, instead of a credit card (sized) object. That should address any fomenting paranoia.

@DarkAngelFR: Might be a good idea to provide a "check for updates" button in the app, that the user can CHOOSE to click, instead of the current automatic-on-startup approach?

;)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] mendel129:
I almost send it to you :D

Anyway, great! Take your time :)

Thx :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] jhw549:
That's exactly why I said "Please note, I do not endorse or verify these claims, I am simply passing on information of a potential security risk." I don't know what's going on, but when something like that is claimed it's definitely worth bringing to everyone's attention, even if it is wrong. You just need to make sure you let peopl know that it's completely unverified.