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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NisseDILLIGAF:
A call to programmers with TouchFlo3D interests

Update... See POST #3

As many of you knows there can be some problems when people are trying to install TF3D themes...

* They are not compatible with the current Manila version in the ROM

* They are not compatible with Landscape (Raphael)

* New people don't know how to install them

* There is no standard to the packaging (.theme, .cab, .zip)

I have an idea that I think will simplify the making, distributing and installing of TF3D themes..

I will try to explain this as good as I can, hope you understand...

The theme maker starts of with a set of files that the use as a Template

It consists of all files needed in TF3D

*_manila

lua.dll

manila.exe

ManilaActivateToday.exe

ManilaDesktop.dll

ManilaToday.dll

mode9.dll

(There can also be added extra files like .png or .bmp files)

The theme maker changes the files needed to make their cool TF3D theme...

could be only the images, or...

they can change mode9, lua, dll or exe files to make functions work as they want..

Then they zip all the files and it is ready for install...

Now here comes the main thing about my idea...

A Install theme application opens the zip file and compares each file to the file in the ROM..

If they are different from eachother it will copy the 'theme' file to the ROM...

This way It will only copy the files needed to change TF3D... It wont take unnecessary space on the ROM!...

If the theme maker has tested the theme before releasing it,

the theme will always work with no problems (or at least I hope so :rolleyes:)

And if this gets done and is treated as a standard in theme making/installing there are more functions to include in the app..

* Tab selector /Tab organizer

* Replace Font's

* ... (whatever you guys can imagine)

I'm not very good at programming, that's why I'm posting this...

So, if anyone feels like taking on this project we can get less questions, complaints and angry messages in the threads :D

And I am willing to help in anyway to make this happen...!

/Nisse
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] showaco:
Sounds good to me, since that most problems seem to be due to difference in manila installs from rom to rom, diamond to raphael, even cdma to gsm. I'll help as I can, but unfortunately I'm not a programmer either:(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NisseDILLIGAF:
Update

Ok.. I started making this myself... See first post

It's almost done... but I still cant figure out the zip function... :confused:

Thanx davidwhitney for your code examples... but it's in C#

I'm not really good at this, so I'm having a bit trouble...

But now when I'm almost done, I started to think that maybe It shouldn't be zip'ed...

because It maybe would take to much time??

Anyway... I've Included the source code here for all to test...

I am trying to make the program Idiot proof (n00b proof) ;) hehe

Copy your theme's to a folder of your choice...

Open the program and enter the path of your theme's

Choose a theme from the dropdown

Read theme (Now it starts comparing files)

When It's done, you can see how many files/Mb it will copy.. You can see screenshots(if the there are any)

Advanced users can make additional choices from a checkbox list

Install theme

You can include other 'non-manila' files like png files or other..

It will make a list of the files copied, this way you can choose to remove them on next install, or keep them on next install

--

Option to 'Make your own theme', It will copy all your manila+ files to a folder, for u to use later or distribute..

Option to Restore to ROM default manila files

Here is the source code for anyone to try...

Remember its an Early Alpha...

If u don't know much about VB programming or manila files... DON'T TRY IT...

I will not have time to answer a bunch of n00b questions..(soory I don't want to be rude but....)

Download

TF3DThemeLoader.zip (source code)

Example Theme's

I really would like some feedback on this...!

and sorry about the code... I know it's a mess...

Some new screenshots...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] uniqueboy:
Other files

Hi Nisse, could your idea extend to other windows files not just tf3d files? for example shell res dlls or even welcomeheads.:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NisseDILLIGAF:
Yeah, whatever file u want...

But I don't know about dll files.... It's a bit tricky to copy/delete those...

Maybe not at first release... I have to first make the manila copying :D

This is going to take a little time... (a few weeks!!??)

But I really think this could be a good thing when it comes to the TF3D manila files :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 12aon:
Hey man, nice work, would save a lot uninteresting questions:). I know you are superior to me in all ways of the manila and know nothing of writing code. But anything to take the load of your hands. I'm just learning about the mode9 editing (kinda stuck) but in time can probably help there also. I do know a little about the taskbar makeovers, but that's for future time's. So any thing you want to out source let me know, 12
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] uniqueboy:
It might be useful if the software made a backup of any files it was overwriting. Often the files I am overwriting when installing a set of custom icons are not the original ones from the rom anyway. That way the backup could be used to simply restore to the previous state if it turns out looking crap, without getting stuck back with the original rom manila files.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] davidwhitney:
paying it forward...

Hi,

Your idea wasn't too difficult to implement.

I've been using ROM updates from xda-dev for years silently so I've been prototyping this out as my way of saying thank you and giving something back.

I've built a proof of concept (that mostly works) for your app. A Data model, unit tests, a packaging format (zip file + xml descriptor to deal with validating files before copying), and some working code that packages and unpacks files on a device.

Requires the compact framework (I've targetted 3.5), and I've written a quick Windows packaging utility.

I don't have too much time on my hands, but anyone with any experience in C# should be able to pick it up.

Uses DotNetZipLib for archive access and MbUnit 2.x for unit testing.

I've got a stub project for the windows mobile implementation, but all the code that makes up the nuts and bolts is written.

Someone'll need to finish this up before it's fit for purpose but the legwork is all done, I just don't have more than an hour or so to work on it!

You'll have to excuse any dubious looking UI code in the windows app, it's really hacked together just to prototype out the idea.

I've pretty much just written this and packaged it up. Take it, use it, throw it away, delete it, open source it, I don't care ;)

Hope this helps.

- David ( david at davidwhitney.co.uk )
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NisseDILLIGAF:
Thanx...

I had a look at it.. but I don't know much about C# ... I just manage Visual Basic :rolleyes:

But I appreciate it... maybe someone else can use it...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] davidwhitney:
Ok, so here's a version with a working Windows Mobile client and a slightly altered zip component (as in, one that works on the compact framework ;) ).

So you've got some tests, a windows packaging utility and a windows mobile unpacker that I've tested in the virtual machine and seems to work fine.

"Complete", if rough. Compiled exe's are in the respective bin/debug folders.

Enjoy!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NisseDILLIGAF:
Update

I've made a beta app.... see post #3
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NisseDILLIGAF:
BUMP... :o

Anyone who wants to try this app??

See post 3
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Arju:
Sounds like an awesome great application.. well my question is that does this only "read and copy" over .theme files or does it do this with all files that want's to replace the manila file i.e cab files and so forth?..

well i have a Raphael ... you might have heard about xboxmods HD manila... it doesn't support landscape mode fully functionally yet.. well we managed to get landscape mode up but there are some bugs.. well my question is that will this application manage to make landscape mode stick on and detect that the phone is a Raphael and detect that there should be a landscape mod and manage to apply it when switching to landscape mode?..

gah.. i guess your answer would be, "why don't you test and tell us"... well unless you know anything i can't do it at the moment.. but will test it maybe tomorrow or at the day after tomorrow... well i just wanted to know if this application do this with all files that want's to replace the manila file i.e cab files and so forth?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NisseDILLIGAF:
Hei Norge! :D

Well... this app does whatever the Theme maker wants it to do...(almost)

It compare files from the theme folder(not .theme files yet) with the files on your phone... and only copy the files needed...

and you can add other files... like .png .dll (haven't tested that yet) and so on... but no .cab files....

I know about the Landscape problem with xboxmod's HD...

but this app won't solve the problem... maybe make it easier to install it?? when it's solved... :rolleyes:

I haven't looked in to it, but (and correct me if I'm wrong) the problem with landscape with HD is the .exe and .dll files?? (manila.exe, mode9.dll ... ..)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 12aon:
haha, sure I'd like to see what this baby can do, but i'ts valentines day man. QT man, can't spens my time browsing around having fun right now. I'll let you know, 12
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jmz:
So I am somewhat familiar with VB. This is a great concept and I will definitely look into the source code and see if I can make some improvements.

If I remember correctly a .theme file is just a zip with a renamed extension, correct? That shouldn't be too hard to accomplish. Are you planning on making an automatic backup before the overwrite? How are the screenshots suppose to be formatted, i.e. which extension, size and so on.

I tried out the program but I couldn't get the browse button to work. That is about as far as I made it.

Currently installing Visual Studio and Windows mobile sdk. I forgot how long VS takes to install. :p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] davidwhitney:
Hi, I'm glad you've got somewhere with this.

I don't really have too much time to check up on the threads here, however if you're still struggling for zip support, in my example code take a look at the file ArchiveManager.cs (it's actually misnamed, it should be Archive.cs really as it represents a single compressed archive).

There's code in there you should be able to adapt to VB pretty easily (I think there's a method called ExtractPackage or something, it opens a zip archive using the DotNetZip 3rd party component, parses the file for an XML definition file and then extracts the contents).

It really is no more than:

using (ZipFile zip = ZipFile.Read(_filename))

{

zip.Extract("archivedFileName.ext", "destination" true);

}

I forget what the method call is offhand but you can enumerate through the contents of the zip file by doing a foreach through zip.Entries (or something similar).

You can almost convert that to VB by removing the curly braces ;)

(I hate reading vb or I'd actually try compile it myself :P ).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Arju:
Hei Sverige! :D

well yeah there are som probs with the HD manila to fully functional with a landscape mode.. well either the functions of HD manila must be ported to the stock tf3d or the bugs in landscape mode of HD manila be fixed.. i managed to make a video where i managed to stick the landscape mode on HD but there are some bugs like when i press on a function key on screen as calander or other stuff and the exit, then tf3d landscape will go into portrait but by closing and opening the slider on HTC Touch Pro then it will go back to a good looking landscape.. well i hope the HD manila added with landscape mode will get fixed.. the HD manila runs really really fast and very much faster when cfc compressed.. like 4 times faster than stock tf3d manila... i also think it lays in the exe files and mode9.. the mode9 in touch pro probably contains some strings to the landscape mode which probably should be ported to the mode9 of HD.. well i do not know what i'm talking about 100% since i'm not a pro developer and do not have any inside knowledge about manila or mode9... i'm a dreamer ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] elparra72:
A manila tab organizer could be very interesting

Hi NisseDILLIGAF,

Load a theme is nice but maybe a tab organizer could be great, activate or desactivate tabs and change the order. Similar to HD or TD2 application, very, very simple.

Thanks a lot,
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] af974:
Hi there,

it seem that no body has interesting on a HTC Bali cooked rom......:(

my question is : is there any chance to cook my own rom?:rolleyes:

How can i do this?:confused:

Thanks in advance and sorry for my english.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Sean880:
Hi PPC mages, I've got a small problem. I've tried to search a very easy program which resembles the classic paper diary.

Idea of this soft.. Screen which has seven parts (basically days). Every Day should have a date and maybe names (because of name days). Into these "tabs" I need only to write. Not ringing, no pop-ups, no vibrations, nothing, just type on keyboard. Don't know if I'm able to write about my idea in english so imagine one list of the simplest diary and you'll got sense of my idea.

My question is simple.. Does this soft (or very similar) exist? Or can it be programmed by any good man/woman? I think it would't be so hard and I will be very grateful for that.

Remember I don't want any calendar - am owner of Calendar touch and it isn't the way of annotation I want.

Thanks for reading and especially for answers!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] gadgetuk437:
Hmm... Excel?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Sean880:
Great idea but not as elegant as simple software..
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Cheesy Dave:
I'm not sure exactly what you want, but have a look at Phatnotes:

http://www.phatware.com/index.php?q=product/details/phatnotes/screenshots

This is very customizable and will let you have a blank page per day with buttons for seven days and weeks.

Perhaps this works for you ?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] machina2:
If you were Japanase I would strongly recommand this one : http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?p=41640

Reading the translated doc, I could configure it easily, and even if there are some display bugs due to japanase font replaced by squares, the result is quite usable and simple.

I dream that someone makes the same in english, french.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Sean880:
Thanks for tips, now I'm going to try the first one (hope it wouldnt be hard to cutomize it). The second one doesn't seem to be just diary, it is very similar to normal calendar. I'm surprised that the sipliest normal diary doesn't exist, but maybe someone will find anything.

Thans again!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Sean880:
Unluckily it wasn't what I need, but thanks..

I've made a very simple picture to explain my idea when my english isn't so good :).

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e249/Sean880/Diary.jpg

This is a basic idea of appearance. And functions?

1) Slide to right/left - go to next/previous week (princip of book)

2) Type into the lines (maybe with possibility to set up the font - color?/bold/italic)

3) Possibility to change names in any system file (depend on country) - it makes easy future translations

4) Next features - changing colors based on days etc.

I'm completely amateur so I don't know anything about software making but I still think this software wouldn't be so hard to develop, am I right?

Thanks for reflections!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Sean880:
Hmm it seems that similar program doesn't exist but would it be really hard to develop it?
[General Topics] ruisetsfire:
Hi all,

I'm currently using the "a Touch of HD" Full ROM with MANILA touchflo2d and threaded messages, and i just wanted to know how can i import my text messages to my PC.

And read/process them in the PC.

Is it possible? Can anyone tell me how?

Thank you very much.

Best regards.
[General Topics] Rudegar:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=322723&highlight=sms+outlook
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] wickedmind911:
hi! everyone i just got my htc diamond from bell mobility .my rom version is 1.13 and rom date 10/02/08.as I was going through the forum i found out most of the guys have upgraded to or have higher version .so i tried downloading new version for the rom but htc site says "Sorry, this software download is not suitable for your device." .and there is one more thing even after installing microsoft .net 3.5 i'm not able to use light saber it shows some error. kindly help me out .
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] xpay:
is your diamond tied to someone operator? If so have they no update to the just released, but apparently concluded after you have such a ROM old. You can always install some ROM from this page, read the guide how you will take to install HARDSPL, it's just to read you should see that it goes the way. also had problems with it with Netcf 3.5 but in the majority of ROM's are in from the start. good luck:cool:
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Olleman:
Hi!

I have had my Tytn for roughly 2.5 years. This autumn/winter the battery time I could get out of my Tytn was really ridicilousley low, so I bought a new "non original" 1500 mAh battery. It got better but not much, I started to think that perhaps the battery time was never better than this.

The other day I skimmed through this forum about battery problems and found this little program for meassuring battery consumption. I have now had it on since I removed my phone from the charger this morning and now, 4 hours later I'm down to ~30% battery power and acbPowerMeter tells me that the phone has used 90 mAh all together.

I have made 1 shorter phone call and made a couple of synchs with turbo 3G during this period.

Does 90 mAh sound at all right? That would mean that the battery was crap to begin with....or is it possible that acbPowerMeter isn't giving me even "close to correct values"?

Does anyone have any comments or ideas around this issue?

Best Regards,

Olle
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] tatnai:
Don't know anything about your abcpowermeter. What I do know, is that when I've had a new battery, or when I flash a new ROM, I often have problems with low battery. I just run the battery down like three times in a row, and my battery always improves.

So before making any determinations or using a program, I always run the battery down.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] christopherwoods:
I've got acbpowermeter on my phone, and I don't think it's much good to be honest. If I remember correctly, the last time I left it running, it severely drained my battery - not exactly what you want a power meter app to do.

I find it far more reliable by using BatteryStatus from chi-tai.info and just seeing what the momentary power usage is. (it sits on your Today screen). Yeah, it's not a comprehensive breakdown of your power usage over time, but it doesn't run the battery down like acbPowerMeter does ;)

Like you though, I'm still curious as to what exactly my device consumes in terms of power over the course of a single charge, and I'm on the look out for a decent app which just ticks away in the background measuring power drain...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Olleman:
Hi!

Regardless of Acbpower I just bought a new HTC Original battery and now I have the "normal" battery life I was used to during the first year of my device. As it has allready been discussed in other threads: These non-original batteries are far from always a safe purchase...

Br, Olleman
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] agovinoveritas:
I recommend Lion Batteries. I have had a great experience with their 3000mAh battery for over a year and a half. Use that 3G on my Hermes and music all the time -- serious user-- and the battery still last me over day. Mind you I am constantly on the internet and always using push email and other data-centric services.

As far as Battery Status, for general purposes is great as I find the more complicated the app the more drain on the system it is trying to read. A simple app that you can just keep an eye over a period of time I think works best.

As far as batteries I was concerned where to buy one. Since my brand new battery died over just a year. Mind you a tethered a lot and I think that tends to kill the battery life faster.
[General Questions and Answers] da-bitsch:
Hi i have a friend who uses OSX to read/reply his textmessages. I tried to find a similar program om windows but without any luck. Does anyone in here know a good program for that?
[General Questions and Answers] nir36:
you can use outlook if your service provider supports it.

if not, use jeyo mobile extender
[XPERIA X1 General] nixx-X1:
Since I now have multiple threads and post with rebuild things all over this place, I decided to bundle it in this thread and reserve some posts for future use.

post #1 - general bla bla + my wisbar advanced theme

post #2 - optimized TF3D full background for all tabs with transparent curtains.

post #3 - Touch friendly rebuild of the TF3D mp3 player.

post #4 - a semi-usefull manila PSD file with all manila files in it.. still looking for the proper photoshop action that makes it really usefull :P

post #5 - rebuilding visual interface of TF3D (still in progress.. but update when there is a version 0.1)

post #6 - general windows mobile things (to come)

All feedback will be appreciated ! - even if it you want to flame it :P -

to be continued..
[XPERIA X1 General] nixx-X1:
BG4AllTabs NoCurtains V2 (lvl 0 & lvl 1)

Check the attached files and enjoy!

Tweaked some files of other contributors to match the background for all tabs to fit the full frame with transparent curtains use.

On request the 4a087e41_manila now included the same background as in the preview.

If you wish to use that one, just copy the files in the 'Background4allFiles' folder in your windows dir.

If you want to have your curtains to be transparent as well, copy the files in 'No_Curtains' to your windows dir.

02 feb update

There is a version 2 now as there where some problems with pixels on top and bottom being blend due to scaling.

A new 5c9aa261_manila, template+guide and photoshop action added

Use the template or read the guide if you want a step by step process

Thanks to InsjaHH for the photoshop action

Attached 3 test snapshots:

Original-IMG.jpg > test image

BG-4-All-Tabs.jpg > via this template created 4a087e4_manila file

wallpaper.jpg > normal wallpaper cut off (at 480x696px) at the today screen

05 feb update

For a real background for all tabs (as in; your today background .jpg applied to all tabs) go here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3273729&postcount=1

kudos for mun_rus!

This is not compatible with any other files in this post

03 feb update

For those that wish to alter the level 1 background tabs (inside the music library and customize tabs menu) use the separately attached 5c9aa261_manila file. With it you can use the 0d1412f9_manila file as background for the level 1 tabs. The 4a087e41_manila will still control the level 0 tabs backgrounds of the main menu