yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Agent Zach:
Yeah, the FixManilaStart from moonar seemed to work best with me [but each ROMs manila files will have different Attirbutes (System, hidden, Read Only, etc..)] so really, it's a "If it doesn't appear to work, install this" situation.

And I'm WAY happy to say that the newest Beta you've released worked FLAWLESSLY. Even the DEFAULT Internal Auth (Mobile Touch) worked this time, not sure why it hasn't any other time. Posted a Status Update with it [perfect], updated info (via Tab) [perfect], still trying to break it... and all attempts have failed. Even ran SKTools to clean the Registry, and the Auth Key [assuming it's in the Registry] stays.. so that's good.

Whatever you've done this time seemed to work for me. And I even did a fresh Hard-Reset prior this time [as I have before].

:):)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
Hi meltwater,

i don't use FixManilaStart , because i will coding and changing :D. The first report, ups 2 lines, i had send via PM. After some more tests in the night i have seen nothing. Only one thing...it is working...

Ah yes the little graphic but this comes later, later, later...

You have done a very good job until now and this is a really helpfull tab for me. No extra programs or tools. All in one solution.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Beta testers now extended to:

colossus_r, dotcompt, Drakknar, etoy

For translations to be done, they may need help with getting up and running.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] colossus_r:
Hi meltwater ...

I have install this on NRG new blackstone roms manila 2016.

Its realy amazing how stable and smooth its running

Everything working fine. I think you are very close to a final release.

The greek translation is in this file. I made all the new changes and its looking fine on the device.

I have 2 litle observations.

First the space between events is a litle bigger that the previus version. I thing need some trimming.

Second the color of the letters its not for gtx theme (white backgrounds) ... its unreadable.

If there is an easy way to fix al least the color of the letter to make them readable it will be nice.

Thanks once again for your hard work....

And i am not forgeting your promise for an RSS tab.....(just kidding)

colossus
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
1. Is that with the expand/collapse view set to the smallest view? Don't forget you can limit or remove events too, which may help (it's been hard for me to do much with event's themselves since no-one uses them in my friend list).

2. Colour for GTX theme is being dealt with by mike2nl, so I expect this will be sorted.

3. RSS tab, good news on that front, will be working with a group of devs hopefully on it. Just need to do some serious Sense work before hand.

4. The future of the fb tab, again talking with the facebook app group on here, hopefully we can get tie-ins to the internals of the tab to their app. It looks like they are around the same stage as I am with the api, so looks promising.

@captain_throwback etc

How are things going regarding a cab, is a simple install going to be possible? Fingers crossed.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] wez89:
Everything seems running fine and smooth on my side aswel. Authorisation, status update, advance settings..everything seems to be running great.

Dont know what possibly could be updated to improve for the release but this beta seems a good RC.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
The dutch translation is not ready at all. But is this needed? Or iis the file the same as for July the 7th?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Should be the same as the last release so you are probably ok.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mkucuksari:
Test Results From VGA Device

Hi meltwater,

Sorry for late reply :( I have just tested the last beta version. :o

For now, everything is working great, did not find any problem. Seems to be ready for public release. :D

Congratulation friend, you have done a great job :)

Regards
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
Oh, oh public release. That sounds for heavy support *lol. No real now, i think you are very, very near by. When you wish i can make after or for the public release one for the GTX theme and i will send you the cab.

One other point:

every time i have to change the path to the apps. As sample \Storage Card\bla bla\bla bla.exe ... this is in my country \Opslagkaart\bla.....

This will be one point for the support, because the people don't read the fantastic manual :D (RTFM)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Humm will consider that in next release (how about program files and Windows dir are they also effected?). Thinking perhaps they could be set by the language file, although could be handled by the install reg file & cab better (as its just one off install setting).

Anyway no prob. Hopefully we can get the language files together for proper release very soon!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] colossus_r:
I have installed this on the gtx rom and the color of the letter is white and unreadable.

Mike can you please release the gtx version now or tell me what file and how to change it.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] colossus_r:
Thanks for the answer melt

Yes it was the expanded view.

Mike will deliver

The news about rss tab are great ....
[Windows Mobile Software Development] etoy:
@meltwater:

thanks for including me into the translation thing,drakknar already contacted me and we're preparing the italian translation,which was already started by him.

i wanted to ask you one minor thing which annoys me since 1.01 version. on login page if i long tap to paste the username,

the copy/paste/etc dialog box is in english,even tho the whole facebook tab is in italian. is there a way to fix it?

i always forgot to ask you about this one,i suspect that every language will result in an english message box?

not a big deal but you know,we want perfection :)

btw the overall look of the new fb tab is awesome,i already created a package to cook it in my rom and it worked fine on first start..

i moved the fbutil files to main windows folder,so i don't have to copy them twice via app.dat while cooking.

and about the sense sdk files i told you via PM,i removed the older dlls from cht editor and all works flawlessly!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
Hi colossus_r,

no problem. This 51B6F88A_manila file is the one who controls the font color for GTX. Not for the user text in the tab. This is allways blue. I have to change it in another file (look very nice to meltwater).

In this thread you find everything, because i have published my files there too. In posting #77 you will find the right file.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
@meltwater:

here the update for the dutch language file. I have found 5 issues and they are translated now. So please take it and use it...
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Humm, I'll have a quick look for that, it just depends on how HTC have implemented that section, if it is within the sense code then we can correct it, if it is within the dlls then we will have to wait until we can replace that whole bit (unfortunately we can't quite replace dlls directly so it's a difficult one).

Well spotted though, at least it is an original HTC error.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Excellent, I shall start to bring together the translated files on post #4 of the release thread.

So far we are good to go with:

English (UK)

English (US)

Dutch

Italian

Greek

I think Wednesday [14th July] noon should be the cut off point for the language files, which will give me chance to add them to the package. Unfortunately, I don't think I can test them all myself (particularly the sense side of them) so please make sure you've tested both the sense translations (i.e. within the tab itself) and the facebook utility (settings page etc).

How do you change the sense language by the way, I know I've read it somewhere but can't quite recall where?

We can then aim for a release at the end of the week perhaps....
[Windows Mobile Software Development] colossus_r:
Woww that was fast ...

Thanks alot mike ... the file from the post 77 did the trick for the fonts

Now are black again and readable .....

Thanks and keep up the good work

@ meltwater the sense language is changed in the following registry key

\HKCU\Mui\curlang

here are the codes from MS

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms776294.aspx
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Something else which I can include in the next release I guess! Would make it easier to test next time if I put that in the settings page (for advanced only!).

Updating the user manual now on the release thread by the way!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] greenhacks:
The tutorial link you have pasted in first post, is dead, 404 error.

Also my tutorial (which is more a notepad at the moment) is here:

TUT Manila Tutorial 4 - Placeholder/Facebook Tab
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Yep, XDA dev have killed the wiki for now. Not sure if they plan to put it back up, I hope so since it contains a lot of work from people (including me). Even if they restore it for a set time, I can transfer it to an external wiki.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] greenhacks:
by the way you must have already seen the control which i extended sensepanelitemEx. i hope you liked it.

I started to write that only because i saw your request that if you could select it somehow. and thats how i got motivated to start extending and redrawing controls.

and ended up with 4 controls as of now :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Yes thanks for that. I'll use it in the next version, I thought all I needed was to be able to highlight it, but then ran into issues of handling the selection as you enter other folders so it would have needed too many changes and extra testing to have it ready in time. Will put it in the next version, this one has been delayed enough.

I have plenty to go into the next version since this one only covers about 50% of the really good stuff but I knew getting this release ready would take a long time (the settings pages was a much bigger task than I hoped but it's there now). I also wanted to iron out any issues to this point before introducing the higher level functions.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Just had a thought, in theory if you don't import the new reg file you can run the facebookutil.exe, set the facebookutil path there and save and it should add any missing reg entries (so you might be able to upgrade without changing your old reg settings).

If someone is able to confirm this, then I'll write a "Manual Upgrade Install" instruction for the tab.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] colossus_r:
This is the way that i have installed mine... and works fine ....
[Windows Mobile Software Development] etoy:
why don't just put facebookutil.exe and others into \windows\ or \windows\facebookutil\ folder..so the path is the same for all countries? i know it's about 8mb but it could be a solution..
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Well that's the default, but cab's allow you to choose storage card and there is no other reason to force it. Adding into \windows\ makes it hard to uninstall without messing thing up.

You still have issues with any of the other storage locations for utils, cache etc (some of which may be defaulted to the storage card). In some ways, perhaps it better not to set the reg entries at all (or perhaps only the reg entry for the FacebookUtil.exe). The rest can then be set by the existing entries or added on first change of settings.

In fact, if I just provide a reg file which sets the settings page entry then that would avoid most the issues. Provision is made to set the path automatically from the FacebookUtil.exe, so you just need to run it from where-ever you install it to (so as long as the cab creates a shortcut most users should be able to handle that). Humm, no would still need defaults for the app & web links...

Not sure how this would be handled with a cab when installing to "Storage Card" since the manila files should always end up on the device windows folder, so choosing to install to "storage card" could fail anyway.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
I change the registry every time for my needs. I do this for nearly every app.

BTW:

all files are changed now for the GTX look. Only the little graphics for message and user on the right side. I have to search for it, because they comes from the default files. But this will be solved shortly.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] etoy:
@meltwater: from the menu in main fb tab,does the IDS_FACEBOOK_OPENAPP (Facebook Application) always point to Microsoft Facebook? or is it customizable? because if it's fixed,i can rename it to "Microsoft Facebook" instead of generic "application"..
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
In the settings menu you can change the FB app to want you want...
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
I could change it to update the menu item with the name, but I haven't. Maybe next release perhaps (at the moment the name is only used for the settings page selection), it'll need testing to see if the item gets updated correctly within sense when it's changed anyway (it may not or might be difficult to force it to update it, hence why I left it) so fine to leave for now.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
I think it is all done now. The FB Tab is ported to GTX. All graphics from the right side (user + mail) and the little facebook icon in the user photos on the lft side. All font colors in the mode9 and lua files are changed too.

Please guys, take alook to the screenshot and possible a comment from you..
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Looks good! Nice work.

Ok, user manual is done (at least for settings page). Let me know if I've missed anything.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
Stupid question:

have i missed something again? I mean the link to the manual...
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Post #2 main thread - been trying to get them ready for end of the week!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] colossus_r:
Mike looks nice ..but i cant see the name of the your friend....i see the status but not the name

its white font or no name ???
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
I think that might just be blanked out for privacy that's all, so don't panic.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
Hi colossus_r,

meltwater has right.. it is blanked out. Because the nice girls :D.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] colossus_r:
lol ... ok m8.... alot of white on white text lately in my phone lol
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
white - pureness of light in a cristal form.

black - the darkest contrast of white and not bad.

black & white - makes your position clear and hold the balance

A little bit philosophy for GTX :).
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Just thought I'd have a look and see if the facebook security hole was still there and it is.

The only way I can see to make facebook address this is to write an app which shows the hole clearly being used without any user interaction (i.e. a simple app which posts a status update without you authorising the app first, just install and run the app). It is annoying me that facebook haven't addressed it.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Agent Zach:
Apps like that appear all the time. All Facebook ever does is delete the apps and question the developers. I'm assuming that they've never actually looked into the apps.

Neglegent much? lol
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
lol that's all very well but the hole allows you to use an app id which isn't yours! :rolleyes: So they can't trace it back to a developer.

So yep, I expect in many cases they've killed perfectly innocent apps.

If only the iPhone app worked like the others, would be fun to make them delete it!

Oh well if they kill mine for some reason, at least I can use the hole to carry-on regardless (probably work out easier than authorising properly).

OK, shouldn't vent about it...nothing I can do without seriously pushing things.

EDIT: I've not finished looking into this yet, but if you log out of facebook after using the internal browser and log back in again, it appears you need to log in via the internal browser too next time (which will reduce the security risk a little), but beware it is easy to spoof an app.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Update for beta testers:

BeeGee_Tokyo has found an issue with Max Sense, so there will be an update to the beta before release. All being well this shouldn't cause too much of an impact on the release, but obviously I'll send out the release as a PM and it can be checked over first (a good idea to do so anyway).

He's already tried the beta with the changes made to the old version by maxycy and it works. So I'm just putting in the fix into my code, and will test it on a non-MaxSense build (although I can't check the online connection side of it - it should not effect this anyway) and he'll check it on MaxSense for me.

UPDATE:

Tested fine on my sense. PM'd out the new file, hopefully will be fine for all (including MaxSense). Please confirm if all ok.

Ok, I now have the release build ready to go. Will begin gathering up the language files after lunch and create the final test package for everyone.

Hope to release tomorrow!

Thanks so much for the help from everyone, it's been a long job but finally we are here.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
I have changed the file for the GTX colors and he is working with any issue on my phone. NO maxSense installed.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
We can look into making the GTX colors selectable (at least within this file perhaps) would save updating each time for the next release.

Good good. BeeGee_Tokyo has said it works fine now on maxSense.

I think we are all set really, just waiting for the last translations to come in (French, Arabic and final version czech hopefully). Will PM out the package this evening for us beta's and should be all set for the morning!

Package will include:

Updated FacebookUtil.exe with release info

MaxSense friendly 090EF4F3_manila

Language files

appFacebook.reg changed to default example apps to program files (since storage card locations will fail on non-WWE).

Removed example language files.

Still got some clearing out to do on the main thread posts by tomorrow (think I'll keep a copy of it just in case we find some of the same info applies).

Can't wait to be able to switch back to the development build with all my test stuff in!

UPDATE:

Going through the language files at the moment, some are missing items (checking using winmerge)...so hopefully I can get them updated soon (I'll list them here so I can keep track and then contact people directly). I'll also go back and check I have the latest version posted too (so sorry if I'm wrong).

0CA4B866_manila cs-cz (jirkab) (OK)

0FEAB434_manila el-gr (colossus_r) - missing items i.e. IDS_AUTHCODE_INSTRUCTION

1FED11F0_manila pt-pt (dotcompt) - incomplete...items all present, translation?

5E0EA458_manila sk-sk (pa3x) (OK) - possible whitespace issue (needs check in sense)

6CD727C8_manila nl-nl (mike2nl) (OK)

0431A004_manila de-de (BeeGee_Tokyo) (OK)

5470CE36_manila en-us (captain_throwback) (OK)

0074C4D4_manila it-it (etoy & Drakknar) (OK) - possible whitespace issue (needs check in sense)

The whitespace issues (non UTF-8 formatting) may not be a problem, but sense can be a pain! (Interestingly they both list as 24k rather than 45k)...

I've posted them here in case people fancy testing them (overall they look very good).
[Windows Mobile Software Development] etoy:
the smaller ITA lang file has issues in sense (some IDS_etc.. not recognized localization). when i cook it in,on first boot some strings are missing. it doesn't happen with the 40+k file. i think it's worth use the bigger one,just to be sure all is ok.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] colossus_r:
Greek Language

@ Meltwater

This is the new greek translation. I hope this time is OK.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mike2nl:
@meltwater:

further no issues on my side, but i didn't tested the whitespace issues.

So far is all OK. There was an issue with the cap file. Captain has written me a PM.

I will see what i can do in the evening todo this again with all the latest file I have.

Edit 1:

possibe some from you know the manila file which i have to change for the text

color of... when sense restarts there is a test shown: HTC Sense is restarting...

Because this text is light gray on my side (CHT and GTX combination). And i must

change this. It is the inner voice again :D:D. So no i will ask on another place.

Edit 2 (with a little help for our friend meltwater):

0CA4B866_manila cs-cz (jirkab) (OK)

0FEAB434_manila el-gr (colossus_r) - 0FEAB434_manila_el-gr_v1.5DraftD.txt (today)

1FED11F0_manila pt-pt (dotcompt) - incomplete...items all present, translation?

5E0EA458_manila sk-sk (pa3x) (OK) - possible whitespace issue (needs check in sense)

6CD727C8_manila nl-nl (mike2nl) (OK)

0431A004_manila de-de (BeeGee_Tokyo) (OK)

5470CE36_manila en-us (captain_throwback) (OK)

0074C4D4_manila it-it (etoy & Drakknar) (OK) - possible whitespace issue (needs check in sense)

Edit 3:

the LangPack0.1.zip doesn't work on my site. Unzip not possible.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] romualdrichard:
is it ok with the French language?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
PM'd romualdrichard about french lang, since not heard back from Qui-Gon Ginn so far.

Sorry, almost there! My fault for having so many drafts and putting new items in random places (well there is some logic to it, almost).

<trans-unit id="IDS_AUTH_VIA_BROWSER">
<source>Authorise Via Browser</source>
</trans-unit>
<trans-unit id="IDS_OPEN_BROWSER">
<source>Open Browser</source>
</trans-unit>
<trans-unit id="IDS_PASTE_CODE_DESC">
<source>Paste the code/url from clipboard</source>
</trans-unit>
<trans-unit id="IDS_PASTE_CODE">
<source>Paste & Authorise</source>
</trans-unit>
<trans-unit id="IDS_ACCESS_CODE">
<source>Access Code</source>
</trans-unit>
<trans-unit id="IDS_ACCESS_CODE_ERROR">
<source>Ensure you have copied the browser url/code into the clipboard</source>
</trans-unit>

<trans-unit id="IDS_LANG_ERROR_INVALID">
<source>The selected language file is invalid</source>
</trans-unit>

I've updated the file (put them in the same order as the en-uk one) and added the missing items above, so you just need to look them up in the file and change them and you are done!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Yep, I think we had a similar problem with them in initial beta testing (I'd edited the xml file in visual studio).

Anyone know how to change the formatting automatically? I can do it using win-merge and transferring each line and translation manually, but it's a time consuming process.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] etoy:
i also had to copy and paste every single line from first Drakknar's translated file to your template to ensure the formatting was ok :eek:
[Windows Mobile Software Development] meltwater:
Don't you just love sense! Thank you for doing it.

0CA4B866_manila cs-cz (jirkab) (UPDATED 10:20pm)

0FEAB434_manila el-gr (colossus_r) - almost there :)

1FED11F0_manila pt-pt (dotcompt) - (OK) full translation!

781C9850_manila pt-br - as dotcompt pointed out - can be the same as pt-pt (ADDED)

5E0EA458_manila sk-sk (pa3x) (OK) - whitespace issue!

6CD727C8_manila nl-nl (mike2nl) (OK)

0431A004_manila de-de (BeeGee_Tokyo) (OK)

5470CE36_manila en-us (captain_throwback) (OK)

0074C4D4_manila it-it (etoy & Drakknar) (OK) - FIXED!

Possible:

3abb2ec0_manila fr-fr (romualdrichard OR Qui-Gon Ginn)

55D8F302_manila sv-se (hg3atintin)

15EBBB0E_manila ar-sa (alisultan)

etoy & Drakknar also noticed I had IDS_DIALOG_SETTINGS_DISCARD in twice (shouldn't break anything though), updated 35452D58_manila anyway. Also removed the odd formatting difference just in case for some files.

Off to sleep now!