[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MichelDiamond:
Open Letter

Hi, this will be posted in CHT- and CHTS-Thread:

I thought about the feedbacks the last times because of CHTS (also of CHT and CHTE). And I'm a bit frustrated about these things - especially CHTS.

To describe, why:

Co0kie and me made a concept for CHT & CHTS, so that this covers the needs of the users according to the feedbacks to CHT 1.x. I made the system parts of CHT, extended CHTEditor and created CHTS. Therefore it's often called "CHT-Suite" - because these Apps are designed to interact - especially CHT and CHTS.

But Co0kie disappeared because of his private reasons, so that not all interfaces were stabilized and some features were not in CHT 2.0 final. And I can understand Co0kie - because much "issues", which are more caused by Sense or WinMo, were described as fault of CHT. Some other things were things, which we have planned for further CHT-versions.

Also the Widget-system was not "hard" enough, that there can occur side-effects because of the restrictions of the widget interface of CHT.

I waited, if Co0kie would come back, but unfortunately not. But like said: I can understand it.

So I decided to add this often wished features to add to CHTS, so that each user has his benefits, e.g. :

- Saving CHT+Settings+Positions+Widgets to storage card, so that it can restored in case of error (and for some Sense-Mods and some Widgets it's useful because of the complexity of dependencies to Sense/CHT/Device/Rom)

- Saving Full Sense as zip-File, so that you are protected better before the need of a HardReset

- Quicklinks/Toggles like WifiOnStandby, 2G/3G-Toggle, NoData-Toggle (GRPS disable), Backlight-control, Network-control, and so on

- A good Wallpaper-Switcher for CHT 2, with much features and also much Quicklinks to directly control the Wallpapers in Sense

- Location-Awareness in CHT, some wants to see only their homezone, other wants to have a special reaction of their device depending on the Location, they are

- Dependent also on weekday+time to get a different profile, which defines data,volume,layout,apps,Sense,whatever...

All this things I made, that you can use them seperately. OK, that's much things and so it has it's complexity, but I learned because of the feedbacks and so I would say 2.16 and 2.20 are intuitive as possible. OK - CHTS contains perhaps 20-30 things, which could be released as single app - but do you think, then it's easier to handle? (and some of the features of CHTS doen't exist in any other app)

So I made the "Quick Manual", that you know, how to easy access the single features without using the other CHTS-things.

One word to the CHTS-team: These are great guys, which not only helped for CHTS, they also had a big part to improve CHT v2, because this was also more tested in CHTS-group and CHT-Dev-Group, because the original CHT-group was almost death already before CHT v2 alpha came there to test. Which was surely also frustrating for Co0kie and he was glad, that the CHTS- and the CHT-Dev-group helped.

So: Big Thanx to all CHTS-Team & CHT-Dev-Feedback-Members, who helped for CHT /CHT-Suite!

But if I read the feedbacks, with the knowledge, that I often fulfilled the wishes of the users in CHT and CHTS... then I mostly read issues, which have nothing to do with CHTS (and often also not with CHT) - but especially they are written like the only possible reason must be CHTS (or CHT). And the "wished features" - I see mostly not even a little "Thank you" - I see the next wish and so on. Seldom words, that somebody is happy, that it's implemented and now available in CHT-Suite.

Perhaps the CHTS-team and me do to much support, so that we shall also solute other issues, but then the other users comes to the impress, that CHTS doesn't run well. It's an App with much Lines of Code, so there are sure issues somewhere, but not major bugs - also not in the current beta, which also contains new features according to the wishes of CHT- & CHTS-users.

So my thoughts and reactions:

I already have stopped developing of CHTEditor because the lack of time and another developer will release the future versions (will be announced, when it's time for it).

I will release quite soon new CHTS with the new features after Beta-Test, but then I will think, how fast/slow or not the developing will go on. The list is long for the next Releases, but if I have to read too much of such things as mentioned above, I will see, if I will kick it or whatever.

Nevertheless: Mike2nl organizes/develops the CHT-update since short time and there I will also help with some improvements for CHT like usual. So that users will get a fine working CHT and CHT-Suite. But above that, I must think about, if I stop the most of my activities.

I hope you understand it and I think, that you can anyway look forward to the future, because of the Releases of CHT/CHTE/CHTS, which will come.

Regards

Micha