(update 2009/11/14) My Todayscreendialer

[mb286]

Hello all,

iam currently playing around with my own made C# picture dialer that is displayed as a today item. it enables a user to see pre defined photo contacts. I have not made this to be an improvement of any existing applications. I mainly wanted to see if i could make something that i myself found usefull.

It is not a finished product, perhaps it never will be, please use my settingseditor to configure the application. Also due to memory issues i have removed the resize option. please use images that are 48x48 for QVGA and 96x96 for VGA

features:
- QVGA & VGA usable
- Identify contact with photo or name
- 1 or 2 rows with 5 contacts each
- a long (2 second) press on the photo dials the number that belongs to the contact.
- option to assign two numbers to one photo contact, eg the first number is dialed when you press the photo for two seconds, the second number is dialed when you press the photo for four seconds.
- option to vibrate and/or play a sound to notify 2 seconds have passed to dial a number

One row : http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee356/mb286/onerow.jpg
Two rows: http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee356/mb286/tworows.jpg

To use it, do the following:
1 download and install the "ChrisTec Managed Today Screen Item Framework" on you device (install it on your device, i do not know if this will work if you install it on a storage card) at http://www.codeplex.com/ManagedTodayScreen

2 Copy the contents of the Todayscreendialer.zip file to the directory \Program Files\Managed Today Screen Framework

3 configure the settings.xml file (see below) - please use the settingseditor

4 Reset your device (or refresh your today theme) - using the settingseditor will automatically refresh the today theme once you have applied the settings

[mb286]

the settings.xml included should be used as follows:

<PictureCaller rows="1" sound="false" vibrate="true" dialNumber="false" soundLocation="your wav file location">

rows="1" -> numer of rows to display either "1" or "2" rows.

sound="false" -> specify if you want to have a sound played if you press the photo button for 2 seconds.

vibrate="true" -> specify if you want to have the device to vibrate if you press the photo button for 2 seconds.

dialNumber="false" -> in case you want to test the buttons without dialing. please set this to "true" if you want the application to dial !

soundLocation="your wav file location"> -> if sound is set to "true" you must specify a valid file (use the complete path)

For each Photo or name contact you should add a <Item id="a number from 1 - 10">

a photo contatc should be added like this:
<Item id="3">
<Name>Callers name</Name>
<Picturelocation>picture.jpg</Picturelocation>
<PhoneNumber1>12345678</PhoneNumber1>
</Item>

a name contact should be added like this:
<Item id="5">
<Name>Callers name</Name>
<PhoneNumber1>12345678</PhoneNumber1>
</Item>

please keep in mind that the maximum number of items is 10 (for 2 rows)

There are two options that can be set per <item>:
visible="false" -> set item to visiible or not, default this is true

multipleNumbers="true" -> if you would like to use two numbers with the same contact use multipleNumbers="true". It is imperative that you include <PhoneNumber2>12345678</PhoneNumber2>
or else the application will not work properly

hope all this is a bit clear !

[mb286]

U can use the settingseditor to configure the settings.xml.

Simply copy it to your device and start the program. It will search for the settings.xml file in \Program Files\Managed Today Screen Framework

http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee356/mb286/Screen01.jpg
http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee356/mb286/Screen02.jpg
http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee356/mb286/Screen03.jpg

[Riply]

any pictures?

[mb286]

any pictures?

please see first post

[m.schmidler]

looks quite usefull, some suggestions though: What about rounded corners or mirror / 3D effects for the pics? And an own settings-app would be nice as well.

regards,
Martin

[mb286]

looks quite usefull, some suggestions though: What about rounded corners or mirror / 3D effects for the pics? And an own settings-app would be nice as well.

regards,
Martin

i am not really an expert in special effects on pictures. But perhaps i can make it work

i will look into creating a seperate settings application that edits the settings.xml.

[Creutz]

Now this is exactly what I am looking for, sort of. I know my suggestion may spoil your thoughts of how you want the program to behave but hey it is just a suggestion;) Here goes, is it possible to bring upp a menu with all the numbers you have on that contact, for instance home,work and so on when you long press on the contact picture? I think this feature would be great but as I mentioned you are the author and you do as you want, its a suggestion. Weird no one else has created a similar software before.

[mb286]

Now this is exactly what I am looking for, sort of. I know my suggestion may spoil your thoughts of how you want the program to behave but hey it is just a suggestion;) Here goes, is it possible to bring upp a menu with all the numbers you have on that contact, for instance home,work and so on when you long press on the contact picture? I think this feature would be great but as I mentioned you are the author and you do as you want, its a suggestion. Weird no one else has created a similar software before.

good suggestion, however my main idea behind the long pressed button approach is that a person does not have to look on the screen to see what number is to be dialed. I use the plugin extensible in my car. I just have to look which contact i want to dial and start pressing the photo contact. The app will do the rest.

However, it is possible to do this, so if you (and other people) want this approach I can see if i can incorperate it at a later stage. It will probably will be around the time that i have figured out to directly connect the PIM contacts to the plugin.

[Kelvino9]

Creutz' idea should definitely be included in the upcoming releases, but as it has been mentioned above try think about some sort of built in configuration instead of manually xml-file editing.

special effects...not seriously needed;)

[balane]

Very nice software. Thank you. I like this wallpaper too. Would you mind sharing that or direct me as to where I may find it?

[souljah777]

Very nice software. Thank you. I like this wallpaper too. Would you mind sharing that or direct me as to where I may find it?

You can find the theme at http://www.pocketpcthemes.com/preview.asp?ID=75484.

[mb286]

Creutz' idea should definitely be included in the upcoming releases, but as it has been mentioned above try think about some sort of built in configuration instead of manually xml-file editing.

special effects...not seriously needed;)

I am currently working on a seperate application that will edit the settings.

[Kelvino9]

I am currently working on a seperate application that will edit the settings.That' very nice to hear, I will test it once it's out.
Thanks

[mb286]

Okay, i have finished a settingseditor to edit the settings.xml. hope someone finds it usefull. please also download the new Todayscreendialer.zip.

[mb286]

I was wondering if anybody was using the application.and if anybody had comments or suggestions.

[dutchnomad]

Hi, yesterday I stumbled on your application an dwant to try it. From some other internet sources I understand that also some registry settings must be made to make it work. Is that correct?

At the moment I cannot 'see' your plugin on my today screen.

Please advise, and thanks for sharing your application

Regards

[mb286]

Hi, yesterday I stumbled on your application an dwant to try it. From some other internet sources I understand that also some registry settings must be made to make it work. Is that correct?

At the moment I cannot 'see' your plugin on my today screen.

Please advise, and thanks for sharing your application

Regards

Thank you for trying the app out, there is no need for any registry changes. could you tell what kind of device you are using?

[dutchnomad]

I am trying to use it on a HTC Touch HD (WM 6.1)

Regards

[mb286]

I am trying to use it on a HTC Touch HD (WM 6.1)

Regards

I will look into this.

[mb286]

I will look into this.

I have made some changes and am currently testing the new version

[quicksite]

looks quite usefull, some suggestions though: What about rounded corners or mirror / 3D effects for the pics? And an own settings-app would be nice as well.

regards,
Martin


... and... just about a year later... Supbro releases "Avatar" (http://supware.net/Avatar/), as part of his whole icontact/ idialer suite -- which really executes this who thing perfectly... (I am just seeing this for first time today, over a year later)

http://supware.net/Avatar/Avatar-1.0.png (http://supware.net/Avatar/)

[mb286]

Hi, yesterday I stumbled on your application an dwant to try it. From some other internet sources I understand that also some registry settings must be made to make it work. Is that correct?

At the moment I cannot 'see' your plugin on my today screen.

Please advise, and thanks for sharing your application

Regards

new version is ready please test this out !

[frmariam]

Man I'd love to see something like this integrated into HomeScreen++ (http://www.chi-tai.info/cs_batterystatus_xda_neo_wm5_im_cs.htm)...

Next best thing would be if we could define the position of each picture in the today screen, number of contacts/rows and use images of any desired size (for more flexible integration in the theme)...

Not showing up properly in my device (renders as VGA but my device is WQVGA):

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/9765/screen01i.th.png (http://img412.imageshack.us/i/screen01i.png/)