Random Ringtones, MortScript by oblyvaeon

[Daktaklakpak]

So people are constantly saying to me, "But Dak! I'm too much of a sodding conformist to have anything resembling a unique personality! All of my ringtones are exactly the same stock drivel that everyone else in my suburbanite wonderland has on their phones! If my phone played random ringtones, as you propose, I wouldn't be able to tell if it was in fact my phone ringing because I don't have a creative bone in my evolutionary throwback of a body!", at which point they usually dissolve into the obscure nothingness of mundania.

But now you don't have to fall victim to this pitiful demise! Naysayers be damned and behold: here is a MortScript to make your phone play ringtones randomly selected from a directory that you specify.

Developed for Hermes/WM5, but it might work for you with little or no modification.

Version History

1.0
  -Initial Release

1.1
  -Fixed path error-checking
  -Compacted code a bit

1.2
  -More error-checking
  -Script automatically reconfigures itself if files in ringtone path have changed

[sandip_in]

nice job man...

keep it up.. really nice aps.... thanks...

[Daktaklakpak]

New version (1.2) available; major changes:

1. Much more comprehensive and robust error-checking routines.

2. Automatically detects and reconfigures itself when you add/remove/change files in your ringtone directory.

[seelanj]

no *.exe file was attached in zip file to execute oblyvaeonRandomRingtones.mscr . pls advice

[grypho]

no .exe is needed, you need to install mortscript (freeware) in your pda.

[cusen]

not work on o2i?I tried but not work.

[Antipodeanist]

Works on the Sprint HTC Touch running WM6. Thank you so much for this. I was looking for something that could do this and so far it appears to work great. Thanks a bunch.

[mmoroz]

Thank you -- it works great on Kaiser.

While 1-2% CPU usage isn't much, I think it would be better to reduce the run time further -- if only to reduce battery usage. I suppose there's no way to only run a script as part of an incoming call event (like in event-based VBA coding, etc.)?

Also, I seemed unable to change the folder to \Storage Card, until I manually changed it in the ini file. Maybe I was doing something wrong.

[supa4h]

Any chance of getting something like this for slider sounds?

[Daktaklakpak]

Originally Posted by mmoroz Thank you -- it works great on Kaiser. While 1-2% CPU usage isn't much, I think it would be better to reduce the run time further -- if only to reduce battery usage. I suppose there's no way to only run a script as part of an incoming call event (like in event-based VBA coding, etc.)? Also, I seemed unable to change the folder to \Storage Card, until I manually changed it in the ini file. Maybe I was doing something wrong.

The 1-2% spike only occurs every 1 second (maybe not clear in documentation), but you could reduce this further by modifying the delay time to every 5, 10, 30, or any arbitrary number. The line "Sleep(1000)" is the 1000 millisecond delay. MortScript is not quite as advanced as any implemetation of VB script (loop-based or nothing as far as I can tell), heh :)

As for working from \Storage Card, that's how mine is personally set up and I did it through the default interface (no ini edit), so it does work; must have been an input error.

Originally Posted by supa4h Any chance of getting something like this for slider sounds?

Not sure what "slider sound" is... ? It's probably possible; if there's a setting in the registry, this script could handle it. Case in point: I'm currently modifying it to work with Text Messaging at the request of a user.