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ClockSS – Clock ScreenSaver for UIQ3

… or something like it…

Well, a lot of people miss the clock screen saver in their shiny new UIQ3 phone… so here is a sort of replacement.

It’s not a real screensaver, but looks like a screensaver, behaves like a screensaver, so it’s a pretty good estimate

Ok, and now the serious text

The program should start automatically, when the phone starts. And it also should go to the background. To controll it, just locate it in the task manager, and when you switch to it, you should see:

You can choose the timeout value from 10seconds, 1 minute (the default), 2 mintues or 10 minutes. You can also de/activate it temporary.

After the given amount of inactivity, it switches to screen saver mode:

You can switch back to normal mode (ie. “unlock the keypad”) with ‘*’ and then ‘#’ (note: you should probably need to press ALT as well, to get in numeric mode)

You can switch to a different app with the BACK key (only when you press it longer) or the internet (or hardware) key. Unfortunately I cannot change this behaviour But fortunately, these keys are not easy to press by mistake.

You should turn off automatic keyguard in controll panel (otherwise you will reseave the standard unlock message).

Well, that’s it for now, awaiting opinions

Oh, and next version probably will have binary mode as well (ie. shows the clock in binary instead of decimal… just for the geeks )

Almost forgot the downoad links:

• UIQ3 binary: clockss_0_1.sis
• Source code: clockss_0_1_src.tar.gz (btw, is anybody interested in the surce code, or I just keep posting source codes for no reason ?-)

Progress on the screen capture

Well, I sorted out some of the problems, but there are still some problems ahead… but I think the program is already usefull.

First of all: the floating widnow wierdness was my bug (there was an iPosition both in TPointerEvent and in CCoeControll, and some DrawDeferred calls were missing).

Still no pointer events while the main window is not visible

But I finally sorted out the memory problems (thanks to the UIQ and SE dev forums). Just for the record, elf2e32’s -heap option can take two arguments, and the second one is the maxium heap. (I was setting the minimum to 2MB, and let the maximum at 2MB… hihi…)

Anyway, the program is partly functional, can be downloaded here: UIQ3 binary: theopenscreencapture_0_2.sis, source code: tosc_0_2_src.tar.gz

Features:

• floating icon which shows the download counter (and which is hidden when the screenshot is made)
• saves to PNG format (less file size then BMP files) on the memory card
• users can choose between 0sec, 10sec and 30sec timeout.

And some screenshots:

Well, that’s it for now, more to come later.

New GFX for TABU

Well, I had 2 more hours to work today, so I decided to add some more animations to TABU. Here are the new images:

And here is the new download link: tabu_0_2_uiq3.sis

Hello world!

Welcome everybody!

This is  my first blog, and my first post, more to come.

First of all: why?

Short answer: Why not?!

Long answer: I’m interested in a lot of things (but mainly computer, mobile phone related stuff), so I thought I migth share my interest, experience, etc. So here you will find mostly stuff from my “research” work, hence things related to mobile phone programming, linux, etc.