Hold ON feature requests and bugs

[veritech]

Please place your feature requests and bug reports here. try not to post in the dev thread as i want that to remain to other aspiring palm os devs.

request away...

[swstar]

Bug Report: If SpeedLaunch is running, the hold function fails. (still exist in 0.04)


p.s. Good app. Keep it up.

[veritech]

Bug Report:The hold feature fails if the any 5-way nav button is held longer than a couple of seconds, or pressed repeatedly.

(Yes i'm posting bugs in my own code ^_^, just so you know)

[veritech]

Bug Report: If SpeedLaunch is running, the hold function fails. (still exist in 0.02)


p.s. Good app. Keep it up.

big thanks for testing

i haven't looked into it yet, but i'll see what i can do for the 0.05 release (rc2).

[swstar]

big thanks for testing

i haven't looked into it yet, but i'll see what i can do for the 0.05 release (rc2).

I'm always eager to try your app's new version.

[Rudd-O]

The app shows an annoying dialog box that interrupts the process of setting the palm on hold. It's cute to show it the first time. After that, it's absurd.

A feature request: can you "take over" the long press of the center 5waynav key to automatically launch Hold on and activate the Hold? Bonus: blank the screen after holding.

[JAmerican]

Once in Hold this is posssible, but system-wide using HB++ might be a much harder task to do. I've tried. People have told me that doing such a thing will slow down the system because it will be checking for that press.

JAmerican

[veritech]

J is completely right, this is way it's gotta(not to say that it's impossible) be for now

[jonahmt21]

any update on this program for the TX?

[gopi_98]

hi friends iam developing voicerecording application using PalmSDk c and c++ for PalmOS iam using PalmOne LifeDrive iam new to PalmSdk C and C++ iam using PalmDeveloper suite 1.0 IDE compiler iam getting errors can any one help means mail to gopikrishna@verudix.com i will forward my code to you

[veritech]

App update coming this week!

Some very special code has just become availible to me. It will allow in app control of Aero Player, anyone users with the full version (doesn't have to be the latest), could you please pm me if you are interested in being added to the beta program.

Thanks

[veritech]

hi friends iam developing voicerecording application using PalmSDk c and c++ for PalmOS iam using PalmOne LifeDrive iam new to PalmSdk C and C++ iam using PalmDeveloper suite 1.0 IDE compiler iam getting errors can any one help means mail to gopikrishna@verudix.com i will forward my code to you

Would love to help you, but i'm still getting my head around VBscript

[swstar]

Bug Report: Play / Pause seems doesn't work when start, but after a few clicks, it gets back to normal. (ptunes mode)

[veritech]

this i had noticed, i haven't done work on the app recently (been busy learning C) so...

main()
{
char reply[36] = "A new version is coming this weekend";

printf("%s " reply);
return 0;
}

I think that right at least, i counted 35 characters, so that should be about it ^_^, i try and fix this, however that function checks to see if Pocket tunes is running, and is meant to set the button to the correct state on the apps launch.

Incase anyones interested i'm using a book called "Absolute Beginners Guide to C", very good, had written a CLI app after the first two chapters.

[swstar]

I've learnt a bit of C in the last semaster :)

[Rudd-O]

Hey, the HB++ dialog box keeps appearing, and the "hold on startup" and "power off screen on hold" functions still fail.

[Rudd-O]

Hold on 0.8.0.1 does NOT work.

When I enter Hold on, the Deactivate hold is enabled, yet all the buttons work normally and they turn on the screen (at least PTunes turns it off after 10 seconds, but that is useless because at some point I'll hit one of the 5ways on my pocket and then the screen comes back on).

When I double-tap the button to disable-then-enable Hold, the POWER BUTTON IS DISABLED and I CANNOT TURN MY SCREEN OFF DURING PLAYBACK. Worse even, in this scenario, THE SCREEN NEVER GOES OFF AS CONFIGURED IN Ptunes!!!! That is even WORSE than not having Hold on.

If I hold and press any of the buttons, the Palm STILL TURNS the screen on!

And, worst of all, I have run the battery to the ground completely SEVERAL TIMES because for some reason when Hold on is open and music is playing, under circumstances that I can't really put my finger on, the Palm NEVER goes off, even if the music stops. Zero battery. I'm talking zero reserve battery. Zero.

To top this, none of the Preferences in the menu item take any effect whatsoever on my T|X. Bonus: the stupid 3-second HB+ dialog box that appears when the program starts.

In fact, I want to download the earlier version (but there is no download link for that). At least that one worked fine and had fewer frills.

Come on Veritech. We get that you're busy (or pretend to). You say you're going to incorporate several features to control N media players, yet you still don't fix existing bugs. You come here, brag that you're learning X or Y language, but you never finish what you started.

How hard can it be to beat a 1000-line of code application into shape? Screw media player control in Hold on, why make the effort to learn new languages and frameworks when you can't even get this elementary thing right? What's so hard about following an SDK? If you can't get this right, it's hopeless -- stop trying to learn how to program.

This advice comes from someone with quite a bit of experience under his belt, and at least ten programming languages. So don't dismiss it.

So, what will it take? Cos the way I see it, I can either get a hard case, pay you the price of a hard case for you to fix these elementary bugs, or sell my Palm and get an iPod. What's it gonna be?

[veritech]

Dear Rudd-0

Your message was a welcome reminder to me of the past. My "pretense" of being busy sadly is all too true.

I officially end development of Hold On in April, in fact it had slowed to a crawl several months before.

Come the end of September i begin working for myself full time, to that end it if i can establish that there is a user base of 5 or more users, i will rewrite the application from scratch. And support it fully after it reaches a 1.0 stage.

Jonathan