DIA Utility

[rtquinlan]

Is there any way or utility to "lock" the DIA open or closed?

What I hate is when you are in an app that doesn't support the DIA and you switch back to the launcher the DIA is open even if you launched the app with it closed.

I hope I'm explaning this correctly. TIA.

-Ryan

[PatrickS]

I'm pretty sure there is no such utility, yet. I think there are several different approaches an application developer might choose:

1. The application should adjust the PDA to the optimum configuration for this program, at the program's startup.

2. The application shouldn't mess with what is essentially a user preference.

3. The application should remember what the configuration was the last time the app was used and return to it when the app is relaunched.

I've already read threads where this is discussed -- see the Yahoo group for SplashPhoto, for example (that app is in category 1).

Apart from developers, the OS is also conspiring in this equation. If you have the virtual grafitti area closed when you start an app which doesn't support 320x480, the VG area automagically pops up. I think this is an example of category 1 behaviour.

I think the user community has to speak out so developers can hear what we want. Personally, my preference list for the three cases above is: 3,2,1. What's yours? Is there a fourth or fifth choice not listed that would be even better?

[Unreg]

DIA from palm is not smart but Z launcher (and maybe other ones?) corrects that. That's just another plus to the wonderful software ZL already is...

[rtquinlan]

I agree that the app should "remember" what the last setting used was.

I feel that this is more an OS issue then an application issue. How hard would it be to write a utility that allowed you upon quitting any application to automatically collapse the DIA?

[rtquinlan]

Found it :) If you use Code Diver you can set it up to make sure that the launcher always gets retuned to the state that you want. Under the virtural silk setting;

SizeChg: Force
Stared Size: Long
Stopped Size: Long

I hope that this helps someone else too.

[KenSong]

It works for some but not all. If an application already supports DIA, it can cause rapid blinking when launching the applications.

[rtquinlan]

That's just it. I didn't want to make an app that wasn't full screen full screen. My gripe was this. Lets say you were in the launcher fullscreen... you launch the notepad application which is not fullscreen. Now when you hit the home button your launcher does not return to you full screen. It keeps the setting that the last used application had.

The work around I'm using works for every app because I'm making a "global" change. I'm not telling every app to be full screen. I'm telling just the launcher to be full screen upon starting and exiting. That way no matter what app I run when I return home it will be fullscreen. I hope that makes sense. I'm sure this is bugging other people, it's just hard to explain.

[AnthonyM]

Originally posted by KenSong
It works for some but not all. If an application already supports DIA, it can cause rapid blinking when launching the applications.

Don't use the "force" command in that case. Use the "Set" command and keep the other two options set at "Long".

[patrick ng]

Thanks, Anthony -- Just tried it and it works really well.