goonie

Nice idea. Unfortunately, I was hoping that the links thus created would be something that the default Palm launcher could map to a button or be added to "Favorites", but that doesn't appear to be the case. Would be useful if someone wants an icon for a DA on the apps screen however.

dragonsgames

That would be cool

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I like iSpin, it's my favorite launcher!!
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pruss

Done.

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goonie

I'm having problems with it. The icons were not launching DAs. When I tried to delete the icons, I think the DAs themselves were deleted. I'm going to try to re-install all my DAs and reinstall RunDA and run it again.

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Edit: I'm wondering if DA Launcher (which is what I use to run DAs) is part of the problem. In the last version 1.0, the RunDA program would produce links with icons in the Applications screen, but if you deleted the link, the DA remained intact. Now, it appears that if you delete the link, you also delete the DA itself. So you probably want to run this separate from DA Launcher. I was hoping to map one DA to a hard button and use DA Launcher for all other DA-related use.

I notice that if I use Uninstall Manager and delete "just the application", the DA itself remains intact.

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Edit2: I tried deleting DA Manager and simply running RunDA. Still, none of the icons are launching DAs.

I also have some suggestions:

-- RunDA is not actually a DA itself. It's kind of confusing being named that. DA Launcher is not a DA either, but the name makes that clear.

-- It would be nice if the names of the launching icons were sufficiently different rom the DAs itself so that it would be easy to delete the icons you don't need without fear of deleting the DAs themselves. Alternatively, ask the user which DAs for which they wish to make an icon.

pruss

Yeah. That's because the app has the same creator ID as the DA. There is no good cure for that, except maybe making up a whole bunch of separate creator IDs like Sharky is.

I hadn't thought of the deletion issue. Oh well.

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goonie

Well, as I've noted, I've figured out how to delete the "shortcuts" (for lack of a better descriptor) without deleting the original DAs themselves. You'd need FileZ or FileProg or Uninstall Manager to manually eliminate them, but you can.

The bigger question is can you get the shortcuts themselves to work?

I don't want to discourage you, but there is a freeware app (Petit Launch) that allows you to map DAs to hard buttons, so by mapping Petit Launch to a button, I can launch DAs with one additional button press. I'd still rather accomplish the DA launching your way, seems more intuitive...

Thanks for trying!

dmccunney

I'm confused. What launcher are you using? I installed RunDA here and ran it. I have 37 DAs installed, and all appeared as icons in a LauncherX tab. Tapping the associated icon launches the DA here.

Not all DAs work launched this way. About half of mine crashed on exit, as they didn't get passed an expected calling form to return to, but they did launch. I just used the LX File Manager to remove the launchable attribute from those DAs to avoid confusion.

Alex's app appears to just set the Launchable attribute on any files in RAM of type DAcc. Mark a file as launchable, and it appears as an icon in the launcher. This is one of those "Why didn't I think of that?" ideas. It works for data files as well as programs, though whether "launching" a data file is meaningful depends upon the associated app. (Some apps support a PalmOS function that will let you tap an associated data file, and the app will be launched and passed the name of the file to process.)
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goonie

Sorry about the delay in responding, I thought I posted a response the other day, but it didn't go through.

I use the regular Palm "Applications" Launcher that comes with OS 5.4.7.

SoS

could you post a list of your DA's (and links maybe)?? That would be a great resource for everyone!!

dmccunney

That will take a bit. I'm at the office now, and I'll try to respond later from home.
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dmccunney

DAs are often confused with hacks, since they can perform similar functions, but they are not technically hacks.

A DA is a program designed to pop up over an existing application and do something. When you exit the DA, you are back where you left in the underlying app. A DA may be informational (like popping up a display of the current date and time), or it may interact with the underlying program, like ASCIIPopDA, which lists a table of available ASCII chartactes, and lets you send the one you select to the clipboard or paste it into the underlying app).

To use DAs, you need a DA launcher. The ones I use here are Yamada Tetsushi's (a/k/a Hacker Dude-san) DA Launcher 5 5.1b4, and Mike McCollister's McPhling.

DA Launcher 5 creates an icon on the OS5 command bar from which you can pop up a menu of available DAs and select one to launch.

McPhling is a popup "favorites" app, that will list up to 14 apps or DAs and launch the one you tap. McPhling activation is configurable, and it can be brought up by a swipe or a hard button. McPhling recognizes all of the Zodiac buttons, so I have it set to pop up when the Function button is pressed.

DA Launcher 5 is freeware. McPhling is fully functional shareware (no disabled features or nag screens), and open source under the GPL.

I have too many to describe them all in this post, so I'll just list a few high spots:

CoolDAs by Yang Zhiguang
CoolDAs is a popup status app, listing current date/time, battery charge level, free RAM, free space on the primary SD card, current auto-off setting, current privacy setting, and current IR beaming status, among other things. CoolDAs will let you change the auto-off time, toggle the privacy settings, IR beaming and Bluetooth and perform a variety of other functions from the popup screen.

daMemopad by Imazeki
daMemopad is a popup interface to the Palm Memo database, allowing you to view existing memos or create new ones.

ezConv DA by Hide Itoh
ezConv DA is a popup units conversions tool for a variety of conversions, such as Inches to Centimeters of Farenheit to Centigrade temperatures.

RakuDA by Tsuyoshi Ushimaru
RakuDA is a popup interface to create entries in the Datebook, Memo, or ToDo databases.

Statbar DA by Alexander Pruss
Statbar DA toggles the status bar display. Have an app where you want every last but of space for the display, and begrudge that quarter inch bar on the right with the home, find, power etc. icons, and wish you could turn it off? Statbar DA is for you. (This is mainly useful if you have a device with a 320x480 screen and collapsing DIA, like my Tapwave Zodiac 2.)

There are more, but this will give you the idea.

You can find links to other DAs here and here.

Enjoy!
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antoinepierre

And in my signature.

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cellneuron

I just tried it. It looks ok. Running a DA will use the blank(white) background, which is not the definition of DA (Popup windows). Anyway thanks. Just hope it can get better.

4stupid

Great application with use of MetaDA and Accessorizer.

Appreciate either if the name of application displayed in Laucher can be renamed to DALink or the name of zip file and zipped object can be named as RunDA. It is because it is confusing (and I have consumed some time understanding it).

In spite of the availability of MetaDA and Accessorizer, the other DA link should be created is the "MetaDA (DA)". If the software allow choosing specific DA link creation, it is prefect. [Certainly there is no impact to old user like me since I have gone through the "Delete" process.]

However, I have to thanks the developer for the lightweight DA [link] launcher.

4stupid

Treo 680 user:

Just observed that the "MetaDA (DA)" will be executed as swap to an application (launcher launching MetaDA), which break the current application state.

Sorry, have to fall back to traditional command bar and execute DA through DA Launcher or McPhling.