Hello all,
Many of you may know my "DeviceManager" applet. Now I completely rewrote it, and made it part of a suite I'm working on. The "Adrenaline" suite. :)
Right now I wrote down some applets, but just few of them are somehow functional at the moment;in addition, I modified the HomeScreen title bar, adding a lot of functionalities. But let's see in details what I've done so far:
HYDROGEN Applet (H - Home)
Clock should work correctly. It does support both 12 and 24 hours format. This setting is taken directly from windows registry, so if you wish to change this preference you need to edit your "Regional Settings" in Windows control panel.
Top-right "..." button will open the "Clock" control panel applet.
Alarms should be reported correctly.
If enough space is left, under the next alarm there will be shown a button reporting the next calendar appointment: tap it to open calendar, or tap-and-hold to view a list of the next 5 appointments (tapping them will lead you to the calendar too). This will soon change, as soon as I will complete the calendar applet you won't see anymore the Windows calendar. :)
TO DO:
Not really much. :) I need to complete the upcoming calendar appointments (but, as said, I need to complete the calendar applet first), plus I'm planning to manage alarms and notifications directly from this applet.
CARBON Applet (C - Control Panel)
Top-left button: tap to toggle flight mode on and off. When a data connection is active, tap this button to terminate it (of course icon will change).
Top-middle button: tap to toggle Bluetooth on and off.
Top-right button: tap to toggle WiFi on and off. When WiFi is turned on, the icon will change to reflect the connected or not status.
Tap-and-hold *any* of the top row buttons to open the "Connections" screen (see below).
Bottom-left button: tap to tggle between "Normal" and "Vibrate" sound profiles. Tap-and-hold to open the "Sound and notifications" screen (see below).
Bottom-middle button: not working yet.
Bottom-right button: tap and hold to close Home2.
TO DO:
Better "Sound profiles" management. First of all add "Automatic" profile (i.e. vibrate during meetings), and possibly a time-based management (for example, vibrate during night).
Of course, I need to make bottom-middle button working: I'm planning to assign brightness control to it, but not sure yet.
Finally, add an option to launch an application after closing Home2 (like old DeviceManager).
CALCIUM Applet (Ca - Calendar)
This is in a really early stage. It just shows the month view, highliting current day and the week-end days. "First-day-of-week" setting (Monday or Sunday) is taken directly from system -- to change it go to Windows calendar, select "Menu -> Tools -> Options" and set your preference.
Sliding up and down will switch to next (down) or previous (up) month. Tapping the top-right "arrow" button will bring you directly to current month. Tapping a day won't do anything (by now...).
NOTE: You can change the colors for "week-end" and "today" days: just open the "Common\Adrenaline\Colors.xml" file and edit the values to suit your preferences (or your mood :D ).
TO DO:
A lot. Show "busy" days in month view (color coded by category). Add week view and (maybe) agenda view. Add dialogs to add/edit/create appointments. Add templates management.
HOMESCREEN TITLE
Added a lot of things, which now make (IMHO) fullscreen option worthwhile. :)
Starting from left, I added a "Start" button: tap it to open the "Programs" list (Home2 version, of course :P ), tap-and-hold to open the "Running apps" list (Home2 version too).
Next to it you should have the "operator" name. The date and time aren't displayed anymore (you have the "Hydrogen" applet to check time... :D ). The "No service" and "Emergency calls only", however, will be shown if needed.
Finally, on the right there is the "sound profile" icon, and if applicable the connections icons (BT, WiFi and data) will show up.
Tap the "sound" icon to open the "Sounds" screen (same as tap-and-holding the sound button in Carbon applet).
Tap the operator label or (if shown) any of the connections icons to open the "Connections" screen (same as tap-and-holding the top row buttons in Carbon applet).
CURIUM Screen (Cm - Connection Manager)
Well, this should be very intuitive. You just need to know that the "Discoverable" option will show up only when BT is active, and that when WiFi is turned on an extra-line will appear, showing the name of the connected network. Tap this line to open the "Network" control panel applet.
Finally, if a data call is active, another extra line will appear, allowing you to terminate the data call.
SAMARIUM Screen (Sm - Sounds Manager)
By now, you can choose between "Normal", "Vibrate" and "Silent". "Automatic mode" will ring normally and vibrate during meetings.
I'm planning to add more profiles and volume control.
I hope I've explained everything in a clear way, anyway I'm sure it will take you just a couple of minutes to figure out how this suite works. Just try to tap or tap-and-hold everything and see what happens. :)
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PLEASE NOTE
At the moment I posted only the VGA version. If you wish to test this suite on QVGA device, you sould download the "VGA_Graphics" archive, resize all the files included and replace the original ones with the ones you created.
Later I will post the QVGA version.
UNINSTALLATION
If you wish to remove the Adrenaline suite, follow these easy steps:
1) Remove all the files starting with "Adr_" and the "Adrenaline" folder under the "Common" folder.
2) Remove the "Hydrogen" and "Carbon" folders under "AppletRibbon" folder.
3) Remove the "Adrenaline" folder under "Themes\Default" folder.
4) Finally, remove "HomeScreenTitle.cs" and rename "HomeScreenTitle.bak" to "HomeScreenTitle.cs" under "Common" folder.
ATTENTION THEMERS
If you wish to create your own set of graphics to match a particular theme, please take note that you should create an "Adrenaline" folder under your desired theme folder and put the graphics there. My applets will search the graphics first in the "{selected theme}\Adrenaline" folder and, if not found, in the "Default\Adrenaline" folder.
INTERNATIONALIZATION
All the applets "get" the localized terms from one single file, located under the "Common\\Adrenaline" folder. Please note that you must save the file as "Terms.xxx.xml", where xxx is your native language (English, French, Italian, etc.). The "Terms.xml" file is not accessed by applets and should only be used as reference to start creating your own localized version.
QVGA Version
Credits: sinofthegod
Get the QVGA files HERE.
THE "SHALLA-BAL" EXPERIENCE (don't know who can get this :P )
Credits: NorrinRadd
Updated: 03 Nov 09
Our great Silver Surfer has made a wonderful job, adding some really interesting extra features in order to have an even more adrenalinic experience with your Home2 powered device. :)
Check it out HERE
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