26 December 2008

Standby Extender [BETA]
Extended Functionality Of The Standby Screen

After lots of irritations by standard and extended S60v3 user interfaces I have decided to write something what will satisfy my needs, and it became to most powerful standby replacement. Applications is written in python, and to work on the highest possible level it needs some extensions, but since there is no such, I wrote 'emulation' for this.

Since python is bit slow on S60, running this application might take up to 20 seconds. Also keep in mind this not the final version of the application, this is work in progress but I’ve decided to share it with you as the nice X-mass present for SF forum members and readers.

I’m planning to extend functionality and add more features and hopefully I’ll manage to implement vertical shortcuts within the next release and I promise that if I loose interest in further development of this software and/or if I ever leave Symbian I will make it open source so everyone will be able to tweak k the code and continue with development.

If any Symbian C++ developer want to port this python code to C++ I will help in everything, and I was planed to do same in February/March '09. I am not sure that ill do same due lack of PC access.

In first place, this app was for personal use, but I decided to share it whit you all and I want to note you that I wouldn’t ever do some things in python if there wasn’t our beloved FCA, so please, if you have pay pal account and support us and fight against limitations, donate to FCA on fca00000 [at] yahoo [dot] es your donation will let FCA to get new device and be able to do investigation on it.

Best regards to my dear devs section crew,
Teo, SF mods and all users on SF.
http://symbian-freak.com
wook@symbian-freak.com
wook

I wish everyone the best, by avoiding any religious differences, Merry Christmas for all SF members or whatever you celebrating at this time of year, and even if you don't, have a great and long holidays and a very happy, healthy and successful 2009!

I hope this year has been a good one for everyone and if it hasn't let’s hope that next year will brings better tidings. This going to be freakin’ year I'm pretty sure about ;)

SF founder and admin,
Teo Bartulovic
AKA Apocalypso