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Anyone knows n0p's accessibility OR how Tower Toppler can be run?

Has anyone EVER managed to make n0p’s free (!) Tower Toppler ( http://toppler.sourceforge.net/ ) port (available at http://n0p.tonych.info/?Tower_Toppler ) work on his / her WM device?
It wouldn't work on mine - it just displays "null" instead of the name of the map. Tested on several of my devices, with both the older XScale only and the new ARM (02.12.2006) build.
Alternatively, does anyone know n0p's accessibility? I'd need this info on my forthcoming article on all Nebulus clones for Windows Mobile.

Hmm, I wanted to check it out but when I tried downloading from http://n0p.tonych.info/?Tower_Toppler I got a "leach alert" page saying something about no referrals and turning off download accelerators.
Found this odd since I have no download managers installed.
Tried it with Firefox 2.0.0.3 and Explorer 6.0 and nothing...

levenum said:
Hmm, I wanted to check it out but when I tried downloading from http://n0p.tonych.info/?Tower_Toppler I got a "leach alert" page saying something about no referrals and turning off download accelerators.
Found this odd since I have no download managers installed.
Tried it with Firefox 2.0.0.3 and Explorer 6.0 and nothing...
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Directly (left) click the links, do NOT do a right-click + Save link as.

No luck. Tried it directly with both browsers.
Even ran Spybot just in case.
Played with the desktop version for a bit - nice little game.
Interesting thing is I did not see an email address anywhere on the developers site (and I even checked the Russian version - yes I read Russian).
Oh well, it was just curiosity any way. I have about 20 games on my Jamin as it is and in order to get some respect I need to at least pretend to use it for work stuff
Good luck with your article.

levenum said:
No luck. Tried it directly with both browsers.
Even ran Spybot just in case.
Played with the desktop version for a bit - nice little game.
Interesting thing is I did not see an email address anywhere on the developers site (and I even checked the Russian version - yes I read Russian).
Oh well, it was just curiosity any way. I have about 20 games on my Jamin as it is and in order to get some respect I need to at least pretend to use it for work stuff
Good luck with your article.
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Strange it didn't work. I can put it on my database back-end so that the entire world can access it there without problems tomorrow morning; I'll give you the URL as soon as it's up.

In the meantime, I was able to make the game work (see http://forum.xda-developers.com:80/showthread.php?t=304230 if interested). Guys, you MUST give this game a try - it REALLY rocks! n0p has again presented us something REALLY cool, thanks!
ANYWAY, if anyone does know n0p's accessibility, let me know. I, as the Windows Mobile Best Software Awards 2007 Nomination Manager, want to nominate some of his stuff for this year's awards and, for this, I also need to contact him.

See http://www.winmobiletech.com/sekalaiset/TopplerARM.7z for the mirrored file

Thanks a lot for mirroring the file. (You relay shouldn't have bothered)
Keep the excellent articles coming.

levenum said:
Thanks a lot for mirroring the file. (You relay shouldn't have bothered)
Keep the excellent articles coming.
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You're welcome, and thanks

[Req] Check book register

can someone if they feel inclined or bored produce a WM6 app for me? dont care how it runs if it uses java or whatever, but if you do java can you insure it runs in midlet well.
basically i want a simple register for my check book. used one once but does not run well on the midlet java has a glitch in it. anyways here is what id like it to do if your tempted to do it. if it works well id even pay a few dollars for it
balance shown at top with month
input + or - amounts
set catagories as well as add new ones
add notes if needed
show date
able to go back and forth each month to see payments
then if you want to add these functions in, maybe a way to look at a break down by catagories to see where most the money is going. and a way to MMS the results to a email account, maybe in a html or other format so i can see date, amount, catagory, notes (this last part is just bonus)
the one thing the last one had a issue with was it never carried the amount to the next month i had to add it in manually.
i hope someone is inclinded to write one i miss my old one so much....

various free finance apps on this site, eg
http://freewareppc.com/financial/shpfinance.shtml
Just a case of trying them all and seeing which works best for you
I doubt anyone will write one, as there are already pro apps that do most of what you want - ie export data etc
Enjoy

i have looked all over for them and most do not run properly on the Dash, and the pro ones have way to much bloat in them i want them simple the export function i use rarely so is not needed. so thought i would ask is all.

thanks for the link i tried all of them listed on the site, and 0 of them worked on my dash, my dash is running 6.1 with net 3.5 and every last one gave me a error when i tried to run the programs after instal..
i do thank you for the attempted assistance tho.

Have you tried an Excel Check Register? There are a lot of free Check Register Excel templates available.

not familiar with excel or spreedsheets can ya point me to a place that has them ? thanks for the help

[REQUEST] Remote foobar

I would donate money to someone who made a remote app to foobar2000 for android.
Maybe there already is but I've searched a lot and cant find it =(
There is this http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=38114 control.dll wich handles some commands and the connection over tcp/ip.
But the rest I can't do on my own

I also would like a foobar remote. I've done the android tutorials on the sdk website but I'm by no means an experienced developer.
I thought I would base it around the android-vlc-remote interface.
Perhaps a google code project is a good idea?

I have written a remote controller for foobar2000 a while ago. It's not very beautiful, but at least it works. It's not a plugin for foobar though, it's a server program written in Java. It still just has the basic controls, but I'm about to make it good and release it after my exams (in a couple of weeks or so).

Try out foo_httpcontrol. Then there are a few templates that look good on the Android (I use the ones by KEVO).
I can't post a link, but here is the URL, but Google and there is a thread on Hydrogen Audio dot org

tberman333 said:
Try out foo_httpcontrol. Then there are a few templates that look good on the Android (I use the ones by KEVO).
I can't post a link, but here is the URL, but Google and there is a thread on Hydrogen Audio dot org
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i am using that too , but do u have resolution problem, becoz it is designed for G1

beware, shameless self-plug follows:
i've written an app to control foobar2k over wifi. uses the foo_httpcontrol plugin to send commands/get data.
the website is: foodroid.net84.net (has the QR-Code). or simply search for "foodroid" in the market.
please note, if you already have foo-httpcontrol installed: you also need to have the "ajquery" template installed.
if you don't have it installed: i made a setup to install foo-httpcontrol including "ajquery".
it's currently in beta, but pretty useable IMHO.
cheers, bugramovic

bugramovic said:
beware, shameless self-plug follows:
i've written an app to control foobar2k over wifi. uses the foo_httpcontrol plugin to send commands/get data.
the website is: foodroid.net84.net (has the QR-Code). or simply search for "foodroid" in the market.
please note, if you already have foo-httpcontrol installed: you also need to have the "ajquery" template installed.
if you don't have it installed: i made a setup to install foo-httpcontrol including "ajquery".
it's currently in beta, but pretty useable IMHO.
cheers, bugramovic
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Big thx!!! Need cover

Check this out, you might like it.
foobar2000controller.blogspot.com

[Q] REQ Darts App

Hey Folks,
I love playing darts but I´m really tired of counting the scores the whole time...
Does anyone of you know an app that can do this for me and my mates? It would be great if this app offers different gametypes such as 501, 301, cricket and so on.

Hmmm, it shouldn't be too hard to create an app that can do this (if you've got Visual Studio, maybe an express edition might be enough). After all isn't scoring in darts just multiple rounds of subtraction (with... a "logic" step at the end to prevent a negative score)?
Heh, correct me if I'm wrong since my only exposure to darts has been GTAIV
Although it'd be awesome if the background was an image of a blackboard and the numbers written in chalk (been playing too much GTAIV I spose).
EDIT: When you say "501, 301, cricket" do you mean different dart game types or different sports altogether since I know that cricket is a different sport but not what 501 and 301 are.
EDIT2: Nevermind, good old google revealed that 501, 301 and cricket are indeed all dart game types.
EDIT3: Heh, kinda forgot to answer your original question - there are actually quite a few however they are mostly paid apps and I'm not sure about compatability with WM6.5, but this is what I've found (I bascially just googled for "dart score WM"):
Someone said (http://www.modaco.com/content/pocket-pc-software/264953/darts-scorer-program/#entry0) that this one crashed (though its free): http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-the-count-v1-0.html but the link appears broken.
This seems to be an online scoring system: http://uniscore.unicorn-darts.com/
Another one here (paid): http://download.cnet.com/Dart-Scorekeeper/3000-2056_4-10955810.html

I'd like a app like this . I've got visual studio but not sure where to start . I'll give it ago .

iainbp said:
I'd like a app like this . I've got visual studio but not sure where to start . I'll give it ago .
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Heh, was supposed to give it a go myself but I've become a bit too busy recently.
Anyways what you'll have to do is to install the Windows Mobile 6.5 SDK then you'll be able to build applications for it. Ummm, not sure where I found the instructions I used but this should do: http://www.smartmobiledevice.co.uk/HowTo/DeployToWM65
I assume you know how to use Visual Studio to make VB.net/C# applications. Its pretty much the same process, except you'll have to be smart about how much space you use (mobile phones have small screens )
You'll need to have VS2008 or VS2005 since VS2010 apparently doesn't support anything other than WP OS 7 (when it comes to mobile OS development, AFAIK).
I actually wanted to try making a nice "graphical" app, say use an image of a blackboard and have the letters drawn on with chalk (just like in GTA4). But from googling around it doesn't seem possible to do (at least not without building to WP7 since you can use silverlight/expression blend there to make all sorts of pretty things).
EDIT: Finally decided to give it a good bash. Still have to work out how I'm going to code the 'meat' of it i.e. the game scoring bit. Probably going to use a loop to constantly subtract - not sure if this will work for the cricket game type.
I must say feature creep is a big problem. At first I was not going to bother having customisable "names" but for some reason I went ahead and coded it (and it sure was a pain to do so).
Now I'm thinking of having a save/load feature so that you can save a game halfway through or load a previously completed game... but I really don't think I will, so make sure you finish your games (I might add a "custom starting score" feature so that if you remember who had what score, you could resume).

Ok, decided to make a new post (bump!) since I've got something reasonably stable to release.
So here it is, along with a screenshot. I've removed the options screen from the previous version since it really wasn't doing that much. Oh and I haven't programmed the "Cricket" game type yet since it seems alot more complicated than simply substracting scores.
I've also gone and changed the application icon from the previous version.
Heres some other things which I've picked up during my testing:
Known Issue 05: If you press the Windows button while running 'Dart A Score', it will take you out of the app. Press the "X" to return/bring Dart A Score back into focus.
Known Issue 06: If you press the Home or Back buttons while running 'Dart A Score' it will take you out of the app. Use task manager to "swtich" back.
Known Issue 09: If you close 'Dart A Score' via the task manager, you may not be able to relaunch it. Softreset your phone [not sure why, anyone?]
Known Issue 11: After selecting who starts the game, you cannot easily go back since the game asks you to enter the score for the first turn immediatley. Either enter a turn or enter nothing (get an error) to see Form 3/Main game and then press the "Back" softkey. Done by design. [may reimplement the options screen with a toggle for this]
Known Issue 12: The game does not detect a winner immediatey (score of 0). When a player reaches the score of 0 you press the "Next turn" button for the game to detect it. [will have to fix this in a later version, maybe]
Known Issue 13: The buttons on the dialouge box, that pops up after the game has detected a winner, do nothing. These controls are yet to be programmed. Press "OK" or "Cancel" on the dialouge box then press the "Back" softkey to start a new game. [yep, gonna have to implement this too]
Known Issue X: The keyboard does not automatically switch to numeric mode when the user is asked to input a score. [don't think I can fix this as it requires the use of "native code" (I think)]
Possible future features:
00: Implement a check so that only valid dart scores are possible. Probably not.
00: Implement custom names with persistant storage (i.e. write out/read in from a text file). [Going to be alot of work]

[Q] any way to view Sketchup (google) files on Android dev?

I already STFA and did not find what I was looking for. I was wondering if there is an application that will allow viewing of existing Google Sketchup files, editing/creating files - no - not so much, think that would be best done on a full blown desktop, One earlier post was asking about running a fully functional Sketchup, and I tend to agree that it would be too much of a tax on the processor and memory to be feasible for a mobile device. I also found the SketchBook program from AutoDesk which is designed for mobile devices but from what it says it is more like Paint in Microsoft Os's not a CAD type program.
Anybody know if there is anything like that available out there to be able to view Google Sketchup files? Thanks in advance for any information on the subject.

Sorry to wake up an old topic (very old) but I too am looking for such an app.....being a kitchen builder in my spare time I was asked a few times if I had any models on hand to show. And since I do all my sketches in Sketchup, well you guessed it....I can't show them on my tab....
Would be kinda cool to show potential customers how their kitchen might look like if I could just drop existing cabinets in place etc...
If you've already found something would you mind sharing with me? Very much appreciated...