1.) When examining the documentation I found the page for DiddleSnap to be outdated. DiddleSnap is not a "hackmaster extension" because Hacks don't exist in PalmOS5. In fact there is another OS4 hack in the package, but that file isn't named 'DiddleSnap'.
2.) It is currently a bit inconvenient to use DiddleSnap on my Tungsten T2 because you don't support a key as shutter-release button. The current method requires the slider to be opened. Is it possible to add buttons to it or have a timeout? For examples have a look at how the "Screenshot5" Utility from Linkesoft <http://www.linkesoft.de> works. You can define a key or alternatively a time after which the shot is taken.
3.) DiddleSnap takes quite a while until the snapshot is finished. Is this normal? The aforementioned Screenshot5 is a lot faster.
4.) How about adding a possibiltiy to import a picture (GIF, JPG, BMP) that has been taken by other application (Screenshot5, for example) into DiddleBug? That's something BugMe seems to support (although I don't know which formats they support).
5.) Any idea when colors will be supported by DiddleBug? On a suggestion of a colleague I tried "Sketcher" (V2, free edition) as alternative to DiddleBug but found the smoothing of handwriting by far better within DiddleBug. However, that one supports colors!
Best regards and keep up the good work!
Guido
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1> Yeah, the documentation is not completely up to date. The DiddleSnap referred to IS the <=OS4 version (the file named "dbscHack.prc").
2> I'm looking at this.
3> The problem is that I need to convert high color images to black & white. There is no clean solution to do this (i.e. no API calls). I've implemented a generic version that should work on all devices regardless of physical memory layout or color mode, but it is rather slow.
4> Uncompressed BMP would be rather easy (as long as it was black & white), everything else is rather hard to do (especially JPEG). The problem is again that DiddleBug is still black & white only.
5> Not in the near future. I simply don't have the time to do it, as I'm working on my diploma thesis (which unfortunately doesn't involve PalmOS programming).
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Hi Peter,
first, thank you and your team for DiddleBug :-)
1.) When examining the documentation I found the page for DiddleSnap to be outdated. DiddleSnap is not a "hackmaster extension" because Hacks don't exist in PalmOS5. In fact there is another OS4 hack in the package, but that file isn't named 'DiddleSnap'.
2.) It is currently a bit inconvenient to use DiddleSnap on my Tungsten T2 because you don't support a key as shutter-release button. The current method requires the slider to be opened. Is it possible to add buttons to it or have a timeout? For examples have a look at how the "Screenshot5" Utility from Linkesoft <http://www.linkesoft.de> works. You can define a key or alternatively a time after which the shot is taken.
3.) DiddleSnap takes quite a while until the snapshot is finished. Is this normal? The aforementioned Screenshot5 is a lot faster.
4.) How about adding a possibiltiy to import a picture (GIF, JPG, BMP) that has been taken by other application (Screenshot5, for example) into DiddleBug? That's something BugMe seems to support (although I don't know which formats they support).
5.) Any idea when colors will be supported by DiddleBug? On a suggestion of a colleague I tried "Sketcher" (V2, free edition) as alternative to DiddleBug but found the smoothing of handwriting by far better within DiddleBug. However, that one supports colors!
Best regards and keep up the good work!
Guido
1> Yeah, the documentation is not completely up to date. The DiddleSnap referred to IS the <=OS4 version (the file named "dbscHack.prc").
2> I'm looking at this.
3> The problem is that I need to convert high color images to black & white. There is no clean solution to do this (i.e. no API calls). I've implemented a generic version that should work on all devices regardless of physical memory layout or color mode, but it is rather slow.
4> Uncompressed BMP would be rather easy (as long as it was black & white), everything else is rather hard to do (especially JPEG). The problem is again that DiddleBug is still black & white only.
5> Not in the near future. I simply don't have the time to do it, as I'm working on my diploma thesis (which unfortunately doesn't involve PalmOS programming).