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a1291762 said...
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David on AttnGrab:
I see you have this on the "to do" list but just wanted to voice my interest having the alert LED blink - ideally at a user configurable rate or at least faster than the normal rate. This feature would make this program perfect from my POV. Hope you'll consider giving it priority on your list.
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Having the led blink instead of being solid might be possible (using the HSExt API). Having it be configurable is likely to cause the battery to be drained faster because it will require turning on the device every x milliseconds to turn the LED on and off again. I will give it a go anyway as it might be the only way to make this work (and assuming you don't leave your phone with an active alert all day it might not be too bad).
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
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Anonymous on AttnGrab:
The only thing missing IMHO is a "configure" dialog to set the vibration duration.
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What exactly do you want to see? The length of the vibration is derived from the length of the beep. The vibration is supposed to start before the beep and end after it but depending on your device and its state when the alert goes off this might not happen. I've seen/had reports of it going off before and after the beep.
Given this, I'm not sure there's going to be a reliable way to have any kind of configuration on the vibration. Perhaps the vibrate could be made longer than the beep but that's the only thing I can think of that would work reliably.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
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Anonymous on AttnGrab:
can you make it so it will vibrate like normal, and then the led comes on and stays on without more vibrating?
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What is happening now? I don't know of any apps that get the user's attention without also beeping and/or vibrating. Can't you just turn off the vibrate option to get this behaviour?
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
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Kasi on AttnGrab:
I feel instead of making the software completely free you should leave the option to the users. I always like to pay a small amount whenever I find the feature useful to me. I am a believer of "There is no free lunch"
Also I was wondering why there are so many .prc .png files in the Zip folder whereas I am asked to copy only AttnGrab.prc
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There is indeed no free lunch. With AttnGrab you get what you get and you don't get to order features or expect support like you might with paid software. Unlike a straight freeware release (which would be similarly restricted) I'm also giving away the source code so you can implement features yourself.
If you really want to send me money I've created a PayPal button on the AttnGrab page that you can use to donate money (contact me if PayPal is not acceptable but you still want to send me money).
The extra files in the .zip are things like the README (which has some pictures) and the source code (all the other .prc and .pdb files). You can ignore all of these if you just want to use the app.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
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Danilo on AttnGrab:
I have just discovered your product, and i think it is a great piece of software. Do you have any idea when we could expect some of the new features (durations of the alarm, for example) be released?
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No, I can't give you a time frame on when new releases will happen because I work on this in my spare time.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
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johnn on AttnGrab:
Do you have any more specific instructions on compiling with OnBoardC, ie. how to get the files setup on the Palm, etc?
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Just install everything, run OnBoardC, open the project and click Build.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
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Al on AttnGrab:
I have a suggestion for Attention Grabber. Would it be feasible to configure what type of alerts get reminders/alerts? I would like to confingure it so that all alerts except calendar items would cause an attention grabber reminder. With calendar entries, I snooze a calendar alarm for 5 minutes, I will get attention grabber rminders inbetween the calendar alarm and the snooze.
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It's already on the todo list but I might move it up because it's easier than the other items (and something I wouldn't mind seeing). I've had a bit of a look at the API and it seem to be possible to do what I need for this feature.
Now having some kind of nice UI for selecting apps to ignore/monitor is something else entirely. That could be rather hard indeed.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
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Laurent on AttnGrab:
I have tried it on a centro and it is like on the Treo 680, only green light. Have you checked how to just have the light on and no alarm set for repetition? For the time being I have put 3600 seconds, but I will prefer not to have some alarm set.
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Oh, looks like I fixed that and didn't note it in the changelog. An alarm is set at (now + "alert interval") only if you have beep or vibrate turned on. If you've just got the LED on, no alarm is set.
Actually, if the currently-inactive profile is set to activate at a given time then an alarm will be set for that time but that's a once-a-day thing and unrelated to the "alert interval" setting.
Take a look at the LED configuration dialog too. It now turns on the LED with the currently-selected settings so you can see in real time how the LED changes (if at all) when the options are toggled.
If you don't see the LED configuration dialog it means your device lacks the HsExt API and is using the Attention Manager for LED functions and there is no way to change what happens (since the Attention Manager does not expose configuration for the LED).
If the red option on the LED configuration dialog doesn't do anything then perhaps your device doesn't have a red LED in it.
Friday, August 08, 2008
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bryan on AttnGrab:
what kind of work would an integration with the contacts list be? i am thinking of attention grabber having a kind of VIP list where if somebody from the VIP list texts or calls, it will be treated as an active alert if it's currently in a scheduled passive timeframe.
my other suggestion was to have a setting where attention grabber could filter what kind of alerts to notify you about. maybe i don't need attention grabber to trigger from calendar alerts and instead would just like it to watch texts and missed calls.
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Your first suggestion is way beyond the current scope of the app. I would need to implement your second suggestion (it's already on the list) before I could implement the first one. Even then, I'm not even sure if it's possible to extract enough info about the alert to link it to a contact.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
a1291762 said...
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Nurzalia:
why you name your blog is "Dont read me"? It make me puzzled , i did think that should i come or not this blog :)
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This is a personal blog so the chance that there's something you'll be interested in reading is most likely small but you're welcome to read it anyway. If I wanted to keep people out I'd use Blogger's access controls.
I don't really know where "Don't Read Me" came from. I think I saw it on a software package once (where you normally find a file called README that contains important information for you to read).
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
a1291762 said...
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Danilo on AttnGrab:
Would it be possible to define a "number of time" the vibration is trigger when an event get fired? I can imagine at night when a call is received and missed.. in this case the vibration will go forever till the morning.A
The whole point of AttnGrab is that it tries to get your attention until it succeeds. Simply turning of AttnGrab will restore the default behaviour of attempting to get your attention a limited number of times (defined separately per application). Alternatively, you could setup a pair of profiles. The 'night' one (no beep/vibrate) would activate at the latest point you wanted to be disturbed and the 'day' one would activate in the morning. That way an alert could go off at night without causing your phone to keep waking up all night to vibrate and you will still be notified of it in the morning.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
a1291762 said...
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John Curran on AttnGrab:
Can you explain what "Ringer State" does? What happens when I have the box checked or unchecked? What about On/Off box? What do they do, and how are they different from the checked/unchecked box?A
If the "Ringer State" box is not checked, then AttnGrab does not behave any differently when the ringer switch is on or off (though obviously you won't hear any beeps it makes when the ringer switch is off). This is the same behaviour as previous versions (except for 2.2).
If the "Ringer State" box is checked then the profile settings can be different for when the ringer is on or off. This effectively gives you twice as many profiles.
How might you use this? How about only beeping when the ringer is on and only vibrating when the ringer is off?
You can setup AttnGrab with a single profile but different settings for the ringer switch. This lets you control the settings in use with the switch (ie. the same thing that 2.2 had). However, the current implementation does not prevent you from using multiple profiles (as I do), including timed activation of profiles if you also want to have the ringer switch control the settings used. This was not possible in 2.2 due to unexpected behaviour from the Palm OS.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
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