useful addition to alarm+

[markdeppe]

Hi for all who regulary do resets and do not know of the feature in alarm+ which allows you to automatically open programs and change/ restore settings attached is a good little program he wrote for me (sad I could not do it myself as it looks so simple) which after a soft reset changes the autoswtich off time from the default 30mins to an amount of your choosing. In the OPL attached the time is 7 minutes (420 seconds) after a reset, I attach the line I use to run th program which I have put
in the Apps folder on the C:\ you need to change this to wherever you store the program. (if you are a unaware as me of programiing, you need to click translate after you have set the seconds you want in the opl to get the opo)

run line I use in Alarm+ startup option: open
C:\system\apps\alarm+\switchoff.opo


It is sad that Robin has now left psion he contributed some great
additions.

[wanman]

Has robin now stopped all Psion Development work? I was hoping he was going to fix a couple of things on Alarm+......doh. I last heard from him back in Feb and he was working on a couple of fixes for Alarm+ but his website has never been updated. I noticed that Midas is still posting on here (just upgraded his netBook battery), does he know any more about this?

[cshandley]

Has Robin Hood / King Midas really left Psion development for good? News to me, and quite sad.

[Midas]

Sorry for dissapointing you, but yes, Robin stopped EPOC development, so there will be no new versions of his software. He has even thown his 5mx away. I myself still use 5mx and netBook everyday, but I have no idea how to write in C++.

[donkeyontheedge]

Yikes! Is there any chance he can release his source code so that other people may continue the great work he has done?

It would be such a shame to see more software disappear into the ether...

John

[wanman]

Definitely. Can you have a word with him Midas as the loss of such great titles would be a massive loss to the community. I am sure there would be one or two developers willing to take on these titles and continue work, where necessary aswell.

[Midas]

I'll ask Robin; however I'm not sure that he will want to share the sources. The reason is simple: EPOC code can be ported to Symbian 6/7 and this platphorm is a commercial one. Moreover, Robin writes for Symbian powered smartphones now and he need his own sources himself :).

Then, there are no other C++ programmers who writes for EPOC! Nobody can continue developing Robin's programs :(.

But they won't disappear as I'm not going to close my site mypsion.ru - and there you will always find Robin's (and my) progs.

[Midas]

As I supposed, Robin said that it's not a good idea to provide the sources to our competitors ;)

[wanman]

Oh well, that is fair enough. Please send Robin all our best wishes and thanks for creating some great tools for us. Maybe we will need his Symbian 6/7 talents if Psion ever port a Netbook Pro with such an OS.........fingers crossed. ;)