Initiate 3 changelog
- Graphical scrollbar and new category graphics
- New skin
- Added Treo Memo
3.03
- Fixed bug with audio gadget drawing white boxes when skin changed with view
- Fixed bug with popup list not properly hiding when switching views with hard key
- Button 4 labelled as 'home key' on 700p and 680 in Navigation in Initiate page
- Added 'toggle category' option for navigation (shows categories if needed, then toggles)
- Made it so that when you scroll through categories changing your selection, your selected category is forced to show (e.g. with 5-way or navigation hard-key)
- Added Memo Leaf support
3.04
- fixed bug with using show/hide category menu option when scrollbar/category gadget disabled
- added default tip to explain empty category and dragging items to tabs
3.05
- Can set font colour for status icons
- New status icons (speaker and voicemail)
- New underlining as you type to show how matching is working. I've made smart search the only option
- Removed list/icon setting from views/options page
3.06
- Fixed wiring between various status indicators
- Fixed underline for large fonts
- Fixed update issue where hard key could change view while menu was open
- Fixed disappearing scrollbar issue
- Fixed 'Launch clears keyguard' (make sure you have the latest butler if you want to clear the butler keyguard)
3.07
- Fix letter overlapping for small fonts
- Added background updating for apps
3.08
- Increased max length of names in sort list
3.09
- can now delete java applet
- java launching fixed
- fixed issue with hidden items killing list
- added gadgets to show hide views and ?
3.10
- added support for documents
3.11
- more supported document readers
3.12
- background updating of contacts
- additional reporting on background actions when Initiate crashes
3.13
- fixed bug with contacts updateing in background if contact deleted
- moved search display to status area and expanded status area
- added ability to show/hide buttons
- made menus show action rather than pair of actions (e.g. show or hide rather than show/hide)
- made record menus only show if they can be used on a specific item
3.14
- brought back smart search checkbox
- fixed letters in menus
- fixed font spacing issue in low res devices
- duplicate item issue fixed (?)
3.15
- fixed issue with scrollbar getting selected with 5-way
- added lefty support (remember to tell lefty site on launch!)
- Added console-style display during manual list update
3.16
- Use Palm photo picker for jpeg backgrounds
3.17
- Added Lefty checkbox
- Rebuilt Preferences page
- Various reorganisations of preferences pages
- Added specific colour for selected shadow
- Per-view backgrounds
- Added 'live conversion' backgrounds
- Fixed focus on voice form
- Fixed issues with mis-drawing on triggers form
- Added auto deletion of unneeded background caches
3.18
3.19
- fixed bug with plugin overwriting next plugin down
- added plugin configuration button (some databk plugins)
- fixed issue where two contacts with the same name could cause duplication in list
- fixed various issues with redrawing views/plugins when switching view with 5-way
- removed printing of view name when switching views if view name gadget is active
- built 'big-time' plugin for Initiate
- autoUpdate pauses briefly whenever there is a keypress (intended to reduce lag effects)
- fixed bug causing categories gadget to not be refreshed when changing views
- auto-hide plugins when you type-to-search
- seperated status icons and gadgets to show into seperate pages
- added new options for displaying ram,sd and battery percentages as status icons
3.20
- fixed background redrawing issue
- fixed indicator flicker
- added ability to not select any ram/sd/battery icon
3.21
- added ability to show memory as free/used and %/ammount
- Prefs form starts with first item in table selected as default
- Startup now offers safe mode, preferences or exit if it starts up after a crash that was in Initiate. (Safe mode disables plugins and background updates)
- Launching Initiate with the up key held gives access to the safe/prefs start dialogue
- Apps on SD now updated by background updating (added and removed)
3.23
- Moved animation speed to 'gadgets to show' preference
- Added ability to set text colours by view
- Added ability to set status icons by view
- ??fixed issue with hotsync reset? (I couldn't recreate this, so please let me know)
- Fixed issue with phone gadget sometimes drawing on green bacground
- Updating to Initiate Standard and Initiate Pro (let me know if you see any reference to Initiate full and Initiate Light)
- New registration nagging code (currently no freebie days - this is just for testing)
- Added access to about/help/updates/register to preferences page
- Updated help page (added browsing versus Launching text)
- Lots of changes to help instructions in preferences pages
- Added code so that background updates are halted briefly when there is a pendown event as well as a keypress
- Fixed issue where only some missing sd items were getting removed on each launch.
- Added a liberal sprinkling of ASSERTS (MemPtrNews)
- Fixed issue where adding multiple items in background was causing memory corruption
3.24
- Optimisation to getting icons for apps on SD card
- Fixed broken bottom row in table (when registered!)
3.25
- fixed issues with preferences table not behaving properly
3.26
- Category and view gadget now use the same font as the list
3.27
- Fixed bug with preferences not getting allocated before voice prefs needed them
- Added option for launch as 'overlay' to return to underlying app when search is cleared
- Clarified options in Launch Triggers view
- Allowed double press of launch trigger to launch Initiate in normal mode if single press launches as overlay
- Allowed list mode to display in multiple columns
- Allowed display of icons without text (except for selected icon)
- Allowed option of using high res devices to show twice as much in main list (rather than higher detail)
- Re-factored prefs for background&layout into two prefs pages
- Got rid of annoying rogue pixel (top left of screen)
- Fixed various bugs that were causing blank icons to draw over tips.
- Allowed scrollbar to be useable even when it is invisible (e.g. when not many items on screen)
3.28
- fixed memory deallocation problem with t600
- removed 'show view name' option from gadgets to show pref page
3.29
- updated way backgrounds are updated (lets detail get drawn properly on 224*160 devices & re-orients background)
- fixed bug where list was being sized incorrectly in views other than view 0
- fixed crash with BigClock plugin
- Shrunk code for handling checkboxes
3.30
3.31
- holding scroll down starts to jump in increments of two
- option+scroll jumps a page at a time
- fixed bug with solid colours not showing in preview mode immediately
- support new version of voice library. Added option to turn noise filtering on or off. Download voicelib from beta directory
3.31
- fixed multi-mp3 play bug
- fixed skin support
- fixed bug with background colour & preview
- fixed bug with plugins active checkbox
3.32
- added ability to turn view/category/buttons toggles on & off independantly of scrollbar
- fixed contact scrolling so that it automatically scrolls past separators (again!)
- fixed some issues whith handling of SD insertion while Initiate running
- fixed issue with category table not initialising properly
- you can now hide the 'all' category (- it is your launcher!)
- updated pTunes interaction (correctly shows if playing, and immediately audio updates console)
- added commas to the list of characters sent as phone numbers
- fixed bug with initialising menus
- can type first letter of preference in preference page to open that preference (if more than one page shares the letter, the first is opened)
- added ability to re-order categories
- added ability to restrict items in the list to only show in part of the screen
- can turn off background updating
3.33
- fixed issue with show/hde gadgets getting drawn mid screen
- fixed issue with hotsync freeze
3.34
- fixed issue with font boxes in Display Appearance page
- fixed issue with menu not disabling plugins
- fixed display issues in plugin form
- updated plugins to allow 'same settings for all views'
- fixed issues with categories incorrectly updating after order of categories changed
- changed home key behaviour - if you press home when in menus, then you go straight to the main launch page
- fixed hotsync freeze bug
- re-introduced uption to re-build list after hotsync (default is off)
3.35
- stop ability for all categories to be set to non-visible
- fix bug where all and unfiled categories becoming visible on launch
- changed order of status icons. More closely mimics main phone app, and groups RAM and SD icons together
- fixed issue with status icons not drawing properly if absolute ammount chosen
- fixed issue with status icons drawing garbage text
- updated speaker icon
- updated ram icon
- updated SD card icon
- added last launched app plugin (built into Initiate)
3.36
- category updating issues finally solved??
3.37
- fixed issue with launching 4cast plugin
- changed categories so that when you re-launch, your category choice persists
- added ability to have prefs on or off set per view. Type 'I8Prefs' then press enter/return to enable this. (you man need to turn off autolaunch to be able to type the command)
3.38 (Will reset preferences)
- fixed issue with text tips not getting deleted when you restrict app area.