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I havent had much time to work on it today (it isnt raining for once and I have more yard work to get done). Right now it is just to change the status color. Once I mess around with it for a while I can probably make it change color for text messages or emails. That requires using a FolderListener api I believe. The only problem with that is you have to get the code signed by Blackberry and that costs $20. If I can get that to work (might be a few weeks, im a college student taking 16 hours in the summer) then I will probably just bite the bullet and pay for it myself. Right now its just a very early version of the project and I wanted to put it up to let everybody see that it is being worked on and allow them to try it out. This is my first shot at making an application in Java (took python last semester, have java this fall) so try and cut me a little bit of slack!
I just don't want to promise a product that has features that I may not be able to include at this point.
I guess the main point of this right now is to change the status light color. (saw someone request something like this a while back and decided to make it in my free time). Please feel free to leave suggestions and don't think I'm ignoring them if a new update isn't up immediately. This is a learning curve for me so it takes a little bit of time.
One last note, if there is a developer reading this and would like to give me some pointers or help out, I would be glad to have the help.05-24-09 01:23 PM -
yeah yeah enough for the sap story... im a college student too, and I worked 40 hours a week, plus went to school full time (overnights at work, full days mon-thurs at school)
lol
seriously though...
but why not put up a donations thing? although its free im sure some people wont mind throwing a buck or so in your direction. hastings did this for appleberry, and it was a really nice FREE theme, but he made SO much in donations, i saw at least 80 posts or so saying they donated, thats probably around $80...
trust me there's always money to be made. worse comes to worse, let people who donate receive updates first... you said you have a small update ready now, just to change the color, why not send that out to people who donate, they can be the "beta testers' and youll always get feedback for others!
just my .02
and maybe a few more if you agree to this
05-24-09 01:45 PM - thats a good idea. its just a busy time for me. im transferring schools in a week and taking the rest of my summer classes. ive never put up a donations thing before. how do you do it?yeah yeah enough for the sap story... im a college student too, and I worked 40 hours a week, plus went to school full time (overnights at work, full days mon-thurs at school)
lol
seriously though...
but why not put up a donations thing? although its free im sure some people wont mind throwing a buck or so in your direction. hastings did this for appleberry, and it was a really nice FREE theme, but he made SO much in donations, i saw at least 80 posts or so saying they donated, thats probably around $80...
trust me there's always money to be made. worse comes to worse, let people who donate receive updates first... you said you have a small update ready now, just to change the color, why not send that out to people who donate, they can be the "beta testers' and youll always get feedback for others!
just my .02
and maybe a few more if you agree to this05-24-09 02:51 PM - I just wanted to clarify about earlier. I DON'T want people donating or paying for this product until it is closer to the "RTM". When I figure out how to add the folder listener so it blinks for sms/mms/email, then I will want donations to help cover the cost of code signing (if I don't just pay for it myself). I had some free time on my hands and I saw that someone requested something like this a while back. I decided to give it a shot. This forum has made living with my Storm enjoyable (instead of hating it). I just want the opportunity to give back.
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