Developers

Skins

Third party developers are needed to develop Initiate Skins. These are totally flexible - they give you huge scope to experiment and impress

All you need to do to design a skin is be able to build bitmaps and come up with a design. Contact Me if you are interested.

I do appreciate it if you Contact Me if you use my API's - but you don't have to!

APIs

The Butler API

This lets your app play nicely with the Butler keyguard and the Butler LED preferences.

• ButlerSetKeyguardState(Boolean state) : will set the default keyguard to locked or unlocked. Additionally, if the Butler keyguard is present and active, it will manage that in the same way. Just slot this in instead of your existing keyguard function and everything will be tickety-boo
• Boolean ButlerGetKeyguardState(void) : gets the current keyguard state, or if Butler is managing the keyguard, gets the butler keyguard state. Again - just switch out your current keyguard function and all will be hunky-dory.
• LED management - lets you set the LED to any colour supported by the device whilst respecting the butler preferences. Butler does not need to be installed.
• Simplify displaying LED options to users and letting them choose from available colours

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The Shortcut API

Shortcuts are tiny apps that do small jobs like turning off bluetooth, or perhaps displaying the time briefly.
They can be launched as normal apps which makes them very useful for folks who want to assign actions to be performed on a schedule, or who want to access things quickly from a shortcut key on the treo.

They are a bit like DA's, but more compatible with normal launchers.

Additionally - with supported launchers, they can be launched with a sublaunch command so that the current app does not need to exit.

• How to 'declare' your app as a shortcut app (it is VERY easy)
• How to launch apps using the provided SwitchToCreator(UInt32 creatorId) so that they are sublaunched if appropriate.

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The Lefty API

I didn't write this (Joseph J. Strout did), but I did make a minor addition. It makes it really easy to flip items on your screen to make them lefty friendly.

The code to switch a table and its scrollbar is as easy as

if (UserIsLefty())
{LeftySwapByID(frmP,MainPrefsTable,MainPrefsScrollBar);
}

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Other APIs

They're not written yet - but I'm always happy to work with other devleopers. Let me know if you want to interact with my apps in any way.