WM6.5.1 Build 23081
The only feature new in 23075+ (or 23081 as those who only stick to Da_Gs releases will have) is the Magnifier.
The Magnifier is available by hitting the title bar, and then hitting the magnifying glass icon. It works on all screens with a title bar.
Simply put, it zooms in to double the zoom you had before. This makes all those fiddly menus some people have been complaining about very easy to deal with. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any really fiddly ones to demonstrate…
Gestures aren’t supported by the zoomed in window (as panning moves around the zoomed in screen), but generally you can do the gesture then zoom in to use the settings.
To get back from the zoomed in screen, you hit the zoom out button in the top right.
I’m now wondering if the Leos multitouch screen could be utilised for global zooming, which would be much more useful than some of what it currently does…
The screenshots are from my Diamond 23081 ROM available here shortly (a Diamond2 variant is also on its way up here).
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You could have tried the default photo viewer :p It's zoom buttons are tiny.
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l3v5y Reply:
October 26th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
That hasn't been updated in a while… Lets hope MS get to work on that (and WMP).
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wreiad Reply:
October 26th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
No I meant demonstrated how these new controls could have been useful :p
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l3v5y Reply:
October 26th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Except that it simply does pixel doubling… You don't gain anything in terms of quality…
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wreiad Reply:
October 26th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Oh.. I suspected it doesn't zoom in on the actual photo D: Oh well.
This is unfortunately a kludge-y solution to a problem which shouldn't be there in the first place.
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l3v5y Reply:
October 26th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
I guess it's there for legacy applications only…
The battery software the screenshots are of are from the shipped Diamond ROM, and that hasn't been updated at all to make it finger friendly. The MS settings etc are all very nice to use….
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In engineering, that is what we call a kludge. It's a solution, and not an elegant one, hacked on as an afterthought.
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l3v5y Reply:
October 26th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
It's not really an afterthought… This stuff hasn't actually been released, and I suspect it will become a lot slicker as the development progresses…
It's a work in progress, not a finished product.
And, from my point of view, it's a very simple solution which I think is better from an engineering point of view than something that achieves the same in a more complicated way. Simplicity is key.
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Lennard Reply:
October 27th, 2009 at 2:08 am
I like how to set mister enginerring streight. in any case, I cooked a couple builds of the 23081 build, it's alright, no major changes that the eye can see yet, but com5 just finished downloading and I'm going to see whats in there….hopefully, money and candy
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Problem is that on devices with small touch screens, like the Touch Pro/Diamond, it's already impossible to touch anything sans stylus on the title bar/notification bar at the top of the screen since it's now been made even smaller in 6.5.1 builds. And frankly i hate the way pressing the volume button brings up the magnified notification area icons. It makes something as simple as controlling volume for less intuitive than it needs to be.
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l3v5y Reply:
October 26th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
On the Diamond etc the top bar really isn't that hard to hit… Bringing up magnified icons makes a lot more sense than having to hit each of the icons precisely, and the Diamond/TP have volume rockers which is faster anway…
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rad Reply:
October 26th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Volume is best handled by hardware rocker buttons. Even on the traditional title bar, I find it difficult to consistently tap anywhere on it on my TP2, which has a decent-sized screen (let alone smaller devices). It's a big waste of vertical space and should be cut down, as it's not like it's all that useful even now. HTC's notifications replacement works fine but almost always lags, so I have to wait and then click dismiss all and then wait again.
It'd be great to get a modern (Android/Pre-style) notification system, but since this is just a simple UI reskin, that's not happening anytime soon.
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rico Reply:
October 26th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
The volume rocker buttons on NATF's 5.6b ROM (23034 build) actually bring up the new, enlarged notification icons. Maybe there's a "fix" for this that brings up the old method, though i haven't seen it in casual browsing
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l3v5y Reply:
October 27th, 2009 at 9:38 am
That's something to do with the 23034 build I think… It was changed between 23034 and 23081 (I can't remember when though).
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It looks like the HD2 might actually have app-independent zoom built-in.
Take a look at this video, particularly where he opens the iGo GPS app (linked below). The app itself has +/- buttons for zoom, but then he uses multi-touch, which zooms into the whole app (e.g. the UI expands as well, with a little navigation box shown at the bottom), so I'm inclined to think this might be an HTC zoom feature rather than a custom iGo build:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YWhijK1O0U#t=4m47...
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Foamy Reply:
October 26th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
It loads iGO so fast! that's amazing. I wouldn't mind seeing some comparison videos where they load various programs on the HD2 and an older phone.
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Lennard Reply:
October 27th, 2009 at 2:11 am
that's a nice phone, I really want it to come to the US with US radio bands
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l3v5y Reply:
October 27th, 2009 at 9:40 am
HTC have a service much like the one for zooming with the zoom bar on TP2/TD2 and the capacitive panel on the Diamond. Unfortunately, I asked HTC if there was a way to access it and they said "write to head office", which I can't be bothered with, since UK to Taiwan might take some time…
I am working on hacking it apart for general use, though that will be a lot easier if and when I get an HD2.
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