Cabbage Desktop / Cabbage Mobile mega thread (Desktop/mobile texting app)

Sam Vimes

cormie wrote: »

Haha, just got two random texts there off anonymous boardsies :P

i sent one saying hello cormie

but someone else must be messing with it. i'd say you'll live to regret doing this

cormie

Ah I don't think it'll be too much of a prob

Yup, was using same browser on the font issue.

Could you tell me, where exactly are the comments? What do I switch? is it the \\, or the '', or the " "

Sam Vimes

cormie wrote: »

Could you tell me, where exactly are the comments? What do I switch? is it the \\, or the '', or the " "

the two lines that start with // are comments. to activate the commented lines delete the // and to comment the header lines, put // at the start

note it's // and not \\ which is something completely different

cormie

Cool, that's done now and it's still working perfect so all I need to do now is set up a proper fail page!

cormie

Just got an empty text from someone, bit early but I was awake anyway :pac: I wonder could bots send me texts? Whoever sent this one, their IP is in Ireland so I think it's a real person

Fresh Pots

Hey Sam!

Any chance you'd be able to post up a few pointers on how to use eclipse, I'm somewhat familiar with vb6 but can't get my head around eclipse. Just if you could tell me how to get your app to run in it, and how to make a new jar file?

Thanks
Mike

Sam Vimes

mad.mike wrote: »

Hey Sam!

Any chance you'd be able to post up a few pointers on how to use eclipse, I'm somewhat familiar with vb6 but can't get my head around eclipse. Just if you could tell me how to get your app to run in it, and how to make a new jar file?

Thanks
Mike

sure, i've already written a guide for someone else:

Get the following

Eclipse IDE for Java Developers
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

Eclipse ME (from http://www.eclipseme.org/)
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86829

S40 and S60 development platforms. get the java ones
http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/resources/tools_and_sdks/index.html

you need a login for nokia but it's free to sign up

install the s40 and s60 platforms

open eclipse and select a workspace. Select help->software updates->find and install->search for new features to install->new archived site->eclipseme.feature_1.7.9_site.zip (or whatever version they're on now)

press ok and finish

another popup will ask you to install it. Tick it and click next->accept terms->next->finish->install->yes. (to be very precise )

click file->new->other->J2ME->J2ME midlet suite

give it a name and click next

click manage devices->import->browse->c:\nokia\devices

press refresh

it should find series 40 5th edition……..
tick it and click finish->ok

select the s40 platform in group and device

click finish


double click on the welcome tab to bring up the main interface


on the left you’ll see your project

right click on it and click new->other->J2ME->Midlet

give it a name.

click finish


it’ll have some template code. Click run->run. A phone will appear and you’ve just run your first J2ME midlet. Congratulations

startapp() is the equivalent of main()

TrueDub

Hi

I tried to use this recently to send a text to a group of people. I set up the contacts & groups, and tried to send the text, but it kept failing on the first contact.

I could send the texts individually, and set up new groups with different people in the first position, but I could not get the group text function to work.

For reference, I'm on Vodafone Bill Pay, and had the maximum number of webtexts available. I'm using the latest version of the program from the website.

I'm not complaining about this, as it seems it's an excellent piece of software offered for free. It would make my life considerably easier if the group thing worked though, so is there something I might do differently, or is this a known bug? I freely acknowledge I may have made a b*lls of it somewhere along the line

Thanks in advance for any help.

Sam Vimes

I think I remember making a change to the group texting for someone but not only giving him the link and not updating the site.

It's working for me on vodafone on that version so firstly download http://cabbagetexter.com/Cabbage_Setup_1.93.exe to see if that fixes the problem and if not I'll see what might be wrong

cormie

Quick favour to ask any of you who have been to my site since I added the texter thingy, if you could please NOT go to my site (so not to overwrite anything in your cache) and check your internet history and look for a file called index.php from vantasks.ie and if you have it, please send it to me in a PM please

Sam Vimes

cormie wrote: »

Quick favour to ask any of you who have been to my site since I added the texter thingy, if you could please NOT go to my site (so not to overwrite anything in your cache) and check your internet history and look for a file called index.php from vantasks.ie and if you have it, please send it to me in a PM please

The php file users get wouldn't be the same one you have unfortunately, we'd only get the outputted html.

But having that is better than nothing so I'll take a look when I get into work

cormie

Dang, thought there might be a problem finding it alright as I asked my brother and he couldn't Maybe blacknight would have it from a backup perhaps! Thanks for checking at your work

TrueDub

Sam Vimes wrote: »

I think I remember making a change to the group texting for someone but not only giving him the link and not updating the site.

It's working for me on vodafone on that version so firstly download http://cabbagetexter.com/Cabbage_Setup_1.93.exe to see if that fixes the problem and if not I'll see what might be wrong

Thanks, I'll download it at home this evening & try again. I'll let you know how it goes.

Random

Vimes - currently I have the "check for updates at startup" option on. I really don't want that popup if I have the latest version. Could you go the way of other programs and only show a popup if a new version is available? Otherwise just don't show anything. Usually I'm halfway through typing my text and get the "there are new new updates" (or whatever it says) popup.

Thanks

Sam Vimes

Random wrote: »

Vimes - currently I have the "check for updates at startup" option on. I really don't want that popup if I have the latest version. Could you go the way of other programs and only show a popup if a new version is available? Otherwise just don't show anything. Usually I'm halfway through typing my text and get the "there are new new updates" (or whatever it says) popup.

Thanks

That's the way it's supposed to be, it's only supposed to pop up if you manually clicked the button

I'll take a look at it.

Random

Sam Vimes wrote: »

That's the way it's supposed to be, it's only supposed to pop up if you manually clicked the button

I'll take a look at it.

The answer I was looking for, Mr Vimes, is "that's fixed now!"

Jonathan

Random wrote: »

Vimes - currently I have the "check for updates at startup" option on. I really don't want that popup if I have the latest version. Could you go the way of other programs and only show a popup if a new version is available? Otherwise just don't show anything. Usually I'm halfway through typing my text and get the "there are new new updates" (or whatever it says) popup.

Thanks

You wrote the original.. cant you just fix it yourself? :P

Sam Vimes

Random wrote: »

The answer I was looking for, Mr Vimes, is "that's fixed now!"

Sorry sir. I'll hop right to it sir. Sir!

jmccrohan wrote: »

You wrote the original.. cant you just fix it yourself? :P

Yeah random, the code's on the site. Off you go and send it back when you've got it fixed. Ta :P

Sam Vimes

I've fixed it but I don't have time to update the website at the moment so if you download this one you'll have to turn that feature off or you'll be told there's an update available because the latest one on the site is 1.91 and this is 1.93

http://cabbagetexter.com/Cabbage_Setup_1.93.exe

Random

Sam Vimes wrote: »

I've fixed it but I don't have time to update the website at the moment so if you download this one you'll have to turn that feature off or you'll be told there's an update available because the latest one on the site is 1.91 and this is 1.93

http://cabbagetexter.com/Cabbage_Setup_1.93.exe

So you fixed the feature but now we can't use it? Lovely. There's a true programmer

Thanks .. will wait til you update the website or it'd wind me up

cormie

Just to update on that index.php thingy, I ended up just recoding it, had most of the code on another file so it wasn't much to do, but now it seems that text stretching doesn't happen anymore so hopefully it'll stay that way

Sam, I must once again thank you for this program. I don't only use it for texts, I use it for quick access to customer numbers and today I was also using it for naming my page titles on the website and page descriptions as I can easily count the characters as I type and keep it within googles limits. Very handy! I got a genuine call back request aswell from the site texter, text sent at 8:11, call back at 8:12, job booked by 8:15, hows that for service

Sam Vimes

cormie wrote: »

I got a genuine call back request aswell from the site texter, text sent at 8:11, call back at 8:12, job booked by 8:15, hows that for service

Fantastic

flodis79

Is there a limit to how many contacts you can have in your Cabbage Mobile phone book? When I send a text to a number that is not yet in the Cabbage phone book , it does not prompt me whether I want to save it or not. Is this a change on the server side?

Sam Vimes

There is a limit yeah, can't remember what it is now though. It's not a server side fix but I can take the limit off very quickly.

Did you get the new one i released last week?

flodis79

Sam Vimes wrote: »

There is a limit yeah, can't remember what it is now though. It's not a server side fix but I can take the limit off very quickly.

Did you get the new one i released last week?

Actually not. Is there a changelog available?

Sam Vimes

flodis79 wrote: »

Actually not. Is there a changelog available?

There ya go
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=59154419&postcount=1594

BostonB

Does this work with Blackberries?

Sam Vimes

BostonB wrote: »

Does this work with Blackberries?

Should do if they support J2ME

flodis79

Sam Vimes wrote: »

There ya go
http://m.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=59154419&postcount=1594

Ah I see. I downloaded from the /dl url last week but only got 1.4, so thanks for the info that the url is different for the new version.

Random

Vimes - can we have a minimise button instead of escape please?