wow release!

this is pretty sweet.  I like it. I think it would be cool to get rid of the shaking and just apply some kind of shadow or indicator over the icons to show that you are edit mode.

christinme7890: That could probably be done, I'll see if I can override the animation and just do that instead.


Here it is with Abeo (I didn't download any extra icons though, sorry), and I must say, I would have never used Abeo beforehand because I had the impression that I was wasting screen real estate. Now, I might look into the nano-sized icons a bit more.

Planning on spending the afternoon attacking bugs, so more updates as the day goes on.

Wow! I was thinking about how great this would be for Abeo but I didn't realise it could be done, I can't wait!

Great work Sakurina, you are truly a fast learner of programming codes!

Awesome work so far! Plizzo is right: it's amazing how fast you learn No matter how hard I try, I don't understand a bit of Objective-C; that amazes me you're able to do so much change with so little experience in this field.

Anyway, keep up your work. Your contributing way beyond many people in the iPhone scene, eventhough you used Saurik's amazing work as a base.

If you may feel like having much spare time, I'd like to know if it's possible to not show artwork covers on the lockscreen when locked: it messes with Eclectic, and most of the time the reflection looks akward with transparent sliders. I don't know if it's possible though.

This is really great! I'm the kind of person that HATES wasting screen real estate, so this is perfect for me.

In contrast to what Jverzier mentioned, I wonder if it's possible to have the Album Artwork display while the iphone is charging.. maybe just behind the battery or something. Because I charge my phone while I drive and if it's on shuffle, I can't always tell what band is playing by just the title.

Well, I'm just looking at the headers trying to see if it would be easy to do, I just have no idea where it is. (Is it in SpringBoard or in iPod? In which of the 200ish files is the right method?) I'll run ack on the headers later to try and narrow it down.

One of my friends appears to have found the method that draws the album art, so I'll mess with that a little later. I'm not sure if I can get it to show up over the battery but I'll try to figure that out too if possible.

One more bug fix, and it's pretty major, haha.

FCSB (which is what I'm abbreviating it as) modifies behavior in all SBIconLists. The dock (SBButtonBar) is a modified SBIconList. All modifications I made to SBIconList were replicated in the dock.

If you had Five-Icon Dock installed, they cancelled each other out and everything worked fine. If you didn't have it installed, you could add a 5th icon to the dock and it would appear completely in the wrong place. (You also had a 4-row dock, though you couldn't add anything after the 1st row as far as I could tell.)

I just fixed it so that my modified properties aren't passed to the dock, so that Five-Icon Dock can do its thing without any conflicts, and so that the standard dock doesn't end up acting weird because of my crappy code.

Now for some sad news...
saurik just told me that messing with how many icons are laid out in SBIconList is "incredibly dangerous". Apparently SBIconList uses fixed arrays, and so as long as FCSB is running, it'll work fine. But as soon as you uninstall it or boot up in Safe Mode, icons may disappear or SpringBoard would refuse to launch.

Now: I've been testing on 2.2 and I haven't had any of these issues when I tried to recreate them. ashikase (SpringJumps developer) also just told me that 2.2 might be better at handling missing icons, because there were several enhancements to SBIconList in 2.2.

I learned pretty well from SpringRoll that breaking people's phones isn't what you want to be known for. If I do release this, it will not be via a community source on Cydia, and it will be made very clear to anyone who install this that they are living on the edge and that I'm not responsible for any damage that occurs.

edit: Okay, I've done my tests and saurik says it would be safe to release on 2.2, but I want someone on 2.1 and/or 2.0.x to test this for me. IM me on AIM: djsakurina if you're interested.

Last edited by Sakurina (Jan 5, 2009 4:05 pm)

I'm off school until the 22nd, so I have plenty of time to kill.

Also, just to make testers that are on the fence less worried:
- There is a file you can back up, so that if my extension fails and eats your icons, you can restore your old SpringBoard alignment.
- You won't have to restore.
- All you need is MobileSubstrate and SSH, and to listen closely.
- If it works, you can keep it and use it.
- If it doesn't work, upgrade to 2.2 and then you can keep it and use it.