Current features
- Free up your Today screen by hosting Manila outside of the Today screen! TouchFlo Detacher can launch/show/hide/close Manila independent of any other Today screen settings. Now you can have your TouchFlo cake and eat it too! The most obvious use is to assign a soft key to toggle between seeing TouchFlo and seeing the regular Today screen.
- Service runs as a background application (in your StartUp folder) for maximum speed when toggling Manila modes.
- NO ANNOYING SPLASH SCREEN when application launches.
- Service is 100% idle when not receiving messages or controlling TouchFlo, so no CPU is wasted! (Just a tiny bit of RAM)
- Configuration application allows modifying manila.exe location, manila window class/title, and more, so that this utility can (presumably) be used with other manila versions (such as TouchFlo 2D). This is untested. Out of the box, it supports TouchFlo 3D in its default configuration as seen on the Diamond/Pro/HD.
- Configuration application can clean out the ManilaActivateToday.exe from the notification queue. (That app can interefere with TouchFlo Detacher’s operation.)
- Shortcuts to start/show Manila, hide Manila, and close Manila. These can be assigned to hardware buttons (if your device has them) or virtual hardware buttons through the use of 3rd party applications such as AE Button Plus.
- Configuration application can customize the softkeys in both Today and TouchFlo’s Home tab. You can use it to not only assign TouchFlo Detacher operations (show/hide/close), but any other application on your device.
- Out-of-the-box TouchFlo 2D / Manila2D support. (MAYBE - this needs to be tested by somebody with TF2D. Go to the config app, then menu, then TF2D defaults.)
Planned features
1. Better error handling when the service isn’t running (right now it just says ’service isn’t running’, but it would be great if it would restart the service instead).
2. Optional “Launching TouchFlo 3D” splash screen when Manila is being started for the first time. Right now there’s no visual indication, so you may not be sure you actually started it.
3. Another mode of operation: Toggle TouchFlo 3D. This will allow a single hardware button to show and hide Manila.
4. Ability to switch between “service mode” where a memory resident process switches TouchFlo on and off very fast, to a “standalone mode” where a program is launched each time you want to toggle TouchFlo (slower, but saves memory and process space for those who desire it). OR re-write the .net stuff in C++ (sigh) which will solve the slowness problem that would result from the previous mode. That’s probably the best solution, but I’m going to concentrate on getting it to work on the HD, TF2D, and a few other features first, then I’ll migrate the .Net code.
Installation Instructions :
1. Install the CAB
2. Run the configuration app
3. Enable all the standard Today Items you want to use
4. Do not re-enable TouchFlo 3D in the Today items (if you do, it will undo all your other Today plugins)
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