Well, what I really had thought would be a pretty quick Update with some really cool features and a lot of the Ulti-Planner leftovers caught up turned into a longer update with a lot of cleaning up done. A couple of the new features made it in but a lot of them are being held over for 3.30 which we plan to release much more quickly.

I had forgotten just how much work it was to do the VGA support the first time around. It is a lot of graphics work and a lot of adjustments to get it looking good. But I think I suceeded. And 320×320 screens are going to look great too, Extreme Agenda is ready for my dream device(come on Treo 800 please have a 320×320 screen).

Photo Icon List was the big piece that did get in. I have had this idea for a long time and finally sat down early in 3.25 development and worked out how to accomplish it, and I think it turned out very useful. I tend to leave my regular device in that mode a lot.

We did a number of things behind the scenes code wise and also had to do some things to make the Pro/Classic Devices feel more correct. ‘Ok’ buttons on Dialogs, the Help system with access to it from the Start Menu and a few others…

We’ve also added support for some new ideas from different developer’s we really liked. SPB Mobile Shell support is available with 3.25. The integration information is available in our forums. We think it turned out pretty cool, and we are big fans of that product to make your WM Pro device that much nicer. With this we also had to add a whole bunch of command line handling which should further help in integrating with other products out there. We will post the documentation for this on our forums soon.

And then we have added the files to make it compatible with AppToDate over at modaco.com. This is an effort to have one program that you can check and see if all of your applications are up to date. Of course with XA you can also use the “Check for Update” in the Options Menu, but having them both can’t hurt.

We did work to make it so theme files can look a lot better with light text on dark backgrounds, as we noticed when trying to simulate some of Mobile Shell’s themes that some of our text just didnt look good and was not able to be changed. Hopefully we have moved in the right direction for this. By the way, XA looks great if you use Mobile Shell’s cool generated backgrounds(kind of Vista-ish) as the Spin and regular XA background image and simulate the theme. We have given you some of the theme files and information for this in our forums as well.

And thanks to Doug at MyTodayScreen who suggested the “New Appointment” and “New Task” be added to the Spinner. He really does love that view. I guess you can’t blame him. 🙂

Specific Standard issues that were brought up were also addressed such as Treo 500 keyboard support in contact search. If you had one please try 3.25 and let me know if I did not correct a fix you had brought up.

 So that’s the development of 3.25. We now plan to work on a few other things along with 3.30 which will contain the rest of the really cool new features coming over from Ulti-Planner or otherwise. Drag-n-drop, Single Tap Mode, and more… Hopefully we’ll have it out by the middle of May if not sooner!!!

Thanks