Tasker folder browsing internal phone storage
Guitarahan
and direct access to specific folders, anywhere from my screen. One
for ebooks, music, videos, downloads. Android does not really do this
already, you you have to set up folders by app - this is pretty
useless when you have 4 types of ebooks, which you want to keep under
one folder, leaving for the default programs to sort them out.
So, I find that I can browse files with this version of Tasker, and I
go to the trouble of creating my menu widget. Then I find out that
Tasker won't work with any file managers, not even the most popular
ones. You control that too, so I must go install another memory-
consuming program just to use what seems like a relatively basic
function. Wow.
Now FileMagic is installed, there's a menu widget on my screen, and
now I find that those items which were specified on my phone internal
storage don't work when selected. I have 7 gigs of internal storage on
my phone which few apps know how to access, but it's a lot of storage
to leave dormant while you go and dump your money on a bigger SD card
- hey, it's there, I should be able to use it. So, I'm storing media
there, and expecting to be able to access them there through Tasker
because it has had no trouble accessing my /emmc files in this
location, but now I find that any Tasker/FileMagic menu items which
reference anything which is not on my SD card always fail. This turns
out to be because one of these programs (be it Tasker or FileMagic) is
altering my Tasker Browse Files string! The result is that I can punch
my item string in as
/mnt/emmc/ebooks/
and it still remains that way in my Task dialogue, but when selected,
it gets executed as (so the error message reads) as
/mnt/sd/mnt/emmc/ebooks/
which of course doesn't exist! What's up with this?
Pent
Then I read the ranty, indignant post and I remembered that's how you
posted
last time too.
> So, I find that I can browse files with this version of Tasker, and I
> go to the trouble of creating my menu widget. Then I find out that
> Tasker won't work with any file managers, not even the most popular
> ones.
I had a look in the code and was surprised that Open File (in the file
category) was explicitly set in the code to not work with directories.
Then I tried to get it working and remembered why: there's no standard
way of specifying a directory to pick files from (that I could find).
> You control that too, so I must go install another memory-
> consuming program just to use what seems like a relatively basic
> function. Wow.
You don't 'must' do anything. If you don't like what Tasker does or
doesn't
do, don't buy it.
> location, but now I find that any Tasker/FileMagic menu items which
> reference anything which is not on my SD card always fail. This turns
> out to be because one of these programs (be it Tasker or FileMagic) is
> altering my Tasker Browse Files string! The result is that I can punch
> my item string in as
> /mnt/emmc/ebooks/
> and it still remains that way in my Task dialogue, but when selected,
> it gets executed as (so the error message reads) as
> /mnt/sd/mnt/emmc/ebooks/
> which of course doesn't exist! What's up with this?
Tasker has been updated to support absolute (start with a /, not
necessarily on SD card) paths, but File Magic (a free app) hasn't.
Pent
Guitarahan
If Tasker was freeware, then I would be kissing your ass for your
efforts. You charge for this product, with no demo trial. How dare you
say "if I don't like it, don't buy it" when there is no way to find
that out before I've already paid!
Fair as you aren't about this, I give credit where it's due. Tasker is
overwhelmingly a fine product, and you deserve credit for that. It's
also one-of-a-kind, which in itself is rather suspect. What's plain to
see is that it's gone to your head, as shown in your attitude. YOU:
Think I'll make sweeping changes to the whole interface, remove button
labels, waste their time on a new learning curve - just because I like
it better that way! And why not slip in the dependancy on aother app
through the back door, which I get to charge them for? While I'm doing
that, I'll leave out the expected and useful functions, while throwing
in as much annoying nonsense as possible - cause I like tweaking their
heads! Yeah!
If YOU want to fuck with people, don't charge them for it!
Pent
He said (indignantly), followed by (another) rant.
> If Tasker was freeware, then I would be kissing your ass for your
> efforts. You charge for this product, with no demo trial.
http://tasker.dinglisch.net/download.html
It's mentioned in the Market description.
I'm very happy to support my current and prospective users with
features they would like to see, though I don't have time to do
everything for every user immediately, I hope to be able to implement
most things that most people want in the long run.
If you are not happy with that, or the responses to your posts, I
invite you to send me your Google order number privately and it will
be my great pleasure to give you a refund.
Pent
Guitarahan
Pent: Waaaahhhhh! I don't have time to please everyone, but I am
arrogant enough to sell a do-all app, and do it all by myself!
So, get yourself a team to build it right. If the price doubled from
the resulting expense, I'd still pay it if what Tasker did what it
purports to do correctly, and you weren't doing anything sneaky such
as foisting shit apps like FileMagic on me. With Tasker being capable
of searching all of my storage without that app, there was nothing
necessary about this other than the promotion of your other app, which
nobody wanted. Being arrogant enough to run untested experiments on
paid users, complaints, and your testy manners make it plain that it's
burning you out!
I'm fed up with arrogant, testy developers like you, who purport their
apps will do things which they will not, charge you for it, and then
have the balls to pull all kinds of lab-like experiments, as if this
were some unpaid beta piece! More time wasted with Tasker truly saves
me no time at all, and I've wasted enough time here!
UncleMike
Additionally, apps are purchased with the features they provide at the time of purchase. Expecting additional features to be implemented just because you think they're a good idea will often lead to disappointment.
Oon-Ee Ng
> I'm fed up with arrogant, testy developers like you, who purport their
> apps will do things which they will not, charge you for it, and then
> have the balls to pull all kinds of lab-like experiments, as if this
> were some unpaid beta piece! More time wasted with Tasker truly saves
> me no time at all, and I've wasted enough time here!
Good riddance then. Where DO you get this sense of entitlement?
Pent
Something we can agree on.
Pent
sayling
I've worked in IT departments for large municipalities, and worked for
a large software developer, and the support offered by Pent for the
users of his app is, frankly, unrivalled.
For the price of his app, I frankly don't know how he manages to
answer so many queries on a daily basis that are of the same nature
(i.e. From people who haven't rtfm), tack, identify and resolve usage
issues and bus and still add new features and meet requests from his
users.
And throughout, his patience and politeness shine through where many
others (look at Barcode Scanner support sometime!) ARE actually rude,
dismissive and belittling.
Okay, you may have pushed a couple of buttons and got responses from
Pent that were not his normal style, but to be honest, I would have
told you to piss off a LONG time ago.
Pent
Pent