re: Improving the Cat Parade (Part 3)

JeCahill — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:47:47 GMT

That's a cool alternative to writing code. Thanks for sharing!

re: Improving the Cat Parade (Part 3)

MrSheep — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:00:29 GMT

We found another approach to get hopper to test our application for orientation changes. We dropped a copy of a simple test tool, for which the free exe and source can be found at:

http://www.mobidogs.com/dPage25.aspx

into the start directory of the emulator image that we are using to test our application. We also cleaned out most of the other links from the Start Menu folder as suggested to increase the exposure of the app through our standard version focusapp.exe. Now, hopper randomly does the work for us to fire up the orientation test app and randomly change the orientation.

Just another alternative for those of you looking for a quick way to test your apps with hopper and including orientation changes into the mix.

One thing to note... this test tool is written with CF 2 so it runs fine on WM 6.0 devices and emulators without modification, however if you are targeting earlier devices you will need to either load CF 2 onto that device/emulator or you will need to rewrite your own version of the utility in either CF1 (with pinvokes) or native code. However, I don't believe that there any Smartphone devices pre WM 6.0 that do dynamic orientation changes, so this would probably only apply to PPC apps or other special scenarios.