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Start your Hackmaster (or compatible) program and select Open Logo Hack for configuration. Start the Application and tap the Configuration-button.

Configuration
  • Select the configuration for the wakeup or sleep logo. Wakeup and sleep logo can be configured independent.
Screenshot Configuration
  • Select the time how long the bitmap will be shown. You may show the bitmap from one seconds upto nine seconds. A tap on the display or silkscreen area will cancel the display before the display time has finished. See also OLH Preferences/Force display waittime.
  • Specify the selection mode for the bitmap.
    • none
      No bitmap is shown.
    • single
      The selected bitmap is shown.
    • cyclic
      A range of bitmaps from the database will be shown, one after another.
    • random
      A range of bitmaps from the database will be shown, randomly picked.
  • Select a bitmap from the list of available bitmaps.
  • Select a range (for cyclic and random selection) of bitmaps from the list of available bitmaps.
    • All
      Set the range from the first to the last bitmap within the database.
    • Start
      Select a bitmap from the list and tap the button Start. This will set the range start to this bitmap. If no range end was set before, the range end will also set to this bitmap.
      Every time you select this bitmap the pushbutton Start will be selected.
    • End
      Select a bitmap from the list and tap the button End. This will set the range end to this bitmap. If no range start was set before, the range start will also set to this bitmap.
      Every time you select this bitmap the pushbutton End will be selected.

    To check the range of bitmaps simply tap on all bitmaps on the list and have a look at the pushbuttons Start and End. If a pushbutton is selected it will mark this bitmap as range start or range end.

Screenshot range start

Screenshot range end
  • Select the backlight control mode (On, Off or BKLT).
    • On
      OLH turns the backlight on for the logo and turns it off after this.
    • Off
      OLH won't touch the current state of the backlight.
    • BKLT
      OLH uses the state of the backlight as given by the Palm m505 Backlight utility. BKLT is only available if you have the Palm m500 Backlight Utility installed.

    See also The backlight mode is not working well. Is this a bug?"

  • Tap the Test-Button the see the bitmaps and test the ranges for cyclic and random selection mode.
  • Tap the About Logo DB-Button the see the info about the logo database supplied by the database author.
  • Tap the OK-Button to finish configuration.

Activation / Deactivation
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Start your Hackmaster (or compatible) program, select Open Logo Hack and mark it for activation. To activate OLH tap the Activate-button. To deactivate tap the Deactivate-button.
If your device is performs a soft reset, OLH asks automaticaly for reactivation.

Turn your handheld off and on. You should see the selected bitmap for a short time.
You may cancel the picture's display with a hardware button or with a tap on the display.
Attention: The button or the tap are forwarded to the current application. If you tap on the screen where a button is located the button will be activated. See also OLH Preferences/Force display waittime

External Memory Support
You may use external memory (Compact Flash, Memory Stick, and SmartMedia) to store the logo database.
Use the menus
  • File/DB->memory card
    to export the database to the external memory. The file "olHaLogos" is created in the directory "/PALM/Programs/"
  • File/DB->internal memory
    to import the database from the external memory to internal memory. The file "olHaLogos" is read from the directory "/PALM/Programs/".

Access to external memory is much slower than internal memory. Be aware that there may some significant delay before the logo is shown. You may activate the prefetch image mode to decrease the delay (and increase memory usage).

Don't move the application or the hack to the external memory!

Screenshot VFS menu

OLH Preferences
Use the menu Options/OLH Preferences for special OLH preferences. Screenshot Options

Troubleshooting
Use the menu Options/Reset Configuration to reset the configuration and to recalculate the device hardware capabilities. This may help if you get an error message with "Unsupported Bitmaptype" but you know your device is able to handle this kind of bitmap (reported for a Palm3c after an upgrade to PalmOS4.1). Screenshot reset-menu
See also: Application Limitations and FAQs.

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