Using movies as screensavers
Movies may be used as screen savers (also known as machiuke) on the i-mode 504i series of phones
as well as the J-Phone J-Sky and Vodfone enabled phones (the J-Phone and Vodafone features
for a resident midlet are virtually identical). Associated with this features are movie jump
settings specific to screen savers on those phones. The ability to display the
current time through a text object with the contents "%t" is also included in the
players or these phones alowing screensavers to be also used as clocks.
i-mode 504i specific jump sequences
The product supports it's movies being used as screen savers and in relation to this feature
a number of jump options can be set:
- Jump on open - This allows the movie to jump to another movie every time the phone is
opened.
- Jump on activate - This allows the movie to jump to another movie whenever the the
phone user decodes to 'activate' the current screen-saver movie by pressing a button
on the phone.
On the 504i phones interactive features (ie. softbuttons and hotspots) will be
disabled when the screensaver is in deactivated mode. It is possible to associate
the action of iappli deactivation with both softbuttons and hotspot layers.
J-Phone/Vodafone specific jump sequences
- Start ringing - Jump when a new call is received
- Stop ringing - Jump when the call is answered
- Ignored - Jump when the call is ignored/hungup
- Notify - Jump when the phones alarm clock goes off
- Ring - Jump when calling
- Received - Jump when receiving a message