New Action Screen with 9 Options Cab - Touch Pro CDMA

edit 12-28-If you want to remap the soft key buttons. like you want the right button to say action instead of the left do this:
Here is the way to change the homekeys IN TFLO 3D.
In a registry editor, go to:
HKLM/Software/HTC/manila/
Here is:
HomeLSKPath, which is the left softkey (Standard = Phonepad)
And
HomeRSKPath, which is the right softkey.
If you change these with the location of the programs you want to link to, and simultaneous change the names:
HomeLSKText = Left softkey text
And
HomeRSKText = Right softkey text.
edit 12-27
Found this action screen app in the Diamond forum. It works great on my Sprint Touch Pro and has the original tray and hero Sprint Icons. The soft button on the home screen gets remapped to say Action. See the screens.
The cab works flawlessly on my HTC Touch Pro. But...always a bug. The calendar tab did not work at all. So I toubleshot the values in the registry and found this works. Some changes I had to make after installing the cab.
Use your registry editor to change the values so that the appointments tab in the action menu works.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Biotouch\ActionScreen\APP_3
Change Param to appointments -new
Change Path to \windows\calendar.exe
Works perfect
Make this change too so that an email opens ready to send...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Biotouch\ActionScreen\App_0
under param mine is set to -service "Hotmail" -to ""
Edit December 27
I decided to remap the entire screen into a circle. See the attached jpeg. It works great. i am going to cab up the registry changes. you will have to first install the Sprint Cab. Then the circle theme with the above changes.
I hope you like it bc it took a hella long time.

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any way to make the programs soft button the action soft button on the home screen instead? i use the phone button too much to get rid of it.

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New theme
ou2mame said:
any way to make the programs soft button the action soft button on the home screen instead? i use the phone button too much to get rid of it.
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Only the screen action button is activated. you can still push the hard key to get the phone. and remapping any of the buttons is possible through Advanced config anyway.
So i made a new theme that fits my needs better. Also you should know that there are possibilities of mapping the action screen buttons to your liking. I have seen most with different options. These are just the options I like
After you load the Sprint cab from post one. You can use total commander to move these files into windows\action. Just the .brn files. This will not work with the circle cab

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Make your own
So to make your own screen;
1. Find or create the background image in 480 x 640 size BMP.
2. Find or create your bacsic 9 icons for the actions you want
Place these icons inside the overlay mesh attached
This mesh defines where the overlay icons will pop up
3. Put on your labels under each icon, below the openings in the mesh
4. Save the image (without the mesh) as AS_Bkgd_1.bmp
You now have the opening picture.
5. modify each icon so that you can see it is selected
6. make a copy of each icon in the exact space in the mesh and save each as with
the proper name;
Mail_focus.bmp SMS_focus.bmp MMS_focus.bmp
Appointment_focus.bmp Task_focus.bmp Note_focus.bmp
Contact_focus.bmp WiFi_focus.bmp BT_focus.bmp
7. modify each icon again for the Pressed icon and make a copy of each as above, but
this time with the _Press.bmp ending, like Mail_Press.bmp
Now you should have everything needed, so go and get yourself an bmp to brn converter, I have attached one.
and convert all your bmp's to brn, then copy all your brn files to your device, either to the \windows\actionscreen folder or where-ever the app is installed, (in ROMeOS it is directly in \windows.
Also: You can get different orders and themes from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=422136

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What are the values for a new outlook email? I've tried a lot of variations of this app and I have a Fuze and the variations I have all lead to the same thing - it will go into my inbox but not trigger a new blank email. I do have shortcuts to create a new outlook email but no registry tweaking for the HTC Action Screen has worked for me yet. Thanks

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bugsykoosh said:
What are the values for a new outlook email? I've tried a lot of variations of this app and I have a Fuze and the variations I have all lead to the same thing - it will go into my inbox but not trigger a new blank email. I do have shortcuts to create a new outlook email but no registry tweaking for the HTC Action Screen has worked for me yet. Thanks
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Biotouch\ActionScreen\App_0
under param mine is set to -service "Hotmail" -to ""
This way the action email button opens an email ready to send from my hotmail account. just substitute "hotmnail" with whatever account you want it to open an email ready to send.

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metal cab
Added a cab that has the registry settings fixed and a new metal theme in post 1
Edit-not ready yet-so you will have to manually change the registry aas I stated in the previous posts

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[email protected] said:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Biotouch\ActionScreen\App_0
under param mine is set to -service "Hotmail" -to ""
This way the action email button opens an email ready to send from my hotmail account. just substitute "hotmnail" with whatever account you want it to open an email ready to send.
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Thanks for trying but for some reason it doesn't work with activesync accounts. I've had this problem in the past with all of the Action Screens. If I replace hotmail with Activesync the result is literally nothing...you hit the button and nothing happens. All of the other buttons work and if I create a shortcut to open a new email with "ActiveSync" as the parameter and it works... I'm not sure what causes this but I presume it's true for everyone with an ActiveSync account/ I've had the same issue on my Tilt and my Fuze.

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bugsykoosh said:
Thanks for trying but for some reason it doesn't work with activesync accounts. I've had this problem in the past with all of the Action Screens. If I replace hotmail with Activesync the result is literally nothing...you hit the button and nothing happens. All of the other buttons work and if I create a shortcut to open a new email with "ActiveSync" as the parameter and it works... I'm not sure what causes this but I presume it's true for everyone with an ActiveSync account/ I've had the same issue on my Tilt and my Fuze.
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Not active sync. Replace it with the account name. "Outlook" "Yahoo" "Gmail" whatever
Active sync is not an email account and therefor not recognized as such. You have to tell the account picker which account to send the email from. Otherwise it has too many choices

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Change the screen
Change the button to read whatever you want. I changed mine to "Right Now"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Manila:HomeLSKText

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It just brings me into my email - it doesn't open a new blank email. I even tried changing the end to -to "" -body "" and I get the same thing.
I have a shortcut I sued for my PTT button that does open a new email but it doesn't seem to work for the Action Screen. The string is
20#"\Windows\tmail.exe"-service "ActiveSync" -to "" -body ""

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bugsykoosh said:
It just brings me into my email - it doesn't open a new blank email. I even tried changing the end to -to "" -body "" and I get the same thing.
I have a shortcut I sued for my PTT button that does open a new email but it doesn't seem to work for the Action Screen. The string is
20#"\Windows\tmail.exe"-service "ActiveSync" -to "" -body ""
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Not sure you inderstand what I am saying. Tell it which email to open.
like this -service "Hotmail" -to""
or -service "gmail" -to""
Active sync is not an email account. and "body" and "to" does not tell the account picker which email to open. Which account should open? Tell it.

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I did tell it. I told it 'outlook' like you said (see the screen shot) but the outcome is the same. It just takes me to my account and doesn't open a blank email.
That string I provided was a string I've used in the past that has worked as a shortcut to open a new blank email. For some reason in the HTC Action Screen I can't get to a new blank email. Thanks for the help.

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bugsykoosh said:
I did tell it. I told it 'outlook' like you said (see the screen shot) but the outcome is the same. It just takes me to my account and doesn't open a blank email.
That string I provided was a string I've used in the past that has worked as a shortcut to open a new blank email. For some reason in the HTC Action Screen I can't get to a new blank email. Thanks for the help.
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Outlook is an account picker as well. Name it after the account. Like Gmail. Outlook is a general account organizer -you need to be specific about the account you want opened.

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not sure what else I can add to the string. You can only have one exchange server account. I tried 'exchange' and no difference. If the string 20#"\Windows\tmail.exe"-service "ActiveSync" -to "" -body "" works as a shortcut to open a new Outlook email why wouldn't it work here?
What else can I add to it? It's an Exchange server account and when I go to create a new email it is listed as 'outlook e-mail'. I tried:
-service "Outlook E-mail" -to "" -body ""
and that failed. Not sure what other methods I could use to describe it... I believe you can only have one exchange account. I did try 'exchange' as the field and that didn't work.

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bugsykoosh said:
not sure what else I can add to the string. You can only have one exchange server account. I tried 'exchange' and no difference. If the string 20#"\Windows\tmail.exe"-service "ActiveSync" -to "" -body "" works as a shortcut to open a new Outlook email why wouldn't it work here?
What else can I add to it? It's an Exchange server account and when I go to create a new email it is listed as 'outlook e-mail'. I tried:
-service "Outlook E-mail" -to "" -body ""
and that failed. Not sure what other methods I could use to describe it... I believe you can only have one exchange account. I did try 'exchange' as the field and that didn't work.
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working on it. I will figure it out pronto and post it here. i think i tried every possibility. Even tried to switch the path to poutlook.exe
I have it working with my hotmail. No luck opening to outlook. It will only open to the inbox. Maybe I will try some more possibilities tomorrow. It vexes me. Grrrrrrr.

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Thanks- I really aprpeciate it. if there's anything you want me to try it I'm all in This has been bugging me since I had an 8525, through my Tilt and now on my Fuze

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bugsykoosh said:
Thanks- I really aprpeciate it. if there's anything you want me to try it I'm all in This has been bugging me since I had an 8525, through my Tilt and now on my Fuze
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Still working on this...
and posted a new circle type theme on Post 1. A lot of messing around to reg edit correct for the circle theme

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i tried to install circle cab and nothing happened any ideas?

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