In the iphone+ipod touch and the HD2(i believe), when you're entering text you can press and hold and the area magnifies allowing you to precisely navigate to the point on the text to continuing editing. is there anyway to do this on a Hero, that is other than blindly poking and a position until you get where you want.
I normally just tap to where I want or near where I want, then use the trackball from there.
Related
My old ROM had this feature that when I would push and hold down the talk key the screen would tilt to landscape view as if my phone as slid open. (Even without opening the keyboard..)
Does anyone know if there is a cab or some software that can do this?
Not sure of any cabs, but DCD's latest (2.27) ROM opens all of the buttons up to mapping. Though I don't see a built-in option for switching views :-\
Under settings -> personal -> Buttons. For Press and Hold Send Key (Or Talk key depending on ROM) select Rotate Screen. That should take care of it.
Hi
I've just downloaded Gameboid for the hero, and it's great! However, when using certain ROMS the trackball just doesn't cut it for movement, and hence, I wanted to change it, so that the Menu, End, Search and Back keys handle Up, Right, Down and Left respectively. However, whenever I press End, the phone locks, and whenever I press menu, the menu comes up.
Is there an app or registry edit that can stop this from happening just in this app?
Thanks
In the HTC Text Message tool, when you are writing a message, if you long press in the text area INSTEAD of the default context menu with "select all, copy/cut/paste " It displays a cursor position slider to move the cursor exactly where you want to, with a context menu to "select text" that shows two cursors to multi touch to select text. This is an awesome feature, this is similar to how the iPhone text selection works, only without the zoomed in view.
I would like to "enable" this functionality across the system. Such as selecting text in emails, browser, twitter, facebook, or wherever. Is there a way to enable this cool functionality?
I'd be happy with an everywhere enablement. Even better is to configure so that it appears in the "select all copy/paste" context menu as a new item "cursor position" or something similar.
*Update: I am not alone apparently, and this is not news.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=652783
http://windowsphonemix.com/htc-hd2-handling-text-selection-made-easier/
*Tip I also found useful:
40. Enable Magnifying Box When Selecting Text
Press and hold your finger on any text in a HTC app such as Messaging and an iphone-esque selection procedure with handles to drag and highlight text will appear. Modify the following registry entry to add a magnifying window as you select and highlight the text. Go to:
HKLM/Software/HTC/TextSelection/EnableMagnifier and change from 0 to 1.
Thanks,
~CYD
Does anyone know if it would be possible to write an app that would re-map the nook "n" (home) to open up a small popup, that would give access to all four of the main android buttons? i.e., home, back, menu, search. (similar popup to the long press home to 'recent programs' list that android has), maybe even adding the recent programs too?
That way we could still get home, but it wouldn't be impossible to use standard android programs because of the lack of hardware keys.
I loaded "Alidko," which works great, but once I open a book, I have to read the whole thing to get back to the main app screen since there is no 'back' button.
EDIT:
Someone made it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=860153
I am an iOS coder, but, looking at the docs, not only does this appear possible, it doesn't look like it would be too difficult for an android coder that knows their way around.
I believe the right thing to do would be, in order of preference/elegance:
1. Have a "long press" on the nook/home key expose the status bar via a "service" that listens for and captures this even
2. Have a "long press" on the nook key display a window that shows a set of "soft keys"
kaicherry said:
I am an iOS coder, but, looking at the docs, not only does this appear possible, it doesn't look like it would be too difficult for an android coder that knows their way around.
I believe the right thing to do would be, in order of preference/elegance:
1. Have a "long press" on the nook/home key expose the status bar via a "service" that listens for and captures this even
2. Have a "long press" on the nook key display a window that shows a set of "soft keys"
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
A solution was posted here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9556837&postcount=1 to remap the volume keys. Although not as elegant as an app would be, it works great. I have my volume up key remapped to "MENU" and volume down as "BACK".
In Aldiko it works perfectly.
That is a good temporary solution, but I would personally not like to loose the volume functionality.
Anyone think they could make a pop-up like that? I am not sure how hard it would be to make the pop-up send the 'softkey' to the other app and not just close itself (i.e., back)...
Answered!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=860153
I'm looking for a way to simulate pressing the "Home" hardware key at the bottom, to return to the Sense home tab, without actually pressing that key. I have seen several programs which can take over things like taps on the "X" button or even top taskbar clock, but although they can be set to close or minimize the active program, they don't seem to be able to achieve the same effect as pressing the "Home" key.
The closest I've been able to come is wktask which can assign the "Show Today" action to the "X" soft button, but it doesn't work so well with WM 6.5.X versions due to other glitches and incompatibilities, so is not ideal.
Is there any such program that can simulate the "Show Today" action, ideally by a tap on the top taskbar clock? So that the hardware key can be bypased?
quite easily:
you can create a link to Home link (found in start Menu) which will return to home sence tab.
This can be linked to anything that can select a shortcut as a function.
Example being Utask, this gives extra function to x screen-button & start menu button by long press on these screen buttons, long press mapped to Home.lnk & you got what you want.
Mortscript could also be useful in setting these sort of things up.
Thanks for the reply and advice. However on the rom that I am using (Artemis) there is no "Home" shortcut available via the start menu. In another rom (Energy) I do see this shortcut in the start menu, but am unable to find it as a file in \Windows\Start Menu\ and so I have no way of creating a link to it or pointing to it in the options for uTask.
Can anyone provide instructions for finding or creating this "Home" shortcut so that I can implement it as desired? If anyone is able to locate it as a file/link on their rom, is it possible to upload it here to this thread so that I can copy it onto my device?
Or any other ideas?
The home link is basically a link to: ManilaShortcut.exe
with parameter: home
You can set this up in utask to one of its touch buttons by setting it to launch- ManilaShortcut.exe
found in windows folder & adding parameter- home
If you do not have ManilaShortcut.exe I will upload it & shortcuts I have for it.
Thanks Mister B, the instructions as posted above worked as desired and I am now able to switch back to the Sense Home Tab at any time from any application, by tapping on the top taskbar clock. This is exactly what I wanted to accomplish.
Doing a "minimize" was already possible by default with uTask, but that would not always take you right back Home if you had other apps open and running behind the current foreground one. Now it's one-click to return home while leaving everything open and running.
Very much appreciated.