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We have many ROM for our Prophet. The problem is, we saw some of these programs available in some ROM and not in the other ROM. So, let we share these programs, tweaks and tips.
Dutty Explorer
I am starting with Dutty Explorer, based on GSFinder+, a very good replacement to default File Explorer (even with extensions like Spb Plus and HouMing File Explore Extension), plus latest version of gsgetfile.dll compatible with WM6.
We have Resco Explorer but not Freeware. Total Commander CE is good, but not the interface.
SQPC v2.99 - The Universal Top Bar
sawari said:
We have many ROM for our Prophet. The problem is, we saw some of these programs available in some ROM and not in the other ROM. So, let we share these programs, tweaks and tips...
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SQPC is a program (MULTI-PURPOSE TOP MENU BAR) that as old as my age.....
But, flexible that you can alter it anyway you like, the main reason why I had it kept as personally I love that one tap finish actions too much, like copy, paste, input selector, soft-keyboard pop up.........
Goodness:-
1. SWAPPABLE TOP BAR with any Length / Programmable / Executable Icon you like,
2. Clipboard 10 history too easy to use ( very very good for my study use),
3. Clock and Calendar on the screen is plug-ins,
4. left side program shortcuts,
5. any back ground images, automatic rotate selectable,
6. single tap actions for any programs / files....
7. Less than 300 KB in file size........
Weakness:-
1. Too many functions for juniors, ( for me, just a junior user, I had explored its 50% of features only.... there are more advance feartures like to call out parameters......)
2. UI is not too fancy~~~
I would like to share the .ini file of it so everyone can give it a try.
PLEASE BE SURE THAT YOU HAD THE SQPC.rar.zip changed to SQPC.rar before unzip.
Thanks for all of yours attention. Please correct me if I am wrong !
I didnt like
dioxda2 said:
SQPC is a program (MULTI-PURPOSE TOP MENU BAR) that as old as my age.....
But, flexible that you can alter it anyway you like, the main reason why I had it kept as personally I love that one tap finish actions too much, like copy, paste, input selector, soft-keyboard pop up.........
Goodness:-
1. SWAPPABLE TOP BAR with any Length / Programmable / Executable Icon you like,
2. Clipboard 10 history too easy to use ( very very good for my study use),
3. Clock and Calendar on the screen is plug-ins,
4. left side program shortcuts,
5. any back ground images, automatic rotate selectable,
6. single tap actions for any programs / files....
7. Less than 300 KB in file size........
Weakness:-
1. Too many functions for juniors, ( for me, just a junior user, I had explored its 50% of features only.... there are more advance feartures like to call out parameters......)
2. UI is not too fancy~~~
I would like to share the .ini file of it so everyone can give it a try.
PLEASE BE SURE THAT YOU HAD THE SQPC.rar.zip changed to SQPC.rar before unzip.
Thanks for all of yours attention. Please correct me if I am wrong !
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this is a very old program. fonts and icons is not pretty..
sorry, i didn't like..
Sorry for being old fashioned
ycimpir;1709977 said:
this is a very old program. fonts and icons is not pretty..
sorry, i didn't like..
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Thanks for you compliments.
MortButtons is around since about 4 years, but since there's quite some hype recently about both "touch-able" menu systems like Spb Menu or TouchCube and "click-through" button enhancers like HButton, maybe MortButtons might be interesting for some people, too.
It offers all required ways to launch a menu entry (press app button multiple times and wait for timeout, direction pad, tapping the entry), allows freely configurable items for up to 5 main menus (any number of entries and sub menus; don't believe old sites telling about an entry limit, it doesn't exist since years...), includes a task list (like Alt-Tab), offers many "special" entries (system settings, new documents, calls, new messages, screen rotation, ...), is skinnable, free (though donations would be nice), ...
V2.5 compared to V2.41 mostly adds some "facelifts" (new icons and skins, alpha channel support, images as icons for entries, user defined backgrounds, ...) and better performance, but also some new features like finger gestures and access to the system settings.
More informations, download, manual, etc. is available here.
(Screenshot shows TransAqua1 (new default) skin with Spb's Snowy theme as background, icons are "GlassIcons" .png images available in Rotlaus' forum intended for rlToday).
Wow, Thank you so much for such a wonderful software. I just started using Mortbuttons just a few weeks ago and like it very much.
I have made a skin that goes well with the Touch look and would like to share it.
JudgeDredd67 said:
Wow, Thank you so much for such a wonderful software. I just started using Mortbuttons just a few weeks ago and like it very much.
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Yeah, it's only a pity it's still some kind of insider tip while around for years, while similar concepts realized in the last few months make such a fuzz...
I have made a skin that goes well with the Touch look and would like to share it.
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Thanks. Btw, it's also possible to create a skin with bigger tiles like the original TouchCube style. You can use any size for the menu entries you like, as long as MortButtons manages to fit at least one entry on the screen...
Nice Mort! I'll try it and give you some feedback
By the way, can I include this on a ROM ?
Thanks for great work, I was using previous version and this is even better. Keep it this way.
Just updated my skin to take advantage of the alpha layer.
Thanks again Mort for all your wonderful stuff.
Excellent application. Thanks a lot for the hardwork.
dferreira said:
By the way, can I include this on a ROM ?
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Sure, go ahead. Same goes for my other apps, too, btw.
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Just updated my skin to take advantage of the alpha layer.
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Nice one, tough the alpha layer isn't very obvious.
Little hint: Zip only the folder contents itself (i.e. no subfolder in the archive), then change the file extension from .zip to .mbz. Having to copy only a single file makes skin installation a bit more easy for beginners. And it saves some space, though usually more by better cluster usage than by compression (most images already are compressed...).
Thanks again Mort for all your wonderful stuff.
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You're welcome...
Very nice update, the launch time seems to be much less. There does seem to be a bit of a memory leak? But not sure how to pinpoint if its cuz of MortButtons or something else. Nevertheless, it is a very nice, free, and actually more powerful alternative to other touch/launcher kinda applications.
Also a fan of MortScript (for small, useful tasks) and MortPlayer (THE audio player for winmobile ). Do you have a smartphone version of MortPlayer planned?
VGA & icons pixelization
Hi,
I just tried on my VGA PDA (Dell Axim X51v), and application icons which are VGA-enabled, appear pixelized in MortButton. Any idea on what I did wrong?
Great work Mort. I've been using mort buttons since about the day after I got my vario II 16 months ago. It was the ideal solution to the missing capabilities I had always presumed a touch screen device would come with by default!
I much prefer it to all of these today screen launchers as these seem to slow down the phone and generally use smaller, less usable buttons for my sausage fingers!
One thing I've noticed though, the new built in shortcuts to the control panel options don't seem quite right. e.g. I've added a shortcut to the Memory control panel on a menu. Having launched the Memory panel, the only way to close it is by pressing the 'ok' button on the top right of the screen - neither OK button works....
Alternatively, if I add a .lnk shortcut which starts the memory panel (with the shortcut "Settings>System>Memory>Main = 20#ctlpnl cplmain.cpl,4") the panel launches fine and can be closed with the OK buttons no problem.
The same goes for Input, Phone, Today panel shortcuts...
I was wondering if MortButtons is not closing properly after launching these settings links?
Apart from this quibble, a great update. Keep up the good work - I'd have binned this phone long ago if it wasn't for this App!!
MortButton and FTouchFlo
Thanks Mort for a great app. I was wondering what is the command line to launch each of the buttons. I was trying to use this in conjunction with efrost's FTouchFlo app where I assigned a gesture like leftright app to launch button 1 by putting the path "\Program Files\MortButtons\Button1.mbi" but that did not launch button1 when gesturing. Would you happen to have a solution?
blistirs said:
Thanks Mort for a great app. I was wondering what is the command line to launch each of the buttons. I was trying to use this in conjunction with efrost's FTouchFlo app where I assigned a gesture like leftright app to launch button 1 by putting the path "\Program Files\MortButtons\Button1.mbi" but that did not launch button1 when gesturing. Would you happen to have a solution?
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I experienced the same. But if you link to the 'Button.exe'. It will bring you to the main menu where you can see the 5 buttons. While this is one more step extra, better than nothing.
^ What you guys are trying to do works fine here.
For e.g. go to \Windows\Start Menu\Programs\MortButtons and see how the shortcut for button 1 is created (if you have a good file explorer such as gsfinder you can see the shortcut as well as the command line parameter).
Basically the shortcut should point to \Program Files\MortButtons\MBRunner.exe and the command line parameter should be \Program Files\MortButtons\<path_to_button>.mbi. Both of these paths should be put in Ftouchflo config without quotation marks around. This makes for a much faster, customizable and full featured launcher than the cubes.
Thanks. That did the trick!
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^ What you guys are trying to do works fine here.
For e.g. go to \Windows\Start Menu\Programs\MortButtons and see how the shortcut for button 1 is created (if you have a good file explorer such as gsfinder you can see the shortcut as well as the command line parameter).
Basically the shortcut should point to \Program Files\MortButtons\MBRunner.exe and the command line parameter should be \Program Files\MortButtons\<path_to_button>.mbi. Both of these paths should be put in Ftouchflo config without quotation marks around. This makes for a much faster, customizable and full featured launcher than the cubes.
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Once again for dummies. You mean:
LeftRightApp:\Program Files\MortButtons\MBRunner.exe
LeftRightAppCmdLine:\Program Files\MortButtons\Program Files\MortButtons\Button3.mbi?
I tried:
LeftRightApp:\Program Files\MortButtons\MBRunner.exe
LeftRightAppCmdLine:\Program Files\MortButtons\Button3.mbi
but it didn't work, it shows an empty "MortButton" window.
Maybe you need to use quotes around the parameter (i.e. mbi file). Otherwise it might be MortButtons tries to load "\Program" as menu informations, which doesn't quite work...
The exact method that you've listed works for me. Are you using the latest version of ftouchflo? I remember one of the versions had a bug in the leftright swipe..
Where can I find soft-reset function and it's Icon so that I can put it on the Mortbutton. Annoying each time wanna do soft reset have to tuck the stylus in the hole.
In the excellent Athena Project 4.0 rom there is the brilliant 'enlarge menus'.
I liked this feature very much, having program menus bigger under 96dpi is a treat!
I quote Pawel062 when anouncing AP4.0:
"enlarge menus: the setting to turn off the enlarged menus is found in the config app. there also is a advanced button to adjust how big u want the menus. if u really want a finger friendly menu, try 1600 but dont go above it."
Now my question: is this feature/program available as a separate cab file ?
Despite my search efforts I can't seem to find it :-(
Many thanks in advance.
Cheers
bins said:
In the excellent Athena Project 4.0 rom there is the brilliant 'enlarge menus'.
I liked this feature very much, having program menus bigger under 96dpi is a treat!
I quote Pawel062 when anouncing AP4.0:
"enlarge menus: the setting to turn off the enlarged menus is found in the config app. there also is a advanced button to adjust how big u want the menus. if u really want a finger friendly menu, try 1600 but dont go above it."
Now my question: is this feature/program available as a separate cab file ?
Despite my search efforts I can't seem to find it :-(
Many thanks in advance.
Cheers
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reg HKLM\system\GWE\Menu\popfnt
Thanks, irus, under 96 dpi I set
reg HKLM\system\GWE\Menu\popfnt\Ht
from 800 to 1600 and that did the trick!
For big fingers - like me ;-) : it even works better under 128 dpi
Changing these (and other) settings on the fly was possible in the AP4 rom with a little settings program (I think it was called 'Athena settings', it had an icon with an iphone).
Could the AP4 'dream team' make it available as a separate cab?
And/or could you, irus, include it in your rom(s) as well?
Thanks again to all!
i would like a bug free landscape mode for word so i can type my book faster. please help.
I have absolutely no problems with this on my HD2, using Energy's CHT ROM: Has loads of useful options such as Autostart, an "add exceptions" list, change reaction-speed of the gyro, and an add "toggle" shortcut to to Programs List.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=466858
BsB Tweaks will allow you to select which programs you
want to be able to run in landscape.
thank u guys
bsb tweaks for rotation is no good on hd2 all other opions on bsb teaks work fine the so im a go with change screen.
StatKbd project - self-adjusting SIP keyboard for WM.
It analyses touch coordinates and adjusts recognition algorithm. This is especially important for finger typing - usually you don't hit exact center of button while typing due to device tilt, etc...
In addition to this, StatKbd introduces key "spot" size adjustment basing on language statistics - again, for better touch recognition.
From user perspective this means that every key virtually expands and shrinks (normally it's not visible, but you can enable special mode to see it) basing on previously entered text. This allows you to enter text better, avoiding typos.
Of course, all these options are adjustable, so you can disable them if you want.
There're 2 skins (black and white) in package. Visual skin editor is also free and available for download.
Currently English and Russian layouts are available, but you can easily customize skin for any language (we'll really appreciate if you upload it here or to official site then).
You can read more (and download installation packages) at official site:
gss.freeiz.com (sorry, can't post direct link now - I'm new to this forum)
Current version (1.2) is free, but donations are very welcome - you can use "Donate" button on official site.
nice try buddy but i think that this not good enough for any WM. although its not finger friendly and its do not even uses numeric keys can't find even enter. LoL..
Well, look closer to long-click (upper) symbols. Keypad is on long-click for most right button in middle row (short click switches language layouts), enter is long-click on space. I did it because I was really sick and tired of false clicks on enter button (that you can't undo).
As for finger-friendly, well, miracles don't happen in this world (especially with keyboards on small screens ). However, I really think that you didn't calibrate it. To adjust keyboard to your fingers, you should manually calibrate it (via options) or just spend some time typing text and correcting typos by backspace (yes, that's annoying, but takes just several minutes) - keyboard will self-adjust.
I have installed it in my X1. Its quite good but its a bit too small to use in portrait mode. Other than that its not bad but takes a bit getting used to.
The idea was to make small keyboard, to keep most of the application screen visible. White skin is smallest one, black one is bigger. You can create you custom skin (with appropriate size) using Stat Skin editor - just take one of original skins, resize jpg files to the size you want (using any picture editor), then remap keys using StatSkinEditor (there's option to do it automatically - Edit / Resize Keys Map). Possibly, you'll have to change font sizes too.
Thank you very much .. It acts better than Finger friendly !!! .. I wish The skin editor really works too cuz I tried it on Win 7 , Win 8 .. Wish for Arabic Skin ...
Thanks again for a good app.
maybe a little bigger skin? its hard to use.
drhesham said:
Thank you very much .. It acts better than Finger friendly !!! .. I wish The skin editor really works too cuz I tried it on Win 7 , Win 8 .. Wish for Arabic Skin ...
Thanks again for a good app.
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What is the problem with Skin Editor ? It works OK on my PC. You have to install Visual C++ 2008 SP1 redistributable package though, if it is not installed on your PC yet (by some other application). You can download it for free from Microsoft site: ... /download/en/details.aspx?id=5582
Treat ... as microsoft web server address - this stupid system does not allow me to post full link.