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assign wisbar start menu to left softkey

I want to use my left softkey to cascade my wisbar start menu..I have tried the following registry settings HKCU\software\microsoft\today\keys\112
Name:start
String: "\program files\lakeridge\wisbar advance\wisbaradv2.exe" 2
I got the above link by going to start menu\programs\wisbar advance\casc start menu and checking its target...
Now when i click the left softkey it is executing only
"\program files\lakeridge\wisbar advance\wisbaradv2.exe"
rather than
"\program files\lakeridge\wisbar advance\wisbaradv2.exe" 2
which is for cascading start menu...
can somebody give me a solution for this...

Try this:
Create a shortcut to
"\program files\lakeridge\wisbar advance\wisbaradv2.exe" 2
and assign the shortcut to your left softkey.
Maybe you can place the shortcut anywhere, or maybe it has to be placed in \Windows\Startmenu.
Good luck.

done
I had done that before...but i had forgotton to reboot :? ..its working great now...Thanx anyways for the help...I have now mapped my leftsoftkey to the start menu and right softkey to file explorer...no need of smartskey!!

An even better solution (IMHO) is to use Water's Smartskey. Smartskey allows you to use left soft button press-and-hold to activate any 3rd party menu (even standard window menu). In this way you don't lose the original press function for the softkeys and can still easily open any cascading menu.
I use it to activate GsPocketMagic, a cascading menu.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=41060

hmm..
Well smartskey is still in its developing stage..once water completes it without any bugs i will be the first one to use it..its a very gud app

I use the comm manager button on the left of my 8125.. I just went into buttons in settings, and chose "casc start menu" and it worked fine...I like having start menu access from that key because its natural for one hand operation.

Well smartskey is still in its developing stage..once water completes it without any bugs i will be the first one to use it..its a very gud app
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I have been using it for several months now (and my version is behind at least one-two revisions), I have had absolutely no problems with it. It works as advertised.
There's no harm in trying it.

[APP] DredSensor v1.1 - Allow you to personalize Hard Key Actions

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New version 1.2 available here
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DredSensor v1.1d:
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Link ->: DredSensor-v1.1d
New features in v1.1d:
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Let you choose which Key/Action you affect to each key.
Launcher Mode let you affect an Action for:
Double Tap event
Click event
Long click event
An icon for config tool is created in Program list.
Cache Program List for quick loading in Config window.
Fixes a few bug from v1.1, v1.1b and v1.1c
Tips:
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If you upgrade to this version, your config file will be cleared (sorry ).
To define a profile that applies on every applications, launch config tool and edit "Default" config.
If the key you want to affect is not listed, you can define it manually:
Type "Key:[email protected]@", with @@ = VKey code of the key you want to affect.
You can find VKey code list on : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb431750.aspx
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DredSensor v1.0:
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Reviewed on gadgetmix.com: See the article
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If you have tried to play a game needing left and right key on an HTC Touch Diamond, you noticed that they are 2mm wide and if you click next to it, you get back to home page or to dialing menu etc...
So I've written a prog allowing you to lock these 4 keys actions and replace it by classical key event (VK_LEFT, VK_RIGHT, ...).
In that way you can play tetris, and use "Pick-Up" and "Hang-Up" keys for going left and right.
Link ->: DredSensor
To use it, you need:
1) An HTC Touch Diamond (it's the only one i have so i can't test it on other models)
2) Install the .cab
3) Reboot your HTC
4) Run a game (or app or ...)
5) Get your stylus out and back-in, in less than 1 second
6) Click "Yes"
----- A config window opens:
7) Check that Type = "HardKeySimul"
8) Click "Ok"
Now you can use (and eventually assign) your 'Home', 'Back', 'Pick-Up' and 'Hang-Up' keys in that game/app.
Actually, the 'Pick-Up' and 'Hang-Up' keys are always defined as Left and Right events.
Have fun.
Ps:
For people interested, the other "Type" in the config window are:
- "Launcher": allow you to quicklaunch 4 app (that you define in the config wnd) when you double tap (not click, just tap) on one of those 4 keyz
- "Scroll": allow you to scroll the current window by tapping those 4 keyz panel
- "KeySimul": allow you to send left/right/up/down events by tapping those 4 keyz panel

Thx, now I can use opera mini and pie (good for mlb's wap) in full screen

Thank you very much. Great program. Now, with left and right softkey hardware buttons, I can play with my java games.

Claus72 said:
Thank you very much. Great program. Now, with left and right softkey hardware buttons, I can play with my java games.
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Do any of them even work on the vga screen?

first of all: great app!
only thing i don't like is that now every time i pull out the stylus the phone vibrates. maybe you could make the "window-catching-thing" optional, so you have to enable it first?!? with that, the app would be perfect to me!
figured out an other problem: the "scroll-wheel-function" in opera and tomtom doesn't work anymore...

Herr_Knigge said:
first of all: great app!
only thing i don't like is that now every time i pull out the stylus the phone vibrates. maybe you could make the "window-catching-thing" optional, so you have to enable it first?!? with that, the app would be perfect to me!
figured out an other problem: the "scroll-wheel-function" in opera and tomtom doesn't work anymore...
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Hello.
As it's a background program, making vivrate the phone is the best way i found to easlily know if it's loaded or not.
If you don't like that, you can disable it by manually editing the 'Config.ini' file in '/Program Files/DredSensor':
Go under the section you want to disable vibrator in (ex: "[Default]")
Add: "NoVibrate=1"
For the scroll problem, i didn't change scrolling system from v1.0 so are you sure it was working in v1.0 and it's no more working in v1.1?

@Dredger97
Thank´s for this wonderful tool!
Greeting
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is there a wa to map home/back to A/B controller buttons? Trying to get it to work with PocketNester Thanks

Thanks
I will tried

Seems to be good. Shall download and try...

Doesn't work for all hard keys
I have the original diamond and it doesn't look like any of the key presses work.
I could really do with replacing volume and Home/Back Buttons. Do these buttons
support Long press too?

bugsykoosh said:
is there a wa to map home/back to A/B controller buttons? Trying to get it to work with PocketNester Thanks
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If you go in PocketNester -> Option -> Controller, you can see that it's default mapped to 0xC4 and 0xC3 key codes.
So all you have to set in DredSensor is:
- Home: "Key:0xC4"
- Back: "Key:0xC3"
I tried that on super mario, it works, but the problem is that you can't press those keys and simultaneously press Left and Right so it's quite hard to play...
In fact you can map Volume Up and Down keyz to button A and B and it's much easier to play.

djfuego said:
I have the original diamond and it doesn't look like any of the key presses work.
I could really do with replacing volume and Home/Back Buttons. Do these buttons
support Long press too?
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The actual version of DredSensor doesn't change anything to volume up/down buttons.
All it catches is Home,Back,Talk and End hard keys.
About long press,
- In "Launcher" mode, you can define action for "Long click"
- In "HardKeySimul" mode, if you make a long press to "Home", and mapped "Left" key to "Home" button, it will occure a long press on "Left" key.

I just don't seem to be able to get this to work - I follow the first post to remap the home and back keys to the softkeys, but home always takes me back to touchflo.
Are there any other things I can try, or is it just the ROM i'm using doing this?

Furbious said:
I just don't seem to be able to get this to work - I follow the first post to remap the home and back keys to the softkeys, but home always takes me back to touchflo.
Are there any other things I can try, or is it just the ROM i'm using doing this?
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I don't think it's a ROM problem.
The 2 most common reasons for not working are:
It doesn't work if you have G-Scroll or something similar installed.
When you edit config for an App, this config only applies when "Window Title" and "ClassName" of the foreground window matches what is defined in that Config.
If it doesn't match any config, DredSensor doesn't catch your hard keys.
You can use wildcards in your Config so, for example, if the app you want to configure always changes its title, you can set "*" for window title.

everything gose well in my diamond! Thx!
just a little suggestion : as volume up/down could be very useful in some app (like a game emulator), could you make them configurable in your next version?
nice job!

Furbious said:
I just don't seem to be able to get this to work - I follow the first post to remap the home and back keys to the softkeys, but home always takes me back to touchflo.
Are there any other things I can try, or is it just the ROM i'm using doing this?
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I make a softreset and works whit no problem, when i click home button open the program i assign.

Doesn't seem to work in Phone screen. I am not sure if it is because it is a dialog class. If this could be made to work, it would be great as when a person has multiple phone numbers you could scroll by pressing right or left key.
Thanks in advance

just tested it with tetris and it worked great. good stuff

Dredger97 said:
I don't think it's a ROM problem.
The 2 most common reasons for not working are:
It doesn't work if you have G-Scroll or something similar installed.
When you edit config for an App, this config only applies when "Window Title" and "ClassName" of the foreground window matches what is defined in that Config.
If it doesn't match any config, DredSensor doesn't catch your hard keys.
You can use wildcards in your Config so, for example, if the app you want to configure always changes its title, you can set "*" for window title.
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I've nothing like that installed - I've tried wildcards, and soft resetting between altering them, even setting the default so that it should catch any class or window so that the home and back keys are soft keys one and two.
It's semi trapping the window and keys.......I just wonder if your app is not being fed the correct window name/class, or there's some extra characters or something that is fooling it.
Here's an example - setting home and back keys to the softkeys, with a config of * for window, and * for class.
On the touchflo screen, pressing home will take it to the phone screen (correct left softkey action), but once in the phone screen, pressing home takes it to the touchflo screen when it should go to contacts.
If I'm in any other application, it never traps the home key, and will always go back to touchflo. Disabling touchflo doesn't change this, it takes it back to the today screen.
I'm using shak's rom if anyone else can confirm they can get it to work using that one

Open Start Menu with left Softkey

Hi there,
I have a big problem with my Softkeys on the X1. By default left and right softkeys are assigned to calendar and contacts... but this does not match with my interests
By changing "left softkey" to "Start Menu" in "buttons" (or "keys", don't know exactly, because I use a german firmware), it opens the start menu... so far so good, but: It always opens the start menu. No matter what a menu says. "Close" e.g. does not close the screen, it opens the start menu
Now I'm useing a tool (called "remap softkeys") and changed the right softkey to comm manager, which works pretty well. Unfortunately I don't know, which command opens the start menu.
My target configuration opens the Comm Manager with the right softkey and the start menu with the left softkey in the homescreen. All options in all other screens which are dedicated to the left and right softkey should be kept.
I hope you can help me
Action_Heinz

Ok here's the file you need. Unzip and Map the softkey with the prog you have to Startmenu.exe. I am using this as well. The EXE is NOT made by me, unfortunately I can't find the site where I downloaded it anymore... Anyway it's freeware. Enjoy.

Thanks
Works perfectly! This is exactly what i've been looking for.
Thank you very much

You could have a look at X1BC or my X1ButtonMapper. These programs give you a lot more options regarding button remapping and they are small and for free.

Change lower buttons functions

Hello, In rhodium the lower buttons are "Phone" on the left and "Camera" on the right.
How can I change this buttons to other functions as "programs" or others?
I try with Advanced configuration tools and other utilities but when soft reset all return with original values. My rhodium have Italian rom.
Thanks

Use HD Tweaks works on mine.

Use HD Tweaks with caution.. Some of the tweaks might give issues on TP2.. For one, its a know issue that one or some of the volume tweak would disable sound on your TP2.. There after, you make calls and you can't hear the other side..

brahmanto said:
Use HD Tweaks works on mine.
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Not work. Softkey not correct change with HD Tweaks on my rhodium

I too would like the answer to this one
Anyone know how to change the keys at the bottom?
Camera kind of annoys me since I occassionally hit the damn button and am getting lovely shots of the inside of my pockets!

rossclarke said:
Anyone know how to change the keys at the bottom?
Camera kind of annoys me since I occassionally hit the damn button and am getting lovely shots of the inside of my pockets!
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hahahahahahaha that is so funny

I used soft key applet and it worked great

Use Touchflo Detacher, you can set the softkeys on the homescreen aswell as in Touchflo 3D to any application or shortcut (ink) you want.
http://www.codeplex.com/TFDetacher
At the moment I have Camera and Windows Messenger

Hard Keys
In case you didn't know already, you can also set the Send key as a shortcut as well. Just go Settings > All Settings > Personal > Buttons

ilabstudios said:
Use Touchflo Detacher, you can set the softkeys on the homescreen aswell as in Touchflo 3D to any application or shortcut (ink) you want.
http://www.codeplex.com/TFDetacher
At the moment I have Camera and Windows Messenger
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Hi Can u show a screenshot how it looks like on your TP2?

Advanced Config 3.3 works a treat on TP2, and ys it does allow you tochange the soft keys too.

Jimllfixit said:
Advanced Config 3.3 works a treat on TP2, and ys it does allow you tochange the soft keys too.
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just to add to the above, the softkeys options are in menu->more settings (or something like that)

ilabstudios said:
Use Touchflo Detacher, you can set the softkeys on the homescreen aswell as in Touchflo 3D to any application or shortcut (ink) you want.
http://www.codeplex.com/TFDetacher
At the moment I have Camera and Windows Messenger
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Thanks for that simple hint! I was wondering which one "button1" was...

Jamiewalshe said:
just to add to the above, the softkeys options are in menu->more settings (or something like that)
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thanks a lot....
too bad there is no option to remap the (right) soft key for all programs, or did i miss something?

portos03 said:
thanks a lot....
too bad there is no option to remap the (right) soft key for all programs, or did i miss something?
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You can remap both soft keys (left and right) the same way: either choose the program from your application list shown in the pull-down window, or choose the application from any location on your device by clicking [...] path search on the right side. This way you can remap both soft keys to ANY program on your device.

with a reg editor you can go for : HKLM->Software->HTC->Manila
Here it is : HomeRSKPath (Write the path of the desired app)
Below is : HomeRSKText (Write the text you want to see in home right soft key).
Hope it can help.

Is there a way to just remove the two soft buttons and have the tf3d icons on the bottom? I am running an auto lock program and the phone button is not needed as I can use the hard button.

Change the Windows Icon shortcut

Hi,
Is there any way to change the bottom left Windows Icon shortcut. Its default is the same as the middle hardkey to call the application folders. I want to change to another application.
thanks

paty said:
Hi,
Is there any way to change the bottom left Windows Icon shortcut. Its default is the same as the middle hardkey to call the application folders. I want to change to another application.
thanks
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Since you're on an EnergyROM, you have AMeBa (X-Button Settings) pre-installed.
Go to Start > Tools > X-Button Settings > there's an option there (I think it's the first page) that has things to do for the Start Button. Change that option to "Run App" and select an application you want to run when pressing that button.

It works . Thanks a lot.