is there a way to make point UI like the default of everything. When i press the red button on my touch, it goes backto WM desktop. IF i want to use this as a normal "skin" then it needs to go back to the homescreen when presing the red button, and only going back to normal WM desktop when i manually do it???... Also how do you stop programs w/in pointui home. it just says currently running, and how do you stop those progs?
Perhaps you should ask this on the PointUI forums?
ambush276 said:
is there a way to make point UI like the default of everything. When i press the red button on my touch, it goes backto WM desktop. IF i want to use this as a normal "skin" then it needs to go back to the homescreen when presing the red button, and only going back to normal WM desktop when i manually do it???... Also how do you stop programs w/in pointui home. it just says currently running, and how do you stop those progs?
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Use third party X-Button,Task Manager or Resco to close program when you back to WM desktop. You can close programs with 1.01b but still quite a bit steps. It does not fall back to Home screen is still no get around yet. Same if you lock the device but if you press the power button, it will unlock. This UI has not worked all bugs out yet.
ambush276 said:
is there a way to make point UI like the default of everything. When i press the red button on my touch, it goes backto WM desktop. IF i want to use this as a normal "skin" then it needs to go back to the homescreen when presing the red button, and only going back to normal WM desktop when i manually do it???... Also how do you stop programs w/in pointui home. it just says currently running, and how do you stop those progs?
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Tap on the arrow on the lower screen of PointUI Home
-> Currently Running
-> Select your desired application
-> The program opens with the PointUI titlebar
-> Tap on the name of the application
-> Force Close
Then youre on your Desktop again. Tap on the title "Desktop" and select "Home" again.
Yes, quite a lot steps, but I'm already used to it
Greetings and have a nice day
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I have searced but to no avile.
I do use magic button, but I want to be able to close an app without taping the top right corner of the screen, with the ok button.
am I doing something wrong?
also is the best way to null the active sync from auto starting still making a fake server exchange?
Keep stylus on the ok button for a couple of secs, then an icon like a house should appear on your taskbar. Press this for a short while and a menu sholuld appear where you can change the settings to close programs instead of minimize.
or can use smclose which is simpler - just place in windows startup folder voila!
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA032810/
Can I program a key so it will rotate between my running programs, like windows the ALT+TAB functionality?
Thanx!
jjplayground said:
Can I program a key so it will rotate between my running programs, like windows the ALT+TAB functionality?
Thanx!
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VJ's app "vjOkButt" can do just that. Search the forum for it.
Xbar 3.2 is a really great program too:
http://xetranet.free.fr/xbar2/?lang=eng&project=xBar 2
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Thanks a lot, I will try that!
Thanx
Thanks a lot, I will try that!
Cycling back and forward - not just minimising...
I currently use Magic Button, which changes the top title bar window into a virtual taskbar with icons for the first n active applications, n being customisable. It's not an ALT+TAB program, however, although I find it very useful.
I had a look at vjOkButt, and it seems to just switch by minimising applications - presumably (without having tried the application), after all applications are minimised, you end up on the Today screen. What happens then?
What would be good, (for the Blue Angel, and any other phone with an up/down hardware button originally designed for volume) would be to be able to customise the up/down volume button to cycle back and forward through applications respectively. This would be similar to pressing ALT+TAB to go from Application1 to Application2, and then ALT+TAB to go back again. Otherwise, it would be necessary to do a full cycle before going back again. (Technically speaking, if just cycling through applications, without the window with all applications appearing, as the xBar product seems to do, this would operate just like pressing ALT+ESC and ALT+SHIFT+ESC to go back again... try it!)
hey i have a herald wing mobile 6 and i use agile messenger it has a x in the top right corner, that is the only program i want to always run. is there a way to change it to a ok button so it minimizes? without changing the x button feature. almost like some program that allows you to always keep open a program you pick? thanks
You can use Start->Today function to keep it running on background. Put a shortcut in Start menu for the program you want to switch again and again.
Ok button means it will accept the changes anyhow if you will change it by mistake even you have to live with it. The X button means it can be closed but you have to use X-Button utility to enable the closing feature.
dont you get the little htc task manager then? that does exactlly what you want, tap x to minimise, tap and hold to close, it works very well
Is there a way to change the behavior of the Start Menu Button? Basically i'd rather have it simply show the today screen rather than the actual menu. Alternatively i'd even prefer that it ignore the press and not show the menu. With many of us already having application launchers on the today screen, the start menu is redundant.
I apologize in advance if this is inappropriate for this forum.
To avoid not being able to access the start menu at all, you could enable it with a long key press of the start menu button.
Tap = return to Today Screen
Hold = show Start Menu
This would seem like a nice thing to have. Is such a thing possible? Perhaps with Mortscript?
What PDA do you have?
If you have a PDA/phone you just do a single press of the "hang up" button?
WM itself doesn't allow to change the start menu action. However, it's possible to put another app on top, like WisBar Advance, SKMenu, and similar tools do. But I don't know of any free and lightwight app which only replaces the start menu button.
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With many of us already having application launchers on the today screen, the start menu is redundant.
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I agree! Have searched this for a long time, but it seems it can't be done.
I would love if Visual Task Manager started when i press the windows icon.
Please return if you find a application to replace the start menu button. Thanks, i offer a kiss in payment
This program will do it. http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-gspocketmagic-v1-32-19.html
Just that the icon becomes so ugly but i think it's worth it
just want to know if there is a solution to map the home button to close all the running programs and return to initial home page (with big clock appears) from wherever we are
thanks
...why would you want that...?
if we had this button, we could quickly return to the normal standby state without multiple presses...
it is intuitive when we mess up something on the phone...
put it in another way, it is just like an iPhone intuitive home button....
Install a taskmanager that has the "close all" option.
The home button works perfectly well as it is now, brings you back to homescreen so that you can quickly check something or launch another app from the quicklinks without closing what you were doing... the advantage of multitasking.
hollandking said:
if we had this button, we could quickly return to the normal standby state without multiple presses...
it is intuitive when we mess up something on the phone...
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What do you mean "normal standby state"? Just...
...put the phone into standby.
*GASP*
And when you "mess up something on the phone", you're probably going to be soft resetting it.
hollandking said:
put it in another way, it is just like an iPhone intuitive home button....
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I don't think you people who parade the supposed virtues of the iPhone actually understand what "intuitive" means.
A "Home" button taking you to the home screen...that's "intuitive".
A "Home" button taking you to the home screen and closing all your apps...how's that "intuitive"?
That's the equivalent of saying that you think WIN+D in Windows should close all the open programs in addition to showing the desktop.
The home button takes you back to the home screen...
It doesn't close apps; it just brings manila home tab to the front.
It sounds like yours doesn't?
iPhone closes apps with the home button because it does not have multitask. HD2 has multi-task so there's no reason to close apps with the home button...
Anyway, the phone is yours so you can do whatever you want to do with it. AFAIK there's no way to do what you want, but you can install a task manager if you want to close multiple apps at one time...
Thanks for all replies....
I know the "home" button should take me back to home screen...
Actually, I mapped "home" button with AEButton...
1 click: Home Screen
2 clicks: Home Screen + close all apps
They work fine but with one minor step to be perfect...
It can not return to the "very beginning" BIG Clock home screen, it
just returns to the previous state of today, if I wiped up the screen before I have to wipe down to bring back the clock...
I want this because many main functions are within "Big Clock" screen,
e.g. calendar(I mapped to PI), alarm, Clock (tap clock = Opera),
Date(tap date = SPB wireless monitor), weather....
Sorry for misleading u all because my bad English...
hollandking said:
It can not return to the "very beginning" BIG Clock home screen, it
just returns to the previous state of today, if I wiped up the screen before I have to wipe down to bring back the clock...
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That is the way Manila/Sense works, it is so you can dip in and out of different programs while not losing your place in the quicklinks.
hollandking said:
Thanks for all replies....
I know the "home" button should take me back to home screen...
Actually, I mapped "home" button with AEButton...
1 click: Home Screen
2 clicks: Home Screen + close all apps
They work fine but with one minor step to be perfect...
It can not return to the "very beginning" BIG Clock home screen, it
just returns to the previous state of today, if I wiped up the screen before I have to wipe down to bring back the clock...
I want this because many main functions are within "Big Clock" screen,
e.g. calendar(I mapped to PI), alarm, Clock (tap clock = Opera),
Date(tap date = SPB wireless monitor), weather....
Sorry for misleading u all because my bad English...
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hi, i use a 6.5.x rom and use the '<-' back button. pressing it once closes down my actual foreground application and puts me to the last selected manila tab. pressing it again jumps to the first 'bigclock' manila tab.
or if it is not working out that way in your rom, at least the combination home button->back button should bring you to first manila screen anyhow.
mad
ps. strange, while playing around to proof my words, i find out that my home button brings me back to the first manila screen anyway... maybe something didnt work out with your aebutton ore your rom/wm version?
rp-x1 said:
That is the way Manila/Sense works, it is so you can dip in and out of different programs while not losing your place in the quicklinks.
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This is not how Manila works. I had the same problem. once you click the home button, it goes to home tab. But that was before i was playing with the phone. Now, when i click home button..it goes on the home sreen, but on the last tab i was..i.e. messages, not at the beginning (home icon). I dont know what happened..and im trying to figure it out. It has nothing to do with the rom. I`m using Energy Rom on my HD2. something got messed with the manila settings..because it worked before.