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Can I make the On-Screen Keyboard larger for single hand use when dialing a contact?
Yes. Click the on screen keyboard, and then the Up arrow next to it. Select Options, and choose "Large Keys". Click OK. The Keyboard should be much larger and easier to touch with your fingers.
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But I can't do what it asks! There is no up arrow when I click anywhere on the keyboard, apart from the one at the top that allows me to scroll through contacts that match what buttons I have pressed.
Can somebody please clarify?
see this link for one hand writing message
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=291828
The up arrow is next to the keboard icon (center, very bottom) that you click on to expose the screen keyboard.
I wanted my theme to look as much as possible as point UI.
you be the judge
The buttons at the bottom are removed. In stead I have 2 buttons at the top of the screen, the left for contactlist/smscontactlist the right for the option-buttons
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Not 1 but 2 revised versions, because I like you all so much.
Basiclly they are the same, with 1 difference:
Point UI Black BBF - Has a (point UI) bar at the bottom, which is the old favorite-button
Point UI Black NBBF - Has No Bottom Bar, in stead you can use the area between the other 2 buttons (see image).
Changelog:
- Returned the filter-button (in 2 different ways)
- Adjusted the top right button, it should work better now (it's also a little bit wider)
- Adjusted the dailer, it looks better now
- Changed the contact details top-bar, it now has an extra image
Known issues:
- The dailer sometimes keeps acting annoying
- With the NBBF-version, I can't get rid of the black square when you press the filter-button. It disappears again when you see contacts...
thank you
Daanmannetje said:
I wanted my theme to look as much as possible as point UI.
you be the judge
The buttons at the bottom are removed. In stead I have 2 buttons at the top of the screen, the left for contactlist/smscontactlist the right for the option-buttons
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Is this VGA? If not could you adjust it?
I tried to do anthing with relative sizes, but I don't know if it works on VGA, I think some of the images might be out of proportion.
I don't have a VGA-device, so I can't test it...
THX for the Skin.....but I have found some bugs...
1 ...by opening and closing the application, it opens in dial modus (Is that a normal behave) here the layout between icons and text does not suit each other
2 by long pressing inside a contact i got that (second image)
How can i get the options again..?? i would like to switch back to the former skin.
Used device: HTC Cruise (Orbit 2)
Daanmannetje said:
I wanted my theme to look as much as possible as point UI.
you be the judge
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I'm guessing you'll like better alpha channel support in 0.19
tene said:
I'm guessing you'll like better alpha channel support in 0.19
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Yes I will, but it is getting harder and harder to create a working skin without bugs...
qtek_metanol said:
THX for the Skin.....but I have found some bugs...
1 ...by opening and closing the application, it opens in dial modus (Is that a normal behave) here the layout between icons and text does not suit each other
2 by long pressing inside a contact i got that (second image)
How can i get the options again..?? i would like to switch back to the former skin.
Used device: HTC Cruise (Orbit 2)
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I don't have those problems, it doesn't open with the dail modus here.
If you have serious problems and can't get to the option screen:
- close pocketCM (use the close running programs in WM5/6)
- rename another theme to point ui.zip
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I don't have those problems, it doesn't open with the dail modus here.
If you have serious problems and can't get to the option screen:
- close pocketCM (use the close running programs in WM5/6)
- rename another theme to point ui.zip
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THX for the recommendation, I've already recovery my old skin again (iPhone-ish v2.6) but anyway i must ask you something, where can the user in your skin reach the PocketCM options..??
I found the colors of your skin very lively
Normally you have 4 buttons at the bottom:
Favorite, SMS/phone, Filter, Options
Now you have 2 buttons at the top:
The phone on the left = SMS/Phone
The arrow on the right = Options
Press and hold options to see 4 extra buttons:
old contacts
options
close
minimize
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The arrow on the right = Options
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Well, this button has always closed the app...and after when I tryed to reopen the app using the key "contacts" came the dialing option as showed.
normally you had to press the options buttons shortly to get the dail and long to minimize/see options
what you properly did was press it short, which opened the dail and then a second time which minimized it.
When you pressed contacts again, you maximized pocketCM and the dail was still open...
Looks great! I'll try is as soon as possible.
Looks great. Any chance you could skin it black to go with the black PointUI?
Zyphlin said:
Looks great. Any chance you could skin it black to go with the black PointUI?
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see the first post...
Really great skin, very nice work..
I really like your work man but you have still some little improvements to do
What qtek_metanol was trying to tell you is that when you use the virtual button to minimize the app, and reopen it, you'll see PocketCM open with the dialer on ... But the reason is simple... this virtual button is the same as your option button (but smaller). In fact, the virtual button is in the right up corner (like if it was the cross) and if you want to use it, you click also on the option button which show the dialer.
I don't think that we can deactivate this virtual button so the isue is maybe to move the option button... ?? You're the creative one
Tekka33 said:
I really like your work man but you have still some little improvements to do
What qtek_metanol was trying to tell you is that when you use the virtual button to minimize the app, and reopen it, you'll see PocketCM open with the dialer on ... But the reason is simple... this virtual button is the same as your option button (but smaller). In fact, the virtual button is in the right up corner (like if it was the cross) and if you want to use it, you click also on the option button which show the dialer.
I don't think that we can deactivate this virtual button so the isue is maybe to move the option button... ?? You're the creative one
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What is the virtual button?
Is there normally a button in the upper right corner? I've tested it with the standard theme and no matter how much I pressed there, nothing happened.
The only thing I can think about is the following:
If you "click" (really short) on the upper right corner = dailpad
If you press (less then 400ms) on the right corner = minimize
If you press and hold the upper right corner = option-buttons
Those are all standard with every theme, just the location of the button changed..
I want the theme to work perfect, and it does for me... except for the dailer screen, it's a bit messed up with the green and red, but I never use it...
Ok so we don't have the same isue...
If I click (less than a nanosecond ) on the right corner : minimise + Dialer
If I press (less then 400ms) on the right corner = minimize + Dialer
If you press and hold the upper right corner = option-buttons
Maybe it's because of my Touch ??
I've tried, maybe you're partly right:
click = dailer or dailer + minimize
press = minimize
press and hold = option-buttons
so the solution for me is to press and not to click
Maybe someone can try to mess around with the timings in settings.ini? I think you can adjust the 400ms and stuff...
I am a noob and this is my first post, so go easy on me. I have a mogul phone and one of the problems i have is trying to use my finger to press icons or words that are in the corners of the screen. For instance the X button, or the start button, or the (soft Key)? buttons at the bottom of the screen. And especially the Keyboard (SIP) icon. Is there anyway to "draw in the whole screen size" so it could pull these icons away from the corners and sides. I didnt have this issue withe the iphone as their screen is flush with the edges of the device so my finger could still hit on part of the icon.
wufpakman21 said:
I am a noob and this is my first post, so go easy on me. I have a mogul phone and one of the problems i have is trying to use my finger to press icons or words that are in the corners of the screen. For instance the X button, or the start button, or the (soft Key)? buttons at the bottom of the screen. And especially the Keyboard (SIP) icon. Is there anyway to "draw in the whole screen size" so it could pull these icons away from the corners and sides. I didnt have this issue withe the iphone as their screen is flush with the edges of the device so my finger could still hit on part of the icon.
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First as a noob, don't start a thread, direct your questions to:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=398571
Second, you should look at some of the more finger-friendly approaches. Manilla 2D is a very good one. Besides most of the task you mentioned can be achieved by using a hardware button.
Welcome, one of the first thing you are gonna hear from anyone here is do a search or rtfw (read the f****** wiki)
second of all like wearefree already stated just about all the function you are trying to do can be accoplished with a hardware button (which are much more accurate)
try manilla 2d for basic function but your phone is capable of doing just about anything you want to you just need to be able ask google the right questions
I am new to the TP2 and TF3d. in Contacts there is no soft keyboard to pop and I want to be able to use this one handed.
I have seen screen shots where there is a soft keyboard but have never found a way to do this.
Anyone know?
Tap the search icon on the top right. A text field should appear. Now you can display the soft keyboard by tapping the icon in the bottom center of your screen.
If you're in the default winmo contact app, it's similar. You have to tap the search bar on top before you can deploy the soft keyboard.
So simple and yet i missed it. WOW - thanks a lot!
Guys,
does anybody know if and how can I make my dialer not dial the person when I single tap on the row but only highlight it and then use either the hardware dial button or the big green "talk" button ... or double tapping the highlighted row?
I find it very annoying when I tap an adjacent row by mistake and have to search again. This happens pretty often when I drive and have my HD2 on a stand but it also happens from time to time when hold the phone in one hand I try to select/dial the topmost row in the result list.
The last part brings another question - is there a way to add two arrow buttons at the bottom of the dialer which will go trough up/down through the list? These will be very helpful in such "car" situations and also in the case where the search criteria results in large list (more than 3-4 items) which requires a scroll (flip scroll) and/or hiding the dialing pad to see the full list. Currently I've mapped the Vol Up/Down keys for up/down directions with AEButtons but it's not very convenient / comfortable.
I'll try to make some kind of screen shot to show what exactly I mean but I believe you get the point.
Here are the screen shots - the original and the modified (using paint)
It would be great if somebody can make such a dialer ... or explain what I need to make it myself. (the arrow buttons should stay visible when one hides the dialer ... or when the user presses them to start moving the "focused" contact just as if hardware arrows are pressed).
pankov said:
Here are the screen shots - the original and the modified (using paint)
It would be great if somebody can make such a dialer ... or explain what I need to make it myself. (the arrow buttons should stay visible when one hides the dialer ... or when the user presses them to start moving the "focused" contact just as if hardware arrows are pressed).
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I'm not sure but I don't think I can do it. I'm not to good at editing those resource dll files.
Someone like RyanMogul6800, or Fards, would know about this. Maybe senf one of them a PM.