Has anyone had any success reading the MSDN Library from the G1? I've found it near impossible. Seems like the browser simply locks onto the topic menu and won't zoom into any other part of the site. Nothing but the topic menu will scroll.
IIRC the browser doesn't properly show iframes (or that div that acts like an iframe, can't remember what it's called >.<). It shows it, but you can't scroll at all.
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hey folks,
i've come accross a pretty annoying bug i think. when i open a wap webpage with pocket ie i cant jump from link to link with the dpad or the scroll wheel. it just scrolls down the webpage. this means i always have to pull out the pen when i surf on wap pages which is kind of annoying. on regular html pages i dont have any problems selecting links via the dpad or the scroll wheel.
oh, and before the hermes i had an mda2 running wm05 and it also worked perfect there.
am i the only one with this problem? are there any sollutions?
i tried searching the forum but couldnt find anything.
greets
4saken
am I really the only one with this problem? or is everyone having this problem and there ist just no solution?
Yeah, it's something I've noticed too. Really odd. Opera Mobile handles links in WAP pages fine though, you can scroll through links with the scroll wheel and d-pad just like web pages with it.
_4saken_ said:
am I really the only one with this problem? or is everyone having this problem and there ist just no solution?
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I just tried mine. Cant remember last time I was at a Wap site.
Anyway I had no problems both Scroll and DPad scrolled down each and every link.
I don't suppose you have changed any settings in the likes of Tweaks2k2 to do with smooth scrolling. (Although even if you had I would have thought it would change regular sites also)
Mike
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I just tried mine. Cant remember last time I was at a Wap site.
Anyway I had no problems both Scroll and DPad scrolled down each and every link.
I don't suppose you have changed any settings in the likes of Tweaks2k2 to do with smooth scrolling. (Although even if you had I would have thought it would change regular sites also)
Mike
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The BBC Mobile (PDA) page has some links to WAP pages (the Video Headlines is currently only available inside the UK, but it's nothing you can't already watch online via Ben Metcalfe's BBC News AV Flattener site (a VERY cool work in progress). However, you can load some of the other WAP links, I use it to test connectivity if I'm in a situation where I need to... URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/pda/
Ben Metcalfe's site: http://bbcnews.benmetcalfe.com/ (there's no pretty interface yet, you just load the html files up inside the directory listing, they're regenerated every so often automatically by PHP script and cronjob).
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The BBC Mobile (PDA) page has some links to WAP pages (the Video Headlines is currently only available inside the UK, but it's nothing you can't already watch online via Ben Metcalfe's BBC News AV Flattener site (a VERY cool work in progress). However, you can load some of the other WAP links, I use it to test connectivity if I'm in a situation where I need to... URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/pda/
Ben Metcalfe's site: http://bbcnews.benmetcalfe.com/ (there's no pretty interface yet, you just load the html files up inside the directory listing, they're regenerated every so often automatically by PHP script and cronjob).
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Yeah, I'll have a look at these - not bothered about pretty interface particularly as I often use GPRS with no special tariff (reeeeely expensive) but I don't seem to have the problem of not being able to scroll to the links so it appears either I or you and 4saken have changed.
I didnt change anything in the registry. I had this problem both with the original german rom from o2 and now with the newest english htc rom.
The ability to scroll through links on a page is limited to web pages only, Pocket IE's ability to scroll WSP:// protocol pages is, by default, restricted to only scrolling up and down the page.
To be honest, I'll just bop a link with my finger if I want to load it, it's not that hard and I prefer smooth scrolling up and down a page anyway (I read a lot of long articles on sites such as The Register and the browser screen constantly diving from left to right, jumping down huge amounts to the next link really bugs me). You must have some kind of addon or third-party application which reintroduces the ability to scroll through links in wap pages, because by default that's not possible.
This seems like a question that must have been asked and answered many times before, but I'm apparently to dumb to find it by searching the archives. I'm hoping someone will have mercy on my ignorant self, and tell me the answer.
Here's what I'd like to do. I use a website, Sigalert, to check traffic before I leave the house to go to work. That way I know which route will get me to work quickest. (Not that I'm anxious to arrive at work, but they do complain so loudly when I'm late). I'd like to create a shortcut to the web page so I can put an icon on the today page (I use Resco Explorer, which allows me to put shortcuts to programs etc on the today screen). Anyway, if I could create a shortcut to the web page, I could do this, or assign the shortcut to a button, or whatever. If I only knew how to create a shortcut to a webpage, which I don't, so please help. I'm using Opera if that makes a difference. Thanks for your help!
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This seems like a question that must have been asked and answered many times before, but I'm apparently to dumb to find it by searching the archives. I'm hoping someone will have mercy on my ignorant self, and tell me the answer.
Here's what I'd like to do. I use a website, Sigalert, to check traffic before I leave the house to go to work. That way I know which route will get me to work quickest. (Not that I'm anxious to arrive at work, but they do complain so loudly when I'm late). I'd like to create a shortcut to the web page so I can put an icon on the today page (I use Resco Explorer, which allows me to put shortcuts to programs etc on the today screen). Anyway, if I could create a shortcut to the web page, I could do this, or assign the shortcut to a button, or whatever. If I only knew how to create a shortcut to a webpage, which I don't, so please help. I'm using Opera if that makes a difference. Thanks for your help!
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I'd have to think out a process for doing that, perhaps later. Meantime, just a quick thought why not set it as your PIE homepage.
Another thing I do is to create a word page with lists of weblinks including streaming TV and radio stations. If I open the page I can tap on the link I want and it auto opens PIE and loads the page. You might ask why not just put these web links in PIE favourites - answer, it takes a while for PIE to load and then you have extra taps to get to favourites etc etc. Also it's a lot clearer on the word document and you can also type a little description beside each one.
Mike
Hi,
Thanks for the tip. I just tried creating a word doc with my most used websites. Works well. I've put the word doc on the Today screen in the Resco area with a large icon. I can poke it with my fat thumb and launch the document. I used 12 point & double spacing in the word doc, and I can poke the links with my fat thumb as well. It works better than my previous solution, which was creating a contact for the website, starting the name with a symbol so it showed up at the top of the contact list, I'd poke at on contacts from the Today screen, then on the contact, then again on the website. Unfortunately this opened the page with PIE instead of Opera. Your solution is a lot easier to open with thumbs, and allows me to use my preferred browser, but it does leave a bit of cleanup to do. Once the browser is closed, the Word doc must be closed, then the Word Mobile "open file" screen must be closed, then it seems "Search" continues to run in the background. None the less, your solution is better that what I had been doing, so I'll use it. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Ah Ha! I think I have the solution... at least for Resco users, although for all I know, Resco may not be necessary. Here's how I was able to make a shortcut to a URL to put on the Today screen, use with voice dialing, etc..
First I made a Word file with one line: the URL I wanted to make a shortcut to.
After saving it as a word doc, I highlighted it in Resco file explorer, then right clicked (push and hold w/stylus), selected "rename" and changed the extension to .lnk
Then I right clicked the renamed file and chose properties, then selected the shortcut tab. The target was a bunch of gobblygook, so replaced the gobblygook with the URL I wanted the shortcut to point to and clicked OK.
Success! Now the file is a shortcut. When I click on it, it goes to the website I selected as the target. It can be accessed with voice dialing: start/settings/voice dialing/ application tab/ then choose the shortcut from the list. Or you can assign it to a button. Or you can put it on the Today screen using Resco.
It may be that all the steps are not necessary, it's just how it ended up working for me.
Pocket Wikipedia, hand-checked selection from Wikipedia which is about the size of a fifteen volume encyclopaedia (24,000 images and 14 million words).
It includes the best of Wikipedia as well as many thousands of pages of extra material specifically selected to be of interest to children who follow the UK National Curriculum and similar curricula elsewhere in the world. The articles have been cleaned up and checked for suitability for children.
Works on PocketPC, Windows and Linux
Download from http://www.free-soft.ro
Fails on HTC Touch HD with Opera
On my HD, any menu item in Pocket Wikipedia launches the link in Opera, which is unable to process any further clicked links.
It seems PW launches the default browser, where it should really stick to embedding an IE control. Any PW links should trigger a decompression of the topic from the huge file, which doesn't happen with Opera.
Does anyone know of a workaround?
Same problem here. It starts Opera Mobile instead of IE.
I tried making Opera Mobile the NON-default browser (by unchecking the "set default browser" box in the setting menu). PW was able to launch IE but IE just got stuck with the screen helplessly blinking. No Wiki text! No messages whatsoever! Had to shut down IE manually.
Wonder if Anyone could get PW working.
There is big problems with special chars like é, à, î, etc...
I shifted to WikiPock, far better despite a little cost.. Works like a charm
I am currently writing an application for my WM6.1 device (HTC TouchHD), and wondered if anyone had come across a site, or if someone could point me in the right direction for finding a nice way of writing 'finger friendly' applications. By finger friendly, i mean being able to scroll with my fingers and so on. Or if there are any open source applications that I can use as a reference?
I don't particularly want to say what application I'm writing just in case it falls to pieces, but rest assured once it's written it will be put up on here!
Thanks,
evorgevol
I have just found this page which does me for scrolling parts of my application. The main thing I'm having issues with is that I want the main menu interface to resemble windows 7 media center, see here for a video of what effect I'm trying to achieve.
I know it's quite complicated, and I'm not the best programmer in the world, but hopefully I should be able to do it??
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks,
evorgevol
If I understand, you're trying to create an UI with a scrolling list useable with fingers.
Each item in the list, once selected, let appears different choices about this item (IE : a "Appointment" item in the list, when you select it, you have the next appointment displayed....). It that right ?
Doesn't it look like the new WM6.5 today plugin ? If that's you're idea, I'm 100% on your side to develop a today plugin looking like these menus (WM6.5 / WM7 MC) !
(In fact, I'm already searching if somebody could develop something like this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3375478)
The one I'm doing is not necessarily for a today page, more for my own application, tho it should be able to be easily used in any other application once the code has been written. I just need a push in the right direction for me to be able to write the code in the first place. I'm also deliberating what format to write my application in, and which ones are available. I will only be supporting from WM6 onwards, tho it could potentially be backwards compatible with 5. Ideal would be silverlight being able to be used, but unfortunately that hasnt been released for mobile yet (it would mean that my application should run on any platform that supports Silverlight).
Try iContact. I suppose the code is open. Also try PockeTwit from google code. Install these apps and if that is the effect you want to achieve, I suggest you grab the code and understand it (that's what I would do if I was in your position)
Hi Everyone -
One of the best things about the Android platform is the wide availability of QR Coding applications - such as zxing and ixmat.
We've released a Firefox plugin (at http://tandot.co.uk/scandot ) which embeds QR codes on the page are you're browsing, as well as embedding them in pages that are printed out. We think we've closed the QR loop with this - you can scan the page you're browsing on your phone and take that page elsewhere much easier than by messing around with email, retyping, bookmarking.
Would be interested to hear from anyone using it!
Regards
Dave / TANDOT
One function that Mobile Barcoder can perform that SCANDOT can't is to create a QR of a link from the right click context menu. That can be pretty handy to create a QR of a download link. Also it seems a bit buggy as well. Sometimes I click the generator button and no QR pops up. Another little cosmetic flaw is if you change the QR size and then close and reopen the dialog, it remembers the size but forgets the slider position.
On the plus side, occasionally Mobile Barcoder will trip up on a URL and not generate a QR. I haven't seen SCANDOT do this yet.
Thanks for the links, very useful!