Database Users

Items on the Today Screen size

Can I make the size of the items on the today screen (i.e. messages, device lock) any bigger? I use my Wizzard as my phone and don't use the stylus for texts and calls, and I've got big fat thumbs
Any help would be much appreciated!

you can't change the defaults one. you may try your luck on using larger fonts, but most Today stuff don't respond to fonts settings.
Anyway, for thumb usage, you can try using cLaunch (available in this forum, with tutorials) to launch applications. The max size is around 32x32, good enough for most people. However, it is an app launcher, hence you may still need those plugins for display purposes. It doesn't come with a lock function, but there are fellow members whom had it launch some of the lockers developed here.

thanks for that. I get the general idea of what you suggest, but I'm new to PPCs. I'll get reading!!

You can also try mapping your most used applications to your hardkeys by going to settings --> personal --> buttons.
Text messaging already has it own, and you can search the wizard forum for an applicatin called DeviceLock which allows you to assign locking your device to a hardware button.
For the dialer, you may want to look at ETen Dialer's Smart Dial --> it makes the buttons on the phone app a lot bigger so thumbs can be used. You can do a google search and it should come up quite easily.
Hope that helps!

or you can try to find a different theme that has larger text and icons.

I too, have big thumbs and find it frustrating to try to tap tiny icons.
My solution is to use plugins that can be scrolled and selected using the Dpad this also keeps the screen free of fingerprints.
My current favourites for one thumb operation are
Smartskey for press&hold softkeys for startmenu and close programs.
TodayAgenda v0.9.50 for tasks, appointments and clock/alarm settings.
PHM Traylaunch and Batterystatus for specific shortcuts in the tray.

Skybox 1.0 (Mobile Shell Alternative)

This program looks to have a lot of potential. With some customization this could be as nice as Mobile Shell....or so it seems....
http://www.teksoftco.com/index.php?section=skybox

Interesting,
Trying it now.
EDIT: tried it 3 mins - uninstalled immediately.. Too slow on my HTC Trinity..
The problem is that i can't delete it completely I hate when these things happen.

My initial thoughts....
TaskBar Replacement: Completely covers your existing start menu bar. You can only access your start menu with a hardware key, there is no way to know what tasks your are running. There is nothing to customise. You can access at all times.
Today Plugin: You can scroll with your finger or click on icon to activate scrolling. It is ok, you can today plugins and add shortcuts but that is it. You can only display icons and no text which sucks. There are no accessible options.
Menu Screen: Similar to Mobile shell but very slow. Scrolling left to right works but it not smooth and sometimes you start programs cause it bogs on my Titan.
Home Screen: Not too bad i guess, the graphics are not great but maybe customizible with regedits or file replacements. You can customize which program each icon to open certain programs.
I give this a 5 with mobile shell as a 8. I think it has potential but there is very little options and the animations are slow. I like that the taskbar menu and bottom bar are is accessible at all times (wish mobile shell did this) but could be a lot better. I think if I tried real hard I could make Wisbar Advance 2.0 work just like this program.

[IDEA] Is it possible to add this to TF3D?

I have a lots of programs installed. However when I go into All programs menu in TF3D it is somewhat annoying to flick through all of them.
Is it possible to add that Alphabet strip that you can find in contacts or in Weather-Countries menu. It would ease things extremely. They added it in Weather-Countries after software update, so I guess it is possible.
Dr Twin

Very nice idea...

Excellent idea - although I still resort to the old wm start->programs if I don't have an app on my quick list

flykthewiz said:
Excellent idea - although I still resort to the old wm start->programs if I don't have an app on my quick list
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Well, I do too. But I would like TF3D to be able to display all programs that are as quickly accessible as possible. It seems that Alphabet strip (or ribbon - I do not know the proper term) is elegant solution.

Hard to imagine why it isn't there by default.

Not only that, I can consistenly crash my diamond if i scroll the TF3D "all programs" list too fast 3 times in a row... (using the official 1.93 firmware)

I believe that it is all about layout and that it can be edited and added to All programs menu

good idea would be a search field where you can type in like in e.g. ubuntu
where -while typing- the fitting startmenu entries are suggested...
if nothing is typed in: whole startmenu (all programms) should be shown

Which shell do you use on your HD? TF3D, Mobile Shell ...?

Hey folks,
I am still playing around with my new baby and am loving it ;-)
I have been using SPB Mobile Shell for months on my Polaris and like it very much, though TF3D looks nice for sure, but I am simply not used to it yet.
Anyway, which are the best and easy to use tools for customizing (change tab order etc.) on your HDs? I already got myself Weather Database Editor for adding my city to the accu weather database and it worked just fine.
A thing that I am missing right now, is a kinda finger friendly "Settings" tab like there is one in Mobile shell, that makes accessing every setting quiet easy with your fingers.
Any suggestions?
boba

Sadly, Spb Mobile Shell does not work properly on the HD. Dropdown menus do not function, so it cannot be set up to your personal liking. Spb say that they will look into it at some time in the future.
The basic functions of the shell will work, and you can switch to it by installing SecondToday.

nikki-m said:
Dropdown menus do not function, so it cannot be set up to your personal liking.
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'tis true the drop-down menus don't drop down ... but if you're prepared to fiddle you can get the drop-down to scroll to your preferred setting. Click in the drop-down menu to highlight the first choice and then use the up-arrow and down-arrow cursor keys on the soft keyboard to scroll through the options that would normally drop down. When your preferred option appears, tap Enter on the keyboard. I've used this to set up Spb Mobile Shell 2 on the Touch HD. Still, it's worth learning TF3D.

Am I crazy in thinking TouchFlo looks much better than SPB MS ?
because I do !!!

Drop down menu's

Hi All,
today i installed SPB Pocket Plus, a great app, but when i want to customize it, i experienced a problem, i could not view items in a drop down menu, it just shows 1 item and could not select another.
For example; when i want to change the Tab header position, it give me a dropdown menu, default is 'On Top', but i could not select another
could i change the settings for a dropdown menu in the registry, of is there somewhere a fix for it?
Using a Deepshining ROM with WM 6.5.
Thanks in advance!

i had the exact same problem which look like to be a rom issue but you can use the down arrow on the d-pad,it'll get u to the next option

when i press on the Down button on the d-pad. nothing happens.
There must be a registry tweak to modify the length of the dropdown menu.
looks like the SPB software modified is, because when i remove it, i could change 'button behaviour' . after installing SPbs software i couldn't.
when typing a character when the dropdown menu is selected it will change it., so defenately the length of the menu is not set correctly.

it used to work for me but all of theat was gone when i updated my rom,ofcourse i don't suggest that u do that for such a minor issue

it used to work for me but all of that was gone when i updated my rom,ofcourse i don't suggest that u do that for such a minor issue,sorry posted twice.