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Left hand scroll bar in IE?!

Does anyone know if there's a setting to change the scroll bar from right to left in IE? I looked around but no joy. Thanks lads.

Other than using the unit upside down, I dont think this is possible! I am assuming that you are left handed ?
Nigel

It would be a nice option, not just for Universal, but for Win Mobile in general. I am left-handed, and the vertical scrolling is a PITA. I can not see where I am scrollling to because my left hand is covering the screen, and sometimes even accidentally touching it & activating links.

Same problem here Bill. Anyway, maybe someday Microsoft will make something for us the left handed ones. And thanks for the great tip veletron. lol (I can actually do more or less the same things with both hands but fot this I rather use the left.)

Couldn't you use the scroll buttons instead?
I'm working on something that could be hacked into assisting this, but it'd be a bit of a cludge.
If there's a need shout out and I'll see if I can get around to it.
V

I' m a lefty too, and would appreciate any help in the downfall of leftism

vijay555 said:
Couldn't you use the scroll buttons instead?
I'm working on something that could be hacked into assisting this, but it'd be a bit of a cludge.
If there's a need shout out and I'll see if I can get around to it.
V
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I have tried using the scroll buttons, but they don't really scroll, rather they jump from link to link (in PIE) which resulsts in very jerky screen movements, and that is not very useful for me.
Then I tried a registry hack mentioned on another forum to make the button do real screen scrolling, but when I tried to use it, the device froze, and sent me to Hard Reset H*ll.
Ideal for me would be in PIE would be scroll bars on the left and buttons that really scrolled. Actually scroll bars on the left would be nice in every application.
It is not a necesity for me, but the bar on the right is an inconvenience --mainly in PIE.

Lefty here as well dude. Would be great to have a less discriminatory device :lol:

The worst thing is, that when you use the scroll bar with your left hand, you can't really see when to stop since your hand is covering most of the screen.
All leftys out there unite !!!

Grogo said:
The worst thing is, that when you use the scroll bar with your left hand, you can't really see when to stop since your hand is covering most of the screen.
All leftys out there unite !!!
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nuther lefty beggin' for help...

Vertical TF3d

I dont know if anyone has tried or thought about it.....But what if the TF3d scroll bar went Vertical on the side of the screen? Almost like widgets on Samsung Omnia, but tf3d, since it looks and works a lot better. Anyone else think this would be cool.....B/c u could also see more tabs at once if it went Vertical

that would be cool never thought of that! I don't have capabilities to do that but i bet someone does. I also think though i would might have to be seperate app not tf3d because its so different, but you never know

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I dont know if anyone has tried or thought about it.....But what if the TF3d scroll bar went Vertical on the side of the screen? Almost like widgets on Samsung Omnia, but tf3d, since it looks and works a lot better. Anyone else think this would be cool.....B/c u could also see more tabs at once if it went Vertical
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This is an excellent idea!

I must say thats a killer idea!

I just wanted to show that it is possible...
Don't have time to do it proper right now...
Maybe I have some time to play with it tonight..
But if the vertical menu should be on the right side,
I have to move all buttons in tab's that are placed on the right side of the screen...
(mail, camera, music, People...)
I think It will be easier to make the menu on the left side...?
This menu is working!

yeah dudes, that will be veeery cool!

NisseDILLIGAF said:
I just wanted to show that it is possible...
Don't have time to do it proper right now...
Maybe I have some time to play with it tonight..
But if the vertical menu should be on the right side,
I have to move all buttons in tab's that are placed on the right side of the screen...
(mail, camera, music, People...)
I think It will be easier to make the menu on the left side...?
This menu is working!
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NisseDILLIGAF as usual you find da way to tweak Manila as you please WOOOWW you rule dude.
Greets.

Great Idea

Great idea!

how far is this idea? i'd like to see this on the left side of my diamond

Screen slide lock issue

My original screen lock has gone all of a sudden. Theres no lock icon that i can slide. Instead my phone just says ' to unlock the device tap unlock' .
Bit weird. Id like the original slider back if possible. Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance.

press the windows button on the left side of the taskbar
then go down and press lock
it starts working again...its a common bug of the newer roms.

Suddenly my lock slider disappered too. Pressing the windows button and choose lock makes it work once but when I've unlocked it with the slider and set the phone to standby it won't appear again. Help... Very annoying.

Installing the HeartofWolf lock screen might fix it.. I never had this problem but it basically moves the lock slider to the bottom of the screen. Might also keep it up always and rule out this bug in sense..

Nit3m4re said:
Installing the HeartofWolf lock screen might fix it.. I never had this problem but it basically moves the lock slider to the bottom of the screen. Might also keep it up always and rule out this bug in sense..
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It did move the slider to the bottom (Which was nice) but it did not solve my problem that the slider won't show up when I wake up the device :-(

Which is the exact cab that i need the slide bar down? I saw a list of HeartOfWolf cabs and didn't want to experiment one after the other to make sure it worked with Sense & HD2... Cheers...

tsttse said:
Which is the exact cab that i need the slide bar down? I saw a list of HeartOfWolf cabs and didn't want to experiment one after the other to make sure it worked with Sense & HD2... Cheers...
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The one I tried was HeartofWolf Lockscreen fix v4 transparent.cab

possible to move the small, "x" and "ok" button?

I'm using a gel skin, I find it difficult to press the small x and ok buttons on the top right of the phone without having to peel the skin back just a little to use the buttons. Is it possible to move them to the center or even a little to the left where they are more accessible with one hand instead of using two?
Thanks

teddyofseattle said:
I'm using a gel skin, I find it difficult to press the small x and ok buttons on the top right of the phone without having to peel the skin back just a little to use the buttons. Is it possible to move them to the center or even a little to the left where they are more accessible with one hand instead of using two?
Thanks
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Cant be done. Try 6.5.x roms for more finger-friendly

I totally agree that the X is not accessible with a gel skin. Is there a cab that would allow this? Would someone please make a cab app for this? Thank you!

Thanks for the responwell that kinda blows. I will look into other roms and see what they can do.
much appreciated

Why not use the back hardware key (the arrow) at the bottom of the screen? It has the exact same effect...

MAMeingast said:
Why not use the back hardware key (the arrow) at the bottom of the screen? It has the exact same effect...
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You are correct. Thanks!

I don't know how to look for this on here..HTC sense quicklinks?

After installing the update from TMO, The little bar that flips between mail, home, internet, images, music, etc. "shrinks" into a little black tab in the middle of my screen at the bottom.
This is super super annoying because it takes an extra effort to click on the damn thing and then slide my finger to scroll. This also requires a second tap on the screen when i go to browser because the first one simply 'collapses' the little thing and the second one will actually respond to the internet icon you're tapping on.
Tell me there's a way to turn off the collapse of this stupid thing. I tried looking on here but I don't know what keywords to use to search this out. Something like 'htc sense update hd2 registry change' yields nothing.
TIA

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After installing the update from TMO, The little bar that flips between mail, home, internet, images, music, etc. "shrinks" into a little black tab in the middle of my screen at the bottom.
This is super super annoying because it takes an extra effort to click on the damn thing and then slide my finger to scroll. This also requires a second tap on the screen when i go to browser because the first one simply 'collapses' the little thing and the second one will actually respond to the internet icon you're tapping on.
Tell me there's a way to turn off the collapse of this stupid thing. I tried looking on here but I don't know what keywords to use to search this out. Something like 'htc sense update hd2 registry change' yields nothing.
TIA
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It sounds to me like you have cookies home tab enabled?! That is strange are you sure you didn't flash to a custom rom?! I have that one my phone and I have the update but the only way I was able to get that was with CHT. I have attached examples.

Yep! I do have cookies home tab installed! Dang..so is the setting in that to change it? :bangs head:
I'll take a look.
WTHAT A MORON. Thats its. The 'retractable slider' setting. I can't believe I didn't realize that was cookie and not HTC.
Thanks a million for pushing me in the right direction.

Awesome! Glad I could help! I had that enable for a while but it became a little annoying so I took it off! Hahahaha it does make it look really cool!

Hey, thanks for the info. I'm glad I learned about that.
I also have Cookies, and didn't know about that.
Now I have just enabled that feature. Why? I don't find that "ribbon" at the bottom very useful, as it is not very customizable. Nice to have the settings button there at the right, but one can also do that with a Quick Link. I like the music app, but one can also do a quick link for that. Withouth that ribbon, there is room for another row of quick links. (I find it unfortunate that that "ribbon" is so uncustomizable. You cannot choose what is in it, but only what to remove (other than settings and home). (I don't really need that home icon either, because there is a hardware button for home.) I don't like how that "People" tab goes to "HTC People". I'd rather go straight to the regular contacts list. But it can't be changed (AFAIK), only removed.
So by retracting it, I remove the whole thing (can slide it back if I want), but can put the links I like in that ribbon into quick links, for which there is now more room.
Thank you.