Is there some way to prevent my bottom menu bar from disappearing within apps? Can I lock it? Many apps requiring using the "settings" icon (the 3 vertical bars) to modify function or to perform actions.
Is this something I've caused? Can't seem to find any obvious settings to control this. Did rooting with CWM in place affect this?
Or is this just a function of the program I'm using at the time? These programs, however, seem to expect me to have access to this button.
Thanks
Devildoc
i cant get what your saying :/
are you reffering to the navigation bar?
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Does anyone know of a way to actually remove the New menu from the task bar? I can remove all the items from it easily enough and remove the menu button from the left of it but I'd like to get rid of it altogether.
I have eleven items already displayed down there and as soon as anything starts that creates another icon, it disappears out of view 'behind' the New menu. In particular, because PZP like the left hand of the task bar, it keeps disappearing from view which is a real pain.
O2 Xda II
1.60WWE
Hi there,
I have a problem with the Start bar on the top. Whenever I load some applications 3rd party apps that should show up on full screen, the Start bar wouldnt go away. It's somehow fix to the screen and it loads the applications in full screen mode under the bar. This results in some apps (ie GPS navigation) not being able to press any buttons to load menu etc) the buttons are below the screen. Anyone had similar problems?
perhaps your app is vga so you must use :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=455974&highlight=wvga+fix
to change your screen resolution to vga before using your gps app. Hope it helps.
Unfortunately it doesnt help, Itchanges the resolution, so its only showing it on part of the screen but the top bar (start) and bottom bar (keyboard sign) are still on top of the application unabling from selecting some options.
... in CM7 tablet tweaks?
Basically the "disable fullscreen" setting is great as it allows the status bar to stick around all the time. The only problem I've encountered is that some games don't display properly when I leave this setting on and need to uncheck it before launching the game. So I guess I'm asking if there's a way to either a) quickly toggle it from a widget/shortcut? Or if b) there's a smart app that can set it pre-game launch (similar to how CF3D Pro handles per app plugin settings.)
I'm okay with "no there's no such thing," just curious if anyone else has run into this before.
Thanks!
P.S. This is CM7 n126 on sdcard (vg method) w/ stock ADW.
fuul4nook said:
Basically the "disable fullscreen" setting is great as it allows the status bar to stick around all the time. The only problem I've encountered is that some games don't display properly when I leave this setting on and need to uncheck it before launching the game. So I guess I'm asking if there's a way to either a) quickly toggle it from a widget/shortcut?
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The double chevron that should show up with your soft buttons when an app wants fullscreen will do exactly that. In Tablet Tweaks, right under the "Disable Fullscreen", tap "Choose unhide button" and you can pick which key will pop the status bar back up; I use "n" (home, not the default), or you can press-and-hold the power button, then pick the default (whatever that is, I've forgotten, it's not convenient for the NC).
stolenmoment said:
The double chevron that should show up with your soft buttons when an app wants fullscreen will do exactly that. In Tablet Tweaks, right under the "Disable Fullscreen", tap "Choose unhide button" and you can pick which key will pop the status bar back up; I use "n" (home, not the default), or you can press-and-hold the power button, then pick the default (whatever that is, I've forgotten, it's not convenient for the NC).
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I know about the chevron, and that does work most of the time. But I'm specifically to games that misbehave if you hit the chevron to hide the statusbar after the game's launched. What's happening to me is that the screen to zoom out to take up the extra space given up by the hidden status bar, but on screen touches will still behave as if the screen was it's previous size. So buttons, etc end up pressing in the wrong place. Does that make sense?
Off the top of my head, one game in particular that does this is FieldRunners HD. If you launch the game then hide the status bar with the chevron, the on screen presses will now be mis-aligned. But, if you toggle the check box "Disable Fullscreen" before launching, then the game will properly go full screen and work correctly.
fuul4nook said:
I know about the chevron, and that does work most of the time. But I'm specifically to games that misbehave if you hit the chevron to hide the statusbar after the game's launched.
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Ick. Broken app. Complain.
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I have cm7.2 with tablet tweaks for soft buttons on the status bar. I want the status bar always on. The hide button (far right) pops up and disappears intermittently.
Is there any way to turn off the hide button permanently? When it pops up, it shifts all of :he other status bar content to the left, which is distracting. Also sometimes it pops up suddenly right as I go to press the notification button and then I accidentally hide the status bar because the hide button suddenly appears where the notification button was.
Can't find anything in cyanogenmod settings. Someone help?
Is there no way to do this?
There's no way to do this. There are some applications that expect true full screen. In Honeycomb and ICS the OS itself removes the status bar/soft key area from the available screen real estate and "dims" the contents of the status bar when an application requests full screen.
In Gingerbread (the basis for CM7), this isn't available in the core OS, so Mad Murdock (the developer of TabletTweaks) implemented the best solution he could...basically the ability to suppress full screen for apps that can adapt that that and otherwise to give the user a chance to enter and leave full screen.
There are still bugs in this implementation because of the limited hooks for intercepting these full screen requests and switches in and out of full screen. As a result, you'll see some apps that don't look quite right when this feature is enabled even when you go full screen, and you'll also see that sometimes the full screen soft key gets into a confused state and displays when it shouldn't and vice-versa. This can ultimately lead to an FC in the StatusBar process.
What I do is turn off the "Disable full screen" feature under CM7 and use either Button Savior or the extended Power Menu buttons (mostly Button Savior these days) to provide access to Home/Back/Menu when an app runs full screen. It's not a perfect solution, but it's more stable and still gives me non-intrusive access to soft keys.
That's a fair enough solution. I do see the FCs often for statusbar. Thanks for the input.
im used to having the 3 dot menu key in the action bar of all my apps. anyone know of a way. i tried the 3dot menu mod on xposed and that didn't work.
anyone?
I'm also interested in this.
Gonna get harder and harder, Google is goign away from that and doign the slide out function in alot of it's apps, and system.
right but what i'm trying to do is add the navigation bar and disable the hardware buttons. if i do that there is no way to access menu unless i add that feature. there is a way to do this being that there is a module for it. but it just doesn't work on the n3 i guess.