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Link to Menu Items within Programs

Is there any way to create shortcut that would point to a menu item inside a program? For example, if I created a link to Messaging/Send and Receive, I could then create a voice command that would cause that to happen. Similarly, I would like to link to Messaging/Tools/Empty Deleted Items so that I can clear items off the server with a voice command or two. I am hoping this functionality exists in WM5, but haven't encountered it.
Sorry if this has been covered; I searched and I've been reading the postings daily for a couple of weeks.
This board has dramatically helped me configure my MDA.

There is no direct way to do this. What you'd have to look for is a program that can 'record' screen taps and 'play' them back to the system. MortScript is a free utility that does this, and more, and seems quite popular:
http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=1448

You can come a long way with this way of making shortcuts, the rest could then be done by Mortscript...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnppcgen/html/ppc_tcuts2.asp

That seems promising
jpiek, that looks like just the thing, but the explanation is for settings. It looks to me that something like
23# "/Windows/tmail.exe,X"
where X is the number of the send/receive menu entry would work to automate the send/receive function. Similarly for the empty deleted items. So my questions are (i) is this right, and (ii) where I can find out the numbers of the menu items for Messaging?

prestonmcafee: that's not quite correct. The Microsoft link is specific to shortcuts to control panel settings.
For any other app you're looking for command line options, that may or may not be available for the apps you're interested in. Depends on the app...
V

Browse the File associations with a tool like "Pocket Tweak", it might help in looking up some commandline parameters...

Pocket Tweak's description doesn't sound promising.
There should be a way to do this. In Messaging, I just want Send/Receive, which is invoked by <menu>S, and Empty Deleted Items, which is reached by <Menu>T<Menu>E. I would also like to directly link to "Synchronize via Bluetooth."

which is exactly what things like mortscript allow you to do - send key presses / screen taps / etc. to the device as if you actually pressed them.
If you're looking for some magic command line switch that does it... e.g.
"poutlook.exe -sendandreceive"
then who knows - maybe it exists, but most likely it doesn't. For most applications, the menu items aren't something that have command line switches

What i meant was : With POcket Tewak you can have a LOOK at the file associations, and maybe get a hint of the parameter you have to use...

prestonmcafee said:
Is there any way to create shortcut that would point to a menu item inside a program? For example, if I created a link to Messaging/Send and Receive, I could then create a voice command that would cause that to happen.
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Funny - looks like there's a thread that is on this very topic, and the latest post now details exactly what the shortcut for -that- should look like
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=41505
Heimiko said:
\Windows\tmail.exe -Service "MailAccount" -Sync
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Thanks!
I did search...

rk-Sleep: Automatic phone switch off/on based on location.

Ok, here is the (Cell Tower ID) location based Sleep Management software (earlier called phone switcher).
Saves your battery and works automatically without any manual action once configured
Application is not memory resident so it does not keep running in the background. Does not write anything to registry etc so can be uninstalled cleanly.
Application can run in one of the following modes
• Flight Mode: System automatically switches to flight mode when you are at predefined location (Say Home) based on the time you setup. So when you are at home, say from 10:00 PM to morning 6:00 AM your phone is really sleeping so no one can call your mobile. But if you are not home, then phone remains ON even at night.
• Run Command*: You can configure separate command line applications while ‘entering’ and ‘exiting’ your Sleep Location. So if you want to perform some other actions such as enabling the sounds/vibrations/forwarding etc you need to configure this feature
Run Command* Notes:
• Run command has two settings
o Entering sleep location​o Exiting sleep location.​• Either browse for the command line application or copy paste the short cuts on the file and any command line parameters
• Some programs require you to ‘Wake Up’ the device to run, so if needed use that option
• ‘Wait for completion’ is only for advanced configurations. Most of the time it will hang the application. So use if you absolutely need it.
• You can test your run commands from the ‘Test’ menu.
Update history
Update 1.0.3
• Bug Fixed : If you were out of sleep location and returned to sleep location after 12 mid night(with in the sleep period) application would skip the current sleep.
Update 1.0.2
• Better user friendly UI added
• Now the application supports running an external application on command line.
Update 1.0.1
• Multiple locations on the schedule: If you want to set more than one location as you 'Sleep Location' you can do it now.
• Now if you were not at home at set time, system will keep polling based on the poll time you specify. So as soon as you reach home your phone will be switched off.
• If you turned on your phone manually after the rk-Sleep set it to flight mode, then your phone remains on till next scheduled sleep session
It is working on Hermes(WM6), and I have tested it on WM5 emulators. Will NOT work on WM2003.
Setup Instructions:
• You need to be at ‘Sleep Location’ to setup the application.
• In the ‘Locations’ tab, the current location box shows some numbers corresponding to your location.
• Click the button ‘Set as Sleep location’ to add current location as your sleep location. You can add multiple locations as sleep locations.
• On the ‘Schedules’ tab configure the ‘From’ and ‘To’ time fields. (You need to specify time in military time format)
• From the tab ‘Action’ choose if you want to use flight mode or Run Command (you need to set up your enter and exit actions)
• Finally click ‘Enabled’ and click the ‘Save’ menu
That’s all now you are set for ‘Sleep’. You can safely exit rk-Sleep.
The status tab would show you the last action attempt log
Note: This application requires Compact Framework 2.0
You need compact framework 2.0 installed inorder to run this application. The compact framework is already part of WM6, so if your device is WM6 skip this step. But most of the WM5 devices do not have this update. So you must download here and run the installation on your desktop (then active sync to update your device). Only after completing this step install the application.
If you like the application please show your support by replies and or donation on paypal
Download from here

Update 1.0.1
Multiple location on the schedule: If you want to set more than one location as you 'Sleep Location' you can do it now. On the sleep location box bring the context menu up, and choose 'Append to location' now add the new location to the list. You can add any number of sleep locations!
Now if you were not at home at set time, system will keep polling based on the poll time you specify. So as soon as you reach home your phone will be switched off.
If you turned on your phone manually after the rk-Sleep set it to flight mode, then your phone remains on till next scheduled sleep session

Hello,
With this program there would be still another interesting option which one to insert could.
It would thus not have to be possible the flight mode to activate automatically with enters a stored potition dependent on the time.
If someone works in a hospital, he needs to store only the position and every time it is in the hospital the flight mode switched on.
That one could not do also at others locates to use at those handys permitted or desired is I thinks there also of cemeteries.
MfG
S64

Great idea!
Is it perhaps possible to tirgger an application (or better: mortscript) upon entering a given location?
(I use mortscript to change call profiles, by copying sound files to overwrite the soundfiles I assigned as ringtones for various contacts. So if I set a "work" profile, the ringtones for different people are overwritten with a soundfile that contains silence, while others are made more discrete. It would be great to be able to automate this!)
Jörg

Instead of enabling flight mode, why not just disabling sound or enabling vibrate only mode?
Thanks

V J said:
Great idea!
Is it perhaps possible to tirgger an application (or better: mortscript) upon entering a given location?
Jörg
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Jörg,
I do not know about mortscripts, but if i make application to run some other exe(say with some command line, Will the mortscript be able to change sound settings, call forwarding etc?

tytnguy said:
... but if i make application to run some other exe(say with some command line, Will the mortscript be able to change sound settings, call forwarding etc?
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Yes, it should be able to do that. Also, maybe it is better to write it this way, and have your "flight mode application" written as a seperate program to be triggered by your tower-based software. In this way, others can contribute to write any other programs (as plugins) to yours. Anyway, AFAIK, Mortscript can do most of the job and or VJ (not the one above) has some nice collection that you can paired with yours.
Next you can write some scheduling software that will run an application whenever there is a 'Busy' (e.g. meeting) in your schedule (e.g. activate vibrate only mode). Then, with your tower-based software and your scheduling software, you can have a nested tower-schedule, while others can have a bluetooth-pairing based (e.g. execute software when near a paired bt device - change mode when inside your car), then you can stack all these together that will schedule your stuff based on tower-schedule-bt pairing.. WOW... too much software engineering makes you crazy.

Very nice software, but pls if You can, make a addon to change profile based on id, that would be nice. Something like: when i go to work (cell id: XX) phone change profile to vibrate/silent, but when i go back to home phone (cell id:YY) will change profile to loud.
Thx

drivex said:
Very nice software, but pls if You can, make a addon to change profile based on id, that would be nice. Something like: when i go to work (cell id: XX) phone change profile to vibrate/silent, but when i go back to home phone (cell id:YY) will change profile to loud.
Thx
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Yes I know that is where this software will lead to(Hopefully)
But to support multiple locations the progrma gets too complex. But I know that will be a perfect applicaton!

@VJ: I think using mortscript with the tool would defeat the purpose of the tool, because with mortscript you don't need the tool (The current tower, or BTS as I should refer to it to, is available in registry I think)
@tytnguy: kudos to you, great streak with so many useful programs.

Update 1.0.2
• Better user friendly UI added
• Now the application supports running an external application on command line.
• You can configure separate command line application while ‘entering’ and ‘exiting’ your Sleep Location
More info on the main thread.

Hi,
Great Application that seems to work perfectly. I can see myself using it to help save on battery life.. and also when I enter work where I cant have the phone on.
Don't suppose you'd share how you get the tower information? I tried a method posted on the forums but it doesn't work for me and only works when the data/voice is not connected.
I tried to implement this into an application I use as a backup to give a rough location if GPS location isnt available but never managed to read a sensible string for the towers ID.
(If you'd rather not say I understand fully)
Thanks,
sam

Great!, make a profile changer based on location also, that will be awesome

Update 1.0.3
• Bug Fixed : If you were out of sleep location and returned to sleep location after 12 mid night(with in the sleep period) application would skip the current sleep.

I LOVE it, actually I've been looking for something like this every since I switched from my Nokia communicator 9000
2 suggestions
1- would it be possible to "rename" locations to something more intuitive?
2- I'd like to be able to trigger an alarm on entering a location that way if u are on a train your phone can wake u up when you reach your destination
thanks

ArcticCat said:
I LOVE it, actually I've been looking for something like this every since I switched from my Nokia communicator 9000
2 suggestions
1- would it be possible to "rename" locations to something more intuitive?
2- I'd like to be able to trigger an alarm on entering a location that way if u are on a train your phone can wake u up when you reach your destination
thanks
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Thanks for the reply,
But right now the application just supports one location, So you are not able to do multiple locations. If you use the slot of managing only alarms its fine. But if you want to do alarm and also in some other location some other action you can not.
But i have that featrue in my list though
To do it, right now you have to set to 'Run Mode' and in the run mode specify any media file, On entering your location the media will be played.

Hi tytnguy,
found a "mini minor" bug in latest version 1.0.3...
If you just append a new location and change nothin other
the Save function don't gets active and so if you just press
OK the new location won't saved and neither the window don't
pop up asking wether you want to save or not.
So you have always to tap any other function on/off additionally
to be able to save Hope you understand this
Next step in version profiles would be great
Best regards,
Olioaglio

Olioaglio said:
Hi tytnguy,
If you just append a new location and change nothin other
the Save function don't gets active and so if you just press
OK the new location won't saved and neither the window don't
pop up asking wether you want to save or not.
So you have always to tap any other function on/off additionally
to be able to save Hope you understand this
Olioaglio
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Understood, For now to enable the save button you can Uncheck and Check the 'Enable' checkbox as you suggested
Olioaglio said:
Next step in version profiles would be great
Olioaglio
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I know others also requested it, but what type of 'Profile' you are asking for? Is it changes the sound profiles to change between different sound modes? Or change lot of options such as sound+wifi+bluetooth+backlight+....etc?

tytnguy said:
Understood, For now to enable the save button you can Uncheck and Check the 'Enable' checkbox as you suggested
I know others also requested it, but what type of 'Profile' you are asking for? Is it changes the sound profiles to change between different sound modes? Or change lot of options such as sound+wifi+bluetooth+backlight+....etc?
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I would like location based profiles with different schedule times,
so that you could e.g. install a "Home location" with flightmode from
11pm to 8am (like it is now) and a second profile maybe for work
with flightmode from 12am to 1pm. Or maybe a profile with 24/7 flightmode
on a certain location. Lets say you work in a hospital and while you
enter the lcation phone would turn to flightmode. If you leave phone would
switch on again.
The wifi+bluetooth+beam etc options would be also a geat thing to include
as an option with checkboxes, so one could save even more battery at night
and in sleep location would not be any electro smog.
But for now I can live very good with the program as the main function
works like it should now. One little thing: Found out, that if you reset the
phone within schedule time and phone was turned on (manually) rk-sleep
wont turn it off again. But this may be wanted as not to nag you if you
decide to manually turn on.
Olioaglio

What is the Net Compact framework that it needs! I'm running WM5, and it doesn't work on my device and I supose it has got something to do with what I mencioned earlier. Thanks.

Disable Incoming Call Notification for certain # mortscript

basically i want to disable the notification for a certain number so that when it comes in no notification pops up and no ring goes for it. If this can be done in mortscript great, but if not that is ok if there is an app. Eventually im tying in my mortscript made with egoist and this concept into the windows mobile SDK to make an app, but just curious on options that can do this.. Thnks!

MagiCall is the programm you searching for. It works great!

taht does look great, but im also looking to implement this into a mortscript also program SDK that im making. So its a callback program, but when a # callsback it does basically what that program does (just no ringer no notification, just either pickup or hangup the call (or just it let "ring silently" until someone presses end or send). Im trying to implement this into a script, aka what are the reg keys for the popup and ringer i guess (to temporarily disable while this goes on? or way to implemnt this into SDK or mortscript (but that program is the concept)

i found HKCU/controlpanel/notification/phone to be where phone notifications are..
how do i disable that for one #? (or disable in mortscript then at end of script renable.

i tried magicall and it did exactly what mortscript did. it still plays the ringtone and notification and then answers. Im looking for an option that completely disables all notificaiton whatsoever on this one number, no rining no sound, (just i guess that little icon on the top that has phone. Because ultimately the reg entry of an active call will tell my script to open the phone program. But i do not want any notification on the phone itself for that particular # (aka with morscript disable the reg before calling of notification, and then after pickup enable the reg agin? idk?

is this even possible?

Personal notification app!

Hello!
I am in desperate need of an application that reads a .txt file and writes line by line on the notification bar...is there anything similar?

Sounds interesting but the description of the behaviour of the app is a bit vague, as I understand it you want it to read a .txt file and then write every line from the .txt file as a separate line on the notifications dropdown? What do you want the notification lines to do when they are clicked?
.FxN

i don't absolutely care about what happens when i tap 'em
the objective is to get a notification on my MBW-150 but actually i was thinking about using a series of email messages in loop mode from a PC...maybe it's easier than having an android app doing this!
the reason why i want to do this is that i'd like to constantly have some usefull formulas written on my watch to have some help during tests (especially physics tests!!!)

[WebTop]-[How To] Create shortcuts to custom phone actions on Webtop

I looked around and couldn't find a detailed guide on how to do this so I figured it out and decided to share..
Prerequisites:
Working Webtop
XFCE Desktop
or
AWN Manager
aLogcat > https://market.android.com/details?id=org.jtb.alogcat&hl=en
This is a simple proccess which will require you to use aLogcat to get the activity name of the item you want to launch and then simply make a new shortcut item on your launcher.
Getting our activity name:
Launch aLogcat
Hit the menu button on your phone
Select Filter
type "activityMan"
leave the option for regular expression unchecked
--Now that your application is logging and filtered you will see a window with alot of text. This is where we will be searching.
hit your menu button again
Select Clear
Now hit your home button and navigate to the icon you would like to be able to directly launch from your webtop and click it.
Go back to aLogcat
Hit the menu button on your phone.
Choose the pause option from ALogcat
***Now were going to search for the string we need to tell activity manager which activity to launch**
Look through your log for something that looks like this: "com.p1.chompsms/.activities.ConversationList" (this one will launch ChompSMS)
In my case the entire line looked like this: /ActivityManager( 1700): Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] flg=0x10200000 cmp=com.p1.chompsms/.activities.MainActivity bnds=[5,343][115,483] } from pid 3088
copy the string that comes after "cmp=" (bolded above)
Creating the shortcut
Depending on which interface you are using this will differ slightly:
For AWN Manager
Open AWN Manager
Choose Launchers
Click Add
Set your name description and Icon
For Command add the following: androidlauncher --action "android.intent.action.MAIN" --cmp "<TEXT THAT YOU COPIED ABOVE>"
For XFCE
Right click on the task bar.
Choose "Customize Panels"
Next to where it says Panel 1 hit the + button to create a new Panel.
**Select the new panel and edit its options**
Set it to Normal Width | Fixed position | And then select the position where you would like to see it on your screen.
Change icon size to suit your taste. (Tip, if you would like to use the icon for the application an easy way to get it is to Google "AppName icon" and then use Google's image search. Choose an icon that's somewhere near 96*96 (you can sort by size), save it and select it from the menu.
Now that we have created a shortcut / panel
Right click the new panel / Icon
Add new Items
Launcher
Set your name description and Icon
For Command add the following: androidlauncher --action "android.intent.action.MAIN" --cmp "<TEXT THAT YOU COPIED ABOVE>"
you now have a working shortcut that will pull up the app or activity in "Mobile view" on your webtop!
Yay.
If anyone knows any more tricks with this please let me know! I have been wondering if it is possible to tell the app to come up in full screen.
** if this helped you please remember to hit the thanks button (help a guy boost his newb cred) **

Thanks for this. You probably saved me a lot of time because I was going to try to figure out how to do this.
Have all the apps on the phone worked without problems?
Also, does the Entertainment App work thru XFCE Desktop without the Awn dock?

blingmaster said:
Thanks for this. You probably saved me a lot of time because I was going to try to figure out how to do this.
Have all the apps on the phone worked without problems?
Also, does the Entertainment App work thru XFCE Desktop without the Awn dock?
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I haven't tested enough to say whether everything works or not. I also haven't eve used the entertainment center . This was one of the primary reasons why I was frustrated with the original webtop. They gave use the ability to launch only a couple of their apps rather than just creating a mechanism for us to select apps for shortcuts. This is something I may look into developing in the future.

Awesome work! I was just going to look at this today after looking at XFCE menu editing yesterday and BAM you already did it!
Too bad I broke my webtop somehow and had to start over this morning. I'm getting so practiced I could do it in my sleep!
Upon further thinking, you could probably just create a .desktop file like the other ones have and then it would automagically get put in the XFCE menu. Then it could be scripted and added into webtopscripts or something.

stewartsoda said:
Awesome work! I was just going to look at this today after looking at XFCE menu editing yesterday and BAM you already did it!
Too bad I broke my webtop somehow and had to start over this morning. I'm getting so practiced I could do it in my sleep!
Upon further thinking, you could probably just create a .desktop file like the other ones have and then it would automagically get put in the XFCE menu. Then it could be scripted and added into webtopscripts or something.
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Last night was my first night with a working webtop, being able to quickly launch ChompSMS , or pandora on my mobile view was top priority for me. Now that I have that mostly handled I guess I need to move on to learning XFCE tweaks. I'm really glad this helped, I was really surprised that this wasn't already hashed out and detailed, but I was glad to finally be able to contribute something over here!

Hi nineismine,
Mind to provide me a little bit of extra info on the below? Thank you in advance.
(1) How to "remove" the pre-installed short-cut apps in mobile view? For example the "Messaging". I rather prefer to replace this with the "Text Messaging" by following your tutorial.
(2) How to "remove" the pre-installed short-cut apps in webtop view? For example, mine Atrix is Asia Retail version and it build-in with the "Motorola Video" app-tray which I have no idea how to "remove" it.
I herewith attached the screenshot on my stock webtop for your reference (the stock webtop do support screenshot feature and I learn this from this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17093665&postcount=3)
Edited:
I found my solution by installing the webtop2SD. My issue solved. Thanks.