Ok, so I just realized that it's very troublesome to compose a new SMS, have to go to the inbox, press right soft key, press left joystick, press down joystick to select SMS and then start composing
So I got an idea to configure the Messaging button on Tornado Noble to point to the compose SMS straight away. I did some google, and found the attribute to the tmail.exe application.
So I tried to create a shortcut named Long_AP2.lnk, in it contain this line
19#"\Windows\tmail.exe" -service "SMS" -to "" -body ""
I saved it and transferred it to my phone, but it don't seem to work, feeling that my attribute might be wrong, I saved it as Short_AP2 and put into my phone, it works and by pressing the SMS button, it opens SMS composer straight away.
So the question is, why can't I get it to work on Long_AP2? Or the file name is supposed to be something else?
I also want to ask, what i that number 19 at the beginning of the line, hardware keys?
I think that the LONG_AP1.lnk activates when you hold the button for a few seconds.
Lol, I know that for sure,
I want to make long hold to activate compose sms, but short press to inbox
Anyone can help me? This is for our own good
keybddr.dll didn't support Long_AP2.
These aren't attributes. Attributes are what tell us whether or not file is hidden, read only etc...
These are parameters or switches.
I don't understand why you need to use a parameter to make tmail.exe open with a blank text message. Unless mine is broken, that's what it does by default. (In fact, I think mine is screwed up... wtf?)
Have you considered using mortscript?
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If keybddr.dll doesn't support long_ap how is the media player supposed to use this for FFW in music/video?
I think it's supposed to support it.
I mixed up, it should be arguments
At default, it opens the inbox, not the blank text message
Long_AP2
With "AE Button Plus" you can map simple, double, triple and long click to one key.
This is a very usefull utility !
you need to modify the registry keys to use AEB Plus with the multimedia keys.
http://ae.inc.ru/aebplus.php
Hmm, I don't like to install additional cab to do simple stuff, perhaps find out what registry changes it does, and incorporate into a cab which installs the button, ill chk it out later
karhoe said:
I mixed up, it should be arguments
At default, it opens the inbox, not the blank text message
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I fixed it. Don't know how it broke, but it works as you describe.
Is there no way to make a text version of a mailto: shortcut?
Good that you fixed it, but hope we can have 2 purpose with a button
short hold for inbox, long hold for sms
as you know, with Wm6, composing sms is even more troublesome compared to wm5
hello,
is anything new about the changing the left softkey meaning? i dont want to klik unnecessary thanks for answers,
kuba
You can't exactly delete it off, but...
I also am a happy owner of a Treo 750.
In my experience with this phone, you can't exactly remove the E-mail link off all together, but you can 'add' a function to that left soft key.
All you need is a reg edit program, and....
Go to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Today\Keys\11 2
For Default data change the text of the left soft key. For example I changed mine to Messaging.
Change Open Data to the exact location of a program link.
For example if you want to change it to the messaging program you would change it to "\Windows\tmail.exe" Note that the quotes must be included.
When you have everything set with the name and file location....exit and soft-reboot your phone. Now, when you click the left soft key, it should come up with the program link that you wanted with the email link next to it.
It's still there, but at least you can use it for something else as well.
Hope that this is useful to you and good luck...=)
When people ask me to text them a phone # the easiest way would be to go to the phone screen and copy and paste it to a text. For some reason I can't find an easy way to do this, any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Open up a contact, menu button, send contact.
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Not looking to send the whole contact, just the phone number. The number I was trying to forward was not a contact #.
you could go to contact - edit-copy, then paste that in the text mess. not sure if it's the fastest way though.
Open up the contact, Edit it (Menu > Edit) then you can Copy the number as normal. Worked for me earlier when copying e-mail addresses.
Oh, well just bash out the number on your dialer then long press on the number and select all, copy
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Or, from the dialler go into call history, long press on the number, then select 'Copy Number' from the menu.
Since upgrading to ICS, one thing I'm having issues with is copy + pasting a large body of text (say from an email). I used to be able to long-press in the chat box and the option "Select All" was there. I hit it and can then paste it into any other place I want (like a txt msg). However, since the update, when I long-press a text box, I only get the option to "Paste" and "Clipboard". This is driving me nuts, because I would use select all very frequently, and this has slowed down my messaging abilities substantially.
Does anyone have any suggestions to offer me on how I can quickly select all the text as described above with the new ICS update?
How can I change this? It seems system-wide.
Note: I would generically call this "text editing" but NOT as defined by common tech circles.
When revising texts, emails or posts I need to move a cursor to a single character. This can be easy or it can be downright impossible. At least in text messaging, I can increase the font size with the Volume Up bar--YES!
The Select All/Copy (etc) toolbar can be invoked 75% of the time. Out of those successes, It took multiple attempts at least half the time.
The convention to selecting long sections of text is, drag the lower selector to the bottom of the screen, hold, and the copy automatically scrolls (sometimes slow, sometimes lightning fast). Since Lollipop I can't figure out how to do this.
Sometimes I get a notice that "X has been copied to the clipboard" and sometimes not. Sometimes I've copied but can't Paste! Saving an image from browsers into the Gallery is sometimes easy (long press) and sometimes elaborate.