General Discussion (new threads)

Overwrite a corrupted file?

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:53:55 +0000

.cfg files are continually written to while an app is running; so any interruption results in corruption and losing access to the file, particularly if the app is on an SD card (e.g. TomTom GPS software is a particularly bad offender for this).
Is it possible to set up an Apt macro to overwrite a corrupt .cfg file with a known good reference copy at the push of a button?

Is Apt Dead?

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:04:57 +0000

Is there any more work being done on Apt? The last we heard, Jerome Ibanes had taken the project over and there was a lot of activity on these message boards, but after months of waiting for a version update, the excitement has all but faded out completely. Does anybody know what's going on with this? I know that PalmOS is pretty much extinct, but Apt gives my Treo more functionality than I could hope for and the potential for improving it further is great. Let's hear some other users thoughts and opinions on this, eh?

getting Coordinates and other DA

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:50:29 +0000

Hallo to everyone.
I installed APT on my treo 680 and i think it si a very usefull application, but there is a thing i'm not absolutely able to solve:
how to retrieve the ID of a button/menu I've to tap in an application launched with APT or the coordinate to fire a tap over a control.
i.e. I didn't understand the sentence
"
You can use AptMenu:GetPoint in the target app to acquire the coordinate, …
"
Also the example didn't help me at all.

Could someone explain me this feature?

Thanks in advance

dex

Settings lost after soft reset

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:07:41 +0000

Hi Folks,

My settings are always lost after I do a soft reset on my palm TX. Any idea what's going on here? Any way to fix this? I have it set for Apt to be disabled after a reset, but that shouldn't throw the settings away, should it?

Thanks,
Alex

Mystery cntr button press?

Fri, 22 May 2009 18:41:49 +0000

I was struggling with this for a while until I gave up on it about a week ago. If I could get some assistance, it would be much appreciated.

Goal: I use the Treo side button to trigger a star menu (tag="SIDE") that basically acts as my pop-up launcher. In order to have the side button bypass the keyguard (I use KeyGuardTime+), I have created an if/else kind of situation:

*Default*
Side / Apt / Call / (CNTR)

*Tags 1* - Tab "One"
[a>0] (CNTR) / Tag / Apt / Var0 / a
& / Nav / Cntr /
& / Apt / Call / CNTR

*Tags 1* - Tab "Three"
[a=0] (CNTR) / Tag / Apt / Call / (SIDE)

Ok, so this setup works GREAT, except for one small problem. When I push the side button just after I wake the device up, the keyguard is cleared, but I then get a SECOND cntr button press just before my "SIDE" star menu pops up. For example, if I am in the Contacts application when I wake the device up, and push the side button, the keyguard is cleared, then the second cntr button press calls whichever contact is highlighted, and then my star menu appears.

I know that this probably sounds confusing, because it confuses the hell out of me. Let me know if you need me to clarify anything or if you have any idea of why that second cntr button press is occuring. Thanks in advance!

Tags and List Menu

Thu, 21 May 2009 19:52:36 +0000

Either I am doing something wrong or the following "may" be a bug.

Goal: create a multiple item pop-up menu when a hard button 4 is pressed

Create the Tag:

*Tag 1*
hb4/Tag/App/Web
>/App/Email
>/App/ChronMemo
>/App/Note Pad

Create the Button:

0/Hrd4/Apt/Call/hb4

the assignment works, but the icons for the Apps are shifted one down.
Web ~ no icon
Email ~ Web icon
ChronMemo ~ Email icon
Note Pad ~ ChronMemo icon

Interesting if I use the same Tag within a (*) star menu the icons line up.

Rick

Apt on GVM?

Sun, 17 May 2009 20:23:16 +0000

Hello forum!

IMHO on the Garnet VM apt would be particularly useful. There are no palm hard buttons on the NIT, and by using apt they could be emulated. Sadly, enabling apt freezes the GVM. Only statusbar taps are still recognized, any other event (nav press, cntr button press, screen tap) has no effect.

Are there any efforts getting apt to run on gvm?

Regards

Carsten

star menu ergonomics suggestion

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:53 +0000

I have some ergonomics suggestion for the star menu. Can we put the buttons triggered by the hard buttons and nav buttons on the top bc we can acess them by buttons and put the other buttons below so it is easier to access with finger.

DBCache crashes in Web

Mon, 04 May 2009 22:44:30 +0000

I am running APT 2.03 on TX. In the web browser, using apt to call DBCacheDA will cause a reset. Using Hi-Launcher or EasyLaunch5 has no such problem. Can anyone verify whether this is a bug of APT?

Faves2 popup loses entry when hilited in Blazer

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:03:59 +0000

I have tried all sorts of workarounds, all to no avail. Whenever I bring a list of my Faves fm Faves2 over the screen in Web/Blazer, and move my Centro's focus / hilite over an item; it just disappears.

It still launches the item, but it is disconcerting & if I should mistakenly hilite the wrong thing, then I am out of luck, even if I was the one who put the 4 itmes in the list, I still wind up forgetting which is which when it disappears….

Any ideas?

I've tried to block prefs fm Web & I've tried using the Basic Khroma theme for Web…. EDIT I even tried re-assigning the offending trigger, to no avail….

TIA, technical1

newbie - how to install?

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:03:31 +0000

Hi folks,

I just installed apt.prc on my TX. I only see the *default* in the pulldown menu - nothing else. It seems like there's something wrong, or perhaps I don't understand how to use it? Any help is greatly appreciated. I looked through the tutorials, but somehow am still lost.

thanks!

More Graffiti buttons?

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:15:24 +0000

Is there any way to utilize more than 10 graffiti buttons to launch applications? I would like to assign a few more letters to launch applications, but there appears to be a limit.

Mr

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:53:39 +0000

Does APT can do that:

Simulate a swipe on the screen from point a to b and assign this stroke to a button?

Thank you

Newb Question

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:16:53 +0000

I've managed to figure out how get the hard buttons to launch apps when pressed, and when held, along with having it trigger the launcher when a card it inserted. What I'm trying to tackle now seems a bit more difficult: I currently use TAKEphONE, and allowed it to map itself to the phone button (hard 1, I believe), and use apt to call up the Treo's default contacts when the same phone button is held down for a second. The rub is that I'd like to suspend both of these functions (as well as the other press-and-hold options apt currently runs) when I'm in a game that wants to remap the hard buttons for something else. Is there a way to choose a game, and then have apt "wipeout" the hard button's default uses within that game? I get the impression it's built for just that sort of thing, yet can't manage to figure out how. Any ideas?

How to cycle controls within a single hard button

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:07:31 +0000

I'm using a TX and lately I've went back to using the default launcher, one of the features I miss is that with zlauncher, pressing the home hard button within zlauncher will cycle through the different tabs, is it possible to configure the same functionality within the TX's favorite's launcher?

I've tried hooking the home hardbutton to the right nav key, which works just fine until you get to the last category, it won't cycle back to the first category. Using the apt menu I already got the list of controls for the four categories.

1: 6003
2. 6004
3. 6005
4: 6006

So is there a way to cycle through all 4 ctrls using only one button by pressing it repeatedly, and not press and hold for x seconds?

Apt 2.0

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:25:56 +0000

Apt 2.0 was released earlier today, there's a few minor changes:

- It's now entirely free.
- It can be downloaded here
- Version 3.0 will be a major rewrite, I welcome your ideas, first, I'll prioritize items in the todo list, and later implement a scripting language, which, hopefully, will make automated tasks easier.

Sincerely,
Jerome Ibanes

No More Code Updates

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:26:07 +0000

Just to note that I will no longer be updating the Apt code unless I buy a Treo, in which case I might add some phone functions.

I will still try to answer questions here if any come up, though I won't be checking as often as previously.

Pent

Caps Keyboard

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:24:23 +0000

I have a game application that that I always play with the slider open (T3) and with the all caps keyboard (word game). I set up Apt with "Events-DIA-KCps" to try and always have the all caps keyboard open. Doesn't seem to work, it opens whatever keyboard was open last. Am I missing something?

thanks
steve

ZLink and APT

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:46:04 +0000

Hi,

I'm using ZLink to store some app I don't is often at the card. Now I have seen, that apt seams to be disable completly if I now run such a "linked" app. So I click on the item of the linked app, a bar shows that the file is copied to the main memory and the app is started, NO apt. No marcos strockes and taps.

cu
Stefan

Redirect screen tap

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:45:48 +0000

I am using 2day. I would like to be able to tap one of the screen objects but have it launch my own sequence instead of a pre-defined action in 2day.
How do I do that?
Vovka