getting Coordinates and other DA

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using Apt menu

getting Coordinates and other DA

dxMIlano (guest) 1246294229|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

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

Re: getting Coordinates and other DA

Pgr 1246298632|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

On the left menu of this site, click "Tutorials and How-to's", then try "Getting ID's of Menus and Controls".

See if that helps, if not, come back here and ask for more help, I'll do my best…

PS - The "Apt Menu" is what comes up when you press the fourth button for 2 seconds inside any app except Apt itself (unless you have changed the default configuration).

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Re: getting Coordinates and other DA

dexMIlano (guest) 1246345374|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

more infos after a night of test.

On my treo 680 the 4th button arise the frequent-app-menu and so it is not available.
I didn't find where to change the default configuration for the apt-menu.

However i've found a very-hard-workaround.

Because the apt-menu:Getcoord is a DA you can install the DA launcher manager.
Unfortunately this ca be activated only using the "/" pen stroke that is not available on the treo keyboard; so I Installed Graffiti anywhere just to do it.
So, in any application (I need to integrate in APT) I pres the 1st button (default in GA) and I did the "/" stroke using the pen; doing this gesture the list of all DA appears and I can select GetCoord, then I press the button and the GetCoord popup window show me all information that I can type in the ad hoc field in APT.

As said a very-hard-workaround.
I hope the someone else will be able to find a much manageable solution.

By the way
I can confirm that on treo 680 the PhonOFF temporized function works very well, today I'll test a temporized function to align SNTP time using SNTP (a free application you can easiliy find on freewarepalm),
So I can definitively fix this stupid problem (Treo's clock is a little too fast).

dex

Re: getting Coordinates and other DA

Pgr 1246358344|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

In Apt, on the *Default* target, go to the "Buttons" tab.

Pick any Trigger you like to launch the Apt Menu, for example:

(2) Hrd3 | Apt | Menu

This would make the Apt Menu come up when you hold down the 3rd key for 2 seconds.

PS- about keeping time, if you use Nvbackup it has an option to synch your clock with some atomic clock on the Internet. This way you can schedule your nightly backups AND get your time right at the same time.

PPS- if you don't use NvBackup, you should. :-)

Re: getting Coordinates and other DA

dexMIlano (guest) 1246363561|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

much more confortable

thanks

and thanks for APT application!

dex