Stupid novice questions

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Beginning users sometimes have serious difficulties to get the application running which can be solved easely by more experienced users. Please help

Stupid novice questions

Anonymous (86.83.39.x) 08 Jul 2008 19:50

Just bought this application for my Palm Lifedrive. Most triggers are working fine, however the &-macro line is not reacting. I programmed the Bluetooth On/Off example: the panel is comming up, but then nothing happens any more. I experienced with the macro-timer in the settings menu from 0 to 70: no difference!
Do I forget something ?? Who can help me…

Re: Stupid novice questions

technical1 09 Jul 2008 19:16

Anonymous,

Welcome to the wonderful world of Apt. Glad it is working for the most part for you. Let's look at that macro that is not behaving as expected.

First, I would like to request that you add the commands that you have entered into Apt & then tell everyone what exactly you expected & what happened.

It sounds like you need to enter something in the bluetooth screen & therefore you would do well to look at the tutorial & examples here relating to getting coordinates, but depending on what you want to achieve I can't say for sure…

Let everyone know,

technical1

Re: Stupid novice questions

Pent 06 Aug 2008 14:12

Depending on which device you have the control IDs may be different. Go to the panel in the Prefs application and get the ID numbers there
to be sure. Also, I don't know which example triggers you are using. I recommend first trying just calling up the panel and tapping a button before going further.

Pent

Re: Stupid novice questions

Anonymous (217.34.248.x) 06 Aug 2008 13:13

I wish to toggle sound on/off whilst using Bejeweled.

In Default I set up:

.1 Hrd3 Panel Sounds and Alerts

When running Bejeweled I hit button 3 and hold it for 1 second but nothing happens.
Apt is active and when i hit the button in other apps it works fine.

What am I missing?

Perry

Re: Stupid novice questions

Pent 06 Aug 2008 14:09

It's possible that the window is actually there but not visible (perhaps Bejewelled changes the window clip or some advanced voodoo), so you could try tapping the Panel controls with a macro and see if it does anything. Test in another app first.

Other than that, no suggestions, sorry. Some apps are just troublemakers as far as Apt goes. Blazer is another one.

Pent

Re: Stupid novice questions

Anonymous (80.175.142.x) 06 Aug 2008 22:27

Hi

Thanks for the fast response.
Adding the line

& Ctrl Tap 1007

flips pTunes beautifully but won't touch Bejewelled.
Additionally, I do not know if its just my version but the only settings (that I can find) for Bejewelled are the Prefs I am trying to automate
C'est la vie

Perry

Re: Stupid novice questions

Pent 07 Aug 2008 09:06

Sorry, didn't get that last line. If Bejewelled has it's own sound settings, perhaps you can use Apt to open and change those ?

Pent

Re: Stupid novice questions

martinloat 08 Aug 2008 20:36

C'est la vie? Its French and means "That's Life" with fatalist overtones.

No, Bejewelled does not have any setting controls of its own at all that I can find.
What is interesting is that I can use the Apt Prefs screen to set default volumes for Bejewelled on startup and that works fine.
It seems that once running nothing except a full exit is allowed to interfere.
It's only when my wife yells at me to turn the sound down/off that I need a quick "mute" button.

Perry

Re: Stupid novice questions

Anonymous (172.163.225.x) 08 Aug 2008 23:36

martinloat,

I use bejeweled2 & there are sound settings for that.

Re: Stupid novice questions

Pent 09 Aug 2008 09:34

Sorry, I mean't the second-from-last line, 'C'est la via' came across fine :-)

The sound level you set in Apt Prefs screen is the system Game sound. It could be that this is only read on startup by Bejewelled (before Apt is was safe to assume that the sound level would not change while a program was running).

Pent

Re: Stupid novice questions

Anonymous (172.169.152.x) 06 Aug 2008 18:24

Perry, there is a much simpler solution. You can use Bejeweled's settings & just turn sound off there…

technical1