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Hello all,
You may have seen my earlier thread with the modified color clock digits for the HTC Home Plugin. Well, I just can't leave well enough alone! This started off as JUVS color version of the Kaiser Home Plugin. I took some of the icons from JUVS version and some from Schaps. Then I made the 'unselected' ones dark and lit up the selected one with a bright spotlight. I also changed the house colors a bit and turned it to face the other side. Just didn't seem right with a blue roof . I like it better now and I hope you do too, see screenshots attached.
To install:
First install JUVS Kaiser Home Plugin, color version, see the CAB file later in this thread. Then go in and make sure the plugin is unchecked in Settings, Today, Items. Make a backup of the HH_FW*.* and HH_HOME*.* files in your Windows folder for safe keeping. Then copy the contents of the ZIP file attached to the Windows folder on your device (not the zip itself, extract the contents) replacing the same-named files. Reselect the plugin and take it for a spin. Love it? Good! Hate it? Restore the original set of icons and associated files or reinstall.
By the way, the colored clock digits I made for the original HTC plugin work perfectly here too. Copy them over the same way if you like. You can find them in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=314510
And, that reminds me, I figured out the bezel issue affecting some of the icons in the files I put out for the original HTC Home Plugin. For those who were bugged by that issue I am attaching a bezel fix ZIP file that will correct the issue and leave a nice transparent icon background in keeping with the them of that set of files. You could use this fix on this Kaiser version as well and it will remove the spotlight from the selected item without affecting the colors and brightness/darkness differentiating selected and unselected. You just have to see it to see if you like it.
Is this for Hermes or Kaiser? This is posted in the Hermes WM6 forum.
Yes!
This applies for both actually, but I'm using it on a HERMES, running the Kaiser HTC Home Plugin. See the 5 tabs instead of 3? If you want it, look for JUVS version in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=316107
gmgonzal, great work again! Thanks!!!
i'm trying to copy over the files in vista but i can't seem to... do i need to do this via the phone?
nevermind, stupid vista won't let you extract from an explorer view of a zip file
so the spotlight for each tab seems to show the old black/white icon when it is selected... going to try to recopy the files again.
That's because...
absolutg said:
so the spotlight for each tab seems to show the old black/white icon when it is selected... going to try to recopy the files again.
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This is meant as a mod for the JUVS color version of the Kaiser Home Plugin. It brings the color icons that you are missing. You should install that first, then copy these icons over. I'm including the CAB file here in case others need it also...
do you know if this has the fixes included in the version posted on pg 6 of the original thread? thanks!
works well now. was wondering if you could do the spotlight with a transparent backgd instead of the gray? looks better with the default ATT them. thanks!
Here you go
absolutg said:
works well now. was wondering if you could do the spotlight with a transparent backgd instead of the gray? looks better with the default ATT them. thanks!
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I guess I could , I wanted to do that next myself, it takes more effort to clean up the graphics for that. Check back...
This is great, thanks! Removing the bevel was part of the things I wnated to change about this plugin. What I would really love to be able to do now is completely remove the useless highlight that appears over the icons when they are selected - is this possible?
edit: just to be clear from the post above ... the highlight I mean is not contained in the images, I mean the OS highlight that appears over the images themselves when selected.
Also, for me personally, it would be great to be able to change the colour of the font used - if I change the colour of the clock images, then the font stay white which looks inconsistent to my fussy brain!
Thanks for any help with the highlight thing though.
good work, works well ! thank you!
I know what you mean
drblow said:
What I would really love to be able to do now is completely remove the useless OS highlight that appears over the images themselves when selected.
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That highlight pi$$es me off too, what I always wanted to do was have the icons in greyscale and then make them bright color when selected, with no highlight around them. But that highlight seems to be built into the code. As far as the text color, Zoharbl said in my previous thread that you can change the text color for each Today screen item with a program called Today Agenda, but I haven't tried it to see if it works on the text on the top of the HTC Plugin. Here's a link if you want to try it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=44083&d=1184589532
You're welcome
ratcom said:
good work, works well ! thank you!
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Glad you liked it.
gmgonzal said:
That highlight pi$$es me off too, what I always wanted to do was have the icons in greyscale and then make them bright color when selected, with no highlight around them. But that highlight seems to be built into the code. As far as the text color, Zoharbl said in my previous thread that you can change the text color for each Today screen item with a program called Today Agenda, but I haven't tried it to see if it works on the text on the top of the HTC Plugin. Here's a link if you want to try it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=44083&d=1184589532
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Thanks for the reply. That's exactly what I want to see aswell! I'll try that app & let you know if it works.
interesting idea
Has anyone able to get oldSAP to work. I have tried it on several version but none was successful.
Ricky, would you bless us with your expertise on this?
Thanks!!!!
inspron said:
Has anyone able to get oldSAP to work. I have tried it on several version but none was successful.
Ricky, would you bless us with your expertise on this?
Thanks!!!!
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whats the problem
After I made changes and save them in oldSAP, rebooted, nothing changed.
Ex. Menu - > Show -> CMyapps.
Page 1
ActionURL to live search.exe
Pictures to Chome Live search
Then Menu -> Save -> Yes
Rebooted, and yet Word is still showed on page 1.
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After I made changes and save them in oldSAP, rebooted, nothing changed.
Ex. Menu - > Show -> CMyapps.
Page 1
ActionURL to live search.exe
Pictures to Chome Live search
Then Menu -> Save -> Yes
Rebooted, and yet Word is still showed on page 1.
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have you gone to \Windows\startup and deleted CMyApplication.lnk
or did you download oldSAP Favorites v1.05
inspron said:
After I made changes and save them in oldSAP, rebooted, nothing changed.
Ex. Menu - > Show -> CMyapps.
Page 1
ActionURL to live search.exe
Pictures to Chome Live search
Then Menu -> Save -> Yes
Rebooted, and yet Word is still showed on page 1.
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you have to reload your homescreen for it to work.
1. go to Settings/Home Screen, choose another home screen aside from the one you are using at the moment, load it
2. do the same process but choose the particular home screen you were previously using
3. done!
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you have to reload your homescreen for it to work.
1. go to Settings/Home Screen, choose another home screen aside from the one you are using at the moment, load it
2. do the same process but choose the particular home screen you were previously using
3. done!
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Thanks a ton! That worked perfectly.
I noticed that the bar only allow PNG for pictures is that correct?
Is there a way to reduce the number of favorite program tabs down to like 10? In V10 of Ricky's rom he has 20. I'm having a hard time coming up with 20.
Thanks ALL!
Is there an easy way to delete entries so that we have less tabs?
inspron said:
Thanks a ton! That worked perfectly.
I noticed that the bar only allow PNG for pictures is that correct?
Is there a way to reduce the number of favorite program tabs down to like 10? In V10 of Ricky's rom he has 20. I'm having a hard time coming up with 20.
Thanks ALL!
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It allowed me to use a .gif as a picture, so I assume most picture files work.
To get rid of the extra pages, use a registry editor and go to HKLM\Security\CHome\DefaultSettings\CMyApplication\ and scroll all the way down to the "Pages" entry. Modify it and delete the page entries that you don't need, leaving a semicolon at the end of the last page. I.E. Page1; Page2; Page3; ---> Page1;Page2;. Reset the home screen theme as usual to apply the changes.
i did this and they still appear on the home page.... as well as not being able to change the 2nd line ie.... edit word document. it reverts back. The first line and remapping worked just fine though.
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It allowed me to use a .gif as a picture, so I assume most picture files work.
To get rid of the extra pages, use a registry editor and go to HKLM\Security\CHome\DefaultSettings\CMyApplication\ and scroll all the way down to the "Pages" entry. Modify it and delete the page entries that you don't need, leaving a semicolon at the end of the last page. I.E. Page1; Page2; Page3; ---> Page1;Page2;. Reset the home screen theme as usual to apply the changes.
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Works perfectly!
Thanks!
I also tried to edit HKLM\Security\CHome\DefaultSettings\CMyApplication
"Plugins"
but unfortunately it didn't goes so well, I lost CMusic and I can't put it back. Conversely I tried to remove CAppointments and yet it still shows on the main screen. I tried selecting a different home screen and return to it, and also rebooted, nothing worked.
Somehow these regedits only affect "Sliding Panel" home screen and none of the others. I'm using Ricky's V10 Rom.
This is an app that will add and update, in real time, a new panel on your sliding panels theme called "Weather".
It will install two shortcuts in your Start Menu. A "Weather Update" shortcut, which you can use to update manually, as well as a "Weather Options" shortcut.
Steps to take to make this work:
1) Install one of the cabs below. Pick the "Slim" version if you want thinner panels, like in the screenshots. Pick the Slim Background option to also get a background in the panel according to the current weather condition.
2) It should ask to reboot ! (turn phone off and on.. etc). If it doesn't... reboot manually!
3) Go to your Start Menu and find "Weather Options". Set your Zip / Location Code to your zip code if you're in the US or a "location code" if you're anywhere else. More info on finding your specific code is here http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/#req . Set the "Fahrenheit / Celsius" option to either "F" or "C" (without the quotes!). Specify how often you would like to autoupdate the weather information in minutes in option 3. Specify whether you would like the application to attempt to connect your default GPRS connection first, before updating. Finally you can turnoff the autoupdate feature with the last option (7).
4) Now it might be a good idea to go to Start and find "Update Weather" and run it.
5) The cab should set your homescreen to "Sliding Panel Top Bar + Weather!" automatically. If it doesn't, you need to do it manually to see the weather plugin. If you top icons disappear then you might have to use the regular "Sliding Panel + Weather!" theme.
If you want your system font to look like the one in the thumbnails (calibri), download the .cab attached, install and reboot.
Please use the attached "unlock.cab" to unlock your device if you're getting permission errors trying to install my weather cabs. Thanks.
For now, I just released the SLIM version. Haven't had the time to create the cpr file for the regular version yet, but you'll have it tomorrow.
Pick one of the cabs below to install different icons, as seen in the pictures. Install the icon cabs, AFTER you install the main weather cab.
For people that still don't know how to manually update: you go to your start meny and find "Weather Update" and run it. Clicking the middle button on the keyboard, while having the weather slide activated will NOT do anything!
This will most likely enable ALL the panels installed on your phone, so use this utility to get rid of the ones you don't want displayed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=392641
1) First picture. Layout #1, 7 degree icons.
2) Second pictures. Layout #2, 7 degree icons.
3) 3rd picture. Layout #3, 7 degree icons.
4) 4th picture. Layout #3, default icons.
5) 5th picture. Layout #3, Yahoo icons. (MY own preferred layout )
6) 6th picture. Layout #3, Yahoo icons, again.
7) 7th picture, Layout #1, default icons, NO background option!
8) 8th picture, Layout #2, default icons, NO background option!
Enjoy!
Reserved...
This is the "addons" post.
P.S. Zip file uploaded for people that prefer installing this manually. Install the Calibri font mod cab, if you want your system font to look like the font in the screenshots above.
- Spil Icons added. 5/21/08
- Added "NRG Power Key..... .cab This will add three options to the menu that comes up when you hit the power key on the side of your Excalibur. "Power off", "Reboot" and "Weather Update". I hope they're self explanatory Have fun.
- Novaweather icons added. 5/17/08 7:36AM
Your Master Piece
Awesome, beautiful.............!
Nice work man good job.
Ummm I tried it and it gets stuck at like 10%... Seems like there is a bug or something the 1.7 worked fine but this one gets stuck for some reason.
jdoggraz said:
Ummm I tried it and it gets stuck at like 10%... Seems like there is a bug or something the 1.7 worked fine but this one gets stuck for some reason.
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Never mind I found out the problem I need to put Y for connection first.
Hell Yeah
Looks good, can't wait to put it on my phone with the regualar (fat) interface. Thanks for spending your time working into the wee hours of the morning to get this up and running.
this project is interesting and I am following it since begin but why I have toshow on my home the actual weather and actual temeperature? I guess is better to put 3 small weather icons in the slide showing the weather in the next days... no? Or first icon for the actual day forecast and then the following days...
this may sound like a silly question but will this take away any of my current panels????
not to sound like a unappreciating ass, (your doing amazing work), but i agree with Iannik next thing you work on should be a forcast type thing, like a fizz weather type thing with 5 days or something like that.
ok, so this is a very noob question, but i have to be running 6.1 to use this homescreen, correct? i installed it before on my 6.0 dash, and it did nothing...
OrganicM,
Do you still have the latest (working) version using CWelcomeCenter? While working on my new CHome Configurator utility, I might figure out a way to update the plugin without reloading the whole homescreen. If it does work, you will be able to add forecast data into multiple panel and have the manual update process directly from the panel.
evolarius said:
ok, so this is a very noob question, but i have to be running 6.1 to use this homescreen, correct? i installed it before on my 6.0 dash, and it did nothing...
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Yeah, I think this .cab only works with sliding panels (which are only available in WM6.1). I may be wrong.
Rip Syntaxx said:
Yeah, I think this .cab only works with sliding panels (which are only available in WM6.1). I may be wrong.
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thanks for the info...
LCD Font
Org, do you plan on releasing ver. 1.8 with an LCD system font?
Yes. All that is coming today. I didnd't have time to do all the regular versions last night, so I decided to at least release the slim version for you guys to try. I will get the "Fat" version out today with LCD and not, as well as a SLIM LCD version! Maybe even the IPhone layout if I'm happy with it.... hehe
p.s. I'm also working on a standalone CWelcomeCenter version based on the latest 1.8 code (which I've cleaned up a lot). We will also have forecast data with the current testui version, plus a welcomecenter panel underneath with forecast for a few days!
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Yes. All that is coming today. I didnd't have time to do all the regular versions last night, so I decided to at least release the slim version for you guys to try. I will get the "Fat" version out today with LCD and not, as well as a SLIM LCD version! Maybe even the IPhone layout if I'm happy with it.... hehe
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The iPhone version looks...awesome. I like how the center weather icon overlaps the panel--just a tad. Other people might find that a bug, but I actually like it.
LCD Front
This time use Kavana's Clock with the Staple Center scoreboard look, LA Lakers clock..............!
How!? How do you just keep killin' it O!? Great work dude!
i will offer a few options fo the lcd font
Hi folks,
I'm looking for an programm launcher like the programs tab in TF3D, but I'd like to have multiple pages, as the 24 places in the tab are way to few.
Else I want to assign it to an hardware key, so I need an application, that is not integrated in TF3D.
Does anyone know a good app for this purpose ?
I guess someone already made something like that, but google and the forum search didn't bring it up.
Sounds like a job for Wisbar Advanced Desktop, I have 8 tabs on the main screen, 20 more fading in with one finger gesture, or configure a mainscreen tab to directly open a launcher page with 20 tabs per page, where tabs can also be a Inbox, URL or shortcut to opening a program with a given file. Then switch between unlimited launcher pages with one finger gesture per page.
^^ can you please tell me what part of wishbar advance i have to activate to make my screen look like that??
Look at MortScript and Mort Buttons You can add the buttons to start menu, Today screen or to the TF3D Programs page. each button has a full page or even multi-pages you can add apps, commands or scripts to. Really handy!
Psygnosis84 said:
^^ can you please tell me what part of wishbar advance i have to activate to make my screen look like that??
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Its not Wisbar Advance (Task), but Wisbar Advance Desktop
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/products/pocketpc/WisBarAdvanceDesktop/
Then you need to install Sergej's free Blackberry Theme to the themes folder of WAD, and activate it as your default portrait mode theme.
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=93399&postcount=11
The earth background pic is attached here
that looks really nice ... but how does is look in landscape mode? does it support landscape? if yes, i'll give it a try
Dont use landscape, but the program differentiates between those two modes, so you could just re-arrange the dock and tabs to fit your landscape preferences. For me the key feature was to be able to show unlimited appointments on my main screen.
already tried yota center?
Me I use UltimateLaunch that I looove with Yota
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Lucas0511 said:
Sounds like a job for Wisbar Advanced Desktop, I have 8 tabs on the main screen, 20 more fading in with one finger gesture, or configure a mainscreen tab to directly open a launcher page with 20 tabs per page, where tabs can also be a Inbox, URL or shortcut to opening a program with a given file. Then switch between unlimited launcher pages with one finger gesture per page.
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hi Lucas,
the first image you attached is your today screen? we can set wisbar advanced dekstop as our today screen?
Yes indeed, but as a today screen where you have full control of what to put on it!
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Yes indeed, but as a today screen where you have full control of what to put on it!
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how to set the WAD as today screen? by disable the TF3D only?
last time i did try WAD, but, i didn't set it as today screen, i need to launch it as other program to get WAD work.
so, everytime you soft reset or wake up your HD, you will see WAD in your today screen?
Just disabled TF3D, started WAD installation, and WAD came up as today screen automatically. Yes, WAD is full today screen, but you can choose if you want to keep the Start and taskbar on the top of the screen, or have it disappear. Most standard Today plugins work from inside the WAD today screen, too.
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Just disabled TF3D, started WAD installation, and WAD came up as today screen automatically. Yes, WAD is full today screen, but you can choose if you want to keep the Start and taskbar on the top of the screen, or have it disappear. Most standard Today plugins work from inside the WAD today screen, too.
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thanks a lot Lucas, i will try.
Thanks for the ideas.
I'm already using Yota Center and its a nice program.
The only thing is that I'd like to have more pages, cause 24 places is too few.
I'll try Mort Buttons, looks interesting though.
have you tried launchmanager ? it's not free though ...
http://www.fantasticbytes.com/products/launchmanager
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Its not Wisbar Advance (Task), but Wisbar Advance Desktop
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/products/pocketpc/WisBarAdvanceDesktop/
Then you need to install Sergej's free Blackberry Theme to the themes folder of WAD, and activate it as your default portrait mode theme.
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=93399&postcount=11
The earth background pic is attached here
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Thanks just one more question. When launching the Music player or Photo Viewer etc, are they the normal HTC ones or are they customized now?
Are they still easy to use?
Also does all your programs work normally? And if you don't like the WAD, you can easily delete it?
Psygnosis84 said:
Thanks just one more question. When launching the Music player or Photo Viewer etc, are they the normal HTC ones or are they customized now?
Are they still easy to use?
Also does all your programs work normally? And if you don't like the WAD, you can easily delete it?
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No, they will not be the HTC apps embedded in TF3D. You will set up each icon to open up your own apps. I haven't heard of anyone being able to use the HTC player or album yet as stand alone apps.
Yes they are very easy to use!
WAD will not affect the way your programs run. It is simply a launcher program (one of the best that I've seen yet).
Yes, you can easily uninstall WAD by going to remove programs and uninstalling it from there...although I have a feeling you won't want to after you get the feel for what it can do to your today screen!
Thanks that was a great explanation
just one more question for example do you mean it won't have a built mp3 player or something like that but you have to download a 3rd party one and assign it?
EDIT: I just bought it and installed the Blueberry theme but doesn't show up properly, i wonder why. I'm missing the clock, the calender and whenever i press the box on the right side, a empty grey box opens.. weird.
EDIT: Fixed it up by selecting Wishbar Desktop rather than HD BlueBerry, weird. some parts are still German even after applying eng buttons.
Psygnosis84 said:
Thanks that was a great explanation
just one more question for example do you mean it won't have a built mp3 player or something like that but you have to download a 3rd party one and assign it?
EDIT: I just bought it and installed the Blueberry theme but doesn't show up properly, i wonder why. I'm missing the clock, the calender and whenever i press the box on the right side, a empty grey box opens.. weird.
EDIT: Fixed it up by selecting Wishbar Desktop rather than HD BlueBerry, weird. some parts are still German even after applying eng buttons.
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You can set it up to use Windows Media player if you want to, otherwise a third party app is what you will need. CorePlayer or PocketPlayer are a couple to check out.
I haven't installed the Blackberry theme for WAD yet but I do no if you don't have the icons installed in the correct places the theme will not show properly. I ran into this same problem when installing Mallmans Vista theme. As soon as I went back and followed his instructions perfectly, the theme was correctly displayed.
I'm not familiar with setting up different languages so I'm afraid I won't be of any help to you there. You may check out the Lakeridge WAD forum for that.
Here is how I have my WAD looking right now, a tweaked version of Mallmans Vista theme!
When using OfficeSuite with the QuickSpell package installed, a misspelled word gets the red squiggly line underneath, but I don't see any way to get alternate or suggested spellings.
Anyone know how to do this?
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When using OfficeSuite with the QuickSpell package installed, a misspelled word gets the red squiggly line underneath, but I don't see any way to get alternate or suggested spellings.
Anyone know how to do this?
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There's no official way... I googled it, since I use the Kingsoft Office..... But there's no way, at least no official way.
alicarbovader said:
There's no official way... I googled it, since I use the Kingsoft Office..... But there's no way, at least no official way.
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Really? Bummer. The interaction design leads the user to think that if they tap or long press the red squiggly line, that spelling suggestions would be presented. Kinda misleading.
Figured it out - totally by accident....
If you go to a word that is marked as misspelled, you need to:
- tap the word
- select the menu icon (the three dots)
- select "Edit"
- select "Check Spelling"
This opens a sub-pane presenting the app's full spelling functionality.
Works - but this is very buried in the user interface - no where near where a user might expect it, which would be right when you tap the word. This has become a standard convention in Android. Hope the Devs address this.
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Figured it out - totally by accident....
If you go to a word that is marked as misspelled, you need to:
- tap the word
- select the menu icon (the three dots)
- select "Edit"
- select "Check Spelling"
This opens a sub-pane presenting the app's full spelling functionality.
Works - but this is very buried in the user interface - no where near where a user might expect it, which would be right when you tap the word. This has become a standard convention in Android. Hope the Devs address this.
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That's great.... Thanks for that........ +1
will I not be able to spell check without having the quick spell package installed?
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