[REQ]PRJ[IDEA]app to Emulate D-Pad with hardware zoom bar on rhodium or topaz

**t0mmyr** · #1 (**permalink**) 12-09-2009, 06:17 AM

I used to own a Touch Pro (Raphael) and evolved to a new Touch Pro2 (Rhodium), the one thing I miss the most (besides the camera LED) is the D-Pad and Enter button.... when the phone is in portrait mode.

I think this image describes my idea pretty well:

I hope some of you like my idea and post comments and hopefully someone will try and develop this for us to use.

It should have 5 main functions, slide Left, slide Right, tap Up, tap Down, & tap Enter.

What do you think?

kabuk1 · #2 (**permalink**) 12-09-2009, 06:32 AM

YES. I have been wanting something like this since I got mine.

gcianc · #3 (**permalink**) 12-09-2009, 02:42 PM

does that zoom bar have this many clickable points? i was under the impression only swipe left and right actually works.

using RhodiumKbd... how do you map the zoombar exactly?

I myself mapped vol up/down to page up/down using vol double-click up/down to raise/lower volume.

this has an added benefit of not having the annoying volume screen black out the phone for 3-5 seconds when you accidently hit it.

WM/TP2 has so many annoying user interface quirks it's mind-boggling, thankfully you can fix most of them where MS, HTC, etc. don't seem to use these phones in real life (or just like doing 5 clicks and waiting 10 seconds to do what can be done in 1 click instantly).

**t0mmyr** · #4 (**permalink**) 12-10-2009, 02:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gcianc

does that zoom bar have this many clickable points? i was under the impression only swipe left and right actually works.

its very touch sensitive all over just like the lower half of the original touch pro, never found any tool to actually utilize it back then though...i forget the technical name what its called but ill update this post when i find it

Oxymoron238 · #5 (**permalink**) 12-10-2009, 02:33 AM

You can count me in as a beta tester if you get this off the ground. I would love this!

**BlackDynamite** · #6 (**permalink**) 12-10-2009, 02:34 AM

Wow, the original poster has a great idea. I could definitely use something like that.

SDS · #7 (**permalink**) 01-17-2010, 12:30 PM

I think an on-screen virtual D-pad would be more useful. A 10-15mm square area at he bottom of the screen that comes up when Opera starts, disappears when the keyboard is slid out, then reappears when the keyboard is closed.

dishe · #8 (**permalink**) 01-17-2010, 01:07 PM

the slide bar actually emulates the up/down motion of a dpad, but there is a reg value to disable it by default except in apps that are designed to use it (messaging, album, etc).

I don't remember where it is off the top of my head, but if you just set that value to zero, sliding goes up and down.

Not exactly what the OP describes, but its built-in already...

It begs the question, however... if the system just sees that input as up/down, it might be hard to reassign those values without possibly messing with the ACTUAL up/down values on the Dpad (the one on the keyboard). Maybe not, just thinking outloud