Resize button bar

arpruss · Jul 4, 2011

I wrote a little app to resize the button bar on the A43/A70/A101. I've only really tested it on the A43, though I did check that it changes the virtualkeys file for the A101 and the changes looked right.

I recommend that before trying it, you back up your /system/board_properties/virtualkeys.* file.

If someone wants to donate an icon to the project (BSD license) that would be welcome.

jony7 · Jul 4, 2011

For A101 is working flawlessly, many thanks, BTW is it possible to get auto-hide bar? Cheers

arpruss · Jul 4, 2011

jony7 said:
For A101 is working flawlessly, many thanks, BTW is it possible to get auto-hide bar? Cheers

I have no idea how to do auto-hide. One can edit packages.xml to disable the bar for particular apps, but then one has no way to get out of the apps, unless they were nice enough to provide an exit button.

My suggestion is that if you play a lot of games that the buttons intrude on, you just make the buttons very small.

arpruss · Jul 5, 2011

I added the ability to change the number, order and contents of the keys in the button bar. Unfortunately, only back/menu/home/search have button bar icons in the framework, so if you select other buttons, they will show up blank. But they should work, despite their blankness. To have fewer keys, just set some to None.

If you want to kill the button bar entirely, just set its width to zero (or else set all its entries to None).

Because of these features, the app is renamed ArchosButtons. But it's still here.

To return to the factory settings, choose "Defaults" and then "Set and reboot".

msticninja · Jul 5, 2011

arpruss said:
I added the ability to change the number, order and contents of the keys in the button bar. Unfortunately, only back/menu/home/search have button bar icons in the framework, so if you select other buttons, they will show up blank. But they should work, despite their blankness. To have fewer keys, just set some to None.

If you want to kill the button bar entirely, just set its width to zero (or else set all its entries to None).

Because of these features, the app is renamed ArchosButtons. But it's still here.

To return to the factory settings, choose "Defaults" and then "Set and reboot".

Nice work. I've removed it completely by deleting my init manually, but if I have to do it again, I'll probably use this.

arpruss · Jul 5, 2011

I'd like to get some more test reports from A70 and A101 users. Anybody? Here's a piece of encouragement: the first two people with each of these tablets to send me a report get a free copy of the paid version of Force2SD (just email me for your copy after posting).

lyapa · Jul 5, 2011

On mine A101 doesn't work

, gives out an error - there Was an unexpected stop of appendix ArchosButtons (process mobi.pruss.archosbuttons). Repeat attempt.
Firmware 2.0.71
P.S. Sorry my bad English.

jony7 · Jul 5, 2011

arpruss said:
I added the ability to change the number, order and contents of the keys in the button bar. Unfortunately, only back/menu/home/search have button bar icons in the framework, so if you select other buttons, they will show up blank. But they should work, despite their blankness. To have fewer keys, just set some to None.

If you want to kill the button bar entirely, just set its width to zero (or else set all its entries to None).

Because of these features, the app is renamed ArchosButtons. But it's still here.

To return to the factory settings, choose "Defaults" and then "Set and reboot".

My A101 its working as described, great job

Added vol. buttons on side bar which is in some cases would be very handy, just shame the buttons are blank but maybe you can do something with it in the future?

arpruss · Jul 5, 2011

lyapa said:
On mine A101 doesn't work , gives out an error - there Was an unexpected stop of appendix ArchosButtons (process mobi.pruss.archosbuttons). Repeat attempt.
Firmware 2.0.71
P.S. Sorry my bad English.

Is the error message when you start the app, or at some later time?

Do you know how to use adb? If so, I can give you some stuff to diagnose this. Email me.

arpruss · Jul 5, 2011

jony7 said:
My A101 its working as described, great job Added vol. buttons on side bar which is in some cases would be very handy, just shame the buttons are blank but maybe you can do something with it in the future?

Filling in these icons would require changing the framework. I don't really want to do that.

A nice mod for those of us who like ebooks would be to remap the hardware volume keys to up/down, and then to add volume buttons--might be nice to extend this app to support that.

Alas, on my A43, the buttons get a little smaller than I like when I add two more. On a tablet, I can see how it might be quite useful to add buttons.

sibere · Jul 5, 2011

Well done!

Does this app resizes icons when they are moved to the status bar ? (I hate the archos side button bar)

thanks

arpruss · Jul 5, 2011

sibere said:
Well done!

Does this app resizes icons when they are moved to the status bar ? (I hate the archos side button bar)

thanks

This app resizes the back/menu/home/search buttons, but it does not change the icon size. So if you make bar too thin, the icons will be cut off.

fisha21 · Jul 5, 2011

Thanks for posting this - nice work! Have just tried it on my A101, doesn't seem to resize or reorder the buttonbar icons.

arpruss · Jul 5, 2011

fisha21 said:
Thanks for posting this - nice work! Have just tried it on my A101, doesn't seem to resize or reorder the buttonbar icons.

Does it resize the buttons, but not the icons?

fisha21 · Jul 5, 2011

arpruss said:
Does it resize the buttons, but not the icons?

No, doesn't resize the buttons either...

arpruss · Jul 5, 2011

fisha21 said:
No, doesn't resize the buttons either...

Do you have an RW root?

If you have adb or a shell, can you check if it changes the /system/board_properties/virtualkeys.A101IT file successfull.

fisha21 · Jul 5, 2011

arpruss said:
Do you have an RW root?

If you have adb or a shell, can you check if it changes the /system/board_properties/virtualkeys.A101IT file successfull.

Am using urukdroid. Will check this and let you know...

arpruss · Jul 6, 2011

Ah, I bet urukdroid needs to remount the system partition rw. I can try to add that to the code.

arpruss · Jul 6, 2011

arpruss said:
Ah, I bet urukdroid needs to remount the system partition rw. I can try to add that to the code.

Does anyone know if
mount -o rw,remount /system
works on urukdroid?

arpruss · Jul 6, 2011

Actually, from my reading, it probably should be:
mount -o rw,remount /

Could you actually try that for me? Just start up an adb shell (or a terminal emulator), and do:
su
mount -o rw,remount /

Then immediately run my ButtonsForArchos.apk (current name: I decided ArchosButtons might have trademark issues).

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