{"id":13,"date":"2007-01-16T23:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2010-07-11T12:03:07","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T10:03:07","slug":"t8launcher-for-tapwave-zodiac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/t8launcher-for-tapwave-zodiac\/","title":{"rendered":"T8Launcher for Tapwave Zodiac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/uploaded_images\/screen-730959.png\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/uploaded_images\/screen-727399.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve just finished the first Alpha version of T8Launcher for Tapwave Zodiac. This is a pretty minimalistic launcher that uses a T9-like system to let you launch your apps. It&#8217;s only an alpha, but from my experience it seems almost 100% stable (in fact, the latest Alpha didn&#8217;t crash on me once). There are a few remaining issues that you&#8217;ll find listed in the FAQ below, but nothing serious. Still, I&#8217;m not responsible for any unintended behavior or any crashes.<\/p>\n<h3>Download:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/files\/T8Launcher.zip\">Local<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>FAQ:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">How to install T8Launcher?<\/span> Just Hotsync the PRC file contained in the ZIP file&#8230; that&#8217;s all<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">How to exit T8Launcher?<\/span> Enter &#8220;Home&#8221; to get back to the original Zodiac Launcher<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">How to disable T8Launcher?<\/span> Unfortunately, that&#8217;s not possible (yet). If you want to disable it, you have to uninstall it.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">How to uninstall T8Launcher?<\/span> Just use a third-party utility like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nosleep.net\/\">Filez<\/a> to delete the T8Launcher database.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I see some strange programs like &#8220;MMConduit&#8221; amd &#8220;Error Reporter&#8221; in T8Launcher. What are these?<\/span> These are hidden system utilities. So far T8Launcher ignores the &#8220;Hidden&#8221; file attribute of PalmOS. Just ignore these.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">A few programs with very long names leave display artefacts on the &#8220;ABC1&#8221; button. How can I get rid of these?<\/span> You can&#8217;t, this is a known issue&#8230; just ignore it for now.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The program list looks pretty unsorted. Am I missing something?<\/span> The only sorting priority right now is the position of the code match, so for example for &#8220;ABC1&#8221;, &#8220;MN50&#8221; Another World comes before Manticore. However, there is no alphabeitcal order.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Even after entering the full name of the app another app gets listed first, for example Address XT after entering Address.<\/span> Just use the &#8220;Down-Arrow&#8221; button to cycle all results. You&#8217;ll get there eventually.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Is T8Launcher much slower than the original Zodiac Launcher?<\/span> Actually, it&#8217;s a hell of a lot faster, thanks to the native ARM code and simple structure.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">How can I launch an application from card?<\/span> Unless you use a tool like PowerRun, you&#8217;ll have to exit T8Launcher and use the standard launcher instead.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">How can I find out which code I have entered?<\/span> You can&#8217;t. But you can use the &#8220;Left-Arrow&#8221; button to fix spelling mistakes.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">How do I enter unlisted characters like space or asterisk?<\/span> Don&#8217;t. T8Launcher ignores anything but a-z, A-Z and 0-9. For example &#8220;my App**&#8221; would simply become &#8220;myapp&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Can I create my own skin for T8Launcher?<\/span> Well, yes and no. There are no special tools, but you can simply use a normal PRC editor to modify the resources.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Why is its name T8Launcher?<\/span> On normal T9 cellphones, you actually need 10 keys (0-9) to enter a meaningful message. T8Launcher needs 9 buttons for input, so the logical name is T8.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">How will development continue?<\/span> I don&#8217;t know. I might create a more polished version and try to sell it for $1 but that&#8217;s just an idea&#8230; Anyway, this Alpha version will always remain free.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Why are a few buttons not centered vertically?<\/span> I made a mistake when creating the images and I haven&#8217;t gotten around to fixing it yet.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Which tools were used for this?<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/prc-tools.sourceforge.net\/\">PRC-Tools<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sealiesoftware.com\/peal\/\">PEAL<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hansschmucker.googlepages.com\/parm-palmarm\">PARM<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Feel free to use the comment section for suggestions and\/or bug reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished the first Alpha version of T8Launcher for Tapwave Zodiac. This is a pretty minimalistic launcher that uses a T9-like system to let you launch your apps. It&#8217;s only an alpha, but from my experience it seems almost 100% stable (in fact, the latest Alpha didn&#8217;t crash on me once). There are a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/t8launcher-for-tapwave-zodiac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">T8Launcher for Tapwave Zodiac<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}