[ctmagnus]

Originally Posted by Jason Lee

Yep tap and hold on the dpad works just fine.

However i don't understand why they no longer display the dot animation.

:duh: I've been doing the dpad tap and hold thing forever, but I had just assumed something was broken in this version due to the animation going awol. I've been holding the dpad for a tiny fraction of a second, then when the animation doesn't show up I would start griping under my breath about how a developer could break something as simple as tap and hold functionality. Of course, I wasn't holding the dpad down long enough for anything to happen. ops:

[ctmagnus]

Originally Posted by Jason Lee

Yep tap and hold on the dpad works just fine.

However i don't understand why they no longer display the dot animation.

:duh: I've been doing the dpad tap and hold thing forever, but I had just assumed something was broken in this version due to the animation going awol. I've been holding the dpad for a tiny fraction of a second, then when the animation doesn't show up I would start griping under my breath about how a developer could break something as simple as tap and hold functionality. Of course, I wasn't holding the dpad down long enough for anything to happen. ops:

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by a.morreale

As for not being aware of this kind of things, well, most of us are aware of "tap and hold" just because of the "tap and hold" tutorial that's shown when you first power on a Pocket PC (ops. a "Windows Mobile Classic" or "Windows Mobile Professional" device). Considering the increasing attention given by Microsoft to "single handed operation", they should probably revise that tutorial now, and teach how to keep the action button pressed instead.

Indeed, that's exactly the problem - I've only ever done tap and hold with a stylus, and because it's not in the wizard as you said, it's almost completely indiscoverable. I bet it I were to do a survey here, 75% of the people wouldn't have known about it.

And, to be fair, I've been much more a "Smartphone guy" the past two years - I bounce back and forth between Pocket PC and Smartphone, but usually go back to the Smartphone. And guess what? Pressing and holding the d-pad on a smartphone doesn't give you any extra options, I guess because there is no "tap and hold" function on the smarpthone.

[Jason Lee]

This is kinda cool to find out. The tap and hold with the d-pad is just something i assumed everyone knew. It just makes sense to me.

If clicking the d-pad is the same as a tap the next logical step would be that holding the d-pad is the same thing as a tap and hold.

Being an anthropology geek I love things like this. It really shows how different people think, how varied our reasoning methods can be.

I wonder how much this might relate to right vs. left brained people?

anyway, the new version of resco if very nice. There are some nice additions to the network browsing. Very powerful. Resco file explorer was the first piece of software i ever bought. Way back in the original ipaq 3600 days. Up until then i was all free ware.

[Sheena]

I've been using Resco 2005 for a few months & it's really good, but honestly I don't see a reason to upgrade right now, especially since it's yet another thing to buy (albeit with a little discount for current users). My issue is wondering why file managers like Resco, that have a good integrated Today screen, never include a quick access to the files.

Let me explain what I mean: Does anyone remember GigaBar or I am the only user left still in love with it? Yes, it still works, although since it's been abandoned each new OS makes it a little unstable or some features don't work perfectly. WM2003 can still manage it, but not sure if anything newer does.

Now, if there is one GigaBar feature more useful than any other (apart from closing applications of course <G>), it's Files. Remember that? Assign any button on the toolbar (always visible) & you're done. Not only it points to files, but instead of opening an explorer window & taking more memory, it simply gives you a drop-down list of your drives/folders & you can do all the basic functions right there, click to open a file, hold to copy/cut/paste, rename, delete & properties.

Since programs like Word & Excel don't have a properly functioning File/Open feature & probably never will on a PPC, why bother opening yet another application just to find a subfolder on a flash card when it can be easily done through the toolbar? While moving this to the Today screen is still one extra click to get there, at least it's easier than opening another program first.

Hopefully Resco or any other file manager (or Today add-in, or toolbar program) will add this feature sometime soon. Good ol' Gigabar may not work on my next upgrade. The horror! 8O

Rosie

[Jason Lee]

If you have only used resco 2005 for a few months you probably get the upgrade to 2007 free. Once you buy one of there products you get most upgrades free for one year. To find out you can go to their support site and request your software keys. They will send you an email with the current keys for all of their software you can use.

[Sheena]

Thanks for the heads-up, Jason. I thought it was only 6-months for the freebie, but with the whole year I can get it just fine, only need to wait for a new code key. :way to go:

Rosie