MicroB & the Dpad
 

So I logged a bug on bugzilla (https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2423) for dpad configuration for microB asking for a config panel so I can specify like in opera (/home/user/input.ini) to set whether I can page up and down instead of scrolling when I click up and down and this is the response I got:

SO...seeing how I know next to nothing about writing Mozilla extensions, anyone wanna implement a user friendly extension and not a command-line hack?

Re: MicroB & the Dpad
 

Sigh. I'm constantly disappointed and surprised about the negative responses all of us have received on this issue, whenever it comes up. You get all kind of funny responses. "Use scrollbar" . "Hold the D-pad in". It's all rubbish, compared to a real page down/page up hardware key function.

For now I'm going to use dblank's workaround:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...4&postcount=11

Re: MicroB & the Dpad
 

There's a better way to do it now, I've edited my post.

The trick was to disable snav.enabled (thanks to timeless), after that any changes to platformHTMLBindings.xml should stick.

Re: MicroB & the Dpad
 

Perfect. That's equivalent to the input.ini edit we did with Opera. Thanks for posting!

Re: MicroB & the Dpad
 

That really *is* perfect, thank you! I was globally toggling up/down to pageup/pagedown from the statusbar clock before; this is much more convenient.

Just for kicks, I tried changing snav so it was enabled but required a modifier key, but it resets the modifier key to "0" each time the browser starts. Oh, well.

Re: MicroB & the Dpad
 

Neat find, thanks - but I have a vexing problem, am I the only one ?

The snav.enabled pref doesn't stick !

Doesn't matter if I change it to false in about:config, or in prefs.js while the browser is closed, next time it starts it's back to true !

What's going on here ?...

Re: MicroB & the Dpad
 

Have you tried editing prefs.js right after a reboot? Maybe there's a browser process running in the background?

Re: MicroB & the Dpad
 

Yup, I'd thought about that and tried it last before posting. Reboot, edit prefs.js right away, launch MicroB... snav enabled :-(

(this is on OS2007, if it matters)

Re: MicroB & the Dpad
 

In that case, I'm not sure.. maybe mark it read only after you've edited and see what happens?
(chmod a-w prefs.js)

Not ready to jump into the fun with OS2008 beta just yet? :)