Binary Bits

Few days back I posted a tweak by which you can increase the scroll bar height and width in Windows Mobile for easy navigation.

Now a developer at XDA Forums have come up with an application/service with which you can scroll using the Diamond's Navigation Sensor Wheel.

Tried in my HTC Touch Diamond and it really works !!

You can get the cab installer at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=466377

Tip: Don't Install in Internal Storage !!
When I connected my Diamond in Disk Drive Mode the app stopped working as Internal Storage is not accessible in this mode.

Basically Windows Mobile is not touch optimised. Especially scrolling through explorer, e-mail etc.

Fortunately HTC has done some tweaking to UI so that we can touch anywhere in the screen and scroll, instead of touching the Scrollbars.

Unfortunately some application don't support this feature and again you have to use your stylus to scroll.

But there is a solution. By making some changes in registry entries we can make the scroll bar wider and use it without the stylus.

Instead of making registry changes I used a tweaking application specific for Diamond called as "Advanced Configuration Tool" v3.3 with which we can do lot of changes.

You can find the free tweaking application here and a  discussion about it going here

The following screen shot shows the tweaks.

Launch Advanced Config > User Interface > Change the values in Horizontal scroll bar height appropriately > Do a soft reset(restart the device) and you can see the result.

Launch Advanced Config > User Interface > Change the values in Vertical scroll bar width appropriately > Do a soft reset(restart the device) and you can see the result.

I find 22px appropriate for my finger size.

Note: In my screen shots the scroll bars are already wider because the tweak was already applied.

Happy Scrolling

It has been almost now more than a month since last post. My work life is more and more taking over my personal life and some how trying very hard to get hold on to my personal life. This is one of the reason why I am not able to post.

Recently my dad bought HTC's Touch Diamond, a Microsoft Windows Mobile based Pocket PC. Unfortunately for my dad's official use this mobile is unable to run along. It looses it's battery energy almost in the middle of the day.

So he gave me his mobile till I get a better battery which fortunately HTC has released but not yet available here.

So till then I will be using this mobile and will be giving some tips, application which are useful.

So have a eye on this post's category.

ASP.NET comes with validation controls with which we can validate input values.

One of the most common situation is validating e-mail address. Some of the web sites online provide a Validation Expression which sometimes misses out the top level domain part.

The following is the Validation Expression which I found to be working perfectly.

<asp:TextBox ID="txtUserEmail" runat="server" />
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="rfvUserEmail" runat="server" ControlToValidate="txtUserEmail" ErrorMessage="*"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="rfvUserEmailValidate" runat="server" ValidationExpression="\w+([-+.]\w+)*@\w+([-.]\w+)*\.\w+([-.]\w+)*" ControlToValidate="txtUserEmail" ErrorMessage="Invalid Email Format"></asp:RegularExpressionValidator>

Note: I have added RequiredFieldValidator as RegularExpressionValidator check only for the format

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