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Posted by recordond on 12-06-2001 03:08 AM:

Beaming With Launcher III

I have been using Launcher 3 and really like it for a while. I just got a memory stick and now when I goto beam the items on the memory stick do not show up to beam. Is this a limitation of the software or am I doing something wrong?

--David

Posted by tstarky on 12-06-2001 03:23 AM:

In Launcher III under the Options menu select Gadget Settings.

Select one of the "Gadgets" as beam.

Find the app you wish to beam and drag it to the beam icon.

Badabing badaboom....

Teri

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Posted by septimus on 12-06-2001 02:09 PM:

I dl'd launcher III 3.0 as soon as it was available, and I promptly was unable to beam. DL the latest version, I can beam from a CF card no problem.. so a memstick should work fine.. they use pretty much the same calls.

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Posted by recordond on 12-07-2001 04:28 AM:

Thx, my problem is when I would tap on the beam icon the programs wouldn't show up on the list but I will try your drag and drop method and it is the latest version.

--David

Posted by septimus on 12-07-2001 01:47 PM:

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Originally posted by recordond
Thx, my problem is when I would tap on the beam icon the programs wouldn't show up on the list but I will try your drag and drop method and it is the latest version.

That's a very interesting problem.. which programs are not showing up?

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Posted by recordond on 12-07-2001 03:17 PM:

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Originally posted by dietrichbohn

That's a very interesting problem.. which programs are not showing up?

The ones on the memory stick, but they show up in the launcher themself with a black dot indicating they are on the card.

--David

Posted by septimus on 12-07-2001 05:32 PM:

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Originally posted by recordond
The ones on the memory stick, but they show up in the launcher themself with a black dot indicating they are on the card.

OK, got it. Mine does this as well with VFS. If you have another program (like McPhling) that looks at the files, you'll find it also doesn't recognize stuff in a VFS directory.

It looks as though when Bodizar Benc added VFS functionality, he didn't add it to the beam and info sections of the app. This may have been a design choice for speed and stability. Fortunately, LIII does have a nice workaround (2, actually):

1) Drag and drop.
2) Drag the icon to the "card" gadget. If the icon is stored on the card, you will have three options show up: "Copy to RAM," "Move to RAM," and "Create shortcul". Tap that bottom one, and you will create a tiny mini-app that does nothing but call the one stored on the VFS. Thing is, that mini-app will be recognized by the standard Palm calls (i.e. it will show up in your beam screen).

The shortcut option is also nice b/c it is recognized by the hotsync utility, which is sometimes helpful

I guess I don't mind either of those solutions, but if it's really getting your goat, send an email to the developer, Bodizar Benc. I've heard nothing but good things about him and his work.

www.benc.hr
[email protected]

good luck!

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