Revision as of 15:29, 27 August 2009

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Description

I know a lot of people really like sending messages that are coherent, and a great way to do that is with the newline character. However, pressing the ENTER key in the messaging app sends a message, rather than typing a newline character. This page will show you how to (easily) change that action.

Prerequisites

Rooted phone.

Process

Log in as root.
Mount the file system as RW.
Enter the /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.app.messaging/app/controllers directory.
Change compose-assistant.js (line 87) and chatview-assistant.js (line 100) and set enterSubmits to be false.
Comment out the handleTextAreaKeyUp function in compose-assistant.js (lines 278 to 283) and chatview-assistant.js (lines 1678 to 1683).
To actually display newlines in the chatview: In chatview-assistant.js, in the ChatviewAssisant::preFormatChatList method (around line 1220), locate the lines:
<source lang="text">if(msg.messageText && !ChatFlags.isTransient(msg.flags)) {
msg.messageText = msg.messageText.escapeHTML(); </source>

and add the following just after:

<source lang="text">msg.messageText = msg.messageText.replace(/\n/g,"
"); </source>
Mount the file system as RO.
Reboot.

Post-Mod Screenshots

Issues

When moving down a line, you can't get the first character to be lower-case.

Further Development

I'm sure this is quite simple, but as I said before, I haven't put too much time into this yet... It would be really nice if we could use a SHIFT+ENTER to type a newline, and only pressing ENTER would send the message as it does now. That way, everybody wins.

Author(s)

xluryan

@@ Line 12: / Line 12: @@
 # Change '''compose-assistant.js''' (line 87) and '''chatview-assistant.js''' (line 100) and set '''enterSubmits''' to be '''false'''.
 # Comment out the '''handleTextAreaKeyUp''' function in '''compose-assistant.js''' (lines 278 to 283) and '''chatview-assistant.js''' (lines 1678 to 1683).
-      Don't comment out the whole '''handleTextAreaKeyUp''' function only comment out the part that says /*this.considerForSend();
-                                                                                                        Event.stop(event);*/
 # To actually display newlines in the chatview: In '''chatview-assistant.js''', in the ''ChatviewAssisant::preFormatChatList'' method (around line 1220), locate the lines:
 #: <source lang="text">if(msg.messageText && !ChatFlags.isTransient(msg.flags)) {

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