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-== Introduction==
+#Redirect [[Patch Messaging Adding Timestamps to All Received Messages]]
-A number of users have requested adding timestamps to each message that arrives on the device.
-Palm actually goes out of their way to group messages that have arrived during various time intervals,
-but if you'd prefer to see a timestamp on each message, simply follow the instructions below.
-== Procedure==
-. Remount the file system as read/write
-. cd to '''/usr/palm/applications/com.palm.app.messaging/app/controllers/'''
-. Backup '''chatview-assistant.js''' (just to be safe)
-. Open '''chatview-assistant.js''' and comment out the following lines:
- * 1169 (webOS 1.1: '''1242''') - line that starts with: '''if(!ChatFlags.'''
- * 1177 (webOS 1.1: '''1250''') - line that starts with: '''if(today-msg.'''
- * 1179 (webOS 1.1: '''1252''') - first closing bracket on its own line: '''}'''
- * 1180 (webOS 1.1: '''1253''') - second closing bracket on its own line: '''}'''
-. Save the file and exit the editor
-. Remount the file system as read-only
-. Logout of your root session
-. Reboot the device
-You should now see a full timestamp on all received messages.
-= Add Timestamps to All Messages - another approach =
-== Introduction ==
-The method described above is the easiest way to display message timestamps.  I went a little farther since I didn't want the "Message Sent:" label and I also wanted to format the string a bit more.  While I was at it, I also modified the view for the message text to display as pre-formatted text since text messages are text after all, not html.
-== Procedure ==
-* same as steps 1 & 2 above
-* save a backup of /usr/palm/applications/com.palm.app.messaging/
-** stylesheets/messaging.css
-** app/views/chatview/message/message-text.html
-** app/controllers/chatview-assistant.js
-* edit stylesheets/messaging.css
-** search for the string 'messageText' and append the following after its style definition
- .messageText pre {
-    font-family: inherit;
-    font-size: inherit;
-    color: inherit;
- }
- .timeStamp {
-    font-size: 12px;
-    font-style: italic;
-    color: #1111ff;
- }
-**feel free to change the style to your liking.  I tried using 'white-space: pre-wrap' in the .messageText class but it didn't behave as expected, hence the use of the pre tag.
-* edit app/views/chatview/message/message-text.html
-** change the single line to:
- <nowiki><div class="messageText"><pre>#{-messageText}</pre> #{-errorContent}<span class="timeStamp">#{-timeStampText}</span</div></nowiki>
-* edit app/controllers/chatview-assistant.js
-** search for the string 'preFormatChatList:' and just below that look for 'var msg = stuff.list[i];'
-** somewhere after that line (within the for loop) add the following:
- var ts = new Date();
- ts.setTime(msg.deviceTimeStamp);
- msg.timeStampText = Mojo.Format.formatDate(ts,'short');
-** note that I used msg.deviceTimeStamp which I believe is when your phone sent/received the message.  If you'd prefer the time it was actually sent by the sender, use msg.timeStamp instead.  while you're in here, you may consider applying the [[Patch Messaging Change "Enter Key" To Create Newline|send on return behavior]] changes.
-* restart LunaSysMgr or reboot
-be sure to save the files you modified as they could get overwritten on the next sprint update.  better yet, install [[Applying_Patches|quilt]] to manage the diffs as a patch.
-== Acknowledgements==
-Thanks to tk102 and scuba_steve on [http://www.precentral.net/ PreCentral] for the mod.

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