XML issues

[jsarrells]

I have several problems which are big problems for some of our XML app ideas. Basically I would like to be able to use the phone for simple lookups. For example, the user could key in an order number and the phone could respond back with order details.

Incoming calls interrupt app. It would be a nice option to have the phone automatically set status to "DND" or "Away" while in an app, and reset the status to "Available" when exited.

"LockIn" prevents letters and numbers from being entered in an InputScreen object making it pretty much useless.

InputScreen does not seem to take custom SoftKeys. The same keys will work on other objects, but InputScreen object always uses the default.

When displaying a FormattedTextScreen object, a gap in the "index" does not produce a gap on the screen. How to have a blank softkey?

Any ideas or suggestions for any of this?