Re-mapping Your Buttons
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This is a trick that makes your PDA more efficient for you! There are four "hard" or application buttons on face of your PDA and four buttons on the silkscreen. All four hard application buttons are changeable as to which programs they will launch (i.e., can be remapped) and the calculator button on the silkscreen can also be remapped. The figures below illustrate the default setting compared to my button setup.
Default buttons from the Palm OS
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Re-mapped buttons of an advanced user
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What does this do for you?
When the advanced user taps on the calculator button on the silkscreen, instead of getting the standard calculator, the user launches a more advanced calculator (Parens) instead. When the advanced user pushes the date book "hard button" on the PDA, the date book button will launch Agendus (a commercially available robust date book organizer instead of the Palm OS date book). Get the idea?
You can assign all five of these buttons to ANY program on your PDA that you desire. I try to use a program related to the figure on the button so I know what it is, but if you want to use the hard "to do list" button for your PDA's mp3 program or whatever, then go for it!
If you don't like the programs you have chosen, you can quickly go back to the default setting by tapping the default button in the lower left corner as shown in the figures above. Below is an example of a remapped button that I have done on my PDA.
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silkscreen, you get this with the default button setup:
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When you tap on the calculator button on the silkscreen of the remapped version, you can have a more robust calculator (this is Parens)*:
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*For a selection of free calculators visit www.freewarepalm.com
The next page will teach you how to do this.
