Whenever you tap a button on the PalmPilot, you hear a faint "clicking" sound to provide feedback. For a calculator, where you can be tapping many buttons quickly, it becomes easy to "miss" a button and not notice the missing click. The Athlete's Calculator provides you with a louder, longer "confirmation" sound which you can turn on if you prefer (the software will remember your preference).
Press
the Menu button on the Pilot, and in the Options Menu you'll see a
Preferences option. When you select this option (or its equivalent using Graffiti
shortcuts), you'll see the dialog box shown to the left. Check or uncheck the preference
as you prefer.
The
Edit Menu provides you with Cut, Copy, and Paste choices.
At any time when using The Athlete's Calculator, one of the four fields will
be "active" - Time, Distance, Pace, or numerical input (below the Calculate
button). Cut copies the currently active field to the Clipboard and clears
the field; Copy just copies the value to the Clipboard. Note that if you copy
a time, the "colon" key will be copied, even if you haven't yet entered
it. For example, if you enter 4234 into the Time field, select Copy, and then
go to some other application (e.g., Memo Pad) and do a paste, you'll see "42:34"
rather than just "4234".
Paste takes what's on the clipboard and pastes it into The Athlete's Calculator as a whole, starting with but not limited to the currently active field. This is because the paste can include not only numbers, but characters (like Tab) which will switch to another field (see Chapter 4 for a complete list of supported Graffiti characters). So if the Time field is active and "4234" is on the clipboard, Paste will paste 4234 into the Time field. However if "4234d6.1=" is on the clipboard, paste will first paste "4234" into the Time field, then move to the distance field ("d"), then paste 6.1 into that field, then "press" the Calculate button ("="). Note, however, that there is an ten-character limit; if there are more than ten characters on the clipboard, only the first ten are pasted.
The
Help Menu provides you a number of choices for displaying help screens about
the menus and the Graffiti commands, as well as a reminder of where you can always
find an up-to-date copy of this manual. The About screen provides information
about contacting Stevens Creek Software.
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