Re: Questions and a little bitching

Wesley H. Jan (wesmd@itsa.ucsf.EDU)
Mon, 29 Jul 1996 09:01:42 -0700 (PDT)

>I have tried many things and can't find anything in the
>docs. The only thing that seems to work at least for
>going to the next field, is pressing the Enter key.
>Aren't you supposed to use EITHER the keyboad, OR the pen
>as input, and not both?

Have you checked your pen calibration. Unless your Omnigo
is defective, you should DEFINITELY be able to touch the
screen to go to the next phonebook field. You do not touch
the field name but you touch the inside of the box and the
cursor should jump there. If it does not, you have a
problem with your machine.

>Also, does it bother anyone else that the phonebook has
>one Name field as opposed to first and last name fields.
>It also has no city, state, zip, or email fields, just two
>address fields. And you can only enter 64 characters
>into each field, I guess that's some inherent limit within
>the processor. I went ahead and created a database
>with many more fields with the goal of using that as a
>phonebook instead, though I will have to enter all of this
>on the omnigo instead of in the desktop PIM. The labels
>on the fields can only be 16 characters long - another
>limitation.

But you don't have to adhere to the meaning of the field
names. If you want you can put the last name in Name, the
first name in Home and the phone in Office and the E-mail
address in Fax. An address could be in Other, Address 2
could be Country, address 1 State, Title could be City and
so forth.

>Another thing I just can't understand is the event
>feature in the appointment book. What I don't udnerstand
>is why you can only create events in the desktop app.
>They will then show up in the PDA, but you simply cannot
>enter one in the PDA itself, as far as I can tell. Any
>Ideas?

Just back-space over the start time and it will convert to
NONE and automatically become an event.