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Correcting problems with tapping – Palm TX User Manual

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T|X Handheld

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CHAPTER 26

Customizing Your Handheld

Correcting problems with tapping

Is your screen not responding to taps? Are you getting unexpected results when you tap?
For example, when you tap the number keyboard icon, does the Bluetooth

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dialog box open

instead? If this happens, it’s time to align the screen.

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1

Open Touchscreen Preferences:

a. Go to Applications

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b. Select Prefs

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c. Select Touchscreen.

2

Tap the targets on the screen as precisely as possible, and then select Done.

You need to tap at least three targets—maybe more if you don’t tap

carefully.

Done

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Key Term

Touchscreen

Another

name for your handheld’s
screen and the internal
circuitry that enables it
to respond appropriately
to taps.

Tip

If your screen is not
responding to taps, use
the 5-way navigator
to open Touchscreen
Preferences.

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Key Term

Calibration

The process

of aligning your
handheld’s touch-
sensitive screen so that
when you tap an element
on the screen, your
handheld detects exactly
what you want it to do.

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