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Elements of the handheld interface – Palm Tungsten T Handhelds User Manual

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Tapping and typing

17

Select options in dialog boxes.

Open the onscreen keyboards.

Just as you can drag the mouse to select text or move objects on your computer,
you can drag the stylus to select text. You can also use the stylus to drag the slider
of any scroll bar.

Elements of the handheld interface

There are many common elements in the handheld interface. These elements are
described in this section.

Menu bar

Use the menu bar to access a set of application-specific
commands. Not all applications have a menu bar.

Icons

Tap the icons to open applications

, menus

, and a

favorite application

, and to find text anywhere in your

data .

See

“Opening applications,”

“Using menus,”

and

“Finding

information”

in

Chapter 4

, and

“Buttons Preferences”

in

Chapter 17

for more information about using these icons.

Brightness control

Tap the Brightness icon

to open the Adjust Brightness

dialog box. See

“Using the backlight”

earlier in this chapter

for instructions on adjusting the brightness.

Clock

Tap the Clock icon to display the current time and date.
The display closes automatically after two seconds.

ABC

With the cursor in an input field, tap ABC to activate the
alphabetic keyboard.

123

With the cursor in an input field, tap 123 to activate the
numeric keyboard.

Menu
bar

Icons