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Elements of the handheld interface – Palm TUNGSTEN T2 User Manual

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Chapter 2

Exploring Your Handheld

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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 see

“Buttons Preferences”

in

Chapter 22

for more information about using these icons.

Brightness control

Tap the Brightness icon to open the Adjust Brightness
dialog box. See

“Adjusting screen brightness”

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