Pocket Tablet Help

Overview
Starting Pocket Tablet
Using the Stylus
Using the Action Button
Pocket Tablet Toolbar
Pocket Tablet Menu

Overview

Pocket Tablet:

Lets you use your Pocket PC as a digitizing tablet when connected to your desktop computer. You can use the stylus for graphics and handwriting applications where a pen is a more natural tool than a mouse.
Maintains all of the functionality of your mouse, and will work as a complement to the mouse allowing the user to use whichever device is most comfortable for the current application.
Can be used with one hand using the stylus or with two hands using the Action Button and the Stylus together.
May be oriented to use any of the four sides of your Pocket PC as the top of the tablet. This allows the user to orient Pocket Tablet in either portrait or landscape modes and supporting either right or left handed users.

Starting Pocket Tablet

Before using Pocket Tablet, make sure that your Pocket PC is connected to your desktop computer and that the Pocket Tablet Server is running. The Pocket Tablet Server will automatically start on your desktop computer when you connect your Pocket PC using ActiveSync.

Once the Pocket Tablet client and server are communicating correctly, the Pocket Tablet Server icon on the taskbar of your desktop computer and will turn a light blue.

Using the Stylus

Cursor Movement Mode

When Pocket Tablet is in Cursor Movement Mode it displays a cursor on the screen that correlates to the cursor position on the desktop screen.

Cursor Movement Mode is the default mode of Pocket Tablet.

Drawing Mode

When Pocket Tablet in position Drawing Mode, it displays a thin line that tracks the stylus movement much like ink from a pen. These "pen trails" are a convenient visual feedback mechanism to help facilitate drawing and writing with Pocket Tablet.

To avoid the screen becoming cluttered with "pen trails", Pocket Tablet automatically clears the screen when entering Drawing Mode.

Drawing mode can be entered either by:

Pressing and holding the action button.
Using the tap and hold gesture using the stylus.
Double tapping the screen without lifting the stylus after the second tap. (Double Tap and Hold)

Extended Drawing Time
The extended drawing time is the period of time after lifting the stylus from the screen in which Pocket Tablet remains in drawing mode. This allows for multiple separate pen strokes without having to constantly switch between cursor movement mode and drawing modes enabling the user, for example, to dot their i's and cross their t's.

Single Click

Tapping and releasing the stylus without moving the stylus on the screen will perform a single click.

Single clicks are performed in either Cursor Movement Mode or Drawing Mode.

Double Click

Tapping and releasing the stylus twice in succession will perform a double click.

Double clicks are performed in either Cursor Movement Mode or Drawing Mode.

Using the Action Button

When the action button is pressed and held:

Drawing Mode is entered.
The screen is cleared of pen trails.
Single taps are interpreted as single taps
Double taps are interpreted as double taps

When the action button is pressed and released immediatly:

a single click is sent to the desktop.
The screen is cleared of pen trails.

Change Orientation Button
Rotates the Pocket PC orientation counter-clockwise by 90 degrees.

Left Click Button
Performs a left mouse click on the desktop.

Right Click Button
Performs a right mouse click on the desktop.

Double Click Button
Performs a double left mouse click ns on the desktop.

Clear Screen Button
Clears the Pocket PC screen.

Help Button
Displays this help file.

Pocket Tablet Menu

Orientation
Use this menu to select the orientation of the Pocket PC in relation to the desktop pc screen that is the most comfortable to hold and use.

North
Orients the top of the Pocket PC as the top of the tablet.

West
Orients the left side of the Pocket PC as the top of the tablet.

South
Orients the bottom of the Pocket PC as the top of the tablet.

East
Orients the right side of the Pocket PC as the top of the tablet.

Settings

Displays the settings screen. This is where the user can adjust the Extended Drawing Time.

Help

Displays this help file

About

Displays Copyright Information

Exit

Exit Pocket Tablet.

Settings Dialog Help

Use the slider to adjust the Extended Drawing Time anywhere from 0 to 1 second.

Entisoft Pocket Tablet™
149 S. Barrington, Suite 722
Los Angeles, CA 90049
310-472-3736

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