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Originally Posted by kennethmgreen
For example, in iSilo's button customization, you can use directional keys to move around a document. But once a link is selected, directional keys jump from link to link. It was a very elegant solution to having a limited number of hardware buttons.
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In Plucker, there is quite a bit of customization you can do with the hard buttons, and for that matter, Graffiti gestures, screen drags, etc. Based on your comment I do something similar in my Plucker setup to what you do in iSilo... I've gotten my Tungsten E2 to the point where I really don't need the stylus at all. For example, here are my settings, all of which are totally customizable:
-- I can scroll up and down the document with the 5-way up/down presses
-- I can jump forward to the next hyperlink or back to the preceding hyperlink using the left/right presses of the 5-way. Center button selects the hyperlink once one is highlighted.
-- Left-most of four hard buttons is the "back" button (previous webpage)
-- Second button is "forward" (next page viewed in history if there is one to go forward to)
-- Third hard button is "toggle autoscroll" on and off. Once autoscroll is started, the up and down buttons on the 5-way increase or decrease the speed.
-- [I don't use the fourth button, have it reserved to launch something else even if I'm still in Plucker. Plucker will disable "normal" hard button activity.]
-- I have the screen set to drag the view if I drag the stylus. You can set it instead so that taps in each of four regions of the screen can be assigned to about 40 different functions. You can also use 5 graffiti gestures and assign each to about 40 functions, but I don't use those either.
The one thing that I wasn't able to do until recently is access the menus with only hard keys, and Alexander Pruss' great new Center Menu program enables that with a center-key hold. I can now do just about everything now without a stylus.
There's only one function I can't do with Plucker and hard buttons, and that's access the drop-down box that allows me to select where in the document to jump to (10%-20%-30%, etc.)
It's a great program, though it hasn't really been updated in a new release version in about 2+ years. But the price is certainly right!