[bookport] Re: A Key Describer function
- From: "pam bilton" <pbilton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:15:30 -0500
Hey, three key describers sounds like a wonderful idea!
Pam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Neal Ewers" <ewers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bookport" <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 12:50 PM
Subject: [bookport] A Key Describer function
> OK, someone is probably going to tell me that what I am asking for
> already exists and I haven't found it. Anyway...
>
> What about having a toggle key that is a "Key Describer: such that
> when you turned it on, any key you pressed would tell you what it did.
> I realize that this is harder than it might be in most applications in
> that some buttons on the Book Port do different things while in idle
> mode and others while one is reading. So, perhaps you need two
> different "Key Describer" keys. One describes the idle functions as
> you press them, and the other describes what happens when you are
> reading a file. Oh yes, and I just realized another problem, there is
> also a difference in what some keys do in Audio files versus
> electronic files like Word files, etc. Do I hear another "Key
> Describer" function. Perhaps this is not the way to go, but simply
> taking one to the complete "Book Port users manual when help is
> invoked may not be all that helpful for a beginning user.
>
> Neal
>
>
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