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diff --git a/docs/usermanual/calendar.sgm b/docs/usermanual/calendar.sgm index 3257ae0..99a810c 100644 --- a/docs/usermanual/calendar.sgm +++ b/docs/usermanual/calendar.sgm @@ -178,13 +178,22 @@ changes, "x" will revert them to what they were before you edited them. </para> </section> <section><title>Finding Appointments</title> <para> To find a specific appointment, click the find button in the toolbar (small green magnifying glass) and it will open a find dialog. Here you can enter the text you want to search for, as well as the category you want to search for, as well as the start date, and whether you want the search to be case sensitive. Click "Find" to find the next appointment that matches your criteria. </para> </section> + +<section><title>Beaming Appointments</title> +<para> +To beam an appointment to another device using the IrDA and OBEX protocols, you must first install the IrDA +Applet and enable IrDA with it (see <xref linkend=irda>). Then select the appointment that you would like to +send in the Day View, and select Beam from the menu that appears. Opie will then send the appointment to any +waiting device. +</para> +</section> </chapter>
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/usermanual/contacts.sgm b/docs/usermanual/contacts.sgm index a3ad34a..8ba7674 100644 --- a/docs/usermanual/contacts.sgm +++ b/docs/usermanual/contacts.sgm @@ -80,20 +80,29 @@ the categories you want to view. </para> <para> The list of letters on the bottom of the window lets you look at only the contacts who's names begin with that letter. These work much like entering text on a mobile phone. For example, to view all the contacts whos name starts with "B", press the "ABC" group twice (since "B" is the second letter in that group). To go back to displaying all of the letters, click it two more times (pressing it four times brings you back to all the letters, so you pressed it 2 times to get to "B" and 2 more times to get back to all letters. 2+2=4). </para> </section> +<section><title>Beaming Contacts</title> +<para> +To beam a contact to another device, you must first have the IrDA Applet installed, and you must enable IrDA in it. +(see <xref linkend=irda>). Once this is done, you can select the contact you would like to beam, and press the +beam icon in the toolbar, or select Contact&arrow;Beam Entry. Opie will then send the contact using the IrDA and +OBEX protocols to any waiting device. +</para> +</section> + <section><title>Personal Details</title> <para> Change your personal details by going to <GUIMenu>Contact </GUIMenu> <GUIMenuItem>My Personal Details</GUIMenuItem>. This is used in today to display who the device belongs to, as well as other apps. </para> </section> </chapter>
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/usermanual/irda.sgm b/docs/usermanual/irda.sgm index 2ca48c6..a2f084c 100644 --- a/docs/usermanual/irda.sgm +++ b/docs/usermanual/irda.sgm @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ -<chapter><title>IrDA Applet</title> +<chapter id=irda><title>IrDA Applet</title> <para> The IrDA Applet provides a GUI for easilly controlling communication between your device and others using the IrDA protocol. You can use it to communicate with PalmOS based devices, cell phones, and almost anything else that can use infra red to communicate. </para> <section><title>Starting IrDA</title> <para> To start IrDA, click the IrDA Applet icon in the taskbar, and select "Enable IrDA". The icon should then turn red, and clicking the icon should then bring up a larger menu. If this does not happen, you do not have the IrDA modules installed properly on you device. Make sure you install the IrDA driver package for the device and distribution that you are using. </para> </section> @@ -16,19 +16,30 @@ properly on you device. Make sure you install the IrDA driver package for the d If you want to recieve files like images or contact information from another device, you need to tell your device to start looking for other devices. Do this by clicking on the IrDA Applet icon and selectiong "Enable Discovery". A green dot should appear in the upper right hand corner of the IrDA Applet icon. Then select "Enable Recieve" from the applet's menu, and a white box should appear in the bottom left corner of the IrDA Applet's icon. You can then have the other device send the file, and Opie should recieve it and open the file in whatever application is appropriate. </para> <para> When you are done recieving files, you will want to select "Disable Recieve" and "Disable Discovery" from the IrDA Applet's menu so that you are not wasting system resources. </para> </section> +<section><title>Beaming Files</title> +<para> +Several applications support beaming files in a format specific to that application (specifically, Contacts, Calendar, +and Todo). However, sometimes you may need to simply send a file to another device via IrDA, regardless of the +file type. To do this, you can use either AdvancedFM (yet to be documented), or you can do this from the +Documents tab. To beam a file from the Documents tab, you must first add that file to the Documents tab if you +havent already (see <xref linkend="adddoc">). Then, go to the Documents tab and press and hold on the icon for +the file you want to send. A dialog should appear, with a button in the bottom right labeled "Beam". Press this +button, and Opie will beam the file to any waiting devices. +</para> +</section> <section><title>Stoping IrDA</title> <para> Sometimes it is necessary to stop IrDA, usually so that you can use the IR port for another application. To do this, select "Disable IrDA" from the IrDA applet's menu. </para> </section> </chapter>
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/usermanual/todo.sgm b/docs/usermanual/todo.sgm index f7c5f11..18138d9 100644 --- a/docs/usermanual/todo.sgm +++ b/docs/usermanual/todo.sgm @@ -74,13 +74,22 @@ you want to see the deadline. <section><title>Completing Tasks</title> <para> To mark a task as completed without deleting it, you can either check the checkbox next to it in the main view, or edit it, and check the "completed" check box in the edit dialog. If <GUIMenu>Options</GUIMenu>&arrow; <GUIMenuItem>Completed<GUIMenuItem> tasks is not checked, the task will disapear when you mark it completed. but do not worry, it is not gone forever, just check Completed tasks in the options menu, and you can see and edit it again. </para> </section> + +<section><title>Beaming Tasks</title> +<para> +To beam a task to another device using the IrDA and OBEX protocols, you must first install the IrDA +Applet and enable IrDA with it (see <xref linkend=irda>). Then select the task that you would like to and select +press the Beam icon in the toolbar, or select Data&arrow;Beam. Opie will then send the task to any waiting +device. +</para> +</section> </chapter>
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