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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 @@ -1,190 +1,199 @@ <chapter><title>Calendar</title> <para> The Calendar is a way to keep track of all your appointments, birthdays, meetings, or any other event that you would put in a calendar. </para> <section><title>Navigation</title> <para> Navigation in the Calendar is simple. Along the top are five different buttons that allow you to set the type of view, which correspond to the five items in the "View" menu. Each one (except for "Today") changes the amount of time shown on the screen. "Day" shows one day, "Week" one week, etc. Today is the same as Day, except that it automatically sets the view to the current day. </para> <section><title>The Day view</title> <para> The day view shows your day divided up into blocks representing each hour. At the top is the navigation bar, wher you will see a row of buttons, which represent the days of the current week, and on the left and right sides of the navigation bar are arrows, which allow you to move one day in that direction. If you are on the last day of the week, pressing the arrow will bring you into the first day of the next week (or vice-versa if you are going backwards). There is also a button that lists the current day, which you can press to select a day to view from a calendar dialog. </para> <para> In the main view, there is a collumn of buttons, each of which represents one hour. If you select one, any new appointments will automatically default to begining at that time and ending an hour later (which you can, of course, change when you create the appointment). </para> <para> Clicking on an appointment will open a menu that lets you edit, delete or beam the appointment. Beam will beam the appointment to any device supporting the Obex protocol (PalmOS based devices, cellphones, etc). libopieobex must be installed to use this feature. </para> </section> <section><title>The Week View</title> <para> The week view allows you to see your week divided up into columns, representing each day of the week, and rows, representing each hour of the day. In the navigation bar at the top, there are two scroll boxes, the one on the left shows the current year, and the one to the right shows which week it is of that year. To the right of both of those is a label which shows the date range for the currently selected week. </para> <para> In the main view, you see the week divided up into rows and collumns representing the days of the week, and hours of the day. In each cell, you will see a blue square which represents an appointment, which you can press to see details of the appointment. If you press anywhere in the free space, you will go to the day of the column that you clicked in. </para> </section> <section><title>The Week List View</title> <para> The week list view shows you all the appointments that you have that week without graphically representing how long they are or showing the free time between them. This is convinient if you need to see a list of all your appointments, but do not need to see how your time is mapped out. The navigation bar has an arrow button on either side, allowing you to move to the next or previous week, as well as a button which gives the current week number for that year. Pressing the week number button will bring up a calendar dialog, which allows you to select the week you are viewing. Selecting a day from the calendar will bring you to the week that day is in. To the right of that is a button with a "2" in it. When this is depressed, the main view will show two weeks at a time, instead of one. The last item is a label which shows the range of dates for the currently selected week. </para> <para> The main view is comprised of several rows, each of which represents a day of the week. If you have an appointment on that day, the date will be red, otherwise it will be black (the current day is blue). Clicking on the date itself will bring you to the day view for that day. Under each day is a list of all the appointments for that day, as well as their start times. If you click on an appointment, you will go to an edit dialog for that appointment, which lets you view its details. Next to each day heading is a "+" sign, clicking it will create a new appointment for that day. </para> </section> <section><title>The Month View</title> <para> The month view looks like a normal monthly calendar, allowing you to see on what days of the month you have appointments. In the navigation bar, there are two pairs of arrows. The pair with an arrow and a vertical line will take you to the first or last month of the currently selected year, while the normal arrow buttons will take you to the next or previous month. There is a dropdown menu which allows you to select the month, and a entry field which allows you to select the year (press the up or down arrows, or enter in your own year). </para> <para> The main view is divided up into a grid, where the columns are the days of the week, and the rows are the weeks (just like an ordinary calendar). The currently selected day has a bold box drawn around it, and if the day has an appointment, there will be a small blue square in the bottom right corner of it (that square will have a smaller white square if it is a recurring appointment). If the appointment is an all day event, it will be drawn as a green dot instead. When you click on the sqaure of a day, you will be taken to the day view for that day. </para> </section> </section> <section><title>Adding Appointments</title> <para> To add an appointment, click on the add appointment button in the toolbar at the top of the window (an image of a blank page), and a dialog will open up, allowing you to enter information about the appointment (depending on the current view, and what you may have selected, there may be certain default settings). </para> <para> At the top of the window is the description field, where you can enter in a short description of the appointment, or select a common one from the dropdown list. The location field allows you to do the same. The category dropdown allows you to assign the appointment to a category, which you can use later to view only some of your appointments. The button labeled "..." to the right of that will open up a dialog where you can add, delete, or edit certain categories. </para> <para> To enter a start and end time, select the date for each from the dropdown menu, and then you can either manually enter a time, or you can use the three rows of numbers to more quickly enter it in. To use the fast input method, first click in the text entry field of the time you want to edit, then you need to select the hour. The first two rows are the hours, click whichever one you want. The third row of numbers are the minutes, in units of five. When you select the minutes field for the start time, it will automatically set the minutes field for the end time to the same thing, but you can change this by selecting the end field and giving it its own minutes field. Because of this, it is fastest to set the start time first and then the end time. There is also an "all day" checkbox, which will make the appointment take up the entire day. </para> <para> Underneath this you can set the timezone of the appointment from the dropdown list. To change the available timezones, click the world icon, and it will open the City Time application. Refer to its documentation for changing the timezones. If you want to have an alarm go off, check the "alarm" checkbox, and then set the number of minutes before the appointment that you want the alarm to sound. If you set the dropdown list next to that to "silent" you will only be given a visual alarm, wheras if you set the alarm to "Loud", there will be an alarm sound as well. Note: opie-alarm must be installed for alarms to work. </para> <para> To set whether the appointment repeats, click the "Repeat" button and a new dialog will open up. At the top is a row of buttons, which lets you set how often the appointment repeats. Selecting one of these buttons will change the interface below, to represent the available options for that type of repetition (selecting "None" will turn off repetition if you turned it on and no longer want it). When you are done, click "ok" in the upper right to select that type of repetition, or "x" to set it back to what it was (none if it is a new appointment). </para> <para> Finally, you can add notes to the appointment by clicking the "Notes..." button which will open a dialog with a text entry field for adding notes. Press "ok" to accept the changes to the notes, "x" to cancel. </para> <para> When you are done setting up the appointment, click "ok" in the top right of the window, or "x" to cancel adding the appointment. </para> </section> <section><title>Editing Appointments</title> <para> How you start editing an appointment varies depending on what view you are in, but they will all open the same dialog. The dialog is the same as the Add Appointment dialog, except that the fields will already be filled in with the information that the appointment contains. Clicking "ok" will keep your 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> -</chapter>
\ No newline at end of file + +<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> 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 @@ -1,99 +1,108 @@ <chapter><title>Contacts</title> <para> Contacts is a way to keep track of all the people you know, and how to contact them. as well as other information, such as their birthday, the company they work for, etc. <para> <section><title>Adding Contacts</title> <para> To Add a user, go to <GUImenu>Contact</GUImenu>&arrow;<GUIMenuItem>Add</GUIMenuItem>, or click the add icon in the toolbar (looks like a blank piece of paper). First, you need to give the person a name. You can do this by either entering their name in the name field, or by pressing "Full Name...", which will open up a new dialog that lets you enter each part of their name individually. Three of the entry fields have pulldown menus instead of labels that let you set which parameter these input fields control. The File As field lets you control how their name is displayed in the main view, use the pulldown arrow to select from some common ways of ordering their first and last names, or type in a custom one. You can also select a category for the user to be filed under, and clicking the button labeled "..." lets you edit the available catagories (these are convinient for displaying just the contacts you want when you have a lot of them). </para> <para> The address tab lets you edit the contact's buisness and home addresses (select which one you want to change from the pulldown menu at the top). The bottom field behaves just like the three custom fields in the "General" tab (and if you select the same thing from the pulldown list, it will modify the same parameter). </para> <para> The Details tab is used for miscelaneous things like the person's position, the name of their spouse, etc. </para> <para> When you are done, click "Ok" in the top right of the screen (you can always edit their profile later), click the "x" to cancel, and not add the contact. </para> </section> <section><title>Editing Contacts</title> <para> To edit the contacts, select the person you want to edit, anc click the pencil icon, or go to <GUIMenu>Contact</GUIMenu>&arrow;<GUIMenuItem>Edit</GUIMenuItem>, and it will open up the same dialog used to add a user, except their information that is already entered will already be filled in. To finalise the changes, click "Ok", or to cancel them, click "x". </para> </section> <section><title>Deleting Contacts</title> <para> To delete a contact, select the person from the list of contacts, and click the trash can icon, or go to <GUIMenu>Contact</GUIMenu> &arrow;<GUIMenuItem>Delete</GUIMenuItem>. A dialog will pop up asking if you want to actually delete that contact, click yes to delete it, no will cancel. </para> </section> <section><title>Editing Contacts</title> <para> To find a specific person, click the find icon (green magnifying glass), or go to <GUIMenu>Contact</GUIMenu>&arrow;<GUIMenuItem>Find</GUIMenuItem>. A dialog will pop up, and in the "Find what" input, enter the string you want to search for. You can also select if you want the search to be case sensative, and if you want it to search backwards from the currently selected user. The Category drop down menu lets you search only a specific category ("All" to search all of them). When you click "Find", it will start search for the string in all the fields in all the contacts. When it finds a match, it will highlight the user in the main view. You can use this to search for (as an example) who a certain phone number belongs to, by entering the phone number in the "find what" field, and clicking "Find". </para> </section> <section><title>Viewing Contacts</title> <para> To view only the contacts in a certain category, go to the View menu, and check 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 +</chapter> 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 @@ -1,34 +1,45 @@ -<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> <section><title>Recieving Files</title> <para> 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 @@ -1,86 +1,95 @@ <chapter><title>Todo</title> <para> Todo is designed for storing information about things you need to do, but which arent going to happen at a specific time, like "change the oil" or "mow the lawn". You can also give todo items a deadline, if they have to be completed by a certain time. </para> <section><title>Adding Tasks</title> <para> Go to <GUIMenu>Data</GUIMenu>&arrow;<GUIMenuItem>New Task<GUIMenuItem>, or click on the new task icon (blank page). The priority drop down menu lets you select the priority of the task. The lower the number, the more important it is. The categories behave in much the same way that they do in Calendar, you can select the category from the drop down menu, or you can click the "..." button to add, delete, or edit categories. To give the task a due date, check the "Due" checkbox, and then click the button next to it (it should contain the current date). That will open a calendar from which you can select the due date. The "Completed" check box is the same as the checkbox next to each item in the main view. The "Summary" field is for a short summary that will be visible in the main view, as well as in the Today application. The down arrow next to it will copy the text in the "Summary" field into the large text field below it, which is used for a more detailed description of the task. Click "ok" in the upper right to add the new task, or "x" to close the window without adding the new task. </para> </section> <section><title>Editing Tasks</title> <para> To edit a task, you can select it, and then go to <GUIMenu>Data</GUIMenu>&arrow;<GUIMenuItem>Edit Task</GUIMenuItem>, or click the edit task icon (an image of a pencil). The same dialog should apear as if you were adding a task, but the information for that task should already be filled in. You can change any of it you want to, and then click "ok" in the top right corner to save the changes, or "x" to go back to the way it was. </para> </section> <section><title>Deleting Tasks</title> <para> To delete a task, first select it, and then either select <GUIMenu>Data</GUIMenu>&arrow; <GUIMenuItem>Delete...</GUIMenuItem> or press the Delete icon (an image of a trash can). A dialog should pop up, asking if you want to delete the task, click yes to delete it, or no to cancel. </para> </section> <section><title>Finding Tasks</title> <para> To find a task, either go to <GUIMenu>Options</GUIMenu>&arrow;<GUIMenuItem>Find</GUIMenuItem> , or click the find icon (an image of a green magnifying glass), and a dialog should pop up. Enter the text you want to search for in the description, and select the category that you want it to search through (this will speed the search up, if you know what category it is in). You can also select "case sensative" which makes the search pay attention to the case of what you type (so if you look for "mow lawn", it won't find a task called "Mow lawn"). "Search Backwards" will search backwards from the currently selected task. Click "Find" to initiate the search, when it finds a task that matches the string, it will select it. If you click Find again, it will find the next one in the list (or the previous one, if "Search backwards" is selected). </para> </section> <section><title>Viewing Tasks</title> <para> To only view tasks filled under certain categories, go to the Category menu, and check the categories you want to view. Also, under the Options menu, you can select whether or not you want completed tasks to be visible, and whether or not you want to see the deadline. </para> </section> <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> -</chapter>
\ No newline at end of file + +<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> |