AsciiChart by John Valdes Version 1.0 4/13/97 AsciiChart is a simple character set and font display utility for the U.S. Robotics Palm Pilot. Use AsciiChart to view the characters available in each of the PalmOS built-in fonts, to find their ASCII codes, and to determine their heights and widths. INSTALLATION ------------ To install AsciiChart in your Pilot, first download and decompress the AsciiChart archive appropriate for your system. Next, run the InstallApp program, enter the name of the AsciiChart file where indicated (or click the Browse... button and use the dialog box to find the AsciiChart .prc file) and then click the Install button. Finally, HotSync your Pilot with your computer to load AsciiChart into your Pilot. HOW TO USE ---------- Use the scroll buttons to scroll the chart up or down; the hardware scroll buttons scroll by one screen at a time, while the onscreen scroll arrows scroll by one row at a time. Tap a character or use Graffiti to display the ASCII code (in decimal and hexadecimal), font height, and character width of the character. The popup trigger at the upper left of the screen can be used to change the font of the displayed characters. Tapping the "Copy" button will copy the currently selected character to the clipboard (useful for pasting "Graffiti-less" characters into memos or shortcuts). HISTORY ------- Version 1.0, 4/13/97: o character information is now properly updated when changing the font while the selected character is scrolled off the screen o fixed centering (as much as possible) of Graffiti shift characters in the Symbol font in PalmOS 1.0.x (no fix was needed for the Graffiti shift characters in PalmOS 2.x) o corrected URL in the "About" dialog and added email address Version 1.0 alpha 3, 3/23/97: o initial public release KNOWN PROBLEMS -------------- Version 1.0: o Table cell selection and highlighting problem still needs to be fixed properly. Version 1.0 alpha 3: o Selecting a character in the table with the stylus only works when tapping in the upper 2/3 of the cell; this is due to a "misfeature" of the PalmOS table handling code. o Table cell highlighting is a bit odd, due to problem mentioned above. o Display of the Graffiti shift state characters in the Symbol font needs to be cleaned up. PLANNED ADDITIONS ----------------- o Redo table selection code to work around problems mentined above. o Perhaps add display of character name (as given in SKD's Chars.h) upon selection? Don't know how useful this would be, and would add about 2-4K to the size of the application. Thoughts? (send to j-valdes@uchicago.edu) LEGAL STUFF ----------- AsciiChart is Copyright (C) 1997 by John Valdes. AsciiChart is freeware. Permission is given for free use and distribution of this program. No warranty is made on this software, nor is the author liable for any damage resulting from the use of this software. Any questions, comments or suggestions can be emailed to me at j-valdes@uchicago.edu. The current version of AsciiChart can be found with other Pilot software at . Source code is available on request.