Registered: Mar 2000
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Posts: 97

HELP!

I find that when there is a scroll bar (left-right type) at the bottom of my screen--I very often accidentally hit and activate say my calculator instead of scrolling right for instance.

It takes me out of my app and is driving me CRAZY!!!

Is there a work around for this?

I've run the digitizer correction from the preferences to make sure that my stylus was reading accurately but it still happens.

Does anyone else have this problem? Or can I deactivate my calculator silk screen button? I'm not thrilled about the deactivating it but it's driving me crazy. Another work around that I thought of was having the left/right scroll assigned to a hard button at the bottom. Maybe Colauncher may be able to help there. I dunno. I've never seen it run yet.

Help!

Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Connecticut USA
Posts: 2682

Go to Digitizer in prefs and recalibrate the screen. Make sure to tap just below the X's... not directly on them. This will help with your problem.

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MarkEagle - Ice is nice!

Registered: Mar 2000
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Posts: 97

Thanks Mark...

I tried to hit them below and while it seems to help a little bit... I'm still getting the "mi****s".

Also, now, I've noticed that when I want to highlight say a few words, my Visor is registering the hightlight about 2 characters to the right of where the stylus strikes the screen.

So if I wanted to highlight "12345 too!" in this sentence:

"I can count to 12345 too!"

And I put the stylus down at the "1" in "12345"... it will begin my highlight at "345 too!". I will miss the first two characters.

Is there something wrong with my Visor?

Registered: Jun 2000
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Posts: 18

Ok, here's what's going on. I had a IIIe before I bought my GVDx, and I only have this problem with my Visor. There is a small gap between where the 160x160 LCD screen ends and where the graffiti "overlay" starts, a couple mm wide (it's always the same color as the screen is when you turn it off). On the IIIe, as I recall, clicking on that space was the same as clicking on the bottom pixel on the screen. On the Visor, it appears that clicking on that space is the same as clicking on the top pixel in the graffiti area. So the graffiti area is, in effect, extended a few mm above where it looks like it ends (when I say graffiti area, that includes the silkscreen buttons like the calculator). I don't know what to do to fix it , but I do know that my machine is the same way.

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Michael Chen
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Registered: Feb 2000
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Posts: 638

The best thing you can do is use the hardbuttons. This works for me because I have the same problem.
BEN

Registered: Mar 2000
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Posts: 97

I can't believe it.

So, my only answer to accidently hitting the calculator silkscreen button and exiting my program and whatever I was doing is to hit a hard button to get back in again?

Come'on... there's got to be a more elegant answer or hack. Somebody?

Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Inglewood, CA, USA
Posts: 390

quote:

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Originally posted by MarkEagle:
Go to Digitizer in prefs and recalibrate the screen. Make sure to tap just below the X's... not directly on them. This will help with your problem.

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Registered: Mar 2000
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Posts: 97

Narnia & Mark:

For the most part, I've been having this problem since I got my Visor. But infrequently at first and now much more often.

The digitizer fix doesn't seem to work for me at all.

I appreciate everyone's comments/posts. Are there any other theories on how to fix this?

Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Inglewood, CA, USA
Posts: 390

Uh oh... I think it's time to call Handspring... That's not the way the Visor is supposed to work, and you shouldn't have to make allowances for it... If their tech people can't give you some suggestions, let them know you have a unit with a digitizer problem, and you would like it replaced. (Do you have a backup module or Backup Buddy to save all your information?)