BB Editor v.1.0a (for NOS 2.1 only) 10/23/98 Even though I love the Newton's HWR, editing text and recognizing some punctuations are a bit troublesome. I then created PunctPad, but even though it's a great tool it still took up screen space. So here's BB Editor. Honoware Support Newton Developers! BB Editor is honorware and costs $5.00 cash (U.S.). Please send registration fee to: Way Wong 5714 Clearsite Street Torrance, Ca 90505 Installing BB Editor comes with two packages. BB Editor.pkg is the main app, BBEditor button.pkg is a button that resides on the bottom left corner of the Newton's button bar. You should install both packages, preferably on the internal store. ***A user has reported that when using BBEditor button and DashBoard he loses the links to his apps on a card. This is his user defined list of apps. Gesture links and the pull down menu links are lost. His only solution is a hard reset and restore from a backup that did not include BBEditor button. Myself and Mark Mason of Five Speed software are aware of the problem. Currently there is no fix. Since it seems to be related only to BBEditor button, I would suggest creating a gesture for launching BBEditor and DON'T install BBeditor button. Use BB Editor is a palette of editing buttons and punctuation keys that overlays the MP2000/2100 soft button bar (BB Editor will not work on the MP130 or earlier). Since BB Editor covers the button bar, it takes up no writable screen space. Besides the standard keyboard keys, BB Editor has the following special editing/punctuation keys: - "Word" hilites a word. A series of taps in quick succession will add the previous word to the hilite. - "All" A single tap will hilite a paragraph, a double-tap hilites the entire text. - "NoSpace" will remove all spaces from a hilited text. - "Caps" will capitalize or decapitalize the first word in a hilited text. - There are a set of up, down, back and forward caret positioning keys in an inverted "T" shape. These keys are framed. - The " , {} and () keys will type a set of double quotes/parenthesis/brackets and position the caret between them. - s and 's keys are ones I personally always need for plurals and possesives! - BB Editor has its own "Undo" and scroll/overview buttons that works just like the Newton's builtin controls. - Below the Undo button is a "P" button. With each successive tap the changes from the main punctuation keyboard (P), to a numeric keyboard (N), then to a user-defined keyboard (U). - The user-defined keyboard holds up to 12 keys for your editing pleasure! To edit the user-defined keyboard (U), tap the "i" button then tap "Prefs". This will bring up the user-defined keys editor. - At the bottom left of BB Editor is an expand/shrink button to open and close BBeditor on the fly. Caveats: -If you are a DashBoard user, when you rotate the screen BB Editor may be hidden behind DashBoard. You will need to launch BB Editor again. - Some Button Bar enhancing programs such as BB+ and BarKeep allow you to change the thickness of the BB. While BB Editor will adjust its dimensions to fit the modified BB, the narrow comfiguration will make the buttons/keys look quite scrunched up. - BBEditor has been quite happy with Gesture Launch by ICS on my Newton! About my programs: I have a lot of fun creating Newton utilities that are unique (and within my limited programming skills!). I first design them for my own personal use by enhancing the NOS so it could be a little more convenient to use. I really strive to include a few that features no other apps have and to me that's what makes them unique, useful and maybe a little fun. Contacting me Please feel free to send any comments, questions or problems: Way-Chung Wong firstvln@aol.com Visit Byte-Size Software on the web at http://members.aol.com/bytesizeww