Thank you for trying TealPhone, a replacement for the
standard system address/phonebook application. It offers an improved interface
and many convenient enhancements over the standard Palm application.
This archive contains the following files:
Program files:
TEALPHON.PRC
The TealPhone program file
CUSTPHON.EXE
DOS utility to alter TealPhone menus
for Non-US, English-speaking countries
Document files:
PHONDOC.PDF
This document in Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
format
PHONDOC.HTM
This document in HTML format (sans
images)
PHONDOC.PRC
This document in TealDoc format
REGISTER.HTM
TealPoint Registration form in HTML
format
REGISTER.TXT
TealPoint Registration form in text format
Use the
Pilot installer to install the program file TEALPHON.PRC.
It will appear on the Palm Computing device after the next HotSync.
This manual is also provided in this archive as the
PalmPilot document PHONEDOC.PRC,
which can be viewed with our other application TealDoc.
Instructions on how to use the Palm installer are in the Palm
Handbook that came with your Pilot, PalmPilot, Visor or WorkPad.
If your names in the standard
address application are normally sorted by company instead of last name, set
the Std Address book sorted by company
preference item in TealPhone. No permanent damage will occur if you fail to do
this, but new modified records might appear out of order if you view them in
the standard app until you do. If this occurs, then change your sorting order
in the standard app and back again to force it to resort all your entries
there.
You may also need to open and
“touch” the name fields of individual mis-sorted items in the standard address
book to force them to be moved to the correct location, and HotSync to clear
out any mis-sorted hidden entries.
TealPhone can replace the standard address book application for
most purposes.
It reads and writes the
same address book database as the standard application, thus maintaining
maximum compatibility.
Because the
standard address book is in ROM, however, you cannot remove it even after
TealPhone is installed.
After installing the program file,
you can run it by selecting its icon from the Applications menu. You may also
wish to go to the Palm 'Prefs' application to remap the hardware Address button
to TealPhone. This option is only available on Palm OS 2.0 or greater.
TealPhone is easy to use, and consists of three basic
interface screens: the Main Display Screen
and the Item Edit Screen, and the Full View Screen.
The main display screen resembles the standard application,
but offers a redesigned interface. It is divided into three basic regions: On
the bottom, the Name display list, at the top, the Data Display Window, and on the left, an optional quick-seek Index Bar.
The Name Display
List shows the entries in the current category much like the main
display of the standard application. It is more flexible, however, in that you
can show the display at any time sorted by first name, last name, or company
name. This is switchable at any time by tapping on the L, F,
and C buttons at the bottom of the
display. The sorting setting is saved with the current category, including All. Each category can have it's own
specified sorting order.
Clicking on an entry in the display list highlights
that entry and causes its data to be displayed in the Data Display Window at the top of the
display.
You can change the current selection in the name list
by using the hardware up and down scrolling buttons. When the Scroll Lock button at the bottom of the
display is selected (it looks like a down-arrow), then the buttons scroll the
list instead of changing the current selection. The name list is designed for
easy one-handed operation. For instance, even without the Scroll Lock down, the screen can scroll
page by page if you hold down the scroll button. This option can be set in
preferences.
Lastly, you can change the font in the display list by
pressing on the f
button at the bottom of the display. If you are running Palm OS 3.x or higher,
you will have an additional large font added to your choices.
The Data Display Window shows either a phone number, email
address, or physical address for the current entry. Unlike the standard app, it
shows this data on the same screen so you don't need to switch back and forth
between screens. This is particularly useful when, say, calling multiple
numbers from a list of contacts.
You can change the current displayed item by tapping
on either the left or right halves of the window, to scroll backwards or
forwards through the list. You can also cycle through only phone numbers, email
addresses, or physical addresses by tapping on any of the three icons at the
right of the display window.
If you are using a keyboard peripheral hooked up to
your PalmPilot, you can cycle through the phone/address entries with the left
and right arrow keys.
The data in the display window will intelligently select a
font for the data based on content and space. Note that the largest font
contains only numbers, a hyphen, period, and comma. Telephone number entries
that contain only these characters will appear in the largest font unless it is
too long to fit in the window at that size. In that case, it will switch to the
largest font that will fit for easy viewing.
To the left, there can be an optional index bar, which
displays the letters of the alphabet. Clicking on a letter seeks to the first
entry starting with that letter. Subsequent clicks can further refine the
search to a 2-5 letter combination if you enter each stroke within a and a half
seconds of the last. This bar can be turned on or off from the preferences
menu.
With or without the bar, you can also seek to any letter by
entering the graffiti stroke for that letter. If the letter is found, the list
will move and the letter will be echoed temporarily in the lower left corner of
the screen. You can seek to any 1 to 5 character combination by entering a
sequence of letters, each within one and a half seconds of the last.
When you tap on the Open
button or double-tap an address entry in the name list, the currently selected
entry is opened up either in the item edit screen, or the item full view
window. Whichever one is done is selectable from the preference dialog.
The Edit screen shows the full address entry's data
and is nearly identical to the standard system edit screen with the following
enhancements:
To aid in entry of addresses, the 50 US States and
the last 10 visited unique cities and countries are listed in popup lists to the
right of the corresponding fields. Select an entry from a popup to quickly
enter that value into the neighboring field. For non-US countries, you can also
change the States popup to keep a history of the last 10 states you've entered
or edited by checking the appropriate item in preferences.
The standard address app allows you to rename four
custom fields at the end of each record. These names apply across all entries.
TealPhone allows you to do this as well, but also provides 20 custom labels
that can be applied on an entry-by-entry basis. Note: if you flag any of the
custom fields with a label representing an address, that field will also be
recognized as an address on the Data Display
Window.
The Full View Screen shows a quick
summary of the current entry. It can be brought up from a menu item, from a
double-tap on a name entry, or by pressing on the Open button, depending on your preference settings. From there
you can go to the Item Edit screen or Note screen. By default, you can tap on
the text of the entry itself to go to the edit screen. This functionality
emulates that of the standard application. In preferences, you can change this
behavior to simply dismiss the Full View window instead, which many find more convenient.
In addition you can copy the entire contents of the
Full View Screen into the clipboard for pasting into another program by
clicking on the Copy button.
Pressing the up or down hardware scrolling buttons
will change the current selection forward or backwards in current the name
list.
TealPhone offers a powerful searching ability, which
lets to filter all the entries in the current category. You can search one or
more of the fields in this current list, showing only entries which meet the
following search criteria:
- Contains
specified text
- Matches
specified text
- Starts
With specified text
- Ends
With specified text
- Exists
(is not blank)
Alternately, you can show only
entries that don't match the above criteria by changing the does/doesn't option
in the Find Dialog window.
Use the Find
Entries menu on the Main Display
Screen to bring up the find dialog window. There, you can select the
fields to be searched, the search criteria, and text to look for. After running
a find operation, the 'L F C' buttons at the bottom of the screen will all be
unselected. This will indicate that you are viewing a list from a custom 'Find'
operation. Click on any of the three buttons to once again show all the entries
in the current category.
Using the Entry-Finding feature, you can set up your
address book to function like it has a second set of custom categories. For
instance, you can add the word 'Card' to all the entries in your database for
which you send holiday greeting cards. This may include both personal and
business entries. Later, when it comes time to write your cards, you can search
the custom fields for matching the text 'Card' and create a custom list you can
scroll down to quickly address all your cards.
Of course, this has many other uses as well. All you
need to do is decide on which custom labels to use and enter them into the
custom fields of applicable entries.
Normally, TealPhone watches the address book database
and updates its own sorted lists whenever an entry is added externally, or
deleted items are removed after a HotSync operation. If the database is
expanded or deleted from the desktop or the standard application, TealPhone
should catch this as well. If entries are simply changed externally, use this
menu item to update and re-sort TealPhone's address lists. You'll need to
rescan the database manually if you change any entries on the desktop in a way
that would affect its sorting position but not the total entry count.
Automatic sorting can also occur after a HotSync, as
the syncing process clears out entries that have previously been deleted but
not yet backed up to the desktop. This procedure will be faster than a full
sort, as the system won't do a full sort, but will simply scan the sorting
table to verify their integrity.
If you ever decide to change your sorting options in
the standard address book, remember to change the corresponding checkbox in
TealPhone's preferences screen. If you rescan the database in TealPhone, it
will usually be able to detect the new sorting order and do this automatically.
Also, if you have added entries with only a company name and no first or last
names in TealPhone, you may need to sort in the standard address book with the
'Remember Category' checkbox turned off, as some have reported that the
standard address book may have a bug that will miss the newly created entries
otherwise.
If you need to fix mis-sorted
entries in the standard address book, change your sorting order in the standard app and back
again to force it to resort all your entries there.
You may also need to open and “touch” the name fields (by adding
a letter and immediately deleting it) of individual mis-sorted items in the
standard address book to force them to be moved to the correct location, and
HotSync to clear out any mis-sorted hidden entries.
Lastly, if you have private address entries, don’t forget to
check their positions and move them if necessary.
Re-sort the entries in TealPhone to update
TealPhone's category tables if you delete a category and thereby move it's
content into another category.
TealPhone supports beaming of selected records by
automatically call the standard application and then returning after the
beaming has finished. You can beam an entry by selecting the Beam Entry item under the Record menu on
the main display screen.
In addition, you can also mark up to four records as
business cards by selecting a record and choosing the 'Set as Business card'
menu, and then selecting one of four slots to set to the current entry. When
you choose the 'Beam Business Card' menu or hold down the Address Book button
(if mapped to TealPhone), then your chosen business card will be beamed. If
more than one business card has been selected, then a dialog box will appear to
allow you to choose which card to send.
Note that the business cards are found using entry's
Last Name, First Name, Company, and Title. Any entry you select as a business
card must not have an identical entry with all four of the same field entries,
or the system may not beam the entry that you expect. If you need two business
cards with the same name, company, and title, make one of them different with a
minor change such as punctuation or trailing spaces in one of those four
fields.
Note also that after beaming an entry, TealPhone
simulates a press of the address button to return system control to TealPhone,
so you need to map this button to TealPhone for it to return correctly after a
beaming operation.
·
Sort By
Lets you
choose how the address list will be sorted, either by first name, last name, or
company. If you choose selectable,
then all three options will be available on the main screen through the F, L,
and C pushbuttons. You may choose
one of the other single-sort options if you don't need this flexibility to
speed up sort times when scanning the database. Displays the optional bar of
alphabetical index buttons along the left edge.
·
Show Alphabet Index Bar
Displays
the optional bar of alphabetical index buttons along the left edge.
·
Show Company Names in Lists
Shows
company name in display list after names when sorting by first or last name
·
Treat One Name as First and Last
When an
entry has only a first name or only a last name, this option causes the
existing name to be used when sorting by last or first name. Otherwise, entries
missing a first name will be sorted at the bottom of the list when sorted by
first name, and entries missing a last name will be shown at the bottom of the
list when sorted by last name.
·
Treat Name as Company if None
When an
entry has no company specified, use the entry's name when sorting by company.
This is how the default Address application handles sorting by company. With
this option turned off, entries with no company specified are sorted separately
at the bottom of the list. This is usually more useful.
·
Hold Down Scroll to Page List
When set,
the phone list can be paged even in page-select mode by holding down the scroll
up and scroll down buttons. This is convenient for one-handed operation, and is
good when, say, driving a vehicle, though we don't recommend you do so.
·
Palm V Contrast Button Swaps Views
When set, you
can use the contrast button on a Palm V to switch the contents of the data view
window. Hold it down more than a half second to bring up the normal contrast
adjustment window instead.
·
Std. Address is Sorted by Company
Tells
TealPhone that the standard address book is sorted by company, not last name,
so new or modified entries can be put in the correct place as seen from the
standard app.
·
Maintain State History
Tells
TealPhone to maintain a history list of the last 10 states visited rather than
the fixed list of US States, which is the default. Great for use in non-US
countries.
·
Remember Category
Tells
TealPhone to remember the last category you visited when you leave the program.
When not checked, the category reverts to All.
·
Edit on List Double-Tap
When set,
double-tapping an item opens it in the Edit screen. Otherwise, the item is
shown in the full view window.
·
Edit on Full View Tap
When set,
tapping on the full view window opens the current record in the Edit screen.
Otherwise, the full view window is just closed.
·
Edit on Open Button
When set,
tapping the Open button opens an
item opens it in the Edit screen. Otherwise, the item is shown in the full view
window.
TealPhone supports beaming by automatically calling the
standard address application. Furthermore, up to four business cards can be
selected.
If you designate more than
one business card, a dialog box will appear allowing you to choose one when you
try to beam an entry.
Designate an
entry as a business card by selecting an entry on the Main Name List and
choosing Set as Business Card item from the Record menu.
Business cards are identified by first name,
last name, title, and company, so if you choose to create multiple business
cards for yourself, be sure that at least one of these fields is unique for
each card.
After receiving beamed records, the standard address
book will switch control to itself to display the new note. When you return to
TealPhone, it will rescan the database to position the new record.
TealPhone supports printing
through the TealPrint advanced printing system and drivers. If you have a
supported printer and proper cable, you can easily print labels directly from
TealPhone's main menu, or print entries to any Windows-compatible printer through
your HotSync cradle. Please see TealPrint documentation or the TealPoint
Software web site for information on TealPrint and currently available software
drivers.
TealPhone will support printing of labels directly to a
supported label printer (like the DYMO EL60), complete Address book entries, or
envelopes with a compatible printer. Note that for printers that accept
envelopes sideways, envelopes may need to be printed in graphics mode with the
appropriate driver if the printer or driver does not support landscape printing
in native text mode.
The standard TealPhone has a few
menu items that target it for the US market. The CustPhon utility provides a
means to localize these menu items for other English speaking countries. It
does not cover all the text in the program, making it incapable of creating a
full translation to another language. Instead, you can change the entries
appearing in the edit screen's state popup list, as well as the initial popup
entries for City and Country and replace the terms 'State' and 'Zip Code'.
Lastly, you can reverse the relative order in which these two items appear in
the Full view window and data display window.
To run CustPhon, place a copy of the TealPhone
program file TEALPHON.PRC in the same folder as CUSTPHON.EXE. Double-click on
CustPhon and follow the on-screen prompts. The TealPhone program will be
altered to include your menu choices. Use the Palm Install tool to install the
new version. Note that if a previous version of the TealPhon has been
installed, that the City and Country history lists will not reflect your
changes unless you first delete the older version of the program before
installing the new.
Release
2.81B June 30, 2000 (Minor update)
·
Added support
for 2-3 line multilane phone numbers in data display window
·
Fixed update
of category indicator after global find and selection
Release
2.81 June 12, 2000
·
Fixed
feature allowing backwards cycling of Data Display Window by tapping in left
half
·
Fixed
display of secondary addresses in Data Display Window
·
Fixed
display of one-line address in Data Display Window
·
Added
automatic reset of graffiti seek/index bar count before one and a half-second
time limit if no match found
·
Added
automatic trimming of trailing whitespace off data displayed in Data Display
Window
·
Added auto
selection of associated text field when changing phone entry type in edit
screen
Release
2.74 5/2/00
- Added option to specify single sort criteria for 3x
faster sorts
- Added faster record moving when inserting/modifying
records
- Added autodetect of database record order when scanning
- Added ability to scroll forward or backwards through
phone numbers by tapping left or right of data display window.
- Added support for left and right arrow keys on external
keyboard to cycle phone numbers
- Added support for up/down arrow keys on external
keyboard to select entries
- Added faster application startup
- Added color icon for Palm IIIc
- Fixed receiving of beamed items while TealPhone is
active
- Fixed sorting of 'z' items after blank ones
- Fixed overlapping of scroll arrows under OS 3.5
- Fixed crash with global find operations, esp under OS
3.5
Release
2.61 2/7/00
- Added beaming capability from menu or holding down
phone button (when mapped to TealPhone)
- Added support for selecting separate business cards
when beaming
- Added support for global find command
- Added support for printing labels through TealPrint
(upcoming)
- Fixed sorting routines to use standard system sort
tables for international sorting
- Added optional history list for states, like cities and
countries.
- Added auto alphabetization of history lists
- Added number buttons on edit screeen for easy phone
number entry
- Added country option in search dialog
- Added current record name to title of note editing
window.
- Added custom "Info" selection that will appear
as address in the data window.
- Added automatic cancelling of graffiti seek with
backspace
- Added CmdGoTo and CmdLookup launch commands for calling
by external program code
- Increased Full View Window to full screen
- Improved Full View Window appearance and organization
- Removed 'dash' before company-less entries when mixing
names in company view
- Fixed Index bar seeking to work even with mis-sorted
database
- Fixed searching for "exist" with empty text
field
- Fixed custom name lengths for last 3 custom fields
- Fixed unecessary flashing of index bar
- Fixed 'class'/'work' custom label confusion
- Fixed display of cities beginning with european
characters in data window
- Simplified index bar for appearance and compatibility
with PalmOS 3.5
Release
2.18B 10/18/99
- Fixed crash from changing entry's category to long name
Release
2.18 10/18/99
- Fixed missing notes exiting TealPhone from notes screen
Release
2.15 10/11/99
- Eliminated unnecessary sorts; Replaced with quick
sanity check.
- Fixed crashes in sorting due to multiple similar or
deleted records
- Fixed "Object not in form" crash opening
record with graffiti seek still up
- Fixed sorting errors due to deleted entries in database
- Added "custphon" program for customizing edit
menus for non-US English countries.
- Added 'copy' option to full view window to export full
record to clipboard
- Added easy jump to standard application by holding down
address button
- Added code for future OS compatibility
- Added small icon for app launcher list view
- Increased maximum graffiti seek characters from 3 to 5
- Increased allowable delay time between graffiti seek
strokes
- Added multiple letter entry through index bar
- Slowed rate of screen paging during auto-scroll
- Added option to reset category to 'All' between uses.
- Adjusted details screen to accommodate longer
categories
- Reduced stack usage for better stability
- Removed swap first/last names feature to make space for
new features
Release
1.71 7/21/99
- Increased sorting speed (a little)
- Added "Find same company" menu item
- Fixed to keep selection between sort option switches
- Fixed to not auto-capitalize first character on email
entries
- Fixed funky display of truncated entries
- Fixed display bug when using /P shortcut
- Added auto-detect of incomplete sort records
- Moved up scroll arrow to not interfere with scroll bar
Release
1.62 6/20/99
- Increased speed
- Added Search button to main screen
- Added support for next-field and prev-field graffiti
strokes on edit screen.
- Added support for sorting standard database by company.
- Added compatibility code for EVEdit and Encryption
hacks.
- Added auto-deleting of empty records
- Increased graffiti-seek delay time
- Fixed categories from changing when exitting program
- Fixed display graphical remnants from edge of edit
screen
Release
1.53 6/2/99
- Fixed saving of notes when switching to another
application
- Fixed swapping names without first or last name
Release
1.52 5/18/99
- Added autoformatting of phone numbers with spaces or
parentheses to use large font.
- Fixed updating of graffiti-seek character display.
Release
1.50 5/17/99
- Added option to show company names
- Added scroll button scrolling support to full display
- Sped up search and display code
- Fixed "Resizing" error after using "goto
standard app" menu.
- Fixed occasional small gaps in display lists
- Fixed display and setting of first phone number.
Release
1.40 5/8/99
- Added option to toggle View display with Palm V
Contrast button.
Release
1.36 4/28/99
- Fixes bugs creating new entries when current category
is "All"
- Added option to disable automatic sorting at database
change (and HotSync)
Release
1.35 4/23/99
- Changed list to use full width for company in 'c' sort
if no names exist.
- Limits graffiti seek strokes when more than 3 chars
entered instead of resetting.
Release
1.34 4/22/99
- Added auto-shift to first letter of Notes and edit
screen.
- Added separate sorting options for each category
- Added use of full list width to display names
- Fixed spurious display of preferences popup
- Fixed display to correctly restore category on startup
- Changed note field to scroll full page minus one
- Changed full view field to scroll full page minus one
Release
1.33 4/19/99
- Fixed stray checkmark drawn off details popup
- Added copying of category when duping entry
- Added preselection of find text
- Added opening/closing of full view with
"enter" stroke
- Fixed crash opening full view on records with default
custom fields
- Changed paging modes to scroll full page minus one line
- Fixed updating of page scroll button state
Release
1.32 4/18/99
- Added three-character graffiti search
- Fixed incorrect Note linking from Edit screen
- Fixed Note cursor preselection drawing
- Added auto-closing of full view on address button press
- Added labels for custom fields in note view (old items
with custom fields should be opened in edit view to update appearance)
- Fixed categorization of new records created with
"All" category set
- Fixed order of new items created in standard app if
empty records present
- Fixed mis-sorting of new or edited records
- Fixed auto-selection of changed records after editing.
Release
1.31 4/17/99
- Added automatic skipping of empty fields on view taps
- Added on-screen up and down scroll buttons to full view
window
- Added hardware scroll button support to full view
window to change entry
- Added auto-formatting of full view window to reflect
current sort mode
- Added beginning of note to full view window
- Increased speed of subsequents sorts, such as after
HotSyncs
- Fixed Phone5 not not being included in find operations
- Fixed Phone types being switched if scrolled off screen
in edit mode
- Fixed Reversed Phone type order in New Records
Release
1.26 4/14/99
- Fixed incorrect reporting of phone type
Release
1.25 4/14/99
- Fixed sorting crash (occurred if you have more than 20
records with the same name or company)
Release
1.24 4/13/99
- Fixed deletes crash from Edit Menu
- Added debug number codes when sorting to track down
crashes on some systems
Release
1.23 4/12/99
- Fixed crash changing fonts under OS 2.x and 1.x
- Fixed deletes being restored
- Added phone type prefix to full view
Release
1.22 4/11/99
- Fixed scroll bar with large address books.
- Fixed corruption using 'Mail' custom label
- Fixed off-by-one storage of custom labels
Release
1.20 4/11/99
- Added memory to Find Dialog
- Added Full View screen
- Added preference choices for full view screen and fonts
- Added presort by third letter to increase speed in
special circumstances
- Added two-key graffiti search
Release
1.11 4/9/99
- Added "hot" scroll to name list
- Added click sounds to screen taps and list taps
- Added double-tap to open record
- Added find option with individual Custom fields
- Rewrote sort algorithm to use Quick Sort
- Fixed "find" operation searching first name
instead of last
- Fixed crash finding empty string
- Fixed crash opening About dialog
- Fixed sorting bug with deleted records
- Fixed off-by one limit in custom record names (max 7
chars)
Release
1.00 4/5/99
Manual by Vince Lee, Tex Tennison, and Diane Dybalski
TealPhone by TealPoint Software
©1999-2000
All Rights Reserved.
TealPoint Software
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We look forward to hearing from you.
Please visit us at www.tealpoint.com, or email us at
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Currently, you may register by snail mail, electronically
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1-800-741-9070. For the first option, the enclosed registration form is
provided for your convenience. You may use this form or simply send the
following to the address above.
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the user accepts full responsibility for any damages, consequential or
otherwise, resulting from its use.
This archive is freely redistributable, provided it is made
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wish to continue using it, please register with us for the nominal fee listed
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