Moving Around The Treo Screen - palmOne TREO User Manual

Moving around the Treo screen

To move around the Treo screen, you can use the 5-way navigation control,
or tap items on the screen with the stylus. With use, you will find your own
Some third-party applications
favorite way to scroll, highlight, and select menu commands.
may not work with 5-way
The 5-way navigation control includes Right, Left, Up, Down, and
navigation, and you must use
Center buttons.
the stylus instead.
In this guide, we use arrow
icons to indicate directions
on your Treo's 5-way
navigation control. These are
different from any onscreen
arrows that you tap with
your stylus or select with
the 5-way control to display
pick lists.
5-way buttons:
Scrolling through screens
As on a computer, you scroll on the Treo to move from field to field, or page
On screen arrows:
to page, or in some cases to highlight an item or option in a list. There are
several methods of scrolling:
• Press the 5-way navigation control on the front of the Treo. Pressing
Right , Left
or action in that direction.
18 :: Moving around the Treo screen
A
A. Up
B. Down
C D
C. Left
D. Right
E. Center
E
B
, Up , and Down moves to the next field, button,
• Tap an onscreen scroll arrow:
• Press Option and Up or Down
information within the current record.
• When inside a text field, press Up and Down
the text.
• Drag the slider of an onscreen scroll bar.
Highlighting items
The 5-way navigation control lets you highlight items before launching or
selecting them.
• When an onscreen button (OK, Cancel, etc.) or pick list is highlighted, the
button acquires a blue glow around its border.
• When a phone number, email address, or web link is highlighted on a
web page or in a message, the text appears in reverse type (light text on
a dark background).
• When an entire text entry field is highlighted, you can press Center to
edit the text. After you edit the text, press Center again to highlight the
entire field.
Once you've launched an
to scroll to the next page of
application (see page 25),
you can experiment with
to scroll through
using the navigation control
to highlight different screen
elements.
Moving around the Treo screen :: 19