User's Manual

CHAPTER THREE - PL3000 BASICS

STYLUS AND TOUCH SCREEN

The simplest way to navigate through the Windows CE desktop and utility

windows is to use a touch screen. For the touch-screen navigation the Nordic ID

PL3000 is equipped with a stylus, a pen without ink capability.

The stylus and the touch screen are the means being in some way analogues

to a mouse. A press of the stylus on the screen produces the same result as a left

mouse button click on a Windows PC. A right mouse button click is not so obvious,

but in the Windows CE desktop window a right click is to tap and hold with the

stylus. However, this method does not produce the same effect on the taskbar. To

‘right click’ the taskbar needs to hold down the ‘alt’ key while tapping on the

taskbar. So, it is up to Windows CE application to choose a sequence as a right

mouse click.

TOUCH SCREEN INPUT METHODS

Windows CE provides two controls that can be used for inserting text,

numbers, and symbols through the touch screen. One control simulates a keyboard

on the touch screen (a soft-key input panel) and the other one makes it possible to

utilize the touch screen as a piece of paper (a transcriber input panel). You can

select the method on the menu that can be opened on the taskbar (see the section

‘Touch screen input panels’ on page 17), and you can toggle the input panel of the

method using the ‘square’ key.

Soft-key Input Panel

Characters are entered by tapping on soft keys

with stylus and they appear in the entry field in the

same way as if they were inserted through the

alphanumeric keypad. The logic of the soft-key input

panel is similar to a conventional keyboard.