Seymour Help

Seymour 1.0.3 Help

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About Seymour
Limitations of Seymour
How To Purchase

How to

Capture Applications
Release Applications
Preferences
Cut, Copy And Paste With Seymour
Switching Between Applications
Using the Splitter

About Seymour

Seymour (pronounced "see-more") provides a way for you to view two of your favorite Pocket PC applications at once. For instance, you can capture Today (Desktop) in one pane, and say, Contacts in the other. Alternately, you can capture Internet Explorer in one and Programs in the other.

The combinations you can have are more or less limitless except for a few special cases where restrictions are imposed. See the section on Limitations of Seymour for more on this topic.

Please send us any comments or questions you may have. We are looking to make this the best it can be, so all comments are important. Use the following email address:

seymour@jarosoft.com

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Limitations of Seymour

Currently, Seymour only has a few basic restrictions. All applications are capturable, but some have characteristics that currently need special restrictions imposed on them so that Seymour can function properly.

One restriction is if you want to open an item from an application that is currently captured within Seymour (such as a contact or note opened from its related item list). You can not capture an item in this state. This is due to the special relationships between these types of items and their parent applications, which can play funny games with Seymour.

Another restriction is that you can only capture the same type of item if only if its parent application is not captured within Seymour. This type of capture has one side affect. Once you close the item, the pane containing the view is minimized and the other maximized to fill the empty space. We allow this type of capture anyway, as we've found value in allowing, say, a spreadsheet open to copy data from another opened item into it.

Oddly, Inbox only seems to work well if its captured in the top pane. This is not a limitation of Seymour, but more of a bug in the Inbox application itself. It occurs if the top of the application is not just below the taskbar. The status window can't find the bottom of the screen. For best results, keep Inbox in the top pane.

Future versions of Seymour will remove these limitations (except for Inbox of course).

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How To Purchase

You must purchase Seymour to void the 30 day trial period. Please visit www.jarosoft.com for various purchase options.

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Capture Applications

To capture an application within Seymour:

Make sure that the application in full view, or more specifically, the foreground.
Tap the Seymour eye located in the taskbar at the top of the screen and see if the application can be captured. The menu options for Capture Top and Capture Bottom will be enabled if the application can be captured.
Select the appropriate capture choice.
A check mark will appear next to this menu item if the capture was successful. Repeat step 1 to verify this.
You can replace an existing application with another as long as it does not meet the rules described .

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Release Applications

To release applications from Seymour:

Tap on the Seymour eye located in the taskbar at the top of the screen. Find the menu options for Release [app1] and Release [app2] and tap the one you want to release.
If either pane is not filled with a capture application, the menu item(s) will appear disabled and say Release [Empty].
You can release an existing application without it being in focus. However, the other application captured (if any) will be brought into focus.

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Preferences

Seymour has many useful features.

You can change the label of the splitter, or not have one at all. Modify the edit box at the top to what you want. To remove a label either uncheck the box next to 'Use Caption' (which will preserve you current caption for later) or remove the text from the box.

If you want your label to have a shadow, check the box labeled 'Use Text Shadow'. Some colors below the text may wash out the label, so use text shadow to bring it out more.

The splitter is skinable. Check out these options.

You can change the label color, and you can change the control colors. Simply tap on the colored box under each label and choose a new color.

If you want to use an image as the background, first select the radio button next to 'Background Image'. Next click the '...' on the right which will open a Open File dialog. Within this dialog, choose a GIF, BMP or JPG. Remember to place the image off of 'My Documents' folder.

Dimensions of 240 pixels wide x 14 pixels high is the best but Seymour will take the top of any image.

If you want specify a gradiant color instead of using a background image, choose the 'Gradient Color' option. Tap on the colored boxes under 'Start' and 'Stop' to specify the beginning and ending image. Next choose the direction of the gradient. That's it.

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Cut, Copy And Paste With Seymour

The Seymour eye popup menu includes an Editor menu in case some applications do not provide for editing, or if you want an common place to cut, copy and paste from. All text fields work, from the Contacts Search box to a Notes dialog.

In addition, some applications may not look like that they support editing, but they just might. Contacts is a good example. It takes some effort, but you can actually copy (the hard part) a contact and paste (the easy part) into a word document or email. Tapping 'Select All' and 'Copy' will actually copy all the contacts in your Contacts list so you can paste them anywhere. Kinda handy sometimes.

To copy a contact, get the contact blue, and not gray. Do this by tapping and dragging off the Contact(s) before lifting the stylus.

This works for Calendar items as well. You can even copy files and shortcuts from folder to folder via File Explorer. Try other things too as we've not tried all the applications.

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Switching Between Applications

The 'Switch To' menu, found under the Seymour eye popup menu, lists all the current running applications on your Pocket PC. Choose an application from the list and it will be brought into the foreground. We're not trying to take away from other task switchers, just use it if makes your experience with a Pocket PC easier!

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Using The Splitter

The 'splitter' is the customizable bar that appears when you capture at lease one application in Seymour. The following list addresses the several uses of the splitter.

You can move the Seymour eye within the taskbar by tapping and holding on it until you hear a sound. Then you can drag it anywhere you wish.

The splitter is moveable by tapping and dragging to the left of the Swap control. However, the splitter will not be moveable unless two applications are captured within Seyour.

You can swap applications in the two panes by tapping the fifth icon from the right edge of the Splitter. This option works if one or more applications are captured. It will look like a double arrow.

You can equal the height of both applications in the two panes by tapping the fourth icon from the right edge of the Splitter. This option only works if both panes are filled with applications. It will look like a dash.

You can remember the last position the splitter was at by tapping the third icon from the right edge of the Splitter. This option only works if both panes are filled with applications. It will look like a dash.

You can maximize the application in the top pane by tapping the second icon from the right edge of the Splitter. This option only works if both panes are filled with applications. It will look like a down arrow.

You can maximize the application in the bottom pane by tapping the first icon from the right edge of the Splitter. This option only works if both panes are filled with applications. It will look like an up arrow.

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