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- CHINESE OS for PalmPilot 1.1
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Files in the archive
- 3. Installation
- 4. Ordering
- 5. Known Bugs
- 6. Future Plan
- 6. History
- 7. FAQ
- 8. Contact
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- 1. Introduction
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-
- Welcome to Chinese OS for PalmPilot. Now you can read/write chinese in
- PalmPilot.
-
- The program supports changjei, easy cantonese and pinyin input method.
- For GB version, it only support pinyin input method. The font size
- is 12x12 only in order to fit the field height of PalmPilot and it
- should be readable.
-
- I have tested the OS while using Datebook, address book, todo, memopad
- and Doc. Now you can make some chinese DOC!!!
-
- Someone has requested for larger font size, but it will reduce the
- compatibility with english applications. If you found the current font
- size unreadable, please let me know. Notice that the database size will
- be increased by about 60% for larger font.
-
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- 2. Files in the archive
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-
- Before you install Chinese OS, you should decide which version you
- should use, there are three different version of Chinese OS:
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- 1. GB(simplified) version
- 2. BIG5(traditional) light version (about 5000 fonts)
- 3. BIG5(traditional) full version (about 13000 fonts)
-
- GB and BIG5 are different encoding methods used to represent chinese
- character. GB is used mostly in PRC and BIG5 are used in Hongkong
- and Taiwan. You should choose the program with the same encoding method
- as your desktop computer. You can also choose larger BIG-5 font set
- if you have enough memory.
-
-
- Depends on the version of Chinese OS you downloaded, you will get the
- following files where '?' is:
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- 'g' for GB(simplified) version
- 's' for BIG5(traditional) light version
- 'l' for BIG5(traditional) full version
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- chos1?.prc main program (including chinese input method) for OS 1.0
- chos2?.prc main program (including chinese input method) for OS 2.0
- cfont?.pdb 12x12 Chinese Fonts
- cjtable?.pdb Changjei input table (no need to install if you don't want
- changjei or easy input chinese)
- pytable?.pdb Pinyin input table (no need to install if you don't want
- pinyin input method)
- cttable?.pdb Cantonese input table (no need to install if you don't want
- cantonese input method)
- readme.txt this file
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- 3. Installation
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-
- HotSync chos??.prc and cfont?.pdb to you PalmPilot. If you want to have
- changjei or easy input method, also install cjtable?.pdb. If you want
- to have pinyin input method, install pytable?.pdb. If you already
- have an older version of Chinese OS for PalmPilot on your pilot, you
- can skip the installation of *.pdb since the databases are seldom
- changed.
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- Once you have installed the programs, click the 'Chinese OS' icon.
- Check 'Enable Chinese OS' to enable the OS. Check 'Enable Chinese
- Keyboard' if you want to have chinese input.
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- Click 'Appl' icon to get back to Launcher, now you can view chinese in
- any application. I have tested it in Address Book, Memo and Doc. If you
- want to enter chinese, invoke the Chinese Keyboard Dialog in the same way
- you invoke the original Keyboard Dialog, that is, Command-K, clicking the
- lower corner of Graffiti area or using menu. The interface is trivial
- and you should know how to use if you have used old Keyboard Dialog and
- changjei input method. You can also invoke the keyboard once more to
- get back to the original english keyboard.
-
- Please disable all functions of Chinese OS (uncheck it) before you
- uninstall or reinstall Chinese OS.
-
- IMPORTANT -- From version 0.92, the font database will be locked forever
- in order to improve speed. If you want to uninstall or reinstall the
- cfont.pdb database, you must SOFT RESET the pilot to unlock the database.
- You don't need to reset the pilot if you only want to reinstall chos?.prc
- or the input method databases though.
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- 4. Ordering
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-
- The price of the program is US$20 or HK$150. A registration code will
- be given to you after registration. This code can also be used in the
- future versions of Chinese OS. i.e., users can get the free upgrade
- as long as I develop this software. :>
-
- For asian users, especially Hongkonger, you can register the program
- by mailing HK$150 cheque to
-
- LOU Chi Wai
- 416, Han Ching House, Yee Ching Court
- Shamshuipo, HONG KONG
-
- with your email address and the username of your palmpilot.
- I will send the registration code to the email address. If you do not
- have email account, you can mail me with your snail mail address with
- postage. I will mail you the code by snail then.
-
- You can find the username of your palmpilot by looking at the HotSync.
- The message "Welcome, XXXXX" will be shown on screen where XXXXX is
- the username that I want.
-
- You can also register online through Kagi. Please refer to my
- homepage http://www.hk.super.net/~cwlou for detail. Remember to
- send me the username at the "comment to author" field.
-
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- 5. Known Bugs
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-
- a. Word wrapping not work very well on OS1.0 (I have no solution to fix it :)
- (I don't have old pilot 1000 or 5000, so if you find bug in this machine
- please let me know, but I don't think I can fix it very quickly)
-
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- 6. Future Plan
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-
- a. Add custom input method so that user can generate its own english->chinese
- database for input. Useful for users who input chinese names only.
-
- Note: I have no plan to add handwriting input due to the speed of
- the CPU and ... most importance, I don't know how to do it :)
-
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- 7. History
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- 10/6 Chinese OS 1.11
- Add Cantonese input method for BIG5 version, To enable it, install
- cttable?.pdb and select Custom in Chinese Keyboard.
- All input methods can use graffiti to input chinese.
- User can hide the virtual keyboard to save space to view text.
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- 9/21 Chinese OS 1.1
- Release GB version and full BIG5 version.
- Fix a bug that deleting a chinese character didn't work on
- single line field.
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- 9/10 Chinese OS 1.03
- Fix a bug that the field height don't change automatically after
- invoking chinese keyboard (e.g., in address book, choose a field,
- invoking the keyboard, type some return and quit. In english keyboard,
- the height of the field should be changed.
-
- The tapping bug is fixed.
-
- The backspace, forward (>) and backword(<) strokes will now detect if
- the character is chinese character, so that the backspace will not
- delete only half chinese character...
-
- After the tapping action, the OS will now detect if the insertion point
- of selection positions are at the middle of chinese character. If yes,
- the position will be reset to a proper position, so user should not
- mistakenly set the insertion point at the middle of chinese character.
-
- Add a time delay at the registration dialog ;P, user must wait for ten
- seconds to enter Chinese OS if he is not registrated
-
- Fix the bug that mess the screen after popping up Chinese Keyboard in
- 'Owner' with password set.
-
- 8/26 Chinese OS 1.02
- Great speed improvment, now drawing chinese is as fast as english!
-
- 8/13 Chinese OS 1.01
- Fix some cosmetic bugs
- Forgot the add the virtual button ':' for pinyin so that some
- character cannot be entered.
- Add one more input method PY-G which allow you to input pinyin by
- Graffiti rather than virtual keyboard.
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- 8/9 Chinese OS 1.0 (Release)
- Add Easy input method (just type the begin and end code of changjei).
- Add Pinyin input method.
- Activate keyboard once more for english keyboard.
- Keyboard is now bitmap, so it is now more flexible and the invoking
- speed is much faster.
- Marginally speed improvement.
- Compiled with new gcc 0.5.0, thanks to all the people who develop
- this useful tools!
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- 7/30 Chinese OS 0.92
- Fix bug introduced in 0.91a which makes Chinese OS not work in address
- book.
- Speed improvement, the drawing speed is much faster now. The font
- database is open forever to prevent the open/close database overhead.
- But now you must reset the pilot before uninstall/reinstall the font
- database.
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- 7/29 Chinese OS 0.91a beta
- Link a wrong resource in last version, which will make a fatal exception.
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- 7/29 Chinese OS 0.91 beta
- No need to tap the field in keyboard dialog to enable graffiti.
- Now will have auto height change when height is changed after chinese
- keyboard input.
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- 7/28 Chinese OS 0.9 beta
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- 8. FAQ
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- 1. Your Chinese OS didn't work!
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- Make sure you have installed all needed files, especially cfont.prc. Pilot
- will not load the database when the memory is full. You should check the
- memory used by Chinese OS using 'Memory'. It should be about 150K when
- the font database and one input method are loaded.
-
- 2. Why I can't invoke the Chinese Keyboard?
-
- Like the english keyboard, the chinese keyboard can be invoked only when
- a field is focused. Try to open a memo in memopad and invoking chinese
- keyboard again.
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- 3. My system seems slower than before.
-
- Yes, I overload several system traps which are frequently used by the system.
- Because I need to check if you words are chinese or english. It must have
- some time penalty. Anyway, I have tuned the program as fast as possible :>
-
- 4. Many symbols, like pound, didn't show correctly anymore.
-
- It is because chinese character set are overlapped with those characters,
- I cannot know whether it is symbol or chinese, and I cannot fix it.
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- 9. Contact
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- Any comment, please e-mail to cwlou@hk.super.net.
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