Pixer 1.0 User Manual
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1. ElectricPocket Mobile and Wireless Solu bons Pixer 1 0 User Manual Introduction This document describes and shows the main screens for the PixerMMS version 1 client on the Palm OS Platform Car ad All 6 B amp B Bi Pixer MMS Prefs Quick Tour 6 S 8 ices SMS To Do List ervic J 8 G Veo VersaMail WAP Nn Welcome World Clock v Message List Form Tapping on the PixerMMS icon launches the application on its main form This is the primary form for management of the users messages The main body of the form is occupied by the Message List that allows the user to review the messages in the selected category From the left the New button pen allows you to create a message to send the Get Message lt and Send Message gt buttons control communication with the MMSC By selectively enabling these buttons and dimming them when disabled the application provides visual cues to the user that waiting in the Outbox to send or at the MMSC for collection a E AL TA 1 amp 34 pm 3 shades EEH E 10 34 pm ipeg ENEE En GE 134 pm Teme anly a e If you have a supported Camera such as the Veo PhotoTraveller Camera Camera and Photo album icons will be present on the Message List view Tap the appropriate icon to create and send new messages straight from the Camera or your Photoalbum Piser MIMS kl itepe irepaihe urent Apion Page 1 29 01 03 PixerMMS User Manual Copyrig2. For Messages in the Outbox choices are Send Now Edit Read and Delete e If Send Now is selected then a connection to the MMSC is initiated and the message transmitted If this is successful then the message category is changed to Sent If the send is unsuccessful then the user is alerted and the message remains in the Outbox e f Edit is selected then the message is displayed in the Message Composer e If Read is selected then the message is displayed in the Message Viewer e If Delete is selected then the message is discarded Note that we have designed Pixer 3 0 with the expectation that messages will always be sent on completion of composition when possible The Outbox will therefore only contain messages that are awaiting an opportunity to send There will be no way for the user to deliberately add a message to the Outbox for a delayed send For Sent Messages the choices are Read and Delete e If Read is selected then the message is displayed in the Message Viewer e If Delete is selected then the message is discarded For Inbox Messages awaiting collection a circumstance that will only occur on a one piece device the choices are Get Now and Delete e f Get Now is selected then a connection to the MMSC is initiated and an attempt made to collect the message If this is unsuccessful then the user is alerted and the message status is unchanged I
3. Forward moves the pane forward in the pane list of the message and then refreshes the form so that the panes new position is shown e Selecting Move Pane Backwards moves the pane backwards in the pane list of the message and then refreshes the form so that the panes new position is shown Page 9 29 01 03 PixerMMS User Manual Copyright 2002 2003 Electric Pocket Ltd ElectricPocket Mobile and Wireless Solu bloms MMS Message Notification amp Collection You have a new MMS message From Subject Get Later This is the screen that is displayed when a new MMS message arrives It will turn your device on if it was off or popup over an existing application if you are already using your device You can select to immediately download the MMS This will fully launch the PixerMMS application and connect to the network to download the message If you choose to store it for downloading later you can then continue in the application you were in and later launch PixerMMS to retrieve it Alternatively if you choose Never get you will return to the previous application but the notification will not be stored in PixerMMS and you will never be able to retrieve it Message Viewer Used to display messages in a non editable form Like the Message Composer the Viewer consists of two forms the Overview and the Pane form Message Viewer Overview This form gives an overview of the content of a message It enables the user to
4. Forward and Delete options e Selecting Play opens the Viewer Pane form in run mode initially displaying the first pane of the message e Selecting Reply creates a new empty message in the draft category fills its recipient list and subject and then opens the Composer Overview form to display the new message e Selecting Reply creates a new empty message in the draft category fills its recipient list and subject and then opens the Composer Overview form to display the new message e Selecting Forward creates a new message in the draft category fills its body and subject and then opens the Composer Overview form to display the new message e Selecting Delete deletes the current message and then closes this form returning to the Message List View Message Viewer Pane Form This form displays a single pane of a message Pane display using this form may be in one of two modes Single Step or Run 3of3 2 wt spr F s 4 In single step mode the pane is displayed indefinitely The sound element of a pane if present is played once when the pane is displayed in the form In run mode each pane is displayed for its specified time At the end of that time the next pane of the message is displayed If a pane has no specified time then it is displayed for the default play time that is set via the application preferences The sound element of a pane if present is played once when the pane is displayed in the f
5. Play Sound button puts the form into single step mode and plays the panes sound element Tapping the First Pane button puts the form into single step mode and refreshes the form to display the first pane Tapping the Prev Pane button puts the form into single step mode and refreshes the form to display the previous pane Tapping the Pause button puts the form into single step mode and refreshes the toolbar Tapping the Play button puts the form into run mode and refreshes the form to start the animation with the next pane Tapping the Next Pane button puts the form into single step mode and refreshes the form to display the next pane Electric Pocket Limited Electric Pocket s vision is to develop connected applications and services that become an integral part of people s lives For more information about PixerMMS and our other products please visit the Electric Pocket web site Page 15 29 01 03 PixerMMS User Manual Copyright 2002 2003 Electric Pocket Ltd
6. Viewer Overview screen is refreshed to reflect the new status and content of the message If this connection or collection is unsuccessful then an alert is sounded and a warning dialog displayed Read Inbox E From 447766244891 Subj Animated gif Date 12 23 02 1 03 pm Get this message TAE Toolbar The Viewer Overview form toolbar has the following buttons Done Play Reply and Delete The Reply button is only visible when displaying messages in the Inbox category whose status in other than Awaiting Collection The Play button is visible at all times except when displaying messages in the Inbox category with status Awaiting Collection Page 12 29 01 03 PixerMMS User Manual Copyright 2002 2003 Electric Pocket Ltd ElectricPocket Mobile and Wireless Solutions e Tapping the Done button closes the form and returns to the Message List View e Tapping the Reply button creates a new empty message in the draft category fills its recipient list and subject and then opens the Composer Overview form to display the new message e Tapping the Delete button deletes the current message and then closes this form returning to the Message List View e Tapping the Play button opens the Viewer Pane form in run mode initially displaying the first pane of the message Menu The forms menu bar has a single Messages submenu with Play Reply Reply To All
7. can be displayed in this area then the scrollbar will be present When the frame contains both text and picture elements then the size of the text area is variable It may never be of greater height than that required to display the text It may however be smaller Its size is limited by the height of the form body less the minimum height of the picture control Tapping on the text area when its size is less than its maximum increases it to its maximum size decreasing the size of the picture control accordingly In addition tapping on the text area when the form is in run mode stops the animation and switches the form into single step mode Scrollbar The scrollbar may be used in two different ways When the pane contains only a text element and the amount of text exceeds that which can be displayed in the fixed size text area then the scrollbar will be visible and enabled and will scroll through the text in the normal manner allowing any part of the text it to be made visible When the pane contains both text and picture elements and the text element requires more than one line of text are to be displayed then the scrollbar will be visible Scrolling upwards decreases the amount of form height allocated to the picture control and increases that allocated to the text area This continues until all the text is visible or the picture control has reached minimum height If the picture control is shrunk to minimum height before all the text is vis
8. displayed in the Message Composer Sent Messages and Inbox Messages will be displayed in the Message Viewer At the right of the entry the message date when present shows the date and time when the message was sent to or collected from the MMSC The message content gives visual information about the content of the message Is it multi pane does it have images etc Toolbar The Message List View toolbar has three buttons From left to right these are the New Message Get Messages and Send Messages buttons On an integrated device the Get Messages button is enabled only when the inbox contains one or more messages with a status of Awaiting Collection In the two piece case then the Get Messages button is always present The Send Messages button is only enabled when the Outbox contains one or more messages Disabled buttons are dimmed e Tapping on the New Message button adds a new empty message to the Draft category of the message list and displays it the Message Composer Overview form e Tapping on the Get Messages button One piece case initiates a connection to the MMSC and an attempt is made to collect each of the messages in the Inbox with Awaiting Collection status If collection is successful then the message bodies will be filled and their status changed to Unread An alert will be sounded and a dialog displayed for each of the messages showing the message s sender and content deta
9. editing the first pane tapping this button closes this form and returns to the Composer Overview If editing any other pane tapping this button causes this form to be refreshed to display the previous pane for edit e Tapping the Next Pane button causes this form to be refreshed to display the next pane for editing e Tapping the New Pane button creates a new pane and adds it to the message after the current i e last pane The Composer Pane form is then refreshed to display the newly created pane The New Pane button will be enabled only if the current pane has a picture or text Menu The Composer Pane Form menu has Edit and Panes sub menus The Edit submenu has the standard clipboard operations plus keyboard and graffiti help o The Panes sub menu has Insert Pane Before Insert Pane After and Insert Pane At End Move Pane Forward and Move Pane Backwards entries e Selecting Insert Pane Before creates a new pane before the current one and refreshes the form to display the new pane Page 8 29 01 03 PixerMMS User Manual Copyright 2002 2003 Electric Pocket Ltd ElectricPocket Mobile and Wireless Solu bows e Selecting Insert Pane After creates a new pane after the current one and refreshes the form to display the new pane e Selecting Insert Pane At End creates a new pane before the current one and refreshes the form to display the new pane e Selecting Move Pane
10. f the collection is successful then the message is added t the Inbox with status unread A dialog will then be displayed allowing the user to indicate if he wishes to read the message immediately or later If he chooses to read it now then it will be displayed in the Message Viewer e f Delete is selected then a connection to the MMSC is initiated and the message deleted both from the MMSC and the message list Page 2 29 01 03 PixerMMS User Manual Copyright 2002 2003 Electric Pocket Ltd ElectricPocket Mobile and Wireless Solu bowms For Inbox messages with other statuses the choices are Read Reply Forward Call and Delete e If Read is selected the message is displayed in the Message Viewer e f Reply is selected then a new message is opened in the Message Composer with the recipient and subject lines pre filled e f Forward is selected then a copy of the message is created and displayed in the Message Composer e If Call is selected then a voice call to the senders telephone number will be initiated e If Delete is selected then the message is discarded The body of a Message List entry shows the sender recipients telephone number or name when available the message subject and the time sent or received Tapping the body of a Message List entry displays the message in either the Message Composer or the Message Viewer Draft and Outbox messages will be
11. figured for aparator SingTel GI R501 Page 4 29 01 03 PixerMMS User Manual Copyright 2002 2003 Electric Pocket Ltd ElectricPocket Mobile and Wireless Soluboms Message Composer The Message Composer forms are displayed when the user is creating or editing a message An MMS Message consists of message header information such as the recipient list and subject and a series of one or more panes each of which can contain one each of a number of element types such as an image text or sound element By setting a pane time for each pane an animated MMS can be created Consequently the Composer consists of two forms the Overview form and the Pane form The Overview form is message oriented and allows message header data to be entered the pane list to be managed and message level operations to be initiated It also allows the message to be played as the recipient would see it The Pane form displays a single pane and allows the user to add and amend the various elements of single MMS message pane and set the Pane Time Message Composer Overview Form Cra Drati ia Te alepaim cord Cts Subp PiwerMMS gt a Category Static Field Shows the category of the message currently being displayed To Droplist And To Edit Field Allows the user to address the message with either an email or MMS address The To Droplist gives access to the address book and a buddy list of recently used addresses The To Edit will display the en
12. ht 2002 2003 Electric Pocket Ltd ElectricPocket Mobile and Wireless Solu bons The Message Category Drop List The Category drop list controls which category of messages are displayed in the Message List In addition the to the specific categories of the Message List the drop list will contain an All selection The Message List The entries in the message list are divided horizontally into three parts At the left are the message status icons in the centre the sender recipient and subject at the right the date and message content icons The message status icons provide information about message category and status for each message by use of distinct icons Examples are Draft Message Outbox Message Awaiting Send Sent Message Inbox Message Awaiting Collection Inbox Message Unread Inbox Message Read and Inbox Message Replied To Tapping on the status icon pops a menu Menu actions depend on status amp type of message For Draft messages choices are Send Now Edit and Delete e if Send Now is selected then a connection to the MMSC is initiated and the message transmitted If this is successful then the message is marked as sent If the send is unsuccessful then the user is alerted and the message is placed in the Outbox e f Edit is selected then the message is displayed in the Message Composer e f Delete is selected then the message is discarded
13. ible then further upward scrolling scrolls the text within the by now maximised text area Scrolling downwards will scroll text downwards until the last line of text is visible Thereafter further downward scrolling decreases the text area height and increases the picture area height until the picture area is maximised In addition tapping on the scrollbar when the form is in run mode stops the animation and switches the form into single step mode Toolbar The toolbar contains Done Play Sound First Pane Prev Pane Pause Play and Next Pane buttons The Play Sound button will be enabled only when the pane contains a sound element The First Pane and Prev Pane buttons will be disabled when the first pane is being displayed The Play and Pause overlay one another The Play button is visible when the form is in single step mode and is enabled except when the pane being displayed is Page 14 29 01 03 PixerMMS User Manual Copyright 2002 2003 Electric Pocket Ltd Electri cPocket Mobile and Wireless Solu bons the last pane The Pause button is visible when the form is in play mode and when visible is always enabled The Next Pane button is disabled when the last pane is being displayed Tapping the Done button closes the form and returns to the calling form generally the Viewer Overview form but occasionally the Composer Overview Tapping the
14. ils The dialog will have Read Now and Read Later options If the user chooses Read Now then the message will be displayed in the Message Viewer If collection is unsuccessful then the user will be alerted and a dialog displayed e Tapping on the Send Messages button will initiate a connection to the MMS If connection to the MMSC is successful then the messages in the Outbox will be sent and their category changed to Sent If connection can not be established or messages can not be sent then an alert will be sounded and a warning dialog displayed Menu Bar The Message List View menu bar has Messages Options and Help submenus Page 3 29 01 03 PixerMMS User Manual Copyright 2002 2003 Electric Pocket Ltd ectricPocket Mobile and Wireless Solutions pa i If The options menu allows the choice of alert tones advanced or custom MMS connection parameters and to check if you have the latest version of the application If an update is available it can be downloaded automatically over the air and installed in a couple of minutes Menace EI UT Preferences p Advanced Settings Check for apdotes_ w B oe Users should rarely use the Advanced settings menu screen as these are normally automatically configured based on the SIM MSISDN and network id Wap Gateway IP Addrers 165214204 MMS VRHL ree eien comp 1002 mma Service v DEAS MMS Shi home operator Sire Tel hE gasi Con
15. obile and Wireless Solu bons From To Static Field For Inbox Messages e display the senders MMS number or his name where it is possible to determine it by searching the address book e Set the label to left of field to read From For messages in other categories e Display the list of recipient email and MMS numbers replacing the numbers with names when the recipient was picked from the address list and the name is available e Set the label to the left of the field to read To Subject Static Field Displays the messages subject Date Time Static Field For messages in the Inbox category displays the time collected For messages in the Sent category display the time sent Otherwise hide the field Pane Thumbnails A single thumbnail will be displayed for each pane in the message If the message contains more than six thumbnails then a Scrollbar will be present to the right of the thumbnails allowing the user to reach the thumbnails for all panes Tapping a thumbnail will display the corresponding pane in the Viewer Pane Form in single step mode Collect Now Button If an Inbox message with status Awaiting Collection is displayed in this form then there will be no pane present and hence the Pane Thumbnails will be absent In place of the thumbnails will be displayed a Collect This Message button Tapping this button will initiate a connection to the MMSC and attempt to collect the message If this is successful then the Message
16. orm The form body may consist of up to three controls The Picture Control the Text Area and the Scrollbar If the pane contains no text then only the Picture Control will be displayed If no picture then only the Text Area and possibly the Scrollbar will be displayed If both text and picture then all three controls will be displayed Whenever a new pane is displayed in the form then the controls will be refreshed Page 13 29 01 03 PixerMMS User Manual Copyright 2002 2003 Electric Pocket Ltd ElectricPocket le and Wireless Solutions Picture Control The Picture control displays the picture element of the pane It is only present when a pane contains a text element When a pane contains both picture and text elements then the Picture Control may be either fully or partly visible i e only part of the picture can be seen but will always start out fully visible when the pane is first displayed Tapping on the Picture Control when it is only partly visible will maximise its height and make the picture fully visible by minimising the text area In addition tapping on the Picture Control when the form is in run mode stops the animation and switches the form into single step mode Text Area The text area displays the text element of the pane When the pane contains no picture element the text area is fixed in size and occupies the whole height of the form body between the title and tool bars If the pane contains more text than
17. r Image Selector Sound Line amp Colour Pen Type Prev Pan Next Pane and New Pane The Next Pane and New Pane buttons are exclusive The Next Pane button is visible on all panes except the last pane of the message The New Pane button is visible only on the last pane e Tapping the Done button closes the form and returns to the Composer Overview form If the pane had an empty picture and no text then the pane will be deleted from the message e Tapping the Delete button deletes the current pane closes the form and returns to the Composer Overview screen e Tapping the Pane Timer will display a dialog allowing the user to set a display duration for this pane or to indicate that it is un timed In which case it will display indefinitely Un timed is the default state for a pane e Tapping the Image Selector button will cause the Image Selector Form to be displayed allowing the user to import an image from a photo album or from a Zip Notepack e Tapping the Line amp Colour button will display a popup menu of line thickness and colours The icon displayed reflects the currently selected thickness and colour e Tapping the Pen Type icon displays a popup menu of drawing tools The icon displayed on the button reflects the currently chosen drawing tool e The result of tapping the Prev Pane button depends on which pane is being edited If
18. s Solu bons Message Composer Pane Form This form allows the user to edit a single pane of a message The pane can have a picture component and a textual component The user may also set a duration that controls the length of time for which the pane is displayed to the recipient before moving to the next pane The body of the form consists of three controls a picture drawing area a text area and a scrollbar When first displayed the picture area is fully visible as is a single line of the text area The Scrollbar can be used to display more of the text component or more of the picture component AORN Yo sme Oe Picture Control The user can draw freehand on the Picture Control or he can import an image which he can then annotate if he wishes The image can be imported from JPEG images stored on an MMS or SD card or from a supported Photo Album such as SplashPhoto Images can be copied from your desktop and hotsynced to the SD card or SplashPhoto A variety of drawing tools and pen styles are selectable via the toolbar If the picture is left blank then no picture will be sent for this pane of the message The user can only draw on the Picture Control when it is fully visible Tapping on the picture control when it is not fully visible will cause the picture control to be brought fully into view and the text area to be minimised Text Edit Area i E soar MMS let i yei eo chore berT ond pitture nitet beleeen your Pabn T
19. select and view individual panes of the message The user may also play the message as an animation where this is appropriate Read Inbox E From 447766244891 Subj deletemenot 3 slides Date 12 19 02 4 15 pm When this form is opened to display a message the messages category and status are checked If the message is in the Inbox category and its status is Unread then the status is updated to Read Message Navigation Controls The message navigation controls on the forms title bar allow the user to move forward and backwards through the messages in the current category The Previous Message button will be disabled when the first message in the category is being displayed The Next Message button will be disabled when the last message in the category is being displayed Page 10 29 01 03 PixerMMS User Manual Copyright 2002 2003 Electric Pocket Ltd Mobile and Wireless Solu bons i cPocket rr Between the navigation controls the Message Position label shows a counter indicating the position of the message within and the size of the current category e g 1 of 5 Category Static Displays the category of the current message Call Sender Button This button is visible only for messages in the Inbox category Tapping the button initiates a voice call using the telephone number of the incoming MMS message Page 11 29 01 03 PixerMMS User Manual Copyright 2002 2003 Electric Pocket Ltd ElectricPocket M
20. tered address or a name when the address has been selected from the address book The Edit field will support usual clipboard operations Subject Edit Field Allows user to add a subject for the message It will support the usual clipboard operations Page 5 29 01 03 PixerMMS User Manual Copyright 2002 2003 Electric Pocket Ltd ElectricPocket Mobile and Wireless Soluboms Pane Thumbnails The panes of the message are represented on the Overview by the thumbnails in the centre of the form Tapping on a thumbnail creates a new pane or displays the corresponding pane in the Message Composer Pane Form If the message contains more than five panes then a scrollbar will be made visible at the right of the thumbnails use of which allows the thumbnail corresponding to each pane to be seen At the end of the series of thumbnails corresponding to the existing panes there will be a New Pane thumbnail Tapping this thumbnail will create a new pane at the end of the message and display it in the Message Composer Pane Form Toolbar The Composer Overview form toolbar contains Send Message Now Draft Delete New Pane and Play buttons The Preview buttons will be enabled only when the current message has one or more pane when disabled the buttons are dimmed e Tapping the Send Now causes the message address and contents to be validated If validation fails an alert is sounded and a warning dialog displa
21. ungsten W ond ony Ay E y The text edit area is a resizable text field The field is automatically increased in height when typing at the insertion point threatens to go out of sight at the bottom of the field As this field is increased in height the height of the Picture Control is correspondingly decreased Once the Picture Control is at minimum height equivalent to a single line text field then the text area will no longer be increased in size Instead text will be scrolled off the top of the text area If text is entered when the insertion point is not on the bottom line of the visible text area Page 7 29 01 03 PixerMMS User Manual Copyright 2002 2003 Electric Pocket Ltd ElectricPocket Mobile and Wireless Solu bons then text below the insertion point will be scrolled out of view but the text area will not increase in size Scrollbar The scrollbar is used to allow the user to control the visible portions of the Picture Control and text area It will not be possible to scroll the Picture Control completely out of view nor will it be possible to scroll a complete line of white space into view in the Text area The size of the scrollbar thumb relative to the scrollbar length should reflect the relative sizes of the visible portions of Picture Control and Text area relative to their overall but unviewable size Toolbar The Message Composer Pane view toolbar contains the following buttons Done Delete Pane Time
22. yed If validation is successful then connection to the MMSC is initiated and the message sent as will any other messages awaiting send in the Outbox If the connection and send s are successful then the message s category is changed to Sent and the form is closed returning to the Message List If the connection and send is unsuccessful then the message category is set to Outbox an alert is sounded and a warning dialog displayed e Tapping the Draft button sets the message category to Draft The form is then closed returning to the Message List view e Tapping the Delete button deletes the record A delete confirmation dialog may be displayed subject to application preferences Once the record has been deleted the form is closed returning to the Message List View e Tapping the New Pane button adds a new pane to the end of the message and displays that pane in the Composer Pane form e Tapping the Play button allows the user to preview the messages panes as the recipient will see them The Viewer Pane form will be opened in run mode with the messages first pane as it start pane When the Viewer Pane form is closed then the Composer Overview will be redisplayed Menu The Composer Overview form menu bar has a single submenu for Edit with the standard clipboard operations plus keyboard and graffiti help Page 6 29 01 03 PixerMMS User Manual Copyright 2002 2003 Electric Pocket Ltd ElectricPocket Mobile and Wireles
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