TrivFind Documentation
Introduction
TrivFind is a free Palm application that can be used to search in Triv modules.
Although it was designed to run on an actual Palm device, it can also be used with POSE (Palm OS Emulator, which runs on both PC or Macintosh) or the Palm OS Simulator (PC only). Both POSE and the Simulator are free from Palm Computing.
Running TrivFind is as simple as entering a search string (up to 32 characters) and tapping on the Search button (or entering a carriage return Graffiti stroke [top right to bottom left]).
Table of Contents
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| TrivFind Main Screen | Search Results | Trivia Question Display |
There are 6 options on the main TrivFind screen:
- Case Sensitive - If checked, the search string must be matched exactly; if unchecked, capitalization is ignored.
- Entire Word - If checked, only whole words will match; if unchecked, substrings will be found as well.
- Search Questions - If checked, search in the description portion of each trivia question.
- Search Answers - If checked, search in the answer portion of each trivia question.
- Search Explanations - If checked, search in the explanation portion of each trivia question (explanatory text that is sometimes appended to the trivia question description when the answer is revealed in Triv).
- Show Context - If checked, the text around the match is shown in the results listing; if unchecked the beginning of the matching trivia question is shown.
Tapping on the More Options button brings you to the More Options screen.
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| More Options |
There are 3 options that you can set on the More Options screen:
- Show Duplicates - If checked, display every match in the results listing; if unchecked, only display the first match in a given trivia question.
- Show Answer - If checked, trivia questions will be displayed with answers revealed; if unchecked, answers will be hidden until you tap on the Show Answer button on the trivia question screen.
- Ignore Bad M.C. - If checked, incorrect multiple choice answers will not be searched; if unchecked, these usually irrelevant matches will be shown.
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| Preferences |
TrivFind has five options that can be set via the Preferences menu option:
- Font - Sets the font used for the question field. This setting is ignored for multiple choice questions (standard font always used).
- Lines - Sets whether lines are displayed in the question field or not.
- Sound - Sets whether sound is turned On, Off, or set to match the System Game Sounds preference.
- Hardware Btns - Sets whether the hardware buttons can be used. On the main screen, all buttons are the same as tapping the "Search" button. On the Search Results screen, the Datebook button is the same as tapping the "OK" button, the "Address" button is the same as the "Done" button. On the Search Results and Trivia Question screen the To Do (Mail on some devices) hardware buttons goes to the previous record while the Memo (Notepad/Web) button goes to the next record.
- Scroll Overlap - Sets whether the search results screen scrolls with 1 line overlapping or not.
Four menus are available on TrivFind's main screen.
TrivFind Menu:
- Preferences... - Displays the Preferences screen. The Graffiti shortcut for this option is "/R".
- Select Modules - Displays a screen on which you can choose which Triv modules to search (listed alphabetically). The Graffiti shortcut for this option is "/S". (Note: you can also tap on the "modules selected" count on the main screen to bring up this screen.)
- Set VFS Directory... - Displays a screen on which you can set a specific directory where TrivFind should search for trivia modules. Tap on the "Card Default" button to use the current external card's default directory (usually "/PALM/Launcher"), tap on the "Alternative Directory" button to use "/PALM/Programs/Triv", or enter any specific directory you want. If you don't use the card's default directory, you will need a utility such as Filez (freeware) to place files there. (NOTE: for PalmOS 5.0, you may need to use the Alternative Directory to get things to work.)
- About TrivFind - Displays information about TrivFind. The Graffiti shortcut for this option is "/I".
Edit Menu - This the standard Palm Edit menu.
Launch Menu - Allows you to jump directly to the other applications in the Triv suite:
- Triv - Launch the Triv application.
- TrivWriter - Launch the TrivWriter application.
Beam Menu - The TrivFind Application option beams the TrivFind application to another Palm device.
In the "Apps" folder, the file TrivFindDoc.prc is a Doc-formatted version of this file. This file can be installed on your PalmPilot for reference if you have a Doc reader installed. You can download a free Doc reader from Aportis (http://www.aportis.com/tryme/download/AportisDoc/aportisdocreader.html).
In the "Docs" folder the following files can also be found:
- TrivFindDoc.html - (this file) Documentation for TrivFind readable in a web browser such as Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer
- TrivFindDoc.txt - Documentation for TrivFind readable in any text editor.
Triv's VERSION.txt file contains additional release notes for TrivFind (initially released with Triv 3.1.0).
TrivFind Version 1.2.4, July 8, 2003
TrivFind is Copyright (C)2003 by Robert Jen.
The latest copy of TrivFind (bundled with Triv), Triv data modules, and other PalmPilot and Macintosh software can be found at http://www.rjen.com (specifically http://www.rjen.com/Pilot/Triv.html). Questions, comments, and any other email can be sent to the author Robert Jen at mailto:rjen@rjen.com. Your feedback is much appreciated.