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A new version of TextMaster designed to enhance the functionality of the software on the Treo 600 and 650 (you can load the software on any other PalmOS 5.x device you are using, but you won't see any changes). On the Treo 600/650, there is no ability to use the "Command stroke", so one of the two methods of activating TextMaster was non-functional, and unfortunately, some programs, including VersaMail, would intercept the press of the right-button, making it impossible to activate TextMaster in those programs.

Version 2.4 of TextMaster now provides for activating TextMaster with the "Alt" key, which is a special key which appears on the keyboards of the Treo 600 and 650 (but NOT on the keyboard of the Tungsten C, interestingly enough). Normally, the "Alt" key is used to access accented characters - for example, you press "e" and then "Alt" and get a popup menu with accented variants of "e" to choose from. Fortunately, in essentially all cases in which TextMaster is desirable to popup a list of words of phrases (or the keyboard), you will either be at the beginning of a line, or will have just entered a space character, and the Alt key would be otherwise inactive, so it is a perfect candidate for activating TextMaster. If you are in a position where the "original" function of the Alt key should be active, it will take precedence over TextMaster, so you will still have access to those accented characters.

Download from Stevens Creek Software