To use foldable keyboard without using stylus

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If you know how to do this, you're a genius.

"ja" <ask@me.com> wrote in message
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> I have an hp ipaq foldable keyboard.
>
> When the PDA is sitting on the keyboard, I often have to still tap the
> touchscreen to do certain things like for example create new task in my
task
> manager.
>
> The keyboard driver software comes with settings to create quick lauch
> buttons, e.g. ctrl-1 will lauch a certain program, like task scheduler.
>
> This quick launch feature certainly reduces how often I have to use the
> touchscreen, but I cannot map certain functions to this quick launch
> feature, for example, I cannot map "create new task" to the quick launch
> feature because it's not listed as an executable file.
>
> I wonder if there's a way to create a "batch file" or some other
executable
> file that will run "create new task" or "create new appointment". If I can
> do this, then I can map that exe or batch file to a ctrl-x command on the
> keyboard.
>
> Anywone know how to do this?
>
> Thanks.
>
>

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Thanks for the reply.

The frustrating thing is that I already bought the targus IR universal
keyboard last week and tried to make it work with my ipaq 4350.
It did not work. Altough I disabled the inbuilt ipaq keyboard, everything
froze whenever I activated the targus keyboard, so I had to do repeated soft
resets.

The targus site does not list ipaq 4350 as one of the supported devices (for
pete's sakes it's an ipaq, it's supposed to be the compatibility standard!).
I don't know if someone has made that keyboard work with a 4350, if so
please let me know.

I have a feeling I have to forget about using a keyboard at all with my
4350, at least for a long time

"Sven, MVP-Mobile Devices" <sejohannsen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> The only real universal method I know of to help out on this is to get a
> Targus IR Universal Keyboard. The way it solves the problem is to provide
a
> little d-pad on the keyboard and the keyboard driver displays a cursor on
> the screen. You move the cursor with the D-pad to what you want tapped
and
> hit the button by the d-pad to execute, reminiscent of a joy-button on a
> laptop. The drawback IMHO is the size of the Targus keyboard.
>
> There was a freeware app called WordCommands that added a lot of keystroke
> macros, but I don't recall what off-hand. It was more geared to extending
> Word as the name suggests.
>
> --
> Sven, MS-MVP Mobile Devices
> "ja" <ask@me.com> wrote in message
> news5cqmd8KEHA.3216@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > I have an hp ipaq foldable keyboard.
> >
> > When the PDA is sitting on the keyboard, I often have to still tap the
> > touchscreen to do certain things like for example create new task in my
> task
> > manager.
> >
> > The keyboard driver software comes with settings to create quick lauch
> > buttons, e.g. ctrl-1 will lauch a certain program, like task scheduler.
> >
> > This quick launch feature certainly reduces how often I have to use the
> > touchscreen, but I cannot map certain functions to this quick launch
> > feature, for example, I cannot map "create new task" to the quick launch
> > feature because it's not listed as an executable file.
> >
> > I wonder if there's a way to create a "batch file" or some other
> executable
> > file that will run "create new task" or "create new appointment". If I
can
> > do this, then I can map that exe or batch file to a ctrl-x command on
the
> > keyboard.
> >
> > Anywone know how to do this?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
>
>