This utility greatly enhances the ability to create shortcuts for Palm devices, and more emphatically makes them MUCH easier to use. Never again be held back by the tedious 4+ button sequence of using Treo built-in shortcuts; now it takes just one additional character! Also, shortcuts are no longer as limited in character length. See below for further description.

ShortCut5 is a PalmOS 5.x preference panel which supports large (up to 4096 characters in size) shortcut definitions. The system shortcuts only supports small (about 45 characters in size) shortcut definitions. ShortCut5 shortcuts are in addition to the system shortcuts, with additional support for macro shortcuts.*

Limitations. Maximum of fifty shortcuts definitions. Each shortcut name is from one to four characters in length. Shortcut names are case sensitive and cannot contain the period "." character. ShortCut5 is only supported on PalmOS 5.x and on locales that use single byte characters. ShortCut5 will not recursively expand shortcut definitions.

Instructions. To expand a shortcut, enter a period "." character followed immediately by the shortcut name. Do not change fields or change the insertion point within the same field while entering the shortcut name. (See below for macro instructions.)

Activation options in the Preferences. This is used to selectively disable and enable this preference panel. (1) Enable all apps. ShortCut5 is always enabled. (2) Disable all apps. ShortCut5 is always disabled. (3) Disable for app list. ShortCut5 is enabled for all apps except for those in the app list. (4) Enable for app list. ShortCut5 is disabled for all apps except for those in the app list.

Notes. The shortcut will expand at a moderate speed (as to not overflow the key queue).

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Revision History

Version 1.7 (12/9/2006)

• Added ability for capital letters and numbers in shortcut strings

Version 1.6 (10/10/2005)

• Added undo, cut, copy, paste, select all menus.

Version 1.5 (2/11/2005)

• Increased the maximum number of shortcuts to one hundred.

Version 1.4 (8/6/2004)

• (1) Added support for selecting menu items within a shortcut.
• (2) Added support for custom date stamps.

Version 1.3 (6/1/2004)

• (1) Added support for changing the insertion point from within a shortcut definition.
• (2) Added support for pressing a button from within a shortcut definition.
• (3) Added other shortcut macros to popup the brightness dialog, to launch the calc/favorite app, to press a hard key, and to launch the ShortCut5 preference panel.

Version 1.2 (5/1/2004)

• (1) Added activation option to selectively enable or disable this preference panel while a user specified list of apps (up to 20) are executing. This is for use with games or other apps that don't use shortcuts but are event (usually graphics) intensive.
• (2) Added support for time and date stamps within a shortcut definition.
• (3) Added support for accessing the command toolbar within a shortcut definition.

Version 1.1 (4/20/2004)

• Added Treo 600 keyboard support (this is because the Treo 600 keyboard sends multiple keydown events per key press).

Version 1.0 (4/19/2004)

• Initial release.