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Hi - Can anyone help, please. I am not very tech-literate, and managed to download the Touchflo cube file, which was posted as a link, from Megaupload. I managed to install it, to the extent of the cube working, but there was no response when pressing any of the actual cube icons. The squares lit up, but then nothing more. After a few tries, the screen went black on me and I had to do a soft reboot.
I would really appreciate a pointer or two.
If installed correctly, goto:
Start >> Programs >> Accessories >> SCLPF >> Cube Settings
This is where you can setup what each of the buttons do.
On the 'Custom Applications' section I put the bottom right hand button (a cog shape) as the "Cube Settings.ink" so that I have quick access to it while in that mode. I may change it to something else when I have finished editing it all.
As with the black screen. I have noticed that happens occassionaly with me. All I do is use the down gesture (stroke the screen from top to bottom) to exit the program and reload it back up.
I only put it on yesterday, so not an expert at it myself. But hope I helped.
Does anyone think that a developer will create an application which will allow you to use the zoom-bar for a different functionality, (bit like GScroll) such as a application manager or a scroll control. if so what other functions could it be used for?
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if so what other functions could it be used for?
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I don't have the device yet, but I think it would be great if someone can figure out how to make the zoom bar act as a d-pad like with Gscroll. That is, swipe up for up, swipe left for left, swipe down for down, swipe right for right. You wouldn't be able to use it in apps like games. But I can imagine it would be useful for the following:
-moving cursor around when typing
-scroll though the suggested contacts when you start typing in the "To" field in Messaging
-scroll through the suggested words when you have xt9 enabled
But I guess this is only applicable when the hardware keyboard is hidden since there are arrow keys on the keyboard. Besides, it's probably difficult/impossible for the zoom bar to recognize vertical swipes.
I thought I was on to something when I first started writing this post, but now I feel my idea may not be worth the trouble at all!
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I don't have the device yet, but I think it would be great if someone can figure out how to make the zoom bar act as a d-pad like with Gscroll. That is, swipe up for up, swipe left for left, swipe down for down, swipe right for right. You wouldn't be able to use it in apps like games. But I can imagine it would be useful for the following:
-moving cursor around when typing
-scroll though the suggested contacts when you start typing in the "To" field in Messaging
-scroll through the suggested words when you have xt9 enabled
But I guess this is only applicable when the hardware keyboard is hidden since there are arrow keys on the keyboard. Besides, it's probably difficult/impossible for the zoom bar to recognize vertical swipes.
I thought I was on to something when I first started writing this post, but now I feel my idea may not be worth the trouble at all!
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Would be nice if the bar was 'split' in two:
the left half is for left/right and the right half is for up/down.
So, each half should be devided into two halves too.
But, for this to work, the actual position of the finger should be known, not only the swipe...
A program like the GScroll AppSwitch would be good to control with the zoom bar, or even a simple way to scroll up and down through menus or things like contacts.
Hello everyone,
I just bought my desire and the first "annoying" thing is that I can't go back without using the hardware button. It would be nice to go back using a gesture like a slide from left to right (similar to the home pages navigation).
Since the display is quite big, you need to do some 'trips' between the upper part of the display and the bottom where the button is located.
Is there any utility tool which can accomplish that?
I assume because it would be rather confusing. What happens in apps that use the swipe gesture? If "back" is hard coded into the swipe gesture for the entire OS then apps can't use it. In the photo gallery swipe is for moving from one photo to the next...but if I accidentally try to share a photo and want to get out of that dialogue then I don't want swipe to move to share the previous photo instead...I want it to get out altogether.
I agree..in some applications makes no sense. Anyway, I need to have at least a soft button to go back on the upper or bottom of the display. Another solution is to have the back behavior only on some portions the display.
There is another problem which bothers me . The fonts are not so smooth..it looks like no clear type is available. Every letter have some very small pink pixels on the left side.In fact this applies for every vertical line. Is this normal?
has anyone else this pink pixels?
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I agree..in some applications makes no sense. Anyway, I need to have at least a soft button to go back on the upper or bottom of the display. Another solution is to have the back behavior only on some portions the display.
There is another problem which bothers me . The fonts are not so smooth..it looks like no clear type is available. Every letter have some very small pink pixels on the left side.In fact this applies for every vertical line. Is this normal?
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Er...no...never seen this. You need to get that checked.
RE pink pixels.
See this article and this XDA thread.
Regards,
Dave
In general I love Mango B2, and IE9 funtionality is great.
In terms of usability though, I think MS is missing a trick.
We've got larger screen real estate now that the address bar and menu bar is combined, but at a cost.
For example, I have two sites that I check daily. To update the first one when I open IE is menu > favourites > select fave. Then to switch to another, menu > tabs > select tab > menu > favourites > select favourite. Six key presses - not efficient.
Given the pivot style in the rest of WP, why can't I just swipte left/right to flick through my tabs?!? Or maybe/also keep the menu open when I select a new tab so I can action the new tab (Bing already creates a new tab, so mostly opening a new tab is to select a favourite, right?)
Once the tabs are all open you can use the multi-task keypress to reach all the open tabs quickly, but they disappear as other apps populate the multi-task screen.
I dunno, pivoting to different tabs seems like such a natural thing to be able to do in IE...
Believe me, many of us are not happy with the new browser chrome either.
The address bar should be able to slide left and right to expose additional buttons/functions eg. tabs and favorites.
This has been covered already. I create a simple template, which I think would solve the problem. You can see it in this post. My idea would be to keep the menu bar the same as IE8 was before Mango & keeping the address up top. Make it thinker to more finger friendly & add forward & back buttons. Finally, it would autohide once you finished entering a URL. To access it, you swipe down from the top of the screen. Here's the Photoshoped image I made;
Not perfect, but you get the point.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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This has been covered already. I create a simple template, which I think would solve the problem. You can see it in this post. My idea would be to keep the menu bar the same as IE8 was before Mango & keeping the address up top. Make it thinker to more finger friendly & add forward & back buttons. Finally, it would autohide once you finished entering a URL. To access it, you swipe down from the top of the screen. Here's the Photoshoped image I made;
Not perfect, but you get the point.
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that would make it too much like the iOS browser which is pretty much the same amount of real estate
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that would make it too much like the iOS browser which is pretty much the same amount of real estate
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I told you already, stop stalking my posts. Stop stalking everyone who complains about efficient things in WP7. Don't make me report you again!
It also has a lot more real estate than the iOS browser;
PS: Sorry to everyone else for this post. Added him to my ignore list...
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I told you already, stop stalking my posts. Stop stalking everyone who complains about efficient things in WP7. Don't make me report you again!
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I said nothing in that last post that violates the TOS. I just said it would be similar to the iOS browser which is already inferior to IEM9.
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This has been covered already. I create a simple template, which I think would solve the problem. You can see it in this post. My idea would be to keep the menu bar the same as IE8 was before Mango & keeping the address up top. Make it thinker to more finger friendly & add forward & back buttons. Finally, it would autohide once you finished entering a URL. To access it, you swipe down from the top of the screen. Here's the Photoshoped image I made;
Not perfect, but you get the point.
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I would actually hate moving the address bar back to the top, and I think it looks too cluttered there tbh, especially when people rarely use a forward button, to give it priority like that.
On a side note, and no disrespect to you I just wanted to touch it with the whole "don't make me report you again!" comment, I think acting too much like the forum police, on every single thing that may not be perfect, is going to distract people from your helpful posts. Not sure what happened between you and this guy, but it seems like every thread I go to I see you "moderating" it, and it really takes away from how helpful you really are, just my opinion.
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I would actually hate moving the address bar back to the top, and I think it looks too cluttered there tbh, especially when people rarely use a forward button, to give it priority like that.
On a side note, and no disrespect to you I just wanted to touch it with the whole "don't make me report you again!" comment, I think acting too much like the forum police, on every single thing that may not be perfect, is going to distract people from your helpful posts. Not sure what happened between you and this guy, but it seems like every thread I go to I see you "moderating" it, and it really takes away from how helpful you really are, just my opinion.
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Yes, it is kind of cluttered looking, but isn't final, just a quick thought of how to make it better. It can of course, be done better & I'm sure MS can come up with something better, but I think it really needs to be up top to make room in the menu bar. The swipe to the left the other guy said, seems no better then using a menu though IMO.
Sent you a PM on the side note.
Why not put the back, forward and refresh buttons on the bottom bar - there's plenty of room next to the others. You can then auto-hide the address bar - it's only really useful to see what page you're on when the page is loading (who actually types in URLs on a mobile browser?).
Also "Add to Favorite" does not need a dedicated button as you favourite new websites rarely - this feature can be hidden in the bookmarks menu. The bottom bar should be hide-able too - often i'd prefer space for my website over buttons.
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Why not put the back, forward and refresh buttons on the bottom bar - there's plenty of room next to the others. You can then auto-hide the address bar - it's only really useful to see what page you're on when the page is loading (who actually types in URLs on a mobile browser?).
Also "Add to Favorite" does not need a dedicated button as you favourite new websites rarely - this feature can be hidden in the bookmarks menu. The bottom bar should be hide-able too - often i'd prefer space for my website over buttons.
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without starting a flamewar about browsers or os's...
i'm currently enjoying:
scroll to top for menubar, no swiping or sliding or keypress needed.
menubar has www.---------- waiting for you to type in the rest. no bookmarks button, nothing at all.
for additional things like forward/back, a menu button is pressed... and it works very well. bookmarking is rare, as history goes back a week or three. it's easy enough to search in history on a topic to find the URL.
tabs... menu button -> all tabs.
just a hint in what might be the right direction. if ios/palm/whoever does it differently, it might just be better. try it out !
I really like ie9 in beta 2. It finally remembers location and zoomed state when going to previous page..
With that said when I upgraded from nodo to mango the address bar drove me nuts. I was used to having 4-5 tabs open all the time. Now I only have one open. I got used to working in just one tab. Its less of an hassle to use one tab than switching between them.
Slidable address bar is an excellent idea. I would definitely support something like this.
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I hope they implement something like the SGSII...zoom gestures to switch between tabs.
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Why not put the back, forward and refresh buttons on the bottom bar - there's plenty of room next to the others. You can then auto-hide the address bar - it's only really useful to see what page you're on when the page is loading (who actually types in URLs on a mobile browser?).
Also "Add to Favorite" does not need a dedicated button as you favourite new websites rarely - this feature can be hidden in the bookmarks menu. The bottom bar should be hide-able too - often i'd prefer space for my website over buttons.
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I thought about this too last night. My new thought, have the following buttons on the menu bar, Address Toggle/Back/Forward/Favorites/Tabs. The Address Toggle toggles the menu bar between default menu & the address bar. When address bar is shown, you have the refresh button. I'll create a quick template shortly.
Here's the new template;
sorry dude but all your buttons are not good
people cant find the backwards button, (its the hardware key)
or even the forward button (in sub menu aka right click)
so u think they will ever find out about swiping over the adressbar to make other icons apear?
i would like to pinch out to fullscreen, and if u pinch further, tabs will apear..
also more think of gestures instead of buttons..
touch one finger
double touch one finger
swipe one finger -direction (8 directions minimum)
touch and hold one finger
touch two fingers
double touch two fingers
swipe two fingers -direction
touch and hold one finger
touch three fingers
double touch three fingers
swipe three fingers -direction
touch and hold three finger
etc... lots of unused stuff....
btw, i know you can include ie9 in your apps, so cant your app be there to improove ie9 ?
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sorry dude but all your buttons are not good
people cant find the backwards button, (its the hardware key)
or even the forward button (in sub menu aka right click)
so u think they will ever find out about swiping over the adressbar to make other icons apear?
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Gestures = Overrated gimmick. A simple single tap beats any swipe/pinch/what ever gesture. I can't count how many times I've let someone use my phone & how unnatural they look trying to swipe. Swipe is good for scrolling, pinch is good for zooming, other than that, they're overrated. A nice gimmick, but still a gimmick.
Secondly, read what I wrote, there's a toggle like the keyboard has the number/letter toggle.
The hardware back button should not be used for in app navigation. The hardware buttons should be static across all screens. Any option that requires more than one simple tap, on the main menu is inefficient (Other than pinch to zoom/swipe scrolling). I don't swipe up for menu, I tap the 3 dots. I don't swipe left & right, I tap on the tab title if available. Far easier than swiping.
Back = Close App/Previous App (The current/Mango use does not fit with the rest of WP7.)
Start = Start Screen (Already Static)
Search = Bing (Fixed in Mango)
That many buttons goes against the WP experience
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That many buttons goes against the WP experience
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How so, there are apps that have 5 buttons. This is why MS choose icons over text. You can fit more & it looks cleaner. Also, if there is the ability for 5 buttons, than it is within MS's standards. Beside the fact, these are just ideas. Please show me your own ideas?
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That many buttons goes against the WP experience
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you can't tell him that because now he's gonna block u jaja.
There has to be a compromise between style and usability. It seems to me that the new design of IE9 in Mango will be less efficient for most people, and these ideas might improve that. At the very least, they help convey the concern that many people have.
Hello, I tried to use S Note the first time. After choosing the front cover of the note and the background layout of the papers, a windows shows up saying download of files from old version. It asks if it is ok to download note of version older than the one I am using. What is that? Am I supposed to click OK?
After I pressed cancel, it asked me to choose between S pen specific mode and S pen and finger mode. I am not sure the differences. Which one do you recommend?
Thanks.
S Note allowes you to import S Note files associated with your Samsung account. Since the NotePro has the newest version of S Note, you get that mention of old versions. If you've ever used another S Note (for instance, on a Note 2), it can import them.
In S Pen specific mode, you can only write with the S Pen. In Pen&Finger mode, you can also use your finger to write and draw.
The options and settings work with your finger regardless of the setting.
Thanks but if I allow Pen&Finger mode, then there will be no palm rejection. Am I right? I am having this problem with Action Memo. It seems to accept both finger and S pen. There is no way to choose palm rejection.
Are you having issues with stray marks being made with your palm? It almost sounds like you are confusing palm rejection with completely rejecting finger input. In these native samsung pen enabled applications (S-note and Action Memo) palm rejection is built in and should work automatically when the pen is sensed near the screen. So while using the pen you should be able to rest your palm on the screen. Naturally if you specifically turn on pen and finger mode in s-note then the tablet will get confused by multi-touch input so while in that mode you shouldn't be resting your hand on the screen.
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Are you having issues with stray marks being made with your palm? It almost sounds like you are confusing palm rejection with completely rejecting finger input. In these native samsung pen enabled applications (S-note and Action Memo) palm rejection is built in and should work automatically when the pen is sensed near the screen. So while using the pen you should be able to rest your palm on the screen. Naturally if you specifically turn on pen and finger mode in s-note then the tablet will get confused by multi-touch input so while in that mode you shouldn't be resting your hand on the screen.
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Yes. I am having issues with stray marks being made with my palm. In native samsung pen enabled apps, usually which option do users choose? If I choose only pen mode, can I still use my fingers to zoom in and out, erase using the eraser?
Now all those questions I mentioned do not show up on the screen. When I pressed S note, a black sheet appeared. The app did not ask me to choose the color of the note cover, etc. How can I choose the note's cover and whether I want pen only model or pen and finger mode?
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How can I choose the note's cover
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Hit the gear icon on the top-right of the cover of the notebook. There you can change everything.
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Yes. I am having issues with stray marks being made with my palm. In native samsung pen enabled apps, usually which option do users choose? If I choose only pen mode, can I still use my fingers to zoom in and out, erase using the eraser?
Now all those questions I mentioned do not show up on the screen. When I pressed S note, a black sheet appeared. The app did not ask me to choose the color of the note cover, etc. How can I choose the note's cover and whether I want pen only model or pen and finger mode?
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There are no other settings or options for the S-note application other than what you see in the settings menu.
Out of curiosity, are you using a case? If so, try removing it and testing without one. Report back if your experience improved without a case.
These tablets are sensitive to magnetic fields; believe it or not sometimes the magnets used in various case designs to either assist in keeping them closed or to turn on/off the screen will affect touch and pen sensitivity in some parts of the screen. For the case that I use I cannot fold the flap completely behind the tablet if I intend to use the pen to write on the bottom right side of the screen in landscape mode.
Thanks. On my Note, the gear button is on the bottom right. It only has four options: edit tab, edit index, change background, show grid. There is no option to change the dover and template.
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Thanks. On my Note, the gear button is on the bottom right. It only has four options: edit tab, edit index, change background, show grid. There is no option to change the dover and template.
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FYI, you can't change templates once you create a book so there is no way to mix and match page types in a book. If you want that capability you'll have to look elsewhere. My only suggestion at this time is Papyrus. I currently use Lecturenotes because I like its features but mixing and matching of page types is not one of them.
If you want to change the background of a PAGE inside a note you go to the gear icon while inside the notebook. If you want to change the COVER of the notebook itself you back out of the notebook to see the list of notes and long press the notebook's cover (works whether youre in recent notes or the S-Note home screen) to bring up the menu to select Edit Cover.
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FYI, you can't change templates once you create a book so there is no way to mix and match page types in a book. If you want that capability you'll have to look elsewhere. My only suggestion at this time is Papyrus. I currently use Lecturenotes because I like its features but mixing and matching of page types is not one of them.
If you want to change the background of a PAGE inside a note you go to the gear icon while inside the notebook. If you want to change the COVER of the notebook itself you back out of the notebook to see the list of notes and long press the notebook's cover (works whether youre in recent notes or the S-Note home screen) to bring up the menu to select Edit Cover.
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Thank you. I am not trying to mix and match page type in a book.
Is template and background the same thing?
I tried to change the cover of the notebook but it does not work. I clicked the back button next to the home button of the PRO. On the home screen, I saw the calendar on the top left and instead of S-note's picture that I saw before I used the app the first time, there was a window with three tabs: recent notes, all notes and a plus symbol. (Is this what you called the S-Note home screen?) When I long pressed the notebook's cover, the device thought I was going to arrange the windows... Pressing the plus symbol created a blank page without asking me to choose the cover nor template.
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Thank you. I am not trying to mix and match page type in a book.
Is template and background the same thing?
I tried to change the cover of the notebook but it does not work. I clicked the back button next to the home button of the PRO. On the home screen, I saw the calendar on the top left and instead of S-note's picture that I saw before I used the app the first time, there was a window with three tabs: recent notes, all notes and a plus symbol. (Is this what you called the S-Note home screen?) When I long pressed the notebook's cover, the device thought I was going to arrange the windows... Pressing the plus symbol created a blank page without asking me to choose the cover nor template.
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It seems that what you suggested can only be done if I launch S Note by pressing its icon on the Application Screen. The problems that I just mentioned occurred when I launched S Note via the Home Screen. How come?
I don't know if there is a bug in the background (is it also called template?). When I chose a white background with lines, the background of the note looked correct. However, when I chose a brownish background, each line was divided into two. How come the lines are not continuous?
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It seems that what you suggested can only be done if I launch S Note by pressing its icon on the Application Screen. The problems that I just mentioned occurred when I launched S Note via the Home Screen. How come?
I don't know if there is a bug in the background (is it also called template?). When I chose a white background with lines, the background of the note looked correct. However, when I chose a brownish background, each line was divided into two. How come the lines are not continuous?
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l suspect that you are launching it from a widget when launching it from the home screen. Its tough getting used to the workflow that the program developers set for these programs.
Templates and background are not the same thing. The best thing for you to do is experiment with making new notebooks using different templates so you can see the difference. When you launch s-note from the application screen, create a new notebook by clicking the three dots on the top right of either the S-note home screen or recent notes screen (by now you're probably aware that you can switch between these two using the button on the upper left corner of the screen) and selecting "Use new template."
I want to post some photos on this thread. How do I do it? I clicked on the "Insert Image" icon but it asked for URL rather than the location of the file.
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I want to post some photos on this thread. How do I do it? I clicked on the "Insert Image" icon but it asked for URL rather than the location of the file.
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Use the advanced page (eitehr click 'Reply' or 'Go Advanced'), then hit the attachement button. Select the pictures, hit upload, hit OK. Then hit the arrow next to the attachement button > Insert into post.
Thanks. I have attached some photos.
Even I set the size of the eraser to minimum, the gaps it created are still too wide (see eraser width.jpg). Is there any way to make it even smaller?
When I chose the background to be light brown with continuous straight horizontal lines (see selection.jpg), a vertical line was created (see broken line.jpg). How come? Is there a way to fix it?
Is there any good tutorial or video to learn about S Note? Most of the available ones are older versions for older devices. It seems that the one which came with our PRO is quite different. Thanks.