License

Copyright (c) 2004-6, Alexander R. Pruss. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Instructions

GraffitiStateIndicator is a hack program for the Palm TX and other new Palm OS 5.4 units that restores the Graffiti State Indicator (GSI) that earlier Palm versions used to have but that Palm has removed. This is a small marker that shows whether the operating system's auto shift is active (e.g., first word in sentence), and shows other things, such as caps lock. (Some of these are less useful with Graffiti 2, and hence Palm removed it.) GSI is perhaps most useful in combination with the hex keyboards that myKbd provides.

This utility is a hack for yahm, Igor Nestorov's hack manager for OS5 and earlier units (yahm.palmoid.com). To install GSI, you should install yahm.prc first. Hotsync both GraffitiStateIndicator.prc and yahm.prc. In yahm select the "A" button (different buttons let you have different combinations of hacks loaded). Then, having made sure you have a full backup just in case, turn on Graffiti State Indicator by checking the checkbox to the left of its name.

Individual applications specify whether the GSI is active or not in any given form, and where the GSI shows up. If an application has not specified a position for the GSI, then the GSI will not show up in that application.