Alphabet Rhyme Time Documentation
Introduction
Alphabet Rhyme Time is an educational program for the PalmPilot that uses familiar music, entertaining graphics, and an original poem to teach the alphabet to young children.
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| Alphabet Rhyme Time Info |
Alphabet Rhyme Time is a captivating program for teaching the alphabet to young children. It teaches both the upper and lower case letters as well as 26 objects (and animals). Simply press the down arrow key to move to the next letter, or tap on the silk screen menu button to bring up several options, including the ability to set user preferences or move to a specific letter.
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| Options Menu |
Alphabet Rhyme Time has only 1 menu (tap on the menu silk-screen icon just above the Datebook hardware button), an Options menu with the following choices:
- Preferences... - Displays the Alphabet Rhyme Time Preferences screen where you can set various user preferences. The Graffiti shortcut for this option is "/R".
- Go To Letter... - Allows you to go directly to any letter of the alphabet. The Graffiti shortcut for this option is "/G".
- Registration... - For unregistered copies of Alphabet Rhyme Time, displays a screen on which you can enter your registration code after you have paid. This removes the occasional registration reminder on startup. See the section below on Registering Alphabet Rhyme Time.
- Beam ART - Beams the Alphabet Rhyme Time application (ART.prc or ART_Gray.prc) to another Palm handheld device.
- About ART... - Displays version and other information about Alphabet Rhyme Time. The Graffiti shortcut for this option is "/I".
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| Preferences |
The Preferences options are:
- Sound - Sound can be set to Off (no sounds), Beep (beep when going to the next letter), or Music (play the Alphabet song). The Beep and Music settings both respect the Game Sound volume level set in the Preferences application.
- Letter Case - The letter being displayed can be lower case or UPPER CASE.
- Name Case - The name of the object being displayed can be lower case, Init Caps (first letter of each word capitalized) or UPPER CASE.
- Font - The poem can be displayed in any of the given fonts.
- Hardware Btns - The hardware buttons can be used to advance to the next letter instead of invoking their respective Palm applications if this option is set. Regardless of this setting, the up and down arrow buttons move to the previous and next letter respectively.
- Screen Arrows - On-screen arrow buttons (to go to the previous or next letter) are displayed if this option is set.
- Bg Color - On color devices, the background will be color (very light pink, yellow, etc.) if this option is set and white if it is not.
Alphabet Rhyme Time is $5 shareware. All future upgrades are free! Simple economics will dictate how many upgrades there will be, so please register and spread the word...
eSellerate
Point your web browser to eSellerate (http://store.eSellerate.net/s.asp?s=STR856438358). A registration code will be automatically emailed to you within a few minutes.
PayPal
Point your web browser to PayPal (https://secure.paypal.com/xclick/business=rjen%40mindspring.com&undefined_quantity=1&item_name=Alphabet Rhyme Time&amount=5&return=http%3A//www.rjen.com/Pilot/Alphabet Rhyme Time.html). A registration code will be emailed to you within a couple of days.
PalmGear
Point your web browser to PalmGear (http://store.yahoo.com/pilotgearsw/rjen.html). A registration code will be emailed to you in a week or sooner.
Handango
Point your web browser to Handango (http://www.handango.com/product.shtml?sectionId=0&productId=29450&catalog=1) and click on the Buy it icon. A registration code will be emailed to you in a week or sooner.
Once you have your registration code, go back into Alphabet Rhyme Time and use the Registration menu option to bring up the Registration screen. Enter the code and click on the OK button. You should get a confirmation window indicating that you're all set. Thanks!
In the "Apps" folder, the file ART_Doc.pdb is a Doc-formatted version of this file. This file can be installed on your PalmPilot for reference if you have any Doc reader installed. You can download a free Doc reader from Aportis (http://www.aportis.com/tryme/download/AportisDoc/aportisdocreader.html).
In the "Docs" folder the following files can also be found:
- ART_Doc.html - Documentation for Alphabet Rhyme Time readable in a web browser such as Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer.
- ART_Doc.txt - Documentation for Alphabet Rhyme Time readable in any text editor.
- VERSION.txt - Release history for Alphabet Rhyme Time.
Many thanks to:
- My son Kevin - for inspiring this program (some day he'll actually learn the alphabet instead of just looking at the pictures ;-).
- My wife Jade - for all her support during this (and all of my other programming endeavors).
Alphabet Rhyme Time Version 1.0.0, April 10, 2002
Alphabet Rhyme Time is Copyright (C)2002 by Robert Jen.
The latest version of Alphabet Rhyme Time and other PalmPilot and Macintosh software can be found at http://www.rjen.com (specifically http://www.rjen.com/Pilot/ART.html). Questions, comments, and any other email can be sent to the author Robert Jen at mailto:rjen@rjen.com. Your feedback is much appreciated.
