If you're designing an application for the Treo 600, there's a glitch in menu shortcut handling that might affect your design. The 600's keyboard has no "shortcut character", instead you just tap the menu button and enter your shortcut character, bypassing the command bar. What I've noticed is that the Treo's menu handling code doesn't handle the option key when resolving shortcuts, so there's no way to do numeric shortcuts. When I tried to use /1 and /2 to switch between two accounts in Versamail on my Treo 600, I would get /E (Empty Mail) and /R (Preferences) instead. I tried to enter the numeric shortcut while both holding down the option key and pressing option and then pressing the number. When I tried the same thing on my Tungsten C, everything worked fine.
Monday, 30 August 2004 1:57 PM