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One of the most useful features that the MC218 (Series5/Series5a) has is the ability to share its clipboard with the desktop. With Windoze and Epoc Connect (PsiWin) this is achieved using CopyAnywhere. Under Linux and KDE one could get the same functionality using Klipsi which is part of plptools. $ multiclip.sh export will write the contents of the desktop clipboard to the shared file on the pda. And: $ multiclip.sh import will read the contents of the shared file on the pda and place it onto the desktop clipboard. 2) Configure KHotKeys Open up your KDE Control Centre and find the KHotKeys panel. Add a New Group and fill in the details:  Add a New Action and fill in the General tab:  Fill in the Keyboard Shortcut tab:  Finally the Command/URL Settings tab:  Create another New Action, this time for the import action, don't forget to use import instead of export in the Command/URL Settings tab! To finish off, click on Global Settings > General Settings and make sure that the Disable KHotKeys daemon checkbos is NOT checked, then click OK:  Prepare pda 1) Download multiclip.ns, save it somewhere on your pda. 2) Create the shortcuts You need to create 3 shortcuts ... multiclip.lnk 65#"\Program Files\utils\ns.exe" "\My Documents\macros\multiclip.ns" multiclip-import.lnk 30#"\Program Files\utils\ns.exe" "\My Documents\macros\multiclip.ns" import multiclip-export.lnk 30#"\Program Files\utils\ns.exe" "\My Documents\macros\multiclip.ns" export ... obviously you will have to adjust your shortcuts to reflect where you installed nScriptm and where your multiclip.ns lives. NB here import means read contents of shared file and place onto pda clipboard, and export means put contents of the pda clipboard into the shared file. 3) Assign shortcuts to hardware buttons Which buttons you assign them to is entirely up to you. You can opt not to assign any buttons if you wish but then using the thing would be very cumbersome indeed. Using multiclip Transferring the clipboard either way is a 2 step process (unfortunately). To transfer from desktop to pda: - in KDE press hotkey assigned to export - in pda press hardware button assigned to import To transfer from pda to desktop: - in pda press hardware button assigned to export - in KDE press hotkey assigned to import Advanced features! If you invoke multiclip.ns without any parameters ie if you use multiclip.lnk then you'll be presented with a dialog box:  Here you can select select a previously used clip (multiclip keeps a history of the last 99 clips) and then either Copy to the pda clipboard or Export to the shared clipboard. The clips history is stored in a directory called clips which is created in the directory that multiclip.ns resides in. Thus if multiclip.ns was stored in \My Documents\macros\multiclip.ns then the clips history will be stored in the directory \My Documents\macros\clips (this directory is created automatically). Each clip in the history is stored as a separate file and are named _clip-??.txt. To remove unwanted clips from the history simply delete the corresponding file, they will automatically be re-ordered each time multiclip is started. If you scroll right down to the bottom of the list:  you can see there's a list of dates and times in different formats, these can also be selected and used in the same way as the other clips. The last button is for invoking ClipMgr, a very handy program for storing and retrieving often used pieces of text. That just about wraps it up. Enjoy  |
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