Each time RediReader™ starts, it begins searching through your handheld's internal memory and standard directories on mounted memory cards for new documents to add to its document list. For more about the document list, see more about the document list. The search happens in the background when you are in the document list view.
So while you are deciding which document to view next, RediReader™ is busy in the background checking to see whether an update to the list is necessary. If you have a lot of databases in the internal memory of your device or if you have a lot of files on your external memory cards, the total time to see whether an update is necessary may be very long. But RediReader™ does this check in the background so that you do not have to wait before beginning to read an already listed document. You can tell that RediReader™ is busy working in the background doing this check if you see a blinking dot in the upper left.
Only if RediReader™ sees that the document list
needs to be updated does it interrupt you and tell you that
it is synchronizing the document list. During this step
is when RediReader™ adds entries to the list
for newly found documents and synchronizes the list
for documents located in your handheld's internal memory.
a document's default category
When RediReader™ adds a new entry to the document list
for a new document it finds, the entry by default goes to the
Unfiled category unless the document specifies a
default category, in which case the following happens:
what happens when you open a document
opening a new document
When you open a document you have never opened before, the document
automatically gets the default display and interface options. Either
they are the original default options or they are your modified
default options.
opening a previously opened document
With the exception of documents you open using the
Open File command,
when you open a document you have opened before,
the document starts with the display and interface options that
were in effect when you last closed the document. RediReader™
stores these settings in a database that it maintains in your
handheld's memory.
The color display mode affects the entire screen, including the user interface. This means that user interface items such as the title bar, scroll bar, and tool bar appear different in different color display modes.
So when you open a given document for the first time or if you open a document using the Open File command, RediReader™ makes a quick determination of whether the document uses color. If the document uses only black and white, RediReader™ starts the document in 1-bit color mode. Otherwise, the behavior depends on whether the device supports color. If it does, RediReader™ starts the document in the highest color mode available. If not, then RediReader™ starts the document in the highest color mode that is no greater than the highest color depth used by the document.
The behavior described above only applies to running RediReader™ on Palm OS® devices prior to Palm OS® 4.0. In devices with Palm OS® 4.0 or later, RediReader™ starts documents in the highest color mode available.
Subsequent to the first time you open a document that has an entry in the document list, the document opens in the color display mode in effect when you last closed the document. So, for example, if you had a document that opened by default in 1-bit color mode, but you changed the color mode to 16-bit color and then closed the document, the next time you open the document, it opens in 16-bit color mode.
Images, preformatted text, and tables are three type of content that can span wider than the width of the screen and thus require horizontal scrolling.