AstroViewPalm is the program you use to view a shared computer from a Palm Powered device.
Once downloaded unzip or unstuff and then install it onto your handheld via hotsync. After running it you will have access to a menu named "View" with menuitems "View Desktop...", "Diconnect From Share...", "Connection Options...", and "Network Statistics...". Statistics shows you the amount of used memory, how much data has been sent and read on the current connection and average connection speeds.
Options lets you set some security features and a slow connection option. Disconnect breaks down the current connection. View brings up a dialog which allows you to view and control a shared desktop supplying the IP or DNS address, port number, computer name and password.
AstroViewPalm also allows you to save whatever is currently in the viewer as a picture whether you are connected to a remote desktop or not. This ability is found under the "Image" menu. You can view a desktop or a saved image in 3 levels of Zoom: Normal (1X), Zoom Double (2X) and Zoom Quadruple (4X).
This ability is found under the "Zoom" menu. You can also push the up and down page buttons on the front of your device to zoom in and out respectively. Viewing in Double and Quadruple modes decreases bandwith significantly.
Most likely you will be viewing a remote desktop that is larger than the display on your Palm OS device. Currently AstroViewPalm has 3 ways to view different parts of that larger desktop. You do this by "scrolling".
We offer 3 scroll modes: Grab, Scale and Mouse.
* Grab Scroll works by moving to another part of the remote desktop in response to you pushing the stylus. While you move the stylus the same point on the desktop stays under it. It's sort of like putting your index finger on a piece of paper thats on a smooth desk. As you move your finger around the paper moves too but not relative to your finger.
* Scale Scroll works by showing you that part of the desktop relative to where your stylus is on the palm screen. So if you tap the top left corner of the palm screen you will see the top left corner of the remote desktop. Tap the middle of the screen and you see the middle of the remote desktop. Hold the stylus down while moving it and you will see everything in between.
* Mouse Scroll works by imitating the mouse on the remote desktop. When you touch the stylus to the palm screen it causes the mouse button to be down on the remote desktop. As you move the stylus in mouse scroll mode so does the mouse move on the remote desktop. If you move the stylus within about 1/4 inch of your Palm's screen border then the part of the remote desktop your viewing will shift so that you can see more of the desktop in the direction that you are moving the stylus.
You can switch between the different scroll modes via the "Stylus" menu. You can also switch into Mouse Scroll by hitting the leftmost hard button on the front of your palm also known as the DateBook button. Hitting it again will switch you back into the previous scroll mode either Grab or Scale. All 3 scroll modes work in real time as does zooming so you can zoom in and out at the same time you are using any of the scroll modes.
You can copy whatever text is currently selected on the shared machine to your handheld's clipboard. Do this by choosing "Copy From Remote..." under the "View" menu. You can also paste whatever text is currently on your handheld's clipboard to the text insertion point of the shared computer. Do this by choosing "Paste To Remote..." under the "View" menu. For both copying and pasting a maximum of 5000 characters are moved with one operation.
Update Description:
v2.14:
* Added the MP3 Player to Windows and Macintosh. Now you can listen to your local and remote songs from anywhere.
* To listen to local songs choose "MP3 Player..." under the "Main" menu. To listen to your music from anywhere else login to AstroCity from the machine that has your music.* Then from any other computer login using the "Remote MP3 Login..." found under the "Login" menu. Use the same username and password and click "Listen". You will then be able to search and listen to all your music.
* Fixed a bug that would cause AstroApp on Windows to freeze on the second launch of the application. This freeze would only happen if you did not build your music library file on the first launch of the application.
v2.12:
* The MP3 Player interface is completely redone and allows you to change color themes.
* Added a sound amplitude visual effect when playing songs.
* Now you can view and search songs by artist or search all songs at once.
* Increased the limit to 6 million songs that you can have on your computer for searching and playing remotely.
* Added a Power Saver mode which turns the screen off. This happens when the touch screen and buttons aren't used for 30 seconds. Touching the screen or a button turns the screen back on.
v2.11:
* Added the abilty to search the song list by song name or file name. As you type in characters in the search field those songs that have matching text anywhere in the name are filtered to the top of the list and the matching text is highlighted within the name. This is real time and an impressive way to find music using a handheld PDA. Currently only the first 1000 songs found in your iTunes Library or Music folder will be shown and searchable. In the next release we will expand this limit to 6 millions songs so if you have a huge collection you will have access to it all soon.
* Now you can switch between 128kbps and 64kbps remote streaming speeds in the MP3 Player dialog. This is useful if you have a basic DSL connection for your remote system because your music will skip at 128kbps but will stream great with 64kbps.
* Added the ability to seek anywhere within a song while it's playing locally or remotely. You do this by clicking anywhere within the Played status bar and the song will pop to that position within the song.
* In the previous version viewing the local list of MP3 files would show random characters instead of filenames. This is fixed in this version.
v2.0:
* Decreased the time to move between songs from 4 seconds to 2 in the remote player.
* Added a buffer status bar that shows how much of the 240K buffer is full in the remote player. When this buffer runs out a song stops until more of the song is received. On a connection slower than 15K per second this may happen.
* Added a spinning hour glass when your remote song list is being built.
* Added better handling of insertion and removal of an SD card on Palm OS. The song list is now opened automatically if the MP3 player is in use.
* In AstroApp for Palm OS you no longer have to tap the screen on startup to get past the splash message.
* Other minor improvements of the MP3 player.
v1.99:
* On Palm OS we added an MP3 player. This is found under the "Main" menu as "MP3 Player...". It allows you to play songs on your SD card and remote songs in your iTunes library on Macintosh OS X or your Music directory on Windows. For more information on streaming MP3s remotely vist our MP3 Mobile page.
* Updates now take place automatically on Macintosh OS X and Windows when you login to AstroCity. This means you don't have to answer the question to allow the update to take place. This allows you to continue to use desktop remote control after a new release without having someone present to click the 'Yes' button.
* On Palm OS updates will now take place during login to AstroCity. Your web browser will be launched and the new version downloaded.
