These instructions will show you
how to use HandyCards on your Windows Mobile device to
study the files you've placed there.
Once you have opened HandyCards, you will see the
interface shown in Figure 1.
To begin studying, you will need to open a flashcard file by
selecting the "File" menu and then the "Open" option, as indicated
by the red arrow in Figure 1.
Figure
1
After selecting the "Open" menu option, you will see
the display shown in Figure 2.
In this tutorial, the file
used will be the "EditDemo.hc" file.
Figure
2
After selecting the "EditDemo.hc" file from Figure 2,
the file is loaded into HandyCards, as shown in Figure 3.
In the lower right corner of the screen shown in Figure 3,
there are two boxes, one with a "1" in it and the other with
a "2" in it. This indicates you are looking at question #1 and
there are a total of two questions.
In the question shown in Figure 3,
the red arrow indicates which answer is going to be selected
as the user's choice.
Figure
3
Figure 4
indicates the answer circle for Answer B had been
selected. Next, to determine if the answer is correct, you
need to press the "Check Selected Answer" button, as indicated by
the red arrow in Figure 4.
Upon pressing this button, the buttons with faces
appear, which allow the user to manually indicate if they got the
question correct or incorrect. Also, when the "Check Selected
Answer" button is pressed, the font color of the correct answer
changes. If the correct answer was chosen, the answer is
changed to a blue color. If the incorrect answer was chosen,
the correct answer is changed to a red color. Consequently,
because the user selected the correct answer, as indicated by the
blue color, then the "Right" answer button is pressed to record
testing progress, as shown by the blue arrow in Figure 4.
Figure
4
After pressing one of the buttons with faces, they
both disappear, as shown in Figure 5.
Because this question is finished, the user can now go
to the next question by pressing the "Next Question" button, as
shown by the red arrow in Figure 5.
Figure
5
After pressing the "Next Question", you can see that
the next question has been loaded, as shown in Figure 6.
Notice the new "Img" button which appears, as indicated
by the red arrow in Figure 6.
The appearance of this button indicates the current
flashcard has an image associated with it. Also, a "-" and "+"
button appear at the bottom of the screen which allow for zooming
the image when it is displayed. If there were a sound
associated with the flashcard, then a "Snd" button would appear next
to where the "Img" button and pressing the "Snd" button would play
the sound associated with the flashcard.
Figure
6
After pressing the "Img" button, the image is
displayed, as shown in Figure 7.
The image name is not displayed anywhere, because the
name of the file could convey the answer to the question.
Next, to demonstrate the zooming capabilities of
HandyCards, press the "+" button, as indicated by the red arrow in
Figure 7.
Figure 7
Figure 8
demonstrates what the image looks like once it is
enlarged. Now that we are through looking at the image, close
the image by pressing the "Img" button, as indicated by the red
arrow in Figure 8.
Figure
8
Figure 9
simply indicates what the question looks like after closing
the image by pressing the "Img" button.
Next, click on the answer circle for "Ans A" to select
the first answer.
Figure
9
The red arrow in Figure
10 indicates that the first answer has been chosen as the
correct answer. After pressing the "Check Selected Answer"
button indicated by the blue arrow in Figure 10,
you learn that the incorrect answer has been chosen, because
the correct answer turns red. Consequently, you need to select
the "Wrong" answer button, as indicated by the green arrow in Figure 10,
in order to track your progress.
Figure
10
As an aside, one feature of HandyCards is that you can
temporarily remove questions by pressing the "Delete Question"
button, as indicated by the red arrow in Figure 11.
Deleting questions allows you to focus on those
questions which need more attention. Deleting questions in
this manner does not affect the original file.
Figure 11
After pressing the "Delete Question" button, two
changes happen on the screen. First, the "Delete Question"
button is converted into the "Undo Changes" button, as indicated by
the red arrow in Figure 12.
Pressing the "Undo Changes" button allows you to
restore only the current question that was just deleted. Also
shown in Figure 12,
the total questions decreases by one and now shows a total
of only one question, because there was a question which was
deleted. Now that it is clear what the "Delete Question"
button does, press the "Undo Changes" button to restore the testing
file to its original form.
Figure
12
After pressing the "Undo Changes" button, the screen
returns to the original form, where the "Delete Question" button
reappears and the total questions number of questions returns to
two, as shown in Figure 13.
Figure
13
To determine your testing score, simply select the
"Tools" menu and the "Show Scores" option, as shown in Figure 14.
Figure
14
Once you have chosen the "Show Scores" option, a
message box appears showing your score for the current session and
it also shows the score for your total testing since HandyCards was
started, which is shown in Figure 15.
Figure 15
This concludes the tutorial testing with flashcards on
your Windows Mobile handheld computer. If you have questions not
addressed by this tutorial, please look at the HandyCards Readme.txt
file or e-mail support . While
the Readme.txt file is for an older version of HandyCards, it still contains
useful information which addresses most aspects of the program found
in 5.3.
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