Roll Your Own III lets you create buttons that open an item in the Extras Drawer: in the notepad's status bar, in the top bar or draggable. 

You can also attach a invisible button to the bottom part of the  button to the bottom of one of the printed buttons. 



-In addition, Roll Your Own III will optionally increase the tap area for the down arrow for an MP 110.



-RYO III should be installed on the internal memory, though so far it seems to work fine if installed on a card.



[Verson III adds a new type of button, makes the buttons toggle so that open apps are closed, and fixes some excessive memory usage.]

FLOATING BUTTONS

1.  Open Roll Your Own III.



2.  Select one of the Extra Drawer items from the "All Apps" scrolling list on the left.  You can select any item in the drawer (including books), but "Card" is unreliable.



3.  Fill in the button title in the line on the right.  The program uses the first letter of the Application name as the default.   You can get a keyboard by double tapping.  You may want to check out some of the option and option - shift characters.  Usually only one character will fit in the button.



5.  Tap  "Make Floating".  A small floating button will appear at the top of the screen.  If you don't like the position, tap "Remove Floating" and then tap "Make Floating" again.  This will move the button a little to the right.  You can repeat this process until the button is where you want it.  Alternatively, you can select the "Min" radio button to remove the frame.  This will prevent you from drragging the button, but it makes the button easier to live with.  If you use "%" as the symbol, you get a dot in the top bar like several programs use.



6.  You can move a "Normal" button by dragging.   However, if the Newton is reset, the button will reappear in the position you last created it.



7.  You can remove the button by opening Roll Your Own III, selecting the appropriate Applicaton and tapping "Remove Floating."



 NOTEPAD STATUS BAR BUTTONS

1.  Open Roll Your Own III.



2.  Select one of the Extra Drawer items from the "All Apps" scrolling list on the left.  You can select any item in the drawer (including books), but "Card" is unreliable.



3.  Fill in the button title in the line on the right.  The program uses the first letter of the Application name as the default.   You can get a keyboard by double tapping.  You may want to check out some of the option and option - shift characters.  Up to two characters will usually fit in the button.



5.  Tap  "Make Button". 



6.  You can remove the button by opening Roll Your Own II, selecting the appropriate Applicaton and tapping "Remove Button."



SILK SCREEN BUTTONS

1.  Open Roll Your Own III.



2. Select an App.



3. Tap the "Make Button On:" button and select the desired built-in button from the popup menu.



4. The new button is invisible but corresponds to the bottom half of the selected built-in button (rouglhly starting a little below the drawn circle.  Tapping the name of the button will work.)



5.  The upper half of the built-in button will continue to function normally.



6.  To remove, tap the "Remove From" button and tap the desired item in the popup that appears.



FIXING THE SCROLL ARROWS



1. On the MP 110, the tapping on the down scroll arrow frequently is interpreted as a tap on the overview button.  Tapping the "Install Arrow Fix" button will change this.  The arrow fix sets the bottom of the overview button area and the top of the down arrow to a point about half way between the bottom of the drawn circle for the overview and the top of the drawing of a downward pointing arrow.



FORGETTING



Tap the "Forget:" button to pop up a list of rememberred button.  Each line consists of a package name (what you see in the "remove software" list - the name of some of the built-in apps may surprise you) and a type.  The types are "float" (for a floating button), "stat" (for a notepad statusbar button), "silk" (for one of the preprinted buttons on the bottom of the screen) and "arrow" (for the arrow fix).  Selecting one of the items will "forget" the item: the next time the Newton is reset, the item won't appear.  It does not remove the item!  (The Remove buttons perform both an immediate remove and a forget.) 



Why use Forget?  It is the only way to get rid of the Arrow fix and the only way to get rid of buttons for applications you have removed from the Newton.  



THE OTHER PACKAGES:

  I included several bonus packages in this folder.  They are three utilities that will work fine on a stand-alone basis but are substantially more useful if you set up one of RYO's buttons to access them.  Which one is up to you.   Each has its own readme file.  The bonus packages are:



  1.   (Open)- this pops up an alphabetical list of some of the applications in the Extras Drawer.  Selecting one opens it.  Selecting the top item "Settings" opens a window with two scrollable lists from which you can set apps not to appear on the menu.



 2.   Styler - this small palette is a substitute for the Styles Palette.  It can produce any type face, size and style that the Newton can show. 



 3.  Type Palette - this small palette contains some commonly used keys to type that don't work well with handwriting recognition.  Mostly they do what they say.  The first one is the delete key. "tb" is a tab.  & and ( are typed with an initial space.



4.   Dumbkeyboard - a normal keyboard except it doesn't ask if you want to add words to your user dictionary.



5.   NoteMarker - lets you define "bookmarks" in your Notes, for quick reference.



6.  Quickies - perform a number of normally cumbersome tasks easily.



7.  Chars - pops up a page of most ascii characters, tapping one types it and closes the page.



OTHER STUFF

1.  Roll Your Own is freeware, but is copyrighted by me, S. Millman.  Absolutely no warranties of anything.



2.  If Roll Your Own is installed on the internal RAM, I've had no problems with removing external cards, even though some of the buttons refer to external apps.  If it's on the external card, you will be asked for the card back and you could have some unsightliness, but I haven't had any horrible attacks yet.  I haven't done huge amounts of card-swap testing so I'd really appreciate commentary on any experiences you may have (StephenM35@aol.com).



3.  If you get rid of Roll Your Own permanently (shame on you!) you should use a soup utility (such as RemoveIt) to remove the internal soup called "RYO:SlM"



6.  Roll Your Own should coexist nicely with other floating window packages (such as Scrappy) and with other buttonbar makers, like "Buttons."  However, a Roll Your Own floating window placed over anther self-installing floating window may show up under the window on a restart, which is weird but uncontrollable.  Similarly, the order of buttons in the buttonbar may change after a restart.  Some utilities that use the printed area create new invisible buttons.  (Sleepaid is an example)  These will work well.  Others may also modify the viewClickScript, in which case the later to load will be one that works.



6.  Have fun.