I did some testing on my new Axim buttons with PDAWin. I am trying to program the 4 buttons on the bottom. I have seen all the infor on assigning these in PE but this Axim seems different. I see the following:

Record Button = far left
calendar = left
task list = right
message = far right

but Home key does nothing?

I have changed all buttons to default. Is there any way to have the home key work as a hard button?

Where do you see this info?
This seems to be the assignment for the hard buttons when using the PDA.
BUT: when you are WITHIN PDAwin and have your ccf loaded, the hard buttons will be reassingned to do what they where programmed to do in ProntoEdit/Tonto. As soon as you close the PDAwin the buttons return to their original function.

|Is there any way to have the home key work as a hard button?

Jordan from aximsite.com is looking into this. He believes a ROM modification is needed to remap the buttons on the X3.

As this is related to many programs using hard button assignments, Dell may issue a ROM update concerning this.

Actually, after looking into it more, I think that even a ROM update (on Dell's part) wouldn't be able to do it. The problem is the order of the virtual keycodes that are assigned to the hardware buttons on the Axim X3/X3i.

Most PPCs are assigned in this order:
Calendar(1) - Contacts(2) - Email(3) - Home(4) - Record(5)

However, Dell has assigned the keycodes in this order:
Record(1) - Calendar(2) - Contacts(3) - Email(4) - Home(5) - WiFi/WMP(6)

So as you can see, the software is calling the virtual keycode for Button 1, which on the X3/X3i is the record button. And the farthest right button that the software is calling is Button 4, which in this case is the E-mail button. The Home button on the X3 and the Wifi/WMP button are not able to be used, because they are Button 5 and Button 6. Dell definately messed up good on this one.

I'm almost positive that virtual keycodes are in the hardware circuit itself, so a ROM update would likely not be able to help anything.

The only way I see that it could be fixed, is for PDAwin to release an Axim X3/X3i specific version of their software. The only change that would be needed is to change the virtual keycodes used in the software. It would only take them a few minutes to make these changes. The problem would be that they would need a separate X3/X3i version every time they release a new version of PDAwin.

Jordan M. Wigley
Aximsite.com Co-Administrator