So right now you may be asking yourself, how do I use this thing? Actually Ito quite simple.
When you first launch the program you will be greeted by a splash and navigation screen.
A screen shot is below.
Main page
If you look above at the screenshot you will notice to the right of the frog image three buttons.
Volunteer, Field data, and Contacts. Each button will take you to It's appropriate section, I'll start with the first.
The Volunteer button will bring you to a screen where you can place all your volunteer information. Such as,
observation number, your location (meaning state of residence), your name, and an area to hold your registered
sites and their site numbers. Take a look at the screenhot below to see the screen.
Volunteer screen
Also if you notice in the upper right hand corner, there is a small square icon with a tiny frog in it. If you click this icon,
it will bring you back to the main page. Likewise if you see this icon on other screens in the program. The text area where
you can place your site name and # is scrollable, but you can only scroll it using the Palms hardware scroll buttons located on
the Palm itself. The next button is the field data button, which will inter bring you to a screen with all the appropriate entry fields.
See the screenshot below.
Field data screen
If you look at the above image you will notice the screen has all the same entry fields as the paper datasheet like;
date, site#, start time, end time, air temperature, wind speed, precipitation, your 48 hour precipitation, and your 48 hour temperature.
You will also notice four downward pointing arrows. These are popup menus which contain a list of the correct data entry information for each particular field.
So you just simply select according to your observation. The image below shows an example of a popup menu in use.
popup menu in use for wind speed field
At the bottom of the screen you will see a button labeled species list and below that a graphical navigation bar. I'll explain the navigation bar first then
jump back to the species list. Below is a shot of the navigation bar by itself.
Navigation bar
The first icon (the one that looks like a tiny frog) will take you back to the main screen.
The two arrow icons allow you to scroll through your new and previous data records.
The icon that looks like a text file is the NEW button. When you tap this, it will create a new data field record.
The last one is the delete button. Be careful when deleting records, once you have deleted, it's gone forever!
Now back to the pieces list.
Pieces list screen
Taking a look at the screenshot above will pretty much tell you everything.
But let me explain. The left side of the screen holds a list of 9 individual fields for you to enter the
species you observe. To the left, there are popup menus next to each entry field. These popup menus contain
the calling intensity numbers for you to specify.
The back button will bring you back to the data field screen.
If you take a look back at the screenshot of the main screen, you will see one last button.