Launching Apps with Launch Line

You can use Launch Line to quickly launch many apps installed on your smartpen.

Launch Line can start any Open Paper apps. These are apps that do not require pre-printed paper controls to function. Examples of these apps are Connect, Piano, Translator Demo, and many apps on the Livescribe Online Store.

Tap Around is a feature of Launch Line that is an alternative to using the Nav Plus to navigate menus of an app. The areas immediately surrounding a Launch Line function as the Nav Plus controls: tap up, tap down, tap left, tap right, and tap center. The Tap Around regions correspond to the features and regions of the Nav Plus, except that:

  • Tap Around controls menus and navigation within its corresponding app only.

  • You cannot use Tap Around controls to launch other apps.

  1. Draw a horizontal line on your Livescribe Dot Paper (starting from right or left) and without removing your smartpen tip from the page, immediately double back on the line ending close to where you started.
  2. Immediately write the name of the target app above the line.
    Using its predictive text feature, your smartpen shows the first command that matches your written input.
  3. To launch the app, tap on the center of the app name.

    If the name is a unique match to an app, the app launches automatically.

  4. You can use the Tap Around feature to navigate the app: Tap just above, below, left, or right of the name to perform the corresponding functions of the Nav Plus.
  5. After creating a Launch Line, it remains as an active area. You can tap it at any time to launch the corresponding app.
Parent topic: Using Smartpen Apps