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No-Keys for Windows 3.1
Version 1.1
No-Keys is a program designed to allow a person to
input text into any Windows application without using the
keyboard. It allows a mouse, trackball, or similar device
to input text to Windows applications such as Write or
Terminal. It is designed for people with disabilities who
cannot use a keyboard because they have limited motion of
their arms, but can still make small motions with their
hands or fingers. In the scan mode, it can even be used by
people who can only move their chin or foot, or otherwise press
a mouse button.
Shareware Notice
No-Keys is distributed as shareware. This means that you
can try it for one month to see if it fits your needs. If it does,
you are required to pay for it by sending the registration fee
of $25.00 to
David Leithauser
Leithauser Research
4649 Van Kleeck Drive
New Smyrna Beach, FL 32169-4205
It is helpful if you fill out the registration form in the
ASCII text file NOKYWREG.TXT. This form provides information that
will help in serving you.
You will receive a letter that tells you how to turn off the
title page and other shareware notices.
Installing No-Keys in Windows
To install No-Keys on your disk, install all the files
from the Windows NOKW11 archive in your Windows directory.
You must also install VBRUN200.DLL in either your Windows
or your Windows SYSTEM directory. VBRUN200.DLL is a
freeware Windows file created by MicroSoft. You can obtain
it from many sources, including the Leithauser Research
home Web page at http://users.aol.com/Leithauser/.
Once you have installed the files, run Windows. Open the
application group you want to install it in by double clicking
on the icon for that application group. I recommend
using the StartUp Program group. This will cause No-Keys
to run automatically when you run Windows.
Once the program group is open, click on Files in the
Program Manager and click on New in the Files submenu. It
will ask you if you want to install a program or program
group. The default should be "Program" at this point, so
just click the OK button. Then click the Browse button. A
Browse box will appear. Scroll down the files menu until
NO-KEYSW.EXE is visible. Double click on
NO-KEYSW.EXE or click on it and then click on OK. The
Browse box will then disappear, and the Program Item
Properties box will reappear. Click on the OK button
in this box. No-Keys will then be installed in your Windows.
Once No-Keys is installed, you can run it by double
clicking the No-Keys icon if you did not put it in the
StartUp program group. You could also have No-Keys come up
automatically by running Windows with the WIN NO-KEYSW
command at the DOS prompt.
Typing with No-Keys
You type using No-Keys by clicking on the key on the
No-Keys virtual (on-screen) keyboard that you want to type.
That is, move the mouse cursor so that its tip is on the key and
press the left mouse button briefly. No-Keys will send that key to
the program that has the focus. You can easily see which
program this is because it is the one on which the headline bar
is blue. If No-Keys itself is the program that has the focus, then
it sends the key you types to the program that had the focus
just before No-Keys got the focus. You can easily select which
program No-Keys sends the keystroke to by clicking on that
program to give it the focus and then returning to No-Keys.
Keyboard layout
The top row of keys on the No-Keys keyboard contains
all the capital letters. The second row contains all the
lower case letters. The third row contains numbers and
related symbols. It has the number keys from 0 to 9,
followed by the point (period) key. It then has the math
operators " + - * / \ ^ = > <". This is followed by the
left and right parenthesis symbols "(" and ")". Then it has
the percent and dollar sign and the pound (#) and at (@)
symbols.
The fourth row has a collection of miscellaneous
symbols and control keys. The first key on the four row is
the space bar (not really much of a bar, since it is the
same size as the other keys). This is followed by the
quotation mark and the left hand single quote mark (the
symbol that appears at the bottom of the key to the left of
the number on the top row of most real keyboards). The next
key is the apostrophe, followed by the exclamation point,
question mark, colon, and semicolon. Then comes the left
and right square brackets followed by the left and right
curved brackets. The next key is the pipe symbol, which
looks like a vertical bar. The next symbol is the
underscore (underline) symbol. This is hard to see on the
No-Keys keyboard, and unless you look carefully it looks
like that key is blank. The next key is the & symbol. The
last normal sized key is the comma.
After these normal keys, the bottom row has a few
control keys. These are Enter, BkSp (Backspace), Tab, Del,
and Esc. To help you study the keyboard in case you have
trouble seeing it on the screen, here is a map of the keys.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 . + - * / \ ^ = > < ( ) % $ # @
" ` ' ! ? : ; [ ] { } | _ & , Enter BkSp Tab Del Esc
There are some other keys that you can access by
clicking on the KeyType selection on the No-Keys menu bar.
When you click on this, the top two rows of keys (the
letter keys) disappear and are replaced by some seldom used
keys. The first row becomes the F-keys. The first four keys
of the second row become the cursor keys (Up, Down, Right,
and Left). The next four are the Home, End, PgUp, and PgDn
keys. The last two keys on the new second row are the Ins
and Break keys. All of these keys are seldom needed when
you are using No-Keys in Windows, so they are kept hidden
until you click on the KeyType selection on the menu bar.
When you click on KeyType again, the top two rows go back
to being the letter keys.
The No-Keys menu bar also has the words Shift, Ctrl,
and Alt. If you click on one of these, an asterisk will
appear next to that word. The next key you click on will be
combined with the indicated key. For example, to send the
Ctrl-B combination to a program, click on Ctrl on the menu
bar and then click on the B key (either capital or lower
case). To send Alt-F4 to a program, you would click on
KeyType to show the F-keys, click on Alt on the menu bar,
then click on the F4 key.
Loading and Unloading programs with No-Keys
You can use No-Keys to load an application into Windows.
To do this, click on Files on the No-Keys menu bar. Then click
on Load. You will see a standard file directory window. The file
list box contains a list of all EXE files in the current path. This
will normally be your WINDOWS directory. In the unlikely event