Cobian’s Cobshell help

What is Cobshell?

Cobshell is an application that intents to help people with any kind of coordination disabilities , movement disabilities or visual problems (and maybe other kinds of problems)  to handle with a computer. It can also be useful for children (4 years or less)

As we all know, it’s very difficult for people that cannot operate the mouse to start a program. Even if Windows 95 has special functions to help people with visual problems (“big“ icons, contrasting colors, etc) it may not be enough for individuals with very hard disability  problems.

When you start Cobshell for the very first time, you will only see six big buttons covering the screen. The buttons have the numbers 1 to 6..Don’t worry, you’ll be enabled to change the pictures on every button. Up to the left of the screen you’ll also see three little buttons. The first one is the must important: The configuration button.

You can associate each button with a program which you want to start when you click it!.

1-Click in the configuration button

2-You’ll see a tab-control for each button. Write in the edit box the FULL path to the program you want to start and the path to the BMP file  (ONLY BMP) you want that button to show. You can also click in the buttons to the rigth of the edit boxes and find the files you need.

3-When you are done, click in the OK button to accept the changes or in Cancel to ignore !

4-Now  Cobshell is ready to work. Each button shows now the picture you selected and runs the program you want when you click it!

5-If you want to change the configuration, click again in the Config button and make the changes you want.

6-Cobshell covers the whole screen . If for any reason the program you started went to the background and Cobshell is in the foreground, press alt-tab to bring the program to the front.

7-To exit Cobshell press Alt-F4

8-If you want Cobshell to start automatically  ,please create a shortcut in the Startup group.

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About me

Luis Cobian

Umeå Sweden

cobian@educ.umu.se

Any questions or ideas? Contact me!