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- From: Russ.Kiehne@f99.n215.z1.fidonet.org (Russ Kiehne)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: Artic Question
- Message-ID: <23377@handicap.news>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 16:54:26 GMT
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- *** Quoting Carla Campbell to All dated 07-20-92 ***
- > Ok, all you Artic Business Vision users out there... can you lend a poor
- > non-Artic user a hand, here, while I try to lend a hand to a friend?
- >
- > Does Artic have a "pass-through" or "literal" command to send the next
- > keystroke on through to the underlying application, rather than
- > grabbing it for its own use? I've got someone set up using Telix,
- > only, see, we can't use ALT-X to quit out of it! (Artic BV seems to
- > want to use the ALT-X for something called "point tracking" and won't
- > relinquish it) Most programs have a way to tell the speech software
- > "ignore the next key stroke and pass it through to the application I'm
- > running," but I haven't the foggiest what it is with Artic and I don't
- > have any docs (and hers are in Canada.) Any help would be much
- > appreciated.
- >
- >
- Hi Carla,
- You may do one of two things! To pass a key to the application with artic
- press alt alt-x or do the following:
-
- First press the scroll lock key to go into control mode.
- Next press alt-u and the following menu should come up!
-
- USER KEY DEFINITIONs
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- Now press control page up and you will get the following prompt.
- EASY READING KEYS: A. Read Character Current ALT K
- 3
-
- Next press page down until you get the following prompt:
- 3 TRACKER MODE KEYS: A. Character Cursor Mode ALT C
- 3
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- now press "d" and you should get the following prompt:
- D. Pointer Track Mode alt-x
- Now press the delete key and you should get the following prompt:
- Press y to remove this DEFINITION or escape
-
- I hope this helps
-
- Russ
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