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- The following is additional documentation for Flipper's multiple
- configuration capability, including the use of the F command,
- Flipload, Flipsave, and Flipext.
-
- All of the changes that you make to the way Flipper works,
- including it's voices, the character set, option settings,
- search strings, etc., are referred to as a "configuration".
- Once you have Flipper set up the way you want within a
- spreadsheet, for example, or for a spelling checker, you will
- undoubtedly wish to save the configuration so that you can use
- it again later.
-
- Flipper not only lets you save and reload a configuration, it
- will allow you to you to make up several of them and switch
- between them quickly. For example, if when you use WordPerfect,
- you start it with a "/NF" on the command line like this:
-
- wp /nf
-
- then WordPerfect will write text on the screen in such a way
- that Flipper's automatic output facility will read everything.
- That is useful, because all prompts will be spoken
- automatically, for example. However, if you start typing in
- text, too much will be spoken, which is very distracting. The
- solution is to turn off automatic output when you are entering
- text. It would be very clumsy, of course, to always enter the
- review mode, turn on or off the automatic output, leave the
- review mode, etc. However, you can turn the automatic output on
- or off with a single keystroke by doing the following:
-
- First, set up a configuration for WordPerfect the way you want
- it. Then make the other configuration the same by pressing
- shift F. Now both configurations are the same, set up for
- WordPerfect. Now you can turn the automatic output off in the
- primary configuration, then flip the configuration with the f
- command, and turn the automatic output on in the secondary
- configuration. When you use the flip configuration command, alt
- F, the automatic output turns on and off, and nothing else
- changes, because their are no other differences between the
- primary and secondary configurations. Now you when you are
- ready to do a command within WordPerfect, you can just press alt
- f, to turn on the automatic output, then do the command, and
- when you are ready to enter text again, you just turn off the
- automatic output again by pressing alt f, switching back to the
- primary configuration.
-
- It is often useful to have two configurations, primary and
- secondary, that only have one difference, so that you can change
- that one thing quickly.
-
- Now that you have set up these two configurations for
- WordPerfect, you can save them for use later on. To save them
- permanently, after you exit WordPerfect, flip to the primary
- configuration, then execute the following command:
-
- flipsave wpprime.flp
-
- then flip to the secondary configuration with the alt f, and
- execute the following command:
-
- flipsave wpsecond.flp
-
- you can then load those configurations later by executing the
- command:
-
- flipload wpprime.flp wpsecond.flp
-
- The names wpprime and wpsecond are arbitrary, of course.
-
- You can also set up a batch file that will enter wordperfect and
- load your configurations. Just make up a file called WP.BAT
- with the following contents:
-
- echo off
- flipload wpprime.flp wpsecond.flp
- wp /nf
- flipload \flipper\start.flp \flipper\start.flp
-
- the last flipload command loads your starting configuration into
- both the primary and secondary configurations.
-
- FLIPEXT:
-
- Flipext is a command that you can use to set up other
- configurations in memory, in addition to the primary and
- secondary configurations that are built into Flipper. For each
- configuration that you set up with Flipext, you will use up 1
- kilobyte of your system memory. As you set up each
- configuration with flipext, it is given a number, 1 for the
- first one that you make 2 for the second, and so on. Flipext is
- used with configurations that you have saved earlier with the
- flipsave command. For example, you can set up your starting
- configuration as an external configuration by executing the
- command:
-
- flipext \flipper\start.flp
-
- at the DOS prompt. You use the configurations that you loaded
- by going into the review mode, pressing the number of the
- configuration that you want, then pressing the f key.
-
- An simple example of the use of configurations set up with the
- flipext command is the case of a computer which is used by both
- blind persons and by sighted persons. You can set up a
- "silent" configuration for use by sighted persons, and a regular
- one for use by Blind operators. You do this by going into
- Flipper's review mode and then turning off all of Flipper's
- speaking options, including automatic output, keyboard echo,
- reading after arrow keys, reading after backspace and delete,
- the backslash command, and you can also turn of the quick keys,
- and the alt number keys. With this configuration, the only
- difference that Flipper being loaded makes is the ability to pop
- into review mode, and memory use. You can then save this silent
- configuration by leaving the review mode, and then executing the
- command:
-
- flipsave silent.flp
-
- Then if you put in the autoexec.bat file the lines:
-
- flipext start.flp
- flipext silent.flp
-
- then you can turn off Flipper for use by a sighted person by
- entering the review mode at any time, and then pressing 2 f.
- When you need to use the computer again, you can press 1 f,
- loading the starting configuration again, and making Flipper
- interactive again.
-
- You can also make temporary changes to external configurations
- by going into the review mode setting the configuration the way
- you want it, and then pressing the number of the configuration
- that you want to change, and then shift f. Remember that you
- need to change the configuration that you load from on the disk
- to make permanent changes that will be there when you reboot.