Gladius G1220, User Manual

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Use the Computer
3.1. Use Touch Screen
The computer comes with a resistive touch screen, which locates user's touch by the
force applied on it. As a resistive touch screen, it needs the operation with a pointed object
such as a stylus or simply your fingertip so it takes the minimum force to trigger actions
from the touch screen.
Touch control is the main way and an intuitive way to interact with the computer. Users
are able to manipulate icons, graphic buttons, menus, property sheets, the onscreen
keyboard or any onscreen items with touch control.
When the computer is delivered, the touch screen is likely to work imprecisely because
the driver isn't installed and the touch screen hasn't been calibrated yet. Follow 2.5.7.
Install Touch Screen Driver on page 32 to install the driver for the touch screen when
the touch screen is used for the first time, and follow Proceed to Calibrate
on page
73 to
calibrate the touch screen.
Save for the 1st use, the touch screen may also need calibration after serving for a period
of time to recover accuracy due to its resistive nature. Follow Proceed to Calibrate
on page
73 to calibrate the touch screen.
3.1.1. Text Input
The computer doesn't have a physical keyboard to receive user's text input. To input text
on the computer, it relies on either an external USB keyboard, the "onscreen keyboard",
or the O.S.-featured handwriting recognition.
3.1.2.1 Onscreen Keyboards
An "onscreen keyboard" is a virtual keyboard with all the standard keys. On the computer,
two onscreen keyboards are available, one is the operating system's native onscreen
keyboard, the other is a software keyboard powered by ARBOR.
• The O.S.-featured onscreen keyboard:
To open the O.S.-featured onscreen keyboard, there are two approaches: