Easy Braille
Settings
for Handy Tech Braille Displays
Handy Tech
Elektronik GmbH
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4.4 Key Actions
This tab sheet allows you to adjust the behavior of the single keys strokes of your
Easy Braille in the following three different ways:
Key Lock: Keys, defined as locked, will be ignored when pressed.
Fast Keys: Keys, defined as fast keys, performs their action already when
pressed and not
– as usual – when released.
Repeat Keys: Keyes, defined as repeat keys, will repeat their action
continually while be pressed.
4.4.1 Key Lock
Single keys of the Easy Braille can be locked to prevent unintentional functions by
pressing a key by mistake. This is helpful when starting to learn how to use the Easy
Braille.
With the checkbox "Use Key Lock", you can activate this function. The button
"
Locked Keys…" will open the dialog "Define locked keys for device". In the list box
"Device" the connected Braille display is already preselected. In the list box
"Available keys" you choose the keys to be locked. With the "Add" button you move
the selected key into the list box "Locked keys". The "Remove" button removes the
key back to the available keys. By default, no keys are locked.
4.4.2 Fast Keys
Fast keys are keys which initiate their assigned functions as soon as the key is
pressed, instead of when the key is released. If one of the keys to be used in a key
combination is a fast key, the fast key must therefore be pressed last.
The check box "Use Fast Keys" is used for enabling this function. The button "Fast
Keys…" will open the dialog "Define Fast Keys for device". In the list box "Device" the
connected Braille display is already preselected. In this dialog you can then select
the keys you want to define as fast keys from the list box "Available keys" and move
them by pressing the "Add" button into the list box "Fast Keys".
By default, no keys are defined as fast keys. There are no fast keys available for
Braille input.
4.4.3 Repeat Keys
With the settings under "Repeat Keys" you can specify the repeat interval at which a
function initiated by a key is repeated when that key is held down. This feature
makes it easier, for example, to navigate through a list, because you do not need to
keep pressing the forward or backward key for each item in the list, but can simply
hold down the key until the cursor is at the desired item.
The check box "Use Repeat Keys" is used for enabling this function. The button
"Repeat Keys…" will open the dialog "Settings for repeat keys". In the list box
"Device" the connected Braille display is already preselected. In this dialog you can
then select the keys you want to define as repeat keys from the list box "Available
keys" and move them by pressing the "Add" button into the list box "Repeat Keys".
