Accessing Music/Media
Many of the settings in Table 2 give access to the
iPad media player rather than to switch adapted
Apps. Any switch or socket may be programmed
to use these settings and they may be mixed with
switch adapted App settings in any sequence at all.
Selecting these settings is exactly as described above.
On-Screen Keyboard
Because your
iSwitch
appears to the iPad as a keyboard, the iPad automatically turns off the
on-screen keyboard. This can cause difficulties in some Apps which require a typed input such as
entering a user’s name.
To overcome this,
iSwitch
allows you to deploy the on-screen keyboard manually at any time. Simply
press the mode button (H) while the display (G) is off.. The on-screen keyboard will be deployed
automatically. To turn it off again, press and hold the mode button once again.
Mode setting ‘D’ allows any switch to be configured to deploy the on-screen keyboard, and is
particularly useful if you can’t easily access the Mode button (for example if your iSwitch is attached
to a surface).
Note that iPad remembers your on-screen keyboard preference so there’s no need to press to deploy
every time.
Note that the iPad only allows the on-screen keyboard to be deployed when a text input box is selected.
Timed Play
Timed Play settings allow you to create a ‘reward’ for pressing a button, completing a task, or any
number of other outcomes. You have a choice of 10 or 30 seconds play time.
Because this setting uses the ‘Play/Pause’
command, it is important that the iPad is paused
(not playing) before you press the switch to give
timed play, otherwise the iPad will pause for a
timed period instead of playing.
If a switch programmed to Play/Pause is pressed
during a timed play, the timed play will be cut
short and the unit will be Paused.
Skip Forward and Skip Back commands have no
effect on the duration of a timed play.
If you wish to end a timed play early, you
can use a switch already programmed to
Play/Pause.
