Using the TI-SmartView™ CE Emulator Keyboard

The mouse takes the place of your finger pressing keys on the computer keyboard.

Click the keys on the TI-SmartView™ CE emulator as you would press the keys on the graphing calculator.

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Click the arrow keys on the emulator keyboard to move the cursor to the desired setting.

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Click to select it.

You must first place the keyboard in its alpha typing mode to type text using the computer keyboard.

By default, the graphing calculator keyboard is in its normal mode, in which keys are simply shortcuts to graphing calculator keys.
For example, pressing [ A ] on your computer keyboard is the same as clicking on the graphing calculator. In this mode, you cannot enter the letters A through Z on the graphing calculator screen by typing these letters on your computer keyboard.

To enter a letter or other alpha character, first click on the graphing calculator keyboard (or press [ F7 ] on your computer keyboard) to put the graphing calculator in alpha mode. For example, typing [ F7 ] [ A ] on your computer keyboard enters an A on the graphing calculator screen. After you type the character, the keyboard returns to its normal mode.

You can lock the alpha key to type more than one character in succession.

To lock the alpha key:

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Click on the graphing calculator keyboard or press [ F6 ] [ F7 ] on your computer keyboard.

To return to the normal mode:

In alpha typing mode, pressing [ 0 ] through [ 9 ] on your computer keyboard act as shortcuts to the alpha functions associated with these keys on the graphing calculator keyboard. Pressing [ 1 ] enters Y (the alpha character associated with À) on the graphing calculator screen. To type a number, be sure the keyboard is not in the alpha typing mode. These keys do enter the digits 0 through 9 in the normal mode.

You can hold down an arrow key to scroll the cursor continuously.

When you use an arrow key to move the cursor, you can hold down the key to scroll the cursor continuously, instead of having to press the key repeatedly. In the key press history, the icon for a repeating arrow key has a clock symbol attached to it.

Pressing an arrow key multiple times in a row displays an arrow with a repeat counter.

When you press an arrow key multiple times in a row, one arrow key is displayed in the key press history; this arrow key has a number attached to it that shows the number of times the arrow key was pressed.

Tip: When tracing along graphs or using Cabri™ Jr App to draw geometric shapes, the computer keyboard arrows may give you smoother continual action as opposed to using a mouse to click on the emulator arrows.