Harpo BraillePen 12, Quick Start Manual

Page 1: ...1 BraillePen 12 BraillePen 12 Touch...

Page 2: ...efully for transport in foam packaging Please keep the carton and foam packaging safe if you ever need to ship your BraillePen12 anywhere this packaging will help to keep it from damage in transit The...

Page 3: ...the display These keys are known as left pan and right pan or left nav and right nav On the rear edge the connector for the battery charger is situated at the right hand side on each side towards the...

Page 4: ...ngth beeps means that the unit is connected to power and the battery is charging but doesn t report on the state of the battery Two mid length beeps pause three short beeps means that the unit is on c...

Page 5: ...e changed by 10s up to 200 ms If the value is set to off no vibration will be felt Cell Test It will check whether all Braille dots function correctly First dot 1 will be displayed and then dot 2 and...

Page 6: ...check in the Care and Resources section for connection information for other Bluetooth discovery methods Under Windows XP First turn on your BraillePen12 and wait for the triple beep Next go to the Co...

Page 7: ...you have to do is find the character on the braille dislplay that you would like to bring the cursor to slide you finger towards the top of the braille cell and touch the sensor set in the ActiveTouc...

Page 8: ...Pan keys If needed you can transfer the content of your Clipboard to a different device e g iPhone using the Bluetooth connection It needs to be remembered that the data in the Clipboard is stored as...

Page 9: ...you need to open the menu First turn the BraillePen 12 on and immediately after pressing Space dots 1 3 press Space Control The Braille display will show the battery status Using the Joystick Up Down...

Page 10: ...der version installed Before installing BraillePen Write make sure you have fully uninstalled the previous version Go to Control Panel Add and Remove Programs Windows XP or Control Panel Programs and...

Page 11: ...quick launch icon or both and the fifth dialog gives you the chance to review your choices and go back to change them The sixth step is the actual installation where you can monitor the installation...

Page 12: ...translation pr Keymap button and browse to the new keymap file and click OK The new keymap will load and you are again ready to use the BraillePen12 Emulating a Windows Keyboard BraillePen Write can...

Page 13: ...can be very useful if you want to assign a complex keystroke to a special Windows keystroke If you press one or some of the Braille dots first and hold down at least one Braille dot key you can then...

Page 14: ...add new keyboard maps to the BraillePen Write or edit existing maps so that they suit your needs To make sure you are adding keystrokes and not using ones you already have assigned we have included a...

Page 15: ...enter a new key combination for an existing keymap the previous keymap is overwritten with the new one To make sure you are using a keystroke that isn t already in use we have included a file of avai...

Page 16: ...combination is displayed in the right hand display space If you should enter a combination in error you can use the Erase keystroke button to delete that keymap from the list and then use Add keystrok...

Page 17: ...aillePen Write see the previous section Once you have the driver installed select and load the US ASCII keymap file This keymap file gives you keyboard emulation functionality while making sure that t...

Page 18: ...18 Illustration 15 Duxbury Braille Translator showing Braille typed from the BraillePen12...

Page 19: ...he first section of this User Guide Broadcomm WIDCOMM and With each of these types of adapter BraillePen Write will connect in the same way However if you wish to pair your BraillePen12 with a PC for...

Page 20: ...ePen12 click on New The dialog that follows gives two choices Express Mode which is the recommended mode and Custom Mode Express Mode is usually trouble free so unless you have some special est that y...

Page 21: ...software will check for the services available to the BraillePen12 and let you know that you might need to authenticate this is not required with the BraillePen12 The final dialog in the process is a...

Page 22: ...elete Delete allows you to un from your BraillePen12 Detail gives you all the information about the Bluetooth connection with your BraillePen12 including the COM port number assigned to it wh to know...

Page 23: ...icon in the system tray and if it isn t enabled click to enable Clicking on Bluetooth Configuration will start a Wizard Make sure your BraillePen12 is on beep Then click Next ow any Bluetooth devices...

Page 24: ...com WIDCOMM drivers Occasionally these drivers can cause communication problems between your device and the BraillePen12 because their inbuilt security prevents the connection from operating properly...

Page 25: ...the service discovery is done and you are asked to select a service and optionally configure it If you don t select and place a check next to a service in s step no services will be activated so altho...

Page 26: ...l screen of the Wizard appears There is still one last step the pairing is done but you have still to connect Go to the ick on My Bluetooth Places which the Wizard has just put there You will find you...

Page 27: ...these drivers between your PC and BraillePen12 we would advise that you seek sighted assistance BlueSoleil s software installs under Programs in the Start Menu Once the software is running a dialog co...

Page 28: ...you must also uninstall a file which will usually be first on the list called __mfc_vcr Once you have uninstalled BraillePen Write and __mfc_vcr you will be able to install the updated software if yo...

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Page 31: ...mbo keystroke to complete Your combined keystroke will then be activated For example to type Control Alt F12 use the following sequence of keystrokes on your BraillePen shift control dots 3 6 control...

Page 32: ...yboard US kmf Letters and numbers BraillePen keys Windows key dot 1 a dots 1 2 b dots 1 4 c dots 1 4 5 d dots 1 5 e dots 1 2 4 f dots 1 2 4 5 g dots 1 2 5 h dots 2 4 i dots 2 4 5 j dots 1 3 k dots 1 2...

Page 33: ...ace dots 3 5 6 0 dot 2 1 dots 2 3 2 dots 2 5 3 dots 2 5 6 4 dots 2 6 5 dots 2 3 5 6 dots 2 3 5 6 7 dots 2 3 6 8 dots 3 5 9 Punctuation and special characters BraillePen keys Windows key dot 6 dots 4 6...

Page 34: ...ots 2 3 4 5 Tab shift space dots 2 3 4 5 Shift Tab space dots 1 2 Backspace space control or Joystick Enter Enter control dots 2 4 Ins space dots 4 5 Del shift control dot 3 or space dots 1 2 3 Home s...

Page 35: ...ndows key control space dots 2 4 5 Numpad 0 control space dot 1 Numpad 1 control space dots 1 2 Numpad 2 control space dots 1 4 Numpad 3 control space dots 1 4 5 Numpad 4 control space dots 1 5 Numpad...