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Creating A keyboard With Predicition

Setting up the cells

  1. First you need to press F11 to turn the screen into edit mode.
  2. Now create a new grid. From the File menu, select 'new Grid' and give the grid a name.
  3. You will need a grid 13 columns by 11 rows. You can create rows and columns in a number of ways:
    • Either: Right click over the arrows at the top and left of the grid display. The context menu will allow you to add rows/colums at the required position.
    • Or: Using the 'Add/delete a row' link in the explorer bar. The explore bar will then change to show a checkbox to stop adding/deleting rows. When the mouse is over a row it will show red and a click will delete the row. When the mouse is between rows it shows blue and a click will insert a row.
  4. The first column will hold the autoprediction cells so they should be two columns wide.
    1. Click in the top left cell. It will become selected. You can then drag the edge of the cell to make it two cells wide.
    2. Repeat to make all cells in the first column two columns wide.
  5. To make the cells autoprediction cells select them, either by dragging around them with the mouse, or by <Ctrl>clicking them. Once they are selected, make them autopredict cells by selecting the 'Auto Content Cell' option in the explorer bar.
  6. Now resize the workspace cell to be 10 columns wide by 4 rows high.
  7. Now enter the keyboard cells. To edit the contents of a cell, either double click it select it and then select 'edit' from the cell options. As its a keyboard cell, there is no entry in the vocab box, but you should enter the letter in the 'keyboard key' box. There are special

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