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To access its special keyboard control functions, ANSIPLUS uses three hot key combinations, all involving the Scroll-Lock key:
To activate scroll freeze, scroll-back, and copy/paste, use the Scroll-Lock key alone, or combine it with the Alt key:
| Scroll-Lock | Enable or disable Scroll Lock : scroll freezing, scroll-back and copy/paste |
| Alt+Scroll-Lock | Enable or disable Scroll Lock (alternative key combination) |
To turn smooth scrolling on and off, add a Shift key:
| Shift+Scroll-Lock | Enable or disable smooth scrolling |
To blank the screen immediately (if the ANSIPLUS screen saver is enabled), add Alt and Ctrl keys to Scroll-Lock, or use the alternative Alt+Shift+Num-Lock key combination:
| Alt+Ctrl+Scroll-Lock | Blank the screen immediately |
| Alt+Shift+Num-Lock | Blank the screen immediately (alternative key combination) |
When your Scroll-Lock toggle is recognized by the computer, you will hear a short tone. When the screen is frozen by Scroll-Lock (as indicated by the Scroll Lock light on enhanced keyboards), normal key input is disabled and the following keys apply:
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If you try to exceed the limit of travel up, down, left or right, a short low pitched tone will sound. If you enter any key other than those above, you will hear a short warbling sound, Scroll Lock will be canceled, the screen will return to its normal display, and the key will be passed back to the running program.
If the screen was frozen during output, the PageDn, Tab and Down arrow keys will allow one page, one-half page, and one line of additional output, respectively, before freezing the screen again. Pressing a Shift key will release the screen as long as the shift is held down.
ANSIPLUS supports copy and paste so that you can recover data or commands that have scrolled off the screen without having to retype the data. Under Windows, this feature lets you copy text easily between a full screen text mode DOS application and the Windows clipboard without having to switch to a window.
To hold text for later pasting to the keyboard, the ANSIPLUS driver contains a local clipboard. The default size of this clipboard is limited: 384 bytes plus the amount of free space in the storage area for key reassignments, and the driver will issue a buffer full tone if it ever overflows. If this happens, the local clipboard capacity can easily be increased by raising the size of the ANSIPLUS key reassignment tables with NEWAPLUS.exe.
Whenever Scroll Lock is on, ANSIPLUS lets you use the mouse and/or keyboard to select text, copy it to the clipboard, or paste it to the keyboard. When Scroll Lock is off, if the currently running program or command shell does not use the mouse, the mouse may be used for copy and paste without requiring entry of the Scroll-Lock key.
The local clipboard is cleared only when the first text selection is added to it after Scroll Lock has been turned on, when explicitly cleared by the Delete key, or when key input pasted from the Windows clipboard is completed. Thus, a series of text selections can be added to the clipboard from various places on the screen or scroll-back, and then left in the clipboard until you need to paste them. Because the clipboard can retain data for a long time, you should be sure of what is in your clipboard before you paste to the keyboard. In Windows, whenever selected text is saved to the clipboard (by the Enter key or right mouse button click), the local clipboard is automatically copied to the Windows clipboard so that other programs may have access to the data.
Pasting text to the keyboard is simple, once it has been selected or if it is already present in the Windows clipboard: just hit the Insert key or click once on the left mouse button after Scroll Lock is on.
Selecting text with the keyboard is a little more complicated because it requires two steps: starting the selection by positioning the cursor to the beginning of the text, and then extending the size of the selection. Selecting text with the mouse is covered below in "Using the Mouse".
The following keys are used when starting a text selection:
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Once a text selection appears on the screen (i.e., after hitting the Space bar to select a word or after selecting something with the mouse), the following keys can be used to extend and complete it:
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In order to use the mouse for copy and paste or for scrolling back, you must first "wake it up" by moving it or pressing one of the buttons. This tells ANSIPLUS that the mouse will be used, and the mouse cursor will appear on the screen. If the program that is running already was using the mouse, then Scroll Lock must be on or ANSIPLUS will not take control of the mouse.
In full screen operation, ANSIPLUS should automatically detect whether the current running program is using the mouse, and not try to take over the mouse for copy and paste. In windowed OS/2 or Windows sessions or in DESQview windows, ANSIPLUS requires that Scroll Lock be on before it takes over the mouse. This keeps the mouse from being activated as you move it from window to window or when you leave the mouse cursor sitting over an ANSIPLUS DOS window.
Once ANSIPLUS recognizes the mouse, if you move the mouse cursor to the top line on the screen, the screen will scroll backward (turning on Scroll Lock if necessary). If the screen is scrolled back, moving the cursor to the bottom line will cause the screen to scroll forward.
To select text, just move the mouse cursor to it and use any of the following functions:
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The act of selecting text will turn on Scroll Lock if it is not already on. If you have a two button mouse, the functions for the "middle" button can be simulated by pressing both the left and right buttons simultaneously.
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Rev. 10/16/07 |