<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>October 16, 2006</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hello Ron!</DIV><DIV>Thanks for this message. What you call Hot Keys, I call the SignWriter typing program! In other words, in SignWriter DOS Rich Gleaves and I co-developed a way to type SignWriting symbols using the keyboard. That design is what you call Hot Keys. But there was no mouse capabilities in SignWriter DOS. Now in SignPuddle, Steve has developed the mouse action, without the typing system. We know that someday we should have both, but right now a new version of SignPuddle is under development, that will be soooo much better than what we have right now. It will not have keyboard typing yet, but it will improve the entire program, giving it a firmer basis. And it will be available on a USB flash drive, called a PocketPuddle...so there are many cool things coming...You will be able to carry SignPuddle and all your work in your pocket, and plug it into any computer with a USB drive...that will not be dependent on the web...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>To read more about the upcoming PocketPuddle, go to:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>SignPuddle Products</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs4/sw0337-SignPuddle-Services.pdf">http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs4/sw0337-SignPuddle-Services.pdf</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Val ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>--------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 16, 2006, at 4:29 PM, Ronald Dettloff wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Dear Valerie,<BR> Thanks for explaining about the font sizes. Great! Regarding the hot-keys: a better explanation would be remember how you could use your keyboard to go into the different layers of a sign. I think that is quicker the the amount of time needed click through the various layers until you find the right symbol. For example I would like a set of keys to move a sign around, manipulate the sign, or call out for the touch, dynamic or movement signs. That way all my fingers and the mouse could be used. We lost a lot of advantages when we went to windows. I think it might be a good idea for you to allow people to make suggestions for the keyboard and then Stephen could incorporate them into SignPuddle.<BR> Thanks for asking,<BR><BR><DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Rev. Ronald H. Dettloff, 20880 Ten Mile Road, St. Clair Shores, MI 48080</DIV> <DIV>Other Web links: <A href="http://theshoreschurch.org/ME2/Audiences/Default.asp">http://theshoreschurch.org/ME2/Audiences/Default.asp</A> <STRONG><BR></STRONG></DIV><STRONG></STRONG></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>