Using Internet Explorer with a mouse

REVISED: The Grid now allows you to type into IE without problems.  You need to ensure that your mouse input is set to "accept on release".

The address bar in Internet Explorer is difficult to type into mouse input because each letter replaces the previous typed selection.

This is due to the way the IE tries to guess what you are typing, and reselecting the text each time you click on the keyboard grid.

We have introduced two special commands, which are demonstrated on the Internet Explorer demo grid (go to On Screen Keyboard from the start page, and choose Internet Explorer).

1. When you chose the cell to enter an address, a special address bar appears above the grid (this is the command '/gettext').
2. Text entered goes into this window.
3. Once an address has been entered, the 'Insert' button sends:

• An Enter key, the signal to close the special address window, copy the text to the clipboard and refocus on the program (IE).
• An Alt-D to switch the focus to the address bar in internet explorer.
• The '/pastetext' command to paste the text into internet explorer.
• The user then needs to send another Enter key (the 'go' cell) to make internet explorer search for the address entered.