Macros and Gestures that you have customized should get a light-blue
highlight in the tree. Their parent chords and hands should also get
a highlight to help you find them again, but this is buggy at the moment.
Macros and Gestures from import libraries should similarly get a light-yellow
highlight. Macros and Gestures that did not load completely or conflict
with another gesture get a red highlight, and should be fixed or removed.
Users of the French(Azerty), German(Qwertz), and US(Dvorak) operating system Input Locales may notice that their gestures are producing the wrong hotkeys for some commands. Selecting the appropriate locale in the Device->Descramble Hotkeys for Input Locale menu automatically compensates all gesture hotkeys for OS locale translation. This feature is only for:
All others should keep the default Input Locales menu selection of US
English (Qwerty).
Those making a non-default locale selection must also do the following:
Note that for now, this de-scrambling feature works only for gesture
hotkeys and key event macros, not 'text' macros and messages.
Note that the locale menu setting is remembered across editor sessions within
one PC, but not actually stored in the XML Customization files.
The Export button permamently packages any changes you've been working on in a self-contained library. For instance, you might want to create one library for a collection of custom photo-editing gestures, another for a collection of mail-automation gestures, another for an Emoticon pad and so on. Once you've exported each collection into its own library, you can import any combination of these into a new editing session. When you save that session, its user customization file will include just references to those libraries, not their entire contents. This way revisions by you or a third party to any of the libraries get included automatically each time you re-open your user customization file.
You should place export/import libraries either in your platform's ~/MyGestures/
home directory or in the FingerWorks/app_config/ directory. The
library importer looks for libraries first in your ~/MyGestures/
home sub-directory, then in their straight home directory ~/,
then in FingerWorks/user_config/ and finally in FingerWorks/app_config/.
This way a particular user can override any shared library in FingerWorks/app_config/
with a different version they've placed in their home directory.
To view your customized gesture map as printable html, click the "View->Printable Gesture Map in Web Browser..." menu option. This command will:
Your browser must access the latest stylesheet at http://www.fingerworks.com/xsl/GestureMap2html.xsl to translate the xml map into a pretty html table. If browser does not launch, or your default browser does not support XSLT Stylesheets (need IE 5/6 or Netscape 7), or browser is not connected to the internet, try copying html-view-of-GestureMap.xml to an internet-connected computer with newish web browser.