A question on the nSpire keyoad

[developerzero]

I had a quick question about the keypad on the TI nSpire
(specifically, the CAS):

Does anyone know what the little flag in the top right hand corner
does? I haven't been able to find anything in the documentation, nor
online. If anyone can give me some insight, I'd be very thankful.

-Ryan

P.S. I apologize if this was already answered, I searched but couldn't
find anything on this list.

[Sean Bird]

The cute little flag is mostly useful for text in, for example, a Notes page.
Perhaps if your Nspire was set for a language other than English you would use it more often. But I don't think nSolve needs a tilde on the ena.

You can try it by typing a vowel and then pressing the flag to scroll through the options for that letter.

Sean Bird
Indianapolis, IN

[developerzero]

Thanks. That's been bugging me for about 6 months now. I figured
everything else out, except for that annoying little flag. Now I just
need to figure out what good it does me.

-Ryan

On Oct 15, 9:00 pm, "Sean Bird" <covenantb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The cute little flag is mostly useful for text in, for example, a Notes
> page.
> Perhaps if your Nspire was set for a language other than English you would
> use it more often. But I don't think nSolve needs a tilde on the ena.
>
> You can try it by typing a vowel and then pressing the flag to scroll
> through the options for that letter.
>
> Sean Bird
> Indianapolis, IN
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:28 PM, developerzero

> <rdfa...@developerzero.net>wrote:

>
>
> > I had a quick question about the keypad on the TI nSpire
> > (specifically, the CAS):
>
> > Does anyone know what the little flag in the top right hand corner
> > does? I haven't been able to find anything in the documentation, nor
> > online. If anyone can give me some insight, I'd be very thankful.
>

> > -Ryan- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

[Giannetto]

The flag is used to change the language. I tell the students never to
press it or just don't tell them what it does.

Sincerely,

Mary Lou Giannetto
Math Department Chairperson
North Salem HS
230 June Road
North Salem, NY 10560
914-669-5414 x 2157
giann...@northsalem.k12.ny.us

T^3 Regional Instructor
845-270-0268

>>> developerzero <rdf...@developerzero.net> 10/15/2008 10:28 PM >>>

[Nelson Sousa]

 

Actually the flag is for typing characters with accents. It doesn't change the handheld language.

 

Type 'e' then Flag to get è, press Flag agina and you'll get é, etc.

Just type any letter that can have accents (vowels, n, c, and a few more) and pressing Flag repeatedely will run through all the possible accents (grave, acute, tilde, breve, cedil, etc.)

 

 

Nelson

 

[Johnny Tarrant]

Dear Ryan:

The white flag is the universal symbol for surrender.

sincerely,
Johnny Tarrant

[Sean Bird]

What with the Indy 500 in my neighborhood, I thought the white flag means you are the final lap. I.e. you almost have the letter you want, now just get the accent or special notation right.

Besides, isn't it a grey button. I couldn't find anything about the meaning for a gray flag. It must be the international symbol for international symbols.
:)

Sean

[Steve A]

If you press ctrl then the flag button, you get templates for powers,
roots, fractions, piecewise functions, derivatives, summation, etc.

[Pat Flynn]

My students were showing me a lot of keyboard shortcuts they have
discovered. I know some of these have already been posted, so please
forgive me if you see one that was mentioned earlier.

Control keys
i gives the infinity sign
< gives less than or equal to
> gives greater than or equal to
= gives not equal to
| gives !
space gives underscore
: gives ;
' gives the degree sign (very helpful when not wanting to change the
document settings for a problem)
S is save
N is new
I is insert an aplication
D connect a probe/device
K makes the screen outline flash - not sure what it is doing...


Also, as Steve pointed out earlier, shift - is the derivative and
shift + is the integral.


Pat Flynn

[Paul A]

CTRL K selects the application. Handy if you want to delete/copy/cut a
screen. Also CTRL "space" (next to the enter key) provides an
underscore character. Handy when you want to use two words to name a
list but can't use the space.

Paul Alves
Canada (our flags are red......and white)

[Eagle-Man]

With ctrl+K, you can change which app you're selecting by pressing tab.

Also, you have all your favorite word processor shortcuts:
Ctrl+
z = undo
y = redo (? I can't remember if it does this, and I don't have mine on
me right now)
x = cut
c = copy
v = paste

[developerzero]

If you want a complete, handy reference for all the keyboard
shortcuts, check here:

http://www.ti-nspire.com/tools/nspire/resources/act_tutorials.html

Look under Menu Maps and Keyboard Shortcuts for "TI-Nspire 1.3 Keypad/
keyboard Shortcuts". I printed it our double-sided on a 4x6in index
card, and bring it with me to class as a reference (just print pages
2&3).

-Ryan

P.S. As for the flag key, it is useful for getting the x-bar and y-bar
symbols for use in statistics (x-bar means the average of the x values
in statistics, for those who don't know).

[lee kucera]

Ctrl-Y does work as redo

[Nelson Sousa]

Also, Ctrl+1, Ctrl+7, Ctrl+3 and Ctrl+9 are, respectively: End, Home, Pg Down and Pg Up (the same as the numeric keypad shortcuts on a desktop computer).

Another useful one is Ctrl+i (not the alphabet letter, but the imaginary unit) that gives infinity.

And while going through keyboard shortcuts I noticed that Ctrl+D opens a Data Collection screen (even in calculator APP) and Ctrl+L opens the variable menu.

I believe there are still a few undocumented shortcuts there, waiting to be discovered...

Nelson