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title: "Using the keyboard"
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This document describes the user's use of the keyboard object. There are two graphic collection: [Keyboards (Aluminum)](https://cue.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CVCGC/pages/580124677),[ Keyboards (Multicolor)](https://cue.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CVCGC/pages/580550663). Both graphic collection Keyboards (Aluminum) and Keyboards (Multicolor) have same behavior, but different graphics.

While sliding from one button to another, the one actually pressed becomes active. Long press of some buttons opens a cell with further character list. Pressing SHIFT switches regular and capital letters. Pressing SWITCH changes keyboard buttons from alphabetical to extended numerical mode. BACKSPACE deletes chars. If pressed longer, it deletes progressively until release. Next figure describes keyboard.

![image](media://05123915-359c-4f9f-856b-677c6a2783d2)

![image](media://deb59469-d60b-4daa-accc-42bb23583be4)

# Keyboards symbols types

There are three types of keyboards: Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Norwegian characters.

Latin is predefined for default settings. If the project is defined as russian, keyboard turns into Cyrillic. If the project is defined as greek, keyboard turns into greek characters, Norwegian keyboard - norwegian characters.

If displayed characters are other than latin, keypad-change button appears on the screen, so you may change keypad and display also latin characters.

# Keyboard chars

Long press some of the buttons to open a cell with another list of characters. The list of characters can be found [here](https://cue.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CVCGC/pages/425656325).