Texas instruments TI-84 PLUS TI-SmartView Emulator Software

TI-SmartView™ Emulator

Software

for the TI-84 Plus Family

(Windows® and Macintosh®)

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Getting Started....................................................................1

Features .......................................................................................... 1

Overview of the TI-SmartView™ software ................................... 1

Things you need to know ............................................................. 3

Choosing a display option ............................................................ 5

Changing the size of the TI-SmartView™ screen ........................ 7

Changing the color of the face plate............................................ 7

Saving and loading an emulator state.......................................... 7

Restoring the emulator state......................................................... 9

Saving handheld data to the computer........................................ 9

Loading a handheld file from the computer.............................. 11

Updating the software from the Internet .................................. 13

Working with images ........................................................15

Capturing handheld screens........................................................ 15

Adding or removing a border ..................................................... 15

Saving a screen image.................................................................. 16

Viewing screen images................................................................. 17

Dragging and dropping an image to another application ....... 19

Using key press history .....................................................20

What is the key press history? ..................................................... 20

Showing or hiding the key press history..................................... 21

Clearing the key press history...................................................... 22

Copying the key press history to another application............... 22

Using a script......................................................................24

What is a script? ........................................................................... 24

Showing or hiding the script pane.............................................. 25

Recording a new script................................................................. 25

Tips for recording a script ............................................................ 26

Playing a script..............................................................................28

Adjusting the script speed ...........................................................28

Saving a script............................................................................... 29

Saving a copy of a script .............................................................. 30

Opening an existing script........................................................... 30

Closing a script.............................................................................. 31

Stepping through a script............................................................ 32

Stopping a script...........................................................................33

Pausing a script............................................................................. 34

Inserting a delay into a script ...................................................... 35

Inserting a text point into a script............................................... 36

Inserting a Go to Home command.............................................. 37

Editing a script.............................................................................. 38

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Copying a script to another application..................................... 40

Locating common scripts ............................................................. 41

Connecting a calculator ....................................................42

Using a connected handheld to control

TI-SmartView™ software ....................................................... 42

Transferring data to and from a connected handheld .............. 45

Using a connected CBL 2™ or CBR 2™ device............................ 47

FAQs and keyboard shortcuts ...........................................50

Frequently asked questions .........................................................50

Using the computer keyboard..................................................... 52

Legal Information..............................................................57

Texas Instruments (TI) Support and Service ................................ 57

Index...................................................................................58

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Getting Started

Getting Started

Getting StartedGetting Started

Features

• Key Press History — Review recently pressed keys from the
key press history pane or on the large screen pane.

• Additional Color Cap abilities — Change the h andheld image to
use a different face plate option. The variety lets you increase
visibility for the visually challenged.

• Adjustable Screen Size — Use the small, medium, and large
screen sizes or customize the screen size. When you size the
screen by dragging the window border, the size of the device
image is sized automatically.

•View

3

™ pane — Show three additional TI-84 Plus Silver Edition
screens simultaneously. Choose from Y=editor, table, graph, stat
plot, list, or window . These scr eens update as you make chang es
on the handheld screen.

Overview of the TI-SmartView™ software

The TI-SmartView™ software gives you the functionality of a
TI-84 Plus Silver Edition handheld on your computer. The entire
functionality of the TI-84 Plus handheld is at your disposal, including
the ability to load and use files such as applications (Apps), lists,
programs, and so on. Apps that come already loaded on the
TI-84 Plus Silver Edition are also included with the TI-SmartView™
software.

TI-SmartView™ software lets you show the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition
to an audience without using handheld-specific projection equipment
and gives you additional functionality that aids in presentations and
demonstrations.

• Supplement the current handheld screen by using the View
pane to show three additional screens simultaneously. You can

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select any three of the following handheld screens: Y= editor,
table, graph, stat plot, list, and window.

• Repeat demonstrations quickly and easily by using scripts to play
back a series of keystrokes.

• View the history of your entries as well as a large version of the
current handheld screen, and open a script by displaying the key
press history window.

• Capture screen images that you can save and use in other
documents.

Emulator
(Pane 1)

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View
(Pane 2)

Key Press History tab
(Pane 3)

TI-84 Plus users can control the TI-SmartView™ software using a
handheld that is connected via a USB cable and is running the
SmartPad™ App. When you press keys and perform calculations on
the handheld, those actions are repeated automatically on the
emulator in the TI-SmartView™ software. The connected handheld
acts as a remote keypad.

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Things you need to know

The mouse pointer takes the place of your finger pressing keys
on the handheld.

You must click the keys on the TI-SmartView™ emulator as you
would press the keys on the handheld. The handheld image in the
TI-SmartView™ software is
you change mode settings, you might be tempted to click the mode
setting on the handheld screen to select it. However, clicking on the
screen does nothing. You must click the arrow keys to move the

cursor to the desired setting and then click to select it.

Typing text using the computer keyboard does not work unless
you first place the keyboard in its alpha typing mode.

By default, the handheld keyboard is in its normal mode, in which
keys are simply shortcuts to handheld keys. For example, pressing

[A] on your computer keyboard is the same as clicking on
the handheld. In this mode, you cannot enter the letters A through Z
on the handheld screen by typing these letters on your computer
keyboard.

not fully interactive. For example, when

To enter a letter or other alpha chara cter, first click on the
handheld keyboard (or press [F7] on your computer keyboard) to
put the handheld in alpha mode. For example, typing [F7] [A] on
your computer keyboard enters an A on the handheld screen. If you

only type [A], the menu is displayed. After you type the
character, the keyboard returns to its normal mode.

To lock the alpha key so you can type more than one character at a
time, click y 7 on the handheld keyboard or press [F6] [F7]
on your computer keyboard. To return to the normal mode, click

or press [F7].

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In alpha typing mode, pressing [0] through [9] on your computer
keyboard act as shortcuts to the alpha functions associated with
these keys on the handheld keyboard. Pressing [1] enters Y (the
alpha character associated with À) on the handheld screen. To type a
number , be sure the keyboa rd is not in the alpha typin g m ode. The se
keys do enter the digits 0 through 9 in the normal mode.

Hold down an arrow key to scroll the cursor continuously.

When you use an arrow key to move the cursor, you can hold down
the key to scroll the cursor continuously, instead of having to press
the key repeatedly. In the key press history and in a script, the icon for
a repeating arrow key has a clock symbol attached to it. For exam ple:

Pressing an arrow key multiple times in a row displays an arrow
with a repeat counter.

When you press an arrow key multiple times in a row, one arrow key
is displayed in the key press history. This arrow key has a number
attached to it that shows the number of times the arrow key was
pressed. For example:

When you record a script, you record only key presses on the
handheld. These key presses can be diff icult to interpret, vie wed
by themselves.

Because you record key presses, editing a script can be a little tricky.
For example, if you change the mode to parametric, the script records

. The script does not explicitly tell
you that you changed the mode to parametric. For this reas on , it can
be quite helpful to step through a script one key press at a time, or to
play the script back at a slower speed so that you can see exactly
where an edit needs to be made.

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Choosing a display option

By default, the TI-SmartView™ software displays the handheld and
two optional panes of additional information. You can show or hide
these optional panes, or change the type of information displayed in
each one.

The View
screens. However, you ca n select which handheld screen you want to
show for each of the three displays. (The stat plot, list, and window
screens are also available.) The screens automatically update to
reflect tasks you complete on the handheld.

The third pane includes tabs that you can click to see either the key
press history, a large screen display of what the device image is
displaying, or an open script. When you display the large screen in

3

™ pane initially shows the Y= editor, table, and graph

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the third pane, you can hide or show the key press history information
at the bottom of the pane.

Display Option Click:

3

View

™ pane

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or to show or hide

Key press history,
large screen, and
script pane

Scripts

View > Show/Hide View

the pane.

View > View

for each display.

View > Show/Hide Key Press History or to
show or hide the pane.

File > Open or to open an existing script.

File > New Script or to open a new, blank script.

The close button on the script’s tab to close
a script.

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Options to select a handheld screen

Note:

• Hiding the key press history pane does not clear the key press

history.

• Hiding the key press history pane does not delete or close an

open script.

• You can record a script without displaying the key press history

pane.

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Changing the size of the TI-SmartView™ screen

When you first use the TI-SmartView™ software, a full-screen image
for 1024 x 768 screen resolution is displayed. You can use whichever
size you want, but the small, medium, and large versions are
optimized for the following screen resolutions.

If your screen resolution is: Click:

800 x 600

View > Size > Small Emulator

1024 x 768
1280 x 1024

The handheld images in the TI-SmartView™ progr am are freely
scalable. In addition to choosing small, medium, an d larg e em u lato r
sizes, you can click and drag the TI-SmartView™ window borders to
display the application in a window that is a custom size.

View > Size > Medium Emulator
View > Size > Large Emulator

Changing the color of the face plate

You can change the face plate on the TI-SmartView™ handheld to
improve visibility in the classroom. Options include various faceplate
colors, Contrast, and Outline.

f Click View > Color and then click a color option.

Saving and loading an emulator state

When you save the emulator state, a file is created that stores the
handheld settings with all of the changes that you have made to its
setup. Think of the emulator state file as representing a single
TI-84 Plus that you have used and then set aside. When you load an
emulator state, you pick up that same TI-84 Plus to use again. All of
the changes that you made to the handheld are intact.

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For example, you might want to set up a class demonstration by
entering functions in the Y= editor and changing Window and Zoom
settings. When you save your changes in an emulator state file, you
simply load the file to show your demonstration. If you want to create
different demonstrations for different classes, you can create multiple
emulator state files. There is no limit on the number of emulator states
that you can save.

Note: The key press history, screen capture images, any open script,
the face plate color, and the emulator size are
emulator state file.

Saving the emulator state

1. Click File > Save Emulator State.

2. In the dialog box:

a) Navigate to the folder in which you want to store th e emulator

state file.

b) Type a file name. Use a name that describes the emulator

state.

c) Click Save.

not saved in the

Emulator state names will have the form

where

filename is the name you gave the file and 84state

indicates that the file is an emulator state created by the

TI-SmartView™ program.

Loading an emulator state

1. Click File > Load File.

2. In the dialog box:

a) Navigate to the folder that contains the emulator state file.
b) Click the emulator state name to highlight it.
c) Click Open.

filename.84state

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Restoring the emulator state

Restoring the emulator state returns the TI-SmartView™ software to
the TI-84 Plus factory-default settings and restores the operating
system version that was running when the TI-SmartView™ software

was first installed. The optional View
pane are shown. The key press history is cleared. If a script is open, it
is stopped, but remains open.

1. Click Tools > Restore Default State.

2. In the dialog box, click Yes to confirm that you want to reset the

emulator state.

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™ pane (center) and the right

Saving handheld data to the computer

By saving data (lists, matrices, programs, etc.) from the
TI-SmartView™ emulator to files on the computer, you can make
backup copies of that data. If you delete the data from the
TI-SmartView™ emulator, you can load the handheld files from the
computer at any time.

1. Click File > Save Calculator File.

The Device Contents dialog box lists the data items on the
TI-SmartView™ handheld, which may take several seconds.

2. Click an item to highlight it.

• To select multiple items, hold down Ctrl on a PC keyboard or
Cmd on a Macintosh® keyboard as you click each additional
item.

• To select a range of items, click the first item in the range.
Then hold down Shift and click the last item in the range.

3. Click Save Selected Item(s).

4. In the dialog box, navigate to the folder in which you want to store
the files.

• Be sure to either open the folder or click the folder to h ighlight

it. The folder name must be shown in the File name box at
the bottom of the dialog box.

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• If necessary, create a new folder.

5. Click Save.
Each selected item is saved as a separate file on the computer.

File names are assigned automatically. The file name’s extension
identifies the data type.

If the folder already contains a file with the assigned name, you
are prompted whether to overwrite the existin g file .

The Device Contents dialog box stays open so you can select
and save additional data items.

6. When you are finished, click Close.

Note: In the Device Contents dialog box, you can sort the list by
clicking a heading. For example, click Name to sort by name and
switch between ascending (a-z) and descending (z-a) order.

Transferring files to supported handhelds

You can transfer files to the following handhelds: TI-84 Plus Silver
Edition, TI-84 Plus, and TI-83 Plus.

To transfer handheld files from the computer, use TI Connect™
software and an appropriate TI Connectivity Cable available from

education.ti.com

. Some handhelds come with a TI Connectivity

Cable, which lets you connect the to the computer.
You can also transfer data directly between the TI-SmartView™

program and a connected handheld, much the same way you can
connect two handhelds and transfer data between them.

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Loading a handheld file from the computer

If you previously stored handheld files containing lists, programs,
applications, etc., on your computer, you can load them into the
TI-SmartView™ software. The files may be backups saved by the
TI-SmartView™ program or files transferred to the computer from a
handheld.

1. Click File > Load File.

2. In the dialog box:
a) Navigate to the folder that contains the file you want to load.
b) Click the file name to highlight it.
c) Click Open.
If the TI-SmartView™ program already contains a data item with

that name, you are prompted whether to overwrite the existing
item.

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Handheld file names on the computer

Handheld file names have the form:

filename.8x?

where filename is as close as possible to the data item’ s name on the
handheld, 8x indicates the file was created by the TI-SmartView™
program or a supported handheld, an d
type of data. Common data types are:

If ? is: Type of data

c complex variable
d GDB (graph database)
ggroup
ipicture
k Flash application
l list (real or complex)
mmatrix
n real number
p program
s string variable

? is a letter that identifies the

t table setup
v application variable
w window range
y equation
z user zoom window

Note: If you load a Flash application file, the TI-SmartView™ program
automatically installs the application.

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Transferring files from supported handhelds

The TI-SmartView™ program can load files transferred to your
computer from the following handhelds: TI-84 Plus Silver Edition,
TI-84 Plus, and TI-83 Plus.

To transfer files from a handheld to the co mp u ter, use TI Connect™
software and an appropriate TI Connectivity Cable available from

education.ti.com

Cable, which lets you connect the handheld to the computer.
You can also transfer data directly between the TI-SmartView™

program and a connected handheld, much the same way you can
connect two handhelds and transfer data between them.

. Some handhelds come with a TI Connectivity

Updating the software from the Internet

Visit education.ti.com for free software updates that are periodically
available for downloading. This implementation of the
TI-SmartView™ software operates using the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition
software emulation. If you update the operating system sof t ware, you
must update it with the latest TI-84 Plus family operating system
software.

Note: RAM is cleared after you load a new operating system onto the
emulated handheld. You can avoid losing data by saving the emulator
state.

To load the operating system software:

1. Download the new operating system software from

education.ti.com

2. If necessary, save the emulator state.

3. Click File > Load File.

4. In the dialog box:
a) Navigate to the folder that contains the operating system

software file.
Note: You may need to select All calculator files (*.8x?) in

.

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the Files of type drop-down list to be able to see the

operating system software file.
b) Click the operating system software name to highlight it.
c) Click Open.

As the operating system loads, a progress bar displays and a
progress complete percentage displays on the handheld screen.

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Working with images

Working with images

Working with imagesWorking with images

Capturing handheld screens

You can capture the current handheld screen image using the
TI-SmartView™ screen capture tool. When you capture a screen, the
Screen Capture window is displayed. In this window, you can view,
manipulate, and save screen images.

f Click
A border is automatically added to each image when you capture it,

but you can remove it.
You can capture up to 44 screens at a time. Each unsaved screen

image is stored in memory until you close the main TI-SmartView™
window. Closing the Screen Capture window does not discard
unsaved screen images. To capture additional images, delete images
from the Screen Capture window.

Tools > Take Screenshot or click .

Adding or removing a border

The toolbar button for adding or removing a border toggles between

add and remove depending on whether or not the selected
image contains a border.

Adding or removing a border on a single screen image

1. Click the screen capture image to select it.

2. Click
—or—

Click

Edit > Remove Border or click to remove the border.

Edit > Add Border or click to add a border.

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