Question about SmartNav Hot Keys & Key Activated Mode

[junkatagirinp]

I have been using SmartNav with a Kinesis Foot Switch.

In control panel I check the Key Activated option, then I set up the foot switch to trigger hot key for "Move". So the mouse cursor follows my head movement only when my foot is resting on the foot switch, which seems to work well for me. (So the cursor will not fly around the monitor like a bug while I'm trying to type or read text)

My question/comment is, "why does "Center" hot key and "Move" hot key have to be the same one?" Every time I need to center the cursor, I must first uncheck Key Activation from the Control Panel, and this feels inconvenient. I wish I could set up different hot keys for the two functions, so I can quickly and easily reset the cursor position adjusted to my current seating/head position, which changes naturally every time there is a need to step away from the desk.

Thank you for consideration.

[VincentG]

We are currently looking into the issue, and hope to have it resolved, but we do not have a release date for the resolution.

[junkatagirinp]

Thank you.

Since my last post I have changed my foot switch function from "move" to "pause", so the foot switch acts more like a brake pedal for the pointer (and this allows me to set a separate key for "center" function). This setup is opposite of how I used the foot switch before, but it also seems to help improve accuracy - because it seems that the cursor needs to be very still for double clicks and tripple clicks to work on Windows computer.

[Birch]

If you haven't already you might want to try enabling "Sticky" for the Pause feature. That will allow you to toggle the cursor movement on and off without having to keep the foot switch depressed.

[junkatagirinp]

Thank you for the helpful advice.

It does seem like how well SmartNav can be used depends so much upon what users can make out of the control panel. I'm glad all options for making minor adjustments are there, although it does take a few moments to get used to all of them.