FUNCTIONS OF COMPUTER KEYBOARD

What is computer keyboard?

It is one of the most important parts of a computer which is used to enter commands, text, numerical data and other types of data by pressing the keys on the keyboard. also it used in preparing documents such as through Microsoft word office

A user talks with a computer through input devices such as keyboard and mouse. Input devices are used to enter data to a computer. The entered data then converted into machine language so that a CPU understands the data or instruction comes through the input devices.

Keyboard Functions

The following keyboard functions can be invoked while the mouse pointer is inside the 3-D viewing window:

	F1-Raise or lower the control panel window. This is useful with the -full option.
	F2-Toggle display of system information including memory used and number of graphics to be               computed.
	P-Print the current window image. A PostScript printer must be available. Set the PRINTER                 environment variable from your shell to specify which printer to use.
	S-Slower animation - increases the minimum time between frames by 10 msec.
	F-Faster animation - decreases the minimum time between frames by 10 msec.
	R-Reset the clipping planes to their default positions
	B-Turn of the window borders.( This is useful when using Sun workstations, an unsolved bug               causes the borders to flash in a very annoying manner!)
	I-Reduce the size for the Vis5D logo
	L-Increase the size of the Vis5D logo

If you want to program your own keyboard functions look the in the file src/gui.c for the func1(), func2(), func3(), etc functions. They are called when the corresponding function key is pressed.