Using the PC keyboard, mouse, screen, and sound

The Emulator allows developers to use the PC's mouse, screen, and sound facilities as if they were the real input and output devices of a target machine.

This section briefly describes some of these facilities.

The keyboard on your PC can be used to send commands to the Emulator.

The following table shows some special extra key assignments.

PC key Device function F1 Press to maximise the menu list from the menu pane or switch to the next menu item. Alt+F2 Help key: press this to obtain context sensitive help for the application with focus. F8 Record button. Press once to start recording and again to stop recording.

The Emulator window shows the screen on a device. To simulate a tap on the screen, use the PC mouse. Only the left button is supported.

How to configure virtual keys.

Special features typical of Symbian devices are also available when developing using the Emulator, through special key assignments.

The Emulator can simulate two PC-Card devices using two files in the PC's temp directory. When the Emulator is started, each device is equivalent to an empty, unformatted, volume. An F32 client under WINS may access the removable media using the y: drive.

The keys used are given below:

F5 Open removable media door. F4 Switch between two simulated devices while door open

The Emulator can simulate a number of power off conditions using the keys given below. In addition, after a set time the Emulator simulates automatic power off — the Emulator application minimises itself; restoring the application causes a power-on to be simulated.

F10 Power off: this minimises the Emulator window; you can power-on again by restoring the window F10 Emergency shutdown: this occurs on target machines when battery voltages fall below a certain level — the machine hasn't enough power to function normally, so it falls into a state in which data on the machine is preserved while there is still power in the main and backup batteries but no user operations are allowed F11 Case close toggle: adds the text "CASE CLOSED" to the Emulator window's title bar, and the screen become inactive. Press the key again to simulate the case being reopened.

The Emulator can drive the PC's sound facilities to emulate sound functionality on a target machine. The PC setup should be as follows:

• a sound card supporting 16-bit PCM with the appropriate driver installed

• the Microsoft CCITT G.711 Audio CODEC installed in the Audio Compression Codecs section of the Devices page on the Multimedia Control Panel applet