Interpreting Status Bar Information

The status bar appears along the bottom of the window of each application.

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1Information about the currently running application

You can change the configuration of a setting indicated in the status bar by tapping it. Tapping “Cplx” (indicating complex number calculations) while the Main application is running will toggle the setting to “Real” (indicating real number calculations). Tapping again will toggle back to “Cplx”. For more details about the current application information, see “1-7 Configuring Application Format Settings”.

2This indicator rotates while processing in progress.

Xappears here to indicate when an operation is paused.

3Battery level indicator (See “1-2 Power Supply”.)

Pausing and Terminating an Operation

Many of the built-in applications provide operations to pause and terminate (break) expression processing, graphing, and other operations.

uTo pause an operation

Pressing the Kkey while an expression processing, graphing, or other operation is being performed pauses the operation. Xappears on the right side of the status bar to indicate when an operation is paused. Pressing Kagain resumes the operation.

uTo terminate an operation

Pressing the ckey while an expression processing, graphing, or other operation is being performed terminates the operation and displays a “Break” dialog box like the one shown nearby.

Tap the [OK] button on the dialog box to exit the Break state.

1-4 Input

You can input data on the ClassPad using its keypad or by using the on-screen soft keyboard.

Virtually all data input required by your ClassPad can be performed using the soft keyboard. The keypad keys are used for input of frequently used data like numbers, arithmetic operators, etc.

Using the Soft Keyboard

The soft keyboard is displayed in the lower part of the touch screen.

Chapter 1: Basics

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