Configuring touch, mouse, and gesture settings
Your SMART interactive product is an input device like a mouse or touch pad. You can change your SMART interactive product’s mouse and gesture settings to better suit how you and other users use your SMART interactive product.
To change touch, mouse, and gesture settings
In Windows operating systems, click the SMART Board icon (
or
) in the notification area, and then select SMART Settings.OR
In macOS operating systems, click the SMART Board icon
in the Mac menu bar, and then select SMART Settings.Note
If your computer isn’t currently connected to a SMART interactive product, the SMART Board icon includes an X in the lower-right corner (
or
).Click SMART Hardware Settings.
If your computer is connected to more than one SMART interactive product, the upper area of the SMART Settings window displays an image for each one. Click the image of the SMART interactive product you want to change settings for.
Select Mouse and Gesture Settings in the drop-down list.
Select check boxes to enable features:
Check box
Select this check box to
Enable Mouse Assist
Enable Mouse Assist, which determines the location of a window’s Close button, scroll bars, resize handles and Help buttons, and makes it easier for you to press them.
Note
This check box is available in only Windows operating systems.
Enable Hover
Perform some functions without touching the screen. For example, you can hover over an icon to display a description of the icon.
Multitouch Mode
Allow more than one person to touch the SMART interactive product at the same time.
Enable Multitouch Gestures Enable multitouch gestures.
Enable Single-Touch Gestures Enable single-touch gestures.
Enable Pop-Up Messages
Display pop-up messages, such as the right-click and Restore Writing messages.
Enable Touch Recognition
Enable Touch Recognition, which enables you to pick up a pen, and then write, select or erase without replacing the pen.
Notes
Touch Recognition is available for select SMART interactive products only. Determine if your SMART interactive product supports Touch Recognition.
Your SMART interactive product interprets your intent when you press the screen, based on the size of the contact area. You can customize Touch Recognition’s sensitivity to suit your style of pressing the screen.
If you’re using a SMART Board 800 series interactive whiteboard and you want any touch on the interactive whiteboard’s surface to register as a specific tool, such as a pen, eraser, or Select tool, regardless of the size of the contact area, you can enable the lockable pen option.
Optionally, press Configure double-click, pen and touch settings to change your operating system’s double-click, pen and touch settings.
Press OK.
Determining if your product supports touch recognitionTouch Recognition is available for all interactive products with DViT technology and SMART Board 600 series interactive whiteboards purchased in 2009 or later. The procedure below helps you identify if your SMART Board 600 interactive whiteboard supports this feature.
To determine if a SMART Board 600 interactive whiteboard supports Touch Recognition
Select Hardware Info & Settings in the drop-down list.
The information on this page includes the serial number for the controller in your interactive whiteboard. If the serial number ends in -F, your interactive whiteboard supports Touch Recognition.
Note
The serial number for the controller in your interactive whiteboard isn’t the same as the serial number for the interactive whiteboard itself.
Select Mouse and Gesture Settings in the drop-down list.
Customizing Touch RecognitionPress Touch Recognition Settings.
Move the sliders as follows:
If you move the left slider to the right, your interactive product interprets a wider range of contact area sizes as an attempt to erase digital ink.
If you move the right slider to the left, your interactive product interprets a wider range of contact area sizes as an attempt to write or draw in digital ink.
Your interactive product interprets every size of contact area between these two sliders as an attempt to left-click.
Note
To reset Touch Recognition’s default settings, press Defaults.
Pick up a pen tray pen, and then press within the square below the sliders using the pen, your finger, and then your palm. If Touch Recognition’s sensitivity is appropriate for your style of pressing the screen, you can write with the pen, select with your finger and erase with your palm. If your interactive product misinterprets your intent when you press the screen on any of these occasions, adjust the sliders as detailed above.
Press OK to save your settings.
Enabling the lockable pen optionIf you’re using a SMART Board 800 interactive whiteboard and you want any touch on the interactive whiteboard’s surface to register as a specific tool, such as a pen, eraser, or Select tool, regardless of the size of the contact area, you can enable the lockable pen option. For example, if you select the pen tool, pressing the screen with either a pen tray pen, your finger, the palm of your hand or any other object creates digital ink on the interactive whiteboard. Use the lockable pen option if you’re more comfortable using a larger object, such as a tennis ball, to write on the interactive whiteboard.
To enable the lockable pen option
Press one of the pen tray’s buttons for at least three seconds to lock it.
Note
The selected pen tray light blinks to indicate you’re using the lockable pen option.
When done, press any pen tray color button to unlock the button.
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