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Gaps with Paging or Home/Previous buttons

4 minute read | January 31, 2023

When adding Page Up/Down or Home/Previous buttons to the grid, you will see changes in some folders that use Manual Layout for Each Grid Size. You might also see changes in folders using templates. There are a few ways you can reduce the impact on your vocabulary.

Removing navigation buttons

If the user can swipe, access the Home and Previous buttons in the toolbars, and doesn’t use Select on Release as an access method, it is simplest to just remove the navigation buttons. Here is how you can do this:

  1. Go to Options* Options icon at the far right of the bottom toolbar.
  2. Go to Interaction.
  3. In the View section, make sure Show Paging Buttons is toggled OFF.
  4. Go to Advanced Options at the bottom of the View section.
  5. Make sure Show Previous Button and Show Home Button are toggled OFF.

With navigation buttons at the top

If you add Paging or Home/Previous buttons to the top of the grid, the arrangement of buttons in folders using templates will also change. This is because both Manual Layout for Each Grid Size and templates force buttons into an exact arrangement.

All buttons in one row of a template must always stay in the same row. Buttons that are not part of the template flow to fill the available space. The template buttons can’t keep their order if you fill up some slots with navigation buttons. Instead, everything that would usually go in the row with the navigation buttons moves down a row. The non-template buttons fill in the empty spaces in the top row.

If you don’t need the navigation buttons at the top, you can fix the changes to the top row by moving them to the bottom of the page.

  1. Go to Options Options icon at the far right of the bottom toolbar.
  2. Go to Interaction.
  3. If Paging Buttons are enabled, go to Paging Buttons Position. Check Bottom. Then, tap < Back in the top left corner of Options.
  4. If you have Home and/or Previous buttons showing, tap Advanced Options in the View section. Then, go to Navigation Buttons Position. Check Bottom.

With navigation buttons at the bottom

If you have the navigation buttons at the bottom of the page, the bottom row of buttons will only show the navigation buttons. Any buttons originally in this row will move down. If you are using paging buttons, you will need to tap the Page Down button to get to the buttons that were in this row.

One way to fix this is to turn off Manual Layout for Each Grid Size in the folder. This can be risky though. Manual Layout for Each Grid Size is how Proloquo2Go knows which words to display at different grid sizes in the Home folder and folders like Action and Describing Words. If you turn off Manual Layout for Each Grid Size in a folder and later increase the grid size, you will not see new words in it.

If you do decide to do this, we recommend saving a backup first. Then, do the following:

  1. Tap Edit Edit icon in the bottom toolbar to open Edit Mode.
  2. Select the Folder tab to open Folder Properties Screenshot Of Buttonfolder Section With Folder Highlighted In Blue
  3. Tap Contents.
  4. Toggle Manual Layout for Each Grid Size to OFF. Tap Continue when you see the warning message.

You can also move buttons in Edit Mode to make them fill in the empty spaces. You do this by making empty spaces for the navigation buttons to fill. As an example, we’ll show how to do this for the Intermediate Core “Action words” folder with a 5x9 grid size.

This is how the folder looks when starting out.

How the folder looks starting out
How the folder looks starting out

Opening Edit Mode, we see that there are no grid spaces showing in the row with the navigation buttons. We also see a blue line. Right now, the navigation buttons actually “live” in the spaces directly below them under the blue line. This pushes the other buttons down.

Rows can not be merged, as the page down and the drive button would occupy the same space
Rows can not be merged, as the page down and the drive button would occupy the same space

What we need to do is leave an empty space right under each navigation button. So, we’ll tap and hold “put” until it starts to pulse, then drag it down to the row below. This makes a space for the Previous button. Then, we’ll do the same with “say.” This makes a space for the Home button.

Rows can be merged, as they no longer overlap
Rows can be merged, as they no longer overlap

Now, we’ll tap Done and close Edit Mode. Looking at the folder again, the gap is now gone.

Folder with no gaps
Folder with no gaps

Because of how the blue lines are placed, if you have buttons displaced on the second page down, you’ll have to make the free spaces two rows below the blue line. For the third page, you’ll have to make them three rows below, and so on.

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*On iPhone and iPod touch, you will find the Options button in the Tools popup at the far left of the bottom toolbar.

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