Buttons

To change what a button says or shows, enter edit mode and tap the button. Its editor sets:

• The label shown on the button and the text it speaks (they can differ).
• Its look. Colors follow the board’s own scheme; many boards use Fitzgerald-style color coding (yellow for people, green for verbs, blue for describing words…).
• An image, either a symbol or a photo.
• What happens when it’s tapped (the When tapped menu) — see below.
• Whether it’s a folder — under Folder, point it at an existing board or make a new page (see Folders and links).

The button editor, opened by tapping a button in edit mode.

When tapped

Most buttons speak — they add their word to the message and say it. The When tapped menu can change that to one of:

• Add text, Add a space, Backspace, or Clear message — build and edit the message without a separate keyboard row.
• Speak the whole message — say everything in the sentence bar so far.
• Go back (previous board) — a “back” button, like the ones in many published boards. Returns to the board you came from.
• Go to the home board — jump straight back to the top board of the set.

The back/home actions match the Open Board Format :back and :home conventions, so a button set this way exports and re-imports correctly (and imported boards that use them now work here too).

Outside edit mode, tapping a button does its action — by default, speaks its text (or adds it to the message, in sentence mode).