The capture file is provided in WintextCom Personal Information Manager(tm) to enable you to store longer blocks of text, such as postal addresses, that cannot be captured straight to the directory like individual items and short pieces of text. This feature only works when the Braille display line is active. Sighted users with the editing window active can select text to copy and pate it to any other location, which can be a file or the directory. When the directory store item dialogue is open, you can paste text from the Windows clipboard into any of the edit boxes by pressing Control+V or right clicking and selecting "Paste". The store item dialogue edit boxes are standard Windows editing controls.

Press Control+S to save the entire contents of the communications file to the capture file. If the capture file already exists, the text is appended. This enables you to save a complete communications session, like a record of a telephone call or if you have been using the keyboard to display feature at a meeting.

However, in most situations you probably will only want to save a portion of the text available to your Braille display. To do this, mark a "text block" as follows:

Press Alt+M to mark the beginning of the text that you wish to store, that is, when the Braille display is showing the start of the required text.
Press ENTER to acknowledge the confirmation message box that appears on the screen when you mark a block.
Move the Braille display to just passed the end of the required text and press Control+S. If the text runs right up to the en of the communications file and you cannot move the display passed it, just go to the end and press Control+S with the Braille cursor on the display, this will save everything from the start of the block to the cursor, not including the cursor itself.

Control+S saves either the whole communications file or a marked block, if a block is marked. You can mark a block as above or by pressing Alt+M at the end of the block and then moving the display back to the beginning.

When you press Alt+M to mark one end of a block, a message box is displayed confirming the command. If no block is currently marked, this message simply confirms that one has been marked and you should just click the OK button or press ENTER. If, however, there is already a marked block, the confirmation box asks you if you want to save the current block to the capture file. Press ENTER or letter "y" to save the existing block, or click the Yes button. If you do not want to save what is already marked, press letter "n" or Tab then ENTER, or click the No button. Once you have responded to the question, the new block is marked, whether or not you saved the original.

If you try to clear (rest) the communications file while there is a marked block, or shut down WintextCom Personal Information Manager(tm), a message box is displayed warning you that there is an unsaved block and giving you the opportunity to save it before carrying out the requested operation. Press letter "y" or ENTER, or click the Yes button to save the marked block, press letter "n" or click the No button to abandon it. This will happen, for instance, if there is a marked block when you press Alt+ENTER to switch from Communications Mode to the directory, because this command deletes the contents of the communications file before activating the directory so that a new telephone call begins a fresh text session.

The text answerphone automatically creates a capture block when a message from a 'phonecall is recorded. You can save the record of messages to the capture file if you wish, the block starts at the first message, but the main reason for the block creation is to help prevent you from overlooking them by resetting the communications file or shutting down. The warning message if you are attempting to remove potentially unread messages it the same operationally as above, but indicates that the block contains answerphone messages. This means that even when you have read answerphone messages, you will still be prompted to save them when you switch to the directory, for instance, but that is usually preferable to accidentally losing messages before you have read them.

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The Capture File