LayoutKitchen 2
by AssistiveWare
Design speech panels, scan panels and keyboards for Proloquo, SwitchXS and KeyStrokes with this easy to use editor
LayoutKitchen is an editor for SwitchXS scan panels, KeyStrokes keyboards and Proloquo speech panels. SwitchXS users can use LayoutKitchen to create their own scan panels (sometimes also referred to as scan keyboards or scan arrays) with just those keys, controls and functions they need, thereby greatly enhancing the power and versatility of SwitchXS. KeyStrokes 4 users can use LayoutKitchen to design custom keyboards with images, colours and fonts to taste and with a variety of keys and functions. Proloquo users can use LayoutKitchen to create their own speech panels for easy access of commonly used phrases or, when images are used on the buttons, to build communication panels for people who cannot read or write.
LayoutKitchen is included with SwitchXS, KeyStrokes 4, and Proloquo 2.
LayoutKitchen provides many advanced features to create highly customised panels with coloured background, labels and buttons, with all kinds of images, and with a variety of powerful functions. Yet, LayoutKitchen is easy to use. Beginners can start by reusing buttons from existing panels and create more complex panels as they become comfortable with LayoutKitchen. To accommodate a variety of users, LayoutKitchen provides both mouse-based (drag and drop) and keyboard-based interfaces (keyboard shortcuts) for many actions and also includes functions making it easier for switch users to design their own panels with limited mouse use.
A great companion to LayoutKitchen is PCS for LayoutKitchen, which you can purchase separately. PCS for LayoutKitchen contains a collection of over 8000 Picture Communication Symbols from Mayer-Johnson that can be used with LayoutKitchen to design speech panels for Proloquo as well as scanning panels for SwitchXS and keyboards for KeyStrokes. These industry-standard picture symbols are in colour and fully-resizable.
LayoutKitchen Features
- Layout editor for SwitchXS and Proloquo and KeyStrokes
- Supports colouring of panel background, buttons and button labels
- Supports full-colour images of any size on buttons in many graphic formats (including PNG, TIFF, JPEG, PSD, PDF)
- Adjustable text font, size and style per button
- Provides drag and drop editing of buttons, colours and images
- Includes advanced functions to organise and arrange buttons
- Allows a wide range of functions to be assigned to buttons, from speech to text to AppleScripts and keyboard macros
- Includes a quick-access searchable image browser with over 600 images included
- Includes a quick-access button browser
- Works with the over 8000 Picture Communication Symbols from Mayer-Johnson, available for separate purchase below
- Universal Binary [New in LayoutKitchen 2.1]
System Requirements
- Apple Mac
- Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4-10.5 or higher, Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) recommended
- PowerPC or Intel processor
- Minimum Display Resolution: 800×600
- Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4-10.5 or higher, Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) recommended
View/Download
- Manual (pdf document 2.7 MB)
- LayoutKitchen 2.1.1 Trial version for Mac OS X 10.4 or higher – 18.2 MB
LayoutKitchen 2 is targeted at the following age ranges:
- All Ages
LayoutKitchen 2 is designed to foster development in the areas of:
- Communication
- Resource preparation
- Access to computers
Users can access LayoutKitchen 2 in the following ways:
- Mouse/ Trackball/ Joystick
- Keyboard
- Single Switch
For answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and technical support visit:
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