Datalogic Pegaso, Product Reference Manual

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Glossary
H-2 Pegaso™ Industrial PDA with Windows
®
CE
calibration
You may need to calibrate the touch screen. One way to know that the touch
screen needs to be calibrated is that you will notice that when you attempt to
select one item with the stylus, another item is erroneously selected.
checksum
A number used to verify the contents of a data file. This number is generated by
calculating the contents of the data. If the calculated checksum is different from
the expected checksum, the data has errors in it.
CLSI
CLSI, Inc., developer of the “LIBS 100 scanning and decoding system”. The
“"Convert to CLSI"” parameter refers to formatting a Codabar bar code label in
the manner defined by CLSI, Inc.
command band
A rebar control with a fixed band at the top that contains a toolbar with a Close
(X) button, an OK button, and optionally a Help (?) button in the upper right cor-
ner.
command bar
A control window that can contain buttons, combo boxes, and menu bars. Win-
dows CE–based applications can use a command bar rather than a separate
menubar and toolbar to efficiently use available screen space.
Concatenate To arrange (strings of characters) into a connected list.
control
A standardized part of the window that can be manipulated by the user to per-
form an action or display information. The most common controls are buttons
that allow the user to select options and scroll bars that allow the user to move
through a document or position text in a window.
context sensitive
help
Tap “ ? ” to open a help dialog about the specific windows application you are
using. Context sensitive help can tell where you are in a program and can pro-
vide assistance with the specific problems you might be having.
control panel
Control Panels are several different applets that allow you to configure the
Pegaso to meet your specific requires. There are control panels for scanning,
keyboard, display, etc. Access the control panels at
Start > Settings > Control
Panel.
device manager
A tool to track all loaded device drivers and their interfaces. It issues notification
of the appearance, disappearance of device interfaces, loads and tracks drivers
by reading and writing registry values, and unloads drivers when their devices
are no longer needed.
device partnership
A registry key on a "Windows CE" device that a desktop computer uses to iden-
tify the device when it is connected. The key defines values for synchronization,
file conversions, and backup and restore information, which enable multiple
"Windows CE" devices to connect to the same desktop computer. A device part-
nership is created the first time you connect a "Windows CE" device to a host
PC.
embedded
Broadly, software code or commands built into a device, as opposed to software
that is added. In a narrower sense, code that is typically stored in ROM and ded-
icated to either controlling a device or providing a specific functionality.
FAST
Part of Datalogic Mobile’s "Falcon Management Utility (FMU)" application for the
Pegaso that updates the operating system and applications automatically from
a server using the wireless network system.
firmware
Operating System on the Pegaso.