Using Touch Screen Features
5000 Mobile Terminal Product Guide (5000-REV2.21)
Chapter 3-17
You can remove each successive menu sub-level and eventually remove the menu bar from the active
window by repeatedly touching the <
Mode
> key.
The use of the
<
Mode
>
key can be password protected to prevent unauthorized access to the menus
(see the section on Security in Chapter 4).
POP-UP KEYBOARDS
The touch screen display area supports a variety of pop-up keyboards that are used for entering data.
The MT unit provides 10 standard pre-defined keyboards and up to 4 user-defined custom keyboards
(see Chapter 4 - Using the Presentation Manager). Only one keyboard can be popped up at a time.
You can pop up any keyboard by touching a specific overlay key or key sequence. These keys can be
user-assigned as hot keys (see the next section on Hot Keys). Hot keys can be exchanged, replaced or
removed. Removing a keyboard hot key assignment is a way of preventing the use of a particular
keyboard.
A list of all the available pop-up keyboards can be viewed via the Presentation Manager’s
KB Assign
menu
. Initially, the MT unit provides default hot key assignments to 6 of the 10 standard keyboards. A
default hot key assignment can be changed.
A popped up keyboard provides a text entry field with a flashing text cursor. You can enter text in the
entry field by touching the appropriate keys of the pop-up keyboard. Text editing keys are available on
the overlay keypad, as follows:
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<
Del
>
key for deleting a character
??
<
Bk Sp
>
key for back space operation
??
<
Ins
>
key for inserting a character
To remove any popped up keyboard, touch the hot key(s), which displayed the keyboard, or touch the
screen anywhere outside the keyboard area and within the windows display area.
See Chapter 7 for information on how to design a custom keyboard.
HOT KEYS
A hot key or a hot key sequence is an available and unique overlay key or key sequence that can be
assigned to a valid menu item. You can use these hot keys as an alternate way of calling up the user-
assigned menu items.
You can assign hot keys to:
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any standard or custom pop-up keyboard.
