Advanced Topics
5000 Mobile Terminal Product Guide (5000-REV2.21)
Chapter 7-67
USING THE TOUCH CONSOLE WINDOW
The MT unit provides a touch-sensitive Console window that allows you to access the Command Line
Interface to the resident software modules (tasks). The Command Line Interface facilitates the entering
of task-based commands. The Console window facilitates the viewing of any command responses.
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The touch console window cannot be used to download any task images via the
load
task
commands. To do so, see the next section.
Usually, the touch console window is used to monitor the configuration and operations of the MT unit
for maintenance purposes.
Normally, the Console window is not displayed, especially when the Scanner Port is enabled.
To display the touch console window
, use the following procedure:
1) Activate the Presentation Manager (P.M.) window menu bar via the <
Mode
> key.
2) Activate the
BarCode
menu item (touch it twice) in the
Local
menu.
3) Activate the
WritePrms
menu item (touch it twice) in the
Local
menu.
4) Touch the <
ENTER
> key.
5) Restart the MT unit via the
<
2nd
><
2nd
>
<OFF>< ON> sequence (see Chapter 2).
6) Activate the
Tile
or
Casc
menu item in the Global menu.
7) Touch the Console window to activate it and then touch the
Maximize
button to display the
full window. The Command Line Interface prompt (>) will be visible.
8) Select an alphabetical pop-up keyboard using its hot key (see section on Pop-Up Keyboards in
Chapter 3).
9) You may now enter a task command in the text entry field of the pop-up keyboard. Enter the
command syntax string and then touch the <
ENTER
> key.
10) Remove the pop-up keyboard by touching anywhere within the windows area outside of the
keyboard.
11) You can now view the task command response. Touch the <
ENTER
> key repeatedly to scroll
the window contents.
To remove the touch console window
, use the following procedure:
1) Activate the Presentation Manager (P.M.) window menu bar via the <
Mode
> key.
2) De-activate the
BarCode
menu item (touch it once) in the
Local
menu.
3) Activate the
WritePrms
menu item (touch it twice) in the
Local
menu.
4) Touch the <
ENTER
> key.
5) Restart the MT unit via the
<
2nd
><
2nd
>
<
OFF
><
ON
> sequence (see Chapter 2).
The touch console window will now be removed.