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ADVANCED PROGRAMMING
The KB5000 POS keyboard can be programmed with all special control and
function keys such as the Shift, Ctrl, Alt, F1 through F12, and the up/down/
left/right arrow keys. The procedure to program these special keys is shown
below:
1. Start the KB5 utility program.
2. Select the cell to be programmed. Press F8 to enter the scan-
code mode. The “code type” information changes from ASCII to
SCAN.
NOTE:
The scan-code mode will only be active for this cell. You must
select F8 for each cell you want to program with scan-code
information.
3. Under the scan-code mode, each alphanumeric character is
enclosed in parenthesis. For special function or control keys, press
ESC (three vertical bars will be present) followed by the special
function or control key you want to program.
For example, to program the INS (insert) key, press ESC and
then the INS key on the 101 keyboard. To program the ESC key,
simply press the ESC key twice. Special function and control
keys will not appear inside parenthesis. The three vertical bars
will disappear once the special function key is depressed.
4. You may return to the start-up graphic screen (short menu) by
pressing Ctrl-Alt-F4 again.
NOTES:
1) Special function keys require ESC as the leading code. In the scan-code mode, you
can view the symbol of the special key or the hex code equivalent of the special key. To
view, simply press F7 to toggle between symbol and hex modes.
2) Once a special function key (shift, ctrl, alt, etc.) is programmed it may be necessary to
un-select the function. To do so, press in sequence ESC, f (lower case F), 0 (zero),
3) Any given programmable location may be toggled between scan-code mode and ASCII-
code mode. Pressing the F8 key on the keyboard will change the cell’s programming
mode to scan-code mode. Pressing F9 on the keyboard will change the cell’s programming
mode to ASCII-code mode. Changing modes in a cell that has been previously
programmed will erase all the information in that cell.
4) To enter hex scan-codes directly, press ESC followed by the 2-digit hex number. For
example, to program the CTRL key press ESC followed by 1D. The KB5 program will
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add the leading zero.
ESC, followed by the special function key (shift, ctrl alt, etc.)