HP UX SoftBench Software manual SoftBench Mnemonics and Non-USASCII Character Inputs

Customizing SoftBench for Native Language Support (NLS)

SoftBench Mnemonics and Non-USASCII Character Inputs

SoftBench Mnemonics and Non-USASCII Character Inputs

All SoftBench tools' menus have mnemonics. A mnemonic is a single character used to identify each menu name (the menus are displayed at the top of the tool's main window). The mnemonic is indicated visually by the underlined letter in the menu button. For example, F in the "File" menu is the mnemonic.

For USASCII keyboard users, a menu with a mnemonic can be posted (displayed) by holding down the Alt key and then pressing the mnemonic key simultaneously. For example, Alt-Fwill post the "File" menu. However, if you use Asian language input, and therefore have customized your environment using the steps outlined in the previous sections, you will need to press and release the Alt key once, and then press the Alt key plus the mnemonic character simultaneously to post the menu.

If you use non-Asian, non-USASCII character inputs, then you can post the menu using the mnemonics in the same manner as the USASCII keyboard users. However, the mnemonic character may conflict with your non-USASCII character inputs and prevent you from entering certain characters. If a conflict occurs, you need to further customize your SoftBench environment by changing or removing the problem mnemonics. Follow the instructions given below.

Changing or Removing Menu Mnemonics

1.Bring up all SoftBench tools. Identify all SoftBench menus that have mnemonics that conflict with your non-USASCII character inputs. (You need to check only the menus that appear at the top of the tool and not the menu commands that exist within each menu pane.)

2.For each of the menus you identified in step 1, find the corresponding menu label and menu mnemonic resource definitions. They will either be in a file in

/opt/softbench/app-defaults or in the file

/opt/softbench/menus/…/C

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