Philips Using the KBD-SFTCFG, Why the 1 English Language Table Cannot be Modified

10 USING THE KBD-SFTCFG

In general, the KBD-SFTCFG (IntuiKey Configuration Software) allows users to achieve the following:

•Customize the text of softkey menu buttons and diagnostic messages. This can range from making a few minor changes to translating an entire language table (over 750 items) into another language.

•Configure softkeys so that keyboards can activate (CCL) Command Script macros on Allegiant matrix switcher/controller systems.

The subsections that follow explain how these and related tasks can be performed.

10.1Why the 1 – English Language Table Cannot be Modified

The language table 1 – English serves as a reference point against which all other language tables are compared. It ensures that no matter how dramatically other language tables are customized, a default configuration will always be available on the keyboard.

1 – English is the only language table that can be downloaded to a keyboard’s first language table slot. It is also the only language table that cannot be overwritten during an upload operation.

Users who wish to work with the 1 – English language table’s data must do so by creating a copy of it and then modifying the copy.

10.2 Editing Text

Any language table text that can be customized will appear in an edit box in one of the language table’s form views. Only characters supported by the keyboard’s font can be typed into a form’s edit box.

The following should be considered when editing text:

10.2.1 Text Alignment

The alignment of text is significant, because it determines how that text will be displayed on a keyboard’s LCDs. When text is customized, it’s recommended that the original alignment be preserved to ensure consistency with other text fields being displayed.

10.2.2Inputting Font Characters by their Numeric Codepoints

Because generating some of the keyboard font’s characters may be difficult with a standard PC keyboard, the KBD-STFCFG allows text to be edited by inputting the characters’ numbers (known as codepoints or font-points) instead (see Appendix A for a listing of codepoints). This is done using the Font-Point Character Entry dialog box.

When text is being modified in an edit box, the Font-Pointdialog can be opened by holding down the Shift key and right- clicking the edit box or right-clicking the edit box and selecting Codepoints... from its context menu. If the edit box is a member of a group of edit boxes, the text from all of the edit boxes will appear in the Font-Pointdialog.

10.3 Changing a Language Table’s Name

A language table’s name is customized by selecting a language table node in the tree control and modifying the language table form’s Table Description text. The tree control will display the new name when either the Apply button is clicked or a new tree node is selected.

Language table names are displayed in the keyboard’s Language Select softkey menu. It is recommended that language tables be given unique names to avoid confusion when selections are made from the Language Select menu.

10.4 Link Buttons

Pressing certain softkeys will cause the keyboard to display (link to) another softkey menu. In KBD-SFTCFG menu forms, all softkeys that do this will have a link button next to them. The link button’s label will contain the name of the menu to which it links. Clicking a link button causes the tree control to automatically select the target menu (and thus display the target menu’s form). Link buttons provide a means to traverse a language table’s softkey menus just as they would be traversed when using a keyboard (see Appendix A of the IntuiKey Keyboard Manual for a complete graph of the keyboard’s menu structure).

Most link buttons’ labels are abbreviated because the button is too narrow to display the entire name of the menu to which they link. However, if the mouse pointer hovers over such a link button, a small tool-tipwindow with the entire name will appear nearby.

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