Carbolite nanodac - Manual (Page 53)

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4.6 TEXT ENTRY
The user is often required to enter text characters or numbers (when editing operator notes, for example).
This is done using the pop-up keyboards which are displayed when required. When only numerals are
required a special keyboard is presented which contains only numerals.
Figure 1.6 shows the three standard keyboards, along with a ‘scan’ direction for operations of both up
arrow and down arrow keys. To change keyboards, use the arrow pushbuttons to highlight the keyboard
name (‘Numeric’, ‘Symbols’ or ‘Alpha’), and then operate the scroll button.
Generally, to enter text, the required character is highlighted using the up and down arrows and the scroll
button is used as an ‘Enter’ key. Once text entry is complete, the Page button is used to confirm the edit
(use the down arrow to select ‘Yes’ then operate the scroll button).
Pressing and holding the scroll button and then immediately operating the up or down arrow, causes the
character insertion point to move to the left (down arrow) or to the right (up arrow).
The user can press and hold the scroll key to display variations on certain characters (the letter ‘e’ in the
figure). Once displayed, the up and down arrows can again be used to scroll through auxiliary list, allowing
capital letters, and characters with diacriticals (e.g. accents, umlauts, tildes, cedillas) to be selected and
entered using the scroll button.
The backarrow key is used as a back space key - i.e. it deletes the character to the left of the cursor
position. The ‘Del’ key deletes the character to the right of the cursor.
Note: Leading and trailing space characters are automatically removed from text strings.
Figure 1.6 Standard Keyboards
4.6.1 Numeric keyboard
As mentioned previously, for functions which can take only numerals, a special numeric keyboard
appears, as depicted in figure 1.6.1.
Figure 1.6.1 Numeric keyboard
4.6.2 USB keyboard
Text and numeric entry can also be carried out using a USB keyboard
.
Press and hold scroll
button for alternative
character set.