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The NUMBER PAD, NUM-LOCK AND SCROLL LOCK TOGGLES
The Number Pad on the right of your keyboard is heavily used with your
cursor control arrow keys, PgUp, PgDn, Home, End, etc. You can also
enter ASCII characters by holding down the Alt key and typing their
decimal values on the Number Pad and then releasing the Alt key (if
the Graphics Character Toggle is ON).
Since you may always type a number on the Number Pad by holding down
the Shift key and then pressing the number you want on the pad, we
decided to disable the standard NumLock toggle. We found that it was
too easy to press it by mistake and then you would get a number in
your text area every time you tried to move the cursor or go to the
end of a line.
Press the PgDn Key
THE NumLock TOGGLE
However, if you REALLY want to turn it on, you can, by holding down
both the Alt and Ctrl keys and then pressing the NumLock key. An "N"
will appear on the Command Line in reverse color, the bell will sound,
and you will be provided with a message stating:
Number Pad Enabled ... (Press NumLock to disable)
Try it. Now Press NumLock, and the "N" should disappear.
If you own a "key tronics" keyboard, this feature is of no advantage
and will not function as you would expect. You may turn this "NumLock
Override" feature off by going to the MODIFY DEFAULTS panel (F8-F2)
selecting the "Toggle Settings" field, and turning the "NumLock
Override" toggle "off". (See the HELP file "TOGGLES".)
Press the PgDn Key
THE Alt KEY AND THE NUMBER PAD
Normally on a PC, you may type any of the 255 ASCII characters by
holding down the Alt key, typing the decimal value of the character on
the Number Pad, and then releasing the Alt key.
PC-TYPE+, however, has a filter which does not permit non-standard
characters to be entered in your text in this fashion. Consider that
if you hold down the Alt key by mistake and press an arrow key, you
will get an unwanted character in your text.
Note: this filter is not active on the Command Line.
Since you can get all the characters easily by pressing AltG to
select, and then CtrlG to place the character in your text, this PC
option is not really necessary. However, if you are used to entering
characters in this fashion, you can with the help of the Scroll Lock
Toggle.
Press the PgDn Key
THE Scroll Lock TOGGLE
Make sure your cursor is in the text area and press the Scroll Lock
key. You should see a "G" on your Command Line. The "G" stands for
Graphic characters, and when it is displayed on the Command Line you
can enter your characters with the Alt key and the Number Pad. For
example, hold down the Alt key, and while holding it down, press the
2, the 5, and the 1 keys in succession on the Number Pad. Then
release the Alt key. You should get the "√" to appear in your text.
Now press the Scroll Lock key again. The "G" will disappear from the
Command Line, and if you repeat the process above, the entry will be
ignored.
If you want the "G" to be "on" when you enter PC-TYPE+, you may make
it so by turning the "Scroll Lock" toggle on in the "Toggle Settings"
sub-screen of the MODIFY DEFAULTS screen.
Press F4 to Return to the HELP Menu