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NetView 3270 Management Console Help


Key Remap Dialog

The Key Remap dialog enables you to change the mapping of the function associated with a particular key or combination of keys. The Key Remap dialog box contains two tabs enabling you to choose between two pages:

Key Assignment Page

The Key Assignment page of the Key Remap dialog box enables you to assign keys or combinations of keys to host functions or characters. The Key Assignment page contains the following fields:

Category drop down list box
Enables you to choose to remap one of the following:

Host Functions or Characters and Key table
Depending on your selection in the Category selection list box, the left column of this table will display in one the following manners:
Host Functions
If you chose Host Functions in the Category list box, then the left column of this table contains a listing of the host functions for which you can assign keys.
Characters
If you chose Characters in the Category list box, then the left column of this table contains a listing of the characters for which you can assign keys.

The right column of this table will display as follows:

Key
For either Host Functions or Characters, this column displays the current key mapping selections, if you have created any, for each host function or character.

Assign a key button
Enables you to assign a key to the host function or character. To do this, do the following:
  1. Select a host function or character, for which you want to assign a key, in the Host Function or Characters and Key table.
  2. Click the Assign a Key button.
  3. Press the key or combination of keys that you want to execute the selected host function or character.

    The key column of the selected host function or character now contains this key or key combination.

Unassign Key button
Enables you to disable a key or key combination you have assigned to a host function or character. To do this, do the following:
  1. Select a host function or character, for which you want to remove the key assignment, in the Host Function or Characters and Key table.
  2. Click the Unassign Key button.

    The key or key combination is removed from the key column of the selected host function or character.

Reset Key button
Enables you to make a new key assignment for a selected host function or character.

Reset All button
Enables you to clear the key assignments for all of the host functions or characters at once.

Search for Key button
Enables you to select a key, in which you are interested, and see the mapping information for this key in the Host Function or Characters and Key table. To use this function, do the following:
  1. Click the Search for Key button. The bar above prompts you to "Press a Key."
  2. Press the key or combination of keys you want to see.

    You will then see the mapping for that key in the right column of the Host Function or Characters and Key table. You can then determine what characters or functions in the left column are mapped to it.

When you have completed your changes, click one of the following:

Done
Closes the dialog box. If changes have not been saved, the changes are in effect only for the current session.
Save
Enables your changes for the future. This saves your changes so they are in effect for later sessions.

Note: Your new selections must not conflict with other key combinations used by your operating system.

Key Repetition Page

The Key Repetition page of the Key Remap dialog box enables you to specify keys, or combinations of keys, the function for which will not repeat if the keys are held down. The Key Repetition page contains the following fields:

Non-repeating keys list
Contains a listing of all the keys that you have defined which will perform their function only once if they are held down.

Add Key button
Enables you to specify the key or combinations of keys that will perform their function only once if they are held down. To do this, do the following:
  1. Press the Add Key button.
  2. Press the key or key combination the function for which should not repeat.

    The key (or combination of keys) appears in the Non-repeating Keys list.

Remove Key button
Enables you to specify the key or combinations of keys listed in the Non-repeating Keys list that should be deleted (or enabled to perform the function multiple times if held down). To do this, do the following:
  1. Select the key or key combination from the Non-repeating Keys list to be deleted.
  2. Press the Remove Key button.

    The key (or combination of keys) is removed from the Non-repeating Keys list and enabled to perform the assigned function multiple times if the key or key combination is held down.

When you have completed your changes, click one of the following:

Done
Closes the dialog box. If changes have not been saved, the changes are in effect only for the current session.
Save
Enables your changes for the future. This saves your changes so they are in effect for later sessions.

Note: Your new selections must not conflict with other key combinations used by your operating system.


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