You can create keypads.
Valid resource values for the keypad resource entry are as follows:
- enable
- Allows you to create, change, and user keypads. The default resource value
is enable.
- keypad_only
- Allows you to use, but not create or change keypads. The keypad customization
pull down choice is not displayed.
- disable_and_hide
- Does not allow you to use keypads. The two pull down keypad choices are
not displayed.
The default keypad resource IBM5250*KeyPadPath: is typically followed
by one or more full paths (directory and file name) to default keypad files.
Multiple paths are separated by a comma. If the resource is followed by the
character “0", there is no default keypad file for the user.
Each popup window has the following:
- A title that is a portion of the 5250 session title: the OS400 partition
name or IP address and the session number. The window title is useful to tie
the popup keypad window to the launching 5250 session window.
- Customized buttons that perform a keyboard action or playback file. You
control the size and layout of the keypad buttons: for example, 1x4, 6x1,
or 4x4. All keypad buttons are the same size.
The Customize Keypad program allows you to specify that the keypad
functions should be available though a keypad pull down instead of a popup
keypad window. If you select this choice, a Keypad menu bar choice is included
in the main 5250 window. If you have:
- one pull down keypad file, selecting Keypad lists the buttons text as
pull down choices.
- multiple pull down keypad files, selecting Keypad lists the pull down
keypad files; select a keypad file displays a drop-down list with the button
text as drop-down list choices.
- no pull down keypad files, the Keypad menu bar choice is not displayed.
If you have a keypad file, a dialogue box asks the user to select
an existing keypad to change or create a new keypad. The customize keypad
window allows you to do the following:
- Define keypad buttons: including button text and keypad actions or a playback
file associated with the button. You can edit the keypad action areas. A list
of keyboard actions and playback files are available for you to select.
- Change an Existing keypad button.
- Delete an existing keypad button.
- Move keypad buttons.
- Specify if the keypad is a popup keypad or pull down keypad.
- Set the row/column dimensions of a popup keypad window.
- Set the size of each button in a popup keypad window.
- A save pushbutton that allows the user to save this popup keypad. The
user gives the keypad a file name. The maximum length of the file name is
32 characters and can contain blanks.
- A cancel pushbutton that cancels the customize window.
- A help pushbutton that launches popup keypad help text.
- Also, a separate keypad window shows the keypad under construction. For
a pull down keypad, the keypad window is shown as one column wide.
Popup keypad windows will use the same foreground/background colors
as the 5250 emulator menu bar of the session that launched the keypad window.