Kinesis KB510USB USB Contoured Ergonomic Keyboards - Manual (Page 25)

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You can personalize the settings that control the electronic key click and toggle-key tones.
Two non-volatile memory chips in the keyboard retain your settings even when the power is
turned off. You can fully customize the layout for keys and foot switches, and store words,
sentences, or key combinations in the keyboard’s memory as macros.
There are two different ways to customize your keyboard:
1. Instant configuration settings, and
2. On-board programmability.
These methods are each described below. For the first method, additional details are provided
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INSTANT CONFIGURATION SETTINGS
The Instant configuration feature is used to simultaneously change a group of settings which
optimizes the keyboard for a particular computer platform. The Instant Configuration settings
are described in C
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most noticeable changes are shown graphically on p.13.
Determining current Instant Configuration settings (= s)
To determine the current “ Instant Configuration” setting, open a text editor (e.g. Word,
Simple Text) and hold the = key, then tap the letter s. The keyboard will automatically
produce a sequence which includes the firmware version and the individual features which are
active. In the example below, the firmware is version 3.2 and the default Windows
configuration is set. Individual configuration features may also be toggled on and off, and are
described in the Appendix.
Example: the default Windows setting reports
v3.2[SL K H e ]
Individual features, represented by letters inside the square brackets, may also be changed one
at a time (see A
PPENDIX ).
ON-BOARD PROGRAMMABILITY FEATURES
The on-board programmability features use a separate memory chip from the Instant
Configuration feature. With on-board programmability, you generally change one feature or
action at a time, rather than a platform-specific group of actions as with Instant Configuration.
General features of onboard programmability
Several features affect several keys at once (e.g. tones for toggle keys) or the entire keyboard
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