MagTek MagneSafe V5 - Manual (Page 49)

Section 2. Communications
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This property is stored in non-volatile memory, so it will persist when the unit is power
cycled. When this property is changed, the unit must be reset (see Command Number 2)
or power cycled to have these changes take effect.
Active Keymap Property (KB)
Property ID: 0x16
Property Type: Byte
Length: 1 byte
Get Property: Yes
Set Property: Yes
Default Value: 0x00 (United States)
Description: The value is a byte that represents the reader’s active key map. The value can
be set to 0 for the United States key map or to 1 for the custom key map. The
active key map will be used by the reader to convert ASCII data into key
strokes. The United States key map should be used will all hosts that are
configured to use United States keyboards. The custom key map can be used
to set up the reader to work with hosts that are configured to use other
countries keyboards. The default custom key map is the same as the United
States key map. The key map can be modified to another countries key map
by using commands Get Key Map, Set Key Map and Save Custom Key
Map.
See the command section of this manual for a complete description of these
commands. To set up a reader to use a custom key map, select the appropriate
key map to be modified using the active key map property, reset the reader to
make this change take affect, use the Get Key Map and Set Key Map
commands to modify the active key map, use the “Save Custom Key Map”
command to save the active key map as the custom key map, set the active
key map property to custom to use the custom key map, reset the reader to
make these changes take affect.
This property is stored in non-volatile memory, so it will persist when the unit
is power cycled. When this property is changed, the unit must be reset (see
Command Number 2) or power cycled to have these changes take effect.
Example Set Active Keymap property Request (Hex):
Cmd Num Data Len Prp ID Prp Value
01 02 16 00
Example Set Active Keymap property Response (Hex):
Result Code Data Len Data
00 00
Example Get Active Keymap property Request (Hex):
Cmd Num Data Len Prp ID
00 01 16