Rockwell Automation 2711 PANELBUILDER SOFTWARE USER MANUAL - Manual (Page 337)

The Objects
Chapter 10
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ENT (Enter)—sends the string displayed in the scratchpad to the ASCII
Input Address in the PLC controller. The leftmost character is placed in
the high order byte of the first PLC word, the next character to the right
in the low order byte, etc. If the string is too large for the configured
address, the terminal displays an “out of range” message; the string is
not sent to the PLC controller.
The scratchpad is not cleared after the ENT button is pressed. If the
next key pressed is an ASCII character, the scratchpad clears and
displays the character. If the key is an editing key, (INS, DEL or cursor
keys), the string remains displayed in the scratchpad, allowing you to
edit the string without having to retype it.
If the Enter Key Control address is defined, the terminal sets this
address 400ms after the ENT button is pressed. If the Handshake
address is defined, the Enter Bit is reset by the terminal when the
Handshake address makes a 0 to 1 transition within 4 seconds of the
Enter Bit being set. If the Handshake bit does not make a 0 to 1
transition, the user is informed and the Enter Bit is reset automatically.
If the Handshake address is not defined for this object, the Enter bit is
reset when the button hold time elapses.
IMPORTANT: All keypad and touch input is disabled while the Enter
Key Control Bit is set to 1.
The SEL (Select) Button
The SEL (Select) button is common to the small ASCII Input Object for
the Touch Screen terminal and to both the large and small objects for the
Keypad terminal. To select a character:
1. Use the keypad cursor keys to move the cursor to the desired
character.
2. Press the SEL button.
This places the selected character into the scratchpad at the current
scratchpad cursor position.
The following buttons are unique to the various types of terminal.
Touch Screen Terminal, Large ASCII Input Object
The large ASCII input object has the following unique buttons:
CAPS—toggles between upper case and lower case characters. When
the button is “off” (default), the keyboard is in lower case mode; when
the button is “on”, the keyboard is in upper case mode.