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Glossary
H-2
Falcon
®
4400 Series with Windows
Mobile
®
Concatenate
Arranges (strings of characters) into a connected list.
control
A standardized part of the window that can be manipulated to perform an action or display
information. The most common controls are buttons to select options and scroll bars that
for moving through a document or positioning text in a window.
context sensitive
help
Tap
> Help
to open a help dialog about the specific windows application you are
using. Context sensitive help can tell where you are in a program and can provide assis-
tance with the specific problems you might be having.
control panel
Control Panels are several different applets that allow you to configure the Falcon to meet
your specific requirements. There are control panels for scanning, keyboard, display, etc.
Access the control panels by tapping
> Settings.
device manager
A tool to track all loaded device drivers and their interfaces. It issues notification of the
appearance, disappearance of device interfaces, loads and tracks drivers by reading and
writing registry values, and unloads drivers when their devices are no longer needed.
device partnership
A registry key on a device that a desktop computer uses to identify the device when it is
connected. The key defines values for synchronization, file conversions, and backup and
restore information, which enable multiple devices to connect to the same desktop com-
puter. A device partnership is created the first time you connect a device to a host PC.
direction key
A large navigation button on the Falcon keypad with 4 arrows: pointing up, down, left, and
right that allows you to move the cursor or highlighted text entry during menu selection.
Press and release one edge of the key to move the display screen one line or one charac-
ter in the direction of the arrow.
embedded
Broadly, software code or commands built into a device, as opposed to software that is
added. In a narrower sense, code that is typically stored in ROM and dedicated to either
controlling a device or providing a specific functionality.
FAST
Part of Datalogic’s
Falcon Management Utility (FMU)
application for the Falcon that
updates the operating system and applications automatically from a server using the wire-
less network system.
firmware
Operating System on the Falcon.
Falcon Desktop
Utility (FDU)
Falcon Desktop Utility (FDU) allows Datalogic administrators to configure Falcon Win-
dowsCE .NET and Windows Mobile Falcons to control individual user access.
Falcon Manage-
ment Utility (FMU)
A Datalogic Windows-based management application for managing the configuration set-
tings and updating the operating system and applications automatically from a server
using the wireless network system on the Falcon.
Firmware Update
Utility (FUU)
A Datalogic Windows-based field upgradeable firmware mechanism.
Use the Firmware
Update Utility (FUU), described starting on page
, to install or update the firmware
connection.