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Keys Panel

The Keys panel displays all available key values you can add to a keyboard. From this section of the Velocity Console, you can use predefined keys or create your own custom keys to use on multiple keyboards. The keys displayed here are available across all projects and allow you to add the most-common alpha and numeric values as well as symbols and application-specific custom keys.

To add a key to a keyboard, select the key from the Keys panel and drag and drop it on the desired location in the Editor panel. If you drop a key in the Editor panel on a key with a pre-existing label and value, the original key is overwritten.

The Keys panel consists of multiple tabs that categorize the types of buttons you can add to a keyboard:

• QWERTY tab. Displays all keys commonly found on a standard QWERTY keyboard in their normal state. If the Enable Shift State option is selected in the Edit menu drop-down and you drag a key from this tab, its shifted state is also applied to the keyboard in the Editor panel. If you want to disable this setting and not create the shifted state of each key you drag to your keyboard, click Edit > Disable Shift State.

• Shift tab. Displays all keys commonly found on a standard QWERTY keyboard in their shifted state.

• 123 tab. Displays all pre-generated numbers and symbols.

• Function tab. Displays all available function keys and their associated function, from F1 to F24.

• 5250 tab. Displays all pre-generated keys available for IBM 5250 terminal emulation.

• 3270 tab. Displays all pre-generated keys available for IBM 3270 terminal emulation.

• VT tab. Displays all pre-generated keys available for VT terminal emulation.

• Custom tab. Displays all custom keys you've created. You can create more custom keys by clicking Add Key. This creates a new key in the tab that you can edit in the Key Detail panel. You can add special actions to custom keys, which are described in Key Details Panel. Custom keys do not need to be added to a keyboard in the Editor panel to edit them. Any custom keys you create here can be used in all other projects.