KEYENCE AutoID User Manual

AutoID Keyboard Wedge

Important

Point

Reference

302GB

Code reader PC

AutoID

Keyboard

Wedge

Serial communication

TCP communication

Keyboard output

(1) Communication

(2) Append data

(3) Edit data

(4) Special key conversion

(5) Received data

Exit

1 Right-click on the task tray. 2 Select [Exit].

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1 Overview

The AutoID Keyboard Wedge is software that converts data read by a code reader to keyboard output.

Hardware requirements

Windows 8 (excluding Windows RT)

* Log in as a user that has administrator privileges. * Use Microsoft IME or Microsoft Office IME for input.

Windows 7 professional (32-bit/64-bit)

Windows Vista Business/Ultimate SP2 or later (32-bit)

Windows XP SP3 or later (32-bit)

Supported communication

• Serial communication: Communication via RS-232C or virtual COM (USB-COM).

• TCP communication: Communication via Ethernet TCP.

Communicates by specifying the number of COM connected to the code reader.

Communicates by specifying the wait port number with the code reader set to client and with PC set to server.

2 Start/Exit

Start-up

1 Start up the AutoID Keyboard Wedge.

The icon is registered on the task tray.

2 Click the [Start] button after setup.

* Clicking of the AutoID Keyboard Wedge will minimize the AutoID

Keyboard Wedge. To exit, be sure to perform exit operation from the task tray.

3 Items

This section describes the items that can be set on the AutoID Keyboard Wedge.

(1) Communication

[Start] button

Ethernet communication

Serial communication

Data transmission interval

(2) Append data

Date Append date and time information.

Partition mark Append partition mark. (0 to 1 character)

Header Append characters at the beginning of data. (0 to 5 characters)

Terminator Append characters at the end of data. (0 to 5 characters)

Data format

(3) Edit data

Data can be output by dividing it into multiple blocks. This function can be used when the number of fields is set to 1 or more.

Number of fields

Partition mark

Edit data setting

No.

Output start digit

Output length

Kanji conversion

Data replacement

*1 "Output start digit" + "Output length" = 1000 (upper limit).

The AutoID Keyboard Wedge starts operation with the set contents. To launch the AutoID Keyboard Wedge at the start-up of PC, check "Run in background at start-up".

Check here when performing keyboard conversion of socket communication data via Ethernet. (Port No: 1024 to 65535)

Check here when performing keyboard conversion of serial communication data via RS-232C, etc.

Set the time interval when inputting characters one by one. (0 ms to 100 ms) If keyboard conversion data is dropped, the problem may be solved by increasing this value.

Header Date Partition mark

Specify how many pieces the data is divided to. (0 to 16)

Specify the partition mark of the block to output. (Default: "," (0x2D))

Specify the order of output for divided data. (1 to 16)

Specify start digit for data extraction. (1 to 999 digits)

Specify the number of digits by byte to output from the output start digit. (1 to 999 digits)

If data includes Japanese such as Hiragana or Kanji, set this to "ON" to output data by Japanese conversion.

This converts characters included in the data to other character strings to output. Maximum number of characters that can be specified as conversion target characters is 5.

Read data

E SR KBD SOFT UM

Terminator

(4) Special key conversion

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This converts control characters to keys on the keyboard to output. If control characters are included in read data, header or terminator, use this function to output data by key conversion for control characters.

"Correspondence table for control character and special key conversion" (Page 2)

(5) Received data

Setting example

Example 1) Setting arbitrary characters to header/terminator

Click "Append data" - "Header/Terminator".

When data is input to the applicable port with the AutoID Keyboard Wedge communication set to [Start], the received data is displayed here. Use this to check if the data is correctly received.

Convert control code to character string.

[Clear] button This clears the data displayed here.

If control characters are included in the received data, the character strings are converted and displayed here.

Appendix

Correspondence table for control character and special key conversion

Select the type for "Special key conversion" and specify which key is each control character replaced with

HEX

00 NUL ctrl+@

01 SOH ctrl+A [Enter]

02 STX ctrl+B [Caps Lock]

03 ETX ctrl+C [Alt] make

04 EOT ctrl+D [Alt] break

05 ENQ ctrl+E [Ctrl] make

06 ACK ctrl+F [Ctrl] break

07 BEL ctrl+G [Enter]

08 BS ctrl+H [BS]

09 HT ctrl+I [Tab] [Tab]

0A LF ctrl+J

0B VT ctrl+K [Tab]

0C FF ctrl+L [Delete]

0D CR ctrl+M [Enter] [Enter]

0E SO ctrl+N [Insert]

0F SI ctrl+O [Esc]

10 DLE ctrl+P [F11]

11 DC 1 ctrl+Q [UP] [Home]

12 DC2 ctrl+R [DOWN] [Print Screen]

13 DC3 ctrl+S [LEFT] [BS]

14 DC4 ctrl+T [RIGHT] [Back Tab]

15 NAK ctrl+U [F12]

16 SYN ctrl+V [Home] [F1]

17 ETB ctrl+W [F2]

18 CAN ctrl+X [F3]

19 EM ctrl+Y [F4]

1A SUB ctrl+X [F5]

1B ESC ctrl+[ [Escape] [F6]

1C FS ctrl+¥ [F7]

1D GS ctrl+] [F8]

1E RS ctrl+^ [F9]

1F US ctrl+= [Ctrl](right) [F10]

E1 [F1]

E2 [F2]

E3 [F3]

E4 [F4]

E5 [F5]

E6 [F6]

E7 [F7]

E8 [F8]

E9 [F9]

EA [F10]

EB [F11]

EC [F12]

Control

character

HID standard Ty pe1 Typ e2

Double-click to select the character to append from the character table.

Specified characters are input as below.

To append multiple characters, continue to select characters. (Up to 5 characters)

Example 2) Setting the [TAB] key to terminator

• Terminator : HT(0x09)

• Special key conversion : Type1

* When the exit operation is performed for "2 Start/Exit", the AutoID Keyboard

Wedge.ini file is created. The contents set with this software are saved with this file in the same folder.