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PT Program Generator (PPG) v5.0

Or you can get a combination of Chinese characters and one of the
system fonts.

Enter menu text here, including titles or prompts you want to display. In gen-
eral, each line of the screen is associated with one portable function key,
although it is possible to have more than one function per line. Activate only
the keys you want to use.

Function Key

The

through

checkboxes activate or deactivate the function keys

associated with each line of the screen. If you want the function key to execute
an option on the menu, select it here. Next to each checked box, there is a
pull-down list of nodes from which you can select the name of the node that
comes next when that function key is selected.

Any function keys not activated in the

Menu

node dialog box will have no

effect when pressed.

Display Nodes

Display

nodes display text on the portable’s screen. The dialog box for

Display

nodes (refer to

Figure 33 on page 57

) contains a text-entry area the exact size of

the portable’s screen. Use it to enter the display text.

Refer to

Actual vs. Virtual Display on page 19

for more information

To display information on the portable’s screen use a

Display

node instead of a

Menu

node (refer to

Display Nodes

).

To execute only one action regardless of which function key is displayed, use a

Dis-

play

node in conjunction with an

Input

node (refer to

Input Nodes on page 57

).

Display

nodes are designed to display data. To present options that can be selected

with the portable’s function keys, use a

Menu

node (refer to

Menu Nodes on page 55

).

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