Understand the on-screen keyboard

To assist users who do not have a physical keyboard attached to the local machine, text boxes in MES .NET applications, such as Operator, include a keyboard button. Clicking this button opens an on-screen keyboard, as shown below.

• After opening the keyboard, the focus for the text entry will be to the text box associated with the keyboard button.

• You can leave the keyboard open (either displayed or minimized). However, if the keyboard is open and you click another text box keyboard button, the focus will go to the keyboard and not to the new text box. You must first click in the new text box before typing on the keyboard to enter text into it.

• The Enter and Tab keys work just like they do on a physical keyboard.

• The keyboard can be resized by clicking and dragging an edge or corner.

Depending on the Windows version, there are additional keyboard features, such as the Fade key (making it transparent) and selectable options on the option keys. For more information about the on‑screen keyboard features, see the help topic "Use the On-Screen Keyboard (OSK) to type" on the Microsoft Support web site.

Change the keyboard language

• Open the Input Method menu on the system tray and select the language.