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Operation and configuration
7.2 Additional drivers and applications
Special features
Warning
Inadvertent operation
If you touch the touch screen while configuring it or if the screen saver is active, the
SIMATIC process visualization software, e.g. ProTool/Pro, will carry out the functions which
happen to be behind it.
Caution
Only touch one point on the touch screen and not several points at one time. You may
otherwise trigger unintended reactions.
Do not touch the screen in the following situations:
— When the device is booting until the boot process is completed
— When plugging or unplugging USB components
— While Scandisk is running
7.2.3
KeyTools
Range of validity
The following applies to Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
Start
Start menu "Start", command "Settings > Control panel > SIMATIC Key Tools"
Function
SIMATIC Key Tools is a selection of applications for the Panel PC for adapting the key
codes sent from the key panel of the control unit. A description of the "KeyTools" is located
in the "Help" menu, and more information is located in the menu "Info > About."
"KeyTools" consists of the following tools:
• "Keycode table", previously "KeyPad": Loading and editing of key code tables
• "WinCC hotkey function", previously "KeyHook": WinCC hotkey function activation und
deactivation.
• "Security features": prevents two function keys from being activated simultaneously. This
prevents incorrect operations and undefined states of the application program.
Warning
For security purposes, always implement "Security features" and never deactivate
"Security features." If the user deactivates "Security features" nonetheless, make sure
that no malfunctions are triggered in the application program.
Serious malfunctions of the application program cannot be ruled out in external input
devices or combinations of external input devices and control devices with key panels.
The "Security features" are ineffective in such cases.
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Operating Instructions, Edition 10/2004, A5E00339979-01
Panel PC IL 77
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