Direct Key

By entering a direct key, there first is a “magnifying glass“ symbol on the left side of the key input field. This symbol shows that the corresponding key is not entered or is not acknowledged by repetition of the key. Any character of this field is represented by a star-character. There is no possibility to inspect key characters of this field in a direct way. To give you an orientation especially using long keys, the program displays the place of the cursor or the range of places being marked at the left side of the status bar.

To get the possibility to enter all possible characters apart from the “normal” character set (ASCII character) which can be entered by the keyboard, you can choose another character set (hexadecimal character), so any two characters of which are combined to one key character by the program. With this character set key characters can be generated which can not or only laboriously generated in a direct way by keyboard buttons.

In dialogue entering a direct key you have the possibility to change the character set at any time i.e. from ASCII characters to hexadecimal characters and vice versa. With it ASCII characters automatically are expanded to its hexadecimal values or in opposite direction hexadecimal values are condensed to ASCII characters. The latter possibility only exists if there is no character value 00_hex in the key (internally interpreted as the end of a string).

If you have finished the input of your key, you can inform the program by pushing the return button or making a mouse click outside the key input field and outside the checkbox field for hexadecimal input. Then the program will ask you to repeat the key. If you answer in the negative, the key input is finished and the „magnifying glass“ symbol is preserved as a memory. You can click this “magnifying glass“ symbol at any time to carry through the confirmation of the key. If you answer in the affirmative, you get the possibility to confirm the key by repetition under field heading “Repeat key”. Here too you can inform the program about the end of the input by pushing the return button or making a mouse click outside the key input field and outside the checkbox field for hexadecimal input.

If both inputs are identical, a “tick in green circle” symbol is shown indicating that the key input is finished successfully. Any additional change of the key is interpreted as a new input of the key and therefore has to be confirmed.

Further entering a key, it’s possible that leaving the input field by a mouse click problems can arise occasionally, which can be avoided if you finish a direct key by pushing the return button.