Introduction Unpacking and Inspection
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1. Introduction Unpacking and Inspection The ArgoKee is an extremely user friendly and powerful Keyboard a ArgoKee KDU Display Unit KDU which supports ARGOX label printers and b User s manual performs the standalone operation ArgoKee s high compatibility c RS 232 serial cable To connect Argokee amp PC with other printer programming languages makes it so versatile and d RS 232 serial cable To connect Argokee amp Argox Printer black economic substantially Bundled with it is the powerful label design e Scanner adapter software ArgoBar which allows any of Windows users download f Power adapter desired form from PC within minutes With its ergonomically designed Notebook PC keypad ArgoKee makes your work of data key in become easy and delightful To facilitate the standalone operation it can also be connected to a barcode scanner for data input Notes 1 Black serial cable Item g is only for connecting ARGOX printers and Argokee It is NOT for other applications 2 In standalone operation it is not necessary to plug with power adapter as Argokee can be powered by ARGOX barcode printers through black serial cable item g directly Keyboard Overview RS232 pin assignment P1 port 1 connect to printer LCD Display Caps LED Ins LED 2 me pa m upa 5 GND___ Signal groune e e fvi P2 port 2 connect to host PC or barcode scanner 2 BD inp Oupa Iir r rrr 5 eb Si2. 1 16 The Branching Statement IF THEN Syntax Line number IF EVALUATION THEN line number If EVALUATION is TRUE the Line number after THEN will be executed Otherwise the next line will be executed 32 The IF THEN is a decision making statement depending upon the decision it can change the order of execution The EVALUATIONSs could consist of several RELATIONAL EXPRESSION which are linked with OR or AND The Max RELATIONAL EXPRESSIONs in one IF THEN ELSE are 5 Program 10 LET X 1 20 LET Y X X 30 PRINT Y 40 LET X X 1 50 IF X gt 31 THEN 70 60 GO TO 20 70 END In Line 50 if the evaluation X gt 31 is true line 70 will be executed Otherwise Line 60 will be executed 1 17 The Branching Statement IF THEN ELSE Syntax Line number IF EVALUATIONS THEN line number ELSE line number The IF THEN ELSE statement is a decision making statement as it decides the path of the program It helps in making comparisons and testing whether a condition is true or false IF always followed by a valid BASIC condition or expression If the condition is found true then the line number after THEN is performed otherwise line number after ELSE is performed The EVALUATIONSs could consist of several RELATIONAL EXPRESSION which are linked with OR or AND The Max RELATIONAL EXPRESSIONS in one IF THEN ELSE are 5 Example Problem 1 Ages of different students appearing in the Board ex
3. CHR RECEIPT CHR 13 10 gt Print RECEIPT PRINT A75 180 3 4 1 1 N CHR Match CHR 13 10 gt Print the Product Name PRINT A115 180 3 4 1 1 N CHR Q ty Qty CHR 13 10 gt Print Q ty text and its Value PRINT A155 180 3 4 1 1 N CHR Unit CHR 13 10 gt Print Unit PRINT A185 150 3 4 1 1 N CHR Price CHR 13 10 gt Print the price LET Total Price Qty gt To get the total result PRINT A215 180 3 4 1 1 N CHR Total CHR 13 10 gt Print Total text PRINT A245 180 3 4 1 1 R CHR Total CHR 13 10 gt Print Total value PRINT B350 4 0 3 2 4 51 B CHR TRANS_1I CHR 13 10 gt Print out the Bar code of Transaction number PRINT P1 1 CHR 13 10 gt Print out the image buffer saved by the above PRINT commands LET Cnt Cnt 1 gt Decrease Count LET TRANS_ I TRANS_ 1 gt Increase Transaction Number IF Cnt O THEN 180 ELSE 360 gt If Cnt 0 gt Wait another input otherwise Print it again END 42 3 3 2 Case Il BASIC POS 10 REM DATABASE for product name amp unit PRICE 100 105 110 120 130 140 160 165 170 180 190 200 210 220 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300 310 320 330 340 350 360 370 380 390 400 410 420 430 440 450 460 470 480 490 500 510 520 530 540 550 560 DATA GF100 100 23 GF200 105 12 GF300 200 DATA X1000 300 12 X2000 499 99 X3000 799 99 X4000 120
4. PASSWORD SETTING ENTER J YES is shown on LCD Then Press Enter for setting password NEW PASSWORD SETTING f Edit your password in the above screen Then press Enter to confirm your setting g Continue to perform other settings or press Esc for returning standby mode 2 2 PC port baud rate setting a Press S to enter Configuration Setting mode enter password if necessary BAUD P2 PC PORT 9600 b Press Up arrow or Down arrow key to select the proper baud rate c Press Enter key to confirm your selection There will be sign to show your selection d Continue to perform other settings or press Esc for returning standby mode 2 3 Printer port baud rate setting a In Configuration Setting mode press Pg Up or Pg Dn till ae eee is shown on LCD b Press Up arrow or Down arrow key to select the proper baud rate Then press Enter key to confirm your selection c Continue to perform other settings or press Esc for returning standby mode 2 4 Key Tone setting a In Configuration Setting mode press Pg Dn or Pg Up till Key Tone l Enable is shown on LCD b Press Up arrow and Down arrow key to select key tone options c Press Enter key to confirm your selection d Continue to perform other settings or press Esc for returning standby mode 2 5 Scan
5. GF100 100 23 GF200 105 12 GF300 200 DATA X1000 300 12 X2000 499 99 X3000 799 99 X4000 1200 DATA OS 214ZIP 199 1 A 200 399 G 6000 550 TP 180 99 9 DATA PS II 299 99 X BOX 299 99 DATA End Flag 0 LET TRANS_I 0 INPUT Enter Label count Count gt A Flag to identify there are no more dates gt Reset Transaction number gt Input how many labels for each and every label entry REM PRINTF Count LET Cnt Count RESTORE gt Reset Data String Index in this small Data Base INPUT Enter Product Name PRODUCT gt Input the Product Name INPUT Enter Quantity Qty gt Input the quantity for this product READ Match gt Read a Product name in data base READ Price gt And its corresponded PRICE IF Match End Flag THEN 330 ELSE 350 gt if no more data in data base gt request to reenter PRINTF PRODUCT NOT found Enter for Next GOTO 270 IF Match PRODUCT THEN 360 ELSE 290 gt If Product entered by user is equal to any one in data base gt Print It out in PPLB language PRINT N CHR 13 10 gt Clear Image buffer in PPLB printer PRINT q592 CHR 13 10 gt Label width to be 592 dots 3 inch PRINT Q196 24 CHR 13 10 JB CHR 13 10 gt Form Length 192 dots gapdots 24 PRINT D9 CHR 13 10 S2 CHR 13 10 gt Print Density 9 Heat PRINT O CHR 13 10 gt Disable all options PRINT A05 180 3 4 1 1 R CHR E Mall CHR 13 10 Print E MALL reverse on the Top PRINT A35 180 3 4 1 1 R
6. to Printer via the serial port on ArgoKee The Variables content in PRINT statement are also transparently sent to Printer In other word it means any information in the PRINT statement will be faithfully sent to Printer without any modifications 29 This strategy would maintain Argox Basic Interpreter to be independent of any specific Printer Language By the way the BASIC Interpreter will not append LF CR automatically after all the data in the PRINT statement have been sent to PRINTER If you want to append CR or LF in this statement the PRINT statement must manually tails with CHR 10 13 Line number PRINT Variable separator variable separator or item The separation may be comma or semicolon Refer to 1 12 1 1 12 2 for the description about and Syntax1 Line number PRINT Variable Syntax 2 Line number PRINT Text 1 Var 1 Text2 Var 2 Once this line executed Text 1 Var 1 Text2 Var 2 will be sent to the printer port on ArgoKee one by one Text1 2 are a text string without appending CR amp LF Vari 2 are the variables defined in this Basic Program Syntax 3 Line number PRINT CHR 2 c0200 CHR 10 13 Once this line executed A Where CHR 2 will enforce ArgoxBasic to send the control code 0x02 to printer CHR 10 13 is Line Feed LF and Carriage Return CR 1 12 1 The Semicolon Control Program 10 LET S 1175 50 20 PRINT TOTAL SALARY 5S 3
7. 4 1 1 R CHRS RECEIPT CHR 13 10 gt Print RECEIPT LET Row Base 65 PRINT A Row 180 3 4 1 1 N CHR Match CHR 13 10 gt Current Product Name LET Row Base 90 PRINT A Row 172 3 4 1 1 N CHR Q ty Qty CHR 13 10 gt Print Q ty Text amp its value LET Row Base 115 PRINT A Row 172 3 4 1 1 N CHR Unit CHR 13 10 gt Print Unit Text LET Row Base 140 PRINT A Row 172 3 4 1 1 N CHR Price CHR 13 10 gt Print Price INPUT Press P to Print Over gt Ask user to Print out or Not LET Base Row LET Total Price Qty Total IF Over P OR Over p THEN 500 ELSE 190 gt If user Press P i gt Print It PRINT B350 4 0 3 2 4 51 B CHR TRANS_1 CHR 13 10 gt Print out the BAR Code of Transaction number PRINT A520 180 3 4 1 1 N CHR Total CHR 13 10 gt Print Total text PRINT A560 180 3 4 1 1 R CHR Total CHR 13 10 gt Print Total Value PRINT P Count CHR 13 10 Command Printer to Print out data Count is the Var set by user LET TRANS_ I TRANS_I 1 gt Increase Transaction number GOTO 160 END 43 3 4 Print out a Graphic Object to PPLB printer BASIC 100 PRINT 110 PRINT 120 PRINT 130 PRINT 140 PRINT 150 PRINT 160 PRINT 170 PRINT 180 PRINT 190 PRINT 200 PRINT 210 END PrnGraph GK CHR LOGO1 CHR 13 10 gt Delete the graphic object named by LOGO1 GM CHR
8. Enter key for confirming this Print Code 7 Repeat procedure from item lt 4 gt to lt 6 gt till all the Print Code for special characters are set well as your expectations 8 Once All the Print Code for special Alphabet have been edited OK You should press ESC key to leave for the stand by mode and save all the Print Code which you edited into NVRAM 3 Default Print Code for special characters eoa eose Mowe Od azores orga azores dares a 0186 0x00 o o Ce a a ozonoa 8 008 60x65 6oxo4 Scone ozoxar aowa uoxe7 acot roms CO 0x90 0xa5 Fose oaa ro O 20 Appendix Il ARGOX BASIC 1 Commands of ARGOX BASIC E Basic g GRAPHIC E REM mPRINT CHRTAB BEND MPRINTF ELET mTABULATION MPRECISE GOTO mINPUT IF THEN ELSE MREAD DATA BFOR TO STEP BRESTORE MNEXT m TERMINAL 1 1 Fundamental Rules of ARGOX BASIC Each BASIC command must appear on a separate line except IF THEN ELSE FOR TO STEP mark for separate command is not allowed A statement can t exceed 100 characters 80 characters after BASIC Command A statement must start with a Line Number It is a positive integer Every Line Number must be unique in this Basic Program The Line number must be in an ascending order Each Line Number shall be followed by a BASIC command You may use blank space to increase the readability of the program 2
9. Option setting a In Configuration Setting mode press Pg Up or Pg Dn till siete i is shown on LCD b Press Up arrow and Down arrow key to select either Overwrite or Clear amp Overwrite while data is entered by barcode scanner c Press Enter key to confirm your selection d Continue to perform other settings or press Esc for returning standby mode 2 6 Print Code setting Refer to the section 2 in Appendix I 2 Emulation setting There are three emulations PPLA PPLB and BASIC you can select a In Configuration Setting mode press Pg Up or Pg Dn key till she eas is shown on LCD b Press Up arrow and Down arrow key to select the emulation modes PPLA PPLB or BASIC c Press Enter key to confirm your selection d Continue to perform other settings or press Esc for returning standby mode Note The emulation mode PPLA PPLB of ArgoKee must be consistent with the emulation in your printer or your printer will not follow the form sent from ArgoKee 2 8 Flash memory setting a In Configuration Setting mode press Pg Up or Pg Dn key till FLASH MEMORY KEEP IT is shown on LCD b Press Up arrow or Down arrow key to select either KEEP IT or Clean It After Exit c Press Enter key to confirm your selection d Continue to perform other settings or
10. faithfully sent to printer port Syntax Line number TERMINAL Example 100 TERMINAL 200 END 36 2 How to run a ArgoxBasic Program on ArgoKee 2 1 Edit a BASIC program 1 Choose a suitable TEXT editors like NotePad WordPad Pure Text txt mode only Don t choose WinWord Mode Visual C PEII etc Some popular word editors like WinWord WordPerfect are NOT suitable to be chosen as your BASIC editor 2 Then follow the ArgoBasic Syntax which have been described in above to edit a BASIC program BASIC Program Name must be prefixed on your BASIC program 3 Save it in the PC with the file name you like 2 2 Download the BASIC program into ArgoKee 1 Press S on ArgoKee then scroll it Pg Up or Pg Dn to EMULATION option BASIC item should be selected as the emulation Mode 2 Set up the baud rate for ArgoKee to be consistent with what the Hyper Terminal had been or will be set 3 Press D on ArgoKee to let it enter Download Mode 4 Employ Hyper Terminal select TEXT file to download your ArgoxBasic program into ArgoKee 5 If any error is found in the ArgoxBasic file an error message will be shown on LCD You can refer the Error Code listed below to find out more information Please press ENTER key to find out more errors in the downloaded BASIC program If all the BASIC errors had been shown the ArgoKee will return to Stand by mode No
11. read the data in READ command Data in DATA statement are illegal BAD syntax in READ statement yntax error in Restore statement 47 The Program size is overflow 40 3 The Sample Code Argox Basic 3 1 Calculator BASIC CACULATOR 100 105 110 120 130 160 170 180 190 200 210 220 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300 310 400 PRINTF BASIC DEMO PROGRAM CALCULATOR PRECISE 4 gt The digit dots is 4 INPUT Enter a numeric First gt Wait for User to enter the first Argument INPUT Enter x OP gt Wait for the user to enter the Arith Operation INPUT Enter a numeric Second gt Wait for User to enter the second argument IF OP x THEN 220 gt If x gt Perform Multiply IF OP THEN 240 gt If gt Perform Division IF OP THEN 260 gt f gt Perform Addition IF OP THEN 280 gt If gt Perform Subtraction PRINTF PLS ENTER AGAIN x for Arith OP gt Not x gt Aske user to enter again GOTO 110 LET RESULT First Second GOTO 290 LET RESULT First Second GOTO 290 LET RESULT First Second GOTO 290 LET RESULT First Second PRINTF RESULT INPUT Press Q to Quit quit gt Ask user if he or she would like to quit from this BASIC program or not IF quit Q OR quit q THEN 400 ELSE 110 If Q or q entered gt Quit END 3 2 Print out Labels from PPLA Printer BASIC PPLA 110 INPUT Label Count cnt gt Input the label
12. 0 DATA OS 214ZIP 199 1 A 200 399 G 6000 550 TP 180 99 9 DATA PS II 299 99 X BOX 299 99 DATA End Flag O LET TRANS_I 0 gt Reset Transaction number LET Base 0 gt Reset Base position to print LET Total 0 gt Reset Total Money required INPUT Enter Label count Count gt Input how many labels for every label entry REM PRINTF Count gt Commented PRINTF could help you debugging RESTORE gt Reset Data String Index in this small Data Base INPUT Enter Product Name PRODUCT Invoke amp Wait user to enter Product name INPUT Enter Quantity Qty gt Invoke amp Wait user to enter the Q ty for this product READ Match gt Read a Product name in data base READ Price gt And its companied Price IF Match End Flag THEN 250 ELSE 270 A Flag to identify there are no more data PRINTF PRODUCT NOT found Enter for Next GOTO 160 IF Match PRODUCT THEN 280 ELSE 220 gt If not matched gt read next Product in data base IF Base 0 THEN 290 ELSE 380 gt If 1 time gt Send out the data in Line 290 370 to Printer PRINT N CHR 13 10 gt Clear Image buffer in PPLB printer PRINT q592 CHR 13 10 PRINT Q196 24 CHR 13 10 JB CHR 13 10 PRINT D9 CHR 13 10 S2 CHR 13 10 PRINT O CHR 13 10 LET Row Base gt To get the Row Position PRINT A Row 180 3 4 1 1 R CHRS E MART CHR 13 10 gt Print E MART as LOGO Rotate 270 LET Row Base 25 PRINT A Row 180 3
13. 0 END The output of the program 1 will be as PTA PAA EP PPPS Using semicolon in a print statement the items are close to each other 30 and as a result more items can be printed in one line 1 12 2 The Comma Control 100 PRINT NUM TEMP SIZE REMARK 110 PRINT 65 15 56 36 34 If the comma is applied as the separators of the arguments in PRINT command These two lines will be printed as TABULATION COMANND defined Since the default TABULATION are 0 14 28 42 56 70 84 98 112 126 the printed out message will be O 14 28 42 56 NUM TEMP SIZE REMARK 65 15 56 36 34 1 12 3 CHR This command is invoked in PRINT command for those printer codes can not be presented within quotation marks If the arguments in CHR function are the numeric between 0 255 this numeric string will be sent to printer after it had been converted to one byte Hexadecimal Value Otherwise the arguments in CHR function will be sent to printer faithfully Max 4 arguments are allowed in CHR The Arguments should be separated with Comma mark e g lf you want to send LF amp CR to printer CHR 10 13 can be appended in the PRINT statement If you want to send the QUOTATION MARK to printer you can make the BASIC statement as PRINT CARS 1234566 CHRS This Statement will send 1234567 to Printer included 1 12 4 TAB TAB n moves the printer head to the nth column and print out of any da
14. 1 An individual BASIC size should not exceed 1024 20 bytes The total size of GRAPHIC data should not be more than 1024 40 bytes The Max Lines in a BASIC program shall not exceed 500 lines The Max Var numbers in a BASIC program shall not exceed 50 1 2 BASIC The NAME statement must be the 1 statement in the BASIC program to identify the name for this BASIC program Syntax BASIC TEST BASIC TEST BASIC is the NAME of this program 1 3 GRAPHIC GRAPHIC GRAPHIC NAME is the prefix for Graphic Object Syntax GRAPHIC GRAPHIC NAME GRAPHIC data The string within quotation marks is the object NAME for this subsequent graphic data And there should be no additional data between the quotation mark right side and the GRAPHIC data In other word the control code such as CR or LF must NOT be inserted between the quotation mark right side and GRAPHIC data 1 4 REM The content of the line following REM is not for execution and as such should be ignored REM is used purely to enhance the documentation aspect of a program Syntax Line Number REM 22 1 5 END Whenever END is used it must be the last line Any statement after the END is irrelevant to the interpreter Syntax Line Number END 1 6 LET Syntax Line number LET variable name Constants or Variables or expression Example 100 LET PartsName P IV 110 LET UnitPrice 200 120 LET Qty
15. 10 130 LET Total UnitPrice Qty 1 0 05 1 7 PRECISE PRECISE statement is applied to specify the digit number after Decimal Point while performing the Arithmetic calculation Syntax Line Number PRECISE N The N in PRECISE statement is to define the digit number after Decimal Point The default value for N is 2 1 8 INPUT Statement INPUT statement will wait for the user to key in the Var value By the way while INPUT statement being executing user can press ESC key to abort running BASIC program Syntax Line number INPUT PROMPT 1 Variable 1 POMPT 2 Variable 2 23 Example 100 INPUT A B When this command is executed ArgoxBasic will print on standard output device In ArgoKee this is LCD and wait to read in a number from the standard input device In ArgoKee this is ArgoKee itself The variable A will be set to this value After the ENTER KEY on ArgoKee pressed another is printed and variable B is set to the value of the next number read from the input device 120 INPUT WHAT IS THE WEIGHT A AND SIZE B This is the same as the above command except that the prompt is replaced by WHAT IS THE WEIGHT and the second is replaced by AND SIZE 1 9 READ DATA Statement The LET and INPUT statement have certain limitations By a LET statement we can assign one value for each variable and if we have to get 10 values for 10 variables we have to use 10
16. 10 121100000200100 C00 121100000200200 C00 121100000200500This is fixed data1 VOOVariable 14 131100001200100 V00 141100001200050 V00 E sAother_fm 1 3 Example by using ArgoBar Eau Argox APGOMPEX ARGOX Information Co Ltd www argox com 3880 7343 000 00825 00377833 Please refer to ArgoBar User s manual to create the form you need Serial No 2 Download the form 2 1 Under PPLA or PPLB emulation Press D key on ArgoKee after the printing command form is well prepared on host PC then the LCD will display LOADING FORM HOST gt K BOARD 2 2 Next send your printing command form from host PC after 10 seconds the LCD will display next message to confirm that the form has been saved SAVING DATA INTO FLASH MEMORY 15 2 3 If you are using the ArgoBar software first prepare the desired form Refer to ArgoBar manual 2 4 Same procedure as 2 1 first press the D key on ArgoKee then send the printing command from ArgoBar for form downloading Refer to Working with Standalone ArgoKee of ArgoBar manual 2 5 You might store different forms into the ArgoKee by giving them different form names so that when you want to print out those forms they can be easily identified 3 Select th
17. 50 10 250 12 B220 90 0 1 3 5 100 B CO If the and Q commands exist at the form the keyboard will no talk with user about FE the label set and copy count That is because they are fixed Example A with and Q command 1 2 Example by using PPLA emulation Since the PPLA didn t support standalone operation completely hereunder we provide some additional definition s which may be helpful for user to implement the new solution a Variable definition V__Message Where __ is a two digit number from 00 to 99 for the variable ID The maximum character count is 20 b Variable reference standard text or barcode command V__ Where __ is a two digit number variable ID e g 131100001200100 V00 c Counter definition C__Message val Where __ is a two digit number from 00 to 99 for the counter ID The maximum character count is 20 stands for or symbol val is the step value for the counter d Counter reference standard text or barcode command C__ Where __ is a two digit counter ID e g 121100000200100 C00 f Count by amount 4 and Quantity command Q 13 READER form format c0100 AL COOCounter 01 121100000200100 C00 121100000200200 C00 121100000200300 COOThis is fixed data VOOVariable 131100001200100 V00 141100001200050 V00 02 Q0004 E sAREADER Example B without and Q command General form format c0100 AL COOCounter
18. LOGO1 CHR 7838 CHR 10 gt Store LOGO1 object file size 7838 byte gt Sent LOGO1 object in ArgoKee to Printer N CHR 13 10 gt Clear Image Buffer in Printer q592 CHR 13 10 gt Label Width 592 pixel Q200 24 CHR 13 10 JB CHR 13 10 gt Length 200 pixel D9 CHR 13 10 S2 CHR 13 10 gt Dark level 9 O CHR 13 10 gt Disable all options A100 200 0 2 1 1 N CHR TEST basic graphic CHR 13 10 GG100 200 CHR LOGO1 CHR 13 10 gt Print out LOGO1 object P1 1 CHR 13 10 GRAPH LOGO1 44
19. aga e ec feou Notes 1 ArgoKee can be powered by other devices like Argox Printer through the pin 9 of P1 without Power Adapter On the other hand the pin 9 of P2 could power other devices too like Argox Barcode scanner 2 Both P1 and P2 are designed with same flow control Xon Xoff Power Jack P2 Port2 P1 Port1 ArgoKee Set up 1 Connecting to the power adapter 1 1 After ArgoKee is powered by external adapter 5 r will be shown on LCD and TAND ALONE KEYBOARD Ver X XX accompanied by beep beep sound 1 2 After few seconds the ArgoKee will enter standby mode and LCD will display PPLB MODE SELECTION P PRINT D DL S SET PPLA MODE SELECTION P PRINT D DL S SET BASIC MODE CHOICE OR P PRINT D DL SET Press P to print out a FORM or BASIC program Press D to download a FORM or BASIC program to printer Press S to enter Configuration Setting mode 2 Set up configuration 2 1 Password setting a Press S to enter Configuration Setting mode If password has been set LCD will display PLS ENTER PASSWORD b Enter the password MAX 10 char set before then press Enter c If the password was input correctly LCD will show PASSWORD ACCEPTED d If the password was recognized as error LCD will show PASSWORD REJECTED Note Password verification will be bypassed if password was not set e Press Pg Dn or Pg Up till
20. amination are taken If the age is below 17 the student is not eligible otherwise he can appear in the Board examination We are asked to write a program for this problem 33 Program 1 10 INPUT AGE A 20 IF A gt 17 THEN 30 ELSE 50 30 PRINT WELCOME FOR BOARD EXAMINATION 40 GO TO 60 50 PRINT YOU ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR BOARD EXAM 60 INPUT WANT TO INPUT AGAIN Y N Y 70 IF Y Y THEN 10 80 END The line number 10 will cause the message in screen AGE We input the age through the ArgoKee say 18 Line number 20 tests whether A gt 17 or not Since A 18 gt 17 line number 30 is executed Line number 30 prints WELCOME FOR BOARD Line number 40 causes the control to pass to line number 60 Line number 60 causes the message WANT TO INPUT AGAIN Y N We input either Y or N In line number 70 if input is Y then control goes to line number 10 Otherwise if input is N then control goes to the line number 80 i e END Now if in line number 70 we input Y then control will pass again line number 10 we give another age say 13 In line number 20 value of A i e 13 is not greater than 17 therefore ELSE part will be executed and control will go to line number 50 Line number 50 will print YOU ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR BOARD EXAM Then line number 60 as before will be executed In this way a large number of students age can be tested When we want to stop we should input N in line 60 for Y 1 18 The Looping Statemen
21. amount for one parts 120 LET times 1000 gt How many kind of parts will you entered 130 FOR l times TO 1 STEP 1 140 INPUT Parts Name Parts gt Input the Parts name 150 INPUT PLS Enter PCS pcs gt The quantity for this pars 160 INPUT Date dd mm yy date gt Date entry 210 PRINT CHR 2 L CHR 13 10 gt enter Label formatting command mode 220 PRINT H12 CHR 13 10 gt Heat ratio for TPH 230 PRINT PC CHR 13 10 gt Print Speed 240 PRINT D11 CHR 13 10 gt Width amp Height Dot size 250 260 270 280 290 300 310 320 330 340 PRINT 131100000600046 pcs PCS CHR 13 10 gt send pcs to printer in Text form PRINT 1A42025005001 30 pcs CHR 13 10 gt send pcs to printer in BAR code form PRINT 121100000600240 date CHR 13 10 gt date PRINT 131100000200046 Parts CHR 13 10 gt the Parts name in Text PRINT 1A4202500100130 Parts CHR 13 10 gt the Parts name in Bar Code PRINT 401 CHR 13 10 PRINT Q cnt CHR 13 10 gt Define the label amount to be printed out PRINT E CHR 13 10 gt Command PRINT NEXT gt Go back 140 if gt 1 END 41 3 3 Print out Labels from PPLB Printer 3 3 1 Case BASIC POS 10 REM DATA BASE for product name amp unit PRICE 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 270 280 290 300 310 330 340 350 360 370 380 390 400 410 420 430 450 460 465 470 480 490 500 510 520 530 540 550 DATA
22. andidate for this requirement 2 4 2 Download a GARPHIC OBJECT to ArgoKee 1 Press S on ArgoKee_ then scroll it Pg Up or Pg Dn to EMULATION option BASIC item should be selected as the emulation Mode 2 Set up the baud rate for PC port in ArgoKee 19200 bps is recommended 3 Issue MODE com port baud rate n 8 1 on MS DOS prompt to 38 have the baud rate be consistent with the baud rate you had set on ArgoKee e g mode com1 19200 n 8 1 gt set 19200 bps on PC COM1 port 4 Press D on ArgoKee to let it enter Download Mode 5 Issue COPY G_Prefix txt graphic file COM1 B on PC MS DOS prompt The format of graphic file you downloaded to ArgoKee should be able to be accepted by the printer connected with ArgoKee or some unexpected result and errors will be encountered in printing 6 After had been saved in ArgoKee this Graphic Object will be sent to printer while the BASIC statement PRINT GRAPH Graphic Object Name being executed in the running BASIC program 2 5 Error code Error oe ad 01 The Prefix Command BASIC GRAPHIC are not found 02 Void after BASIC 03 The Program Name is not specified The name should be companied by BASIC command 04 Illegal BASIC Program Name Maybe Left or Right missed 05 Unknown BASIC command found 06 The SPACE between 2 field is too long O Z O Q7 Too many characters in 1 stateme
23. aneously press Alt Enter then simultaneously press Alt Enter then simultaneously press Alt Enter O then simultaneously press Alt Enter I then simultaneously press Alt Enter I then simultaneously press Alt Enter I then simultaneously press Alt Enter U then simultaneously press Alt NNN Ne NS QO Qo u A A A A E N O 8 shift a shift 6 amp 2 amp shift amp shift A st ay How to set Print Code of special character Since the Print Code corresponding to the special character might vary from printer to printer ArgoKee allows user to redefine the Print Code for each special character The procedure to redefine the Print Code of special character listed as followings 1 In standby mode Press S to enter Configuration Setting mode enter password if necessary 2 Scroll to EDIT lt PRINT CODE gt with Pg Up or Pg Dn Key 3 Press Enter key edit new Print Code 4 Use the lt Up Arrow gt or lt Down Arrow gt to scroll the special characters In the other way the ALT combined key also can be applied to select the special character for editing Print Code 5 If the special character shown on CHARACTER field is the character you want to edit please press Enter key Then you can edit any expected Hexadecimal Ox00 Oxff for the Print Code corresponding to this special character 6 Press
24. e form for printing 3 1 First press the P key at the moment the LCD will display FORM SELECTION form name 3 2 There are two ways to select the desired form 3 3 You can press space bar and then type the form name directly to select the form 3 4 Or you can press Up arrow key or Down arrow key to select your desire form 3 5 Press the Enter key and follow the LCD instruction to key in various data you need then print out the labels 3 6 Instead of key in the data through keypad you can also input the data by using the barcode scanner which is already connected to the ArgoKee Note Once the keyboard is connected to printer do not shut down the printer as it may cause the graphics or forms lost Specifications Keypad type Standard Notebook PC keypad Keypad No 85 keys Software support Windows labeling design software Argobar Display 20x2 LCD display 2x LED display Interface P1 port 1 male Dsub 4800 38400 baud rate P2 port 2 female Dsub 4800 38400 baud rate Memory 256K Flash 128K available for form data storage 256K Ram Compatibility PPLA PPLB Basic Program Firmware control PC downloadable Power source 110 220V 10 power adapter 7 5V 400mA Measurement W 165 x D 301 x H 35 mm Weight 490g Operating temperature 40 F 104 F 5 C 40 C Storage temperature 4 F 140 F 20 C 60 C Humidity 10 95 no condensing Appendix I Special Characters 1 Ho
25. er RESTORE gt Reset the reading pointer for both numeric and string Var Line number RESTORE gt Reset the reading pointer for string Var Line number RESTORE gt Reset the reading pointer for numeric Var Example 10 RESTORE The RESTORE statements may be used anywhere in the program of course before the END statement The following example will clearly illustrates the use of RESTORE statement 10 READ X Y 20 DATA 10 12 7 3 2 PANKAJ 27 30 RESTORE 40 READ A B C D N 50 END When the statement number 10 is executed the variables X and Y are assigned the values of 10 and 12 the position of the pointer at this stage is shown below 10 12 7 3 2 PANKAJ T Pointer Position of pointer before the execution of RESTORE statement When the statement 30 RESTORE is executed the pointer is brought back to the first data value of data statement as shown below 10 12 7 3 2 PANKAJ T Pointer Now the execution of the statement number 40 against the value to A B C D and N will be as shown below A 10 B 12 C 7 D 3 2 N PANKAJ The RESTORE statement can be used in the following forms also Statement number RESTORE and Statement number RESTORE If the key worda RESTORE is followed by asterisk then only numeric pointer is reset as shown in the previous example However if the key word RESTORE is followed by a dollar sign then only string pointer is reset to the first string data The simulta
26. neous use of both asterisk and dollar sign will not be allowed For example if a BASIC program contains the following statements 10 READ A B N M D0 peones 28 40 RESTORE 50 READ P Q A B 80 DATA 5 8 DINESH UPMA 10 12 RAJESH SANJU 90 END When the statement 10 is executed A B are assigned values 5 and 8 whereas the variables N and M are assigned the values DINESH and UPMA respectively The execution of statement 40 restores the numeric pointer to the first numeric value in the DATA statement i e to the value 5 The execution of the statement 50 assigns the value 5 8 RAJESH and SANJU respectively to the variable P Q A and B The values DINESH and UPMA shall be ignored Similarly the execution of RESTORE can also be shown by taking similar examples Consider another example 10 READ A B N M 20 RESTORE 30 READ P Q A B 40 DATA 5 8 DINESH UPMA 10 12 RAJESH SANJU 50 END Here the statement RESTORE is used The values assigned to the variable A B N and M are as same as the previous example However when statement 20 is executed the string pointer is reset to the first string data namely DINESH The execution of the statement 30 would assign the values 10 and 12 to the variables P and Q and then the pointer moves back ward to assign the values DINESH and UPMA to the variables A and B 1 12 PRINT PRINT Statement will pass all the information within the quotation
27. nt 08 __ line number in the field of statement missed 09 Line number are not in ascending order O 10 Unknown BASIC operator 11 Miss Line Number gt gt S O 12 MissCommandin this statement Z 13 Statements in this program are too much Z 14 Can not find END command till all data processe Line Number for GOTO command not found in this program or Not specified 39 16 This Label is too long 17 his Var is too long he Operand is too long No Operand found in the command statement here are too many Vars in this BASIC The Control Var name is Illegal over 1 Char Void Control Var Initial Var missed TO command is not found in FOR statement Miss End value in For statement There are Too many Control Var Too many NEST loop he Control Var redefined 27 he End name for LOOP end value is void Void Initial Value in For LOOP Control Var Not STEP command in step field TEP value followed with STEP are not found Out of Control Var range 32768 32767 Not defined Var he Evaluation Pairs in IF statement are too many he Arguments in IF statement are not comparable he Result of Arithmetic operation is overflow 37 he Arithmetic expression is illegal Too many Arithmetic arguments in a statement he parameter followed with PRECISE command is void oo many Tabulation Tags defined in TAB command ilegal argument defined in TAB function Not all numeric when this Var is for numeric only ail to
28. ormally the RS 232 interface of barcode scanner can be connected to ArgoKee with the scanner adapter however if your barcode scanner has communication problem incorrect pin assignment to ArgoKee then you might need a special converter to fit the interface of P2 port 2 a The converter needs 2 male 9 pin connectors b The pin connection should be C1 pin C2 pin 5 GND 5 GND c The barcode scanner should meet following configuration Baud Rate should be consistent with the setting in Argokee 9600 bps is recommended Non parity 8 data bit 1 stop bit Scan mode should set as data lt CR gt lt LF gt 11 Operation 1 Generate a form for standalone operation Since the ArgoKee supports both PPLA and PPLB language you can generate a printing command form by sending either of these two language commands Or you can generate the printing command form from bundled software ArgoBar Refer to ARGOX Programming Manual to prepare printing commands 1 1 Example by using PPLB emulation the default setting FS PRICE q812 Q600 24 N V0 10 N MODEL V1 10 N PCS V2 10 N PRICE CO 12 N 1 PART NO S6 D8 ZT A60 300 0 4 1 1 N P N A410 300 0 4 1 1 N MODEL A60 430 0 4 1 1 N PCS A410 430 0 4 1 1 N PRICE A150 300 0 4 1 1 N CO A510 290 0 5 1 1 N VO A150 420 0 5 1 1 N V1 A540 430 0 4 1 1 N V2 X30 50 20 750 520 LO30 250 720 10 LO30 380 720 10 LO385 2
29. press Esc for returning standby mode Note Once Clean it After Exit selection has been choose and ESC has been pressed all stored forms will be cleaned 3 Connecting Host PC and ArgoKee 3 1 Before using ArgoKee to perform standalone operation firstly connect it with a host PC just connect the male end of RS 232 cable item d Gray to P2 port 2 of the ArgoKee and the other end of the cable to the Com port of your host PC 3 2 After the connection is completed you may follow paragraph OPERATION to generate a form on your host PC and then download it to ArgoKee 4 Connect to Printer to get the labels printed out from printer 4 1 After the form is generated from host PC and stored into ArgoKee you could disconnect RS 232 cable from ArgoKee 4 2 Link the female end of RS 232 cable item g Black to P1 port 1 of ArgoKee and the other end of the cable to the printer 4 3 Having completed the connection refer to paragraph OPERATION to get label output from printer 5 Connect to Scanner input data by using Barcode Scanner 5 1 The P2 port 2 of ArgoKee enables data input through Barcode Scanner then get label output from printer 5 2 To use the barcode scanner for data input just connect the RS 232 cable of your barcode scanner to the P2 port 2 of ArgoKee Check your barcode scanner cable to see if you need the scanner adapter to make proper connection Note N
30. se the increment is assumed to be 1 Example Problem 1 Suppose we want to print the output in the following format kKKEKEKK kkk k k k k k k Program 1 10 FOR S 5 TO 1 STEP 1 20 FOR X 1 TOS 30 PRINT 40 NEXT X 50 PRINT 60 NEXT S 70 END 35 This program contains two loops the outer loop is from the line number 10 to 60 and inner loop from line numbers 20 to 40 In line number 10 initially S is assigned a value 5 Since the value of S is greater than 1 control is transferred to line number 20 which causes the inner loop to execute 5 times resulting into printing of 5 stars in one row The statement at line number 50 will transfer the printer control to the beginning of the next line When line 60 is encountered the control goes back to line number 10 Now the value of S becomes 4 and once again the inner loop is executed 4 times resulting in printing of 4 stars in second row This process will continue till the value of S becomes 1 After that it will come to an end 1 19 The Special Statement TERMINAL ArgoKee will become Dump Terminal when this statement TERMINAL in a BASIC program is interpreted In Dump Terminal ArgoxKee can perform interactive conversation with an intelligent device for example printer via the printer port on ArgoKee The data got from printer port will be shown on the first row upper of LCD The characters entered on ArgoKee will be shown on the second row of LCD and
31. shift shift wee ee er NS NN Enter a Enter e Enter e Enter e Enter e Enter n Enter 0 ea 6 shift then simultaneously press Alt then simultaneously press Alt then simultaneously press Alt then simultaneously press Alt then simultaneously press Alt shift n A Ca e T shift shift N N N eee ee ee eee eel el el S u u u u u u u u u u u amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp amp aon aaa Sep any nT ST I amp gt DROO ar ID Sv So amp D amp Sr 6 kau Eih m e ae ey et mh D gt gt Pre Se DDO O CS a Alt Alt Alt Alt Alt Alt Alt Alt Enter o then simultaneously press Enter o then simultaneously press Y amp shift Enter o then simultaneously press es A 6 8 shift G Enter u then simultaneously press Enter u then simultaneously press Enter u then simultaneously press Enter u then simultaneously press Y amp shift Enter A then simultaneously press amp shift 6 amp shift 8 shift 11 amp shift amp shift amp LE 2VaVOraonT A weer Nes Ns Ns Nes Ns Ne aii ae a Enter then simultaneously press Alt Enter then simultaneously press Alt then simultaneously press Alt then simult
32. st be someplace before the END statement It is a normal practice to keep all DATA statements together at the end of the program before END statement so that in case you want to alter any data at the end it will be very easy 1 10 DATA BLOCK The BASIC incorporates the contents of all the DATA statements into one single data block When the READ statement are executed a pointer moves along with data block starting from the first element Example 1 READ X1 Y1 Z1 7 READ N M L K 12 READ A 19 READ X Y 24 DATA 122 26 DATA 35 49 101 28 DATA 691 81 30 DATA 8 10 5 5 40 END 25 DATA BLOCK Pointer Variable a z grs a a a ee ane lt Now look at the following examples wherein all the programs do exactly the same work a 10 DATA RAMA DELHI 100 200 300 20 READ A B A B C o 10 READ A B 20 READ A B C 60 DATA RAMA DELHI 70 DATA 100 200 300 100 END 26 c 10 DATA RAMA DELHI 20 DATA 100 30 DATA 200 40 DATA 300 50 READ A B 60 READ A B C d 10 READ A 20 READ B A B C 30 DATA RAMA 40 DATA DELHI 50 DATA 100 200 300 In all the above cases A is assigned the value RAMA and B is assigned the value DELHI All the numeric variables A B C are assigned the values 100 200 300 respectively 1 11 RESTORE The RESTORE statement will reset the pointer to the first value of the DATA statement regardless of the current position of the pointer Syntax Line numb
33. statements with LET Also if a value is assigned through a LET statement its value can be changed only by replacing that assignment statement with another assignment statement If there is a large amount of data to be processed it is inconvenient to key in the entire data during the execution of the program In such cases READ statements are found useful READ statements will always have a DATA statement along with it Syntax Line number READ Variable List Line number DATA Constant List Example of a READ DATA Statement 1 REM PROGRAM EXPLAINING READ DATA STATEMENT 5 READ X2 Y Z1 K 9 READ A B3 C4 L 22 DATA 8 9 13 15 16 51 30 92 30 END 24 When the machine encounters the line number 5 with the READ statement followed by the variables X2 Y Z1 K it will collect from the DATA statements the values for these variables in the same order A one on one correspondence exists in the READ DATA statement i e X2 8 Y 9 Z1 13 K 15 In the next READ statement in line number 9 we have four more variables A B3 C4 L These values will follow in the same order and one on one correspondence after the earlier READ variables values They will be A 16 B8 51 C4 30 L 92 Since all the values in the DATA here are exhausted another i e third READ statement cannot be used until another DATA statement is included or more DATA is included in the above DATA list in line number 22 A DATA statement can be anywhere in the program but mu
34. t FOR TO NEXT We have already seen that a loop can be built in BASIC by using the IF THEN and GOTO statements When it is known in advance how many times the loop must be repeated the statement FOR TO NEXT is the most effective statement A loop is built up by FOR TO and ended by NEXT Syntax Line number FOR I M TON STEP J Loop os os 5 s Loop os 5 s Line number NEXT 34 The numeric variable name following FOR is the control variable or loop variable M and N are numeric variable or constants immediate value where M gives the initial or starting value of the loop and N gives the final value J followed by keyword STEP gives the increment in M till N is reached The increment can be negative too When M N J are numeric variable names their numeric values should be assigned before the starting of the loop i e before coming to FOR TO statement The companied command NEXT should have the same control variable followed by it Thus one loop can be started with FOR TO and ended with NEXT Only 1 single character for the mnemonic symbol of control Var is allowed The control Var value should be greater than 32768 and less than 32767 Inside one FOR TO NEXT loop there can be more FOR TO NEXT loop But once a FOR TO NEXT is inside another FOR TO NEXT it should remain completely inside the former loop Such FOR TO NEXT loops are called Nested loops In the absence of the STEP clau
35. ta starts from that column e g Line number PRINT TAB n X X is printed out from column n 1 12 5 GRAPH GRAPH Graphic Object Name in PRINT command will let the BASIC Interpreter send out the GRAPHIC data which had been saved in ArgoKee named as Graphic Object Name 31 1 13 PRINTF PRINTF Statement will show the information within the quotation on the LCD of ArgoKee The Variables content in PRINTF statement will be shown on LCD too The BASIC INTERPRETER will stay at this statement till ENTER or ESC key on ArgoKee pressed by user It implies the message shown on LCD will be sustained before ENTER or ESC pressed too Syntax Line number PRINTF xxxxxxxx xxxxxx will be shown on LCD faithfully Line number PRINTF VAR NAME gt The content of VAR will be shown on LCD Only a single Argument is allowed 1 14 TABULATION This Command is to define the tags of tabulation while the arguments in PRINT statement being separated with Comma Syntax Line number TABULATION column 1 column 2 column n The max column n is 10 The default Tab Tags are 0 14 28 42 56 70 84 98 112 126 1 15 Unconditional Go To Statement GOTO GOTO statement is used to transfer control from a statement say S1 to another statement say S2 generally S2 does not follow S1 immediately in sequence Syntax Line number GO TO n n is the line number of the statement where control will be transferred
36. te In the download mode the Syntax checking is simplified Most of the Syntaxs will be checked later when this program is running 37 2 3 Run the BASIC program on ArgoKee 1 Press P in standby mode when BASIC MODE CHOICE is shown on LCD 2 Press DOWN UP Arrow to find the BASIC program you want it to be run The program name shown on LCD is the name field followed BASIC command 3 When you get the desired BASIC program Press ENTER to run it 4 Then the BASIC program you selected will be run on ArgoKee till the END command in the BASIC program is executed 5 If there are any syntax errors being checked the Line No amp Error code will be shown on LCD 6 By the way the running BASIC program can be unconditionally aborted if ESC key is entered when INPUT command in the running BASIC program being executed 2 4 How to Save a GRAPHIC OBJECT in ArgoKee 2 4 1 Edit a Prefix file 1 Employ a Text Editor to edit a simple statement as follows GRAPHIC Graphic Object Name Then you might save it as the file name G_Prefix txt Note Any data or control word are NOT allowed to be appended in the right quotation mark of Graphic Object Name following Therefore the Text Editor will automatically tail with end of file mark Carriage Return Line Feed are not suitable to be employed to edit this Prefix File Note Pad in Microsoft Window are a suitable c
37. w to key in these special characters Special characters can be entered when the pre loaded form PPLA or PPLB or BASIC program invokes user to key in characters For entering a special character firstly key in the character e g L to a to a A to A similar to this special character then simultaneously press Alt key and the accessory symbol in the special character e g Ato to to to completely enter a special character The ways for entering all the individually special characters are Monetary sign gt There are 2 ways to enter the alternative monetary sign 1 Press ALT Shift simultaneously for entering the alternative monetary signs cycled with and 2 gt Enter C then simultaneously press ALT amp gt Enter L then simultaneously press ALT amp gt Enter Y then simultaneously press ALT amp Other special characters wes Shift Shift then simultaneously press Alt then simultaneously press Alt then simultaneously press Alt then simultaneously press Alt then simultaneously press Alt then simultaneously press Alt then simultaneously press Alt then simultaneously press Alt then simultaneously press Alt Alt Alt Alt Alt Alt Enter a Enter a Enter a Enter a Enter a Enter a a n6 Enter a kau Ca Shift n A A
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