Editing KBC Poker II (section)

==Programming==
The keyboard's manual is very brief, and a lot of the nuances of the programming system can only be discovered by experimentation. When programming, ensure that DIP switch 4 (write protect) is off, otherwise the right-hand space bar LED will flash upon entering programming mode and no changes will be able to be made.

The Poker II does not permit normal key functionality to reprogrammed. Instead, additional bindings can be created that are accessed using the Pn key, which provides a second set of layers, usable either as a universal macro keyboard (where Pn is effectively the macro [[modifier key]]) or as a dual-layout keyboard. For example, if you were to bind the A key to Ctrl+B, and Fn+A to the macro "hello", the A key would behave as follows:

{| class="wikitable"
! Keystroke !! Result
|-
| A         || a
|-
| Shift+A   || A
|-
| Fn+A      || ←
|-
| Pn+A      || Ctrl+B
|-
| Pn+Fn+A   || h e l l o
|}

Programming mode is toggled using Fn+RCtrl. This enables the right-hand space bar LED, and shuts off the backlighting. The backlighting is not restored after exiting programming mode; accidental presses of Fn+Ctrl when trying to learn to deal with Ctrl and arrows leads to a disconcerting appearance of the keyboard appearing to shut off completely, save for a very dim flashing white glow coming out from under the space bar.

Keys can be given a single binding (e.g. mapping Pn+A to Ctrl+Alt+F12), and you can also assign macros of up to fourteen keystrokes. Time delays can be added to macros using Fn+F (15 ms), Fn+G (0.1 s) or Fn+H (0.5 s). Repeated presses of these keystrokes will combine the delay times into a single "keystroke", but different delays do not combine. For example, pressing Fn+F four times will record a single entry of 60 ms, but pressing Fn+F then Fn+G will record a 15 ms keystroke followed by a 0.1 s keystroke, instead of a single 115 ms keystroke.

When the macro length is reached, the right space bar LED flashes rapidly for a second and programming mode terminates.

Within programming mode, the complete binding status of any key can be reported by holding Pn and pressing the key in question. The keyboard types out a report of the switch's assignment, both without, and with, Fn held. The Fn and Pn keys cannot themselves be reprogrammed, and the time delay bindings for Fn, while reported by the binding dump as "[time]", are also fixed and cannot be reassigned.

One caveat with programming the Poker II is that the keyboard emits all keystrokes issued during assignment. For example, programming "hello" into A is achieved as follows: Fn+RCtrl A h e l l o Pn Fn+RCtrl. This will cause "hello" to be sent to the computer as normal keystrokes.