HotKeys Help 3

[redzombi5k]

Hello everyone,
I was just curious how everyone makes hot keys in there programs. For example I would like to make a hot key/shortcut where say the user presses ctrl + s and it auto fills in a story. My problem with that is if I try to use keypress there are so many overlaps there. Say for instance ctrl + s = 19 but that is also Left Arrow.. Not so good!

So any help/suggestions is as always appriciated

-Steve

 

[Dan Freeman]

Stick with keypress. It's the only way that works WITH the object/event model rather than AGAINST it.

 

[redzombi5k]

How do you overcome the inkeycode overlaps in keypress then?

 

[Dan Freeman]

You don't use that many hotkeys. <shrug> If they overlap there, they'll overlap elsewhere too.

 

[Imaginecorp]

In keypress you have to specify nShiftAltCtrl as well if using a combination,
CTRL + s =
if nShiftAltCtrl = 2 AND nKeyCode = 19
**** do story
endif

 

[redzombi5k]

Imaginecorp,
Thank You!
That was the perfect solution, I feel dumb for not noticeing this before, I am still exreamly greatfull though, probably never would have noticed this on my own.

-Steve

 

[Imaginecorp]

Glad I could help.

 

[StewartUK]

Steve,

Can I just check that you know about using this key combination

\<

in the caption of buttons?

This creates a shortcut that responds to an Alt key combination.

Stewart

 

[Olaf Doschke]

First I suggest you better not use CTRL+S, as that is a very common hotkey for Saving a file, eg in notepad, word, excel, foxpro...

If you want something to be a hotkey not only in one form, then define a menu bar with that hotkey, it doesn't have to be visible, just defined.

Define Popup hotkeys
Define Bar 1 of hotkeys prompt 'story' key alt+s
On Bar 1 of hotkeys MessageBox('story')

Instead of calling the messagebax call a function setting _clipboard and sending KEyboard CTRL+V to paste something.

I only don't know from the top off my head, why this only works once. The popup seems to vanish once used, so either you redefine it everytime or hope I find how to make this permanent. Perhpas define a mnue rather then only a popoup...

Bye, Olaf.

 

[redzombi5k]

StewartUK, No I did not know that. Thank you I will give it a whirl.
Olaf, Also very interesting as I did not know or at least think about this & will try this out as well.

Very cool ideas, and I appriciate all the knowlage!

-Steve

 

[redzombi5k]

StewartUK,
Also interestingly this '\<' works with check boxes as well, which was good for me as I have a few graphical style check boxes that I use for sorting order of a list box control. Very usefull!
Thanks

-Steve

 

[StewartUK]

Steve - glad you found it useful.

Also see the help topic How to: Assign Access Keys and Keyboard Shortcuts. It doesn't seem say it there, but if you use the \< with a label object caption, VFP will put the cursor in/on the next object in the Tab Order list.

Stewart