can't tell you how much i appreciate you taking the time to do this dave. if you write a book you'll have at least one sale assured. i'll send a deposit!
On 9/11/07, Dave Boyd <boydda@...> wrote:
Assigning a key is pretty simply at the core. Every possible keystroke
has a number, which includes the position of the key and the state of
all the modifier keys like ALPHA or LEFT SHIFT. There's also a
difference between pressing a shift key and letting go, and holding a
shift key down while pressing another key. <del>
Try this. We'll assign Filer6 to the LS-HOLD-APPS key. That way, we
can use the regular Filer by pressing LS (Left-Shift), letting go, and
pressing APPS; or we can use Filer6 by hold the LS key and pressing APPS.
<Del>Now try the LS-HOLD-APPS key. It should run Filer6.
Yay!
yay indeed! with a hiphiphurrah!i even went one step further and assigned the system filer to the held key and filer6 to the 'leftshift files' key since i much prefer filer6 but want to have the original around. now i'll just have to remember that 'usr' icon since i've never paid any attention to it previously. i guess the trigger will be that i'll get the system filer instead of filer6 if its not set.KEYMAN is pretty neat, and I use it, but you don't need it until you've
run out of keys to assign to programs. <Del>now that i know this trick, i think i'll leave keyman alone for a while.<Del>--
Dave Boyd
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall
like a house of cards. Checkmate." -Capt. Zapp Brannigan, D.O.O.P.
speaking of making it easy for the user, the most useful app i found in my digging was called 'formo' by dante camargo who is so good a programmer that even his spanish-only programs such as 'recta' and 'libkit' are easier to use than 99% of the english language programs. and i don't speak a word of spanish.
anyway, since i'll be using formo constantly, i resent having to dig into the library for it, especially since i have yet to find a way to safely and easily rearrange the items in the library directory in order to anchor it as the first selection. that's why i was hoping i could use appman to put this program into the apps list. (btw: thought i'd mention that utool installs itself into apps automatically, the only app i've yet installed that did that).
so how do i address a library file whose executable is down one directory and execute it from an assignable key or my custom menu? i suppose i would have to include a 'chdir' command in the eval statement perhaps? but i'm even having trouble determining the exact name of the actual executable considering the 5-char truncation.
thanks,
/guy