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42S (or Free42): Detect Shift key with MENU? - Dave Britten - 12-19-2017 02:54 PM
I can't remember if there's a way to do this or not, but if I'm displaying an application menu via MENU and appropriate KEY commands, is there a way to change the program's behavior if one of the menu options is invoked with Shift? Maybe a flag or something that can be tested to see if Shift had been pressed?
Also, is there any way to intermingle MVAR and KEY within a single menu?
RE: 42S (or Free42): Detect Shift key with MENU? - rprosperi - 12-19-2017 03:42 PM
(12-19-2017 02:54 PM)Dave Britten Wrote: I can't remember if there's a way to do this or not, but if I'm displaying an application menu via MENU and appropriate KEY commands, is there a way to change the program's behavior if one of the menu options is invoked with Shift? Maybe a flag or something that can be tested to see if Shift had been pressed?
Also, is there any way to intermingle MVAR and KEY within a single menu?
[Shift]-[Menu key] lets you view the contents of that MVAR (while holding var key down); I don't think you can use [Shift] the way you are thinking. The manual should specify this for sure.
RE: 42S (or Free42): Detect Shift key with MENU? - Dave Britten - 12-19-2017 04:18 PM
(12-19-2017 03:42 PM)rprosperi Wrote: [Shift]-[Menu key] lets you view the contents of that MVAR (while holding var key down); I don't think you can use [Shift] the way you are thinking. The manual should specify this for sure.
Yeah, I see it mentions where you can do that to view the contents of an MVAR, but I don't see anything mentioning being able to detect Shift from a custom MENU. I guess they figured you'd just do multi-page menus for overloading the keys, which isn't an entirely bad way of doing it, but it's nice to be able to have shortcuts like in a TVM solver, where Shift+"N" stores 12*X into "N".
RE: 42S (or Free42): Detect Shift key with MENU? - rprosperi - 12-19-2017 06:11 PM
(12-19-2017 04:18 PM)Dave Britten Wrote: Yeah, I see it mentions where you can do that to view the contents of an MVAR, but I don't see anything mentioning being able to detect Shift from a custom MENU. I guess they figured you'd just do multi-page menus for overloading the keys, which isn't an entirely bad way of doing it, but it's nice to be able to have shortcuts like in a TVM solver, where Shift+"N" stores 12*X into "N".
I agree, it would be nice, but this is how I discovered the variable peek feature, then low and behold found it in the manual (and the QRG!).
RE: 42S (or Free42): Detect Shift key with MENU? - Thomas Okken - 12-19-2017 07:19 PM
(12-19-2017 02:54 PM)Dave Britten Wrote: I can't remember if there's a way to do this or not, but if I'm displaying an application menu via MENU and appropriate KEY commands, is there a way to change the program's behavior if one of the menu options is invoked with Shift? Maybe a flag or something that can be tested to see if Shift had been pressed?
Also, is there any way to intermingle MVAR and KEY within a single menu?
No, no, and no.