HP 50g -- too shifty?

[Joe Horn]

(12-31-2016 04:37 PM)Vtile Wrote:  Unfortunately I can not find the post of Joes, where he did give the systemRPL program to do the same as one of the Keyman library commands does and the explanation of the "inner working" of the advanced key assigments.

If you mean turning any key assignment into a "TakeOver" program, the following little routine does that. Just put the object to be assigned on level 1 of the stack (it can be a program or any other object type) and then run this teeny System RPL program (call it whatever you like; I call it TAKOV):

::
CK1NoBlame
?Ob>Seco
'
TakeOver
>HCOMP
;

BYTES: 17.5 #EE02h

Then assign the output to the desired key, and it will work as a "TakeOver" key, that is, it'll work even while editing a program.

Or, as was alluded to above, use the Keyman+ library's ->TO? command, which has the same effect as the above little routine.

EDIT: Perhaps you were referring to this old posting from comp.sys.hp48, which tells how to create a TakeOver program without needing any System RPL or external libraries. Although it was written for the HP49, it works on the 50g too, since the entry point for TakeOver is stable.