Re: Long Lost XPL Routine [was: young for life}

["Young For Life Products, Ltd" contact@xxxxxxxx]

Maybe it's a blind spot of mine, but I don't like programming by recording
key strokes. I would rather write it all out in expanded view. For some
reason I don't understand, this doesn't always work in XY4. There is
undoubtedly something simple I'm not understanding here, but it's got me
stumped.

Charles

From: J. R. Fox 
To: 
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: Long Lost XPL Routine [was: young for life}


> "Young For Life Products, Ltd" wrote:
>
> > One thing that has me a little stumped, that some of you I'm sure could
help
> > me with - this is going to sound really stupid, but I learned to write
XPL
> > in the original Xywrite and stayed with it through version 3. I now have
> > XY4, and there are changes that I haven't had time to relearn. For
example,
> > my fingers are still programmed to define with F1, release define with
F3,
> > etc. But now that's all different in XY4 (and, to me, very weird). So,
to
> > rewrite the program, I'm really confused about how to do certain things
in
> > XY4, and I'm also worried that if I write it for XY4 that it won't work
in
> > XY3. Would someone(s) be willing to help me via email as I stumble
through
> > the initial stages of this?
> >
> > Charles
>
> Well, that puts you one-up on me: I never learned to write XPL at all (an
> artistic mind, not a logical one -- what can I say . . . ). Unless you
count
> making a few very basic changes in someone else's routine, and generally a
> simple routine at that. But why would you be hung up over what (default)
key
> assignment went where betweeen the two versions ? Wouldn't you just be
using
> Function Calls in your code ? I did have some facility with the
macro-recorder
> feature (and before that, in XY3, using Wallengren's NCAPTURE), but I
don't
> believe these can handle XPL. If there is a recorder that does, it would
> presumably be found in the Jumbo U2. Even if there is, I doubt many XPL
> routines are written that way.
>
> Jordan