Re: Xy Win/macros, etc.

[Paul Williams paulwilliams5@xxxxxxxx]

You CAN use ALT keys with XyWin. The only problem is this: if you use an
alt key that would pull down a menu (F, E, V, P,I, W,H) they still work,
though you have to ESCape twice to get rid of the menu - then the save-get
operates. M, incidentally, is possible - you just have to disable the M to
call Format in the menu file by removing the & (in For&mat). Unfortunately
trying the same thing for all the other menu items which use their first
letter does not work. And further fiddling by trying, say, to remove the
menu items altogether crashes XyWrite (see earlier note.)

Incidentally, I find the same problem now with F10 under Windows 98.

To those keyboard wizards out there: having just got a portable and having
to redo my keyboard table, does anyone know the keyboard number for FN? or
the Windows key? And am I right in thinking that FN does not change the
number of the keys marked with a light blue symbol?

And - but you all know this - Alt Graphs is in fact CTRL ALT to XyWrite.

Sigh. When will Microsoft realise that fully soft keyboards are great!

PW

At 19-07-99 -0500, you wrote:
>This is VERY useful. Thanks!
>
>Mimi
>
>>may speak of save-gets, not macros. Mine are on mnemonic keys: P for
>>paragraph,
>>B for block quote, H for hang indent, R for flush right, L for flush left,
>>C for center,
>>V for verse, etc.
>>
>>Don't think there's any way to mess around with the Alt keys in XyWin.
>>They're pretty much preempted by Windows.
>>
>>The IP numbers are different, I'd say, because your default in XyWin is the
>>inch and your
>>default in XyDOS is set at the decimal inch. You can change the default in
>>XyWin's xwset.dfl. My setting reads:
>>
>>; UH sets horizontal unit of measure [Default is IN,IN]
>>DF UH=di,di
>>
>>I find the decimal inch more convenient, but the inch may prove to be the
>>better default if you are frequently converting to and from Word. I dunno.
>>
>>Hope this is useful.
>>
>>RH
>>
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