Placing a macro in Xy 3.55 on the Pause key in Window 95

[Bob Zimmerman zimmerman@xxxxxxxx]

My problem (unfortunately lost amid the thousands of Xywrite-to-Word
filtering questions):
For more than five years I have used a Xywrite 3.55 macro on the Pause key
from Windows 3.11. When launching Xywrite 3.55 from Windows 95, however, the
Pause key refuses to work. The macro, as well as all my other keyboard
functions, does work fine in Windows 95 on all other keys on the keyboard.

Robert Holmgren's response:
>If you're running Xy3+, I forget whether it reads scan codes or not, but
anyway you
>can just load a dummy KBD file with a full set of keys for all of your shifting
>TABLEs, i.e. 1=ES
>2=BC,2
>3=BC,3
>..
>90=BC,9,0
>..
>105=BC,1,0,5 (for the mouse)
>
>and repeat this for each TABLE. Then see what responds and what doesn't.

Sorry, but I don't understand. What is the ES command? And is this a test of
the macro, a test to see what keys work or don't, or a test to find out?
Before I spend a lot of time setting this up give me some idea what I'll
accomplish by doing it.

I did place the 1=ES and 90=BC,9,0 commands in a test keyboard, ran that
test.kbd file, and pressed the key. In 3.11 my new computer is so fast that
I'm not sure what happened. The screen jumped to that part of the test.kbd
file where 90=BC,9,0 is, flashed a message up on the command line too quick
to read, but that's all. Other than this nothing seemed wrong.

In Windows 95 however the computer went haywire, buzzing at me and
apparently stuffing the whole test.kbd file onto the command line. The only
way to stop it was to hit (surprise!) the Pause key. I could make nothing
work afterword. Pressing F5 for instance to try and clear the command line
caused the same buzzing to start again, with the command line filled to
overflowing. To quit the program I had to leave Xywrite and use Windows 95
to terminate it.

Suggestions anyone?

Bob
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