This is already on the list. The CONFIG:MACRO X menu entry will have X values of 1-8 and '#'. If you assign MACRO X to a switch, it will prompt for 1-8 when you use it, giving you access to up to eight macros with one switch.
73, Wayne N6KR ---- http://www.elecraft.com On Nov 3, 2009, at 2:33 AM, "David Ferrington, M0XDF" <[email protected] > wrote: > All this discussion on macros is very good, but what I'd really like > is some more programable function keys. > I don't want to use Mx keys, because I want them for recorded > messages. That leaves just PFx keys. > > I did post over a year ago on the possibility of allowing us to have > to banks of function keys, using PFx + [0-9] as the way of accessing > them. > > That is, (via a CONFIG option of course) to be able to use PF1 as an > introducer, followed by one press of the 0 - 9 keys, therefore with > both PF1 & PF2, that gives us 20 function keys. And it works rather > like a quick memory (M->V + [0-9]) so I hope wouldn't be too onerous. > This however does mean you would have to HOLD PF1 or PF2, which might > be a little annoying. > > The alternative for people who want to keep PF1 & PF2 and would work > around the HOLD of PFx, is to allow us to specify that one of the Mx > buttons is the introducer to a function bank, thereby, we would loose > one Mx message and gain 10 function keys, still keeping the PFx keys > and getting a TAP introducer. It would also allow those that wish it, > to be able to have 40 function keys by designating all four Mx buttons > as function introducers. And I guess (if there is enough memory, both > machine and human) they could designate both TAP and HOLD Mx to give > them 80 function keys, but I'd have trouble remembering 10 personally! > > Of course, I'm hoping the P3 will provide some more function keys. > And I saw a suggestion here that perhaps a row of keys could be > designed to fit under the K3, I guess using the RJ11 (or is it an > RJ12) service connector as the way into the firmware. > > 73 de M0XDF, K3 #174 > -- > Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. > But I'm not so sure about the universe. -- Albert Einstein. > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
