Likely that the issue is just the "tightening up" of RBase as time has passed.
I am pretty sure that KEYMAP is closely related to PLAYBACK if you think about it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alastair Burr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 4:25 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Running a form with keystrokes? > It was too late last night to try this but, this morning, just to prove > myself right, I copied and pasted Mike's example. > > Of course it worked. > > It is nice to be wrong sometimes but I thought that I had better test some of > my old keymaps as they were the things I had been unable to get to work many > months, even years, ago now. > > Of course they worked, too. > > I seem to remember that the problem I had was with spaces in the "command" > so, using Mike's example, I would have expected just to get "pause" written > at the R:>. > > Now I need to go back and reinstate the keymaps that would still be useful > for me so thank you Mike for tempting me and thank you and apologies to RBTI > for doubting that the problem - if there ever was one - had been fixed. > > Regards, > Alastair. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "MikeB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:33 PM > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Running a form with keystrokes? > > >> try this: >> >> from the R > >> >> SET KEYMAP [ALT]M = 'Pause 2 using ''Keymap''[enter]' >> >> then press [ALT]M >> >> You have to remember that the result of a programatic action has to be used >> where appropriate. For example if you press [ALT]M while in a text field, >> the text field will receive 'Pause 2 using 'Keymap' and the [ENTER] key >> will be executed. Probably not appropriate for that location, so there is >> no indication that KEYMAP doesn't work, it is just usually used in the R> >> environment where all our legacy code resided. Now our forms respond to >> events and a keymap setup isn't tied to those events AFAICT. >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 2:31 PM >> Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Running a form with keystrokes? >> >> >>>I was never one to make much use of keymaps, but are keymaps still valid in >>> 7.6 where you could define them to a phrase? Like mapping the [F11] key to >>> "run rbase.dat" or something like that? In that case the user could be at >>> the R> >>> prompt and just hit [F11] to bring up the app. >>> >>> Karen >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.16/1433 - Release >> Date: 14/05/2008 16:44 >> > > >
