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Using Softkeys as
Typing Aids
Each softkey can be defined for use as a keyboard typing aid to
reduce a series of up to 160 keystrokes to one touch of a key.
You can store and load typing aid definitions from mass storage
devices as a file, so that the keys do not have to be continually
redefined.
A softkey can be defined in two ways:
1) The ON KEY statement is used to define a softkey within a
program; pressing a softkey with an active ON KEY definition
causes an interrupt which can be detected by the program.
2) You can assign a typing aid definition to a softkey directly
from the keyboard (via the EDIT command).
When a softkey is defined in both ways at the same time (via the
ON KEY statement and via the keyboard), the definition assigned
with the ON KEY statement always has priority. After the ON KEY
definition has been deleted, the typing aid definition can be
accessed.
What follows is a discussion on how you can use softkeys as
typing aids.
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~~~~~-~-
Using Softkeys as
Typing Aids
Each softkey can be defined for use as a keyboard typing aid to
reduce a series of up to 160 keystrokes to one touch of a key.
You can store and load typing aid definitions from mass storage
devices as a file, so that the keys do not have to be continually
redefined.
A softkey can be defined in two ways:
1) The ON KEY statement is used to define a softkey within a
program; pressing a softkey with an active ON KEY definition
causes an interrupt which can be detected by the program.
2) You can assign a typing aid definition to a softkey directly
from the keyboard (via the EDIT command).
When a softkey is defined in both ways at the same time (via the
ON KEY statement and via the keyboard), the definition assigned
with the ON KEY statement always has priority. After the ON KEY
definition has been deleted, the typing aid definition can be
accessed.
What follows is a discussion on how you can use softkeys as
typing aids.
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